Armored Trooper VOTOMS
| Armored Trooper VOTOMS | |
Cover for the Third DVD Box Set, with an illustration of the ATM-09-ST Scopedog done by Kunio Okawara.
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装甲騎兵ボトムズ (Sōkō Kihei Botomuzu) |
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| Genre | Military science fiction, Mecha |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Ryōsuke Takahashi |
| Written by | Fuyunori Gobu Jinzō Toriumi Ryōsuke Takahashi Sōji Yoshikawa |
| Studio | Nippon Sunrise |
| Licensed by | Central Park Media |
| Original network | TV Tokyo, Animax |
| Original run | April 1, 1983 – March 23, 1984 |
| Episodes | 52 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Minoru Nonaka |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Kodomo |
| Magazine | Comic BonBon |
| Original run | May 1983 – April 1984 |
| Volumes | 4 |
| Original video animation | |
| Armored Trooper VOTOMS: The Last Red Shoulder | |
| Directed by | Ryōsuke Takahashi |
| Written by | Sōji Yoshikawa |
| Studio | Nippon Sunrise |
| Released | August 21, 1985 |
| Runtime | 53 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Big Battle | |
| Directed by | Ryōsuke Takahashi |
| Studio | Nippon Sunrise |
| Released | July 5, 1986 |
| Runtime | 56 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Armored Trooper VOTOMS: The Red Shoulder Document: Roots of Ambition | |
| Directed by | Ryōsuke Takahashi |
| Written by | Sōji Yoshikawa |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Released | March 19, 1988 |
| Runtime | 56 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Armor Hunter Mellowlink | |
| Directed by | Takeyuki Kanda |
| Written by | Ryōsuke Takahashi |
| Music by | Hiroki Inui |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Released | November 21, 1988 – April 28, 1989 |
| Runtime | 24 minutes |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Original video animation | |
| Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Shining Heresy | |
| Directed by | Ryōsuke Takahashi |
| Written by | Sōji Yoshikawa |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Released | March 21, 1994 – December 21, 1994 |
| Episodes | 5 |
| Original video animation | |
| Armored Trooper Votoms: Pailsen Files | |
| Directed by | Ryosuke Takahashi |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Released | October 26, 2007 – August 22, 2008 |
| Episodes | 12 + film |
| Original video animation | |
| Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Phantom Chapter | |
| Directed by | Ryosuke Takahashi |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Released | March 26, 2010 – October 27, 2010 |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Original video animation | |
| Armored Trooper VOTOMS Case;Irvine | |
| Directed by | Igarashi Tatsuya |
| Written by | Takuya Satō |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Released | November 6, 2010 |
| Runtime | 50 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Votoms Finder | |
| Directed by | Shigeta Atsushi |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Released | December 4, 2010 |
| Runtime | 50 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Alone Again | |
| Directed by | Ryosuke Takahashi |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Released | January 8, 2011 April 22, 2011 (DVD and Blu-ray) |
| Runtime | 50 minutes |
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| Games | |
List of Armor Trooper Votom games
Armored Trooper VOTOMS (装甲騎兵ボトムズ Sōkō Kihei Botomuzu?) is a military science fiction mecha anime series, having undergone several incarnations. The original 1983 television series was created by Ryosuke Takahashi and Sunrise, featuring mechanical designs by Kunio Okawara. Following directly in the footsteps of Takahashi's previous series, Fang of the Sun Dougram, VOTOMS continued the trend towards hard science in the mecha anime subgenre. The series was supplemented by numerous original video animation releases, and also inspired a number of spin-off works whose media ranges from serialized light novels to video games.
The Gilgamesh and Balarant nations had until recently been locked in a century-old galactic war whose cause was long ago forgotten. Now, the war is ending and an uneasy truce has settled. The main weapon of the conflict is the common Armored Trooper, a mass-produced humanoid combat vehicle piloted by a single soldier. They are known alternately as VOTOMS (Vertical One-man Tank for Offense & ManeuverS).
The series follows a main character named Chirico Cuvie, a special forces Armored Trooper pilot and former member of the Red Shoulder Battalion, an elite force used by the Gilgamesh Confederation in its war against the Balarant Union. Chirico is suddenly transferred to a unit engaged in a suspicious mission, unaware that he is aiding to steal secrets from what appears to be his own side. Chirico is betrayed and left behind to die, but he survives, is arrested by the Gilgamesh military as a traitor, and tortured for information on their homeworld. He escapes, triggering a pursuit extending across the entire series, with Chirico hunted by the army and criminals alike as he seeks the truth behind the operation. He is especially driven to discover the truth of one of the objects he was assigned to retrieve in that operation: a mysterious and beautiful woman who would become his sole clue to unraveling the galactic conspiracy.
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