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Its pretty obvious.Guyver doesn't have a lot to offer other audiences.It is too original and people in today's generation do not want something that original. A person in a suit fighting monsters. You see, take away the details and what all of you know combined of that series from an outsider who is new to this and they will likely turn away from it. Now explain how original that sounds in your mind and you will have found the answer.

I totally agree on the animation. In general the hand-drawn animation from the 80's and 90's is far superior to the easily produced digital works used nowadays.

Now this is a post from the heart which has been bugging me for the past few months. Even though I haven't been able to really keep up with the monthly chapters with college,work and trying to find a career, I am still passionate about Guyver and and treat it as if it were still new, so please hear me out: I think ultimately the fault begins and ends with us, as in the fans. I have been a solid Guyver fan since 1994 when I was 11 or 12 depending on when Dark Hero came out. While I agree with some of the views already posted I feel we have become to complacant as fans. We should be more vocal with the series to those who will listen to us, whether it is friends, co-workers, classmates, family, or possible movie directors we have to make them see the good of Guyver, especially now when movie companies are pumping out, whats the count now 8-10 Superhero movies a year. Infact look at Dragonball Z, the animated series ended in 1996 (Japanese dub) and 2003 (American Dub) but because the fans are so passionate for the series they made so many movies and a Series that I guess doesnt exist because it was so bad, I dont know, not a DBZ-Fan. A matter of fact, a few weeks ago I was called a "Complacant Red Commie Facist" by one of my fellow G-Fans on facebook because I am one of those who tell people to stop complaining about the release date (June 8th 2018 for those interested )for the sequel. But I have come to the conclusion, and if this offends any of my fellow fans I am sorry, that WE of the Guyver-Nation are the complacant ones. I have noticed that with the decline in material for each chapter that some people have come to accept that with it being almost a decade since the 2005 series came out, that we will NEVER get a continuation of the series or new movie, especially when all people have to do now is just go to a website or two and download everything there is to Guyver - Anime, Movies, and Manga. But we as fans should not be that complacant. With preorders for Volume 31 on this very website, if 2005 covered from the first chapter of Volumn 1 to the first chapter of Volumn 10, WE HAVE ENOUGH MATERIAL for two to three seasons additional seasons. Even if they have to spread the content out alittle and change things I would be fine with that. There is enough material in which while filming the additional seasons, the creator of this series could still continue to pump them out. Think of it, it takes about a year to a year and a half to get a decent sized volume out, and due to the declining content being released, that by the time they got to the end of the third additional season for example (which would be season 4) they would have material for seasons 5-7. In fact just yesterday a fellow G-Fan and I were talking who is also into Guyver and he also said that he "doesnt understand why Guyver doesn't do well when it is pretty popular. And that they should do a new movie because it is well over due for one." I agree with him, we have movies like Iron-Man, Underworld, The Incredible Hulk, The Avengers, even Man of Steel to study how to feasibly protray a man in a suit of armor and people transforming into their battle forms. But if we are to get any more new seasons or movies it needs to interesting and be able to draw more people to the franchise. Because if they become fans they will go get the figures, the clothes, manga, anime, and live action films from the previous 29 years. I understand that Guyver isnt that popular with animes and mangas like Attack on Titan, Dragonball Z - which I find GREATLY overrated, Naruto, and all the other animes the kids are watching and reading today. But I argue this, isnt it our job to make the series popular? Isnt it our job to show the Japanese that regardless of where we are, that we are just as passionate for Guyver like we are for Godzilla, Dragonball, and other shows we get from them? Isnt it our job, which ties into my post on what we call ourselves, to self promote Guyver? I wear my Guyver shirt at least once every week? I get asked about the series every time I wear it. Hell I even have 3 co-workers who I am trying to get hooked into Guyver, which one of them is a DIE-HARD DBZ fan, DC/Marvel fan, and yet another G-Fan, who in my town maybe a even a bigger G-Fan than I am. I think we should have a designation in which we call ourselves in which we can pull people to our dark side like how G-Fans, Whovians, and Trekkies do. I think we should wear our Guyver gear proudly and promote it when ever we can to friends, classmates, co-workers, even family. And most of all I urge people to stop being so complacant and start being the voice of Guyver to get more seasons or even a new movies, only then if we work hard enough to make Guyver popular again we may get decent amounts of material in the comics, get a new season or even a new movie. But we have to be vocal to those who will hear us, especially in this age of "Comic-Book Movies." Only then, will we know for sure that even though we tried to bring Guyver back into the lime light it is one of those series that is not meant to withstand the test of time and fade into oblivian, but we tried. As I started this post, It starts with us and ends with us. We need to be doing MORE than what we have been doing. And before anyone says "well by all means go ahead," I have been writing fan mail to directors of movies and the companies asking that maybe in the near future if they could . . . "visit" the Guyver series and make a movie that does the franchise justice. I know the chances of them actually reading my letters is small, the chances of them responding is even slimmer, and the chances of them taking a risk on Guyver is microscoptic, but it is at least a start. Maybe if a movie company like say Legendary gets ENOUGH fan-mail respectfully asking for a Guyver movie to be done that could be that spark of hope for the series. Well its 3 AM here and I have class at 8 with a paper I still need to write so I wont bug you all for the rest of the night. But this is my view on why Guyver doesnt do so well.

I also think that it has to do with not only the dwindling delivery, but not enough people want to give Guyver a chance to hook them or they just dont give Guyver enough credit. One co-worker I am trying to get hooked on Guyver, who is a die-hard DBZ fan , said he just started watching Naruto another anime I couldnt get into and found pointless. If people are fans of DBZ, Marvel, DC, etc etc etc I also find just dont want anything to do with Guyver even if you debate with them that Guyver or any Zoalord could be just as strong if not stronger than their favorie superhero/villain.

Well then Unit seems to be four elements: 1: Organic Body 2: Metallic Structure Shell 3: Segregated Processor and Memory in Shell 4. Bio-Organic Nerves running through all this and connecting the organic material to the processor. Seems that the creators created simple structure, but a complex interface and function. They likely had repair and reprogramming for all their systems. We just haven't seen it all. So far we've seen an erasing/reboot system in the Remover. A storage room system, and the external media interface system with the Nav Spheres. We never did see a repair system. The Guyver unit is a mostly self contained system with safe faults and repair functions. It has surprisingly good durability when deployed in combat,even the metal. But very vulnerable when not deployed. I think overall, you have to be removed from the unit before you can repair it. Considering how delicate a damaged unit becomes, a threat to the host's stability, it likely would of been best to remove and then repair it. I think that was what the creators had in mind, and makes sense. You don't start repairing armor while wearing it, and you don't want to try and run critical systems until you've fixed buggy software.

I don't think Guyver is that sort of manga. What do we know about our protagonists, even after all this time? Almost no details from their personal life at all. It's all drama. Even Mizuki, who is as normal as it gets in Guyver, is rarely if ever shown doing anything that is superfluous to the story. Have we ever seen anyone read a book, watch television or play a video game? This suggests Zoalords have down-time, too (After all, the only real problem they ever deal with is Guyver-related... well, and now Apollyon-related) and I doubt they spend it all standing around as clothesracks for enormous capes and shoulder armor. We just never see them do whatever it is they enjoy. Dr.Barcas: Likes to putter in his bonsai garden. Shin: Reads. Recently finished 'Cien años de soledad'. Yentsui: Amateur stage player. Waferdanos: Liked to fly. Guyot: Predictably, he used to love competitive sports, especially tennis. Unfortunately those are out now because none of the other Zoalords play. He's trying chess now. ...Is the sort of thing I mean. That being said, there are several female protagonists in Guyver, the one closest to being a separate main character being Valkyria. And, again, we only ever see her in action or when she is reflecting on occurrences in her life that are relevant to the main story. Could you imagine her putting on make-up? It's just not that sort of manga.

Perhaps the best way to think of the control medal is a really tiny, ultra-powerful, living supercomputer. We've seen it with Sho not only regenerate his body to the state it was before he got "killed", but it restored his memories up to the point of his apparent death. It also controls the regenerative abilities of the Guyver armor itself in the event of lost limbs, for example. And then there's the link up it had with the nav spheres with both Sho and Agito. It was able to take in and store immense amounts of information and assisted Sho and Agito in terms of processing and understanding it. And we have to remember that it's tentacles does attach and interface themselves into the host's brain when he's in the armor. Am I right in thinking that the CM is interacting with the host's brain though electrical signals, namely the ones that our brains naturally generate to cause us to do everything we do? Basically, the tentacles are like nerve pathways that link the host to the armor. That's also probably where Sho and Agito were able to develop the gigantic armors and Sho the Gigantic Exceed. I'd have to say that in that way Young Guyver is def. right in that the CM can also process and interpret the host's wishes and desires and formulates adaptions to them.

I don't think the control metal can repair itself; well, not the Guyver control metal anyways. But all control metal tech we've seen seems to run under the principal of making the will of the host a reality within the constraints of whatever it's plugged into. The Relic had a unit storage and remover room. Why not have this room repair metals as well? Though to be honest, if the unit were still bonded, I think being in the command room would make more sense. That way perhaps the Nav spheres could control your armor while it repairs your metal. Possibly not possible though, I mean, what if the Nav spheres must interact -through- your metal? There is just so much we don't know, but speculating is fun