Ippei Mine


From out of nowhere, a mysterious alien race known as the Boazan Forces has invaded the Earth. A group of individuals specially trained to handle this kind of situation has been unleashed. Kenichi, Ippei, Daijirou, Hiyoshi & Megumi are the pilots of the Choudenji Machine Voltes V (5), Earth's defense against the Boazan and their terrible Beast Warriors. The plot thickens as the Go Brothers discover their true heritage and the truth behind their father's disappearance. Conflicts and mixed emotions hinder the Go Brothers at times but due to their unwavering desire to find their dad, they must go to the place where it all started. With the help of the rebels based on Earth and on the aliens' homeworld, the Voltes Team has another mission, remove the tyrant Zu Zanbajil and liberate the people of Boazan. (Source: Anime News Network)
The Boazanian Earth Invasion Army arrived! Voltes Team Members who were still training suddenly had to go for battle. Led by Dr. Hamaguchi and Dr. Mitsuyo, they headed to Big Falcon. There, Voltes V Robot was introduced. The 5 team members had to fight the Boazanian beast fighter with Voltes V even though they didn't know how to control it.
The bird-shaped island of Ootorajima island where Big Falcon was located on was surely attracted the Boazanian's attention. Dr. Mitsuyou was at the grave of her husband, Dr. GOU Kentarou. She had a flashback of the time when Dr. Kentarou left his family. Suddenly the beast fighter attacked Big Falcon and she was injured during the attack. When fighting the beast fighter, Voltes fell into dangerous situation. The injured Dr. Mitsuyo forced herself to fly an airplane and sacrifice herself to help her children.
When fighting the Boazanian, Ippei accidently damaged Dr. Mitsuyo's grave post. There's surely a clash between Ippei and Kenichi over that incident. Ippei's past was then revealed. Ippei thought her mother abandoned him when they were in America so he hated her and all mothers. Later on, Ippei learnt that her mother died when trying to protect him and his sick father when they were attacked by wolves.
Daijirou was sure that Voltes cannot win against the sword expert beast fighter Gardo. They decided to run away from the battle and hide in a cave. Kenichi had to learn "catching-a-butterfly" technique from Daijirou to defeat the sword-skilled Gardo. The technique is really hard to master and Kenichi was no sword master. While they were training, the beast fighter attacked Big Falcon.
Hiyoshi joined a race of battleship model in Yokosuka, in which he made a model of battleship "Mikasa", which was the pride of Japanese Navy in the beginning of 20th century. He had spent 4 nights to make the ship and Kenichi cannot forbide him from going to the race. The enemy saw this opportunity and tried to separate Hiyoshi from the rest of Voltes team. They sent the serpent NEEGU to after Hiyoshi and his Frigate while the beast DAIGA attack Big Falcon. How can the incomplete Voltes team defeat 2
When it comes to horse then Ippei is the man. When he was in America, his only friend after her mother and father died was his horse, Eiffel. Ippei told story about his friendship with his horse, Eiffel. He was then forced to part with Eiffel when he joined Voltes Team. When Ippei lost his temper and decided to leave the team for good, Dr. Hamaguchi asked Megumi to tell him that he could fetch Eiffel at Haneda Airport.
Hiyoshi made an octopus robot named Takko (Octo-1 in English version). At first the team thought the robot was useless but then it saved Voltes when they were trapped in a forest infested with grabbing ivy plants and later when Hiyoshi has no choice but to disassemble Takko and use its parts to fix the damaged Volt Lander. Thus the sixth member of the Voltes Team was welcomed.
Duke Zaki came from Boazan to visit Prince Heinell. He harassed Heinell of his failure so far to conquer the Earth and also of his background of being a son of the traitor named La Gour. The Duke then made a plan to kill Heinell in a fight with Voltes by forcing Heinell to pilot the beast fighter Gargo. But Zaki's plan was shattered to pieces as Kazarin eavesdropped the plan and leaked it to Prince Heinell.
Megumi dreamt that she won when doing a duel practice with her father. Meanwhile, the Boazanians led by Jangal stormed the Defense Headquarters, took over the office and started to bombard Big Falcon with tons of missiles. Commander Oka and his troops were outnumbered and forced to defend themselves in the basement. Megumi then deserted her team and came to rescue her father and Big Falcon.
Zuuru used the beast fighter Bombos's X-ray eye to analyze Voltes as they were volting-in, then after he found out how the electromagnetic energy flows inside Voltes, he sent robot Namazungo to disrupt the volting-in sequence with super electromagnetic wave that can neutralize Voltes' super electromagnetic field generated during volt-in sequence. With Voltes unable to combine, how could they beat the Boazanian beast fighter?
Voltes could not volt-in. International Army helped Voltes by attacking the robot with missiles. The Boazanian launched the second robot, Gamenza, to destroy the army. Dr. Hamaguchi uncovered his secret weapon, "Ultra Falcon Beam System" canon, or known as "The Ultra Magucon". When Namazungo tried to disrupt the Volt-in sequence again, Hamaguchi fired the beam canon into Voltes formation. But after that single shot, the canon exploded.
Dr. Hamaguchi and Commander Oka visited a secret lab under a waterfall. They collected Voltes data to find solution to volt-in safely. Suddenly the Boazanians led by Heinell broke into the secret lab. The duo managed to escape, made "Ultra Magucon" device and implanted it in Volt Crewzer.
Zuuru used voice machine to immitate Dr. Gou's voice and deceived Kenichi. When Kenichi was about to be kidnapped using tractor beam, Dr. Hamaguchi knocked him to the ground so it was Dr. Hamaguchi what was hit by tractor beam and held hostage in Sky Rook. Voltes cannot do much as their attack could mean Hamaguchi's death. Dr. Hamaguchi then managed to escape, but he got shot and crashed his airplane into the beast fighter.
Voltes rescued an airplane piloted by a man which turned out to be a runaway slave. But after the man was brought to Big Falcon and treated, he sneaked into Voltes hangar and sabotaged Tenku-ken, he betrayed Voltes because he was promised by Heinell if he did so, his daughter will be given to him. Heinell lied and Voltes had to face the enemy with the mighty sword, Tenku-ken, nailed to his chest.
Emperor Zanbajir sent Dr. Gou to Heinell. Dr. Gou then went to Big Falcon and persuaded his sons to go with him to Boazan. The trio thought that her father must have been brainwashed, so they took him to be treated in Big Falcon. Soon, Dr. Gou ran amok and tried to take over Big Falcon. Kenichi and Commander Oka tried to overpower him. It turned out that this Dr. Gou was just a robot. Not only the trio Gou brothers were deceived but also Heinell.
We don't have an overview translated to English (English) for episode 16.
Voltes team trained for spinning technique. Dr. Sakunji was hard to the team, especially Hiyoshi. The team couldn't accept Dr. Sakunji's hard attitude and wanted to leave Big Falcon. Suddenly, the beast fighter Zaizarusu attacked and it slammed into Voltes formation so Voltes cannot volt-in. They used spinning technique taught by Dr. Sakunji with Volt Crewzer switched on its Crew Cutter. They managed to cut Zaizarusu's wings thus the Volt-in could proceed.
Dr. Gou and some slaves managed to escape to earth but they were attacked by Zuuru and Gou was held in Sky Rook. Zuuru used him as hostage but Voltes team didn't believe he was the real Dr. Gou as they had been tricked many times and thought he was just another dummy robot (see episode #15). Things got complicated when Kenichi spotted tears in the suspectedly Dr. Gou dummy robot just before he was going to slash Sky Rook with Tenku-ken. What robot can shed tears?
Zuuru held Gou in an island and tortured him to pry secrets of Voltes. Daijirou found a huge cave in the island and decided to investigate. He got caught and was thrown into a jail and met his father. When they tried to escape, Gou got caught again by Zuuru, but he managed to throw a piece of cloth with numbers written in blood to Daijirou.
Voltes team tried to figure out what the numbers written on the cloth mean. The figure turned out to be a pulsating wave frequency. Dr. Gou transmitted this wave by using a mini transmitter and by tracking the wave, Voltes can trace his whereabouts. Meanwhile Zuuru created Zoru Geru, an amoeba-like robot that can heal itself or even change form. When he failed to defeat Voltes, Zuuru was tortured by Heinell as punishment.