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Data 6: Terminal Battle - The Fall of Chronos Japan

To say this was underwhelming would be incorrect.

Because see, I expected this ending to be stupid. And it was! However, it's noteworthy in just how much it fails on practically every level.

On a narrative level, the way Sho is brought back to life is a total cop out. Even moreso in how Agito somehow knew it work, when Agito became Guyver III at practically the same time that Sho became Guyver I.

Ontop of that, Sho is robbed of basically any and all narrative importance. Agito is the one with the major beef towards the big bad, and is also the one leading the charge for the majority of the episode. Heck, when the Guyver unit is on autopilot, it even fights way better than Sho ever did.

On a character level, the end result is that Sho, once the best part of the first movie, is basically nothing more than a background element in the story named after his superhero alter ego. And it's not just him either. Was Mizuki a damsel in distress originally? Sure, but you know what, atleast she was directly involved in everything. Here she's barely been a thing.

It made the moment where Mizuki wakes Sho up by calling out to him ring incredibly hollow, given that their relationship has been given almost no focus at all. I would've sooner believed it if Tetsuro had been the one who got through to the berserk Guyver. And make no mistake, I still can't stand Tetsuro all throughout this. It's just that his usual shtick is stolen by Guyver III here in the finale. That's slightly better, I guess?

So as you might guess, I was not a fan of this OVA overall. And that's not me saying the first movie was anything incredible, but it was alot tighter and better focused than this was atleast. But sadly I'm not totally done yet, given that there's a second OVA that serves as a sequel...