Guyver manga observations - chapters 4 + 5

[Aether]

not much i wanted to say on these chapters really, so heres a summary...

#4

- VIZ - Volatile!

- Chuang Yi - whos the third shadow

- Advocacy - secret manuevering! the 3rd Shadow!?

Well this is where the manga and oav diverge . Zerebubuth is a prototype Hyper Zoanoid but not developed by Makashima as in the oav. also the confrontation between them is at a riverside and housing district rather than at a warehouse.

respective spellings from each translation:

Zelbubuth

Zerbebuth

Zerberbuth

#5

VIZ - Tragic!

- Chuang Yi - Driven to the Edge

- Advocacy - Great Pinch!! Shou Absolute Despair!?

we learn that Agito is actually involved with Cronos as he is inside Cronos Japan with Guyot!

Guyver vs. Enzyme!!

Tetsuro is abducted by Cronos!!!

i cant believe the pace at which the Guyver was set, lets remember this is only the fifth chapter, and the main protagonist is killed by Enyzme!! thats a bold move by Takaya and must have been quite a ciffhanger for the original readers of the serialised version at the time, no wonder Guyver gained popularity.

[daveblackeye152]

Well I think the reason why Sho dies in the fifth chapter is that Takaya was given a deadline of 'okay we'll give you six chapters with this story. See how it goes. If it doesn't get an audience then you're going to be given a romance-comedy set up to work with.'

[Aether]

yeah i remember that from the Animerica interview, they gave him 1 year to do 6 chapters to make up 1 volume.

which makes me think just how long these older chapters are compared to the newer ones, but i guess if it was spread over a year then really each chapter equates to 2 months of work / 2 chapters - so it works out the same!

anyway, he still didnt have to kill sho, i just see it as a bold move and a clever story device to get Guyver one into the Chronos Japan building for chapter 6...

i'm glad Takaya didnt getstuck with a romantic comedy to work with!! but after volume 1 i dont think there was any chance of that happening!!

[Bio-Boosted Dude]

I imagine that if we were waiting around during its original serialization, we probably wouldn't have expected more than 6 chapters either. We probably would've expected something conclusive, and for something like Sho's death to happen at the end of the 'penultimate' chapter, would probably just re-affirm how short its original intended serialization would be.

aint it a good thing that it did carry on though!