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Kagaku Ninjatai GatchamanIn order to curb the ambitions of evil-doers who threaten the world, Dr. Nambu, a scientist of the International Science Organization (ISO), formulates a plan to create a secret special team and accordingly secretly establishes the Science Ninja Team (Kagaku Ninjatai) consisting of five young members.Numerous ISO facilities around the world have been attacked by mysterious mega weapons, and huge amounts of uranium have been taken from them. Dr. Nambu of the ISO investigates these cases and finds out that a secret organization named Galactor is planning to conquer the world.Dr. Nambu decides to summon the Science Ninja Team as a secret weapon to defeat Galactor.The five members, namely Ken the Eagle, the team’s leader, Joe the Condor, Jun the Swan, Jinpei the Swallow, and Ryu the Owl, are named the Gatchaman team by Dr. Nambu and given the task of protecting the world from Galactor. The Gatchaman team engage in numerous fights against Sosai X, Galactor’s supreme leader, and Berg Katze, another leading figure of Galactor.Sosai X was making preparations to destroy Earth through Operation Blackhole. With only a few days to live due to a past wound, Joe goes to the enemy headquarters alone and, although being captured by the enemy, manages to throw his wing throwing knife (hane-shuriken) at the blackhole device. After escaping, Joe hands his wing throwing knife to Ken, who has rushed to his aid.Although Ken confronts and beats Katze in the final battle, Sosai X betrays Katze, puts his plan into motion, and leaves Earth, which has already started to disintegrate.Katze, now in complete desperation, jumps into a sea of magma and is consumed by the flames; the Gatchaman team is in a desperate situation too, because the blackhole device was in operation.However, Joe’s last wing throwing knife destroys the blackhole system and completely shuts down the device. The Gatchaman team saves the Earth and restores peace to the world.Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman IIThree years have passed since the fierce battle with Galactor, and Sosai X had returned to space. Science Ninja Team (Kagaku Ninjatai) had won the day and saved Earth, but had also lost a team member, Joe the Condor.Having fulfilled its role, Science Ninja Team Gatchaman is scheduled to be disbanded according to a decision of the International Science Organization (ISO).But just as this decision is made, Sosai X returns to Earth in the form of a fireball landing in the South Pacific.Sosai X sinks a passenger ship cruising nearby, changes a young child who had been on board into a special device, transforms the child into a young man, names the young man Gel Sadora, and makes him the leader of the new Galactor, thereby reestablishing the organization.The Gatchaman team, which was on the verge of disbandment, is given an urgent mission to investigate this new threat.The members are caught in a trap and find themselves in a dire situation. Then, Joe the Condor, who should have been dead, suddenly appears and saves his friends from the crisis.Subsequently, the disbandment of the Science Ninja Team is cancelled, and its members, including Joe, join together again.The Gatchaman team works hard and avoids disbandment, and engages in many a fierce battle against the new Galactor led by Gel Sadora and Sosai X.In the final confrontation, Sosai X’s Solar Shift Plan threatens the very survival of not only Earth but the entire Solar System.In the midst of this situation, Gel Sadora learns the truth behind his mother’s death and rebels against Sosai X.Gel Sadora joins with the Science Ninja Team and fights along with Gatchaman, and together they crush Sosai X’s ambitions and yet again save the world from the evil clutches of Sosai X. Finally, Gel Sadora apologizes to the Gatchaman team and, led by his mother’s voice, changes back into the child he used to be and disappears into the light, as if to atone for his sins. |
