It has been a week since GMA7 unleashed its most recent trailer for its live-action adaptation of the 1970’s super robot anime series “Voltes V.” It was much needed assurance after the very first teaser in the New Year transition to 2020, before the COVID pandemic put many things to a halt. The second preview, while pooh-poohed by some Filipinos disappointed in how some SFX-laden action series produced by GMA were reduced to Philippine soap-opera drama style, was conversely positively received by Japanese commenting on social media. Now, the biggest Japanese fan yet has praised the trailer: the original singer of the theme song herself.
As The Manila Bulletin tells it, anime fans on Twitter, particularly
Filipino fans of “Voltes V,” are now reacting to an effusive post by Japanese singer
Mitsuko Horie regarding “Voltes V Legacy,” the heavily-anticipated live-action remake
on the classic mecha anime coming soon to the Kapuso network. Horie performed
the opening theme, “Voltes V no Uta” (literally “Song of Voltes V”) in 1977.
But in the Philippines the song with its trumpets and distinctive 70s Japanese
pop style remained timeless, getting repeat performances from marching bands
and TV comedy shows.
フィリピンでは今もなお人気のボルテスVが進化し続けているようです!
— 堀江美都子 (@micchi_MH) January 19, 2021
凄いですね〜!
観てると歌いたくなりますね!
そして何よりもフィリピンの皆さんに愛され親しまれている事が嬉しいです!
#フィリピンGMA公式
#ボルテスV
#VoltesVLegacy
#堀江美都子 https://t.co/TWP9Zb4QWj
Horie’s tweet, dated January 19, roughly
translates thus: “It seems that the popular Voltes V is still evolving in the
Philippines! It is amazing! Watching it makes you want to sing! And above all,
I am glad that everyone in the Philippines loves and loves me!” The artist, now
aged 63, had already once visited the Philippines in 2018 as the special guest
performer for a “Voltes V” themed charity run, where of course she sang the
theme song with her familiar, seemingly unchanging voice.
Mitsuko Horie may have a solid
anime background as a theme song performer and even voice actress (Sailor Galaxia
in “Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars” and the main character in “Remi: Nobody’s Girl,”
both airing 1996), but to Filipinos she is the singer for “Voltes V,” no more
and no less.
“Voltes V Legacy” is spearheaded
by GMA7’s best creative minds, from director Mark Reyes to Head Writer Suzette
Doctolero, the latter of whom has defended the show from predictions that it
will be bogged down by drama tropes such as love triangles and third parties.
Original anime producer Toei Animation has oversight over the series, believed
to be airing only weekly instead of Monday to Friday. There is no official word
yet on the character casting, or when in 2021 “Voltes V Legacy” will premiere.
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