Everyone else seems eye-poppingly excited about the release on DVD of Gatchaman, also known as Battle of the Planets and G-Force here in North America.
I'm sure it's thrilling that the DVD set includes a bunch of episodes "never before seen" 'round these parts. But then again, for me there are a bunch of never before scene episodes in the original series because I didn't watch it.
I'm a nerd, and I was a young nerd at the time it was on TV. In particular I was a young nerd who liked (and likes) science fiction. So clearly I was the target market, but in my case it missed the target. There are very few things anime that have ever captured my fancy, and frankly G-Force just didn't do it.
Maybe it was the silly duck-like visors. Maybe it was the fact that I'd yet to accept anime's "quickly alternating background = motion" formula any more than I accepted it for Rocket Robin Hood. But whatever it was, G-Force wasn't something I'd scurry home to watch.
Then again, I still know all the words to the Star Blazers theme song. I am a complicated nerd, which I like to think makes me Shaft for the uncool.
I'm wrong, of course. But I like to think it anyway.
