Alara.net/Gatchaguru's Page

A subpage on Alara.net focused on Science Ninja Team Gatchaman and Battle of the Planets. It includes a summary of Alara's history with the fandom and links to various fan pages; some containing works and fannish content and discussions by Alara and some by other fans. 
==Contents ==
(notes in italics are by Alara)
===Cross Karakoram: Galactor Headquarters===
A page dedicated to the villains of Gatchaman.
===Alara's Gatchaman Fanfic===
All the Gatchaman fan stories I have written
====Long Works====
*Aite: In Love And War: Aite is a Japanese word meaning literally "the other hand", and can be translated as either "opponent" or "partner." While there have since been several stories pairing Joe and Katse, Aite was one of the first, originally published in Bird Scramble! APA in 1991-1993. The story does not contain graphic sex, but does contain an incredible amount of angst and pain, both physical and emotional. If you don't like to read such stuff, don't read this.
*Gatchaman IV (The Alatan Saga): Note that all stories were originally published between 1987-1992, that most haven't been revised, and thus they don't represent my finest writing style. :-) However, I still like 'em. Constructive criticism is welcomed.
====Drama====
* First Step On The Road To Hell Berg Katse's first meeting with Sosai X.
* Marionette Katse learns the truth about hes past.
* The Mother And Child Reunion Alternate universe where Gel Sadra chooses to "persuade" her mother to join her herself, rather than bringing her to X.
* St. Helena Berg Katse plots hes escape from ISO prison. Dark humor.
* Raison d'etre Crossover with X-Men. Berg Katse flings hirself into the lava, falls through a warp created by Sosai X's departure... and wakes up in the Marvel universe, having been rescued by Magneto.
* Anderson Must Die A BOTP story, based on "The Galaxy Girls" episode. Mala, Zoltar's sister, has been assigned to assassinate Chief Anderson...
* Mind Games A BOTP story. Teenagers and young adults have been mysteriously disappearing all over the world. Mark finds out the hard way why... Warning: violence.
* Jun's Journal Warning: deals with mature themes. Jun tries to come to terms with what happened during her recent captivity by Galactor in "Jigokiller, the People-Eating Plant" (eps. 39-40.)
* Unpublished Writings of Andre Sordonne The Black Hole Operation is over, and Andre, Katse's sometime lover, tries to deal with the aftermath. (Graphical browser version -- has e's with accents) (Text browser version)
* Hell Hath No Fury Giuseppe Asakura makes a very bad mistake.
* Target: Gatchaman Set in the Project: Phoenixfire universe, where Ken was born as a girl, Mari. Galactor is murdering female test pilots to get at Mari. Jun has a plan to save her, but who's going to save Jun? (1991)
* Soliloquy: Sosai X speaks.
* The Domino Effect 1: Unto the Second Generation: A chain of events begins with a small decision. In this story, the first in the series [that was not completed], Gatchaman #31 happens differently.
* Musicians: Zoltar watches a Terran singer perform, and remembers... (Graphical browser version-- has funky characters)
* Shatter a Diamond Knife: Unfinished. The Science Ninja Team find Berg Katse engaged in a mission to kidnap a little girl and threaten the lives of hundreds of innocent people... business as usual. Until they learn that the girl is his daughter and the threat is in order to rescue his ex-wife.
==== Humor ====
* Jungle Jun And the Island of the Machoberries Written with Allen Rowe. Ken, Jun, Joe and Katse fall into perils on a desert island...
* The Last Days of 7-Zark-7 Written with Charles. Just what it sounds like.
* Cat And Mouse Written mostly by Noel with ideas and assistance by Alara. Pinky and the Brain try to take over Galactor.
* Demon Beast Squirrelon vs. Swan Jun and the Modern Art of Entertainment Written with Allen Rowe. Jun opens a strip club. Megacrossover with characters from anime, comics and TV. (Graphical browser version-- has special characters) (Text browser version)
* Cars 1.0 Joe and Jinpei figure they'll be bored staking out the parking lot of a shopping mall... until they find Berg Katse's car. (Graphical browser version-- has special characters) (Text browser version)
* Pizza Party! Written with Charles and Noel. Andre Sordonne has just ordered 35 pizzas and had them dumped on Berg Katse's bed. (Graphical browser version-- has special characters) (Text browser version)
* Perilous Pizza Parlor Written by Noel with input from Alara. Ernie's Pizza (featured in Pizza Party!, above) is stealing all Jun's business. Megacrossover with characters from Animaniacs, video games, and Star Trek.
====Poetry And Songs====
* Psychopomp (poem)
* Katse's Manifesto (poem)
* The Songs Page The Gatchaman songs here require a little bit of explanation, since they don't come with written music or anything :-). There are some fairly crappy wavs, zipped and absolutely freaking huge, accessible for some of the songs. These are recordings of me singing the things, stitched together by Lori McDonald because I have only the el primitivo Sound Recorder applet. Thanks, Lori! In future I hope to have Real Audio or MP3 versions up; hopefully these would be smaller than the WAVs.
===Meta===
* Alara's Tape Trading Service - You too can have Gatchaman! Here's how
* The Translated Scripts - These are all the script translations I have
* The Synopses - Covers half of Gatch I and all of Gatch II
* Alara's Gatchaman Overview - Parts of this article originally appeared in Animenominous magazine. Copyright Alara Rogers. Freely distribute but do not change a single word. This is an overview of the entire Gatchaman series.
* Audiovisual Gatch - At the moment, this is an assemblage of pictures of Katse and zipped wavs of songs written and sung by me. At some point maybe I will add more to it.
===Alara's Reviews===
Sorry, my reviews aren't up yet. Here's the short version:
* Gatchaman: It's great, get it.
* Gatchaman II: It's also great, get it.
* Gatchaman Fighter: Only the last ten episodes are worth anything.
* BOTP: Unless you loved it as a kid, avoid it.
* G-Force: Terrible names, terrible voice acting, terrible music, slightly decent scripts. Depends on what's more important to you: good story or good acting?
* Eagle Riders: The first 13 episodes were not too bad. I hear horror stories about the rest of it, though.
* Gatchaman OAV: Slick, modern, totally revamped character design (that except for Berg Katse is UGLY UGLY UGLY), sucky music and no characterization worth speaking of. If you love what's new or you lust after Berg Katse, get this. Otherwise, avoid.
** Gatchaman OAV sub: If you must get the Gatch OAV in English, this is the one to get.
** Gatch OAV dub: Avoid unless you hate subtitles or really can't afford the $10 price difference per OAV between a sub and a dub.
===Other Fans' Pages===
* Wendy Dinsmore's Page - After spending several years in Japan, Wendy has as much right to call herself a Gatchaguru as I do-- and she's a great artist.
* Jen Nolan's Page - Contains lots of Gatchaman links
* The Tatsunoko Gatchaman Page - In English
* Carolyn Kaufman's Page - A whole assortment of stuff
* Julieann Adolf's BOTP Page - A good page for Battle of the Planets information
* Lori's Fanfic Archive - The most complete archive of Gatchaman fanfic anywhere.
Category:Gatchaman
Category:1996 Author Pages