Vox Hunt: 70s Flashback

Show us something in your house from the 1970s.

That's easy! Bird, go!

The Best of G-Force

I'm actually watching the English-dubbed Gatchaman right now *^_^* It took me for ever to get the boxed volume 4 I had been wanting, because the original seller tried to give me the run around and then I had to get my money back and buy it from somewhere else.  Anyway, I'd finally gotten two minutes to myself to watch some of it without my entire family making annoying comments, and I had totally forgotten how much fun G-Force is.  The villains are absolutely ridiculous but the murder plots are downright scary.  The mecha are laughable but the intrigue and mystery surrounding Red Impulse, the Devil Stars, the woefully underused Blackbirds, and especially Ken's missing father and the murder of the Darings, more than makes up for it.

I didn't realize volume 4 contrived to make a double catch for me--in addition to the Jigokillers arc (the one with the people-eating flowers) that I'm so fond of, volume 4 also contains the utterly hilarious "Murder Music", in which Galactor kidnaps the rock band the Demon 5 (misspelled DN5 on the American version and the drum set in the Japanese Gatch.  I named my band on Guitar Hero "Demon 5".) in order to play Sosai X's killer sonic song from their giant organpipe mecha.  My favorite part has to be Berg Katse (the purple one with the ears) instructing the Demon 5 how to play the murder music, in which he is redubbed with all sorts of ridiculous 70s rock band slang, right up to telling them to "kick out the jams" when they are forced by brainwashing helmets to start to play.  "And to the young lady who's singing," he says, "I don't care what sort of crap comes out of your mouth, but you can't make any intelligible words.  Got that?" XD Maybe the only thing funnier is him telling Ace, "Hasta la vista, bird boy!" as he escapes, or maybe the part where the sonic mecha blows up and Katse smacks both fists on the console and barks, "Dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit!" 

I don't care what all those prissypaws sub-religious anime fans say.  Dubbing makes funny anime even funnier. *^_^* Bird scramble! XD