Philippines' GMA Network Reveals Live-Action Voltes V Series

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www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-01-02/philippines-gma-network-reveals-live-action-voltes-v-legacy-series/.154979



Philippine television network GMA-7 announced on Wednesday that it is producing a live-action series remake of the classic Voltes Vmecha anime. GMA-7revealed a teaser trailer, but did not reveal a premiere date for the series. GMA-7 acquired the license through Telesuccess Productions, Toei's Philippine-based licensing company.

The original anime series follows five young pilots, each in command of a machine that can combine together to form the titular fighting mecha Voltes V. Using the robot, the pilots slowly beat back the alien invasion of Earth by the Boazanians, who are led by the mighty Prince Heinell.
Voltes V (Chō Denji Machine Voltes V) first aired in the Philippines on GMA-7 with an English dub in 1978. With only five episodes left in the Voltes V airing, then-Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos banned Voltes V and other anime airing on television due to "excessive violence." In 1986, after Marcos was ousted, PTV-4 began airing both series again. Voltes Valso aired on ABS-CBN in 1986, and on IBC-13 in 1989 (which dubbed the first 11 episodes in Tagalog). GMA-7aired Voltes V again in 1999 with a Tagalog dub. HERO TValso aired a Tagalog re-dub of Voltes V in 2005. GMA-7 most recently aired a redubbed version in 2017. Telesuccess Productions holds the Philippine license to Voltes V.


Chō Denji Machine Voltes V is the second part of director Tadao Nagahama's "Romance Super Robot Trilogy" (Chō Denji Robo Combattler Vforms the first part, and Tōshō Daimos is the third part). Voltes V originally aired in Japan in 1977.
Thanks to Tyrell Landsberg and Ian Pete Titular for the news tip.
Sources: GMA Network's Facebook page, GMA News Online (Margaret Claire Layug)

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

I get GMA for my parents on DirecTV so I'll give it a try.

[aka Cthulhu]

Eh. I'd be wary of it... in the sense that the TV station that's gonna make this live-action is kinda bleh when it comes to stories. Especially if they air this on weekday nights, which means that it'll air five times per week for who knows how long. Soap opera style.

Like seriously, if you think the WWE's Rusev cheating storyline is bad and long... hoo boy. Lots of reused concepts. Like, their three main weeknight shows right now has parents getting separated from their child plotline. Two of those have a plotline where the parent/child antagonize their child/parent without realizing that they're related. And the shows before that use that trope!

And their recent forays into more action-oriented shows during that spot during the weeknight has been terrible. There's been a zombie apocalypse one, a meteor about to strike the earth years ago, and another recent one about... surprise, surprise, two brothers separated by birth, one a cop(?), another a criminal. And a Thor based one. Seriously, they named their hero Hammerman.

Also, I prefer Daimos.

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Here’s a subtitled version of the teaser



And in a related story



A few years ago in a toy convention in the Philippines there was a Voltes V statue made

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A year later, I guess they still wanna move forward with it.