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 sekunde member of the Voltes Team. He was renamed “Mark Gordon” kwa 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...
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