Forum - View topicREVIEW: Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor DVD 1
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britannicamoore
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Wow that's the second anime i know of with a : "Chronos Corporation" the other being Black Cat.
As for this show i've never seen it. It sounds really Birdy the Mighty though. although spoiler[i'm sure Sho didn't get killed by the escapee]. It sounds like something to see though. |
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GATSU
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Not sure how Guyver is inspired by American comics, other than perhaps Venom from Spider Man; but that guy showed up years after Guyver was created. Maybe Iron Man, but I wouldn't call that suit symbiotic. If you're pushing it, I guess you can include some of the heroes from Alpha Flight, but that series wasn't even popular in America, and probably didn't make its way to Japan. If anything, though, Guyver was clearly an influence on Evangelion.
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Area88
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I guess the reviewer didn't really the Guyver tv series.
Which is why need the 1986 movie 'Guyver: Out of Control', easily the best anime adaptation to date. |
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GuyverC
Posts: 17 Location: Calgary, Alberta |
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I have to say, despite the somewhat negative appeal the review leaves, it does cover everything pretty accurately.
Don't get me wrong, I am a hardcore Guyver fan, and I loved the new series... but naturally there were problems throughout. And the fans who own the manga were the first to start complaining. The later volumes definatly get better. Plus in comparison to the manga... there is much more character interaction this time around... rather than the "true" monster of the week manga that the Guyver started off as.
I wouldn't say it's the best "adaptation"... but then again, it didn't have much to work with at the time, so it definatly did its best with what it had to work with. I still prefer the first 6 episodes of the 12 part OAV. Now that was "Ultra Violence" |
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theoriginalbilis
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The show gets a little more in-depth as it goes along.
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Steve Berry
Posts: 522 Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA |
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We just finished watching the show last night (fansubbed).... I liked it-- it's got a B movie quality to it at times, but there were some moments of real drama, and some twists that I didn't really expect. I thought it was a shame where they let the firs season end though-- it seemed a bit anti climactic. Overall though-- not a bad show at all. Yes, it's a fighting show, but I personally thought it had more depth to it than normal-- even the first few eps. I appreciated that the main characters actually sat down and thought about things, etc. etc. Eps 5-8 are better though.
Still, if you're going to watch Guyver, and then complain that it's a fighting show.... that seems a bit odd to me. I mean, that's what it largely is-- even in the much better eps of the show in the second half. |
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MorwenLaicoriel
 Posts: 1617 Location: Colorado |
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Whoa, I like the idea of doing the manga-to-anime comparison as an extra. It'd be interesting to see if they could do that for other anime DVDs, as well (although I'd imagine it'd be a pain).
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Key
Moderator
 Posts: 18498 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
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My complaints aren't about Guyver being a fighting show, but about it not being a particularly fresh or interesting fighting show. Of course, as I implied, it suffers some for not having changed in story content over 20 years while the genre has progressed at least a bit. |
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GATSU
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Key:
Yes. Action has progressed to filler. 
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chrisb
 Subscriber Posts: 649 Location: USA |
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I've heard the series takes a while to get good, so I'm willing to se how the series comes along.
And Bonnie Pink's Cotton Candy just adds that little push for me to see the next episode. Sort of just how Last Kiss got me into Gantz. |
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Randall Miyashiro
 Posts: 2451 Location: A block away from Golden Gate Park |
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My goodness I had a hard time getting through volume one. It reminded me of Sadamitsu (or vice versa) without the humor. The series definitely hasn't aged well, and reminds me of the recent retelling of Kikaider. I believe you need to reinvent a series if you are to bring it into a new era, much like Giant Robo (at least the 90s version) or the live action Battlestar Galactica. Guyver feels pointless and redundant. I believe the because grade if anything is generous.
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roesnail
Posts: 67 Location: San Diego |
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i still find the the guyver enjoyable. been a fan since i was 5 years old (am now 20). sure there is better anime out there now. but this was the real deal for many in the 80's to early 90's.spoiler[ i pray for season 2. i want to see more of guyver gigantic]
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KanonAirHaruhiShuffle
 Posts: 199 Location: California |
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i liked it
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Rawshark
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Guyver was inspired from two decades worth of tokusatsu shows, particularly Ishinomori stories. Odd that the reviewer would think there's an american influence from just the volume title which could have been made up by Funimation.
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