{"id":27093,"date":"2018-09-25T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=27093"},"modified":"2018-09-25T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T19:19:05","slug":"voltron-legendary-defender-black-lion-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/voltron-legendary-defender-black-lion-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Voltron: Legendary Defender: Black Lion addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In conjunction with today's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/voltronldcblk.php\">Black Lion<\/a> review, here's the official profile of its pilot, Shiro:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/voltronldshiro.png\" title=\"Shiro\" width=\"190\" height=\"335\" class=\"alignright\"><b>Guardian Spirit of Sky<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Captured by the Galra while on a mission, Shiro was experimented upon before escaping back to Earth. He returned with a weaponized robotic arm and vital information to lead the team against his former captors. Calm, thoughtful and wise beyond his years, it takes more than a fleet of Galra cruisers to get a rise out of Shiro.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shiro is, of course, the equivalent to the character Western audiences knew in the '80s as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/art\/voltron12.jpg\">Sven<\/a>. \"Sven\" was the renamed version of Japan's Shirogane Takashi, who died in Episode 6 (Sven was merely \"in a coma\"). This connection even gets a wink and a nod in the new cartoon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Vehicle Voltron addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/vehicle-voltron-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vehicle Voltron addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Voltron: Legendary Defender: Green Lion addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/voltron-legendary-defender-green-lion-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Voltron: Legendary Defender: Green Lion addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Retro Con Optimus Prime\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/retro-con-optimus-prime\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Retro Con Optimus Prime<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Children of the '90s Try to Explain '80s Cartoons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/children-of-the-90s-try-to-explain-80s-cartoons\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Children of the '90s Try to Explain '80s Cartoons<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Voltron: Legendary Defender: Blue Lion addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/voltron-legendary-defender-blue-lion-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Voltron: Legendary Defender: Blue Lion addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In conjunction with today's Black Lion review, here's the official profile of its pilot, Shiro: Guardian Spirit of Sky Captured by the Galra while on a mission, Shiro was experimented upon before escaping back to Earth. He returned with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/voltron-legendary-defender-black-lion-addendum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,10],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-27093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-playmates","tag-voltron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27093"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27097,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27093\/revisions\/27097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}