#DaiRugger

[arcadebroke]

[everything-dairugger]

Important message for people who want to watch DaiRugger XV but can't find it on YouTube anymore. Which to a lot of people looks like the result of Toei being dicks again.

As it turns out, Bandai Spirits did not remove them from their channel. Episodes themselves have been unlisted since 2020 or so. But they used to have a public playlist for it so that people could still watch it. That playlist is now gone, which is why people couldn't find the episodes.

But with the power of the Wayback Machine I managed to grab links for each of the uploads and saved them to my playlist that I made. Unlisted, for now, just in case.

So, yeah, here's the playlist:

The only issue is that they still did not add subs for the last upload. Problematic. Not for me, though, because I have no issue with piracy.

[reindeer-games-sven]

Clearly I have a favorite in this show 

[sweetmariabear]

I could be completely wrong but! In the ending cutscenes for each character in Voltron: Legendary Defender we see in Pidge’s that the Holt Family helps to establish a new team (Vehicle Voltron cameo) and we see team members. Aside from Chip being a robot, it appears that Krik who is standing next to Chip, is depicted and drawn as female. Which is actually really neat imo.

[nesonkin]

Today is the 41-year anniversary of Armored Fleet DaiRugger XV!

Armored Fleet DaiRugger XV is a mecha anime series aired in Japan from 1982 to 1983. It tells a story about a space exploration team meeting an advanced alien race and struggling to communicate with them as the conflict gradually turns into a full scale war.

This series is mostly known in its Americanized version, which is called Vehicle Voltron. This version made several changes, starting from names to heavy censorship. But if there's one thing it did right, it's that I wouldn't know about DaiRugger if it wasn't for Vehicle Voltron. Credit where it's due.

The series has a large cast of characters, but there are only a few that the anime really focuses on. That being Aki Manabu – Rugger Team leader, Ise Shinji – Rugger Team captain and eventually the Rugger Guard captain and Socrat Teles – enemy commander responsible for space exploration.

Although dense to watch, DaiRugger is an insanely good anime if you're willing to look past the naming conventions and some very dated concepts. But I'm not going to sell it as a masterpiece that you absolutely need to watch. It has its problems (some are made out bigger than they actually are by some people I see online) and you may not like it. But it will forever hold a special place in my heart for its themes and messages.

If you're in for some tragic anti-war mecha anime about the beauty of space and nature as well as the horrors of war, this anime might just be what you need!

Available for free on Bandai Spirit's YouTube channel:

[chibi-pix]

Okay. So, in a Discord group, I have this crack idea of Krik, chief pilot of the Sea Team of Vehicle Voltron, having a crush on OC doctor, Alger.  And. Alger doesn’t take flirting well. He’s a busy doctor.  Well, the crack idea hit SO OFTEN, I finally decided to sit and draw them. 

Anyway, I hope y’all enjoy this one. Until next time.

[mechanimereview]

Anime and the Costs of Starting Battles

Anime and the Costs of Starting Battles

I think a lot of people who read my blog posts know how I feel about wars and fighting. I hate them. Not because they aren’t necessary sometimes, but because they can be depending on the circumstances. WW1 and WW2 for instance were wars that had to be fought. But still, there is a huge human cost that comes from them occurring. Normal human lives are in the crossfire with other normal humans and…

[khobra81]

Still one of my favorite pieces I've done

Voltron Forever                    18″x24″             Clip Studio Paint

Decided to do a piece with all the voltrons (Stealth Voltron doesn’t count)

[bleh1bleh2]

Doodles and such

[njararna]

i am as always thinking about voltron. because i have issues. but i really and truly cannot get over vld’s flanderisation of lance’s character, it actually aggravates me to no end!!!

in the franchise, lance has been established to be an ace-flyer, incredibly perceptive (specifically in dotu and vttd, the source material + the closest sequel!), impulsive, and cocky—but his cockiness had SUBSTANCE. he knew he was that good. to me vforce has one of the best lance characterisations in how they get him: he’s a great flier, he’s a dependable figure of authority, he’s snarky, he bites back, he has the right amount of silliness and pettiness dotu lance had. in vforce, everyone could get teased by the narrative! it wasn’t one or two characters taking the brunt (hi vld hunk and lance!).

but in vld, they practically cut out all those parts of lance, the flying, the perceptiveness, his confidence, and then give it to keith (whose original personality had been then given to shiro). they leave him with the cockiness, but there’s nothing to back it up. they orchestrate keith and lance’s rivalry to be one-sided and terribly unbalanced because keith IS better than lance in a lot of things. this was never the case before, they had strengths and weaknesses that the other complemented and would sometimes cause conflict (vttd is a great example of this!).

i think the reason why it bothers me so much, is because this is first time lance has been latino and not white (not counting golion’s isamu in this). the first time! and the moment he is, they take away his skills and his strengths, have him bullied by the narrative and made into a joke, never taken seriously, and dialed up his flirtatiousness to over 9000. the only time i can actually recall lance being flirtatious in the franchise was in ddp’s run, but even then it wasn’t nearly as prominent or excessive as vld lance’s nonstop flirting. he gets keith’s leftover lion, he gets a sword like keith, he’s allura’s second choice, he never really finds his place in the team.

the arc of feeling like a seventh wheel or insecurity wouldn’t bother me if he had history in the franchise of this, if his character wasn’t established the way it was, but he doesn’t! and its not like vld’s narrative does much to disprove lance’s insecurity—in fact it winds up doing the opposite most of the time. on the surface vld and dotu lance seem similar, but deeper down i feel like the writers just…lost the plot. it’s not that you can’t branch out in reboots or explore other pathways, but it’s just so blatant to me in how they’d taken so much from him and passed it off to other characters. where’s the love for the source material in that? where’s the respect? i don’t know, maybe i’m just going on and on, but it haunts me.

[ang-900]

Their relationship is so funny, anyone else get a dysfunctional father-son dynamic between them?

Bonus content from me studying how to draw them/a screenshot from the wip:

Kinda cursed, I think. ☠️

[dumbsterchild]

cheers to vehicle force, an out of character video about the three leaders and their boss.

please enjoy :)

also... does anyone know an animation software that is compatible with Chromebook?...... i forgot to site the source but here is the Original :D

[everything-dairugger]

Full disclosure I have very little idea as to how this whole tumblr community thing works, but if anyone wants to join just like this post or reblog or comment and I'll send an invite to get you in

[dairugger]

you can't live in fear of them rebooting voltron again it's as invitable as the sun rising tomorrow. even if nothing is actively in the works you'd be a fool to think we've seen the last of the voltron reboots. doesn't matter how bad the most recent reboot was. buddy, they've never made a good voltron and i see no reason they would start now

[sweetmariabear]

[nesonkin]

Of what could have been...

Today marks 41 years since the episode "Temporary Truce" aired and our beloved Galveston pilot named Sim first appeared in the show! Also, the same day that he died by the hands of his superiors...

That's why today is the unofficial Sim Appreciation Day. May of 12 every year from now on.