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This is the character sheet for minor and one-note characters from Voltes V. See here for the character index.

One-note characters

Ippei's mother

Mrs. Mine

Debut: Episode 3

Voiced by: Unknown

An Japanese-American immigrant who came to the country hoping to achieve a better life for her family, only to suffer from poverty and live on the streets instead. She sacrificed herself to save her son and husband from a pack of wolves.

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• Action Mom: Ippei's mother has a gun and knows how to use it. She is also strategic and used gunpowder to fend off a pack of wolves.
• An Immigrant's Tale: Hers ended tragically. Unable to make a living for themselves, the Mine family were forced to sleep on the streets. One night, they were cornered by a pack of wolves, so she emptied the gunpowder from her rifle to cause an explosion and kill them off. In the process, she lost her own life, but a newspaper managed to record her bravery.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She killed herself hoping that her son and husband would survive. Unfortunately, her husband succumbed to his illness not long after, and her son would misremember her as abandoning him until he read said newspaper.
• Expy: Of Mitsuyo, the mother of the Go brothers. Both died to save their children, and have similar hairstyles. Many other characters lampshade this.

Ippei's father

Mr. Mine

Debut: Episode 3

Voiced by: Yusaku Yura

An Japanese-American immigrant who came to the country hoping to achieve a better life for his family, only to suffer from poverty and live on the streets, and die from an unspecified illness.

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• An Immigrant's Tale: His ended with him dying from an illness and leaving Ippei orphaned.
• Incurable Cough of Death: What illness he had is never named, but it's possibly related to him being homeless, therefore not having access to sanitary food and water. In Ippei's flashback, he's seen coughing a lot and being too ill to move.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Had he not told the news reporters of his wife's Heroic Sacrifice, Ippei would remain believing that his mother abandoned him.

Mr. Sakame

Mr. Sakame

Debut: Episode 14

Voiced by: Kohei Miyauchi

A human who was taken by the Boazanians as slaves.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He presents himself as a slave and slanders Kentaro Goh as a slave owner to his children. While it's true that he was a slave, Kentaro never enslaved him. When he hears the Voltes Team arguing after hearing this, he smirks to himself.
• Dub Name Change: The Philippine-English dub changed his name to Wilson.
• I Have Your Wife: Or rather Daughter. Heinel has his daughter, Rumi, hostage. He promises to free her from captivity under the condition that Sakame infiltrates Big Falcon, sabotages Voltes V, and weakens their resolve by saying that the Go brother's father, Kentaro, is a slave driver.. Though Sakabe holds up his end of the bargain, Heinel doesn't, before setting off a bomb that kills him. Oh, and said daughter was Dead All Along.
• Spell My Name With An S: Is it Sakame or Sakabe?
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Heinel had no intention of releasing Rumi (not that he could) and once Sakame sabotaged Voltes V, Heinel killed him. However, Sakame managed to tell Kenichi how to undo the sabotage before he died from his injuries.

Rumi Sakame

Rumi

Debut: Episode 14

Voiced by: Unknown

Mr. Sakame's young daughter.

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• Dub Name Change: The Philippine-English dub changed her name to Mary Wilson.
• Dead All Along: The "Rumi" Mr. Sakabe thought was his daughter was a mere robot with Heinel speaking through it to tell Mr. Sakabe the cruel truth and that he outlived his usefulness. The real Rumi died a long time ago.

Nakamura

Nakamura^{Click here to see him as a child} 

Debut: Episode 34

Voiced by: Masane Tsukayama

A Big Falcon worker who's parents were forcibly enslaved by the Boazanians. Blind with grief, he turns against Big Falcon due to Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi being Boazanians.

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• The Alcoholic: After the Boazanians abduct his parents, he turns to alcohol to cope. However, while drunk, he tries to steal a plane from Big Falcon and fly it to the Boazanian base, and as a result is fired by Professor Sakonji. This makes his Fantastic Racism towards Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi worsen.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Invoked. Belgan deliberately sends him the corpses of his parents to stir up hatred against the Go brothers for being Boazanian. It works, and Nakamura undergoes a BSoD, before crying and hugging his father's corpse.
• Dub Name Change: The Philippine-English dub changed his name to Saunders.
• Fantastic Racism: After he watches the news of the latest Boazanian attack and sees his parents being forcibly enslaved, he undergoes a BSoD. In a fit of rage, Nakamura accuses the Go brothers of being sympathizers to the enemy and subjects them to a torrent of veral abuse. He then threatens to kill every Boazanian, starting with Kenichi. When Ippei defends them and says that they are no different from their fellow humans, Nakamura accuses him of being a Boazanian sympathizer too. Ippei then punches Nakamura, though Kenichi restrains him from escalating the situation further. Dr. Sakonji lets him go. The Voltes Team oppose this, saying while it was wrong for him to attack the Go brothers for their heritage, they should have compassion since he acted from a place of concern and fear for his parents.
• Fatal Family Photo: After his parents are kidnapped, Nakamura gazes at a childhood photo of them together, hoping they'll be alright. They aren't.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Nakamura accuses the Voltes Team of not knowing how it's like to lose your parents to the Boazanians. Ippei rebukes him by saying that the Go brothers lost their mother and Megumi lost her father to the Boazanians, but unlike Nakamura, they didn't let their hatred consume them.
• Suspiciously Small Army: Desperate to save his parents, Nakamura leads a small army consisting of other Big Falcon workers with guns and attacks Heinel's Lizard Folk Mooks.
• Trauma Conga Line: Nakamura watches his parents get abducted and forcibly enslaved, gets fired from his job and is sent their corpses in the span of a day. And then he dies shortly after.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: While he's trying to avenge his parents, he is shot by a Boazanian mook, causing him to collapse. Kaori saves him from falling and holds his body. Before he passes, Nakamura apologizes to Kenichi for allowing his hatred to blind him, and thanks him for shooting aforementioned mook. As his body goes limp, Kaori sobs hysterically.

Nakamura's parents

Nakamura's parents^{Click here to see them when they were younger} 

Debut: Episode 34

Voiced by: Unknown

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• Cruel and Unusual Death: After Belgan learns that their son works at Big Falcon, he orders for them to be tortured and then executed. He sends their corpses to Big Falcon to stoke the flames of hatred the workers have towards Boazanians.
• Dub Name Change: The Philippine-English dub changed their names to Mr. and Mrs. Saunders. Nakamura's mother was also renamed Stella.
• Good Parents: They were loving parents to Nakamura and took pride in the fact that he worked for Big Falcon. And like most Good Parents of Voltes V, they end up dead.
• Expy: Nakamura's father looks like a 70's version of Clark Kent.

Kaori Adachi

Kaori Adachi ^{Click here to see Kaori in her nurse uniform} 

Debut: Episode 34

Voiced by: Kazuko Yanaga

A nurse who works at Big Falcon, who sympthazies with Nakamura. Like him, she is from Masaku Cho.

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• Break the Cutie: When Kaori finds out the Boazanians abducted her parents to enslave them while watching the news report, she collapses and tries to hide her tears. When Nakamura dies, she breaks again.
• Dub Name Change: The Philippine-English dub changed her name to Laura Carter.
• Hospital Hottie: Kaori is a cute nurse.
• Suspiciously Small Army: Kaori and various other Big Falcon workers join Nakamura's rogue army in an effort to rescue their parents. It doesn't end well for them.