While flying home from my vacation I had plenty of time to think about stuff (like ten stinkin' hours ) I had gotten the last two Viz Guyver Graphic Novels for my birthday and I eventually re-read them on the plane. I started thinking "Where did the great Takaya get his insperation from?"

I remember reading somewhere that when he was growing up he watched a lot of t.v. shows that had heros fighting villians. I kind of think he got an idea of what Murakami (proto Zoalord form) from the Ultraman/ Ultra 7 t.v. show. I don't know why but Murakami,Purg'stall and Rienzi remind me of the varying Ultraman apperances.

Then I started thinking about Aptom "There's something familiar about Aptom..but what is it" Then it hit me: He's a lot like the alien creature from "The Thing". The movie was release in 1982 and didn't Takaya start writing in 1986? I think there's a chance that he saw "The Thing" and thought it would be cool if Aptom had similar powers. Though then again he could have come up with Aptom's power out of the air. I write a comic book and I planed on having one of the characters later being similar but not compeletly like Aptom (just the shape shifting part really) and I thought this up THREE YEARS before I got into the Guyver manga and saw Aptom or watched "The Thing".

Is this possible or am I just crazy from lack of sleep?

Any other ideas?

Topics like this are not going in the main Guyver section.

Sully:

Topics like this are not going in the main Guyver section.

Sorry ,Sully. That's the second time that I thought something should go into the Guyver section but really belonged in Fan Fiction. Darn it, stupid me.

Umm this has already been discussed. Someone posted an article in which takaya talked about where he got his inspiration from.

Umm this has already been discussed. Someone posted an article in which takaya talked about where he got his inspiration from.

sorry if i'm being blind or just plain stupid but where is that post?

I can't find it in the archive and would like to read it. it sounds cool.

It was posted a long time agp amd probably got deleted however sully did mention that stuff like this inclduing interview with takaya and this type of info was going to be uploaded to stars page so i guess you'll have to wait to read where he got the info from however from what i can remember he based the character on some vega character and when he went to the publishers they said they wanted an even more complex character. Hope that helps

nice one!

Thanx dude .