thanks for your answer. however, i think you misunderstood my question or maybe iddn't ask it properly.
just incase, what i meant was - how can sho or agito suddenly become 1m taller? do they physically grow when the suit encases them? or did takaya simply have big guyvers for the sake of making an impression of the gigantics power?
if sho or agito do not grow inside the armor, how is it possible that a single thin layer of armor can give them an extra 1m of height.
i am compelled to believe that its simply a single layer of extra armor that should in theory only increase their height by about 20cm at most but also hinder the mobility of the hosts as the extra armor would stop their joints bending like the arms or toes.
i say this because in the novels, any time the gigantic armor retracts leaving the orignal guyver armor, its shown only as an extr alayer.
thanks for your answer. however, i think you misunderstood my question or maybe iddn't ask it properly.
just incase, what i meant was - how can sho or agito suddenly become 1m taller? do they physically grow when the suit encases them? or did takaya simply have big guyvers for the sake of making an impression of the gigantics power?
if sho or agito do not grow inside the armor, how is it possible that a single thin layer of armor can give them an extra 1m of height.
i am compelled to believe that its simply a single layer of extra armor that should in theory only increase their height by about 20cm at most but also hinder the mobility of the hosts as the extra armor would stop their joints bending like the arms or toes.
i say this because in the novels, any time the gigantic armor retracts leaving the orignal guyver armor, its shown only as an extr alayer.
anyhow - im gona go bed now
thanks for your time in this.
The gigantic upgrade is pretty good. When GI or GII is standing next to it, it is just as tall as them. It also enhances all their abilites. Meaning reflex speed goes from 40x to 100x that of a normal human to 80x-200x reflexe speed in Gigantic form. So hindered? I think not.
we're going in circles. ok what i mean is that the gigantic looks like an extra layer of armor. so therefore, it should barely make the host any taller. the normal guyver I (sho) stands at about 6.5foot tall (including headspike)
the gigantic stands at about 10foot - so we're looking at almost a whole mtr gain in height. also, when the gigantic unit is called and appears behind sho, it always looks much much taller.
so what im tyrign to ask is - why are they taller in gigantic form? do the hosts physically grow in size? the novel doesn't make it look like they grow in size since the armor is shown simply as an extra layer - and basing it on being an extra layer would theorectically mean the host is hindered in movement because there is less space between joints (and note i said in theory. i know in the novel they are definately faster etc etc)
so in a nutshell: do the hosts grow in physical size when inside the gigantic suit? if they do grow - why do they grow? if they don't grow, then why is the armor so tall? it would theorectically be impossible for the host to suddenly be so tall when in the gigantic armor unless they grew.
this is my question and this is why im so confused
guess we're both stuck there. its been bugging me cos takaya has done a great job making the whole series ars realistic as possible giving all the data along the way to explain why everythign is the way it is - n then he just goes and makes a guyver gigantic.
anyway, thank you for your help. it was much appreciated.
can't wait til we get more of the novel summaries.
I wish they had made the anime as long as the manga,
and a game would be totally awesome
the guyver has so much room for interpretation
you can have fighting games, adventures, rpgs
If I ever get to be a millionaire, I gonna
a) make sure the manga gets translated(into english )
b) make sure there is gonna be a anime
c) make sure that there are multiple games on every major console
but in the meanwhile I'll just keep waiting for Tsurumaru's next post
I wish they had made the anime as long as the manga,
a) make sure the manga gets translated(into english )
but in the meanwhile I'll just keep waiting for Tsurumaru's next post
I get no love.
If you look at my signature you can see how to buy The Guyver in English from Chuang Yi Publishing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edit: CYP has Guyver vol. 1-5 in English. They are still negotiating with Kadokawa to extend their contract in order to release vol. 6 and up.
Secondly, since The Guyver is so incredibly violent, it would have to be released as OVAs. Let's say an ova (6 eps) covers one graphic novel, there are 23 volumes to date, sooo..... that would be 138 episodes! O_O With 3 eps per DVD @ $30 = $1,380 w/o taxes.
I know I know
but I was a huge Guver fan back in the day and I have some of the volumes alraedy I actually read up untill they discontinued the series
btw can you imagine reading the new manga just in at the store
the reaching the final page a then finding a message saying it wil be put on indefinite hiatus
but thanx dude if they get the contract for more volumes I'll be the first to go get it
but how do you mean released in oav's???
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I get no love.
If you look at my signature you can see how to buy The Guyver in English from Chuang Yi Publishing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edit: CYP has Guyver vol. 1-5 in English. They are still negotiating with Kadokawa to extend their contract in order to release vol. 6 and up.
Secondly, since The Guyver is so incredibly violent, it would have to be released as OVAs. Let's say an ova (6 eps) covers one graphic novel, there are 23 volumes to date, sooo..... that would be 138 episodes! O_O With 3 eps per DVD @ $30 = $1,380 w/o taxes.
but thanx dude if they get the contract for more volumes I'll be the first to go get it but how do you mean released in oav's???
OAV/OVA = Original Animation Video or Original Video Animation. It is a direct to DVD release. It has a higher budget and better animation than stuff on TV. It is for series that are too mature, violent, etc to get on TV. And Guyver.... well GUyver is waaaaay too gory to ever get a TV series.
OAV/OVA = Original Animation Video or Original Video Animation. It is a direct to DVD release. It has a higher budget and better animation than stuff on TV. It is for series that are too mature, violent, etc to get on TV. And Guyver.... well GUyver is waaaaay too gory to ever get a TV series.
*Ahem* Elfen Lied, anyone? Now if EL managed to get on TV, I'm sure Guyver would too.
Wow. I thought Guyver was dead a long time ago. Glad to see it ongoing. Guyver was my childhood hero. If I can get my hands on raw manga scans, I'm sure my buddies and I can get together and translate it.
I seriously hope the guys in Japan re-animate Guyver, seeing how Ghost in the Shell and Area 88 did.
*Ahem* Elfen Lied, anyone? Now if EL managed to get on TV, I'm sure Guyver would too.
Wow. I thought Guyver was dead a long time ago. Glad to see it ongoing. Guyver was my childhood hero. If I can get my hands on raw manga scans, I'm sure my buddies and I can get together and translate it.
I seriously hope the guys in Japan re-animate Guyver, seeing how Ghost in the Shell and Area 88 did.
The Gigantic is well over two meters tall. If you look at the armor-up sequences, you'll see that Sho's and Agito's feet are just under the Gigantic's knees when it assembles around them.
I suspect that their bodies are actually being pretty badly distorted inside that thing--either their leg bones are in fact broken and regenerated, or made to bend, or maybe severely dislocated. As for the arms, they seem to be a bit undersized for the body in at least some shots. Hard to say though.
Stroke of luck: this past weekend I was in Santa Monica on vacation and discovered most of the post-15 widebans in a used manga store. 16-22, less only 19. And now I find out that they're being officially translated again...! Joy.
But I had plans... and maybe still do...
I'd been considering filling the void Viz left with outright scanslations--I've laboriously translated vol. 8 and started on 9. Now I'm wondering: should I keep going anyway? Any thoughts?
Last edited by Evil Midnight Lurker; 2004-12-15 at 16:11.
Stroke of luck: this past weekend I was in Santa Monica on vacation and discovered most of the post-15 widebans in a used manga store. 16-22, less only 19. And now I find out that they're being officially translated again...! Joy.
But I had plans... and maybe still do...
I'd been considering filling the void Viz left with outright scanslations--I've laboriously translated vol. 8 and started on 9. Now I'm wondering: should I keep going anyway? Any thoughts?
So you are planning to get the CYP guyver books then?
Yes, keep on translating! English Guyver fans everywhere would love you for it! ^_^
So you are planning to get the CYP guyver books then?
Yes, but probably not the first seven. Bad as Fred Burke's translation was, it's still a translation, and I don't need another that badly. Unless CYP's turns out to be really good, and as I'm finicky about some things (like how to spell characters' names) it may not qualify on that ground.
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Yes, keep on translating! English Guyver fans everywhere would love you for it! ^_^
Well, alrighty then. ^.^ Might as well start here--I'll post my translation of 8 and the first chapter of 9 behind a spoiler cut.
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BIO-BOOSTER ARMOR GUYVER
VOLUME 8:
THE BATTLE OF RELICS POINT
Translated by W. Samuel Ashley
Feel free to distribute this file as long as it is not altered
in any way. If you want to put it up on a Guyver-related
website, please email me at midnightlurker (at) hotmail (dot)
com, and I'll almost certainly give permission to do so.
A note on names:
In cases where Takaya's preferred English spelling of a name is
available (such as through the datafiles in the back of the
widebans), I usually use it in favor of any other version. In
some such cases more than one spelling is available--Purg'stall
versus Purukshuterl, for example--in which case I use whichever
one I like better (the former, in that case).
In the special cases where Takaya has drawn a name from history,
mythology, or fiction, I use the original spelling unless he's
altered it in some phonetic way. Examples:
-Hamilcar Barca was a real-world figure, a general of ancient
Carthage and the father of the more famous Hannibal. It is
obvious that the Doctor is not supposed to -be- Barca, as he's
only 400 years old, so I've gone with "Hamilcar Barcas" for him.
-The Isle of Silha, Archanfel's home, is based on a brief
description in the 16th-century fantastic travelogues of Sir
John Mandeville. (Amniculus comments on this at one point.)
-Waferdanos is similarly an island out of obscure Celtic
mythology. I'm not sure if the myth corresponds to Zoalord
Waferdanos's rather weird powers.
-In Jonathan Swift's -Gulliver's Travels-, during the third
voyage, Gulliver hears of an island named Luggnagg. Swift
actually made maps of his fictional lands, and on the map of
Luggnagg one can see a river and town named Clumeggnic. Thus
the bald, dark-skinned Zoalord should properly be named
Luggnagg de Clumeggnic...
Enough nitpickery, let's get on with it.
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Chapter 47
DEVIL'S CHOICE! THE FALSE BLACK HOLE!
[Dark clouds are gathering over Mount Minakami. On the summit, two
Kronos troopers guard a pop-up entranceway.]
Trooper A: Jeez--I sure don't like the look of that sky.
Trooper B: No kiddin'.
Trooper A: And they say lower-level duty's getting dangerous...
Relics Point's starting to creep me out! Think we should try for a
transfer to city work?
Trooper B: No way...
[Thunder rolls, and a huge bolt of lightning strikes the summit. The
goons are dazzled, and when their eyes clear a group of oddly-dressed
figures stand before them.]
Trooper A: Who--who are they?
Trooper B: Where the hell did they...
[Lightning strikes again, illuminating the newcomers... the nine
remaining Zoalords, the God Generals of Kronos. The troopers sink to
their knees in awe, possibly with a little zoa-powered nudge.]
LUGGNAGG de CLUMEGGNIC: So this is Mount Minakami... the Relics Point of
Japan?
EDWARD R. CAERLEON: Shouldn't Guyot be here?
FRIED'RICH van PURG'STALL: As I expected.
[Sin Rubeo Amniculus, Archanfel's second-in-command, looks down at the
mountain--a little surprised.]
CLUMEGGNIC: What is it?
SIN [puzzled]: It's odd... Gravity is being distorted here...
CABLARL KHAN: Yes, there's no mistaking it. I sense a vast accumulation
of energy beneath us...
PURG'STALL: What on earth...?
SIN: [looks pensive for a while, then shocked]: (No... it can't be -that-
...?!)
[Deep inside Relics Point, in the central shaft, Richard Guyot has just
unleashed his ultimate weapon against Archanfel; a vortex of gravity is
tearing the closest wall apart.]
GUYOT: How do you like it, Archanfel? Richard Guyot's creation, the
False Black Hole?!
[Archanfel, within his glowing barrier, is concentrating on the collapsar
before him. His suit isn't the least bit mussed yet, but he -is-
sweating.]
GUYOT: You can barely keep your barrier up! Is it usually that weak?
[In a nearby elevator, Doctor Hamilcar Barcas watches the duel in
dismay.]
BARCAS: (A--Archanfel...!!)
[The elevator begins to buckle, and the window shatters. As the car
itself is torn out of the shaft and sucked toward the Hole, Barcas bails
out, englobes himself in a barrier, and approaches Guyot from behind.]
BARCAS: CEASE AT ONCE, RICHARD!!
GUYOT: Heh... you think I'm going to quit -now-, old man?
I should thank you.
-You- gave me the greatest combat-power of all twelve Divine
Generals!
BARCAS: Thou wert not given power for thine own sake--!
Thou art but part of a greater purpose... one of Archanfel's
fangs...!
Think, man! Dost'a have the faintest idea what thou'rt doing?!
Thy use of that power on this planet calls thy sanity into question!
Why wouldst thou do such a thing?
Its unschooled use couldst destroy us all!
[Guyot ignores him.]
BARCAS: -Wait-, Richard!
Should it continue growth unregulated, thy -false- black hole ...
...wilt surely decay into an unstoppable -true- collapsar!
May'st already be too late-- thou must counteract it, now!
GUYOT: Heh... maybe you and the others can't handle it.
But I know I'm the greatest!
BARCAS: If -- if thou dost not neutralize it quickly...
GUYOT: ENOUGH! I'm not shutting this down until Archanfel's BURIED in
it!
Even if it does go critical, at least I'll take him with me!
BARCAS: ('Tis unbelievable!)
(To think Archanfel didst entrust this mooncalf with Relics
Point...)
(Nay... with this Earth entire, sin to be devoured by a black
hole...)
Thou shalt not survive either, Richard! DOST'A NOT UNDERSTAND?!
GUYOT: Dethroning Archanfel is the only option I have left! I'll stake
my future on it!
Will he be sucked in? Will the collapsar turn "real" and destroy us
all?
THIS DOESN'T END UNTIL ONE OF US DIES!
[Through all this, Archanfel has been silently concentrating on the black
hole. Now, though, he's got a problem: his force barrier is
destabilizing... and collapses completely! Archanfel's body distorts as
he's drawn toward the event horizon...]
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Chapter 48
RUMBLE IN THE BASEMENT! AND THEN...
[Archanfel continues on his downward spiral. Meanwhile, a mile or so
below, the Basement has other problems: a quake has struck, and the
walls around the Relic Ship are crumbling. Our heroes make a run for the
ship, taking a large crate with them.]
SUPERVISOR ODAGIRI: Move! The Basement may collapse any time now!
TETSURO: (Like we thought, the Relic's recharge is causing an
earthquake...)
[Sho addresses the group telepathically; apparently the Relic is boosting
his power so he can communicate even with non-Guyvers.]
SHO: I've had the Relic prepare a residential area for everyone.
You can take cover in here.
We're going to launch the moment the ship's recharge is complete!
[As the renegades enter the Relic observation dome, they immediately
notice something odd. All eyes turn ceilingward.]
ODAGIRI: What?! I feel...
[Shizu's hair begins to drift upward. At their feet, bits of rubble do
the same... Mizuki is the first to leave the ground, followed by the
others and even their crate.]
MURAKAMI: (Is -- is it... -him-...?!)
[On the surface, the stormclouds are beginning to spiral down to
Minakami. Trees on the summit are snapping in half and crashing to
earth; the two troopers from earlier are glued to the ground. The
Zoalords have no problem; Cablarl is still hovering above the others.]
CLUMEGGNIC [still smiling, but nervous]: What could create this
incredible gravitic force?!
SIN: It's Guyot.
PURG'STALL: Guyot? Certainly he's the most powerful "gravity tamer" of
the Twelve...
But do you really think he could create a force this strong, over
such a wide range...?
Look! Even the highest clouds are being drawn down!
SIN: ...I think he can. If he's using the forbidden power...
...the False Black Hole.
CLUMEGGNIC [shocked but STILL smiling]: THAT'S INSANE!
If that weapon were to be used on a planetary surface --
--what possible reason could he have to use -that-, anyway?!
Who... who on Earth is he using it -against-...?
SIN: (Could it be... that the Great Lord is here...?)
[Down below, Archanfel finally slips too far. In a spray of light, he
disappears.]
GUYOT: YES!
BARCAS: (A...ARCHANFEL...! Damn thee, Richard...)
GUYOT: (Well...now there's another problem.)
(Like he figured, the collapsar's grown beyond my power to
neutralize it...)
Gramps, lend me a hand. Unless you want to die as well --
BARCAS: Thou -- thou darest...!
GUYOT: -YOU- WANT TO CROSS ME?! DO IT, NOW--
[Both concentrate their powers...]
BOTH: NEUTRALIZE!
[...and nothing happens.]
GUYOT: One... one more time...
[Again: nothing.]
GUYOT: (We failed?!)
[Barcas's barrier coruscates.]
BARCAS: (And now dost mine own barrier too break down. Hast grown too
much...)
GUYOT [desperate and furious]: Die... DIE OUT!!
[The Black Hole vanishes in a burst of light. As it clears, we can see a
twenty-story-tall gap in the shaft wall; a hole nearly as wide has been
torn from the elevator column behind them. The ugly sounds of metal and
concrete under stress echo through Relics Point.]
GUYOT: Success... it's neutralized...?
BARCAS: (Can'st scarcely credit it... he extinguished a -true- black
hole...)
GUYOT: VICTORY!! I've defeated Archanfel!! I, Richard Guyot--
GWAHAHAHA!--
[In mid-maniacal laugh, Guyot's eyes go dark and he topples... falling
down out of sight into the darkness of the mile-deep shaft.]
BARCAS: (What is this...?)
[Back in the Basement, the involuntarily floating good guys crash back to
the floor as the black hole's gravity cuts out.]
ODAGIRI: Has... has it settled down...?
?: Are you all right, Supervisor?
ODAGIRI: It doesn't matter. Everyone's safe.
?: But what was that? Just now...
ODAGIRI: No idea. But if we dawdle, it might happen again.
Anyway, let's get aboard the Relic now...
[As they approach the Relic's wall, an entrance spirals open... and
Guyver III emerges.]
TETSURO: Makishima-kun!
SHIZU; Agito-sama!
AGITO: Come on, everyone. All aboard the Relic!
[But as the group heads for the door, Murakami's attention is caught by
something above...]
MURAKAMI: He's... coming!!
[...and -something- smashes down through the dome's ceiling and into the
floor below!]
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Chapter 49
BOOSTER ARMOR RELEASED! MENACE OF THE REMOVER
[The falling object has dug out an impressive crater about a quarter of
the way clockwise around the Relic from our heroes.]
SCIENTIST: Wha-- what the hell?!
TETSURO: ...Something fell through the ceiling?
MURAKAMI: IT'S GUYOT!
[The Zoalord rises from his crater, apparently recovered from his earlier
blackout.]
SUNDRY: Guyot...!!
MURAKAMI: (Great timing...)
GUYOT [spotting Murakami]: YOU...?! What the hell are you doing HERE?!
[notices Odagiri & co.] I see... you had guides...
Quite a stroke of luck, finding you here.
I can't believe you're here in the Point...
You've been lurking in the Basement, all along...
MURAKAMI: Supervisor. I'll hold him off. Get everyone into the Relic!
[Mizuki starts.]
ODAGIRI: Murakami-kun, you're...
MIZUKI: Do... don't do it! Murakami-san, if you transform...
MURAKAMI: My time's up. Let me do this last favor for you.
Especially...
for Sho-kun.
ODAGIRI: Right! Everyone get aboard the Relic, NOW!
GUYOT: The Relic? What -- what are you doing with the Relic...?
MURAKAMI: Over here, Guyot! THIS IS THE DAY WE DECIDE YOUR DESTINY!!
AGITO: Hold on. I feel a connection to destiny here as well. [Sheds
his bulky communicator backpack] I too am Guyot's opponent!
GUYOT: (G -- Guyver III?!)
MURAKAMI: Don't mind me, Makishima-kun. Get back inside...
AGITO: I'm going nowhere. I've got a debt to pay him. --It's been a
long time, Guyot.
GUYOT: You're here too... Of course... heh heh...
AGITO: Something wrong? Aren't you pleased to see me?
GUYOT: Pleased...? Heh heh... GWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
-Pleased-?! I'm DELIGHTED, Agito! This is my chance for a special
dance...
...WITH THE UNIT REMOVER!!
TETSURO: ...Unit...?
ODAGIRI: -Now- what?
[In what's left of Dr. Shirai's lab, the doctor is shocked as the Remover
breaks out of its case.]
SHIRAI: Wha... the Remover... moving by itself?!
[The Remover heads down the corridor and bursts out into the observation
dome.]
GUYOT: TO ME!
TETSURO: Something flying out of Dr. Shirai's research lab?
SHO [recognizing it from the Relic's visions]: Th -- that's...!
AGITO: (That shape... could it be? The missing artifact from the Unit
chamber...?!)
[The Remover hovers over Guyot's outstretched arm, lower portion opening,
and settles onto it.]
TETSURO: It's fused with Guyot's arm!
MURAKAMI: Guyot's bioenergy is flowing into that thing... what on Earth
is it...?!
[Now the business end opens like a flower, revealing its antennae and
control medallion. Guyot brandishes the Remover triumphantly.]
MURAKAMI: Be careful, Makishima-kun. There's no telling what kind of
weapon that might be!
AGITO [unsheathing his sonic blades]: Taking that into account... I'll
just remove his arm before he can fire! [He leaps to the attack.]
SHO: Stop, Makishima-san! That's...
[Too late. Guyot blasts Makishima at point-blank range. Guyver III's
leap is cut short; he lands heavily, control medal flaring... and, much
to Makishima's surprise, his armor begins to disassemble itself!
Everyone is horrified--but Guyot isn't happy.]
GUYOT: (Damn -- it's not completely removed! I didn't accumulate enough
energy...)
[Agito's medal glows again, and the armor snaps back into place. He
falls to his knees, apparently exhausted by the experience.]
MURAKAMI: Makishima-kun?!
AGITO: (Wha... what in hell just happened...?!)
SHIZU: A -- Agito-sama!
AGITO: Stay back!
TETSURO: The booster armor came loose?
ODAGIRI: That device has the power to force the booster armor away from
its host?
SHO: It's worse than that.
That thing... the Unit Remover... it doesn't just take the armor
off.
It can permanently separate the bio-booster armor from the boosted
host!
ODAGIRI: How is that possible?
SHO: The Remover's radiation pulse erases the boosted host's data
recordings from the control medal.
If this is done, the medal returns the armor to its former state...
In short, it turns the bio-booster armor back into the original
"Unit"!
AGITO: It WHAT...?!
MURAKAMI: {(That was his plan!!)
(With all three units released, Guyot had a reason to stay in
Japan...)
(He couldn't leave without hushing up this fiasco...)
(It gave him a chance to secretly study this thing!)}
[Editor's note: all right, I admit it, I'm not really sure WHAT
Murakami just said.]
GUYOT: Heh heh... this time for sure! Bioenergy charging to maximum!
Oh, Agito... before this day is over I'll have you drink boiling
water!! But no... maybe I should thank you for the chance you've given
me.
GIVE ME YOUR BIO-BOOSTER UNIT--
AND VANISH, GUYVER III!!
MURAKAMI [interposing himself]: I DON'T THINK SO.
(I'll substitute my life...!)
--------------------
[Guyver I hangs suspended in the Relic's bridge, englobed in light.]
SHO: (Not long now... just a little more time and the Relic will be
completely recharged...)
(But until then...)
Chapter 50
BEAST-GOD TRANSFORMATION OF WRATH!! DEATHMATCH: MURAKAMI VS. GUYOT
ODAGIRI: (Unit Remover? Count on Guyot to acquire such a thing without
our knowledge...)
(Guyver III can barely move now.)
(If Guyver I was here to aid these two, they might be able to strike
effectively...)
(But Guyver I... -- Sho Fukamachi -- is totally focused on preparing
the Relic for launch.)
(He now seems inseparable from the Relic. We have probably
permanently lost our opportunity to escape...)
(Forgive me, Murakami-kun.)
(I can do nothing to help you against Guyot.)
MURAKAMI: Makishima-kun, when I transform, run for the Relic entrance.
Board the Relic with everyone else.
Then tell Sho-kun...
"Launch the Relic the moment it's charged. Don't wait for me."
AGITO: But in that case...
MURAKAMI: Listen, now. I don't know why, but Guyot looks seriously
exhausted.
I wouldn't be a match for him ordinarily, but caught like this...
I can at least draw the fight out, and buy you as much time as
possible.
When the Relic starts to surface, I'll hang on to its hull.
By that time I should be finished with him.
AGITO: But still, Murakami-san, you alone...
MURAKAMI: We have two crises on our hands now.
First, we have to escape Mount Minakami with the Relic.
And second, we absolutely must not give Guyot a chance to obtain the
bio-booster armor!
You and Sho must not remain within Guyot's reach!
GUYOT: Fool -- you think you won't die here?
Your prototype body is nothing!
MURAKAMI: Is that so?
Even though I can sense you're completely exhausted?
Besides [looking at the holes pocking Guyot's battlestyle], you've
lost your body's Gravity Points -- indispensable for gravity control.
I expect that gravity attack you're so proud of won't work without
them.
Well?
Even I could beat you now, don't you think?
GUYOT: {Ho... hozaita na, Murakami--!} [Ed. note: WTF?]
MURAKAMI: (Right--NOW!) -BEAST GOD- --
[The crystal in Murakami's skull begins to glow--and then dies out in an
instant.]
MURAKAMI: (I can't control my body?!)
[The Segawas realize something bad is happening.]
GUYOT: Heh heh heh...
Have you forgotten, Murakami?
Your body was only a prototype for my own form!
That thing buried in your head is just a Dummy Crystal. The Zoa-
Crystal in my perfected body can resonate with it.
Consequently, your body must suffer my influence.
I've used my energy to effortlessly lock up your every movement!
[Murakami can't even get a curse out.]
And... [Guyot raises his left hand. Its knuckles glow brightly.]
True, I've lost -most- of my Gravity Points.
But I still have this fist.
Should be enough to finish you off.
MURAKAMI: (Gravity bullets?!)
(No! He's still got...)
GUYOT: DIE, MURAKAMI!!
[A shower of gravity bullets head toward Murakami... but Odagiri elbows
him out of the way and takes the entire spread, suffering hideous
wounds. Agito catches his bloody form.]
SUNDRY: SUPERVISOR ODAGIRI?!
[The scientists rush toward him. Within the Relic, Sho is angsting...]
SHO: (What can I do like this...? If I could leave this ship, even for
an instant...!)
GUYOT: Hmph. No need for an imitation...
but he would have been next.
[gathering his strength] With you all here...
You've given me the world!!
[Suddenly, Guyot's attention is drawn to Murakami... who is getting to
his feet, cloaked in a burning battle aura, his face in shadow.]
GUYOT: He -- he stood up?! Impossible! You should be completely
paralyzed!
MURAKAMI [standing tall, crystal blazing]: GUYOT...
I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!!
BEAST --
GOD --
-CHAAANGE-!!
[The transformation is upon him, and Proto-Zoalord Murakami stands before
Guyot.]
MIZUKI: (Murakami-san did it after all...)
(This is his final beast-god transformation!!)
[Murakami brings his fist up with a scream of rage, sending Guyot to the
concrete.]
GUYOT: H-How --
How could you throw off my crystal's resonance curse?
You should have died long ago! How can someone like you have such
power...?!
MURAKAMI: (I'll make an end of you, no matter what!)
(Your evil power and violent will...)
(This is my last gift to those young lives...!)
TETSURO: (Murakami's fighting spirit is incredible!)
(He's stopped Guyot cold...)
ODAGIRI [barely alive]: Te -- Tetsuro-kun...
TETSURO: Supervisor!!
ODAGIRI: Everyone, get on board the Relic -now-...
That includes you, Makishima-kun.
AGITO: But...
ODAGIRI: Wait for a more certain chance to counterattack.
We must put our trust in Murakami-kun, and retreat for the time
being.
[Guyot is slammed to the floor again.]
GUYOT: You... you bastard, if I was in better condition...
[He looks up and sees the last of the group climbing aboard.]
GUYOT: (They.. they're going inside the Relic...?!)
SHO: ...Right!
Energy charge complete!!
Activating thrusters!!
[The Basement floor rumbles and cracks as the Relic begins to move.]
GUYOT: Wha--what is this...
MURAKAMI: (It's started.)
SHO: STARSHIP -RELIC-, ARISE--!!
[And arise it does, lifting out of its cradle of aeons, shedding
cables and shattering the rocky floor.]
[Guyot finds himself on the hull, barely able to comprehend this.]
GUYOT: (The...)
(The Relic...)
(The Relic is... lifting off...?!)
(Those bastards couldn't...)
(have found a way to control it...?!)
MURAKAMI [standing atop the Relic with arm upraised]: GUYOT!!
[Murakami's hand flares, and he brings it down--sending his signature
attack, a Kamaitachi or energy blade, toward Guyot.]
---------------------
Chapter 51
DEALING WITH THE BEAST -- IMPLACABLE ZOALORD GUYOT
[The kamaitachi hits, cleaving Guyot open from his right shoulder down to
his hip and cutting off his right horn. Within the rising Relic, Agito
and co. watch the duel on a "video" screen grown from their compartment's
wall.]
SUNDRY: All RIGHT!
[Guyot, bleeding profusely, groans--then falls silent--then falls off the
Relic, receding into the distance. Murakami slumps to the hull.]
MURAKAMI: (...It's over.)
[Within the Relic, everyone but Odagiri breathes a sigh of relief.]
ODAGIRI: (It isn't over, Murakami-kun...)
(...our duty...)
[The scientist holding Odagiri, who we will much later know as Hayami,
notices he's stopped breathing.]
HAYAMI: Supervisor...?
Supervisor!
[There is a quiet moment, as the renegades and refugees gather around the
body of their erstwhile leader. Meanwhile, the Relic is plowing its way
up through the main shaft of Relics Point, a force barrier pulverizing
everything ahead of and around it.]
[As the Point is systematically obliterated, we see Kronos troopers and
scientists desperately trying to get away. Even transforming to
battlestyle is not enough to save them: Relics Point is dying. Nothing
but shreds of metal, stone, and flesh are left in the ship's wake.]
[Meanwhile, back at the summit... the Zoalords are still wondering what
the heck is going on.]
SIN: (An incredible force is rising toward us...)
(What is this vast life-force?)
(It can't be...)
BARCAS [from offscreen]: 'Tis the Relic. [He walks on.]
After untold eons in hibernation, the Relic's slumber has come to an
end.
ALL: Elder Barcas?!
CAERLEON: Are you well, Doctor Barcas?
SIN: But this incredible news of the Relic...?
BARCAS: The starship of the Advents hast indeed become functional, and
begun to rise.
It hast already annihilated most of the base.
In but a moment's time, it shall shatter Mount Minakami and reach
the skies.
CLUMEGGNIC: WHA--WHAT?!
CAERLEON: What is going ON here?!
BARCAS: ...That, I dost not understand.
Didst it awaken only after I saw Richard fall toward the lower
levels?
Or might there be another factor involved...?
JEARVILL bun HIYERN: Guyot?
WAFERDANOS: Impossible... I can't believe he has such power.
SIN: But if it isn't Guyot, then...
[The same thought occurs to all nine:] Archanfel!!
PURG'STALL: Doctor, could Archanfel be here...?
BARCAS: ...The Lord Archanfel hast indeed been here.
CLUMEGGNIC and CAERLEON: Then, after all...
BARCAS: -But-...
[Back down below, Sho is opening a portal for Murakami.]
SHO: Come on, Murakami-san! Come inside the Relic...
[Murakami senses something odd and looks up.]
MURAKAMI: (This intense feeling of presence!!)
(There's no mistaking a Zoalord...)
(And not just one or two!!)
(It can't be... all the rest of the Twelve, here...?!)
SHO: Murakami-san, is something wrong?
It isn't safe outside.
You should come in now...
MURAKAMI: Yeah...
[He walks toward the dilating portal... and is suddenly siezed from
behind. Our heroes watch in horror as Guyot, his terrible wound still
open but no longer bleeding, lifts Murakami off the hull by his foot...!]
MURAKAMI: (Damn! How can he still be alive...)
GUYOT: Hard luck.
My battlestyle is built too tough to die so easily.
...Of course,
you did put my right arm totally out of commission.
But one hand was enough to bring me back here!
And it's more than enough to destroy your prototype body!!
[Guyot begins flailing Murakami about, slamming him into the Relic's
super-hard hull.]
TETSURO: Murakami-san!
GUYOT: What happened to all that energy you just had?!
Have you used up your reserves?
SHO: Murakami-san!! ...Damn!
GUYOT: ...So? Anyone see where this is going?
MURAKAMI: It... it's no use, Sho-kun!
Guyot...
He's still got the Remover! Don't let him aboard the Relic!
GUYOT: -Sho-?! I see...
It's you controlling the Relic, Guyver I?
[He drops Murakami.] Heh heh heh...
[stepping on Murakami's back, while grabbing his arm] Aren't you
going to come up and rescue this guy?
If you dawdle along, his life...
MURAKAMI: Sho-kun, leave me alone!
There's no way...
There's no way to save my life now!
[Everyone inboard is shocked... except Mizuki, who alone among them knew
the truth; she is no longer able to watch.]
SHO: Wha... what was that?!
MURAKAMI: My body has reached its limit.
I'll be dead within three days, no matter what happens now.
So...
SHO: Murakami-san...!!
TETSURO: You... you knew this all along...
Right from the start, you were prepared to die to help us escape...!
(Did Supervisor Odagiri know that? Did he martyr himself to give
Murakami-san...)
(His chance to defeat Guyot...?)
(All to let the rest of us get away?!)
GUYOT: What's wrong, Guyver I?
If you don't get out here he'll die right now!
MURAKAMI: It's useless! Don't come out--
GUYOT [giving Murakami's arm a cruel yank]: We'll see...
SHO: Stop--stop it...!
[Guyot tears Murakami's left arm off. As the Relic erupts from Mount
Minakami, Sho screams in anguish and rage...]
[The mountain's summit has been completely destroyed, but the Zoalords
moved off previously and are now hovering around it, awed at the
starship's emergence.]
SIN: So this... this is the Relic...!
[The Relic abruptly halts in midair.]
BARCAS: (It stopped...?)
[Sho Fukamachi has disengaged himself from the Relic's bridge: Guyver I
now stands on the hull before Guyot, who holds Murakami by his remaining
arm.]
GUYOT: You're here at last, Guyver I.
MURAKAMI: You -- you fool...
Why did you come out?
SHO: All right, Guyot -- we have a deal.
Now get away from Murakami!!
----------------------------
Chapter 52
RELICS POINT ANNIHILATED! MOUNT MINAKAMI ERUPTS
GUYOT: ...You want this back?
Well, he's no use to me now.
But...
[Guyot's Crystal glows, and Murakami's vibrates in response.]
(You'll get a corpse!)
SHO: Guyot, what are you...?!
[Murakami's Dummy Crystal cracks and shatters into shards. Guyot throws
him at Sho.]
SHO [catching him]: Murakami-san!!
[With his good left arm, Guyot raises his nearly-severed right arm and
its Unit Remover into position... and the Remover opens. He chuckles as
its power builds...]
[...and behind him, another portal quietly opens--and Agito rises through
it, his right megasmasher already charging. Guyot notices at the last
moment and swings the Remover to bear against him; Agito dodges; both
fire, and both shots miss. The mega-beam is clearly visible to the
observing Zoalords.]
SIN: What was that?!
BARCAS: ...All of you, combine your powers.
Attack the Relic!
SIN: Wha -- what did you say?!
PURG'STALL: Attack the -Relic-...?!
BARCAS: Didst see that light a moment since?
'Twas a Guyver's Mega-Smasher.
The Relic has fallen into the hands of those infernal Guyvers!
CLUMEGGNIC: B-but...
That's the greatest legacy of the Advents! Shouldn't we consider
this?
I mean...
BARCAS: Consider, then, what may'st happen should we fail to stop those
hooligans?
All the Overtechnology secrets of the Relic shall fall into their
hands...
DESTROY IT!! Let not another moment pass!
All of you, let all your power fall on the Relic!!
[Sho cradles the fallen Proto-Zoalord.]
SHO: Murakami-san!
Please hold on, Murakami-san--
MURAKAMI: ...Do this one thing for me, Sho-kun.
You two are our last hope...
Don't let our deaths...
be for nothing...
[He falls still and silent. Aboard the Relic, the 'crew' mourns the loss
of a second companion; Mizuki is lost in tears...]
SHO [getting to his feet, the Guyver itself weeping]: GUYOT!! I won't
forgive you--
[His rant is interrupted as an energy bolt blows a huge hole out of the
Relic's hull. Ten Zoalords are bombarding the ship, each in his own way:
Sin is firing energy directly from his Crystal, Clumeggnic shapes and
throws plasma balls, Purg'stall casts lightning, Galenos appears to be
breathing fire... The Relic is taking heavy damage from all sides.]
GUYOT: Wha... what the hell is going on...?!
The Council members! They've come to Japan?
SHO: Who... who on Earth are they...?
AGITO: I'd guess the Twelve Divine Generals.
SHO: The -Twelve-?!
AGITO [spotting Guyot sneaking off]: (Guyot?!)
[While he's distracted, a stray bolt slices off Agito's left arm and
damages his left-side megasmasher.]
SHO: Makishima-san?!
AGITO: Don't--don't let Guyot escape--
[Guyot is heading down the side of the hull.]
GUYOT: Two Guyvers, now the rest of the Twelve show up--I'm seriously
outclassed.
Better retreat for the moment...
[A twisting light appears before him.]
Wha... what the...?!
[The light flares into a sphere, and from it emerges a radiant figure--
Gravity Points scattered across his body, Zoa-Crystal blazing in his
forehead, this has to be a Zoalord in battlestyle. Winglike fringes
adorn his shoulders and head... and his face is quite recognizable.]
ANGELIC ZOALORD: Where do you think you're going...
Richard Guyot!!
GUYOT: Gah! A -- ARCHANFEL?!
PURG'STALL: Oh -- Archanfel!
SIN: I thought so -- he's unharmed!
ARCHANFEL [reaching for Guyot]: Your Zoa-Crystal...
RETURN IT TO ME!
[With one easy motion, he rips the Crystal cleanly out of a screaming
Guyot's skull. Nearby, Agito readies a gravity bullet.]
ARCHANFEL: ...And now for that Remover...
[Agito blasts a hole through Guyot's chest, surprising Archanfel. Guyot
falls and is not seen again.]
AGITO: Fukamachi, your smashers!
NOW!
ARCHANFEL: (Those two...? So these are the bio-boosted worms...)
SHO [charging his mega-smashers in a hurry]: Makishima-san, who the heck
is that...?
AGITO [doing likewise with his one undamaged 'smasher]: No idea!
But he's obviously one of the bad guys--
[Arkanfael's glow intensifies.]
SHO: (...Such a terrifying enemy...)
AGITO: FIRE--!
[Three mega-smashers roar out, one hundred and fifty megawatts of charged
particle beam fire. In response, Archanfel raises one hand...]
[...and the entire combined beam -warps back on itself-, changing course
and blowing a gigantic hole clear through the Relic!]
[Sho has taken the full brunt of the beam--he looks down to realize his
body is melting away. Agito and Murakami fare marginally better, thrown
clear as the much-abused starship glows and explodes, scattering chunks
of bio-armor hull across the Takeshiro Valley.]
SIN: The Relic...
PURG'STALL: It's been destroyed?!
BARCAS: (That great legacy is now eternally lost to us...)
[Archanfel looks about.]
ARCHANFEL: (Where did Guyot end up...? The Remover fell with him...)
[Below him, the gaping hole in Mount Minakami is beginning to glow.]
ARCHANFEL: (This rumble in the earth... Magma?!)
[Mount Minakami, an artificial mountain once falsely believed to be a
volcano, is now a volcano in truth. Molten lava boils up from the depths
of the Relic's tomb, erupting from the summit and spewing from the
countless hidden entrances to the Point. All traces of Kronos's presence
are being obliterated... along, it seems, with anything or anyone that
might have fallen into the pit.]
[Archanfel, returned to (naked) human form, stands in a clearing miles
from the burning mountain.]
ARCHANFEL: (What to do now... with the Remover lost...)
[He contemplates the masterless Zoa-Crystal still in his hand... and the
broken body of Masaki Murakami at his feet. The remaining ten Zoalords
kneel before their lord, as the forests of Takeshiro burn...]
END * BIO-BOOSTER ARMOR GUYVER, VOLUME 8
Translation v. 1.1: December 16, 2004
BIO-BOOSTER ARMOR GUYVER
VOLUME 9:
X-DAY AND BEYOND
Translated by W. Samuel Ashley
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AUGUST 17, 199X
GMT 2:24 AM -- SHINJUKU WARD, TOKYO
[A new skyscraper is being added to the downtown skyline: twin towers of
black glass, linked by many skyways and a helicopter landing pad halfway
up. This, we will later learn, is Cloud Gate.]
CHAPTER 53: CONQUEST
[A heated debate is in progress in the Japanese Diet, displayed on
storefront TV screens in Shinjuku.]
DIET MEMBER: --This evidence leads us to my conclusion.
As we cannot reach nationwide agreement on a new tax code to replace
the old, unjust tax system...
...the last such bill having been overwhelmingly rejected...
I would like to ask the Prime Minister his opinion on this matter.
Mr. Prime Minister!
P.M.: Um...On behalf of the government...
If we can only gain the approval of the Japanese people...
[ill at ease] ...With greater effort... I believe...
[The Shinjuku shoppers are beginning to pay attention--the P.M. is losing
his grip.]
(?): ...Prime Minister?
P.M.: A -- Aah?! My -- my body... garh -- GORAAAAH --
[The Prime Minister of Japan has just transformed into a Ramotith on
national television.]
SHOPPER A: Wha -- the heck? What is this show?
SHOPPER B: I think that's really the Diet broadcast...
GMT 7:42 AM -- BEIJING
[A solitary Zoanoid freaks out passersby.]
GMT 11:33 AM -- MOSCOW
[The streets near St. Basil's are filling up with rubber monsters.]
GMT 1:01 PM -- PARIS
[Zoanoids have engaged French armed forces near the Arc de Triomphe.]
GMT 6:57 PM -- LONDON
[The city is burning.]
GMT 6:59 PM -- NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN -- U.S. NAVY 7th FLEET
[A carrier battlegroup of the Fleet...and amphibious Zoanoids are
quietly climbing up the hulls.]
(?): Captain -- emergency transmission from the flagship -Blue Ridge-!
CAPTAIN: Right, read it off.
(?): DEFCON 2* has been declared!
CAPTAIN [shocked]: Directly to 2? Has there been a nuclear strike on the
States?!
*FOOTNOTE: Abbreviation for Defense Condition 2. The United States Armed
Forces' emergency watch system has 5 stages: DEFCON 5 is normal, 1 is a
state of war. DEFCON 2 indicates imminent war.
[The bridge is lit by an intense explosion.]
(?): The -- the -Bunker Hill- has been destroyed!
Was it torpedoed?!
B-but there's nothing on sonar...
[Fighters are being prepped on the carrier.]
(?): Blue Fox, clear for emergency takeoff!
BF: Blue Fox, roger!
[As the F-whatever begins its run, a Ramotith bursts through the carrier
deck and destroys it. Nearby crewmwen see only the explosion.]
CREWMAN: Wha--what caused that?!
[An amphib-type siezes him from behind. Other assorted fishy goons begin
massacring the crew. One after another, the ships are sunk...]
[At the White House, the President is being briefed.]
LIEUTENANT: --The Seventh Fleet has just been annihilated.
GMT 7:11 PM -- WASHINGTON
LIEUTENANT: Similar reports are coming in from all over.
We've lost 72% of our air power, 64% naval forces, and 81% of the
ground forces.
Also, the National Guard, state police, FBI, and so on report 70%
loss of government control.
As for remaining combat-capable forces...
PRESIDENT: --Enough!!
What are you saying?
America's glorious history can't end like this...
These... these monsters... what the hell are they?!
Why are they attacking us?
Where have they been hiding until now?
LIEUTENANT [smiling]: ...Do you really want to know?
Mr. President?
[He transforms into a Ramotith-like Zoanoid.]
PRESIDENT: L-Lieutenant, you...?
ZOANOID: We've been right here beside you.
For a very long time...
GMT 7:19 PM -- ARIZONA
[The mesas of Monument Valley, one of which hides Kronos Central...]
KRONOS HEADQUARTERS -- BASEMENT --
THE CELESTIAL HALL
[Sin Rubeo Amniculus sits alone in the Hall; a hologram of the Earth
occupies the center of the Generals' Round Table. Reports are coming in
from around the world...]
-North America Sector, conquest complete.
-South America Sector, invasion in progress.
-Western Europe Sector, conquest complete.
-Eastern Europe Sector, conquest complete.
-Australia Sector, invasion in progress.
-East Asia Sector, conquest complete.
-West Asia Sector, nearly complete...
but the US military bases in eastern Saudi Arabia are putting up
heavy resistance.
SIN: Concentrate all available forces on the region.
Give them a demonstration of our true power.
Destroy them utterly.
(That area should be under Cablarl's jurisdiction.)
(Why didn't the old master have any of them processed?...)
(As good a place for a demonstration as any, I suppose.)
GMT 7:36 PM -- EASTERN SAUDI ARABIA -- U.S. ARMY MIDEAST DISPATCH BASE
[A bunker surrounded by barbed wire.]
SOLDIER: They've broken through the second defense line!
NEARBY -- TANK BATTALLION
SOLDIER: Enemy distance, four thousand!
TANK COMMANDER: All tank chiefs, report!
This is our last line of defense.
Let's show these bastards what we're made of--!!
GO!!
[The tanks move out. Soon, an infantry force can be seen in the
distance...]
SOLDIER: Enemy sighted at 11 o'clock!!
TANK COMMANDER [using binoculars]: Jesus...!!
It really is an army of devils...
FIRE!
[The bombardment begins. Gregoles and Ramotiths are tossed into the air
by explosions, but are largely uninjured; they run toward the tanks.]
COMMANDER: A-Are these bastards totally fearless?!
Fire, fire, keep firing!
Don't let one of those animals through--
[Concentrated fire brings one Zoanoid down, minus an arm but still alive.
The Commander drives his tank over it; it tries to lift the tank away,
but the commander sets the tank spinning--] "Die, die, DIE!" [--which
crushes the monster at last.]
COMMANDER: Got you, got you--
WIPE THEM ALL OUT--!
[A laser beam spikes into the next tank over, which explodes.]
COMMANDER: Wha--
what now?
[A line of Vamores has appeared over a dune ridge. Their shoulder pods
open and charge.]
COMMANDER: UWAAH!
Re, retreat--
[Massed laserfire wipes out the battallion.]
[Back at the bunker, a General watches video feed of the massacre.]
LIEUTENANT: General?
GENERAL: We'll launch into the heart of the war zone.
A nuke should take care of those monsters...
LIEUT.: WHAAAT?!
A point-blank nuclear strike will kill our own men...!
[The general, clearly overstressed, shoots the poor guy in the head.]
GENERAL: ENOUGH!
Th-these monsters underestimate us... Earth belongs to the human
race!
[A missile is launched, airbursting over the battle. Zoanoids and normal
soldiers alike are vaporized; the traditional mushroom cloud rises. Some
time later, the General emerges from what's left of the bunker.]
GENERAL [surveying the area with binocs]: Fuwahahaha.... Look!
Those bastards have been completely wiped out!
Get the picture, monsters?
This is the power of humanity!!
{He breaks into regulation maniacal laughter... only to stop as heavy
footsteps approach. The shadow of a remarkably large Zoanoid approaches,
and the General starts laughing again--hysterically this time...]
GMT 8:22 PM -- MOUNT ARARAT
[All the Zoalords have assembled atop the peak, in their formal robed
armor; the ten bow before Archanfel, who faces the sunset.]
SIN: Our conquest is complete...
Lord Archanfel.
ARCHANFEL: (From this day forward...)
(Kronos controls the world!!)
I also write Guyver fanfic, if folks are interested. Find some here.
Yes, but probably not the first seven. Bad as Fred Burke's translation was, it's still a translation, and I don't need another that badly. Unless CYP's turns out to be really good, and as I'm finicky about some things (like how to spell characters' names) it may not qualify on that ground.
Well, alrighty then. ^.^ Might as well start here--I'll post my translation of 8 and the first chapter of 9 behind a spoiler cut.
CYP's translation is far superior to the crappy Viz release. It's unflipped, correct chapter titles, and dialogue that doesn't sound like it came from an American comic book.
Nice, nice... good stuff fella that's translating the Guyver novels, I do suppose American fans owe you an awful lot, no? Tsurumaru, I'm also grateful for your last few summaries. I've been a big fan of the Guyver for many years, and now after a decade of loving it, the series is growing with more fan abundance!
Anyway, about the gigantic armor and it's extension of height... I seriously doubt the armor distorts any of the host's bones.. I've always figured the armor regulates the host's size to fit the necessary height limitation... that's in general for the Guyver itself, and with the gigantic.. if you look in book 14, you'll see the gigantic armor topples over Sho in his bio-boosted form, but once again, opinionized that it just regularly fits itself to the preferred height.
and one last thing, has anyone been around the Max Factory site to check out the neato Guyver figures they're brining out? I've just recently purchased Guyver III and Aptom IV, you folks should get on the ball and stop dawdling around before all of their limited quantity is taken off shelf! Thanks again!
and one last thing, has anyone been around the Max Factory site to check out the neato Guyver figures they're brining out? I've just recently purchased Guyver III and Aptom IV, you folks should get on the ball and stop dawdling around before all of their limited quantity is taken off shelf! Thanks again!
...I have one, a Guyver Zero (poor ill-fated Cro-Mag), and it's been sitting in the box for a couple of years now...
...because I have no idea what glue to use. @.@; Regular model glue doesn't work, neither does rubber cement, nor even Elmer's. What should one use for resin kits, and where would one find it?
--Sam Ashley
"Is this a warm moment or should we be disturbed?"
LoL... man, I was seriously lost on what kind of solvent I should use to band together my Guyver I kit, but unfortunately I lack the time or patience to truly put it together. Anyway, to answer your question, just use super glue to place together the pieces of your Guyver Zero garage kit. If you mess up wipe it off with hot water and soap... it may seem ackward, but it works rather well and just to give you some advice, the extra vinyl on the pieces are very easy to "outer" cut, so be careful when you're sculpting it or you'll end up messing a piece up like I did >.<
Anyway, good luck with the model, and I was actually speaking about the TOYS that Max Factory is currently working upon, so check it out!
Chuang Yi Publishing still hasn't had any word from Kadokawa about vol. 6 & up.... I hope we hear about it soon. I wanna read more of their version! Not to mention read vol. 8 & up in English.
2004-11-23, 19:34
It also enhances all their abilites. Meaning reflex speed goes from 40x to 100x that of a normal human to 80x-200x reflexe speed in Gigantic form. So hindered? I think not. 
