The official website for the Gatchaman Crowds has made seven more characters available for the cast. The story of the anime takes place in Japan in early summer 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 was observed by 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 8 | Age: Unknown | Height: 190 cm)
Tachikawa's decision-maker “CAGE”, with the slogan “You're exaggerating!”. He calls his Gatchaman a sad Gatchaman who can't transform, and so he doesn't go on normal missions. With the existence of his guardian for the team, people who cannot open their hearts to others would open it to him. He owns a cat named Altair (or also known as Al).
Utsu-tsu (Birthday: Unknown | Age: 15 (assumed) | Height: 143 cm)
A first-year student participating in the Tachikawa Private Academy for the Gifted. She works as a volunteer to take care of the flowers at the Tachikawa City International Garden Verdura. She doesn't have a very positive image of herself, and is afraid of getting too close. The only one who can speak normally is OD. Pretty much 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 by JJ to Earth, and the member of “CAGE” who has been on the team longer than anyone (a few hundred years). He has JJ's complete trust, and is therefore placed as the leader of the team to place top priority on JJ's prediction 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 had the correct 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 lives upstairs in the high-class mansion of the Glorious Toyosu Tower building in Koto Ward, Tokyo. Her greatest asset is her superb intellectual ability, she is trilingual, being 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 network services “GALAX” and “President X.” She believes that current 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. His goals and the reasons behind his actions are a mystery.
A charismatic figure, extremely famous within the social networking service GALAX.
Kenji Nakamura (Mononoke, tsuritama) will be directing off the scripts by Toshiya Ono (Suite Precure, tsuritama) at Tatsunoko Productions. Illustrator Kinoko did the original character designs for the characters, while Koji Nakakita (Wandaba Style, Juso Kiko Dancouga Nova) did the mecha designs.
The first Gatchaman anime debuted in October 1972 and had an average audience rating of 21%. It was only planned for two quarters of a year, but was extended for another full two years and 105 episodes. It has since spawned anime films, as well as later television and video series. The Gatchaman anime series have been adapted, with varying degrees of fidelity, into English under the names Battle of the Planets, G-Force, and Eagle Riders.
