The late king’s envious evil brother who wanted to be the king / emperor of Boazania spread the news about Lagour’s fake horns. Not long after that joyous occasion, the Boazanian King or Lagour’s father died, making the young man the new king / emperor of Boazania. Lagour grew up into a very intelligent Boazanian – probably their equivalent of Albert Einstein – then married a girl named Rozalia. The baby was named Lagour (Ragooru in the original Japanese version). So they made false horns for the baby and managed to keep the whole incident a secret known only to the Boazanian monarch’s inner circle – though the king’s brother was envious of this. An incident that became the starting point of the mythology of Voltes V when the incumbent emperor / king had her consort / queen born him a son without horns.Īt first, the Boazanian king wanted to kill the baby but the queen forbade him. In the English version, the horned ones are referred to as “bourgeois”, though from time to time with extreme rarity a non-horned Boazanian bourgeois will be born. people – one born with horns and those born without and the ones with horns are the ones who are in charge, making the non-horned ones as the slave class. There occurs two classes of sentient humanoids – i.e. In terms of social conditions, Boazania is like pre-abolitionist era Europe and America – or more like feudalism absolute monarchy era Europe. Technology wise, Boazania is probably 200 to 300 years more advanced than 1970s era planet Earth – assuming if the US Republican Party abandon their anti-science stance – which in the Voltes V story probably looks like 500 years more advanced than us.
Basing on what I’ve learned so far on the physics of planetary ring formation, such ring system probably is extremely rare or impossible in our cosmos. In the story, Boazania is located 4324 parsecs or 14, 096 light years (1 parsec = 3.26 light years) from Earth has two ring systems around it, the top one circling the planets Tropic of Cancer region while the bottom ring circles around the planet’s Tropic of Capricorn region.
In the mythology of Voltes V, it all began in a planet far away from Earth called Boazan or Boazania in the English language version. It lasted 40 episodes until before being dubbed in English and shown in the Philippines in that year – thus spawning legions of fans who are still obsessed with it and those original late 1970s era Questor owned Voltes V merchandise – or was it Toei Animation Co., Ltd.
As a reminder, Voltes V first aired on the Japanese TV network Asahi on Jwith the story’s timeline set at 1989. He grew up on a planet with a social system much screwed-up than that existing on our own called Boazania (in the English language version). Armstrong (the Voltes V’s inventor’s name in the English language dubbed version) arrived on Earth and asked for help with a few trustworthy locals to conjure the most ambitious – and animation worthy – plan to defend our planet.
For those unfamiliar with the series here’s a not so brief history of the sci-fi cartoon / anime saga.īefore Dr.
But I think given the sheer brilliance of the merging of excellent storytelling and contemporary (in the 1970s) cutting-edge science, Voltes V could have won fans across the world. I don’t know if the cult of Voltes V – that late 1970s sci-fi animation that features a giant anthropomorphic robot – only gained a foothold on Philippine soil.
Influenced in part by increasingly accurate science fiction stories (Star Trek) and the rise of martial arts movies with Peking Opera influences, does merging of both guarantee TV series success?