Eagle Riders

Eagle Riders

Two years after the defeat of Galactor and the apparent death of Condor Joe, a cruise ship is attacked by Leader X, killing nearly everyone on board. One of the survivors, a young girl, is captured by X and rapidly aged into the bizarre, masculine-voiced villainess Gel Sadra. Though she has the appearance of an adult, Gel Sadra is not immune to throwing childish tantrums and behaving immaturely.


In the midst of the revival of Galactor, the Science Ninja Team is called back into action, with a shady man known as Hawk Getz acting as the replacement for Joe. Getz is quickly revealed to be a Galactor agent in disguise (and had killed the actual Getz who was to join), and winds up killed by a mysterious feather shuriken. After hints spread in the first three episodes, Joe reappears in the fourth episode, having somehow survived his fatal injuries at the end of the first series, and rejoins the team. It is later revealed that he was rescued by an ex-Galactor scientist at the brink of his death, and was the subject of various cybernetic augmentations.


Later in the series, a female scientist known as Dr.Pandora is introduced, who had lost her husband and daughter in the cruise ship disaster. Unbeknown to her, her daughter Sammie survived and is in fact Gel Sadra.
Details
Format
TV
Romaji
Kagaku Ninja-Tai Gatchaman II
Native
科学忍者隊ガッチャマンII
Country
JP
Status
Finished
Season
Fall (1978)
Start Date
Sunday, October 1, 1978
End Date
Sunday, September 30, 1979
Synonyms
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman II
Eskadra Orła
Tags
Episodic
68%
Superhero
68%
Space
20%
Cyborg
20%
Robots
20%
Kaiju
20%
Anti-Hero
20%
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