Die japanische Animeserie spielt in einer fernen Zukunft, in der die Menschheit andere Planeten besiedelt. Ziel ist es, die Bevölkerungsexplosion in den Griff zu bekommen, nachdem die Versorgungskapazitäten der Erde nicht mehr ausreichen. Besonders in den Randgebieten der neuen Kolonien kommt es jedoch immer wieder zu Angriffen fremder Wesen namens Outrider, bei denen Menschen verletzt und getötet sowie Rohstoffvorkommen ausgebeutet und Sauerstoffversorgungen zerstört werden. Um die Menschheit vor der Ausrottung zu retten, formiert sich eine Gruppe von Freiheitskämpfern, die als ‚Star Sheriffs‘ mit ihrem mächtigen Weltraum-Schlachtschiff ‚Ramrod‘ den Kampf gegen die Feinde aufnehmen.
Voltron is the name of a giant robot in an anime television series that features a team of space explorers known as the Voltron Force. The space explorers pilot robot lions who join together to form the giant robot with which they defend their galaxy from evil. Initially produced as a joint venture between World Events Productions and Toei Animation, the original television series aired in syndication from September 10, 1984 to November 18, 1985. The program was entitled Voltron: Defender of the Universe.
Robotech is an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series made between 1982-1984 in Japan; the adaptation was aired in 1985. Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island. With this technology, Earth developed giant robotic machines or mecha to fight three successive extraterrestrial invasions.
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The Galaxy Alliance's home planets have become overcrowded, and a fleet of explorers has been sent to search for new planets to colonize. Along the way, they attract the attention of the evil Drule Empire, long engaged in an ongoing war against the Alliance, and the Drules proceed to interfere in the mission of the explorers and the colonists. Since the Voltron of Planet Arus was too far away to help the explorers, a totally new Voltron is constructed to battle the Drule threat.