She was renamed “Jamie Robinson” por the talented voice dubbers of the Filipino/English version of Voltes V way back in 1978. Well, I can’t find a connection between the name Megumi and Jamie but I suspect the name “Jamie” was inspired por “Jamie Somers”; the female lead character from the then hit TV series “Bionic Woman”. The voice talents should have called her “Meg”.
Megumi Oka was the only female member of the Voltes Team and she was depicted as a lovely young 16 año old Japanese girl; she’s calm, quiet, resourceful yet very dangerous; her father was Field General...
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