Supporting Characters

Dr. Nambu

AKA: Professor Kozaburou Nambu (Nambu Hakase) (Gatchaman) Chief Anderson (BotP) Dr. Benjamin Brighthead (G-Force) Dr. Thaddeus Keane (Eagle Riders)
Nationality: Japanese
Age: 48
Occupation: Chief scientist and administrator for the International Science Organization (ISO), a powerful group that leads the war against the Gallactor Syndicate. Mentor/dispatcher/sponsor of the Kagaku Ninjatai.
Info: Nambu is a respected alumnus in several prestigious universities, including Harvard and Cambridge, and his field of expertise is astrophysics. He is a ruthless leader and a stern disciplinarian who is used to having his orders followed. Dr. Nambu adopted and most likely trained the five young people that became the Kagaku Ninjatai. He is physically and mentally much tougher than he appears.
Voice Actors: Oohira Tohru (Gatchaman); Sawaki Ikuya (Gatchaman 94); Alan Dinehart (BotP); Jan Rabison (G-Force); Greg O' Neill (Eagle Riders)

Leader of Red Impulse

AKA: Red Impulse/Kentaro Washio (Gatchaman, G-Force) Colonel Cronus (BotP), Harley Harris (Eagle Riders)
Nationality: Japanese
Age: Unknown
Occupation: Test pilot, spy for the ISO, and leader of the Red Impulse Squadron, a special task force of the ISO.
Info: Kentaro Washio is Ken's father. When Ken was four years old, Kentaro embarked on a very difficult mission: to spy on the Gallactor's longest-running operation, the V-2 Plan. In order to protect his identity, he faked his death in a plane crash and placed young Ken under the foster care of Dr. Nambu. He then took the identity of the Red Impulse leader, and acted as Ken's friend and rival. His true identity was revealed only moments before he was forced to embark on a suicide mission to save the Earth from the V-2 Plan--something that has left Ken extremely bitter. Kentaro is a headstrong, arrogant man who strongly believes in the concept of "tough love" when dealing with his son.
There are two other members in the Red Impulse Squadron (shown at right): the tall, grim Oniishi, who was rendered mute by the Gallactors when he was a child; and the stocky, grizzled Masaki, a veteran pilot. Both meet a tragic, bullet-riddled demise at the end of the first series.

Chief Anderson

AKA: President Kane (BotP) Commander Todd (G-Force), Anderson (Eagle Riders)
Nationality: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Occupation: The head of the ISO, and a powerful political force in the United Nations. He is one of the few people Dr. Nambu defers to, and the only other man capable of giving orders to the Kagaku Ninjatai. Dr. Nambu takes over his position in Gatchaman Fighter.

Voice Actor: Chiba Koichi (Gatchaman, Gatchaman II)

Dr. Sylvie Pandora (Gatchaman II)

AKA: Dr. Francine Aikens (Eagle Riders)
Nationality: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Occupation: As Dr. Nambu's administrative assistant, Dr. Pandora wields a good deal of power at the ISO and is authorized to give orders in Nambu's absence. A specialist in cybernetics, she was the first to realize what had happened to Joe. She has an adventurous streak and is capable in a fight. She is a widow who lost both her husband Domingo and her six-year-old daughter Sammie in a shipwreck. Little does she know that her daughter is alive and living a mother's nightmare.
Voice Actress: Iyeda Miyuki (Gatchaman II); Lara Cody (Eagle Riders)

Dr. Rafael (Gatchaman II)

AKA: Professor Andro (Eagle Riders)
Nationality: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Occupation: An ex-Gallactor mad scientist who works from a hidden lab on an otherwise deserted island. It is Rafael who found Joe dying at Cross Karakorum (end of first series) and saved his life by changing him into a cyborg (a change that was not at all welcome). He later remodeled Joe as a weapon to destroy Sosai X. His passion to destroy Sosai X is not unfounded--Rafael is the one who broadcast the signal that called X to Earth.
Voice Actor: Nakamura Shuusei (Gatchaman II)

Saburo Kamo (Gatchaman F)

AKA: Chief Engineer Kamo (Kamo Gishicho)(Gatchaman F); Uncle Avery (Eagle Riders)
Nationality: Japanese
Age: 52
Occupation: When Chief Anderson is killed near the end of Gatchaman II, Dr. Nambu takes the Chief's place, and Kamo steps into Nambu's position. He is responsible for the creation of the latest Gatchaman base and mechas, and acts as the team's dispatcher.
Voice Actor: Oikawa Hiroo (Gatchaman F)

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