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Robot Taekwon V (Animation)
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In short: A Korean ripoff of another mecha show, that grew the beard and became a success in its own right. note It should be mentioned that Koreans today, especially the younger generation who are aware of the fact that it started out as a ripoff, don't like to talk about that fact. Robot Taekwon V (released in America as Voltar The Invincible) was a 1976 South Korean animated film that inspired many sequels and comic books. In Japan it's known as a Mazinger Z ripoff, but the creator Kim Cheong-gi freely admits that it directly inspired him and mentions that Mazinger Z is popular in South Korea.note It's also important to note that South Korean laws enacted in the Cold War forbade any South Korean from legitimately purchasing/obtaining Japanese-made media, including video games. The laws were removed in 1990 after Seoul and Tokyo began to establish and improve foreign relations between each other, with the exception of not allowing Japanese shows and music to be aired anywhere in South Korea. Seoul, however, has made suggestions that a gradual lifting of the ban will be done eventually. As of 2010s, there are no signs of a ban of Japanese media product left, minus some episodes of kid's shows being censored or localized when they contain too much Japanese traditions.The series is one of the first few franchises in South Korea to start the Super Robot trend in Korean fiction.A Mad Scientist named Dr. Kaff builds giant robots to kidnap world-famous athletes and use their powers to Take Over the World. Dr. Kim makes a super robot to fight Dr. Kaff's robots sent from the Red Empire. His eldest son Kim Hoon, a young Taekwondo champion, must use his martial arts skills to pilot it. He is joined by his Action Girlfriend Yoon Yeong in the fight against evil.The show has been digitally restored after a duplicate print was discovered in a Korean Film Commission warehouse. It was released in cinemas in the early 2000s with DVDs released recently. Some of its sequels also had digital restoration and were also released on DVD.The Taekwon V franchise consist of the following movies: Robot Taekwon V - July 24, 1976 Robot Taekwon V: Space Mission - December 13, 1976 Robot Taekwon V: Underwater Rangers - July 20, 1977 Robot Taekwon V vs. Golden Wings Showdown - July 26, 1978 note Crossover with another animated superhero movie, Goldwing 1 2 3, which saw release in the US as Goldwing Fly! Space Battleship Turtle Ship - July 26, 1979 Super Taekwon V - July 30, 1982 84 Taekwon V - August 3, 1984 Robot Taekwon V 90 - July 28, 1990Only the original Robot Taekwon V, 84 Taekwon V and Robot Taekwon V 90 are released again in Korea with official English subtitles to gain a wider audience beyond Korean shores. The others are either unavailable in DVD or they are released without any English subtitles.The franchise also had plans for a live-action movie and an MMORPG game in the late 2000's, although it's most likely that these plans have permanently stalled. There is also multiple manhwas published based on Robot Taekwon V.Click here for a clip of the OP. | |
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Motion-Capture Mecha May or may not in fact be the Trope Maker. The show came out two years before Daimos, the anime which is usually credited with inventing the concept. It seems some things really were invented in Korea... Older Than They Think: In Japan, the Tsuburaya Productions Toku series Jumborg Ace featured the title robot having to be powered by human body movement. Granted, unlike many things South Korean's plagiarized, this series was-and still is-virtually unknown in South Korea but it is still worth noting. | |
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Recruit Teenagers with Attitude | |
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Recruit Teenagers with Attitude: Played with with Hoon and Yeong as the pilots of Taekwon V after Dr. Yoon recruits them since Dr. Kim was killed in a Red Empire raid on his lab. | |
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Super Robot Genre | |
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Super Robot: One of the few ones to emerge out of South Korea in the 1970s. | |
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Older Than They Think: In Japan, the Tsuburaya Productions Toku series Jumborg Ace featured the title robot having to be powered by human body movement. Granted, unlike many things South Korean's plagiarized, this series was-and still is-virtually unknown in South Korea but it is still worth noting. | |
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Author Appeal: Robot Taekwon V was designed to give South Korean children a Korean hero with its Tae Kwon Do themed robot. Taekwon V’s helmet is based on the headgear of Admiral Yi Sun Shin, the iconic 16th century leader who defended Korean shores from Japanese invasion with iron clad warships. | |
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All Asians Know Martial Arts | |
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All Asians Know Martial Arts: Partially part of the plot. While Hoon, Yoon and Mori are East Asians and they know to fight via Taekwondo, Richard fights in Taekwondo as a representative of the United States. The latter two are kidnapped by Red Empire agents in order to brainwash them and let them pilot their robots. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: A minor one when South Korean troops open fire on Kim Cheol despite his insistence that he's with Taekwon V and he's not the one responsible for destroying the city. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits: Two teenagers and a kid are sent into battle against the Red Empire after they infiltrated Dr. Kim's research lab. | |
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Dirty Communists | |
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Dirty Communists/Red Scare: Possibly played with the Red Empire. They sport the red star, which is a known symbol for Communism. Averted since it's used only to cover Dr. Kaff's terrorist activities. Since this was made in the 1970s with North Korea being a major threat to South Korea after the Korean War and even after the end of the Cold War... | |
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The Promise | |
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The Promise: One was made to Mary that she can be human. At the end, Hoon found Mary's robotic heart with Dr. Yoon mentioning that they can do it. | |
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The Moral Substitute | |
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The Moral Substitute: A rare example of this phenomenon being a "good" thing, so to speak. It was created as a response to the popularity of Mazinger Z in South Korea, and the director's resulting desire to create a "homegrown" mecha series for Korean children to enjoy. At the time, Japanese imports, including anime, were technically illegal in South Korea due to laws put in place after World War II, but this did not stop many Koreans (especially those born after the war) from finding ways to consume them anyway. | |
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Far-East Asian Terrorists | |
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Far-East Asian Terrorists: The Red Empire. It was created by Dr. Kaff who was disgraced by his peers in the scientist community that he decided to use his intellect for evil after he disappeared from South Korea. | |
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Monster of the Week | |
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Monster of the Week: Played with by the Red Empire. | |
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Take Over the World | |
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Take Over the World: The main plan of the Red Empire which was the idea of Dr. Kaff after he goes underground. | |
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TheSeventies | |
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The '70s: The movie has that look, not to mention that it was one of the few South Korean-made animated movies made in the 1970s. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: The Taekwon V team was able to defeat the Red Empire and save the world from terrorists. | |
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Gondor Calls for Aid: Various military forces are called in to help the Taekwon V team to defeat the Red Empire in their Egyptian hideout. | |
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