Theme Song Destroy Galactor! Lyrics Tatsunoko Pro. Planning Department Composer Asei Kobayashi Performed by Columbia Cradle Club Columbia Records SCS 505
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh
Roaring engines, ninja of science
Destroy Galactor
Evil of the world
Fly with the Ninja Technique Tornado Fighter
Protect the Earth under the shining sun
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Creator Tatsuo Yoshida Planning Jinzo Toriumi Satoshi Suyama
Executive Director Hisayuki Toriumi
Protect the Earth under the shining sun
Script Kenro Matsuura Hirohisa Soda Director Hiroshi Sasagawa Protect the Earth under the shining sun
Script Kenro Matsuura Hirohisa Soda Director Hiroshi Sasagawa
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Music Bob Sakuma Sound Effects Ishida Sound Pro. Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Music Bob Sakuma Sound Effects Ishida Sound Pro.
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Produced by Tatsuo Yoshida Tatsunoko Pro. Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Produced by Tatsuo Yoshida Tatsunoko Pro.
The Fearsome Jellyfish Lens
Underneath this expanse of sky lies a ten-year-old ghost city.
Because the city created too much pollution,
the sky was blanketed with noxious gases and photochemical smog.
All the living things died.
The green shade trees are a thing of the past as well.
The beautiful flowers never bloom now either.
Nobody knows when this city will return to the beautiful city that it once was.
However, within this sea of death a new life form is now preparing to be born.
This is Mantle 1 . We're now directly above the ghost city.
We'll begin the general investigation of it. Over.
Acknowledged.
Immediately commence activities according to the investigative plan.
Acknowledged.
We're beginning the tests.
Send the data to Nambu's base as it's available.
Directly connect any transmission to Nambu's base.
We've received data from Mantle 1 .
These are more drastic reactions than I expected.
Any further investigation may be dangerous.
Altitude, 1 ,000 meters. Smog concentration, 200 PPM.
300 PPM... 400 PPM... 500 PPM... 530 PPM... 550 PPM...
Abort investigation immediately and bring back your data.
We're still at an altitude of 300 meters.
We're going to try lowering our altitude a little more.
Please allow us to continue the investigation.
No! Pull back!
We're heading for the city center, the green plaza.
Hey! Abort the investigation!
What could that be?
What is it? Hey! What happened?! Come in, Mantle 1 !
Mantle 1 ! Hey!
Leader, I've obliterated the investigative team from Nambu's base.
Of course you have! Our plans will very soon be accomplished!
You must not let even one mouse into the ghost city.
Yes, Sir!
Look, it's a coating made of fine particles blasted at high pressure.
This golden coating is to protect the body of the God Phoenix from noxious gases.
We need you to fly right through some unbelievably noxious gases, you see.
But we still don't know what will happen.
I want you to be very careful, and search out the answer to the mystery of the ghost city.
I understand.
We'll see you later then.
All right, let's go, everybody!
Okay!
Bird Go!
That over there!
How awful.
I can't believe there's a place this horribly disfigured on Earth.
If the International Science Organization had been formed sooner,
this wouldn't have happened.
This is because they created too much pollution
without ever thinking about our irreplaceable Earth.
You said it.
I wonder if Mantle 1 was attacked around here?
How could it have been?
There's no way there are any live humans in a horrible place like this.
They might have crashed. At any rate, we're searching for Mantle 1 .
This is the place they called the green plaza.
If the Mantle 1 crashed here, there should be wreckage in this area.
Look! The head is new.
It looks like we can assume someone is here after all.
Look out! We're being targeted!
It's Galactor!
Look out!
Don't scare me like that!
If that building hadn't been in shambles already, we would have been toast.
The wing is going to come apart!
Don't worry. The protective coating's just melted a little.
That one was scary. The protective coating saved us.
So the ghost city is Galactor's secret base after all.
Yeah, wanna give 'em a little payback?
Wait, let's contact Dr. Nambu.
Our job is to find Galactor's secret bases, and that's all.
We'll leave everything else to the Security Forces bomb squad.
Thus Galactor's secret base, the ghost city, is destroyed by the Security Forces.
It doesn't matter anymore. The Jellyfish Lens is fully developed.
Up until now it was imperative that we let no one get close,
but that's of no importance anymore.
Yes, Sir.
The destruction of the ghost city base doesn't harm us in the least.
Give orders to the underwater base.
Make the Jellyfish Lens surface.
Then you mean...
Yes, the time has finally come.
We'll show the whole world
the horror of the being that Galactor has created.
Things have gone according to my plan.
In the waters of the polluted sea, I have created a completely new and terrible life form.
This life form has a function that no other organism on Earth has.
Those stupid humans could never even imagine.
From now on, let us call this life form the Jellyfish Lens!
I'm replenishing the energy.
Good.
2,000 meters above the ghost city.
At this point, there's nothing but quiet. It's returned to being a dead city again.
Wait! What's that?
It's coming this way!
Attention all units. Mysterious flying body rapidly approaching.
Prepare for attack!
What did you say? A Jellyfish Lens?
Yes, that's the name Galactor gave it.
They're saying they'll rule the world with this.
They're saying if we don't do as they tell us, this is what will happen.
Look!
Right after it attacked the patrol, it appeared in Green City.
This is footage shot by a person in that city.
When rays of sunlight strike the Jellyfish Lens, it converts them to dozens,
no, hundreds of times their energy, and reflects them.
They are fearsome rays of light that surpass our imaginings.
It makes concrete crumble, melts steel like candy,
and turns humans into fossils.
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The birth of the Jellyfish Lens was the birth of a devil.
This is an image I obtained with infrared rays.
It looks just like a diamond.
Please tell us. Just what is this Jellyfish Lens, Doctor?
It's no mere lens.
This lens is crystalline, and at the same time it appears to be organic.
Then are you saying this lens is alive?
Probably so.
All I can think is that something incorporating an entirely new organic phenomenon
was born and grew within the ghost city's waste water.
After this, the Jellyfish Lens returned to the ghost city again.
It will probably rest there and then attack the next city.
The thing about this that should scare us most is that Galactor can control this monster.
In other words, Galactor can freely manipulate the Jellyfish Lens?
Exactly.
This is just a theory, but I imagine that Galactor is giving some sort of
stimulus to its brain to make it do what they say.
We can't hang around hesitating on this one!
That's right. We have to kill the Jellyfish Lens while it's resting.
Launch the God Phoenix.
We're going to take down the Jellyfish Lens!
This is a scary sea.
Not investigating underwater was a mistake.
Okay, let's go!
Is it okay to dive into a sea that's so polluted?
Don't worry.
The golden coating that Dr. Nambu developed will work even underwater.
Here we go!
Roger!
This sea is filthy.
I was afraid the God Phoenix was going to dissolve.
Jinpei, you have to believe more in the power of science.
Yeah, right. It's science that did this too, you know!
With Galactor's scientific powers, it's not strange that they were
able to make a devilish life form in a hellish place like this.
Ken! We've got a reading.
We're finally going to meet the Jellyfish Lens.
Stop here quietly so that we're not noticed.
Got it.
The super telephoto lens will catch the Jellyfish Lens.
What is that?
There are two of them...
No, there are four! No, five... six...
No, look!
My God, it's cell division.
At this rate, in a few hours there will be dozens... no, hundreds.
Ken!
The number of Jellyfish Lenses is steadily multiplying.
Multiply, multiply!
Get bigger, grow more active, and spread throughout the whole world.
And if there is any country which disobeys Galactor, turn it into a capital of death.
We're surrounded.
We were too late!
Even if we contact the Security Forces, they won't get here in time.
But the Jellyfish Lenses are still underwater. Now's our chance, isn't it?
We'll give them some nice Bird Missile presents!
That's dangerous.
If we fire missiles this deep underwater, the water pressure will kill us too.
Ken, what do we do?
Big brother...
We'll fire missiles and then surface right away.
It sounds like that's the only way. Okay, let's give it a try!
Okay!
Prepare missile for launch!
Roger!
Twenty degrees to the left! Firing angle okay!
We'll blow away everything in a five-kilometer radius with one shot.
Fire!
It's the warning light!
Damn, it's the Jellyfish Lenses.
The protective coating has started coming off.
This is bad. Increase our speed!
We'll create pressure and shake free from them!
We did it. We did it!
We did it, Ryu!
We did it!
No, wait. It's too soon to feel relieved.
It figures.
They're persistently trying to attack us. Look!
Oh, no! When the Jellyfish Lenses are struck by rays of sunlight,
they emit powerful light beams!
Oh, no!
What do you mean to do this time, you monster scum?
It's gas...
Increase our altitude.
The God Phoenix's protective coating has peeled off.
If we go directly into that cloud, it'll dissolve.
Dammit! Let's blast another Bird Missile at it.
No! lt'll just disperse and spread.
Listen well, everyone. The Jellyfish Lenses are breathing noxious gas.
The amount of gas is finite.
Which means that if we drive away all of the gas,
we'll probably be able to destroy all of them.
Red lmpulse should be there soon. Await your orders.
Red lmpulse?
What we've carried here is pure high-pressured oxygen.
We'll drop this on the Jellyfish Lens.
After that, we'll look to you all to exert your full abilities.
Okay, understood. Science Ninja Technique Firebird!
What?
What did you say?
Ken...
That's not funny!
How are we supposed to use the Firebird when the God Phoenix is this messed up?
And not just that, you try plunging into pure oxygen!
We'll be burnt to a crisp and crumble to pieces!
There's no other way!
It changed color again!
It's preparing to fire the rays of light.
As if we'd let you use the same trick twice, you bastard!
Now!
Ninja Technique: Firebird!
We did it. We beat him.
The Jellyfish Lens has been burnt to ashes.
Ken!
Big brother! Ken!
Big brother!
Everyone...
Thank goodness.
We won. Thank goodness.
We won.
You did well.
That was a great success, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes, Sir!
By the way, I have good news.
It's been decided that the International Science Organization
will make the ghost city a green city this time.
No matter how many years it takes, we'll do it.
That's great, Doctor.
Yes, and it's thanks to the Science Ninja Team.
All right, shall we fly a lap around the ghost city as a final farewell to its dead self?
But Ken, the God Phoenix is in such bad shape.
The great God Phoenix isn't the type to stop being able to fly
just because of a little thing like this.
Let's go!
Okay, big brother!
You're getting too excited.
Who is it? Who is it? Who is it?
The shadow dancing high in the sky
It's the white wings of Gatchaman
You stake your life and fly out
That's the Science Ninja Technique Firebird
Fly! Fly, fly, Gatchaman
Go! Go, go, Gatchaman
There is only one Earth
Oh, Gatchaman, Gatchaman
You stake your life and fly out
That's the Science Ninja Technique Firebird
Fly! Fly, fly, Gatchaman
Go! Go, go, Gatchaman
There is only one Earth
Oh, Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Galactor steals the sophisticated new factory that Dr. Nambu and the others built,
and using it builds the fearsome machine Mechanika.
Mechanika riots, busting factories, cars, and the like.
It's a machine that assembles itself, transforming itself from one form to the next.
Gatchaman and the others challenge this Mechanika, but how will they fight it?
Next time on Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, “The Indestructible Machine Mechanika” Look forward to it!