The Powerpuff Girls got away with it (and that was more or less targeted for the younger demographic). I remember how after a dozen unnecessary beat ups of your generic goons, blood splattering etc. Even the character "Him" (really, he had a very feminine voice and appearance) and nobody raised a howl?

Is comical rendering of violence okay while the almost detailed seen in Gatchaman bad? Talk about a warp logic but then again, it was the 1970s and kids shows had more rules to contend with.

The show really was ground breaking (what was the air like in the 1970s anyway? (lol!) Berg Katse reminds me of the 1980s Cobra Commander and Baronnes all rolled into one. Bumbling, stupid, very cold blooded and a master/mistress of disguise. And the Cobra goons are so inept that they could have been hired from the recently unemployed Galactor labor pool.

It always bugged me why Katse had a lipstick on........was he metrosexual before his time? Hermaphrodism is indeed a biological phenomena in the animal kingdom and he was a mutant  (nope, no agenda here) which Dr. Nambu (spoilers) postulated that nuclear radiation might have been the cause of Berg's condition. And again, the American version had to do a total re write of the series canon (no wonder BoP is such a wack job as posted in this wikia). Really like how into "science" the original show's writers were + a sprinkle of fiction.......an over the top fiction.

Tatsunoko indeed pulled out all the shots when rendering the near fluid fight and action scenes. Especially on Jun in her unguarded shots. Whteher "she kicks high" (to quote a phrase from the DOA series) or the jumping flip with Ken in episode 1 or the opening scene when the entire team does that circle sky diving manuever (again copied by the Bionic Six). The time and effort just to render those frame of animation........amazing.

On the violence. Boom here, boom there. What else do you expect from a terrorist group determined to rule the world (to quote the G.I. Joe narrator). Though it sort of bewidered me when in episode 2 of Jigo Killers(spoilers), the blood color of one Galactor goon was green. Was that intentional or was it "modified" by ADV/Sentaifilmworks?  And yet in the following and last 5 episodes(especially), blood splatters everywhere (the the goons were more intent to kill).

And the music. Kudos to the show's composer and of course the creators. It never grows old listening to the  Op and closing theme and the action themes.

I could go on and on. No wonder it over extended to 105  episodes.