Votoms Video, TV Series & compilations
Armored Trooper Votoms Vol. 1, Stories from the A.T. Votoms
A one-hour compilation of the entire TV series.
VHS: June 1985 / VHD: July 1985 / LD: June 1986
Armored Trooper Votoms Vol. 2, Highlights from the A.T. Votoms
Another one-hour compilation, this time including all the “next episode” teasers. Both of these volumes were released as the ramp-up to The Last Red Shoulder.
VHS: July 1985 / VHD: July 1985 (shown below) / LD: June 1986
At far right: Vol. 1 & 2 combo LD, August 1991.
Woodo / Kummen
One-hour compilations of each arc. These were released as the ramp-up to Big Battle. Both included newly-shot opening titles with live-action model kits. See the Kummen opening here.
Woodo VHS: February 1986 / VHD April 1986 / VHS re-release June 1991
Kummen VHS: April 1986 / VHD: April 1986 / VHS re-release June 1991
Combo LD (at right): August 1991
Promo poster for Woodo, 1986
Sunsa / Quent
One-hour compilations of each arc. These were released as the ramp-up to Roots of Ambition. Both included newly-animated opening and closing titles.
Sunsa VHS: January 1988 / VHS re-release: June 1991
Quent VHS: February 1988 / VHS re-release: June 1991
Combo LD (at right): August 1991
Perfect V Collection
The complete TV series was first released in the Perfect Collection LD set, seen on the Box Sets page. Six months later (May 1991), it was released in an omnibus VHS set.
Woodo, Kumman, and Quent were each composed of 4 tapes and Sunsa took 3 (with a spacer). They were available in four separate sets or together in a single box.
Box art was by Animation Director Moriyasu Taniguchi. All volumes in a set used the same box art.
13-volume VHS set
The next complete VHS release came exactly five years later from Youmex.
Three volumes were released in May 1996, then two per month through October.
Each volume contained four episodes, and the jackets reused art from the Complete Collection LD sets.
13-volume DVD set
The series made its first jump to DVD in the Memorial Box set (Feb 2005), then these individual volumes were released in quick succession, four volumes in October 2006 then three per month to conclude in January 2007. This was the last time the series was sold in single-volume form. New jacket art was by Naochika Morishita; see his work in a dedicated gallery here.
