The official website for the Gatchaman Crowds has added seven more characters to the cast. The anime's story takes place in Japan in the early summer of 2015. 180,000 people live in Tachikawa City, the "second capital" of the Tokyo area. Among them are "Gatchaman"—warriors who fight in special reinforced suits powered by "NOTE," the manifestation of special spiritual powers in living beings. A council has observed a group of individuals with latent powers to protect Earth from alien criminals. In recent years, the municipality has assigned Gatchaman warriors to deal with the mysterious entity known as "Mess."
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OD (Date of birth: June 8th | Age: Unknown | Height: 190 cm)
The decision-maker of Tachikawa “CAGE”, with the slogan “You’re exaggerating!”. He calls his Gatchaman a sad Gatchaman who can’t transform, and because of that he doesn’t go on normal missions. With the existence of his guardian for the team, people who can’t open their hearts to others would open theirs to him. He owns a cat named Altair (also known as Al).
Utsu-tsu (Birthday: Unknown | Age: 15 (assumed) | Height: 143 cm)
A first-year student attending Tachikawa Private Academy for the Gifted. She volunteers to tend to the flowers at the Tachikawa City International Garden Verdura. She doesn't have a very positive self-image and is afraid of getting too close. The only one who can speak normally is OD. Practically the only thing she says to the other members is "I'm going to be sad…", which is a pun on her name.
Paiman (Birthday: Unknown | Age: Unknown | Height: 33 cm)
An alien Gatchaman sent to Earth by JJ, and the longest-serving member of "CAGE" (several hundred years). He has JJ's complete trust and is therefore placed as the team leader to prioritize JJ's predictions for the future. He also gives orders to the team.
JJ Robinson,
a member of the board of directors and the guardian of Earth. He is a man who has cared for the lives of people born in the galaxy for many years. He gave the power of Gatchaman to Earthlings who possessed the right characteristics, and informed them of his prediction of an existence that will be impossible to repel with the powers of science.
Rui Ninomiya (Date of birth: April 25 | Age: 18 | Height: 168 cm)
A young woman living on the top floor of the high-class mansion in the Glorioso Toyosu Tower building in Koto Ward, Tokyo. Her greatest asset is her intellectual prowess; she is trilingual, able to speak English, Japanese, and Chinese. After educating herself using educational websites and learning to write code from hackers around the world, she developed the social networking services “GALAX” and “President X.” She believes that present-day Japan is extremely boring and is doing many things to speed up and update the world's clocks
Berg Katze (Birthday: Unknown | Age: Unknown | Height: 215 cm)
A mysterious person who claims to be an alien. Their goals and the reasons behind their actions are a mystery.
A charismatic figure, extremely famous within the GALAX social networking service.
Kenji Nakamura (Mononoke, Tsuritama) will be directing from scripts by Toshiya Ono (Suite Precure, Tsuritama) at Tatsunoko Productions. Illustrator Kinoko created the original character designs, while Koji Nakakita (Wandaba Style, Juso Kiko Dancouga Nova) did the mecha designs.
The first Gatchaman anime premiered in October 1972 and garnered an average viewership of 21%. It was only planned for two quarters of a year, but was extended for two full years and 105 episodes. Since then, it has spawned anime films, as well as later television series and video. The Gatchaman anime franchise has been adapted, with varying degrees of fidelity, into English under the names Battle of the Planets, G-Force, and Eagle Riders.