Origin
Created in the wake of the hugely successful Henshin boom started by Shotaro Ishinomori's Kamen Rider in 1971, Gatchaman was conceived as a blending of ninja adventure with science fiction elements. It was also notable as being one of the most successful anime attempts to emulate the American superhero genre with many of its conventions such as colorful costumes. Gatchaman helped establish the convention of the five member hero team that has been emulated in later series, most notably the successful tokusatsu Super Sentai franchise (a genre exemplified by the English series adaptation of the Power Rangers franchise many years later); in fact, the Sentai series ChÅjin Sentai Jetman was in many ways an homage to Gatchaman.
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In an old cellar hole in a byroad
The origin of all the family there.
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—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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