History YMMV / VoltesV

* CompleteMonster: Emperor Zambajil and Duke Bergan.

** Especially to Americans like [[SmytheOrdo this Troper]], the dub is at first hard to watch without bursting out in laughter.

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Filipinos Love Voltes V]]: The show has a decent old-school following in Japan, but it's very popular in the Philippines. It was dubbed into English and first aired alongside ''Daimos'' and ''Mazinger Z'' in the early 1980s until they were banned by the government. ''Voltes V'' and ''Daimos'' returned quietly in the early 1990s and again in 1999 with much fanfare, hyped as its (untrue) "second coming". After its 1999 revival it was dubbed into the local Filipino language.

* NarmCharm: The Filipino-English dub. For anyone who probably hasn't grown up watching this in the Philippines, first you'll be like, "Wha...?" after watching one episode in English and then you'll be tolerating it the next instance.

** Heinel's [[DubNameChange name in the said dub]] however, is straight-up cheese. Other Filipino fans better not get their hands on the [[{{Zardoz}} movie]] where the dubbers/translators got the name from if they want to save their sanity and/or not die from laughing.
*** This troper still thinks Zardos sounds better than Heinel. Didn't Heinel play guitar for The Red Hot Chili Peppers?
**** But he doesn't spit guns from his mouth or wear a space nappy either. And according to [[http://users.animanga.com/voltesv/faq/trivia.html this page]], he wasn't named after anybody in particular, but was taken from the Japanese corruption of the word "(Your) Highness".
***** "Your Highness" is "Denka". You must be thinking "Your Majesty", which is "Heika".
****** We're talking about the play on the Japanese pronunciation of the ''English'' word--as in, ''Haineru'' (Heinel) from ''(Yua)Hainesu'' ((Your)Highness), not the other way around(as said in the link above).

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The opening theme is practically the Philippines' other national anthem.
** The opening theme's melody is so versatile that it can be arranged in various ways (fast for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0XVgDZkWpk epic ass-kicking]]; and slow, melodramatic strings for TearJerker moments) and still sound as fitting to the scene as can be. And awesome.

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Filipinos Love Voltes V]]: The show has a decent old-school following in Japan, but the Philippines has adopted the mecha as a cultural icon thanks to the aforementioned banning, which ironically turned it one of the symbols of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution EDSA Revolution]]. The show still sees reruns up to this day in multiple dialects. Everything with the name "Ultraelectromagnetic" (Choudenji) means ''awesome technology'' in the Philippines, and this show was so ''insanely'' popular in the Philippines that the Filipinos consider ''Combattler V'' as Voltes V's spinoff (or parody). Which is understandable, if not justified, since Combattler aired in the Phillipines ''twenty years'' after Voltes, when the latter had already entrenched itself deeply into Filipino pop culture.

* CompleteMonster Emperor Zambajil and Duke Bergan.

* EarWorm: To a lesser degree than Combattler, but the opening chimes.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUaTTV05rDQ The opening theme]] is practically the Philippines' other national anthem.

* CompleteMonster:Almost all of the Boazan Nobility; with Emperor Zambajil and Duke Bergan as the worst of the lot.

** Don't forget [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNBnxHCEViE "Looking for father"]]. Cue ManlyTears.
* EarWorm: To a lesser degree than Combattler, but there's just no way [[AndyWaltfeld This Troper]] can get those opening chimes out of his head now.

* MoralEventHorizon / KickTheDog: You will see the incident where Heinel [[spoiler: takes a little girl hostage so her father would be forced to cooperate in his schemes against the Voltes Team; only to find out later that he has already killed off the said girl afterward]] as the former if you think that the said action cements his status as a [[CardCarryingVillain villain]] [[CompleteMonster that is NOT to be liked]]; or the latter for simply being a way of the authors of telling the audience to be wary of how [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain screwed up]] [[SocietyIsToBlame he became]] from the culture that he has been brought up in.

** Don't forget [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HQsU12ro&feature=related "Looking for father"]]. Cue ManlyTears.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt8cHqmhWv4 The opening theme]] is practically the Philippines' other national anthem.

*** {{YourMileageMayVary}}. This troper still thinks Zardos sounds better than Heinel. Didn't Heinel play guitar for The Red Hot Chili Peppers?

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Filipinos Love Voltes V]]: The show has a decent old-school following in Japan, but the Philippines has adopted the mecha as a cultural icon thanks to the aforementioned banning, which ironically turned it one of the symbols of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution EDSA Revolution]]. The show still sees reruns up to this day in multiple dialects. Everything with the name "Ultraelectromagnetic" (Choudenji) means ''awesome technology'' in the Philippines, and this show was so ''insanely'' popular in the Philippines that the Filipinos consider ''[[Combattler V]]'' as Voltes V's spinoff (or parody). Which is understandable, if not justified, since Combattler aired in the Phillipines ''twenty years'' after Voltes, when the latter had already entrenched itself deeply into Filipino pop culture.

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Filipinos Love Voltes V]]: The Philippines adopted the mecha as a cultural icon thanks to the above banning that made it one of the symbols of the EDSA Revolution. It's still seeing reruns up to this day in multiple dialects. Everything with the name "Ultraelectromagnetic" (Choudenji) means ''awesome technology'' in the Philippines, and this show was so ''insanely'' popular in the Philippines that the Filipinos consider ''Combattler V'' as Voltes V's spinoff (or parody.). Which is understandable, if not justified, since Combattler was aired ''twenty years'' after Voltes, when the latter has already entrenched itself deeply into Filipino pop culture.

** The opening theme's melody is so versatile that it can be arranged in various ways (fast for epic ass-kicking sequences; and slow, melodramatic strings for TearJerker moments) and still sound as fitting to the scene as can be. And awesome.

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Filipinos Love Voltes V]]: The Philippines adopted the mecha as a cultural icon thanks to the above banning that made it one of the symbols of the EDSA Revolution. It's still seeing reruns up to this day in multiple dialects.
** Everything with the name "Ultraelectromagnetic" (Choudenji) means ''awesome technology'' in the Philippines. And this show was so ''insanely'' popular in the Philippines that the Filipinos [[spoiler: consider ''Combattler V'' as Voltes V's spinoff (or parody.)]]. Which is understandable, if not justified, since Combattler was aired ''twenty years'' after Voltes, when the latter has already entrenched itself deeply into Filipino pop culture.

* MisaimedFandom: Not a few people who watched this show are in it mainly for the back-stabbing and high drama of the Boazan nobility, going as far as to say that Heinel and the other villains own the story and not the boring goody-two shoes heroes and the Earthlings; conveniently ignoring the fact that the Earthlings aren't exactly portrayed idealistically either, as they were just as predisposed to prejudice and petty bickering as the villains.

** Heinel's [[DubNameChange name in the said dub]] however, is straight-up {{Narm}}. Other Filipino fans better not get their hands on the [[{{Zardoz}} movie]] where the dubbers/translators got the name from if they want to save their sanity and/or not die from laughing.

* CompleteMonster (Almost all of the Boazan Nobility; with Emperor Zambajil and Duke Bergan as the worst of the lot)
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt8cHqmhWv4 The opening theme]] is practically the Philippines' other national anthem.)

* EarWorm (To a lesser degree than Combattler, but there's just no way [[AndyWaltfeld This Troper]] can get those opening chimes out of his head now.)
* FanWank (As noted in TheOtherWiki, there has been speculation among fan circles that possible research prior to Nagahama's then-upcoming stint as director of the ''RoseOfVersailles'' anime may have influenced some themes and plot ideas for this show, such as those of revolution, social class upheaval, the medieval-esque setting of Boazan, the dramatic approach and the [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking frilly dresses]]. Some SuperRobot fans, who watched this show expecting pure [[HotBlooded hot-blooded]] action and are openly put-off with what they deem as excessive {{melodrama}} and {{angst}}, took things further by holding this theory to be the only explanation on why Nagahama would dare try to write "{{shojo}} sensibilities" into a SuperRobot show that's supposed to be for young boys.)

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Filipinos Love Voltes V]] (The Philippines adopted the mecha as a cultural icon thanks to the above banning that made it one of the symbols of the EDSA Revolution. It's still seeing reruns up to this day in multiple dialects.)

* HarsherInHindsight (Look closely in the first episode where the Boazanian invasion armada was laying waste to the world's military forces and key cities...among the casualties and damage is a pair of conspicuously familiar twin towers.What's more disturbing is that this image was flashed right after the montage of the Liberty getting blown up.)
* MoralEventHorizon / KickTheDog (You will see the incident where Heinel [[spoiler: takes a little girl hostage so her father would be forced to cooperate in his schemes against the Voltes Team; only to find out later that he has already killed off the said girl afterward]] as the former if you think that the said action cements his status as a [[CardCarryingVillain villain]] [[CompleteMonster that is NOT to be liked]]; or the latter for simply being a way of the authors of telling the audience to be wary of how [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain screwed up]] [[SocietyIsToBlame he became]] from the culture that he has been brought up in.
* NarmCharm (The Filipino-English dub. For anyone who probably hasn't grown up watching this in the Philippines, first you'll be like, "Wha...?" after watching one episode in English and then you'll be tolerating it the next instance.)

*** {{YMMV}}. This troper still thinks Zardos sounds better than Heinel. Didn't Heinel play guitar for The Red Hot Chili Peppers?

****** We're talking about the play on the Japanese pronunciation of the ''English'' word--as in, ''Haineru''(Heinel) from ''(Yua)Hainesu''((Your)Highness), not the other way around(as said in the link above).

****** We're talking about the play on the Japanese pronunciation of the ''English'' word, not the other way around(that's what the page in the link above says).

****** We're talking about the play on the Japanese pronunciation of the ''English'' word, not the other way around.

***** "Your Highness" is "Denka". You must be thinking "Your Majesty", which is "Heika".

**** But he doesn't spit guns from his mouth or wear a space nappy either. And according to [[http://users.animanga.com/voltesv/faq/trivia.html this page]], he wasn't named after anybody in particular, but was taken from the Japanese corruption of the word "(Your) Highness".

* MoralEventHorizon / KickTheDog (You will see the incident where Heinel [[spoiler: takes a little girl hostage so her father would be forced to cooperate in his schemes against the Voltes Team; only to find out later that he has already killed off the said girl afterward]] as the former if you think that the said action cements his status as a [[CardCarryingVillain villain]] [[CompleteMonster that is NOT to be liked]]; or the latter for simply being a way of the authors of telling the audience to be wary of how [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain screwed up]] [[SocietyIsToBlame he became]] from the culture that he has been brought up in.

* MoralEventHorizon / KickTheDog (You will see the incident where Heinel [[spoiler: takes a little girl hostage so her father would be forced to cooperate in his schemes against the Voltes Team; only to find out later that he has already killed off the said girl afterward]] as the former if you think that the said action cements his status as a [[CardCarryingVillain villain]] [[CompleteMonster that is NOT to be liked]]; or the latter for simply being a way of the authors to be wary of how [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain screwed up]] [[SocietyIsToBlame he became]] from the culture that he has been brought up in.

* MoralEventHorizon / KickTheDog (You will see the incident where Heinel [[spoiler: takes a little girl hostage so her father would be forced to cooperate in his schemes against the Voltes Team; only to find out later that he has already killed off the said girl afterward]] as the former if you think that the said action cements his status as a [[CardCarryingVillain villain]] [[CompleteMonster that is NOT to be liked]]; or the latter for simply being a way of the authors to be wary of how [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain screwed up]] [[SocietyIsToBlame was the culture]] that he has been brought up in.