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Woke up this morning to find an awesome drawing of Rhiannon! Thanks, Lucithea!

Must have been 1991. The Blockbuster had just recently brought in the first OVA VHS and it would remain that way for a few years. Loved the concept for the first two episodes and kept it in mind. Kept it in mind for a long while, and I remembered how awesome the soundtrack was too. A few years later I eventually came across an advertisement for the re-release with all new animation on the VHS (There hardly was any) but I finally got to see the rest of the VHS series around 1993 and Blockbuster had finally brought over the complete OVA series. What truly won me over was The Enzyme I VS Guyver battle, it was the most raw, horrifying thing I've seen down to a superhero (Death of Superman doesn't come close) and it finally cemented the series for me. I eventually discovered the two live action movies too. Though in all honesty I hated the first one but loved the second. Though I can understand why people would love the first one, it's got a lot of inside jokes from several horror movies, but I'm not a horror movie fan despite Guyver being Horror themed. After that, I would occasionally visit the series in rentals. Knew there was a manga but not much else. It wasn't until the internet became more common that I could finally start keeping track of the series. I spent a lot of years just going on the Guyver fan forums and websites keeping up to date on what I couldn't read only to learn how crazy the series evolved. This eventually leading me to here in Japan Legend. I suppose this makes me a weird breed of fan. Not exactly hardcore, but still dedicated.

In 1997, I was 11 at the time and my mother and I went to my favorite movie rental place "Hit List" and I was going through my sci-fi monster movies and Power Rangers phase, so when I saw the cover for Guyver 2: Dark Hero(As it orignally was called at the time) I immediately picked it up and read the summary on the back and was captivated. But since it was the second movie I decided to grab the first movie as well and watched the both of them and I was hooked. Then about a year later I went to Suncoast videos and went to their anime section and noticed the 12 part OVA. I immediately grabbed the first one and watched it the moment I got home. From that moment I, every bit of allowance I got I put it towards completing my collection. Shortly after I noticed the mangas that were released by VIZ and it took me a few years, but I finally completed that as well. Thats pretty much it for how I started.

I first guyver experience was back in 1994 when my parents got me the third ova for my 5th birthday. To this day I dont know why they got it for me. It was my first anima and I was hooked. Over the next few years I collected all the ovas (and I still have them) as well as the movies but I never found out about the Viz manga untill a about 3 or 4 years ago. I think the reason I liked it so much at the time was because partly because I'd watched and loved the alien movies and also because I was fascinated by how much detale went into the guyers and zoanoids and how they worked. It also helped that the story was good and the characters where very likeable and/or intresting. My love for the series has only grown over the years especially thanks to the 2005 series and finding manga translastions online.

This song describes me most; denn ich bin ein Arschloch http://youtu.be/UrgpZ0fUixs

Its save to say, we all had fond memories of Guyver OVA series. Too us, it was a awesome anime that gave us cool looking monsters, kickass hero and a deep plot.

I can pretty say Solid Snake introduced me to the series. I remember for seeing the cover for Guyver 2: Dark Hero at my local Blockbuster back in '94-'95, but I quickly watched it through the Sci-Fi Channel. They played it a lot during the mid-90's. I liked the movie. Then, during another Blockbuster visit, me and my dad found the OVAs(The Manga dub.) and I fell in love with it. For the longest time, I only had the first 5 episodes with actually 'two' copies of Episode 4. One contained Episode 4, and another was label Episode 4 but had Episode 9's tape reel inside. About just before they started advertising for Guyver 2005, I managed to get the complete OVA on DVD.

I came across the 1989 OVA series when I was about 15 or so in 1996. I was at Specs, a music and video store and came across the first VHS tape. I watched it... then watched it again... and again and so on. Totally fell for the overall design of the characters, especially Guyver 1. As time went on, I found the comics and graphic novels from Viz. Read them all. Back then, as others have stated, the interwebs weren't as accessable so I had to stop when Viz ended their run in English. I searched online sometime later for the mangas in Japanese just to see the art progress... I finally found his first appearance this year, some 18 years after my initial encounter and LOVE it more! The chapters of the manga get better and better and my 2 boys love the anime! It's kind of a pain to collect in some ways due to its lack of popularity in the US, but that makes it a bit cooler. Like being a part of something awesome most don't know of. I introduced my girlfriends brother to it last week (the newer anime) and made another fan. Word of mouth gets new peeps eyes on this, it's the least I can do to repay Takaya for his almost 30 years of herd work on, in my opinion, the best manga out there!

As a little kid way back in the 90's, I saw Guyver for the first time on Scifi channel among other animes, ( Ghostin the Shell, Akira, Robotech, Fist of the Northstar, ect.) The episode I saw was Guyver I killing Sho's dad who turned into Enzyme II, that actually scared me... It left me with a fear for bloody anime and characters with robotic voices. XD Some years went by, and the Guyver OVA series aired on TV, every saterday. and the very first episode that's I saw, was Guyver I fighting the Hyper Zoanoid Team Five. It was still be a scary, and my parents changed the channel everytime I was watching it. XD My English was very bad, but I could read the dutch subtitles a bit, so the story around the Guyver was kind of hard to follow. Afterwards, I rented the avilable VHS tapes at the local video store and watched some of the episodes, until 2005/2006, I heard of the remake and decided to watch the older ones first. when I got all VHS taped from a friend, I watched them back to back, marking my first time watching the complete series.

I discovered it in 2002. I liked it. That's all there is to tell.

It was ~1993 (I was 8 y.o.), somehow I got to watch the VHS with the first part of 89-92 OVA (one of the episodes was missing, I don't remember which). I remember I was really worried about Guyver 1's death and it seems that the episode where he was restored was missed. I was excited, mainly because Guyver's armor design - it just blew my mind, so cool it was. About the second part - I don't remember, it seems that I missed it back then. And then I basically forgot about Guyver till 2006. I remember how I decided to ask one of my friends something like "Hmm, do you have the Guyver OVA in your huge DVD collection?". I was surprised when he answered "Yes". Actually I have the chat log with that conversation somewhere on my PC. So I rewatched OVA, found out about TV series and finally the manga. My first reaction to Gigantic was like: "wow, weird", but after few minutes I understood that I love this new form.

I saw ads for the toys in comics magazines. I dunno, early 1990s? Then it was VHS tapes of the anime, during the manga fad here around the same time... that's what started everything for me. Not just Guyver, but everything... It's the Puma Twins what did it.

It's getting a little ridiculous now.

Is it weird that I'd actually like to see that happen in comic format? Maybe it's just me...

Power levels aside... I don't think Chronos can realistically take over Marvel Earth. How would they infiltrate? There are so many superheroes and supervillains, secret governmental organizations, secret supervillain organizations, sorcerors, psychics, telepaths, gods, demons, self-aware supercomputers and androids, terrorist cells, free agents - super-powered or otherwise - who work for nobody, mad scientists, mutates and mutants, not to mention several other sentient species - some of which are not even related to humans - living on Earth, plus at least one strain of sentient microbe which has steered the course of evolution for billions of years, that an operation as vast as Chronos would have a very hard time getting a foot in the door without causing a dozen alarm bells to ring. "Okay... we have a subject... shall attempt preliminary testing to see what type he could be processed into... any personal data?" "Um... this is the guy's wallet... let's see... occupation... oh, hey, he works for the DOD's science department." "I bet he's a Gregole. You can tell by the build. This guy was made to be a big green bruiser." "Name... Robert Bruce Banner -" *** "Okay... we have another subject.... shall attempt preliminary testing to see what type he could be processed into... and check his date beforehand this time!" "Holy crap, there's a million cards from clubs in here... and what's this? A little black book? Hey, I'm keeping that." "Get on with it! What's the guy's name and occupation?" "Uh... party-animal, by the looks of things." "Ha! We'll give him a purpose in life." "Name...Jonathon Lowell Spencer Storm." *** "...All right, a woman this time. Attempt... preliminary testing to see...what type she could be processed into..." "I can't believe we're processing women now." "What I can't believe is we lost two labs already because the people here are all freaks. Let's just hope this girl doesn't have any nasty surprises..." "Nahh, she's out like a light. So... who is she?" "Doreen Green. And - " "Hey! How did that rat get in? Filthy animals!" "...That's not a rat, dude. That's a squir-" "AAAAEEEIIGGHHH..!!!"