Armored Trooper Votoms: Pailsen Files
| Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Pailsen Files | |
| 装甲騎兵ボトムズ ペールゼン・ファイルズ | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Action, Mecha, Science fiction |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Ryōsuke Takahashi |
| Written by | Sōji Yoshikawa |
| Music by | Hiroki Inui Yasuaki Maejima |
| Studio |
Sunrise Answer Studio |
| Released | October 26, 2007 – August 22, 2008 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Novel | |
| Written by | Sotsukasa Yoshikawa |
| Published by | Hobby Japan |
| Published | January 17, 2009 |
| Anime film | |
| Armored Trooper VOTOMS: The Pailsen Files Movie | |
| Directed by | Ryosuke Takahashi |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Released | January 17, 2009 |
| Runtime | 118 minutes |
Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Pailsen Files (装甲騎兵ボトムズ ペールゼン・ファイルズ Sōkō Kihei Botomuzu Peruzen Fairuzu?) is a 12-episode OVA series from the Armored Trooper Votoms franchise that was released from 2007 to 2008. Set after the 1988 OVA movie Red Shoulder Document: Roots of Ambition and months before the events of the VOTOMS television series, Pailsen Files explores the origins of Chirico Cuvie as explained by the Red Shoulder Battalion's now-disgraced commander, Col Yoran Pailsen.
The series is also notable for its use of 3D computer graphics, which have never been done in the history of the franchise.
A few weeks after the Gilgamesh Confederation's victory over the Balarant Union at the desert planet Sunsa, the Melkian Space Force High Command arrests Red Shoulder Battalion commander Col Yoran Pailsen. He undergoes a court-martial over his management of the now-disbanded unit and his obsession with the supposed Perfect Soldier, Chirico Cuvie.
After being the only survivor in a botched operation, Cuvie is evacuated and reassigned to a five-man team of AT pilots that are seemingly invulnerable as him.
Wockam convenes a meeting at the Supreme State Strategic Conference Building in Melkia and proposes "Operation Z0-5" - a major assault on the Balarant fortress planet Monad, designed to help the Gilgamesh Confederation have the upper hand in secret peace talks with the Balarant Union. Defense Secretary Noidod, who is connected to the meeting via video-conference, dies when his helicopter crashes on the way, prompting suspicions about Wockam being the instigator.
The episodes were released on six DVDs starting from October 26, 2007 until August 22, 2008. Each DVD package contains two episodes.
Released on January 17, 2009, Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Pailsen Files The Movie is a feature-length version of the OVA series. The movie contains many of the series' important moments, plus new footage:
TakaraTomy produced ATs from the series as part of its Actic Gear line of three-inch action figures. The Berkhoff squad Scopedogs are pre-packaged with the first five Pailsen Files DVDs while the sixth DVD contains a special Scopedog Turbo Custom painted in the dull gray colors of the Melkian Information Ministry's ISS special operations command. The other figures in the line include two-pack reissues of previously released units (such as the Scopedog, Fatty, and Diving Beetle with Spring Bobbin carpet track system), Wapp's Standing Tortoise, and the Berkhoff squad Scopedog Turbo Customs in ISS and arctic camouflage colors, plus an ISS Dog Carrier transport with free ISS Scopedog Turbo Custom. Each figure comes with a file card. The arctic camouflage units also have special snowshoe attachments.
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