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I am not going to do a full rant, as Ryuki's original post pretty much covers part of it. But here's the funny thing. A lot of 30+ year old Anime fans in North America remember the Guyver. Why? The first half of the OAV. And that was mainly due to the amount of blood and gore. This is why ADV touted the 2005 series as the "New Face of Ultra Violence". Guyver WOULD be more fondly remembered if it were something that was still known for tons of blood and gore ( like how Attack on Titan is so popular ). Guyvers general premise is fine... But is SO old that it has been done over and over again. Both in animation and tokusatsu. And it only seems to get a break in terms of publication because of how long it has been running. Readers don't care though. If they pick it up now and see how old it FEELS, they will drop it. They don't care for the intricacies of the plot that we've got to know, because they aren't going to bother reading too far into the series to even care. Now, if the manga was more like the OAV and was a lot bloodier, it probably would be more well known over the years... But due to it's age and content... It's only really average. Less than if you count how often and how much it gets updated. I will admit, it was the first 6 episodes on the OAV that got me into Guyver... but I BET I wouldn't even be in this community if I hadn't started doing fan fiction back then. Now of course I still want more, but it is certainly disheartening as a fan when it seems it'll only end when the creator dies. Berserk is another series I read that has the same release issues... But at least it is consistently 20-22 pages each chapter. None of this 10-16 page crap that we get with the Guyver,

But think of it. If we have a title in which we can call ourselves, it might respark interest in Guyver again. I mean look at the Hannibal Lecter fan base. It was small before the NBC series was released and picked up a small following. It wasnt until people started wearing Hannibal shirts reading Fannibal, that it picked up in popularity with shirts like "You're talking to a Fannibal. Please don't be rude."

so ive just watched ep 12 of Kiva... and it is getting more interesting and less laborious to watch... I now realise this Otoya guy is Wataru's dad - or in my head -''the violin dude''... he is quite a funny character actually since some things happened and IXA was introduced its become more intriguing, especially seeing as the ''modern day IXA dude'' is quite clearly a wrong 'un ... with the events of whats happened its quite clear that Wataru is looking for a father figure, hence him bowing a lot and asking for help from new sempai's all the time, I do hope we will find out the reason for this and why , presumably his dad wasn't around - I 'm guessing this is why he seems so weirdly introverted, shy or whatever... I wonder if being behind Kiva's mask takes all that away? im finding myself asking if hes like he is out of the suit then why does he fight?, why can he fight so well with Kiva? why does he even have Kiva? all this better get resolved!!