anime identification question

[soul alive]

i am having trouble identifying an anime i watched as a young child on Cartoon Network, and was wondering if anyone here could help.

the anime involved a group, several guys and one girl with one younger boy, of teen crime fighters who wore costumes with bird helmets (or something of the sort). they were helped by a professor/scientist type person who gave them advice and created gadgets for them to use.

the only episode i can remember involved a super-villian who had created evil plants that captured and ate women (sort of like venus fly traps). the professor created a special suit that would prevent the plant from eating the women. the girl in the group, against the professor's will, went out in the suit to try to stop the plants, and ended up getting captured. the end of the episode involved the remaining members flying above the field of plants, and trying to destroy them by fire bombing them, and the villian laughing because the plants were releasing seeds and they would take over the world.

something else i remember was that Sailor Moon was running at the same time as this show was.

i know this isn't very helpful, and that there is a possibility that there are other threads on this anime that i don't know about because i don't know the title, but if anyone could help that would be great. thanks.

[ShiroiHikari]

hmm...sounds like it could be Voltron...was there a giant robot in it?

[Mithrandir]

Given your age, and the material there... Hmm... I'd say it's either "Gotchaman" I think the english translation was something like "G- Force." Or "Silverhawks" which I didn't think was anime at the time.

Either of those sound right?

But the all guys, one girl on young boy theme is exatly like voltron, as ShiHi pointed out...

[Blitzkrieg1701]

Man, if you're going to start discussing how many shows used that set of protagonists, this topic will get long pretty fast.

Anyway, yeah, that sounds like Gatchaman, alright. Actually, it was dubed twice, once as "Battle of the Planets" in the late '70s, and again in '86 as "G-Force." Since Turner was the one who dubbed G-Force, I would assume that's the one that was on Cartoon Network.

[Gypsy]

That's what I would assume too. The bird costumes were pretty original to that series.

[Ichigo_89]

I was gonna say G-Force as well, but you guys beat me to it. *walks away with head down*

[CDLviking]

I thought of Silverhawks too, but that was more of a space show. I doubt the villain would have been interested in taking over the planet with man (or in this case woman?) eating plants. I also did not think it was anime.

I haven't seen G-Force, but I have seen adds for it. It also sounds like a good bet.

[soul alive]

thanks for all of your help - i know i didn't provide too much information to go with . i think i was about 6 or 7 when the show was on, so i don't remember much.

i just did a quick google image search of the different titles that were suggested... and it looks like G-Force is what i was talking about. thanks again.



www.chronicsite.com/ gatchaman/gforce.html

[Mithrandir]

Glad to help. Incidentally, that was one of my favorite shows growing up.

*looks at Zipo-Master. Winks. Polishes fingernails on shirt*

[Hitokiri]

Oh thats the animes name!! I was wondering what that was.

[Kisa]

AH! I recognize that one! memories.....

[soul alive]

it was a pretty memorable show... the plot of the last episode i saw (see first post) ingrained itself almost permanently into my 6/7 year old mind. especially the woman eating plants - lol.

[termyt]

Glad to help. Incidentally, that was one of my favorite shows growing up.

Me, too, although it was called "Battle of the Planets" in the United States back then.

I kind of look at it like this:

G-Force is a badly mangled and hacked up version of Battle of the Planets, which was a badly mangled and hacked up version of the original Japanese Science Ninja Team Gatchaman.