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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,

If those people can't be bothered to even check for a series existence I don't really think their opinion is worth anything. These are not the kind of people who would purchase an anime series or pay to watch a film of a series so why would any anime studio or film studio base any of their research on those people? the popularity of a franchise among people who have such a low passing interest in it is surely completely irrelevant? in short, who cares what they think? they can't even be bothered to check if it still exists, it's not as if they would take the time to tell anyone about it or promote it in any way.

this may be something interesting to contemplate, I have wondered many veses barias things manga, fun facts and dates, ages of some characters and times or eras, so I have a question for everyone in this it's weird, and everything can be a mia confucion by poor translations but dr is the boats, the real, Amilcar Barca http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilcar_Barca