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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Needless to say I can see the cracks a bit more clearly and yet... I came out loving it even more somehow ha ha.

Isn't that just the best feeling? It's something I've noticed with the small handful of shows I've given a rating of 6/6, where even on rewatch, even if some flaws become more apparent, I still overall label them as minor and love it just as much as I did on the first viewing. It's a rare feeling, but it bring such a sense of joy and comfort that I personally find hard to match. This show being very much inspired by Kikaider, one of my all time favorites, certainly helped with the feels when watching it.

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

While there have been a couple small things I'd change, the dub in general has been rather good.



Now she just needs to appear in season 2 of Futo PI!

Even better, a Borgman remake.

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By the way, DreamSword, here's something that you might like in case you missed it. The Japanese title is Sentai Daishikkaku but the English title is Go Go Loser Ranger.
The manga is drawn by the creator of The Quintessential Quintuplets. Think of it as a story that has a similar plot to The Boys but instead of a normal human it's a sentai villain combatant who goes against the douchebag sentai team. M.A.O aka Gokai Yellow aka Washi Pink voices the Pink Ranger of the show.

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Ah, yeah, I heard about this. Remind me whenever it's done airing, and I'll be sure to add it to the list!

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Ah, yeah, I heard about this. Remind me whenever it's done airing, and I'll be sure to add it to the list!

Sure thing. It started about a month ago so assuming they do just the first 13 eps for starters I think it will wrap up around July. And I just realized Keiichi Sato who worked on Tiger & Bunny is the director and they also casted the narrator/voice of the accellular from Boukenger as the announcer.

[DreamSword]

Guyver: Out of Control

Sho Fukamachi is your normal everyday kid. But unfortunately for him, he one day stumbles upon a mysterious metal object which soon bonds to him. This "Guyver" unit is what ends up pulling Sho into fight against the Zoanoids; A group of aliens bend on world domination. Can Sho defeat the invaders and save his girlfriend Mizuki while trying to make sense of his life getting turned upside down?

"Interesting" is probably the best word I could use to describe this movie.

Because it slots into a very specific sub-genre of anime history: That of the bio-horror influenced Tokusatsu hero show.

There were others floating around this time frame that I've seen: Detonator Orgun, Iczer, Tekkaman Blade. And while I liked all of those better, this wasn't bad.

Without doing any sort of direct comparison though, the first entry in the Guyver franchise comes out "okay." The animation? Okay. The action? Okay. The acting? Okay. The music? Okay. It all sort of just amounts to a very decent sit at the end of the day.

But if there's one major thing I took away from this past hour of my time, it was what a surprisingly human character Sho is. He's a scared kid, and many of his actions and reactions reflect that. But, over the course of the movie, when it comes time to stand up for the people he cares about, he does. While the arc itself is basic, it's the sort of thing that also makes him very likable.

Perhaps that's the key as to why Guyver ended up actually becoming a franchise. As otherwise, all I can think is that someone on staff must've been very passionate about the project. And I am very curious to see how this thing evolves going forward.

[DreamSword]

Data 1: Genesis of the Guyver

Sho Fukamachi is your normal everyday kid. But unfortunately for him, he one day stumbles upon a mysterious metal object which soon bonds to him. This "Guyver" unit is what ends up pulling Sho into fight against Chronos; A mysterious group that can create monsters known as Zoanoids bent on world domination. Can Sho defeat -- wait, this all sounds familiar.

Yeah, so, despite the original Guyver movie leaving itself open for a sequel, what instead followed was a six episode OVA that reboots and expands upon the story. And given it was dubbed, I assume this was alot of people's' first exposure to the Guyver franchise as a whole.

And lemme tell ya, the dub is the type of bad you just don't get anymore nowadays. It's a big reason as to why, despite this being my first foray into this franchise, this episode had me feeling rather nostalgic while watching it.

As for the contents of the episode itself, it's essentially just the opening act of the original movie, even following almost all of the same beats. Sure, some scenes are expanded upon, but not by a whole lot. The biggest differences being that the first attack now takes place in the woods(which makes more sense than out in the open road of the city), Sho is now paling around with his friend Tetsuro rather than his girlfriend Mizuki, and the second Zoanoid is now the leader of the grunt unit, rather than being the police chief.

Playing comparisons was a rather interesting thought exercise, as it's made clear that the people behind this did at the very least watch the original movie and considered ways on how to make it all flow a little better, and it makes me very curious as to why exactly they're going to take a one hour movie and stretch its story across six episodes. I could think of a few(we never got to learn who Guyver III was in the movie), but I'm just gonna wait and see.

The biggest downside to all of this is Sho's' new design. I do not like his new haircut at all. Given that Mizuki looks practically the same as she did in the original movie, it's a shame that they didn't go for a similar route with Sho. But it's an overall minor complaint.

It's a solid start, all things considered. And I look forward to seeing what they do from here.

[Androzani84]

I wish I could comment, but all I’ve seen of this franchise is the first live action movie.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheGuyver

[DreamSword]

Oh, I'm aware that exists. Still surprised that the guy who played Sho in that movie will be at one of Ranger conventions this year.

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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.