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, (Yeah, Princess Allura - that Disney Princess reject! ) 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 was 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.
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, (Yeah, Princess Allura - that Disney Princess reject! ) 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 was 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.
3 comments:
Dairugger and Golion were badass compared to Voltron.
As for Golion and Dairugger both shows were just brutal and more mature.
The grossness of Golion can be that bad-fr example in the episode of Emperor Zarkon's birthday party on Planet Nemo,the slaves are forced to eat executed traitors. Another is where blood really splatters and Sven's death was really brutal.
Also Lotor is far more evil in Golion- he kills his slave girls whenever they don't please him. It's implied Lotor may have bastards across the galaxy. In Golion, his mother is a blonde woman and Haggar says she can't reveal the secret.
In Golion, Zarkon, Hagar and Lotor are a family unit with Hagar as the matriarch so that implies she was once beautiful but when she gave birth to Lotor, Zarkon didn't keep her promise.
In Dairugger, a LOT of officers both Alliance and Drule really died compared to what the American version says. Zeppo was murdered by Hazar and Hazar was murdered by some Drules who had grudges against him before he joined the good guys. Dairugger was more interesting than Golion for me.
How depressing, learning that the original Japanese anime series of Voltron ; Hundred beast King Golion, had pushed the proverbial envelope just to out do Chodenji Mashin Voltes V’s “human sentimentality’, even to the point of distaste. (Bodies of dead slaves to be force fed to still living slaves…is this scenario has anything to do with Gorge Romero…? Yuck!)
Voltes V have a superior “human drama” regarding the suppressed slaves of Boazania and how they revolted against their horned masters under the leadership of La Gour or Dr. Kentaro Gou. (Barron Hrothgar a.k.a. Dr. Michael Armstrong.)
But for me and perhaps, to most Voltes V fans out there, the most poignant of Voltes V’s human sentimentality was the “Death of Dr. Mitsuyo Gou (Dr. Marry Anne Armstrong) as she rescued her sons kennichi (Steve), Daijiro (Big Bert), and Hiyoshi (Little Jon) by crashing her fighter plane at the face of a huge, Boazanian Beast Fighter which pitted Voltes V.
Her death was the MOST BEAUTIFUL display of human sentimentality and sacrifice!
This is what most Voltron/Golion fans, either locally and in the states, had failed to realize or ignored!
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