06-16-2005, 10:31 AM
I couldn't believe it as I haphazardly walked into this info. There is a new Guyver series to be aired this summer in Japan. For those of you that don't know the guyver started in the mid 80's as a Manga that is still going today and has reached 22 volumes. (Similar to Berserk in this way).
It tells the story of 17 year old High School student Sho Fukamachi who accidentally activates a Unit-G and is transformed into a biological armoured weapon. But the organization known as "Kronos" wants to get the unit back from Sho, and he is pitted into battle against mutating bio-weapons called "Zoanoids".
Up to now there has been a 1 part OVA during the 80's that seemed to take ALOT of liberties and just make up its own story. And there has been 2 6 part OVA series that follow on from each other. Although the 12 part series does a reasonable job of telling the Guyver story, there are alot of liberties taken with certain events/characters and alot of continuity issues to do with not following the manga fuly. Also the series does not reach a proper conclusion as it barely scratches the surface of the 22 part manga (which is still being made, it is currently at #22 in Japan). As well as the series suffering from terrible voice acting in the west and the second 6 episodes had a serious budget cut in animation, which is why the 1st series seriously surpasses it in this area.
As for the Manga, it was picked up by Viz some time ago but they only released 7 volumes and since then it has been on hiatus, although Viz do still own the rights to the english translation there is hope that they may pick it up again if this new series proves popular. (Although there is a place that is translating a releasing the Mangas now, they are up to Volume 6, so if you are interested in this then pm me)
Anyway, here is a link to the official site
As you can see the characters have undergone a bit of a redesign. But are still recognizable, for any person even remotely interested in the Guyver this is very good news, and for fans this is exactly what you have been waiting for. Personally I can't wait for it
It tells the story of 17 year old High School student Sho Fukamachi who accidentally activates a Unit-G and is transformed into a biological armoured weapon. But the organization known as "Kronos" wants to get the unit back from Sho, and he is pitted into battle against mutating bio-weapons called "Zoanoids".
Up to now there has been a 1 part OVA during the 80's that seemed to take ALOT of liberties and just make up its own story. And there has been 2 6 part OVA series that follow on from each other. Although the 12 part series does a reasonable job of telling the Guyver story, there are alot of liberties taken with certain events/characters and alot of continuity issues to do with not following the manga fuly. Also the series does not reach a proper conclusion as it barely scratches the surface of the 22 part manga (which is still being made, it is currently at #22 in Japan). As well as the series suffering from terrible voice acting in the west and the second 6 episodes had a serious budget cut in animation, which is why the 1st series seriously surpasses it in this area.
As for the Manga, it was picked up by Viz some time ago but they only released 7 volumes and since then it has been on hiatus, although Viz do still own the rights to the english translation there is hope that they may pick it up again if this new series proves popular. (Although there is a place that is translating a releasing the Mangas now, they are up to Volume 6, so if you are interested in this then pm me)
Anyway, here is a link to the official site
As you can see the characters have undergone a bit of a redesign. But are still recognizable, for any person even remotely interested in the Guyver this is very good news, and for fans this is exactly what you have been waiting for. Personally I can't wait for it
