Disturbing Anime - Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor

[@Kuriatis]

I still love Guyver, it was probably my first "shonen" anime and manga. The lore and the build up was great. That Takaya has put the series on hiatus while he becomes a dentist kills me.

[@broEye1]

Not too surprising though. The guy had it running for three DECADES. Just *working* as a mangaka for three decades is insane. These guys work stupid long hours on the material itself just to meet deadlines, and have to spend even more time on research. It's easy for an author to either burn out or just quit and move on to something else. It's no coincidence that a number of popular manga and light novels simply stop because the authors died. Even if they don't die directly from fatigue, chances are that their health and immunity was compromised by their stress levels along with the difficulty of maintaining health on the sort of pay most of them get. The dude's in his sixties now, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he simply doesn't have it left in him. At this point, I feel like the best we could hope for is for him to write up a thorough outline of the remainder of the plot then select a successor to finish it.

[@Gakido117]

guyver was my first exposure to anime outside of DBZ and sailor Moon in the 90s. I still love it, I wish it finished.

[@broEye1]

At this point, it'd probably need a new author working off of notes/outlines provided by Takaya. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, or unheard of.

[@ct387ct387]

Yea mines too, along with ronin warriors!

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Guyver and I go way back times of Blockbuster. I rented the CRAP outta them til the store just gave them to me! Can't share how much I love the OVA( Out of Control)& OVA series and even the 2005 Reboot series! Whether its the amazing armor designs,zoranoid designs or the fantastic storytelling! Guyver still holds up as a great series...though I'm hoping we'll get more from it in the future...someday...

[@jamespaguip5913]

Guyver deserves more love

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Just a heads up on some Guyver facts to a fellow fan! * Steve Blum played Guyver 3 in the original OVA series plus its redub!❤ *Female Guyver 2 (and all of her tentacles merged glory you'd be crazy to show) gets reintroduced in the manga! Making her finally Canon! * Guyvers OVA series was at 1st, 6 episode and was produced in the late 80s by LA Hero/US Renditions. It was thanks to fan support that the further 6 episodes got produced and was thanked by Animerica Magazine in the end credits!❤ * The Manga video version of Guyver was a re-release of the earlier OVA series, but with a redub of the voices( with the original dub cast for the most part),also with a new intro and closing song( your results may vary...i prefer the original japanese versions!) * ADV Films release of the 2005 Guyver series pay nods to the original Ova series thanks to the crew being fans; right down to a British accented narrator "On The Next Episode" being played by a woman instead of a man!

[@killrodx]

I had no idea they were able to continue the OVA as I remember watching the first 6 episodes way back when. Thanks for sharing these!

[@leonardojuan92]

If Guyer is a metal deconstructed version of Kamen rider. Then Reject Rangers is basically a Punk rock deconstruction of Power Rangers/Super Sentai.

[@alfan0079]

there are so many deconstructed version of kamen rider, metal heroes or henshin hero in anime/manga. 1. apocalypse zero 2. Zetman 3. Tiger and Bunny 4. Metallic Rouge 5. Junk (manga) 6. Kamuya Ride 7. Sadamichi The Destroyer etc

[@jamespaguip5913]

You forgot tekkeman blade

[@alfan0079]

ah yeas tekkaman blade and detonator orgun were ones of the deconstructed metal heroes anime. @@jamespaguip5913

[@jamespaguip5913]

@@alfan0079 you forgot to mention tekkeman blade

[@KulveTarothsNightGown]

'guyer' 🤣 bro went from the most badass name ever to 'just a guyer' hahahahaha

[@abehemothbeast866]

Thank you for the content dude :), watched the 90's as a kid and loved the 2000's anime when i was older, the 90's is a love letter to Guyver universe as a whole :) every observation and comparison you have made is spot on too dude :)

[@420gunnyinc]

Yes!!!!! One if my all time favorite animes.

[@orangsimpgulakov3658]

remember seeing the elbow swords as a kid thinking it was sick and thankfully found this video because I couldn't find it anywhere!

[@DominusNox106]

I have loved Guyver since I was a kid in the late 80s early 90s. Guyver was awesome for it's time and a story that has been alot of fun. My personal favorite thing about it is that once you bond with it, it is always just behind you, waiting for you to call it forth.

[@guyver6622]

Guyver the xenomorph power armor!!!😮

[@MrDarksol]

Man, I STILL wish the OVA series finshed because god do I love the Guyver world. Same with the 2010 series even though I find it to be a bit too clean at times, at least it did kind of finish. And damn it, after meeting David Hayer years ago, now I want to watch the second live action movie again. First that one video talking about this series and now this is making me want to go back.

[@guyver6622]

My favorite superhero!!! 😊 Guyver

[@ryanjdevlin87]

In 1998 I made my first website at 11 years old. A fansite of every image I could find of Sho and the Guyver :) Im now 37 and still love this series just as much :)

[@emmetfeely7760]

Marvelous, simply marvelous. You outdid yourself Big Man. I always prepared Akira Fudo and Sho Fukamachi over the modern day anime protagonists (No offence to Shinji Ikari, but really his mother and father are both horrible people, poor kid is cursed.) A big fat missed opportunity to feature Guyver in SRW Cross Omega and fuse it's story with both Tekkaman Blade and Detonator Orgun. 3:18-3:43-4:19-15:48 Fun Fact: In the Japanese version, when Enzyme tears out the Control Metal, Guyver I makes it look like he's grunting in pain, whereas in the dub, Sho is screaming his bloody lungs off like his head is about to be tear off. 3:59-4:07 Yes Micah, let your' hate flow, but take a page from Garth Ennis and aim it at Seed's head writer Fukuda for the horrible mistreatment of the voice actors on set.

[@AmartharDrakestone]

"You couldn't do it to Spider-Man" - Yes they could. And they did. In The Other event during the JMS run. Peter got brutalized. Of course they brought him back almost immediately after his death, but that was also the case with Sho in the Guyver.

[@BigMicahC]

This is true. I actually forgot about The Other. Good catch!

[@jamespaguip5913]

@@BigMicahC their is a video game adaption of Guyver made by g illusion studios.

[@kyo0133]

@@BigMicahC i guess you have to read the manga make by fan translate. the one i found have alread 200 chapter for it.

[@nentash8566]

My grandma bought a Guyver vhs back in about 1996 for us, i am pretty sure she had no idea there was such a thing as animation for adults so she just assumed it was a cartoon for the kids (somehow not seeing the 18 age rating) and so this was the very first exposure to Anime that i ever had as a tiny 7-8 year old kid, i didn't really understand what was happening in it being as young as i was but i loved watching it all the same :) Now as a mid 30s year old man i have seen countless anime, and this was the 1st.

[@justin1796]

The Guyver live action movie was my first experience with anime when I was kid. I freaking loved it and I saw on basic cable from TNT Monstervision, I miss Joe Bob Briggs. I didn't know anything about Japan other than history class. I did the same thing at the video store with passing up the The Guyver OVAs thinking they were just a cartoon version of the movie. I was in my 20's when I finally watched the anime. Fantastic.

[@skotyb]

Love The Guyver. We need a new reboot that goes further into the manga!

[@byronjordan8424]

Grew up watching the Guyver in the 90’s but officially got my attention when I thought I heard Armored Core music in the background. 😅

[@guencaelin9590]

I've watched the Mid-2000s anime a few times now. I'm gonna have to look for all the other animations, even the crappy ones, but I'm a sucker for all things Guyver.

[@mattmaddogwheaton4724]

That's just me thinking out loud here, but Archanfel is one of the best main villains in all of anime and tokusatsu.

[@FinalShineInc]

Agree

[@Hero-For-Hire]

The 89-92 run of Guyver and the Fist Of The Northstar movie were probably the first animes I ever saw. I would always rent something off the anime aisle everytime we went to Video Warehouse. I had already seen all that and stuff like Wicked City, Akira, Vampire Hunter D, & MD Geist multiple times before I hit puberty

[@ViralPhoenix]

My intro to anime was the was the last episode of the OVA series when I was 4. It really had me hooked on anime as a kid, and it was the first time I ever saw animated nudity 😂.

[@guyver6622]

The alien race that created the Guyver and the human race is called the advents or the Uranus.

[@nexusofice9135]

I was so sad the remake never got renewed. They left it at such a cliffhanger again. They had a chance to bring it further.

[@The_Mechanic_Dad]

Guyver is the real deal

[@langbo9999]

The intro is freaking cool 👍🏻

[@chatika_c]

I grew up with this anime. Watched it everyday on VHS since I was 5 and up to 11 years old xD Probably messed me up a bit lol None of my friends liked it and all of them looked at me weirdly after I gave them the tape, so it was just me and my brother in the fan club. Couple years ago we got shitfaced and watched it again, had the best time of my life :D

[@DurtyDan]

I did watch the early 2000s series! Blew my mind

[@lucasbechtol4126]

Alwaysblove finding another Guyver fan. It too often gets shot down as simply for being "too much like Power Rangers."

[@Darthvegeta8000]

Guyver rocks. I wish they would release the manga over here.

[@vulcan6926]

God Guyver is so fricking awesome. I remember being like 11 and seing the vhs box (for the 1989 series) at my local video store. I was barely getting into dragonball z and watched the live action movie so im like hey cool it. It was so Brutal and so cool. I recently bought bootleg dvds of the 1989 series cuz the real ones are dumb expensive.

[@CaptNightflash]

If an author gets tired of their series, fine, I respect that. Burn out is real. But "permanent hiatus" is bullshit. If you aren't going to finish the story, hand it off to someone who will actually get the job done.

[@52leveler]

i was tryign so hard to find this show, both it and the movie, it was so hard when it falled into the power ranger category that it got buried, but i recall it how brutal it was.

[@striderreborn1467]

This isn't much of a spoiler, but I do find it fascinating that the Zoanoids provide an explanation of why certain monsters and creatures from the many myths and legends throughout humanity's history exist.

[@jamespaguip5913]

I wish Guyver has a continuation after the Guyver 2005 maybe season 2.

[@UsedGames]

I am the only one i know that knows and loves this anime. I hope they release a guyver video game since they released a ufo grendizer game

[@DragonStar524]

Guyver I feel has more in common with Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue. Since Kamen Rider Shin has the only body horror transformation, and he fights enemies that can do the exact same thing. And there is plenty of limb cutting and blood to go with the more gritty nature.

[@einbrecht6600]

I have the physical DVD collection for the 2000 series. Something really great about them? They came with Zoanoid data sheets in the form of booklets. A nice little extra that made me rather happy. Yeah the manger being on hiatus is something that inspires great disappointment in me. Hunter x Hunter is also on hiatus which is frustrating. Though Miura passed, he did at least(apparently_ leave comprehensive notes for his assistant to take over. So we may get a proper ending for the story of Guts.

[@SeikenZ]

I just realised that the Chronos soldiers at 7:20 look a lot like the Shinra soldiers from Final Fantasy 7. The pauldrons, helmet, wristguards and a similar colour scheme... This was the first anime I watched as a kid and I have played Final Fantasy 7 plenty of times, but I only noticed this now for some reason... 😅

[@brianjordan3841]

I prefer to call Guyver 3 by his chosen name Zeus it’s very ironic given how he wants to take down the Kronos Corporation similar to Greek mythology

[@FinalShineInc]

Im 40. When i was about 10 or 11 someone rented the movie "ghost in the machine" the best part of the vhs tape was the guyver dark hero trailer. I found it watched it, loved it. THEN. i moved to another state and at the new video shop i found the guyver anime and thats how i got bit by the bug

[@loppi9710]

2000s series is one of those anime that you need to watch dubbed, like yu yu hakusho or dragon ball

[@dsvd4727]

General consensus on wtf is Takaya is doing right now isn't determined. Theories are: he is back to being dentist; his assistant died and he got depressed(far out and no proofs). But these are just speculations, he remains silent and nobody has a clue, at least in the west. Apparently was spotted last march (2023) at kamen rider event with Max Watanabe. Guyver is far more influential than it gets credit for.

[@178laaleros]

Guyver is awesome deserves more attention and love

[@itsdantaylor]

If you want a great example of another 90's OVA somewhat Biopunk (there's like ESP and stuff too) that like Guyver, was also introduced to me by blockbuster, check out Baoh the stranger. A ova based on a short lived manga series by the creator of JoJo's bizarre adventure.

[@EnigmaHood]

Saw the movie, it was ok, didn't really grab me though, was a little bored by it. You should do a review of the Battle Angel OVA, it was excellent! Could follow it up with a review of the live action movie, it was good, and did the OVA and manga justice.

[@Sethasss]

i see Guyver i think McGuyver :D

[@jtfbreedlove]

The manga is kinda back, the release schedule is still unpredictable though.

[@jovanleonardi1574]

This genre is called hyper violence in america wicked city demon city and even ninja scroll all fall into genre. Had to edit and add two obvious entries I failed to list md geist and fist of the north star

[@A_YouTube_Commenter]

All of those are classics.

[@GreenPhoenix91]

Tokusatsu is live action special effects the correct genre term you're looking for is Henshin Hero or Transforming hero as this is a subgenre of the superhero genre.

[@kaioken654]

I had no idea it was a Japanese anime for the longest time, I only knew the guyver from watching the American live action movie that has mark hamill in it

[@thewolf01x95]

Guyver = best superhero ever

[@jamespaguip5913]

@BigMicahC I have good news their is a Guyver biobooster armor video game made by g illusion studios.

[@MrJakku26]

The voice acting in the og is great if watch it subbed.

[@broEye1]

"Oddly enough got his start in porn". Spoken like someone who doesn't know near as much about manga authors as he thinks. Tons of the best manga authors started out as hentai authors, and lots of the most popular hentai authors go on to make some level of mainstream works. CLAMP started out writing Yaoi, for Pete's sake.

[@30dayofprogress10]

guyer is kinda like devilman

[@DominusNox106]

Also, check out Generator Gawl

[@alfan0079]

the 2005 series did great, after series of discontinued ovas

[@THE_TonyFielding]

Good vid. But I disagree. When I first saw that death in the original anime, my jaw dropped. I was not expecting it. So I would certainly say its a spoiler.

[@gtstv9547]

Netflix make a live one

[@SmedleyRudolf-w4k]

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[@MelvinWilson-k8v]

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[@nathanholton5335]

ATTN: BigMicahC! You got it wrong! This is, "The Guyver: Bio-Booster Armor," Anime mini-series from the late 1980's to early '90's, NOT "Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor," the rebboted OVA series from the mid-2000's that sucked so bad that it was cancelled after 1 season! Please don't mix the incorrect title from the crap reboot with the orig. OVA! You're reviewing the wrong Guyver OVA!!!

[@BigMicahC]

Curb Your Autism. All the Guyver anime get reviewed in this. You should watch videos before dropping long comments like this dude.

[@jamespaguip5913]

Guyver 2005 wasn’t even that bad it followed the manga very well it was just ok or just descent.

[@jamespaguip5913]

I agree that Guyver OVA is better but the Guyver 2005 followed the manga and also had the better story and character development and backstory.

[@skotyb]

Nerds like you are insufferable

[@Soulrollsdeep]

Imagine making a video entirely focused on moaning about an old Anime

[@BigMicahC]

I didn't. I made a video praising it.

[@skotyb]

Imagine commenting without watching

[@richardnelson26]

You def don’t appreciate/understand Guyver.

[@BigMicahC]

I do both. It's fantastic.

[@reorseX]

its disturbing how mid the 2005 version is

[@mikepanda117]

Grew up with this on vhs. Us release. Way too young for a starter anime