Loved it as a kid,
but when I got into anime a few years later and discovered its origins, I wished we'd got an adaptation more faithful to the original show (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman), with its violence, death, profanity and gender ambiguity of the main antagonist.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sat 10 Oct 2020, 0:34,
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I loved Battle Of The Planets as a kid too
But I’m sure that the BBC would never have broadcast Gatchaman if it had been dubbed in its original format - for example the Astronauts in that episode are revealed to have been dead the whole time.
So much as it pains me to say it, without 7-fecking-Zark-7 etc it would have just stayed in Japan.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Sat 10 Oct 2020, 19:34,
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We got it third-hand from the US, where it had already been sanitized due to a high level of conservatism in children's TV.
We actually got some pretty liberal kids' TV over here in comparison...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sun 11 Oct 2020, 0:19,
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True, but the BBC resents importing anything
And the actual Demographic that Gatchaman covers is pretty much ignored by the BBC. Eg Monkey got an English dub, that was well received, so the BBC didn’t bother to complete the story, Urusei Yatsura got 4 episodes dubbed, 22 years after the original broadcast. Given your username, I don’t need to dig up other examples.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Sun 11 Oct 2020, 12:57,
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