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
Shupa, Shupa, Shupa, Shupa
Unaru enjin, kagaku no ninja
Taosu zo Garakutaa
Sekai no akuma
Tobu zo ninpou tatsumaki faitaa
Taiyou kagayaku chikyuu wo mamore
Kagaku ninjatai Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Creator Tatsuo Yoshida Planning Jinzo Toriumi Satoshi Suyama
Executive Director Hisayuki Toriumi
Taiyou kagayaku chikyuu wo mamore
Script Kenro Matsuura Hirohisa Soda Director Fumio Kurokawa Taiyou kagayaku chikyuu wo mamore
Script Kenro Matsuura Hirohisa Soda Director Fumio Kurokawa
Kagaku ninjatai Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Music Bob Sakuma Sound Effects Ishida Sound Pro. Kagaku ninjatai Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Music Bob Sakuma Sound Effects Ishida Sound Pro.
Kagaku ninjatai Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Produced by Tatsuo Yoshida Tatsunoko Pro. Kagaku ninjatai Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Produced by Tatsuo Yoshida Tatsunoko Pro.
The I ndestructible Machine Mechanika
The state of the art factory,
that the International Science Organization,
used all of their resources on has finally been completed.
Here they produce state-of-the-art machines
for construction work in underground and underwater places
too dangerous for people to approach.
These machines are able to bear ten million tons of pressure,
and are said to be unaffected
by temperatures of even a hundred thousand degrees.
You could say they are the greatest masterpieces of this century.
And this is an uninhabited factory.
Instead of man, machines with capabilities a thousand times that of man
work under the command of an electronic brain.
Because of the heat, radiation, and gasses released during construction,
it is too dangerous for people to enter.
So this factory is completely automated.
Leader, all preparations are complete.
Those imbeciles at the International Science Organization.
I bet they have no idea that what they have been working hard
constructing in their own factory
will become Galactor's fearsome machine Mechanika.
Begin operation Mechanika immediately.
Yes, Sir!
Commence operation Mechanika immediately.
Yes, Sir!
Activate the guidance control system!
Bring the power up to maximum!
This is the control room.
Our meters are showing abnormal readings.
What is it?
What's going on?
There's something wrong at the factory!
Oh no! The robots are rebelling!
The factory is operating again.
Oh no! The robots are making something on their own!
That's ...
Behold! This is the fearsome new self-modifying weapon,
that we, Galactor, have completed through great efforts, Mechanika!
We borrowed the factory that you painstakingly built for a bit,
and made this.
It seems like our brains are built much better than yours are.
This is Nambu. Your destination is the new factory
of the International Science Organization.
Roger!
Bird Go!
You're finally here, Science Ninja Team.
Don't wet your pants out of fear now.
How dare you mock me? Just you wait.
Why you, Gatchaman. How dare you do that?!
Oh, watch out!
Run! Run!
Gather the team and launch the God Phoenix!
Roger!
I just can't stop laughing.
Where did Mechanika go?
I'm sure that monster was running down this road.
Oh! It's the tunnel!
It went inside that tunnel!
It can't be. Mechanika is so big,
how could it go inside that tunnel.
But Mechanika can change its shape.
I don't know if it can do THAT much.
What now, Ken?
Mechanika disappeared from the radars here.
We do need to search this area.
Let's split up and look for it.
We'll meet up back at Dr. Nambu's place after nightfall.
Okay!
No one believes me.
Their imaginations aren't creative enough.
Okay, I'm going to find it no matter what!
They got us.
They got the best of us.
How can it be?
We're the International Science Organization,
and they put one over us.
Those Galactor scum...
It's like we went through all that trouble,
to make a new weapon for Galactor.
This is the robot's electronic brain.
Galactor must have cleverly manipulated this electronic brain
remotely to create that fearsome Mechanika.
Then what is the secret behind Mechanika's transformation ability?
It is safe to think that Galactor created a self-modifying machine.
What? Is that like the way we transform?
Well, no.
For example, let's say there is a machine you want to make.
Then you first have an engineer create the blueprint.
If you put that blueprint onto a very small microfilm,
insert it into a cassette,
and set it, it seems theoretically possible to have a machine that
automatically builds that device.
Then Galactor has...
Yes, they have created Mechanika
by creating such a device exactly according to such a theory.
But we have our weapon, the Bird Missile.
It's no good!
Bird Missiles can't win against the metal Mechanika is built out of.
Then what should we do, Doctor?!
Doctor!
The microfilm!
We have a chance of winning if we have the microfilm
inside the cassette Galactor is using.
Then we would need to find Galactor's secret base...
And steal that microfilm.
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
Gatchaman
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
A light!
As I had thought! This might be the secret base.
The base!
I've finally found the secret base!
No one is here, good.
Ouch, that hurts.
Oh, Mechanika isn't here!
Oh no, I must have passed out.
Well, in that case I'll just have to search the whole place!
How strange, no one is here.
Go, go!
Good Mechanika! Wreak more havoc!
It is a scientific victory for Galactor!
Wreak as much havoc as you want, Mechanika!
Doctor! The Mechanika is swallowing high-titanium
and nickel steel.
Mechanika must have intended to steal those from the start.
Those are state-of-the-art metals.
What does it intend to do with them?
It is probably going to use those materials to modify itself.
But I have no idea what it is going to do.
Since Jinpei is missing, come back.
Roger!
Yay! Yay! Yay!
This is not good.
Okay, I am going to destroy this secret base by myself then.
Oh! Lucky me!
This is a laser rifle! I'm counting on you!
Damn, the magazine exploded!
Go put out the fire immediately!
Oh no! Go gather the microfilm in the schematics room immediately!
This is film.
Oh!
Oh no!
You! Give the microfilm back now!
Microfilm?
I see. Judging by how worried you are, it must be something important.
I'm gonna borrow it for a bit then.
See ya!
He's gone towards the hangar! Circle ahead!
Don't worry about it. It's just a minor wound.
I don't need this.
I'm back.
Jinpei!
Jinpei! Hold yourself together!
Where were you!?
I went and crushed Galactor's secret base into smithereens.
What? You? I don't believe it.
Jinpei, what is this?
They said it's a microfilm.
Seemed like it was something important, so I took it.
Yes! This is it!
This is the microfilm
with the secret behind self-modifying machines!
Good job, Jinpei!
You imbeciles! What is this mess?!
You allowed the precious microfilm to be stolen?
I sentence you all to heavy labor in the Arctic Ocean base!
Lord Katse, please, anything but that.
My decision stands! I'm going back to headquarters on Mechanika now.
The microfilm is from Galactor,
but the contents are the blueprints for a new machine that I designed.
I have to leave the rest up to you.
I understand.
I have to set this in that monster Mechanika no matter what, right?
It's a perilous job.
I know.
Today, I will finally pummel the God Phoenix to the bottom of Hell.
It's crazy to dive into that monster to carry out our mission.
It's no good, we can't get close.
Wait for the chance.
You still intend to follow me?
Okay then.
Ken, it's no use thinking forever.
Mechanika may be indestructible, but it has to have a weakness.
It has to have a weakness.
I see! I know now!
Really!?
We have one chance.
When Mechanika modifies itself,
there has to be a gap that leads inside for us to find.
If we find that...
I see, but...
How persistent, Gatchaman.
You are no match for Mechanika.
Now! Go!
Oh! Gatchaman!
Bird Run!
Brat!
What an impudent brat!
Katse, we win! Mechanika is no longer your secret weapon.
Do you intend to kill me?
It is the duty of the Science Ninja Team to not kill.
But I will reveal your identity once and for all now!
I'm going to tear that mask off your face!
Gatchaman, I will make you pay for this, make no mistake!
The fearsome new self-modifying weapon Mechanika
is taken back into the hands of the International Science Organization.
And it will surely be used for peace
in the hands of Dr. Nambu and the others.
Until the day peace is realized in this world,
go, Science Ninja Team Gatchaman!
Dare da? Dare da? Dare da?
Sora no kanata ni odoru kage
Shiroi tsubasa no Gatchaman
Inochi wo kakete tobidaseba
Kagaku ninpou hi no tori da
Tobe tobe tobe Gatchaman
Yuke yuke yuke Gatchaman
Chikyuu wa hitotsu
Oh, Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Inochi wo kakete tobidaseba
Kagaku ninpou hi no tori da
Tobe tobe tobe Gatchaman
Yuke yuke yuke Gatchaman
Chikyuu wa hitotsu
Oh, Gatchaman, Gatchaman
One day, Jinpei and other young children suddenly go missing
after catching a rare beetle.
And then a giant metallic beast shaped like a beetle,
called Beetletron, appears,
destroying petrochemical complexes one after another.
Gatchaman flies off to crush Beetletron.
But inside Beetletron are Jinpei
and the other children who have gone missing.
Next time, on Science Ninja Team Gatchaman,
“The Grand Insect Operation”
Look forward to it!