The Votoms TV series has been released many times in just about every video format (except Beta), and when you count in all the various compilations and OVA spinoffs, there’s a LOT to keep track of. It also ascended during the heyday of home video, which meant each release got...

Armored Trooper Votoms Vol. 1, Stories from the A.T. Votoms A one-hour compilation of the entire TV series. VHS: June 1985 / VHD (shown below): July 1985 / LD: June 1986 Volume 1 Laserdisc insert Armored Trooper Votoms Vol. 2, Highlights from the A.T. Votoms Another one-hour compilation, this time...

The Last Red Shoulder VHS: August 1985 VHD: September 1985 First LD: July 1986 Liner notes insert Second VHS: June 1991 / Second LD: August 1991 / DVD: February 2007 Promotional flyer Big Battle VHS: July 1986 / VHD: August 1986 First LD: December 1986 Second VHS: June 1991 /...

The many different LD Box sets are the most extravagant Votoms products you can get, festooned with art and the most deluxe packaging ever created for the series. Laserdiscs are now antiques, but the boxes they came in will never go out of style. Perfect Collection Toshiba, October 1990 The...

This collection is a particularly fun one for me, because I helped to get them rolling and was invited to help produce them. Pretty much a dream come true, wouldn’t you say? Subtitled VHS Releases Central Park Media, 1997 The four-arc structure of the series allowed us to market it...

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I’ve been extraordinarily lucky in my various exploits, capers, thrills and spills as an anime fan. I found my top two favorites early on and made them a part of my life in ways few others did. Those two favorites are Space Battleship Yamato and Armored Trooper Votoms. In both...

The merchandising for Merowlink isn’t as extensive as we might all like it to be. The series presented us with at least as many A.T. variants as any Votoms story that followed in its wake, but not a single one got turned into a standard model kit or even a...

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Introduction from the DVD box set (released by VAP in 2006) Explanation Armor Hunter Merowlink is an OVA series that was released in 6 volumes (12 episodes) from November 1988 to April of the following year. As the title indicates, it was planned as a side story to Armored Trooper...

By the time Armored Trooper Votoms finished its first broadcast in Spring 1984, the momentum already existed to expand it beyond its initial framework. The setting was a huge, sprawling galaxy with any number of stories to be told. The first animated spinoff appeared in 1985 to take full advantage...

The “main man” of Votoms music was Hiroki Inui. Born in 1949, he graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and was an arranger and keyboard player since the 1970s. He was also active in the field of broadcast music for television and radio dramas. Votoms was...

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Both of these interviews were recorded during a Votoms event held at Sunrise Studio on November 14, 1997 Character Designer Norio Shioyama It was a difficult character whose subtle nuances varied depending on my physical condition that day Interviewer: What kind of orders did the director give you? Shioyama: At...

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