Kentaro Goh

This article is about a/an character in Chōdenji Machine Voltes V.

La Gohl, also known as Professor Kentaro Goh is a scientist who worked on the Voltes V and the overarching protagonist of Chōdenji Machine Voltes V. He was a former Boazanian royal until it was found that he was hornless, after which he was forced to live as a slave. He was married twice, once to Lozaria and for the final time to Mitsuyo Goh. He is the father of Prince Heinel (through Lozaria) and Kenichi Goh, Daijiro Goh, and Hiyoshi Goh (through Mitsuyo).

Personality[]

Kentaro is kind and selfless, willing to risk his life for the freedom of others. As much as he loves his children and wants to see them again, he put all plans of re-unification with his family on the backburner and prioritized freeing Boazania's slaves. His strong will and spirit inspired many around him. Professor Hamaguchi described him as "a man who loved the earth and everything about it".

Physical appearance[]

As a child Gour had blonde hair, but it grew into purple as he aged.

History[]

Boazanian life[]

Kentaro Goh was born as La Gour to the brother of the emperor, and without horns. At 3 years old, his parents made him wear fake horns. As a teenager, he witnessed the suffering of the hornless slaves. He told his parents that his horns are fake, and that he should be a slave, but his father slapped him, and he never again spoke to his parents about his fake horns.

After graduating, he became the Boazanian minister of science and married Lozaria. He told his wife that his horns are fake, but she still loved him. After the death of the emperor, there was a debate about who was going to become the next emperor. The two candidates were La Gour and his cousin Zu Zambajil. Upon his ascension to the throne, Zu Zambajil exposed La Gour at the last second, and threw him into a dungeon. La Gour then became a slave, and he learned about his wife's fate after giving birth to a baby. The slaves then revolted. Most of them were killed, but La Gour escaped to Earth.

Earth life[]

Upon landing on earth, La Gour was discovered by a Japanese scientist named Mitsuyo Goh. They fell in love, and La Gour assimiliated into Japanese society, adopting the name Kentaro Goh to blend in with the humans. Kentaro and Mitsuyo had three children, Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi.

However, La Gour foresaw the Boazanian invasion, and told Mitsuyo he needed to return to Boazania to appeal to his brother. Mitsuyo begged him not to go but La Gour insisted it was necessary since Boazania was already conquering nearby galaxies. Before he left, he told her that if he wasn't back in two months, she can assume he failed.

When La Gour returned to his planet and appealed to Zambajil and begged him to stop colonizing other planets, Zambajil instead offered him a chance to join him and manufacture weapons (due to his skill in science and technology). When La Gour refused, Zambajil had him imprisoned. Back on earth, after months passed without Kentaro returning, Mitsuyo assumed he died and prepared her children to fight the Boazanians, with the help of Professor Hamaguchi, General Oka and Big Falcon.

Invasion on Earth[]

During the Boazanians' invasion, Goh escapes prison alongside General Dange and General Doir, and the three tries to return to Earth. However, Zuhl captures and brainwashes Goh into becoming his servant as a plot to kill Heinel. This fails, but Goh returns to prison.

When the Voltes team reach Boazania and free Goh, they convince the Boazanians about Zu Zambajil's tyranny, so the latters help them fight against his men. Zu Zambajil tries to escape with a wagonload of riches, only to be found by Heinel, who kills him for betraying Boazania. After his death, La Gour finally becomes the emperor of Boazania and reorganizes the empire into one where the horned and hornless ones co-exist peacefully once again. His sons ask him to come back to earth but he chooses to stay in Boazania, though it is implied they can visit each other regularly thanks to the Boazanian warp technology.

Relationships[]

Lozaria[]

Lozaria was La Gour's first wife. She and Gour loved each other very much. When Lozaria assured him that she would love him despite his lack of horns, they embraced, Gour told her of his dream to one day see a society where both horned and hornless Boazanians would live together in peace. Shortly after they married, Lozaria gave birth to a baby boy, Heinel. Unfortunately, as La Gour was imprisoned at the time, he would never get to meet his firstborn son and only found out about him after hearing that Lozaria died in childbirth. He didn't make the connection that Heinel was his son until Heinel produced a dagger his mother had given him, which Gour recognized as the one he had given to Lozaria as a gift.

Mitsuyo[]

Mitsuyo was his second wife, who he met years later when his spaceship crashed in Japan. In their first interaction, Mitsuyo begged him to wake up, cradling his limp body. For the two, it was love at first sight and they had three children. However, her time with Gour was short as he had to return to Boazania to help the slave rebellion. In their last interaction, Mitsuyo begged him not to go.

Heinel[]

Though Heinel had never met his father, he considered him a "traitor" and would frequently curse him. Due to being his son, Heinel was abused and shunned throughout his childhood by his fellow Boazanians, and nicknamed "the traitor's son". To atone for his father's sins, Heinel swore to redeem himself by invading the earth and bringing glory to Boazania. Whenever his name is mentioned, Heinel becomes incensed.

Gour didn't make the connection that Heinel was his son until Heinel produced a dagger his mother had given him, which Gour recognized as the one he had given to his first wife as a gift. Once Heinel realized he had been fighting his own flesh and blood, he became so ashamed that he begged Zambajil to stop the fighting. Zambajil started blaming Heinel for the war, so Heinel threw his dagger at him which caused him to drop his grenade. Heinel then pushed Kenichi out of the way, accepting his death. As Gour called Heinel his son, Heinel called him "father".

Relatives[]

On September 30, 1979, the bi-monthly Japanese magazine OUT (published by Minori Shibou) released an issue titled "Rendezvous" that contained Prince Heinel's genealogy. Though the article is in Japanese, it has been translated here.

Prince Heinel family tree — Prince Heinel's family tree

                        Wife 
                         |
     |───➝ 123rd Emperor of Boazania
     |                   |───➝ Zambaji
     |                Concubine
     |                   
 ────|
     |
     |
     |                Lozaria
     |───➝ La Oral       |───➝ Heinel
               |───➝ La Gour 
             Wife         |───➝ Kenichi
                          |───➝ Daijirou
                          |───➝ Hiyoshi
                      Mitsuyo Go

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Trivia[]

Some translations write his name as La Gour.
There are many clues that Heinel is La Gour's son across the story:
- In Dange's flashback in episode 28, La Gour is shown to be born with blonde hair, the same hair colour Heinel inherited.
- Both gradatuated at the top of their respective schools.
- Both personally command, and take charge of, armed revolutions aimed at destabilizing the status quo.
- La Gour based the design of Voltes V on that of his first wife's personal guards - the very same guards Heinel himself employs.