Art differences between series

[LadyMallanox]

So, I honestly only just noticed this after comparing images of the first and second series, but the color saturation difference between Science Ninja Team Gatchaman and Gatchaman II/Fighter is crazy


First Series

Second Series

I know they technically are— but dang, they look like two different shows side by side… I mean I noticed a difference but I just didn’t realize how dramatic it was well, that image is from earlier in the first show, so that might not help the difference (the character models themselves definitely took shape more later on)

The color could also be the particular uploads I’ve been watching, their from different sources. But the art itself also looks a bit different, so I could believe that different people were doing the art and just used WAYY more saturated colors.

That and the DVD I pulled II off of may or may not have been a knockoff

Anyway I just thought that was kind of interesting, what do you all think?

[SparklingNeon]

If I remember correctly, by the time II was made, Tatsunoko had switched to different cel paints or the old ones could no longer be reproduced. Some character palettes were more obviously changed up than others; Joe's hair out of Bird Style even borders on looking green sometimes (II ep.39), but then there's also how filming or the quality of the master can affect some colors.

One person I know wonders if II and Fighter should be thought of as something more like the 80s Jetsons and Jonny Quest series, in being such later sequels with the different style (in the Gatchaman sequels' case, the thinner lineart especially in II and those bolder colors).

When it comes to the first series, there's also a case where there were older masters that were awfully dark and a lot of "blue" cast that made Ken and Jun's hair colors look more blackish, which also affected some fans' perceptions of the original colors although some would know that's not how they were meant to be.

[LadyMallanox]

If I remember correctly, by the time II was made, Tatsunoko had switched to different cel paints or the old ones could no longer be reproduced. Some character palettes were more obviously changed up than others; Joe's hair out of Bird Style even borders on looking green sometimes (II ep.39), but then there's also how filming or the quality of the master can affect some colors.

One person I know wonders if II and Fighter should be thought of as something more like the 80s Jetsons and Jonny Quest series, in being such later sequels with the different style (in the Gatchaman sequels' case, the thinner lineart especially in II and those bolder colors).

When it comes to the first series, there's also a case where there were older masters that were awfully dark and a lot of "blue" cast that made Ken and Jun's hair colors look more blackish, which also affected some fans' perceptions of the original colors although some would know that's not how they were meant to be.

Thank you for answering! it didn’t actually occur to me that it would have been the Cel Paint they were using being different but that makes a lot of sense!

Gatchaman II and Fighter are a strange case, they were made so close in tandem with the first series, and are obviously trying to continue the story. So I can’t really blame anyone who considers them like a “season 2 and 3”, but at the same time their so different from SNTG in art and design that your friends comparison to the 80’s jetsons and Johnny quest series is also apt… I also had 0 idea those existed until now! My grandpa would love to hear about Johnny Quest if he didn’t know about that already, and now I wonder if the Jetsons episodes I watched on boomerang when I was younger were from the 60’s or the 80’s.

I did notice the darker colored masters of Gatchaman in a few pictures online, and particularly an upload of battle of the planets on YouTube, I was actually very confused about jun’s green hair because I had watched that then moved to the Japanese series