Mitsuyō Gō

Mitsuyō Gō is one of the overarching protagonists of the anime series Chōdenji Machine Voltes V.

She is a scientist and the wife of Professor Kentaro Gō, who is in truth the disgraced Boazanian prince La Gour. When the Boazanian Empire invade Earth, she alongside Goh's old friend, Professor Hamaguchi, summon the three kids she had with Goh: Kenichi, Daijiro, and Hiyoshi, to pilot her husband's greatest invention, the giant robot Voltes V, founding the Voltes team. Unfortunately, she dies soon in the war.

She was voiced by Takako Kondo.

Biography[]

14,000 light years from Earth, there exists a planet known as Boazania. The inhabitants of the planets are split into two classes, those with horns, and those without horns. In the past, both classes lived in harmony. However, at some point in time, a caste system was introduced that stated that those with horns were allowed to form an aristocratic nobility, while those without them are forced to live as slaves. This cruel caste system would dictate Boazanian society for aeons.

Boazania was ruled by a Royal Family, which would reinforce this caste system. However, one day, the younger brother of the 123rd Emperor of Boazania, Prince Oral, had a son. The baby was born hornless. Enraged and calling the child cursed, Prince Oral attempted fillicide, while his wife, their doctor and the court messenger tried to retrain him. Oral's wife begged him to spare the child and kill her instead. Oral, who couldn't bring himself to kill his wife and child, agreed to spare them. The boy's parents, the doctor and the court messenger swore to keep the hornlessness of the boy a secret. The boy was named Gohl, and he grew up with prosthetic horns to hide his otherness.

Growing up, Gohl witnessed the cruelty the Hornless Boazanians would witness at the hands of the Horned. They were often assaulted, maltreated, made to labour and had little to no rights. Being a Hornless Boazanian himself, he felt their plight in his heart. Gohl's dream was to create a society where both Horned and Hornless Boazanians could co-exist without oppression.

Gohl discovered that he had a great talent for technology and engineering. Soon, he became the Boazanian Minister of Science and Technology. At some point, Gohl fell in love with a noblewoman named Lozaria. On their honeymoon, he revealed his secret to Lozaria - that he was hornless. Lozaria, while shocked at first, told him she loved him anyway. After they embraced, Gohl told Lozaria of his dream for an equal society.

When the 123rd Emperor of Boazania died, a succession crisis occured because his only child was mentally disabled, therefore unfit to rule. Next in line to the throne was Gohl. However, the son of the Emperor and his concubine, Zambajil, had been eyeing the throne for a long time. Before the coronation event, Zambajil's subordinates began looking for ways to incriminate Gohl so that he wouldn't be able to become King. They tortured the doctor that delivered him, who confessed that Gohl was Hornless.

Zambajil interrupted the coronation event and pulled of Gohl's horns in front of the public, exposing him as a Hornless Boazanian. The onlookers gasped upon finding out that he had been hiding his true nature from them, while Lozaria covered her eyes. Gohl was then thrown in prison, while Lozaria was exiled from the palace. Fearing Zambajil's wrath, she fled to the countryside with her parents, preparing to raise her son with them. Since Gohl was in jail, she was unable to tell him that she was pregnant with his child. Lozaria then died in childbirth after delivering a boy.

Gohl, who at this point was enslaved, didn't know Lozaria had died until news spread that she died in childbirth. He begged his overseers to at least let him buy flowers for her grave, but was abused in return. Gohl, now enraged, began inciting slave rebellions. Using his skill in science and technology, he began creating weapons that the slaves would use to attempt to overthrow Zambajil. However, they were unsuccessful each time.

Gohl was urged by his fellow slaves to flee Boazania for his own good. He initially refused, but they stated that he was their final hope for a future free of slavery and he was too valuable to die given his intelligence. They managed to safeguard a ship for his travel and shielded him with their bodies as the Boazanian Empire's forces opened fire on them. A frenzied Gohl hurried into the ship and flew as far as he could, far away from Boazania. It was by pure chance that the planet the ship eventually crash-landed on happened to be Earth, which had a populace full of people that looked like him.

Upon landing on earth, Gohl was discovered by a Japanese scientist named Mitsuyo Goh. They fell in love, and he assimiliated into Japanese society, and he adopted the name "Kentaro Goh" to hide his real identity. Kentaro and Mitsuyo had three children, Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi. He was a loving father to them, but he also foresaw the Boazanian invasion. He told the Earthlings of it, but only a few of them thought he was telling the truth. Some of the humans that believed him included Professor Hamaguchi, Professor Sakaonji and General Oka. Kentaro, Mitsuyo, Hamaguchi and Oka worked together and created the robot Voltes V, designed to protect the Earth when the invasion inevitably happened.

Some time later, Zambajil recalled Gohl to Boazania. Gohl told Mitsuyo he needed to return to Boazania to appeal to him to end his cruelty. Mitsuyo begged him not to go, but Gohl insisted on it. Boazania was already conquering planets left and right and it was only a matter of time until Earth would be next. Before he left, he told her that if he wasn't back in two months, she can assume he failed.

Gohl returned to Boazania and begged Zambajil to stop colonizing other planets. Zambajil instead offered him his old position back, with the caveat that he would manufacture weapons for the Boazanian Empire due to his skill in science and technology. Gohl refused this offer, so Zambajil had him imprisoned. He planned to have him executed, but a Horned Noble, Dange, who was inspired by Gohl's spirit and drive for justice, broke off his horns and joined the resistance movement, rescuing Gohl from prison.

Back on earth, after months passed without Kentaro returning, Mitsuyo assumed he died. With the help of Professor Hamaguchi, General Oka and Big Falcon, she prepared her children to fight the Boazanians. Alongside Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi, Oka's daughter, Megumi, and Hamaguchi's grandson, Ippei, were trained to pilot Voltes V.

After several years, Emperor Zambajil launched an invasion on Earth led by Prince Heinel. Heinel is aided by his General, Jangal and two scientists, Zuhl and Katherine. The Boazanians manage to lay waste to countries all over the world, including three million fatalities in Italy, burning Buenos Aires to the ground, destroying the Twin Towers and cutting off all commmunication between London and the rest of the world. Many survivors were forced to retreat. Mitsuyō Gō and Professor Hamaguchi summoned Kenichi, Daijirou, Hiyoshi, Ippei and Megumi to enter their respective vehicles and form Voltes V.

At first, the team manage to successfully defeat the first Beast Knight sent by Heinel's forces, Dokugaga. However, Heinel then deployed Baizanga, a stronger Beast Knight that manages to subdue the robot. Fearing for her children's safety, an injured Mitsuyo abandons her hospital room and enters a jet plane, where she flies into Baizanga, killing herself but managing to free the robot. Kenichi is broken and screams in shock, before brutally beating down Baizanga. The Voltes team mourned the loss of Mitsuyo, with Hamaguchi becoming a surrogate parental figure for them afterwards. From then on, they would fight Boazanians' forces to protect Earth.

Ippei mocked the Go brothers for grieving over the loss of Mitsuyo, inciting a fight between him and Kenichi. Megumi breaks up the fight and demands Ippei be respectful, but Ippei acts dismissive. Later, while he's in his room, Megumi enters, demanding to know the reason behind his callous attitude. He refuses to answer her but takes off his shirt, telling her that he'd like to train, "but she's welcome to watch". Megumi then asks about his mother, which makes him angry. Megumi manages to take his whip from him and says she won't give it back until he tells her the truth about his mother. Ippei reluctantly confesses to her that when he was a child, his parents immigrated to America in search of a better life. However, this only brought them more hardship, as they failed to become successful and had to live on the streets. His mother abandoned the family shortly before his father succumbed to his disease and Ippei grew up an orphan in a country he was new to. He had to do odd jobs to survive, but found he had a passion for horseriding. Befriending a pony named Eiffel, Ippei managed to become a successful rodeo star and three-time national champion. However, Hamaguchi had him kidnapped from California to Japan so he could become the pilot of the Volt Bomber.

Later that night, as Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi were fixing Mitsuyo's grave (as Ippei had accidentally knocked it over during training practice) he mocked the dead woman again, earning the ire of the Go Brothers and resulting in Kenichi and him having a fistfight. However, before the fight could worsen, Megumi intervened. She told the Voltes team his (perceived) backstory and how Ippei felt upset that his mother abandoned him, causing him to run away in shame. The next day, Hamaguchi told Ippei the truth of what happened, having obtained a newspaper that reported on the incident where she supposedly abandoned him. Ippei's eyes filled with tears as he realized that he had misremembered the details and apologized to the Go brothers and Mitsuyo's grave for his actions.

After her death, the Voltes team would continue to repel Beast Knights deployed by Prince Heinel's forces on the regular.

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Despite being the mother of the Go brothers, the only one of them who resembles her is Hiyoshi as they have the same hair colour. Kenichi and Daijirou have black hair and La Gohl's is purple. However this could be due to recessive genes, as La Gohl's father has black hair.
With the reveal that Heinel is Gohl's firstborn son, this means that Mitsuyo was killed by her own stepson.
Elements of Mitsuyo can be seen in her sons:
- Her drive for justice, desire to save the world and selfless sacrifice is mirrored in Kenichi.
- Her love for science and technology is mirrored in Hiyoshi.
- Her physical strength and desperation to see Kentaro again is mirrored in Daijirou.
Technically, Mitsuyo is Boazanian royalty (since she married a Boazan Prince).

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