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** The show has a decent old-school following in Japan, but the Philippines has adopted the mecha as a cultural icon thanks to the aforementioned banning, which ironically turned it one of the symbols of the [[wikipedia:People Power Revolution|EDSA Revolution]]. The show still sees reruns up to this day in multiple dialects. Everything with the name "Ultraelectromagnetic" (Choudenji) means ''awesome technology'' in the Philippines, and this show was so ''insanely'' popular in the Philippines that the Filipinos consider ''Combattler V'' as Voltes V's spinoff (or parody). Which is understandable, if not justified, since Combattler aired in the Phillipines ''twenty years'' after Voltes, when the latter had already entrenched itself deeply into Filipino pop culture. GMA later went on to produce a [[Live Action Adaptation]] of the anime in close association with Toei, who praised the Filipino series for its faithfulness to the source material.

** The series also [https://geekositymag.com/voltes-v-left-a-gigantic-unparalleled-mark-on-cinema-in-cuba/ left a mark] in many a Cuban youngster during the 80s when it was released theatrically in the Carribean archipelago. When news came about the Philippine live-action adaptation, those who remembered the series fondly [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=585441082519568 was more than overjoyed] as they would finally get to see their beloved "Voltes Cinco" again, this time in live action.

* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: Not a few people who watched this show are in it mainly for the back-stabbing and high drama of the Boazan nobility, going as far as to say that Heinel and the other villains own the story and not the boring goody-two shoes heroes and the Earthlings; conveniently ignoring the fact that the Earthlings aren't exactly portrayed idealistically either, [[Not So Different|as they were just as predisposed to prejudice and petty bickering as the villains]].

* [[Moral Event Horizon]] / [[Kick the Dog]]: You will see the incident where Heinel {{spoiler|takes a little girl hostage so her father would be forced to cooperate in his schemes against the Voltes Team; only to find out later that he has already killed off the said girl afterward}} as the former if you think that the said action cements his status as a [[Card-Carrying Villain|villain]] [[Complete Monster|that is NOT to be liked]]; or the latter for simply being a way of the authors of telling the audience to be wary of how [[Politically-Incorrect Villain|screwed up]] [[Society Is to Blame|he became]] from the culture that he has been brought up in.