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Continuing from the Korean Super Robot redesign series...

Although Taekwon V is the godfather of Korean robot animation, it always involves plagiarism issue with its design.

However, there were numbers of original super robots in the first feature.

One of them was a robot belonging to a girl name Mary. She is a "daughter" of the genius Dr. Kaff. You find out she is a robot and she was sent to steal the secret behind Taekwon V. She is a robot with an artificial intelligence (and some memories of real daughter of Dr. Kaff?). You can definitely see her moral struggle through out the movie and it was something that was very impactful to young viewers back in 1976. Probably one of the first experience in a narrative made for kids where things weren't so black or white.

Of course there is element of Pinocchio syndrome on Mary's end of "desiring" (can robots really desire something?) to become a human. But it was often overshadowed by the choices she had to make. Sometime bad, some times neutral (indifference), and some times making good decisions.

To me, she was the most memorable character of the entire franchise.

She has this robot that she controls (robot controlling a robot?). And my design is based on her giant robot.

I took most liberty and did a lot of design update. In fact, I am a bit concerned that maybe I went a bit too far.

In the original she has this ugly goggle like eyes and flat lower face. In order to give more feminine flair, my premise is that it's more like a designer shades that the robot is wearing and the mask opens up to reveal her face.

I have all this back story as to why she is designed and the purpose of it and stuff... But I will save you from all the details.

Overall, I wanted to come up with a design that is undoubtedly a female form in its nature and maybe even cause some people to say it looks beautiful.

Description
Continuing from the Korean Super Robot redesign series...

Although Taekwon V is the godfather of Korean robot animation, it always involves plagiarism issue with its design.

However, there were numbers of original super robots in the first feature.

One of them was a robot belonging to a girl name Mary. She is a "daughter" of the genius Dr. Kaff. You find out she is a robot and she was sent to steal the secret behind Taekwon V. She is a robot with an artificial intelligence (and some memories of real daughter of Dr. Kaff?). You can definitely see her moral struggle through out the movie and it was something that was very impactful to young viewers back in 1976. Probably one of the first experience in a narrative made for kids where things weren't so black or white.

Of course there is element of Pinocchio syndrome on Mary's end of "desiring" (can robots really desire something?) to become a human. But it was often overshadowed by the choices she had to make. Sometime bad, some times neutral (indifference), and some times making good decisions.

To me, she was the most memorable character of the entire franchise.

She has this robot that she controls (robot controlling a robot?). And my design is based on her giant robot.

I took most liberty and did a lot of design update. In fact, I am a bit concerned that maybe I went a bit too far.

In the original she has this ugly goggle like eyes and flat lower face. In order to give more feminine flair, my premise is that it's more like a designer shades that the robot is wearing and the mask opens up to reveal her face.

I have all this back story as to why she is designed and the purpose of it and stuff... But I will save you from all the details.

Overall, I wanted to come up with a design that is undoubtedly a female form in its nature and maybe even cause some people to say it looks beautiful.