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Data 2: Battle of the Guyvers

Huh.

So this episode was pretty much the whole rest of the original movie but condensed into like 24 minutes.

It leaves me overall very confused and conflicted. Confused in that I have no idea how they've still got four episodes left in them at this point, and conflicted in that I didn't agree with alot of the changes made to the original movie.

While I felt most of the changes made to the original when it came to the first episode made sense, here, many of them seem pointless at best and detrimental at worst. Namely that Guyver II is changed from a woman to a man, thus eliminating a strong-willed woman from the cast, and how Tetsuro is acting as the strategist for Sho during the fight, thus removing alot of intuitiveness that Sho displayed in the original movie.

There are other little changes, like the back tumors now being established with Sho, or how the police are still Zoanoids in disguise but now generic ones. But they don't matter nearly as much as the ones previously mentioned. Though it's also a very odd choice at how Mizuki hasn't factored into anything yet.

And even if I weren't comparing to the first entry, this is a mini-series and not an OVA. You figure another Guyver would be saved for episode 3 at the earliest, rather than being the immediate next step, right? Because really, it's been established pretty quick that regular Zoanoids aren't much of a match for Sho. Raising the stakes from here is going to be rather tricky.

Overall, yeah. This one left me feeling rather off about the whole thing. But hey, maybe the next four episodes will surprise me.