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Posted by BuddyParaiso on 19-05-2008 at 02:21:
Ultra Electro Magnetic machine VOLTES V
Before "Voltron" came into being, before "The Transformers" were built, before "Battle of the Planets" reached Philippine shores, there was VOLTES V!
I remember in mid 1977, I was little back then and my younger brother opened the T.V. for Hanna-Barbera's "Laff-Olympics", what we saw changed Philippine primetime viewing; Planet Earth was in danger as hundred thousands of spiky-looking flying saucers deployed by a giant skull-shaped spaceship with a Cinderella's Castle on it's head begins to ravage cities.
The leader of this group of evil aliens was a young man in tights, green pelt robes and with long red hair. Atop his head, were two ox-like horns and he was called Prince Zardoz (Prince Heinnel)
This Prince Zardoz flattens every building in his path using his squadron of spiky saucers and demonic looking robot giants called "Beast Fighters".
The armies of the Earth were no match against his evil cosmic legions.
But on a small, bird-shaped island stands this cool looking space defense base called Camp. Big Falcon.
This strange looking defense base had a large training center were five mysterious young people trained harshly and after this, they were commanded to pilot five giant space-military vehicles that combines and transforms into a really super cool colossal cybernaut called VOLTES V (pronuonced as VOLTES FIVE) that sports many weapons like the Ultra-Electro Magnetic Tops, Chain Knuckles, Ultra-Electro Magnetic Beam and an arsenal of lethal missiles and projectiles!
Voltes V polishes off its enemies using the TEN-KU-KEN; SWORD OF HEAVEN; a tensile strength giant sword that cuts an enemy beast fighter in V-shape half (A feat obviously copied by Voltron)
Seeing this stuff, both me and my younger brother were "hooked" and so other kids in the Philippines in those times.
Created by Saburo Yate (who also created Combattler V , Daimos and sorry to say, Golion) "Voltes V" was the epitome of everything "anime" and super robots way back in 1978. Heck, the whole country went crazy over Voltes V.
Thousands of novelty items were on sale from beach wares to giant posters, coloring books, food utensils, Food maker sponsors (Purefoods), plastic and die-cast mini toys (Mattel's Shogun Warriors.) boot-leg items to school supplies.
Even the local music industry cashes-in over Voltes V's song.
Novelty songs such as "Voltes V ay Tandaan" by the Voltes Gang, "Voltes V Tito, Vic and Joey version", the "Voltes V English version", "Voltes V/Mazinger Z remixes" by Vicor Music Corp.
Then I remembered some enterprising folks manufacturing Voltes V stickers illegally (There was a sole distributing firm called Questor International who is responsible for "original" Voltes V stuff)
Then came the BIG Toys; Bandai's Poppinca created the 13 inches tall Voltes V die cast "transformable" toy that can Volt-In (combine) and transform into the powerful ultra-electro magnetic super robot, complete with weapons and the Sword of Heaven. (I had one like this with me)
Soon, Bandai released the newest VOLTES V incarnate; the Chodenji Machine Voltes V SOUL of CHOGOKIN; very articulate transformable die-cast figure that cost around 15,000.000 Php-Phew...that's a lot of money!)
Why was "Voltes V" been so popular here n the Philippines?...
Unlike its predecessor Golion (Voltron) VOLTES V was an emotional cartoon.
This animated sci-fi action spreads like a raging wild fire that caught the fantasy and imaginations of Philippine youth!
A cartoon unlike the slapstick U.S. made for T.V.s like "Wacky Races", "Stop the Pigeon", "Mission Magic", "Fantastic Voyage", "Casper" etc.
It was the first cartoon in Philippine Television that never shied away from death (4 important characters in the series died.)
The series featured the anguish and torments of the weak, human sentimentality, the longing for a parent and the respect for elders.
The series never stressed individuality as other U.S. cartoon seem to imply but it emphasize on "TEAM" work and the defense of one's homeland is a noble and desirable act!
I remember U.S. teenaged cartoon characters in those times, always had this semi-rock band every before each episode ends.
Not in "Voltes V" were the teenaged Earth Defenders were thrown into a military boot-camp like environment and their coordinator took away all their personal belongings for a better fighting performance.
VOLTES V was the story of five young Earth Defense Agents with different destinies. Three of these characters were the "Go" brothers (Kennichi, Hiyoshi and Daijiro) their mysterious father, Prof. Kentaro Go was once La Gour: A Military and robotics genius from planet Boazania's Ministry of Science.
Planet Boazanina was an evil and powerful planet that had an unfair social structure; those born with horns are the nobility and those without horns were the slaves.
La Gour was one of the nobility, but in a freak of nature, he was born without horns. His parents did everything they can to hide this malady, even to the extent of creating fake horns so people will never know.
La Gour excelled at the top of his class. He mastered the art of military engineering and he was destined to become an heir to the Boazanina Imperial throne. In the midst of his studies, he had seen how the nobility treated the non-horned slaves and he vowed to change all of this after he succeeded the imperial throne.
After graduating, La Gour learned of the new Boazanian target of conquest, Planet Earth. He was against it but he was ignored by the Boazanian councils. He married the girl of his dreams Luceria. She bore him a healthy baby boy they named Zardoz.
It was a great joy for La Gour who was destined to become the new Boazanina Emperor, but luck suddenly changed its course: Prince Zanbasil, a rival to the throne tried to dig La Gour's past so to expose any irregularities and knock him off the Boazanian Imperial Race. He discovered La Gour's faked horns and thus succeeded for the throne. Poor La Gour was thrown into the dark dungeons with the slaves.
La Gour endured the hardships of labors with the slaves. But he was shattered when he heard the news of his young wife dying inside a Boazanian prison. He had no news about his baby boy.
La Gour swore to get back at Zanbasil. He secretly trained slaves to unite and fight. La Gour planned an uprising which failed. His allies, the slaves prepared a powerful stellar escape ship for him to get away from his pursuers. La Gour wandered aimlessly through space until he crashed landed on Planet Earth.
He was recovered by a young Astronomer by the name of Mitsuyo. She was beautiful and she reminds him of his dead wife Luceria. He married Mitsuyo and had three sons namely Kennichi, Daijiro, Hiyoshi. He changed his name to Kentaro Go then warned her that a powerful Boazanina Invasion will take place after 18 Earth years. Mitsuyo mobilized her colleagues for support. Immediately, Prof. Kentaro Go start creating the most powerful defense system for Planet Earth in the name "Project Hercules" thus, VOLTES V was born.
But Kentaro was mainly a pacifist. He will never risk any death and destruction to occur on his new home so he decided to leave Planet Earth and go back to Boazania and try to bargain with Zanbasil.
He never returned
18 years after, Prince Zardos reached the Earth and tried his best to wipe out humanity he failed cause The Ultra-Electro Magnetic VOLTES V and the VOLTES TEAM were always ready as our planet's last recourse.
From Voltes V, comes other super robot shows like Mazinger Z, Daimos, Mekanda, UFO Grandaizer, Jeeg, Balatack, Danguard Ace, Striker Force, Kyodain, GO Rangers, Getta Robot, Jack Q, Star Zinger. Lately, there was Battle of the Planets, then The Transformers, Macross and finally Voltron.
But Voltes V's adventures were cut short by the late president Ferdinand Marcos; the former dictator stressed that Voltes V along with its other super robot show counter parts were violent and inappropriate for kids. So with a whiff from a presidential decree, Voltes V and company were taken off the air.
A Victim of Marcos' Martial Law and Crony capitalism, speculations were made about the true nature of the banning of Voltes V; there are those who said that one of Marcos' Cronies had a pet show (an American Educational show) which could not compete with the ratings of Voltes V.
Others suggest that the ending of Voltes V shows La Gour and Voltes V spear heading the great revolutionary forces of slaves through Zanbasil's Celestial Castle may be used by Marcos' enemies as a signal to topple his regime.
Anyway, Voltes V was re-aired after Marcos and his family fled the Philippines in 1985. Sure enough, it was just like LaGour leading the people to freedom.
For now, Voltes V is alive and well in the Philippines&The super robot had shown it's true might, for no other super robot shows survived the harsh brutalities of a despot's Martial Law.
Even thou all were re-runs, Voltes V is here to stay!
"Overland (Overland) and Oversea (Oversea) Onwards VOLTES V!
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Posted by Tengu on 19-05-2008 at 20:35:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%8Ddenji_Machine_Voltes_V
Where do we find it? that sounds kinda good
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Posted by Rory on 19-05-2008 at 20:55:
Welcome to the group, Buddy! Nice to see a fellow Filipino here.
So when are you going to regale us with BoTP arts?
Posted by Rory on 19-05-2008 at 21:09:
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Actually it IS good. But aside from Japan and the Philippines, it didn't really hit it big outside of these regions, so you could only get copies of Voltes V here in the Philippines and Japan (although I heard that even there, it's no longer available). As Buddy had mentioned, we anime fans at that time considered this anime to be THE show that has led to the toppling of a dictator. Not surprising, since the show tackled battling oppressors/conquerors and solidarity of family and nation (or the world) against evil. Needless to say, to those of us who were suffering from the greed and evil of the Marcos Regime, Voltes V really hit a chord among Filipino viewers.
HOWEVER, you still cannot compare it with Gatchaman, especially since it does borrow elements not just from Gatch (I mean, you have one cute leader, a hot-headed second in command, a pretty girl, a hefty guy and a kid as members of the team), but from the popular robot shows at that time. It's just that the timing of the anime's airing was JUST RIGHT for it to become a timeless classic in my country. (Frankly, I liked BoTP and UFO Grendaizer more than Voltes V though.)
But I must admit that I really liked the female lead Megumi though. She's kick ass like Jun, but NOT as a flirty. Thank goodness!
Posted by Tengu on 19-05-2008 at 21:15:
Thats a shame, Animes that topple dictators are hard to come by
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Posted by Rory on 19-05-2008 at 21:20:
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Very, very true.
Posted by Ebonyswanne on 19-05-2008 at 23:02:
Its good to see a new face around here!!!
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Posted by BuddyParaiso on 20-05-2008 at 01:44:
Well, I'm not competeng Voltes V against Gatchaman...heck, I LOVE both shows, I really liked both Jun Shiratori and Megumi Oka (Jun is the flirty one and Megumi is the cute yet dangerous one but both are sexy!) and I even thought of a cross over bettween the Voltes Team and the Gatchaman team as heroes against a common goal; Destroy Voltron and the Galaxy Alliance LOL!
Posted by BuddyParaiso on 20-05-2008 at 02:28:
The 3D image of Voltes V
Chodenji Mashine VOLTES V
Height 58 meters
Max: Speed : Mach 20
Category: Combining Multi-Functioning Earth Defense Machine Cybernaut.
Power: Intense Ultra Electro Magnetic Energy.
Posted by Cep on 20-05-2008 at 07:59:
Looks suspiciously like the original Octomus Prime to me 
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Posted by BuddyParaiso on 21-05-2008 at 02:57:
Well, Voltes V was created by Saburo Yate many years before Optimus Prime or any robots in the "Transformers" Universe came into being...
Posted by BuddyParaiso on 25-05-2008 at 08:25:
Voltes V versus Voltron
I remember the time where a second cousin of mine who hates Voltes V told me about Voltorn and it's supposed "improvements" compared to Voltes V.
That faggot clearly only tries to infuriate me but I took his words more seriously and made a little research myself about Voltron.
Here's what I've found out:
Obviously, Voltron copied most of the concepts in Voltes V and none of these concepts were polished and improved after being added to the Voltron series. These concepts were merely "copy pasted" and then added some cosmetics to show as originals.
1. The Five Man team Concept- Voltron can get away with the reason that most Japanese sci-fi, be these as live action or animated, utilize the Five man team approach for their team heroes.
2. The "Gattai" Concept- Again, Voltron can use this reason since there are scores of giant robot series that's being formed by multi-functioning machines or smaller robots long before Voltes V came into being.
3. The Giant Sword/final weapon concept- Clearly this is Voltes V's original (I.e. Voltes V's Ten-ku-ken or Den-ku-ken since "Den" means lightning or fire.) The two Voltron shows imitated this as "The Blazing Sword."
4. The VOLT in Voltes V's name. (It was so obvious that Voltron took Voltes V's name because of the five man team concept, Gattai Concept and the Giant sword final weapon concept.)
Supposed a fight erupts between Voltron and Voltes V; who will be vanquished and who will be victorious?
Let's scrutinize this objectively:
1. The Skills and abilities of both teams:
There are no mentions of what kind of combat training the Voltron Force had under went in the academy. In regards to the Voltron episode I've seen so far, they were never subjugated under strict, harsh and extreme trainings.
Let's take the Voltron Force's skill at face value; they were trained as space explorers. Perhaps, they can thoroughly navigate through deep space and they can handle the controls of different space craft under Galaxy Alliance specifications.
That's because they are Space Explorers!
The Voltes Team on the other hand, was highly skilled Earth Defense Agents. (Voltes V vol.1: Invasion from Outer Space) they are disciplined in such military and oriental combat skills as Karate, Judo, Kendo, Marksmanship and Ninjitsu.
General Oka, one of Camp. Big Falcon's elderly base commander was a Ninja master.
Further more, the Voltes Team most likely to use their martial arts skills to Voltes V's deadly counter attacks (Voltes V vol.4: To Catch a butterfly)
More so, the Voltes Team underwent harsh and murderous training sessions under Dr. Sanjuki where they learned the lethal "Spin-Fly Technique". (Voltes V vol.9: The need for rigid training.)
I strongly believe that between the Voltes Team and the Voltron Force, the Voltes Team in this aspect had the upper hand.
2. Weapon Comparison of the Two super robots:
Voltron was known to carry an array of space weapons against the "Robeasts" from Planet Doom. (Note: Robeasts are giant monsters that looked like giant clay creatures and lumbers mindlessly like drunken frat boys.)
*Voltron Eye beam
*Voltron Cross-beam
*Voltron Kick
*Voltron Shield
*Voltron Wing Attack
*Voltron Lion Head attack
*a variety of Voltron Missiles
* The Voltron Blazing Sword
On the other hand, Voltes V sports an arsenal of Ninjitsu-based super weapons against the "Beast Fighters" from Planet Boazania. (Note: Beast fighters are sentient giant robot monster-war machines from Boazania. They are mostly covered in heavy armors, they can think, plan an attack and some of them are skilled in archery and swordsmanship.)
*Chain Knuckles
*Finger Missiles
*Grand Fire
*Voltes Kick
*Voltes Bazookas
*Ultra-Electro magnetic Tops
*Ultra-Electro magnetic Beam
*Ultra-Electro Magnetic Whip
*The Big V Sword (Den Ku ken.)
But before Voltes V could use the Den-ku-ken, the great sword unleashes a powerful "Ultra-Electro Magnetic Ball."
This mighty ball of energy engulfs, weakens the armors and paralyzes the strongest of Voltes V's opponents. Thus, Voltes V can easily bring down the Den ku ken at the trapped opponent and destroy it with ease.
As an addition, Voltes V can even release several of the Ultra-Electro Magnetic Balls in rapid successions.
One can just imagine how Voltron could fair against something like the Ultra-Electro Magnetic ball.
3. Human sentimentality in both shows:
Most episodes of Voltron I've seen, contains no dramatic display of human sentiments what so ever. Yes, the Japanese of Voltron (Golion) had one of the Voltron members die. But in the "tampered" U.S. version, the character Sven retired from service. (Talk about dedication)
The animated series even had a Disney- wannabe ambiance embodied by Space mice, beautiful princesses, castles and keeps and evil witches. There is nothing in this animated show that I can relate to: No sufferings of slaves, no uncertainties and indecisiveness among the main characters, no cries of anguish among the war victims.
What's even cornier is the fact that every time a Voltron episode starts to close, a character religiously proclaims Voltron: Defender of the Universe.
Then they made this "Voltron in 3rd Dimension"; a computerized rendering of Voltron. This does not help at all.
All I could see are animated action figures and a 30 minute commercial of a rehashed robot toy for kids to nag at their parents to buy.
Sadly, I can only level Voltron with other corny cartoons like He-Man, Thunder Cats, Scooby-Doo, the Herculoids, Thundar the Barbarian, Denver-the Last dinosaur and the Gobots.
Missing one or fifteen episodes of Voltron means nothing, really.
Voltes V was a different ball game all together: The animated series was a tear jerker among youngsters and a quaint source of inspiration for older viewers.
Voltes V highlights human sentimentality and emphasize the notion of the defense of one's homeland, is a noble and desirable act.
Unlike other cartoon series in those era, Voltes V depicts the cruelty and barbarity of a mighty alien invasion force over the suffering Boazanian slaves and conquered Earth people altogether.
The Voltes team were not "puppets" or mere mechanical components of Voltes V; The team had their own differences, feelings and sensibilities towards their team mates, and to the other supporting characters.
They are young human warriors who witnessed the death of their self sacrificing mother and longed the warm love of a long lost father
Posted by Tengu on 25-05-2008 at 18:01:
Oh, Voltron.
"We are on a peaceful exploratory mission but we just happen to have this kick ass giant robot weapon on us!"
Very reassuring, Im sure.
(But then I have little sympathy with Botps `league of peaceful planets` who seem to depend on five long suffering teens to defend them from bullies.)
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Posted by BuddyParaiso on 27-05-2008 at 04:31:
I'f you've read my fan fiction, "Voltes V versus Voltron: The Godaikin Wars," you'll see who's the real bully...specially Keith, who's calling the Voltes Team "gooks" and the Earth International Defense Force "Japs!" 
Posted by Tengu on 27-05-2008 at 15:38:
Where is this?
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Posted by BuddyParaiso on 31-05-2008 at 03:12:
http://godaikinwars.blogspot.com/
http://ultraelectromagneticmachine.blogspot.com/
Posted by BuddyParaiso on 31-05-2008 at 03:15:
Fighting General Daimos
"Toshou Daimos" was one of Tadao Nagahama's Super Robot story creations included in his "Robot Romance Trilogy" (Along with Voltes V and Combattler V). The series depicts the exploits of Kazuya; a young Earth defense Astronaut and martial arts pilot of the giant super robot, Fighting King Daimos, and Princess Erika of the Bhramin Invaders.
Their story was like "Romeo and Juliet"; Kazuya and Erika were torn by the conflict between their love and their duty for their people. In the far future, a large refugee race called the Bhramins tries to befriend and request to live among humans. The Bhramin viceroy and the head of the Earth International Space Society was about to finalize the historic agreement when the Bhramin viceroy was poisoned and from this, hostilities have taken over the supposedly historic meeting.
Because of this, the marching Bhramin beast warriors obliterated most of the cities of Earth. Coincidently, Kazuya has just returned from a space expedition and learned that the Earth was about to be conquered by the Bhramins.
Kazuya found the legacy of his dead father, (the head of the Earth International Space Society) in the form of a powerful super robot called Toshou Daimos.
Wasting no time, Kazuya unleashed the mighty Fighting King Daimos to face the advancing Bhramin invasion forces.
Daimos, the ultra-megaton super robot starts as a super sleek space truck called "Tranzer". Ridding his road demon car, Tripper 75S, Kazuya enters the Tranzer and activates the Daimo-transformation.
Powered by the mysterious dymo-light crystal energy, Toshou Daimos can perform lethal karate moves as easily as any human skilled martial artists can; a set of muscle connecting cords would attach to Kazuya's limbs and as Kazuya moves his karate strikes, so does the immense Daimos.
Aside form this; Daimos was armed with several giant weapons like the Battle Button, Daimo-Whiplash, The Magnitou Blades, The Double Blizzard, Daimos Guns, Daimos Daggers, Freeze cannons, Daimos Missiles, Kick Blades, Daimos Shaft and the "Death lance Strike" where Daimos would use it's powerful fist to punch right through an enemy and blasting it to bits.
After polishing off several Bhramin Beast warriors, Daimos encountered a beautiful yet mysterious girl fainting just beside a cliff. Kazuya was dumbfounded by her grace and beauty alone.
Later, the girl was really Erika, princess and sister of the Vengeful Prince Ulrich, son of the poisoned Bhramin viceroy who tried to negotiate with the Earth Forces.
Well, Daimos was cool not just because of the mechas and effects but because of the love story plot, it had.
However, for me, Daimos has its drawbacks; Kazuya was blinded by his intense love for Princess Erika that from time to time, he fails to see the emotion involving those people whose loved ones were killed by the Bhramins.
He was ready to say "Let's stop fighting with the Bhramins" just because he was deeply in
love with Princess Erika and forgot to give justice to those earthlings slain in the battle.
Posted by BuddyParaiso on 10-06-2008 at 03:31:
Planet Robo Dangard Ace
After Voltes V, scores of other super robot shows invaded the Philippines. One of these was Leiji Matsumoto's "Dangard Ace"
Danguard Ace starts off as an expeditionary space race for the newly discovered tenth planet of Promete.
Although people had hoped to peacefully begin settlement there, disaster strikes as the first explorers are destroyed by a mutant-like self-proclaimed leader named Commissar Toppler who ventured towards the planet and declares himself Main Commisar of Promete.
Using Promete's resources, Commisar Toppler with his ass-licking side kick named "Monico" commands a vast military force greater than that of Earth's.
He warned the people of Earth to abandon all means of access to Promete and threatens those who would try to defy his orders a horrifying death.
To seize Promete from Toippler's hold, the governments of Earth begin constructing massive star ships equipt with combat robots.
But Toppler is able to attack and destroy all the different fleet and their battle robots, using his own army of "Mecha Satans" before they are completed, except for the "Jusdom" Space carrier, Japan's own battle/exploring vessel, guarded by the mighty Planet Robot Danguard Ace.
The Mecha satan Forces sent by Toppler to attack the Jusdom carrier were destroyed because of the efforts of the enigmatic Captain Dan; Nothing is known of this mysterious man, save that he has previously worked as a mind slave to Commisar Toppler and Monico.
Takuma Ichimonji, son of the man named Dantetsu Ichimonji, who betrayed the initial Promete exploration team becomes a Jusdom cadet at the Jusdom Carrier.
Ichimonji hopes that he might restore his fathers honor by fighting against Commisar Toppler's forces.
Well, the giant robot Dangard Ace had a sleek design and I remember longing to get my hands on the Popinca Toy of Dangard Ace.
The Super Interplanetary Robot can transform itself by "shuffling" and re-attaching it's parts and forms the super cool defense star fighter "Satelizer." Dangard Ace had variety of weapons but it's most prominent armmament was the "Spartan Javelin".
Unfortunately, Dangard Ace's story seem so "dragging" specially in those episodes where the Dangard Ace robot was still in the works.
Another put doiwn was the introduction of "new" characters, one of them, is the corny "Tony Rocket".
In my opinion, "Dangard Ace" was best with it's original characters...
But it's a great show nonethless...
Posted by BuddyParaiso on 30-06-2008 at 07:39:
The Mekanda Robot
1978 marks the so-called "Japanese Animated Robot Invasion of the Philippines" Lead by the Ultra-Electro Magnetic Machine Voltes V, scores of other super robot shows begins to sprout up like mushrooms in different T.V stations.
One of these shows was the obscured "Mekanda Robot" (Mechander Robot)
The story of this series goes like this:
The Valkyrian (Doron) Empire, hailing from the Ganymede system came to Earth in order to conquer it.
Since extreme pollution had transformed the once, peaceful alien race into hideous space monsters, a Valkyrian military officer named General Ozmel already overthrew the ailing queen Medusa of Ganymede in the Magellan star cluster.
Earth's defenses were no match; in a matter of days, almost the entire world fell under Doron's occupation.
Professor Humbolt (Doctor Shikishima,) a brilliant Earth defense scientist created a huge mobile defense base called "The King Diamond"; a terran-bound galactic carrier capable of transforming itself into a huge baseball field to hide its whereabouts.
Accompanied with his young and lovely daughter, Jenny Humbolt ( Mika Shikishima) Professor Humbolt places his last hopes for Planet Earth in his creation; a gigantic hyper-cybernaut code named "The Mekanda Robot": A giant automated power house capable of launching missiles, laser beams, shark torpedoes (complete with mechanical remoras) and other deadly projectiles, giant sabres and shields.
The Mekanda Robot was formed when three sleek and colorful Earth Defense Machines namely Mekanda One, Mekanda Two and Mekanda Three integrates to form one massive Space machine called "The Mekanda Max."
This Mekanda Max then inserts itself into a cavity bay behind the huge Mekanda Robot and in turn acts as a "battery" that activates the gigantic cybernaut.
Without the Mekanda Max, the Mekanda Robot is nothing but an unmanned rocket.
The Mekanda Max pilot squadrons are as follows;
Jimmy Orion (The main young hero of the series) is the quiet, enigmatic pilot of Mekanda One.
Marcus Vance (Kojiro Hachijima) is the hotshot pilot of Mekanda Two.
David Humbolt (Ryosuke Shikishima) is Jenny Humbolt's brother and the pilot of Mekanda Three (Toraika B-3)
The giant Mekanda Robot efficiently destroys every Beast Warrior the Valkyrians hurled against Earth, but a member of the Mekanda Max pilot squadron named Jimmy Orion is mysteriously connected with Queen Medusa (She is his mother)
Frankly, the series had a promising plot but the production suffers great loss from bankruptcy and some later episodes use stock footages from earlier episodes (The pterodactyl enemy robot was used frequently as well as a parachuting Jenny Humbolt.)
Mekanda Robot was another cult favorite among young fans in those years but not as intensely involved like Voltes V fans.
Posted by BuddyParaiso on 01-08-2008 at 03:38:
Super Beast machine God Dancougar
I remember coming across a peculiar transformable robot toy called "Dancougar" back in 1980.
The Dancougar toy is very small in comparison to that of the Godaikin Voltes V, but the thing does pack with inventive ways to transform; It's body was consists of four machines that transforms into "vehicles" then, robot animals and then human-like robot warriors and combines to form the giant beast machine Dancougar.
Dancougar made me curious; What is the story and who are the pilots of these strange robotic components since it never reached Philippine shores&
Finally, the internet had answered my inquiries:
Dancougar is the story of the "Zyusenkitai" or 'Cyberbeast Force" (or the Super Beast Machine Warrior Team or whatever.) a team of four, young Earth Defense team piloting the "Dancougar" and it's advance weapon defense systems against the "Muge Zorbados alien Empire".
The Cyberbeast Force as follows:
Shinobu Fujiwara-
Shinobu is a highly skilled fighter pilot with steel reserves. However, he is also reckless and disruptive. A little bit of an anti-hero himself and has a not-so-hidden feelings for sara Yuki, the female member of the "Zyusenkitai force". Nevertheless, he does wear pink shirt every off duty.
Sara Yuki-
The only female member of the team, second ranking member of the Cyberbeast force;
Sara was very sensitive and initiative at times but somehow, she is a weak character who is in love with a young man named Saphiro Keats; a man who wears eye shadows and was considered traitor against Planet Earth.
Masato Shibiku-
The youngest member of the Cyberbeast Force, enthusiastic and had a zest for life. As the series progresses, he developed friendship with a young American girl name Laura Sullivan.
Ryo Shinobu-
Trained extensively in the field of Martial Arts, he was the forth member of the "Zyusenkitai". Ryo is soft spoken and patient yet he was proud and most often, he comes in conflict with Shinobu.
He is a combination of the 2nd in command loner and the big-guy fighter prevalent among 5-man team earth defense series.
The Zyuzenkitai Machines-
The Eagle Fighter - (Piloted by Shinobu) is a powerful Earth Defense fighter that transforms to a biped, warrior robot and the head of Dancougar.
The Land Cougar- (Piloted by Sara) is a deadly Earth Defense all terrain machine that transforms from a tank-like conveyance, to a large, armored robot black panther and then a biped giant robot warrior, to the left foot of Dancougar.
The Land Liger- (Piloted by masato) is a powerful Earth Defense land craft that transforms from a land machine to a biped giant robot, to a huge animal shaped cybernaut and then, becomes the right foot of Dancougar.
The Big Moth- (Piloted by Ryo) The largest Cyberbeast force machine, the Big Moth transforms from a giant tank, to a colossal biped robot. Then, to a huge mechanoid mammoth and becomes the body of Dancougar.
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