The designer of Voltron and the Power Rangers robots has died

Katsushi Murakami, who also designed the Go-Bots and Leopardon, died at the age of 83.

Katsushi Murakami — Voltron: Legendary Defender cosplay at New York Comic Con 2016, photo by Richie S / CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

Katsushi Murakami designed the Voltron robots, most of the robots in Power Rangers, and many of the Go-Bots. Matt Alt, the author of Pure Invention, reported Murakami's death in a farewell to the designer on his newsletter…