Last week while I’m doing my first blog, i get exhausted in thinking about my topic and switch tab in to Facebook to do some icebreaker, I saw one video and its caption was misheard lyric of chichi wo motomete. I watch it and get curios because of the nostalgic music, I search it in YouTube, and it’s appeared as the closing song of the anime Voltes V. The memories are refreshed in my mind while listening in this song, it’s a good and pleasant in my ears even I didn’t understand the lyrics because it’s Japanese.
The aliens are invading the earth with some sort of alien beast. The last line of defense of the mankind is the “Electromagnetic Machine Voltes V” the robot the composed of five vehicle they called “volt machine” each one of them has a weapon and driven by five different characters. The researcher that builds the Voltes V are been taken by the alien. His three sons become one of the pilot of the Voltes V in able to rescue him. That’s the plot of the Voltes V.
Voltes V is the first anime that I watched back in 2015 when I’m just 4 years old I’m very weak and skinny, they used to tease me as a gay because I am lousy. Anyway because of the imagination of a child I used to watch it in our cousins house every day since we don’t have our own Television to satisfy my daily dose of cartoon (anime), my imagination of being one of the character.
I can’t remember any of the character’s names but I remembered the story, the best part for me per episode is when the five pilots pushes the button and shout “lets volt in” then a heroic music appears while the five vehicle are transforming into one big robot. Voltes V has a various weapons the laser sword, laser bear, electromagnetic top (spin top), etc.
This anime is not only about action it also contains romance and drama but as a child back then I didn’t appreciate the romance and drama.
I remember how my imagination and watching Voltes V drive me crazy, I use to mimic the pilot cockpit with bunch of pillows and uses my voice as the sound effect. I pretend pushing some buttons, destroying monster, and controlling a robot. You missed the half of your life if you didn’t try that in your childhood days. Such a wonderful memories.
I, my older brother, and my cousins wait it every afternoon. I have three cousins two boys and one girl. Same as the pilots of the voltes 5 . “ako yung blue! Hindi ako yun! Hindi ikaw nalang yung red!” that’s our topic when there’s a commercial, but when it is back to the show again we are very entertained that we didn’t speak any word or make any noises.“may ganon kaya sa totoong buhay? Kung wala, magkakaroon ba nun sa future” that’s the question in my after watching the said show. For me it is always “bitin”.
But since all the happiness in the world ends, the Voltes V suddenly change something into a corny drama. I feel sad about it.
Now I realize the benefit of that anime in my life, and that is “even how big your problem is, you can solve it not because you have yourself, because you have family and friends.
I have a plan to re-watch it in this semester break but the dubbing of the Filipino sucks, I didn’t notice it back when I was young, but now a find kind of cringe and I feel the lack of emotion in the voice.
I wish that they aired Voltes V again for the younger generation to teach them how to imagine and work as a team. Not dramas about un-loyal partner and stuff, they are brainwashing the children and I see children that commit in a relationship because of that. For me a children reflect the action of what they see.
I consider myself lucky to watch and appreciate that kind of show. They say you are old when you are comparing your generation in the new generation
That’s all thank you for reading
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