Super Robot - Suffer Reboot

Artist| Toym Leon Imao
Year| 2014-2016
Type| Sculpture
Medium| Fiberglass, brass, galvanized iron[1]
Subject| Mecha, Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos
Location| Quezon City

Super Robot - Suffer Reboot is the name given to a series of three sculptures by Filipino artist Toym Leon Imao. The sculptures, made from 2014 to 2016, are each inspired by a specific Japanese mecha animated television series which were popular in the Philippines in the 1970s.[2][3]

## Sculptures

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Super Robot - Suffer Reboot is the collective name for three separate sculptures. The names of each sculpture are alliterations.[4] All of them were first exhibited at the steps of the Palma Hall at the University of the Philippines Diliman.[2][5][6]

Super Robot - Suffer Reboot sculptures  Sculpture  | Based on  | Date of creation  | Ref.

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Last, Lost, Lust for Four Forgotten Episodes | Voltes V
(Chōdenji Machine Voltes V) | September 2014.  | [4][2]
Coping with a Couple's Copious Cupboard of Curios, Cops, Cuffs and Corpses | Mazinger Z | July 2015  | [5]
The Fright to Fight or Flight with Freights of Plights | Daimos
(Tōshō Daimos) | February 2016  | [7]

## Symbolism

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The sculptures were made to symbolize the sufferings and injustices experienced by Filipinos, with an emphasis towards the time of martial law during Ferdinand Marcos' presidency, when many Japanese mecha animated series became popular among Filipino children.[3] By 1979, Marcos banned every mecha series considered to have violent content inappropriate for children.[8] Imao, who used to watch Voltes V and other mecha series, made the sculptures to symbolize his anger when those series' broadcasts were halted by Marcos: "At first it was only because he deprived me of a favorite TV character. And then a sort of political awakening happened. Suddenly, I was affected by what grownups were talking about: Martial law."[2]

## References

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1. ^ Sarmiento, Menchu Aquino (16 May 2019). "Toym's Labyrinth". BusinessWorld. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
2. ^ a b c d Imao, Toym Leon (27 September 2014). "Ferdinand Marcos angered 'Voltes V' generation". Inquirer.net. Inquirer.net. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
3. ^ a b Gamil, Jaymee (24 September 2014). "'Voltes V' fan gets back at Marcos". Inquirer.net. Inquirer.net. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
4. ^ a b ayalamuseum (12 May 2015). "OpenSpace: Toym Imao". Ayala Museum. Ayala Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
5. ^ a b Imao, Toym Leon (15 July 2015). "San Mazinger-Z, a couple's copious conjugal cupboard of curios, cuffs, cops, and corpses". Instagram. Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-26. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
6. ^ Imao, Toym Leon (16 February 2016). "Getting there...+ Corpus + Non Dico Fabula". Instagram. Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-26. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
7. ^ Imao, Toym Leon (13 February 2016). "toymimao + Corpus + Non Dico Fabula". Instagram. Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-26. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
8. ^ Mendoza, Diana (15 February 2014). "Of Marcos babies and the Voltes V generation". Rappler (in English and Filipino). GODADDY.COM, LLC. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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