Cata-Roller, the Revolving Beast is the 51st episode of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman.
Plot Summary[]
The Science Ninja Team follow Nambu's orders to come to Hontwal to spend their free time there. Only Ken doesn't trust the instructions. At that moment, a man in a white suit, being pursued by the police, appears and Ken helps him. But when they hear from the police commander that the man is a member of Galactor, the Science Ninja Team is on alert.
While flying his personal plane, Ken is attacked, but saved by the Red Impulse commander, who turns out to have been the man in the white suit. He asks Ken for help to get the legal proof that the defense minister of that country concluded an agreement with Galactor. He then tells Ken that he spent 10 years to stop Galactor's plan, abandoning his family in the process.
The two sneak into the mansion of the defense minister and get their hands on the film proving the agreement. However, they are discovered. The Red Impulse commander tells Ken to give the film to the president, then they split up.
The following day, when they come to the presidential manor to hand over the film, the Galactor mecha Cata-Roller shows up right in the middle of the president's birthday party. It picks up the mansion and lifts it into the air. But through the Science Ninja Team's efforts, the people could already escape and the mecha, having failed to assassinate the president, goes away.
Ken hears from Nambu that he can meet his father once this task is finished and goes off, his heart full of longing thoughts.
Staff[]
- Screenplay: Jinzo Toriumi
- Director: Hideo Nishimaki
- Mecha Design: Kunio Okawara
- Animation: Tsuneo Ninomiya, Tsunenaka Nozaki, Norio Hirayama
Voice Cast[]
- Ken: Katsuji Mori
- Joe: Isao Sasaki
- Jun: Kazuko Sugiyama
- Jinpei: Yoku Shioya
- Ryu: Shingo Kanemoto
- Dr. Nambu: Toru Ohira
- Berg Katse: Mikio Terashima
- Red Impulse: Hisayoshi Yoshizawa
- Secretary of Defense: Susumu Mizushima
- Police Captain: Norio Wakamoto
- Narrator: Hideo Kinoshita
- Man A: Tessho Genda (as Mitsuo Yokoi)
- Police Officer: Hiroshi Serikawa