Guyver Visual Data Files scanlation project

[*Jess♥]

excellent work dude, thank you!

however....

when did we stop having these files saved together on the server?

http://japan-legend.com/guyver_advocacy/vdf/

did we agree to post the files in hte thread so people have to hunt through hte entire topic to find them?

am i forgetting something?

was there a problem with ftp?

[Guest Takara Korteis]

when did we stop having these files saved together on the server?

http://japan-legend.com/guyver_advocacy/vdf/

Hadn't the pages originally been in order as well?

[*Jess♥]

unfortunately the server orders them automatically. perhaps i can look up a better script to display the files so that they can be ordered by date, name etc?

if anybody replies to approve, I'll look for another script tomorrow.

if no reply, i'll assume noone is bothered.

[durendal]

I think this matter predates back to the old guyver.net board. Before, we have this page that have the files in thumbnail while in the center is the current file you are viewing. Everytime an edit is made, the thumbnail is also automatically replaced (I think). After the migration to this board, I think the old format was not kept, and all the file was simply dumped into one folder. The old format was efficient and more user friendly. But I think after were done with this, it would be much more efficient if you just compile this into a single file like a zip or rar to ease the download. Or have an option to retain the old format which will give members something like an online vdf. Just a suggestion.

[durendal]

Oh, by the way, here's the second part of the interview:

vdf-067

Page 140

large-ass purple text: [sho has a place he can return.

That would be Mizuki, and Tetsuro.]

red text: Shou the [Ordinary boy] and the many people that he protects

-from here on, can we talk about the characters that have appeared. First, the main character, can you please tell us more about Shou.

For this, it would be better to talk about the beginning of [Guyver] which is the view of human nature as fundamentally depraved. It would start from the [variety of humans which has already been bloodstained if they were born in (a belligerent zoanoid base) existence....]. That is why, you can't be saved by cruelty or foolishness, that would the be varied limitation, and not say how this could be. Even if they were born cursed they would draw the subjugated form of humans. The wish of Shou includes being [not belligerent, with a balanced high school student].

Later, his father would be killed, Shou would have an impression of an unfortunate main character fighting Murakami who has become an enemy. That is certainly so, but on the other hand he has many loved ones like Mizuki and Tetsuro right? He is definitely not alone. The basis of the themes is that a person could not live alone.

-with this, can you tell us about Mizuki.

As expected, she loves Shou. Even if you exclude the Loving emotions she is an important person with a strong connection. She is, for Shou [a place to return]. If she somehow died a horrible death Shou would not be able to develop.

-How about Tetsuro.

He is the viewpoint of the reader or my viewpoint. Again, it is because Shou has Tetsuro that he can't run away and has to fight. Him and Mizuki are irreplaceable people to Shou.

Page 141

text in orange circle: This is a drawing of Murakami given as a present from the readers. Visiting Takaya-sensei's attitude, the characters exceptionally improtant to him and the readers.

red text: In the climax of Mount Minakami, the heroic last moments achieved by Murakami!

-This time can you tell us about Murakami.

Murakami knows well the situation of the enemies side in the Mount Minakami arc. He was a character created as a pilot character for Shou and the others, before the 12 holy commanders appeared, he had the role of showing the readers the powers attained by a Zoalord. For the enemy he is a prototype who is already dead thus they do not know his true identity, becoming the mysterious character. Having established that experimental body would not have long to live, it would be a climax to see up to where he lives.

Murakami has an overwhelming popularity towards female. There was a picture of Murakami wearing a cardigan in the opening of chapter 36, this was a chapter dedicated to Murakami for the readers. There was also a 1000 paper cranes created when Murakami died. I fully understood that the readers are seriously reading. That is why, when drawing the development of Murakami's death it was mentally hard. As expected, I had to do my best up to the last moment and drew the characters death, this seemed to had influenced my mentallity and made me stagger.

red text: The Ambitious Man - Makishima Agito

-Please tell us about Makishima. At first, he had an ambition, right now he seems to have this feeling of being Shou's aide.

Actually... right now that ambition is not yet forgotten. It is steadily advancing. Recently he seems to be in the side of Shou, he only accompanies them because the enemy is too strong. That is why, in effect he helps Shou in order to crush him (laugh).

-thereupon, the formation of Zeus Thunderbolt in New York, does this get him nearing to his self interest.

It is not about getting nearer to his self interest. It was to make himself a replacement for Cronos. If they take root that the peoples impression of cronos is evil [Zeus Thunderbolt] will become their saviour. Makishima has planned it this far. It's just, right now the resistance organization does not have enough power to do things, it will become obvious hereafter.

-with that, becoming an enemy to Shou someday including Cronos do you think it will come to a 3 way struggle.

That's right. Shou is drawing close to that decision.

red text: Revival of Guyot

-Can you tell us about Guyot who was already dead.

No, Guyot is still alive.

-Eh!? Really.

There might be people who may have noticed, he already reappeared previously. And then, he would have a big connection to the next story.

-Then, we would like to hear more about the point of his evil.

Evil huh.... It is certain that Guyot is a bad person. That's right, he can't trust anyone aside from himself. I think he's around his 40's, at that age he has not yet been loved by anyone, nor he has loved anyone. I don't think he has experienced every kind of bittersweetness. In every loneliness, he thinks that he is the only one who can save himself, that's what I think when I'm drawing him. An unusually sad character huh. Just, because of that dryness he is certainly a frightening enemy. In his current movement, please pay attention to him.

red text: From revenge demon to a true warrior....

[Eternal Man] Aptom

-Binding the characters firmly, please tell us about Aptom. Compared to what he is at first he is a character that has changed right.

At first he is a [revenge demon]. At a time when he did not noticed that he is free from the mental control of a Zoalord, he had the bloodshot eyes to murder Guyver I. He seeks to be stronger and became the ultimate battle creature because of revenge.

He is rather popular towards the male readers. Even though he hasn't even won once. He will definitely laugh and appear to be fearless. Just, no matter how deep he sinks he will definitely crawl up. That persistence is what's given empathy. But, under that he is an [undying guy]. Although Balcus said before that he is a [bioboost armor with self consciouness], it strange to have said that right.

Right now, he is thinking of his reason to fight. By no means has he lost sight of his true enemy. He is still thinking of [why does Somlum and Dyme had to die?]. Protecting Mizuki from the shadows, this is the only change in the way of his thinking.

[*Jess♥]

wow, durendal you got awesomeness on two levels!! I forgot about that old script. I had it stored on my hard disk, I just uploaded it and it's working fine. yes this is much better.

I can't understand why i did not use this script before.

there must be a reason.... oh well.

[*Jess♥]

this second part of the interview was amazing. It really had e feeling very emotional towards the characters.

to see takaya sensei talking about his creations with such passion, this reminds me of what it means to me to be a guyver fan.

thank you durendal. this was a true gift.

[*Jess♥]

btw, i have cleaned up the server with all updated files, i have converted them all to jpg to save filesize and i have changed the script.

http://japan-legend.com/guyver_advocacy/vdf/

[*Jess♥]

durendal, if you have not got these files saved, the text might be too small so i can get the larger files for you.

[Super Existence]

Wow I thought his explanation of Guyot was amazing, makes him seem like an even deeper character. Seems like there will be a huge three way fight between Agito Sho and Cronos.

I thought it was really interesting the way he explained Agito's actions that by saving the world from Cronos and then usurping them he makes himself a hero in the publics eyes. Fascinating stuff.

[Larz Zahn]

the way he was describing guyot.. man... it makes me wonder if takaya is planning for guyot to eventually have his eyes open and switch sides, in a vegeta sorta way..

wow.... simply wow.

[Bio-Boosted Dude]

Got really interesting, and it's great to see the characters explained.

-How about Tetsuro.

He is the viewpoint of the reader or my viewpoint.

But I think this is the most interesting part of that section of the interview. It really helps give Tetsuro even more purpose, and now when I see him in the manga I'll definitely have a different view on him.

I remember a while back we theorised that Aso and Toki were to take on this job, but now to know that Takaya sees it with Tetty just makes it that much more interesting. (granted, they could've swapped roles after their introduction, but whatever)

[daveblackeye152]

Whoa did Takaya say that fans send in 1,000 cranes in memory of Murakami?

Whoa again.

I'm not surprised he had a lot of female fans but I'm expecting Aptom to have his share too.

I want to hear what he has to say on Hayami. I figured he was supposed to be the character avatar. Okay I guess Tetsuro can be his eyes and Hayami can still be the author-character. At least he wasn't over powered.

Edited April 10, 2009 by daveblackeye152

[LordSpleach]

I like how he said how Aptom was popular even though he hasn't won once(at the time.). I wonder what he will do with Guyot.

[daveblackeye152]

I like how he said how Aptom was popular even though he hasn't won once(at the time.). I wonder what he will do with Guyot.

He did start his climb to bad ass by getting pretty close to beating Guyver 1, then absorbing most of Team Five, though he did start losing once he got his Zektole look and after the time skip.

[LordSpleach]

I consider him out of that slump now since he has killed

Yes, I had to do that!

[daveblackeye152]

I consider him out of that slump now since he has killed

Yes, I had to do that!

Yes that certainly kicked him up a notch. Though that's about 14 books inbetween his bad ass rampage and his super Zoalord kill. I'm not hating on the guy, he's one of my favorites, but it was a tad jarring that after the time skip he gets his butt handed to him left and right by Zektole, Imakarum, Enzyme III, at least he smacked Sho around in book 14. But I wish he had a win of some sort as form IV before gaining that losing streak.

I did add his plan to kill the first Enzyme IIIs in book 12 as a crowning moment of awesome and added it to TVtropes.

Takaya gave some cool insight on Guyot. I'm hoping to learn some of his backstory and motives, perhaps there was somethign tragic after all since I've seen him as a 'mustach evil for the sake of it' villain. I do wonder if he's going to be the Big Bad or if it's Archanfel or maybe Imakarum.

[*Jess♥]

I'm not surprised he had a lot of female fans but I'm expecting Aptom to have his share too.

I am not surprised he is not the female favourite.

he embodies masculine energy. his blatant nakedness at times and his determinedness is something men can really admire.

nudity and power is something men admire, but not women. at least generally speaking. women like romance and aptom is not romantic.

although maybe i am just speaking for my own culture. celtic men used to go into battle nude to put the fear into their opponents. to be nude is to be show fearlessness.

[daveblackeye152]

I am not surprised he is not the female favourite.

he embodies masculine energy. his blatant nakedness at times and his determinedness is something men can really admire.

nudity and power is something men admire, but not women. at least generally speaking. women like romance and aptom is not romantic.

although maybe i am just speaking for my own culture. celtic men used to go into battle nude to put the fear into their opponents. to be nude is to be show fearlessness.

I figure he 's nude because he can't replicate clothing, just Zoanoids.

And I believed he to be up there on the female fan list because, well you guessed the nudity thing. Believe it or not DBZ is/was popular in the U.S. because women liked all the ripped guys getting their clothes torn. And Aptom's got the bad boy thing going, I mean Agito is kind of the slimy type and he doesn't wear shades and leather jackets.

Plus Aptom's always looked American in my opinion so he's sort of got that exotic foreigner going. Then there's that scar and the fact he lost his friends, women will go 'ooooh poor Aptom! He's just a hurt soul that Sho torrmented!' Never mind what he did to Mizuki in book five.

So those are my reasons for assuming.

[*Jess♥]

lost unit, if you have them, is there any chance you can send me the following pages?

vdf-061.png

vdf-062.png

vdf-063.png

thanks.

I discovered that when i resized them, I didn't have a backup and i made them too small. some of the text is very hard to read.

i have backups of all the others.

[*Jess♥]

thanks lost unit, I've reviewed the sizes of all the pages and made them 1500 tall instead of 1100. all text should be clear now. still jpg images so file size has not increased by a crazy amount.

[KING GHIDORAH]

red text: The Ambitious Man - Makishima Agito

-Please tell us about Makishima. At first, he had an ambition, right now he seems to have this feeling of being Shou's aide.

Actually... right now that ambition is not yet forgotten. It is steadily advancing. Recently he seems to be in the side of Shou, he only accompanies them because the enemy is too strong. That is why, in effect he helps Shou in order to crush him (laugh).

That one line had me rolling!

Evil huh.... It is certain that Guyot is a bad person. That's right, he can't trust anyone aside from himself. I think he's around his 40's, at that age he has not yet been loved by anyone, nor he has loved anyone. I don't think he has experienced every kind of bittersweetness. In every loneliness, he thinks that he is the only one who can save himself, that's what I think when I'm drawing him. An unusually sad character huh. Just, because of that dryness he is certainly a frightening enemy. In his current movement, please pay attention to him.

Maybe that female Guyver will some how run into Guyot, show him that there more to life then power and revenge, Only for Guyto to end up killing her.

[lost unit]

page 67 of the vdf has been type set and uploaded to the server thanks durendal for a great translation and look forward to your following work always a credit to the forum.

i have also done an alternative for those who might have trouble reading it i have changed it slightly to the original

[KING GHIDORAH]

Thanks a lot lost unit.

[*zeo]

Yes, excellent work lost unit and of course durendal for the long awaited translation.