Altron Gundam

Altron Gundam was a prominent staff member in the anime forums who originally joined as Flame of Recca during v2. As FOR he made attacks on the boards, and attempted to flame the early boards in what was known as the “Flame of Recca War.” As a result his account was deleted, but he eventually returned to the boards as SSJ4 Gokou.

His name then changed to Recca Hanabishi, Rurouni Kenshin, Altron-Gundam and then his final moniker stood as Altron Gundam from here on in. Very soon after the Boards’ rejuvination in v3 he was made a Moderator of the General Anime forum, despite allegations that he had been involved with various spamming incidents

Altron found himself unhappy with moderating the spam-filled General Anime forum, and would eventually be transferred to Dragonball, Gundam and eventually Yu-Gi-Oh. At the same time he also wrote theOtaku.com’s expansive Yu-Gi-Oh section, which included an incredibly detailed episode guide, card database, reviews, rules, restrictions and a thorough deck-building guide. He was widely regarded as an authority on the subject, albeit a rather forceful, elitist one.

He was usually associated with Kenshin, from the Rurouni Kenshin anime series, which frequently appeared in his avatar.

However, once theOtaku v4 rolled around and OtakuBoards’ traffic increased, places like the Yu-Gi-Oh forum started to generate more posts, and it appeared that this in particular became the problem area of the site’s main anime sections. When Solo Tremaine was recruited to Staff and overtook his position at the head of the Yu-Gi-Oh forum to moderate it, he took it rather personally, perhaps because he viewed himself as the chief authority of the subject on the Boards. His reactions to how little he thought of other people’s criticisms of his own deck were well-documented, as well as his tendency to resort to personal insults to criticise people’s Decks that weren’t up to his standard.

Most of his criticisms stemmed from the fact that most players on the site were using cards released by UpperDeck in the English translation of the game; with his knowledge of future Japanese card releases, he always knew which cards were going to be useful ahead of the game and could adjust his allegedly ‘invincible’ Decks accordingly.

While still able to provide intelligent and constructive criticisms of other people’s Yu-Gi-Oh playing ability, during this time he seemed to develop particular rivalries against Domon and DeathBug, with posts often descending into flame spats in various Yu-Gi-Oh threads. Altron was also prone to be terribly inactive at times, and criticiscm of him and his position quickly caused a rivalry with Shy, newly appointed as Super Moderator of the anime forums. It was the final escalation in his comments to out-and-out flaming that removed him from his Staff position and resulted in him being banned… again.

He later returned as the user Tyrant Dragon, where his penchant for personal insults continued. This was quickly banned, as were his other subsequent usernames, including ArgolisDragon, G-Unit, Sanosuke9480, Asheron, Red Inferno, Alucardfire and Athos, who was allegedly a ‘friend’ of Altron who registered to the OtakuBoards to accuse Domon of plagarising some fictitious cards used in an OtakuBoards RPG.

Once the Yu-Gi-Oh forum had been moved to the Anime Archives, making it a read-only series of threads, and given the diminshing interest in Yu-Gi-Oh on the forums as a whole, he has since disappeared.

Categories: Former Staff, Members, Oldies