Voltes V

She was renamed “Jamie Robinson” by the talented voice dubbers of the Filipino/English version of Voltes V way back in 1978. Well, I can’t find a connection between the name Megumi and Jamie but I suspect the name “Jamie” was inspired by “Jamie Somers”; the female lead character from the then hit TV series “Bionic Woman”. The voice talents should have called her “Meg”.




Megumi Oka was the only female member of the Voltes Team and she was depicted as a lovely young 16 year old Japanese girl; she’s calm, quiet, resourceful yet very dangerous; her father was Field General...

Prince Heinell (Zardoz) leads the Boazanian Invasion Force against the Planet Earth.

Aside from a vast army of horned shock troopers, three distinguished Boazanian generals were assigned to help him in his expedition of conquest:



*Do Zuuru (Zhul): An old Boazanian robotic scientist specializing in the designs and creations of powerful Beast Fighters. For some reason, Zhul is a grotesque Boazanian with only a small horn. It does not explained as to why he was given such a high position since he had only one thin horn, but Zhul does aim high with ambition; and it caused him his life when he was...

Hiyoshi was the youngest of the Go brothers and the Voltes Team. The TV series illustrates him as a “Child genius” aside from being a seasoned aqua-fighter. He was called “Little Jon” in the dubbed Philippine/English version of the series and there were episodes where he acts as a technical trouble shooter every time a Volt Machine had trouble in the field or if Chodenji Mashin Voltes V was having modifications. Young Hiyoshi loved to invent things and most of the time; he ends up arguing with his oldest brother Kennichi because of his hobbies. Hiyoshi was capable enough to build a...

The Japanese super robot team format is composed of four to five, usually five heroic pilots, tasked to drive a giant defender robot programmed to protect Planet Earth.

The Voltes Team is not an exception; a leader, a hot shot, a bright kid, a gentle giant and a token female member.




Ippei Mine was the second member of the Voltes Team. He was renamed “Mark Gordon” by the Filipino voice-overs in 1978. Mark Gordon- Talk about ironies; the producer of the so-called Voltron movie is named Mark Gordon...and as I have discussed in earlier posts, Voltron is nothing but an inferior copy cat of Voltes...