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Do you think Daniel, Larmina, and Vince from Voltron Force might have been some form of replacement to the main 3 cast in Gladiator Force? Since they do have similarities of being a kid trio, or is it just a coincidence

It's just a coincidence. The original concept for Voltron Force sidelined Keith and the other Voltron pilots in favor of five new cadet characters. Here's a blurb with the show's original concept along with pictures of cadets:

However, the lion guy and blue alien were scrapped during show's development, leaving only Daniel, Vince, and Larmina. So I seriously doubt they were meant to be analogs or stand-ins for the Albegas pilots.

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Yeah it was probably a good thing Gladiator never came to be since it’s doesn’t seem to give off the same charm as Lion or Vehicle plus the main protagonist Daisaku seems pretty unlikeable (granted they would’ve probably edited out his pervy moments but still) though I do really like Hotaru character wise

I don't think American fans were deprived of anything from not getting Gladiator Voltron. However, it's hard to say how well it would've done had it came to fruition. I know Albegas flopped in Japan, which is part of the reason WEP scrapped converting it into Gladiator Voltron. Then again, GoLion didn't perform well in Japan either. But I just don't see it becoming the huge hit Lion Voltron did. So I think WEP made the right call by creating a second LV season instead.

If anything, though, WEP's editing probably would've made Daisaku at least a bit more likable. There's no way the scene where he imagines Hotaru's face unto the body of a topless model in a dirty magazine and says "I wish her boobs were that big!" would've made it past the censors.

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Just a heads up beware of @themattress and @ultraericthered they have been harassing a lot of Lotor-sentric blogs as of lately just letting you know

I blocked both of them months ago after ultraericthered tried to pick a fight over a years old meta post of mine, and themattress accused me of being a brainless horny fangirl in the replies of said post.

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Albegas/Gladiator Voltron Revisited

A few years ago I posted about Gladiator Voltron, the proposed third Voltron season which was to be adapted from Lightspeed Electroid Albegas. Ultimately it was abandoned in favor of producing another batch of Lion Voltron episodes. About a year ago Toei released the first two episodes of Albegas with English subtitles on Youtube. You can watch both episodes here and here. 

This post is meant to be an update of my first Gladiator Voltron/Albegas post, with more detail about the characters and setting. I also briefly share my thoughts on the show based on the two episodes available.

SETTING AND STORY

In the future, the nations of Earth have been at peace with each other for many years. Our three protagonists, Daisaku, Tetsuya, and Hotaru, are talented students at Aoda School, which is famous for its robotics program and located near Mt. Fuji. Their lives are turned upside down when the evil alien Derringer Empire, who already rules the galaxy, invades Earth. Earth’s only hope against this threat is the super robot Albegas and the three teenagers piloting it.

THE HEROES

Our heroes are teenagers who attend Aoda School in Japan. Each of them created a robot for a school competition. Their bots were later improved and modified so they could combine into Albegas. 

Daisaku Enjoji

Daisaku is brash, confident, loud-mouthed, and a total cad. Despite his bad grades, his skills in robotics are apparently superior to both Tetsuya and Hotaru’s. He comes from a working class family consisting of his painter father, stay-at-home mother, cheeky younger brother Jiro, and a younger sister. Both he and Tetsuya have a crush on Hotaru, though Daisaku is more blatant and perverted about it. His hobby is soccer. Pilots Alpha Robo (black).

Tetsuya Jin

Tetsuya comes across as more reserved than his two teammates. Like the others, he’s a student at Aoba School and skilled in robotics. It’s unknown what his grades are like, but at least one of his teachers, Ms. Danko Kibi, scolds him for his rebellious attitude. He and his sister grew up orphans with no other family to take care of them. Currently he lives alone in the school dorms. Tetsuya feels lonely and envies those who still have parents. What happened to his parents, along with the whereabouts of his sister, aren’t mentioned in the first two episodes. Unfortunately, he’s  something of a slob; his dorm room is a mess. Like Daisaku, he also has a crush on Hotaru. However, he’s more subtle about it and expresses exasperation at Daisaku’s pervy antics towards her. His hobby is playing guitar. Pilots Beta Robo (blue).

Hotaru Mizuki

Hotaru is the daughter of Professor Mizuki; her mother isn’t mentioned, but it’s implied she’s been out of the picture for a long time. Beautiful, intelligent, and feminine, she’s the star of Aoba School and her class representative. Despite being adored by her teachers and the heartthrob of her male classmates, she’s bullied by her female peers. She also longs for a mother figure; there’s a scene where Hotaru outright tells her father and his assistant, Saeko Asabuki, that she approves of their relationship and hopes they get married so Saeko can be her stepmother. While annoyed by Daisaku’s caddish ways, it’s implied the attraction might be mutual. Her hobby is tennis. Pilots Gamma Robo (red).

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS

The allies, family, and friends of our heroes. 

Goro Kumai

HIS JAPANESE BLOOD TINGLES! A well-meaning but bumbling classmate of the main trio who serves as the show’s comic relief. Goro does his best to help defend Earth with his self-made gorilla robot but he’s simply out of his league. Daisaku considers him a burden while Hotaru pities him.  He has an unreciprocated crush on Hotaru. 

Professor Mizuki

A brilliant scientist and Hotaru’s father. His knowledge of robotics is second to none. After the main trio’s robots were nearly destroyed by invading Derringer, he not only rebuilt them, but made them much more powerful and able to combine into Albegas. He also serves as both a mentor and the voice of reason; he tries to encourage the trio to exercise caution and patience. However, his words often fall on deaf ears, and the trio’s insistence on rushing headlong into battle against his repeated warnings frustrates him. But he believes in the trio’s abilities. It’s implied he’s sweet on his assistant, Saeko Asabuki.

Saeko Asabuki

Professor Mizuki’s assistant and love interest. She’s soft spoken, beautiful, and lady-like. Hotaru wants her as a stepmother.

Ms. Danko Kibi

An overbearing, outspoken and strong willed teacher at Aoba School. She takes her job very seriously, is fiercely proud of the school, and believes it’s important her students grow to be strong, stout, and fearless. Despite not being the head teacher, she often gets her way through sheer force of personality.

THE VILLAINS

The villains aren’t very fleshed out, but given I only had two episodes, that’s not very surprising. Anyway, the Derringer are an evil purple-skinned alien race of conquers who have set their sights on Earth. They desire our planet for its beauty and consider humans primitive. Albegas is humanity’s only effective weapon against their superior technology. Their giant robot Mecha-Fighters are the Derringer’s most fearsome weapon.

Lord Deran the Great

Supreme ruler of the Derringer. We don’t actually see him in these episodes. The only information we learn about him is he desires all things beautiful as his own.

President Azass

The leader of the invading Derringer force stationed in a base orbiting Earth.

General Duston

President Azass’s top officer, at least during these first two episodes. He’s ruthless, prideful, and doesn’t take humans seriously.

General Catastra

Another army officer on President Azass’s orbital base. 

Dyme

Yet another Derringer officer. He considers Duston an incompetent moron for not taking Albegas more seriously as a threat 

LIGHTSPEED ELECTROID ALBEGAS

The three robots that compose Albegas (Alpha Robot, Beta Robo, and Gamma Robo) were not originally designed to combine together. Instead they were individually built by the main trio as entries into a school competition. When the Derringer attacked Japan, the three teens attempted to fight off the invaders in their robots, but were soundly defeated. Professor Mizuki, seeing the robots’ potential, both rebuilt and heavily modified them, making them far more powerful and able to combine together into multiple configurations. However, the three pilots, at first, don’t know and understand just how extensive the modifications were despite Professor Mizuki’s repeated warnings. Unfortunately, circumstances in the first two episodes have not given them time for proper training. As a result, the pilots are learning about Albegas’s abilities, and how to use them, in the heat of combat.

As stated, the robot comprising Albegas can combine in different ways, with each combination having its own specialization.

Denjin Dimension

Alpha, Beta, Gamma. This is the basic combat configuration. Can use the finishing move Denjin Sanbai Sword.

Sky Dimension

Beta, Alpha, Gamma. We don’t see any of its abilities, but I’m guessing it specializes in flight and/or aerial combat. 

Professor Mizuki mentions four other modes: Space, Sea, Underground, and Rescue.

My Thoughts

Do I think American Voltron fans missed out by not having Albegas localized? Not really. Between this, Golion, and Dairuggar, I feel this was the weakest show of the three, and I don’t think it would’ve captured kid’s imaginations the way Lion Voltron did. Granted, in some ways Albegas has more elements in common with GoLion than Diaruggar: small number of pilots, planet bound, faster paced, and a simpler story. But, again, I only have two episodes to go by, so I could be wrong on some of those points. But I’m interested enough that I’d watch more episodes if they became available.

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Yes! More love for the ladies of Voltron! The gals look adorable in your style.

I wanted to appreciate the ladies of Vehicle Voltron a bit. So, I went about looking at screenshots and redrawing them in the style for my VV/VLD AU.  I’m gonna be honest, I really like the Vehicle team. I love how distinct and different the characters are. And I love that the girls all look so different from one another and do their parts to help with the team, even keeping them in line it seems.  So! Here’s the the ladies! 

I’m going to be honest, I liked the slight changes made to the characters, from uniform design to appearances. I definitely had changes for Cinda. I had the basics, but with changes, especially the ears and hands, showing more like she is from a water planet as is said in the cartoon. And the spot on her forehead, making it a bit different works, too. 

Also! I wanted to give a shoutout to @voltronfandomhag​. You do wonderful work with providing information on the characters that has helped me so much in my research. You also provide wonderful screenshots. I was gladly able to check the screenshots you shared of these ladies to use for my redraw. Thank you very much. 

Anyway! I hope y’all enjoy these. Until next time.

Screenshot refs in the “keep reading” below.

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Hot take: Ginger is a good character and deserved way better than how the old fandom treated her. 

Anyway, here’s some pictures of Ginger because I like her. 

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What are the best and worst versions of Lotor?

This is subjective of course but I'd say the worst incarnation of the character is King Lotor from 2011's Voltron Force.

I mean, the potential was there. Again, people are probably going to disagree with me, but I really do think there was a good story to be had with Lotor's setup in VF. He died and then was brought back to life years later through the use of an addictive, corrupting, and unstable magical substance. Not only is he addicted to the stuff, it's destroying his mind. That's some really dark, traumatic stuff.

However, what we get is Lotor being turned into the show's buttmonkey and Kenny. He's just a boring maniacal villain whose inhuman stupidity gets him killed over and over again. All the trauma and dark themes they assigned to the character were either explored in the shallowest way possible or played for laughs. Honestly, I wish Lotor had just been sidelined like the other DoTU villains and hadn't appeared in VF at all.

Honestly, it's part of the reason I dislike V3D Lotor too. Again, this version of Lotor has gone through a seriously traumatic event. He was nearly killed, badly disfigured, and most of his body was replaced with cybernetics. A lot of focus was put on his disfigured face, but the show states 80% of his body was now cybernetic. Yeah. Most of his original body was GONE. But this trauma and disfigurement was played for laughs in the show while Lotor's characterization itself was boring and generic. However, he at least as voiced by Tim Curry and never became the complete joke VF Lotor was.

As for best version, I think I'd have to go with Devil's Due Lotor, specifically his characterization in the comic's second volume. He had a sense of honor and moral code (which didn't really line up human sensibilities, but why should it?), didn't have the creepy obsession with Allura, and his relationships with Merla and Sven were both great. Also, unlike the versions of Lotor listed above, his trauma isn't played for cheap yuks. Sadly, this incarnation of the character was taken from us far too soon. Good night, sweet prince.

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This blog is more or less dead, so why are people replying to posts that are literally years old to argue with me about my opinion on Lotor’s treatment in VLD and getting outright insulting about it??? I’m not interested in having discussions or debates about VLD with anyone any more, so don’t bother, especially if you can’t be civil.

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Did Allura get married to Keith in the 80s original Voltron

No. DoTU ended with Keith and Allura in the early stages of recognizing their feelings for each other and potentially building a relationship.  They were no where near the point of getting married. 

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Why do so many of the Voltron remakes make Keith an angst pot or hardass? I don't get it.

Well, I don’t know for sure! It was a pretty common thing in fanon, though. Almost every fic made Keith an orphan for example. No, really. Fans could give him almost anything for a backstory, but him being a traumatized orphan was regurgitated over and over and over and OVER again to the point you were hard pressed to find literally anything else. And many Kallura fics made him an intense workaholic who was unable to see his own worth. This fanon may have influenced some of the earlier Voltron remakes, as the people behind them may have believed angsty Keith was what fans wanted. 

Also, I admit this is very subjective, but I personally find DoTU Keith kinda static and a bit of a blank slate. So maybe these writers, who felt the same, tacked the tragic backstories  in an attempt to give more meat to his character. The thing is, he still has defined personally in DoTU to expand upon and have fun with. Like, DoTU Keith does have an adorkable quality to him that gets overlooked by both DoTU fans and the makers or every Voltron incarnation. He’s idealistic to point of being starry eyed, has his goofy moments, and is shy about his feelings for Allura. He’s serious and focused on the battlefield, a good leader, accomplished, but still has a silly, boyish quality about him around those he loves and, despite his supposed cool headed-ness, and has some strong emotions. He can have a tough shell, but there’s a gooey, sweet marshmallow core at the center, if you ask me.

 However these aren’t the traits people choose to expand upon or develop for some reason. Maybe it’s because these traits aren’t seen as deep or glamorous? Also, I think sometimes people confuse angsty and troubled for deep. Like, I feel like it’s sometimes seen as an easy way to give the character more complexity. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with troubled, traumatized characters with  a lot of baggage; there’s a lot of good characters out there in that vein.  But I don’t think Keith, as presented in DoTU, really fits that mold and it’s not the only way to give a character depth. Not to mention there’s nothing wrong with simple characters; sometimes just making the character likable and fun is enough. 

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"Or we that we hate most of the male GoLion pilots because they were 20 something year-old men who spent about half the series ogling a teenage girl." Can you explain this?

In GoLion all the male pilots had a crush on Princess Fala (Allura) to varying degrees. I’m going to show you a few examples to get my point across. 

There’s a scene in “Introducing Beautiful Honerva” where Fala dashes straight to castle control from her bath, clad only in a bath towel, to answer Raible’s (Coran’s) summons. 

The male pilots all blatantly ogle her:

The rest of this is going behind a cut because of all the images. Also, there’s going to be some discourse and salt. So if you want to avoid that, consider yourself warned. 

There’s a scene in “Friday the 13th” where the team is swimming in the lake surrounding the castle. Fala wears a tiny pink bikini. 

Here is Kurogane and Seido’s (Lance and Hunk’s) reaction to the sight:

In “Altea’s Sister Planet” there’s a scene where Fala lets her pet mouse Platt climb into her flight suit to escape the cold.

Kurogane’s reaction: 

In “The Prince Imperial’s Dark Love” Raible and the male pilots are rowing a boat around the lake while Fala waves to her people gathered around the shore. Kurogane asks Raible why they’re doing this:

All the pilot pilots dive into the water and race to pick Fala flowers in hopes of receiving a kiss. 

All the male pilots also had crushes on Allura in Voltron. I also feel it’s important to note that in both shows these crushes largely fade into the background as the story progresses. However there are a few key differences between how this plays out in GoLion vs Voltron: 

1) While Kogane (Keith) is also attracted to Fala, nothing becomes of it, with Kogane becoming more akin to a mentor/big brother figure to Fala. In Voltron this attraction eventually develops into a budding romance between Keith and Allura.

2) Allura’s age is never stated in Voltron. The narrative, however, treats her as around the same age as the grown male pilots. Also, changes to the time-line in Voltron vs GoLion suggest she could very likely be a few years older than Fala. Most people in the fandom headcanoned her as being around 18 to early 20s. 

3)GoLion states Fala is 16 years-old. We’re never given ages for the male pilots but fans generally assume that they’re around 20-24 years-old, with the obvious exception of Suzuishi (Pidge).

Now, this is where we get to discussion of how some of the self-identified anti-fans who actually watched GoLion handled this and the double standards involved. Most of them did, to some degree, acknowledge that supposedly 20-something year-old dudes wanting to romance a 16 year-old was problematic. This stuff was one of the reasons many of them condemned Kallura, including VLD Kallura, as problematic trash. Never mind Keith and Allura are both teenagers in VLD; never mind they’re likely both adults in DoTU; never mind both of them are undeniably adults in Voltron Force and V3D. All versions of the pairing must be hated because of the GoLion dynamic.  

However, many antis really liked Kogane, Kurogane, and Seido! They liked those characters in other Voltron retellings too, especially VLD (until they turned on the show, anyway)! You could argue that since all these characters were teenagers in VLD, it wouldn’t make sense to hate them because of what happened in GoLion. But remember, according to them we’re supposed to hate Kallura because of the age difference in GoLion. Also, according to their logic regarding Lotor, we can’t separate a character from their past incarnations.

This refusal to apply the same logic and standards to all the characters led to this weird state of acknowledging GoLion’s problematic aspects while at the same time shifting blame or downplaying them when convenient. I once saw a post from anti-fan blaming Kurogane’s behavior towards Fala on the writers, for example. Like, I don’t know how to tell you this, but none of these characters have any agency of their own. Literally everything they do is because a writer had them do it. Then these fans would talk about how glad they were the guys (or the writers) “learned better.”

There were also a lot of post from these people calling the grown male GoLion pilots “space dads” and Fala their adopted daughter. Ugh, yeah, it’s very obvious they didn’t see Fala as a daughter figure.  Now, you could argue they eventually came to see her as a sister figure. Like I said, their crushes on her gradually faded away about halfway into the story. But why would people in their early 20s see a 16 year-old as a daughter to them?! lol 

But, of course, these types of fans are always going to find reasons why the characters and ships like are okay even when, by their logic, they should be condemned as problematic trash. Meanwhile, characters and ships they don’t like will somehow, always, because be garbage no one should ever touch. So naturally they’re not going to apply a consist logic to everything or else their arguments would fall apart. 

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Lotor and Moral Double Standards

One of the things I found most upsetting about VLD and the fandom was the weird moral double standard they applied to Lotor. According to the VLD writers, Lotor had just gone too far to be redeemed and HAD to die a horrible death. Then in the final season they turn around a redeemed Haggar, who abused her son, tortured people, and committed multiple genocides. But she, according to the narrative, still had good in her despite being objectively worse than Lotor on every level. 

Then there’s the fandom itself. Fuck. The tidal wave of hate began before the character even made his first on screen appearance. I remember a bunch of anti types screeching and whining about how you couldn’t separate Lotor from his previous incarnations, including Sincline. According to their logic, because Sincline was rapist and stalker, VLD Lotor was also a rapist and stalker. And if VLD was to redeem Lotor it would, by extension, redeem Sincline as well. They were the same character. Period. Expect,this logic again seemingly only applied to Lotor. No one was insisting we hate Coran because his GoLion counterpart was sexist. Or we that we hate most of the male GoLion pilots because they were 20 something year-old men who spent about half the series ogling a teenage girl. And, strangely, there were no posts tell us how we can’t like Zarkon or Haggar. Hmmm, funny that... These people were exclusively, and weirdly, obsessed with making sure no one liked VLD Lotor. And to this day I haven’t seen any of them post a coherent answer as to why.

Really, I could go on a lot of longer, but I think you get the picture at this point. It’s been something that has bothered me for awhile and wanted to get off my chest. 

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Was Daibazaal's relationship with Sincline different than 80s Zarkon's relationship with Lotor?

Yes, I’d say so. The dynamic was toxic and abusive in both shows, don’t get me wrong, but there was a difference to be sure.

Initially Daibazaal seems fonder of Sincline than Zarkon is of Lotor. There’s a scene in “The Legendary Bridge of Love” where Daibazaal tells Sincline how he’s going to teach him what it means to be emperor.

This is also an interesting contrast to certain scenes in VLD. Anyway…

Honvera then informs them that Princess Fala (Allura) is overseeing the opening of a new bridge on Altea and how it’ll be the prefect time strike. Sincline wants to lead to the charge, but Daibazaal wants Sincline to stay and party with him.

It also takes longer for Daibazaal to get fed up with Sincline’s failures. And when does lose his temper, Daibazaal even admits he initially went easy on Sincline because he’s his son. 

Contrast this Zarkon who starts doubting Lotor’s abilities before he even has a chance to do anything and more quickly becomes verbally abusive. 

Daibazaal also had a harder time controlling Sincline than Zarkon did Lotor. In “The Prince Imperial’s Dark Love” Daibazaal pleads for Honerva’s help dealing with Sincline’s outburst about his mother and refusal to marry Princess Sahlia. 

None of this is to say Daibazaal is a better person than Zarkon or his relationship with Sincline was less abusive. Hell no. lol Daibazaal is a bastard who was, in some ways, worse than Zarkon. But I think was Daibazaal a more passive, prosaic and less intelligent character than his Voltron counterpart. Zarkon, despite DoTU’s often hokey dialogue, had a more blatant, biting nastiness in his interpersonal relationships with others, especially with Lotor (and I’d also say Haggar too). 

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Hey, I saw your post talking about the Voltes V fanboy who attacked the official forum. Good times! Do you remember RedLion? How about WetDiaperBoy? LotorsSlave? lmao

Wow, would you mind messaging me your forum user name? Because you must have gone way back on that board to remember the likes of RedLion or WetDiaperBoy. Holy cow!

And for those of you unaware, anon here is talking about a few of the troublemakers and trolls who haunted the now defunct official Voltron forum over the years. Since I’m certain very few of you know about them, I’ll go into a little more detail.

RedLion: Was most infamous for his unrelenting negativity, repetitiveness, and endless complaining about the Voltron comic published by Devil’s Due. The fact he didn’t like the DD comic wasn’t the problem. The problem was his habit throwing a tantrum across multiple threads on both the Voltron forum and the DD forums about everything he disliked in the latest issue. Pretty much any deviation from the 80s show upset him. When people finally snapped at him or asked him to give it a rest, he’d then bemoan how he couldn’t post an opinion without being attacked. Like, dude, it’s not your opinion that’s the problem so much as it’s your burning need to post said opinion 75 to 100 times in the same thread. All this from a man who, at the time, was in his late 50s.

WetDiaperBoy: A particularly infamous troll who went on a rampage when the board’s sole admin went on vacation. Antics included trying to impersonate the admin, sending messages to various board users threatening to ban them, creating an army of sockpuppet accounts with increasingly offensive user names, and spamming the forum with racist, homophobic, and sexists posts. This lasted until admin returned from his vacation a few days later.

LotorsSlave: Stereotypical fangirl: obsessed, belligerent, unable to accept the character and shipping preferences of others, and not very bright. She’d start threads on the board detailing her personal fantasies about Lotor to near TMI levels then whine about how no one responded to them. The fact Kallura was more popular than Lotura was also very upsetting to her. Like, I understand the frustration that comes when your preferences go against fandom norms. That’s pretty much the story of my life in fandom. But that doesn’t mean everyone who doesn’t share your preferences is an idiot who needs better taste blasted into them. 

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On Hiatus

This probably isn’t a surprise given the lack of activity here, but I’m putting this blog on hiatus for the foreseeable future. Voltron isn’t inspiring me and I just can’t finish anything I attempt to write for this blog. I’m sorry if this disappoints anyone but creating content for this blog is supposed to be fun, but it’s just not anymore and hasn’t been for awhile. My fan-ish interests have also shifted to The Dragon Prince and I’m currently running a blog for that, which I’m enjoying. However, I’m leaving my ask box open and I’ll do my best to answer any Oldtron related questions you might have. Feel free to message me if you want too.

Thank you everyone who has supported this blog in some way. 

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Hi there. Just updating that Bandai Spirits is actually uploading the entirety of Dairugger with English captions in higher quality, so you don’t need to resort to illegal sites or shill out hundreds to buy the DVDs from scalpers.

Although Voltron nowadays doesn’t take a lot from Dairugger, and really the only thing that survives from it is the Galaxy Garrison, I do urge you to at least check out the other series that made Voltron possible.

Don’t be turned off from the size of the cast, they really only focus on 8 of the 15 team members. Since many of you are more familiar with VLD, I think you can appreciate that Diarugger emphasized more on space exploration and morally grey antagonists which Golion lacks.

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Did 80s Voltron fans have any misconceptions about GoLion? Were there fan theories that were eventually proven wrong?

Fans didn’t realizes just how different GoLion was from Voltron in terms of both characterization and plot. A lot people viewed GoLion as a more violent, adult version DoTU. This changed over the years more information about GoLion slowly tricked out. Like when someone on a fan-run Voltron forum got a Japanese friend to watch and translate the scene where Sincline (Lotor) kills Honerva (Haggar); that’s how Western fans found out about Sincline being half Altean and Honerva being Daibazaal’s (Zarkon’s) mother. That sent serious shockwaves through the fandom and really started to change how people viewed GoLion.

There were also some unconfirmed rumors flying around about GoLion’s production. One claim that’d pop up from time to time was that Sincline and Fala (Allura) were originally going to be half-siblings. However, I’ve seen absolutely nothing from any official source verifying this.

Some fans also had a tendency to project their own wishes and fantasies onto GoLion, which the lack of information made easy to do. A rumor somehow started on the official forum that in the episode “The Seven Free Planets” (The Summit Meeting in DoTU), Kogane (Keith) confesses to Raible (Coran) that’s he’s in love with Fala. As you can imagine this sent many of Kallura shippers’ hearts a twitter and soon the entire fandom was abuzz about it. Many of these fans long carried a desire to see Keith and Allura confess their love, and I guess this played into that fantasy and made them feel validated. However, a forum member who went by the name of Arus talked a Japanese friend into watching the scene. Turned out it was nothing even close to a love confession; Raible and Kogane were discussing training Fala to pilot the Black Lion. 

Again, this also comes down to projecting what they knew about DoTU onto GoLion and failing to separate the two shows. Granted, since GoLion wasn’t available in English when this happened, it’s a lot more understandable in this instance.