YMMV / Battle of the Planets

• Awesome Music: As compromised as this adaptation is, most agreed that at least the new audio was excellent; not only keeping the original anime score largely intact, but also added a majestic title theme.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: The lead singer of Dirty Name 5 from "The Space Rock Concert" might qualify.
• Macekre: This series is an early example of edited to hell and back anime in the States.
• The Scrappy: Andreas Tomak, an original character from the Top Cow series, is not particularly liked due to being a Flat Character who only serves to belittle G-Force and butt heads with Anderson. The fact he also took away paneltime from Zoltar was also criticized by fans.
• So Bad, It's Good: More lenient opinions on the adaptation (including those nostalgic for it) amount to this. While the voice acting and music are generally lauded, the dated slang, corny scripting choices, and ham-fisted attempts to explain away death haven't aged well, but provide unintentional humor- especially the sexual innuendo scriptwriters snuck in.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Some opinions of the Top Cow series amount to this, as Munier Sharieff employed a darker tone in the BOTP canon in an attempt to make it more like Gatchaman. Jason's personality is one of the most decried points, with Sharieff depicting him as promiscuous, disrespectful to his teammates, and more of a violent loose cannon, with his overall attitude coming off as a Character Exaggeration of the original Joe Asakura. There were also fans that took the presence of "Joe Asakura" as one of Jason's aliases as a Take That! to the original Gatchaman, or as an unnecessary reference and confusing in its attempt to merge the two series' canons.
• Woolseyism: In the original Gatchaman, the God Phoenix was shot down and completely demolished by Galactor mecha on at least two occasions. There was a spare God Phoenix in storage for such a situation. In Battle of the Planets, however, the damaged Phoenix was simply said to have been taken apart and completely rebuilt and like it's mythical counterpart "risen from the ashes". This, in effect establishes the vehicle as unique and almost irreplaceable, a character in and of itself and not just a piece of hardware that could be mass produced, thus avoiding Reed Richards Is Useless.