Soukou Kihei Votoms: The Last Red Shoulder (2024)

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Japanese: 装甲騎兵ボトムズ ザ・ラストレッドショルダー

English: Armored Trooper Votoms: The Last Red Shoulder

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Aug 21, 1985

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: Maiden Japan

Studios: Sunrise

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Themes: Mecha, Military

Duration: 54 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older


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Votoms Watch List

Animeby Darkonius

This a list of all Armored Trooper Votoms anime in release order, which is also the recommended watch order. MAL's relation system doesn't really give an overview of the franchise and its structure.
Recaps are marked and any special content is noted in case you want to skip them, and release order is clarified for the 80s OVAs.

Armored Trooper Votoms is a 1983 Mecha anime directed by Ryousuke Takahashi, noted for being one of the landmarks of the "real robot" subgenre, i.e. the treatment of mecha as simply military machinery instead of super heroes. The franchise is primarily built around this main TV show and fleshes it out with various prequels, side stories and sequels in a non-linear fashion, with a few spin-offs that make use of many of the elements of the world while not directly relating to the main story.

Sunrise's 80s OVA policy was to release a number of recap OVAs, then follow them up with new content, and then if that sold well they'd put out more recaps with more new content at the end. Votoms isn't the only show to see this policy, but it's the one where they did it the most. This is how The Last Red Shoulder, Big Battle and Red Shoulder Document came to be.

Armor Hunter Mellowlink, Case;Irvine and Votoms Finder are spin-offs that have varying degrees of connection to the main Votoms story and world, Mellowlink being the closest, and Finder being the furthest removed (in fact you may struggle to find a reason why it's called Votoms).

While the franchise has been dormant since 2011 as Ryousuke Takahashi has mostly retired from the directing anime (with a few exceptions in the last few years), there are a number of novels set in the Votoms universe that have been released in the last 20 years but have not been adapted to anime. These include Commando Vorct, Blue Knight Berserga, Philosopher on the Battlefield, and Child of God. Some of these may be adapted some day (in fact there is a doujin anime of Berserga on Youtube), but I wouldn't hold out hope.

16 Entries·May 5, 2023 7:45 AM

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Real robots

Animeby Coolzweg2

Real robots are a subgenre of the mecha genre, in which the mechas are depicted as realistic warmachines as opposed to the superheroistic depiction of the super robot subgenre. It was started in 1979 by Mobile Suit Gundam.

50 Entries·Jul 23, 2022 11:30 PM

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Super Robot Wars 2011-2015

Animeby CorvaX

Debuted in SRW Z2.1-SRW BX

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Super Robot Wars: 1980's Part 2

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Ryousuke Takahashi

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Anime directed by Ryousuke Takahashi

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Super Robot Wars Z2 Roster

Animeby Primus24

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Super Robot Wars Z2: Hakai-hen Roster

Animeby Myndnix

These are the anime that appear in Super Robot Wars Z2: Hakai-hen for PSP.

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Super Robot Wars OE Roster

Animeby Primus24

These are the anime that appear in Super Robot Wars Operation Extend(OE) for PSP.

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Super Robot Wars Z2: Saisei-hen Roster

Animeby Myndnix

These are the anime that appear in Super Robot Wars Z2: Saisei-hen for PSP.

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Super Robot Wars OE Roster

Animeby Myndnix

These are the anime that appear in Super Robot Wars OE for PSP.
A big thanks to my friend Mattman324 for filling these out, because this game is a nightmare that I couldn't play for very long.

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Super Robot Wars T Roster

Animeby Myndnix

These are the anime that appear in Super Robot Wars T for PlayStation 4 and Switch.

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Japan Anime Awards, Winners of the Main Awards, plus the Fan Awards (1983 - 1989)

Animeby PedroFerraz

Organized by the Japan Anime Festival Executive Committee, their members being the editors-in-chief of five major anime magazines, which were Animedia, The Anime, My Anime, Monthly OUT, and Animeck (Animage did not participate, as they had own Anime Awards). The main choices were decided by industry insiders and artistic creators (people like Osamu Tezuka), with the Fan Awards being self-explanatory.

The results of the first installment were announced in the January 1984 issue, continuing until the seventh edition, that was released in April 1990. In 1989, the award was canceled on due to a series of problems, among them the death of Osamu Tezuka and the crisis that affected the Japanese publishing market at the time. The Best Picture Awards were not given in the 3rd and 4th editions, no idea as to why.

Sources:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/
%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E5%A4%A7%E8%B3%9E

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Sunrise Academic Certification Course

Animeby giffica

The intent of this stack is to provide a complete history of Sunrise animation in a single course, meant to fit inside the framework of a 3 credit class with an expectation of 90 hours of out-of-class material over the period of a 15 week semester.

Adaptions of manga, or novels will be mostly excluded unless the creators themselves worked at Sunrise like in the case of Dunbine, or Arion. This means extremely notable, and historically important series, such as Cyborg 009, Ultraman, City Hunter, Inuyasha, Planetes, Sgt. Frog, and Gintama will all be excluded, despite the critical artistic contribution of this works on Sunrise's style. A truly dedicated academic would, at the minimum, watch some of the City Hunter, Inuyasha, Sgt Frog and Gintama side content since they were incredibly important on influencing Sunrise studio direction.

This course would ideally be taken alongside a thrice per week hour long lecture, breaking down the lineage of Sunrise's works, and how they influenced one another to build what we have today. As a result, there may be a series you feel is critical, or exceptionally great, but it will be excluded in favor of discussing the series role and relationship to the studio due to the limitations watching long form weekly series made for weekly broadcast. Sunrise is unique in that many of their major series have movies, or OVAs that summarize or recap the main franchise to give viewers a soft entry to understanding the work. However, there are of course serious works like Giant Gorg, Vifam, Pazer World Galient, Ronin Warriors, Jushin Liger, the entirety of the critically influencial Brave Series, most alternative Gundam series (which would be left to their own "Gundam" course), Garasaki, Infinite Ryvius, s-CRY-ed, Big O, Tiger & Bunny or even Love, Live! that would be discussed in class even if they aren't going to be watched.

This is a developing experiment, so please contact me if you have any suggestions, or questions.

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Anime Film History 1985

Animeby KonkonRika

Every cinema or direct to video anime film that came out in 1985.

1984: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34018
1986: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34034
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34035

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OVAs 1983-1985

Animeby Gsarthotegga

All OVAs from 1983-1985 that I've found so far. This is the majority of them, but I'm probably still missing a few obscure ones, recaps, or miscellaneous releases. One notable OVA excluded from this period is Cream Lemon, on account of it being a hentai series.

Note: I've seen varying dates for Midori no Neko, which is sometimes listed as 1983. I'll leave it here for now.

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Super Robot Wars VXT

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Manga, novels and games with no adaptations:
Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam (V, T)
Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Skull Heart (Debut in V, T, mecha only in T)
Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Steel Seven (Debut in V, X, T, mecha only)
Shin Mazinger ZERO vs. Ankoku Daishogun (Debut in V, X, mecha only)
Full Metal Panic! Light novels (V)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack: Beltorchika's Children (X, T, mecha only)
Getter Robo Daikessen! (Debut in T, mecha only)

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Ryosuke Takahashi Directed Anime Watchlist

Animeby TheCoolGuy82

Ryousuke Takahashi is a Japanese anime director, screenwriter, and producer. He has worked for Sunrise on many anime shows in the real robot genre, including Armored Trooper VOTOMS, Fang of the Sun Dougram, Panzer World Galient, and Blue Comet SPT Layzner.

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Red in animes

Animeby QueCarajillos

Animes with color Red in the title

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