The above is an updated take on 70s giant robot anime Combattler V. It's the precursor to Beast King GoLion -- one of the shows adapted to become Voltron out West -- and was also incorporated into the Shogun Warriors line of toys and comics. Regardless of your familiarity with the property, you have to admit this "remake" looks pretty hot.
But it's not a "remake" in the usual sense. It's a promotional video for a Combattler V pachinko game. Pachinko, you know? Those gambling devices in which you win ball bearings to be exchanged for redemption tokens which are in turn taken to shady back alleys to be exchanged for cold, hard cash. Basically, pinball crossed with slot machines and a dash of organized crime. And for reasons beyond my understanding, pachinko manufacturers find it crucial that big, honking LCD screens in the middle of the play field run high-quality animations far beyond anything you'd see in a console game or TV show.
These things are such unfair c*ckteasers. Remember that Ganbare Goemon promo from a short while back? The world is in desperate need of a Mystical Ninja game for a new generation, and this video got us all excited. Then it turned out to be a friggin' pachinko game, and I could feel a thousand pairs of nuts being kicked simultaneously. Why do you do this to us, Japan? Why!?
Pachink is not gambling, gambling is forbidden in Japan and that's why Pachinko was created. You don't play for money but for points which you can trade in for prices or trade in for money a block removed from the Pachinko building.
BWA HA HA HA HA! "Pachinko is not gambling!" That's rich! That "block removed" building is the loophole. That's why people go to pachinko parlors. You think they are blowing all their money just to win a pack of smokes?
I didn't make up their logic mind you, Japanese logic still baffles me, like how it's suppose to be the land of weird sex fetishes and stores full of Porn DVD's but if there's even a bit of genitals captured on film it's oh snap! let's sensor that!
HOLYOMGWTFAWESOMEDESU!!!!!!!!!!
Voltes V (well, that's what it was called where I lived when I was young) is back! Is this just for this promotion, or are they really going to make this remake a new show? I'd freaking watch it every week and have a cockrocket if it's back again! This modern take looks fugging awesome!
Btw, why the fucking fuck does a non-robot monster fucking explode? The freaking Leg robot just went through it's stomach, and all of a sudden, an animate, living monster that has no mechanical wires or oil in its body suddenly explodes?? The fuck kind of logic is this?
Who here has heard a pachinko hall? That shit is louder than two raves and an arcade put together, no wonder its full of old people, they are probably all deaf.
Chodenji Robot Combattler V is NOT the precursor of Beast King Golion (Meddled by the U.S. and renamed Voltron) Combattler V was the predecessor of Chodenji Mashin Voltes V. Combattler V and Voltes V was both made by Saburo Yate, If you were to watch both shows, clearly Voltes V's battles, weapons and arsenals, as well as the fighting skills of the team members were more improved. The original Combattler V series had a comedic type of story, Voltes V had a more dramatic story line.
Chodenji Robot Combattler V is NOT the precursor of Beast King Golion (Meddled by the U.S. and renamed Voltron) Combattler V was the predecessor of Chodenji Mashin Voltes V. Combattler V and Voltes V was both made by Saburo Yate, If you were to watch both shows, clearly Voltes V's battles, weapons and arsenals, as well as the fighting skills of the team members were more improved. The original Combattler V series had a comedic type of story, Voltes V had a more dramatic story line.
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