>>23719829
sure what not.

ok now i want organic Gundams that pee

remember it's meant to be pronounced "hweever".

>>23719839
It's 'Gaibaa' (ガイバー) pronounced 'Guybah', and we.mecha now, bitch.

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>>23719829
Always has been. The thing was always biomechanical. But even then, it's basically toku. And toku is /m/.

>>23719829
Why is the manga dead? Couldn't the mangaka let anyone else finish it?

>>23720193
If I remember right Yoshiki Takaya's assistant (a longtime friend) died and he couldn't bring himself to continue the series without him. Takaya is apparently a practicing dentist now. That's the story anyway.

>>23719829
Started out as toku (which is to varied degrees connected to mecha one way or another), only to also become mecha the moment Guyver Gigantic and later Gigantic Exceed appear.

>>23719829
The hell is that?

>>23720673
Guyver.

>>23720673
Probably just someone's custom toy. Certainly never appeared in the comic or the movies.

>>23721021
It's a licensed plamo figure for Max Factory's Titanomachia line

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Shame this lady didn't get more focus.

>>23720673
A thread not up to specification.

>>23722979
In the Guyver: Out of Control (1986) OVA she got more focus on Guyver unit tentacles up her ass.

>>23723005
>not up to specification
Out of control?

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>>23719829
What is that disgusting thing?
Not my Guyver

>>23723152
>What is that disgusting thing?
Guyver.

>>23723189
>No bioarmor
>Ugly as sin
>Itty bitty titties
>Megasmasher? more like lil'bumper
It's a Dudever at best

>>23719829
Why does it have both inverted tits and protruding nipples at the same time?

>>23723200
>>23723209
Interestingly, the brand producing this is Max Factory, owned by Max Watanabe, the same guy who's been producing Guyver garage kits, merchandise, and toys since the 80's.

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>>23723852
That is cool. But I think the american version looks cooler.

>>23723863
Steve Wang is Chinese (Taipei, Taiwan). He also worked on Predator with Stan Winston, though, so he's a practical effects genius.

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Just got caught up. Aptom is such a fucking Bro. He reminds me of Bandou from Elfin Lied (manga).

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Guyver Zoanoid, is it mecha?

>>23723914
2 is so boring up to the halfway point then it becomes probably the best Wester toku we’ll ever fucking see. The way that design incorporates 3’s colors and spikes, 2s defective control medal, but is still wholly unique is unironically inspired.

The age old question, Anons. Would you get tentacle raped for super powers?

>>23723988
I really like the random head twitch from the damaged control metal.

>>23723882
>Steve Wang is Chinese
Wang being foreign born has no relevancy on the movies being American productions. Ergo that version is the American version.

>>23724180
Yeah it’s great. In general the guyver’s sound design in the live action movies is imo even better than either anime adaptation. The voice modulation and strange bug-like clicks are peak.

>>23723852
I never knew they did this. Cool that they did, but the one they used for the movie works better as a practical suit.

>>23723852
>SPCIAL THANS TO TOKUMA SHOTEN.MAX•WATANABE
Shout out to Max Watanabe again. Dude must be the biggest Guyver fan of all time (he also invented a GunPla painting technique named after him, the 'MAX technique').

>>23719829
Of all the things I like about Guyver (besides the peak aesthetics) it’s the story’s commitment to making Kronos an ever present threat that I think is most unique. It’s something I always pine for in things like kamen rider but they never effectively deliver. Kronos controls everything, it covers up murders, it almost instantly identifies shou and pursues him so relentlessly that he has to drop out of high school and abandon his old life. Shocker and Golgom do sort of similar things but they’re too afraid of upsetting the status quo to really follow through. Even apart from the big scary monsters, you really get a feeling from the story of what an impossible task opposing Kronos really is.

>>23723904
Aptom had quite the character arc, huh?

>>23719852
Snaaaaaaaake!

>>23724652
Very well. Steve Wang is great and I don't mean to denigrate him in any way. He directed a really fun movie with Mark Dacascos called 'Drive (1997)' that randomly includes scenes from an awesome fake TV show called 'Walter the Einstein Frog'.

>>23727639
>Steve Wang is great and I don't mean to denigrate him in any way
Didn't interpret as though you were. I honestly wish he could get the rights to do a third Guyver film. He's said he wants to do it and has had a script ready for it that he's very proud of but can't because whatever company that owns the film rights (if forget which one) ain't interested in playing ball with him. It does make me wonder how much of it would be based on what arc from the comic. Even though the second film detracts from the comic story more than the first, you can still tell what arc he took inspiration from. I can't help but wonder if he did something similar with that script or just went off on his own thing. Which I wouldn't blame him if he did considering the comic is unfinished and there's a lot that he never even had the chance to touch. The extent of Chronos and how long it's existed, the other Zoalords, the Hyper Zoanoids, other Guyvers, Archanphael, the Engineer's true intentions for mankind and why they abandoned Earth, Appallon. Shitloads of stuff. Wang had a lot he could've played with and made some cool shit out of.

>>23727639
Oh yeah, also David Hayter has a cameo in Drive.

>>23727662
I would've wanted to see a Guyver Zoalord.

>>23727670
I'd kinda they didn't. It'd feel like they blew their load in that regard with Crane. And Crane died largely due to outside interference. If a Zoalord got one, a proper functioning one, there'd be no chance unless they introduce the Gigantic. But even then you don't need a Guyver Zoalord for that. Just have Balkus be the weakest of them (he almost basically was the american version of Guyot) and have the others much more powerful and less giant monster-ry. And besides, if you go by the comic story, the whole reason why Chronos wants a guyver is so that Archanpheal can use it since it cancels out the Engineers telepathic commands.

>>23727680
My point is I want to see Steve Wang's Guyver Zoalord. He's very creative so it would probably be fucking awesome (and absolutely nothing like a theoretical Takaya Guyver Zoalord).

>>23727702
>My point is I want to see Steve Wang's Guyver Zoalord
I know. That's what I was talking about.

https://twitter.com/oricon_anime_/status/2016385768026214906
Rest in peace, Kozo Shioya, Tetsuro's original seiyuu.

>>23723990
I get super powers too??

The OVA has some of the best background music of all time.

https://hjweb.jp/article/2522291/

Sex with Griselda

>>23728154
>>23728155
What is that, a Transformer or a metallic bluish Gundam?

>>23719829

is that the gale hound guyver kit? is 3 coming out with it?

>>23728278
>is that the gale hound guyver kit?
It's Guyver. A mecha for 4chan.org/m/

>>23728072
https://youtu.be/7WHPT-zE1hI
One of the interesting things about Guyver is that Sho Fukamashi's life is horrific. His friends being abducted by Chronos, having to kill his own father. You might think you want to be Clark Kent or Peter Parker or Bruce Wayne but you can't possibly want to be some innocent kid with a Guyver unit. You're marked for extermination and the extermination of everyone you care about. Being a Guyver is the antithesis of the superhero trope.

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>>23727706
If you like Guyver: Dark Hero you should watch Cyber Ninja (AKA Mirai Ninja AKA Future Ninja) directed by Keita Amemiya. It's on this unfortunately now very expensive DVD set: https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-Collection-1-Yuen-Biao/dp/B001DM37U4 the main character, Shiranui, is so fucking cool (a dead samurai made into a cyborg), and the main antagonist, Shoki, is also so fucking cool. Shoki get's killed about half way through the movie then gets resurrected at the end to continue being so fucking cool. I'm pretty sure Steve Wang was inspired by Keita Amemiya (he directed many toku tv shows and movies).

>>23728072
>>23728420
The chick in the OVAs death is one of the most disturbing in anime

>>23728406

....you ok?

>>23728155
It's so damn ugly...

>>23728155
>>23719829
>we want the Ironman audience

>>23728717
>....you ok?
Yes. Thanks for the (You).

>>23728522
I'm a little surprised Out of Control is on YouTube uncensored, with all the nudity and the woman being anally raped by the Guyver unit and having an orgasm.

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>>23719829
I don't mind the idea of a more conventional, techy redesign of the armor, but I dislike how overly boxy it is. I also dislike much it reminds me of Sentinel's Fighting Armor Iron Man, which was also an overly boxy redesign of a streamlined suit.

>>23729116
I agree that the Titanomachia Guyver looks off but I like that Ironman.

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40th anniversary exhibition in march. don't get your hopes up but be grateful that this series is still acknowledged.

https://x.com/official_MXF/status/2017145759767171519

>>23732112
Will Takaya be there?
Can someone finally confirm he is even alive?

What a fucking shame to just let this series die in the 4th quarter. I'd finish it for him if he gave me his script.

>>23732190
He's been sighted so he's definitely alive. He also had a message in the Max Factory guyver exhibition last year. He didn't comment on the manga

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>>23732463
I drew this a long time ago.

I wish I stuck around for the Guyver dump on /a/. Those threads were fun.

>>23733973
I finished the manga from those threads. It was nice.

>>23733980
Well you didn't since the manga itself isn't finished.

>>23733994
You know exactly what I meant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I8P4_svjZk

I'm pretty convinced that there's one guy on 4chan that talks to himself about guyver across any board he can, but I don't even mind because I love guyver so much

Anyway Steve Wang announced a 4k remaster of dark hero so get ready to see those awesome suits in HD for the first time

>>23739654
Oh shit

>>23728522
It's one of the series' most iconic moments. A Guyver host dying because the suit starts eating them and they get Mega Smasher mercy killed comes up in every single adaptation.

>>23723200
>>23723226
It's literally a crossover with an existing plamo based line. That's why he looks so different.

>>23739654
>4k remaster of dark hero
That sounds really terrible. I'll try to trust Steve Wang's judgement, because he's an underrated genius, but I love the CRT TV, VHS version.

>>23736305
>>23742083
Stop posting Gigantic. Gigantic fucking sucks.

>>23743048
Literally blinded by nostalgia

I really want to see if Alky can actually find the Uranus. What an interesting impossible setup

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>>23743048
As long as it doesn't screw with the framerate, remastering it in 4k shouldn't be an issue. It'll just mean the picture quality will be in greater resolution. You'd probably still be able to watch it on a CRT television and it'd look just fine.

>>23739319

Terrible, and they definately touched up the release on home media because it was bad looking digislop when it first came out.

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>>23720673

An upcoming Kotobuykia kit collab with Guyver, based on their existing Gale Hound powered armor model kit.

>>23725310

Cronos really does a lot of good... And its only when parts of Cronos start to go rogue that shit really going sideways... And the Guyvers have to clean it up and still take the blame.

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>>23743055

No. It is you, the one that sucks.

>>23743048
how can you even try and claim this is a bad thing

>>23743055
It's been a long while since I read the manga. What sucks about the Gigantic?

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>>23745330
i'm actually kinda partial to the iron man design, gives this idea of an organization that doesn't have access to the Bio tech that Kronos has. The best of cutting edge tech still has this " built from scraps in a cave" comparison to the actually guyver. it's trying it's best .
>>23745339
could i get some figma zoanoids good smile/max factory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djs2yQpoRWE

>>23754337
Would have been a decent look for 2F, but Cronos entire schtick is biotech so that would be contrary to the whole point

While I'd kill for another live action attempt at Guyver, Hollywood would want in on it, and modern Hollywood overthinks the stupidest shit, they'd probably think audiences wouldn't buy the idea of Kronos or the Guyver units

>>23758351
Japan has a live action industry

>>23758357
Though, they've given up on body horror stuffs, so Guyver will be out of question

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>>23758357
We had toku guyver already

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>>23758358
>Shinya Tsukamoto Guyver series never ever

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>>23728072
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO0eYB-68_M

I absolutely love this song from the Guyver soundtrack.

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I am probable the only person here that like Guyver II's design.

>>23758440
It's fine but it's more a mismash of other guyver parts.

>>23758351
Oh for sure they'd slather lots and lots of irony into it because for some reason, American film & TV writers can't do serious unless it's about "mental health" or whatever and last I checked Guyver was a pretty grim story

>>23758351
>>23758533
That's only under the assumption that it'd be a major studio to do it. So far in the west the only entity who actually has an interest at doing it is Steve Wang. And if he got the film rights from Shueisha, or whoever owns the film rights, back you can bet he'd do it independently like he did the first two times. Only now he'd probably be able to put in a bigger budget since it's a lot easier to get crowdfunding these days as opposed to the 90s when it didn't even exist.

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>>23758440
I like 2's anime version. The color and the shape of the blades are cool

>>23758351
>they'd probably think audiences wouldn't buy the idea of Kronos or the Guyver units
Kronos is a megacorp conglomerate that has influence to cover up it's more nefarious endeavors and the Guyver Units are ancient alien technology that makes the user an unstoppable killing machine, how incapable are you of suspending your disbelief on those basic ideas?

The thing I'd be concerned about is some executives thinking the Guyver suit needs to be full on tactical armor when it's supposed to ostensibly be a biological weapon rather than a full tech one

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For me it's 0. I really like that high collar

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I really want to see how the plot is supposed to play out from here
>How the fuck is he going to FIND the Uranus in the first place, much less reach them
>Even if he does, they'll be millions of years more advanced than he remembers, how does he expect his outdated zoanoids to contend with whatever they've come up with or evolved into since then?
>Assuming they Uranus even still exist at all, which he has no proof of
>Wouldn't Sho and Agito be totally cool with helping them with this plan, since it means Cronos would just fuck off from Earth and leave them alone?
>Who is Apollyon? Best guess from me is Imakarum working secretly for Alk

>>23758578
You'd be surprised, there are people out there with an autistic obsession over their fiction (especially Genre fiction) being as realistic as possible (you can thank Christopher Nolan & the Game of Thrones guys for that btw) because anything "too out there" breaks their "immersion" or whatever.

Those same people would absolutely nitpick the idea of Kronos being around for centuries and nobody finding out about it before the present and never shut up about it either, they'd also want detailed over explaining of how the Units worked

>>23758591
>they'd also want detailed over explaining of how the Units worked
you not read any of the datafiles?

>>23758578
Blue Beetle showed a bio armor suit can be done, I don't recall anyone bitching about it

>>23758572
>>23758440
no i absolutely love lisker's guyver ii. I like the yellow and how it has the dented core medal. Its a good design and i hope we get a figure of it.

>>23758381
Guyver's got some good vocal songs as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVYWrY-Rjpo

does this count?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RkY3zT-_WI

>>23760380
Sure, why not

>>23758579
Loving the eyes.

>>23758440
Why would other people not like Guyver II's design?

>>23719829
Wait... Didn't the mangaka give up on the series after his assistant passed away?

>>23770233
Yeah.

>>23752272
?????

>>23775514
What are you confused about?

https://hjweb.jp/article/2585538/

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>>23771893
this is cool. is it your cel anon?

also pic related is probably the best piece of anime merch i've ever seen. i imagine the resale value of this on yahoo japan will be nuts

https://twitter.com/official_MXF/status/2030925540107153558
Guyver merch.

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WHERE THE FUCK IS MY CONCLUSION TAKAYA YOU BIG FUCKING NERD

>>23777036
In never-ever land.

https://hjweb.jp/article/2575529/

If the last volumes were anything to go by, the next chapter would have been 90% establishing shots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EDPS_PX7Gg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT-tgKQqIIA
Plamax.

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Today I will remind them

https://twitter.com/official_MXF/status/2033477120220168197
Guyver expo.

>>23782781
>been lookin high, been lookin low
>but where it is i just dont know
>gonna make you cry, gonna make you sang
>cuz i WANT that guyvin, jivin thang
>BOIIIII

>>23782781
killing Jimmy Walker by shoving dynamite into his chest is comedy genius

>>23783227
Walker's character didn't die. In fact, he was the ONLY antagonist character who didn't die. He literally gets the final line in the film.

>>23783644
wtf now I have to rewatch Guyver
but they at least did the fucking joke of shoving DY-NO-MITE into him
you ain't gonna mandela that shit from me

>>23783647
>but they at least did the fucking joke of shoving DY-NO-MITE into him
That was his line. That was the last line of the film. They literally waited until the last actual minute of the film to do the dy-no-mite joke.

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https://twitter.com/666nao999/status/2033879374135791947
From the artist of the GGG vs Betterman manga.

I decided to check out the 2005 anime. I'm about 1/3 the way through, and it's kinda based so far.

Does guyver have any good stopping points? I hate cliffhangers.

>>23729689
The colors give me steam punky vibes for these two

https://twitter.com/official_MXF/status/2035174557578129635
Guyver 40th anniversary.

>>23787444
The end of story arcs always end in some kind of cliffhanger/with things still to be wrapped up to be honest. but you could stop after volume 8, the the first chapter of volume 10, or the end of volume 25 if you really wanted to.

if you want the bad ending another option is to also stop after the first chapter of volume 9 when chronos takes over the world

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https://twitter.com/aws49T8EvYnPX7U/status/2035904672440222203

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>>23787444

The first 6 episodes of the 12 episode OAV are what I call the "perfect" Guyver movie. Lots of action, great music and it ends on a great place, leaving things open, but no cliffhangers.

All of which can be found on youtube.

>>23792851
Part 2 dipped in quality but I still liked it
The music was phenomenal

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I just finished the 2005 Guvyer anime dubbed. Despite it ending on a cliffhanger, I would recommend you give it a try. It's based.

>>23793933
Glad to hear you enjoyed it.

>>23787425
YAMI NO NAKA DE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMy0-SKaDN8

>>23758440
Nah he’s sick. The asymmetricality and angrier eyes do a great job of subtly making him more threatening than Shou without diverging too greatly or dipping into edgelord territory like 3.

>>23798640
Kinda sick of the anti-edge carebear generation ngl
Agito is badass and always will be

>>23798760
Yeah nothings high T like discussing anime characters

Purely by shape language Guyvers biomech aesthetic is all smooth tapered lines. Adding random spikes makes 3 look like a puffer fish. I like zero best.

>>23719829
I swear, didn't there used to be some issue where translations and scans were hoarded away by a scanlator group that'd refuse to distribute them without proof of ownership of the original volumes, and would blacklist anyone that'd leak them

>>23803891
Yes, it did

>>23796140
What happened to his hands?

>>23793933
Based on what?

>>23803891
Yep, Guyver Advocacy. Some based anon on /a/ was like "fuck those faggots" and did a big Guyver storytime.

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The 12 episode OVA voice actor of Sho.

>>23809214
wow i fucking love Supercampeones

>>23792961
>>23792851
Murakami is my favorite character of Part 2.

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>>23803891

Yeah. They claim it was about trying to give back to the creator or some shit... But really, they were just pissed about people uploading their scanlations to the big sites... So they kept the last couple volumes that had been released. it got so dumb that they would also charge people for a volume a "buy" one themselves to "support" the creator. It got pretty scammy before they exploded the site and someone else took over.

Eventually someone else finished the remaining volumes publicly.

>>23807177

Surprisingly, no one ever actually released them until after when the original person in charge uploaded them to their own site... But they did that long after the volumes had been done by someone else. The ones used there were the other fan translated ones.

I still hope that someone better goes and redoes the old volumes... The Advocacy's translations were pretty bad until the later volumes when they got someone better.

>>23814518
Hi matt

>>23814518
> I still hope that someone better goes and redoes the old volumes... The Advocacy's translations were pretty bad until the later volumes when they got someone better.

I know how much some anons hate localizations, but I kind of wish there was enough market demand for VIZ Media to regain the Guyver license. I’m pretty sure they can do better than Guyver Advocacy. They gave FotNS a 2nd chance, so what is VIZ waiting for, a new Guyver manga chapter for the first time in about a decade?