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Well, that's quite the gap. Also, hey, I'm back.

So, I notice there hasn't been much talk regarding new chapters...is the series on hiatus? I know I haven't been around much (my apologies), but I was just wondering what was going on.

I have started selling resin kits of my Guyver Bust. This kit apeared in the extras of the Guyver Special Edition Bluray - http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Guyver-Blu-ray/105976/The kit is 42cm high, consists of 11 parts and comes with clear resin eye lenses so it can be lit if wanted.The cost is £70.00 Plus P&P with tracking and insurance.Many thanksPete

What did I just watch?

Even monkeys can tell when someone is trying to screw them over.

lol, that one monkey got really upset. XD

Who is your favorite movie character? Mine would be the T-800, Uncle Bob from Terminator 2.

Guyver is underrated because it blew its chance of wider popularity very early on. Mutronics / The Guyver from 1991 was so bad 2 things happened: 1) One of the producers felt it was so bad he made Guyver Dark Hero as a thank you to the fans. 2) It's primary box office actor ignores it's existence and doesn't like to talk about it. It also is a screw you to Mark Hamill fans as he's depicted as the face of the Guyver on the cover but instead is pushed to the side for an actor who plays a very crappy version of Sean who is replaced in the next movie.... and then turned into a bug so bad it dies after zoa-forming..... So if you talk to anyone about Guyver and bringing it to a wider customer base that there is what happened the last time it touched the wider customer base. Yes there are hard core Guyver fans, I'm one of them and I pray for the day that enough time has based to bury that memory. But in the end it's there. What Guyver needs is that the next time someone takes it up, they do what the US movies done, introduce their own Guyvers and not do what the 2005 anime done and stick like glue to the comics after a certain point. Make it interesting so the fan base is happy and new people don't have to venture into other Guyver stories to find out the basics.

So! I'm big into tabletop games and I'm trying to expand my portfolio to start a career as a sculptor. After giving it some thought, I've decided to set about a long-term project: to sculpt every character from The Guyver! I'm going to work through the cast - pretty much every named character I can think of - in rough order of appearance, working from the Manga and the OVA and the TV series. I might well tackle the Western live adaptations as a side project, maybe even do an Out Of Control offshoot. I'm going to be interpreting the characters in a fairly realistic style, but hopefully they'll be recognisable. All will be sculpted at a scale where a human is 28mm tall, unless otherwise stated. If anybody happens to be equipped to give detailed crit, then please go ahead! My goal with this project is to improve my skills. Progress will happen as and when. So, here's my first two completed sculpts: I think his eyes are a bit too sunken for a seventeen year old, but a Games Workshop manager remarked that he reminds him of Bruce Lee. So, he's already been recognised as East Asian. I had a go at painting a chrome effect without using pearlescent paint.

This is shaping up to be a good movie. Reason why I say that is that there hasn't been a good Underworld film since the first two. Although I did enjoy all of them.

Its been a year but I'mma BACK! Drawing up the final data file for Crimson! Here are all the Bio Boosted shots, also adding Eric (the host) in multiple outfits and poses to flesh it out more

The last chapter was released at the end of April 2016, but is listed as "June 2016" due to the way the magazines are dated.

I hope it isn't due to health issues or anything like that.

A few things about Aptom bioboosting.... He's already covered sho with himself without harm to Guyver one so he can turn his enzyme ability on and off and I'm quite sure the unit G would adapt to it though if he fused with one. Second if he got a guyver and then evolved again then next time e bioboosted it would reset him to his previous configuration. But if Aptom absorbed Sho could he summon the Guyver... there's a head scratcher. Lindsay, Aptom does have a barrier, he used it when Apollyon launched an attack at him at Guyots hideout he clearly absorbed the hyper with the barrier after it was killed but before it dissolved away. It would be interesting though to see him absorb a powered Zerebubuth. If he did he would have a counter to every standard Guyver weapon including the megasmasher.

yep, thats true, but wouldn't he have the ability to change the chemistry of his blood makeup, so basically de-enzyming himself if the opportunity arose?

Cheers everyone! Always wanted to be a mod on this board, especially since joining Guyverboard way back in the early 2000s! It's been a long ride!

It's officially on "Hiatus" which basically means he's a) working on something else b) training the new intern (we can only pray it's this and we'll get LOADs of new stuff after) c) taking a break. http://tieba.baidu.com/p/4759488252 Judging by the Chinese fans we've another month of waiting to find out at least.

Hey Azaar, Good to hear from you again. RL always comes first, there is no panic here form me. I'm still rocking away with re-writes and resetting up the world of the Warrior Guyver fiction and took on the Great war... So free time for me evaporated. It doesn't matter really which office package you use once it can do standard DOC format. Open Office is another good alternative if you're struggling with LibreOffice

Thank you! At this scale, a human is 28mm tall - though I've made Sho a bit too tall for this. Still, it's a learning experience Part of why I chose to sculpt from The Guyver is because of the mixture of civilian, military, and monster characters it'll entail. So expect to see Zoanoids before long

Due to the system adopted on this site, pretty much nobody reads it here for free. It's only available to people who buy the books. Also, I buy Shonen Ace every month it comes out and I've been burned 3 times too many now by the "Guyver will continue next month" only to take the magazine home and discover there's no Guyver at all. So yeah, people here are invested financially in the story so whinging about the slow pace is very much ok as far as I'm concerned.

Takaya has been a Professional Manga artist for 30 years, with both a legitimate publisher, international releases, and even multiple animations made from his work. It's a little different for him when people are complaining about his output when people have to pay money for his releases ( again, there are a lot of people here PAYING for the content as well as in Japan itself). The sense of entitlement that comes from this may not always be rational... But for people who have bought 32 volumes of manga with the hope that they will actually see it end? It is kind of warranted in some cases. Now Takaya did say that he was very aware that people want to see this series finished, and hopefully this downtime is related to this... But since they never actually tell us why there is a hiatus, we are left to wonder just why it is happening. For instance, when he put Guyver on hiatus a few years ago to finish off an old old manga series he did in the past called Hades Project Zeorymer... We didn't find out until later from another publication as to what "Chimi Morio" ( his pen name) was up to. So while I do agree that people who are expecting free manga shouldn't be complaining very much, there are those who do pay for it, and you can't always assume people are reading it for free. And when crap like this happens, complaining/speculation is pretty much always a given.

As an artist with mental health problems, I am entirely familiar with how output can fall short of demand. I'm grateful for what Takaya content I get to enjoy, especially as a fan who can't buy or order his work in a high street shop. I don't see it as any of my business whether his peak output of sixteen pages per month is due to his personality or his work ethic or his health or any other cause. If someone complained on one of my project blogs that they don't get regular large updates to look at for free on the Internet, it certainly would not inspire me to pull my socks up and hire an assistant sculptor.

I don't think they would do something as risky as restricting access to the new chapter to just the people who are willing to drop a load of money on figmas. That doesn't mean they might not ever release a figure with a tankobon again though, as they did with book 21.

I'm frustrated with Takaya's output as well but I think calling him lazy is a bit far. He put out an ad requesting an assistant a while ago ( a position that seems unlikely to have been filled), and that suggests to me that he is aware of his small output and wants to remedy it. Guyver is a complex manga to draw - I'm sure Takaya regrets designing such difficult to draw characters, and the fact that he's around 50 now must mean that he is getting pretty tired. This series is hard to maintain an itnerest in when we're drip fed the story, but I'm trying to appreciate how difficult it must be to produce. That said, I do have the utmost confidence that Takaya knows where it's going - Draglord's silhouette was seen in volume 11, a whopping 10~ years before it made it's actual appearance. There's no way he's winging it to the end.

This translates on Google to: So no Guyver this month I'm hoping this is because Takaya is training someone or is involved in the Figma creation.

Ohhh think I see happy Chinese fans: http://tieba.baidu.com/p/4670530864

It's only a dream, but a full back story of the Arizona incident would be great to watch/read.

I remember that level of character development being advertised quite a lot as the series was airing as a selling point, along with the closeness to the manga of course. I didn't realise that the scene with Mizuki wasn't in the manga. Do you mean the bit where Murakami is lying in the hospital bed with Odagiri in the room?

I wish the manga had a scene where he bonds with Mizuki, telling her he was always a senstive cry-baby. That's where I love the anime over the OVA: the enormous humanizing aspect.

2005 anime, episode 14: Escape in the Rain. That's where he explains how he came to be a Proto-Zoalord.

Whoops. Meant to say SHOUNEN series are for kids, as there are certainly Anime for older audiences. All snark aside, comparing them to "Great Movie or TV Series" still doesn't make sense. And while I understand Guyver is great for YOU (as it is for me, probably a lot more), understanding why it is not for other people is a healthy thing to know. As for what "you like about Guyver over other series"... Guyver does that "Not using you most powerful weapon right away" a lot as well. Granted, as someone who has mentioned earlier to never have read the manga fully, you will not know that it has happened a lot. WAY more times then they have ever done their most powerful attack right away. Plus, the Guyver is a series that has disposable mooks that can die in one hit very easily, but anytime they are fighting someone actually powerful, they still start off small before a big finish.

Also: Aptom's not employed a clone squadron for a while. Imagine an army of Omega Blast forms, pouncing on a target, and simultaneously using Bio Freezer Full Burst. Hayami could create a frozen layer that immobilised; Aptom can probably take a whole facility down to near zero Kelvin. On top of that, we've yet to see him fuse with Gigantic. We've seen him take on forms with enough biomass, albeit when he was chaotic. And Chronos is able to confer the superpower to absorb others to gain mass… if a HZ is ever made with the capability to become Draglord size (and realistically, what else can Chronos do on short notice to counter the threat of TWO Guyverzillas?), then that's Aptom's gateway to an Exceed Fusion. Hell, do that with Sho and Agito, and the XD Ice Smasher crossfire will turn the Ark into a fifty mile ice cube. Flyby with XD Sonic Buster and it's the biggest blizzard since the ice age. You know what? Hurry up and come back, Uranus, and bring whatever enemies you created us to destroy, because Sho and Agito and Aptom could do with a challenge.

Atom's powers are limited only by the skill and imagination of Chronos (and Zeus...) scientists. As long as they keep creating tougher hides, stronger bio-blasters, fitter physiologies and more spectacular superpowers, and forgetting to protect them with an anti-Aptom antibody, he's going to get periodic boosts as and when Takaya-san considers it necessary to the plot and comes up with another awesome design. Known Zoanoid powers we have not yet seen him use include sonic attacks and complete immunity to HF swords. Even Guyvers don't have that last one; if Guyot gets a G-unit, and Aptom eats an Enhanced Zerbubuth (we have seen some reproduced HZs and Z is one of them), he would be able to engage at close quarters and just trade HF blows (and we know he has better HF reach than a Guyver). I don't recall him using a barrier, but we've seen a HZ with one (that had a much bigger range, proportionate to body dimensions, than Gigantic), so it's only a matter of time until he incorporates one of those into his tendency to absorb a highly specialised Zoanoid and incorporate a far stronger version of its speciality into his general purpose form. The Libertus can punch holes through the 'regular' Hyper-Zoanoids from which his powers are derived, and a mere pair of Unus can eat a Libertus alive. (If Aptom made some clones with Unus bodies, could he create a gestalt with himself?) Whether or not there's any left of either, he has certainly not yet absorbed the strongest meal there is. I don't see why gravity attacks necessarily require a zoacrystal - at the very least, Barcas might well figure out how to install gravity orbs on a HZ, which would also enable levitation. And, Aptom just needs to learn how to make one orb to give himself a battery. Dyme was an extraordinary case, but Somlum's molecular glue could probably be replicated, given enough time and resources. It'd be pretty much a win-button against a nude foe that can't just shed and regrow affected dermis and limbs. His cloaking ability is likely an EM manipulation trick, which opens the door to Chronos developing the gamut of Magneto's repel-a-planetary-invasion capabilities. And Aptom cranking them up to eleven. Uranus bio-engineering is known to be able to bestow the abilities to teleport and to fight in a hard vacuum. We've yet to see a Zoanoid do those, but I'm pretty confident he's already got full aquatic adaptations on file.

Its the Zoacrystal which prevents aptom absorbing a zoalord, just like a guyver control metal stops him absorbing a guyver, though as shown with guyver 1 he can interface with the guyver and use it to enhance his attacks ala the freezing smasher. The only confirmed zoanoids with the aptom anti virus were neo zektole and enzyme 3, its unknown if he could absorb a libetus or if their super metrobolism would protect them. No reason aptom as Sully said couldn't just steal a full zoacrystal and get that added into his body after all it worked for Waferdanos as he was never designed to work with a zoacrystal either No reason a unit g would not work on aptom, the only thing it could prevent him from doing is keeping any more zoanoid dna he absorbs after he bioboosts since the current theory is once you put the armour on it puts you back to how your were when first bonded example being the scare on sho's arm still being there after the guyver regenerated him from scratch, same reason fans think if a female guyver got pregnaut she would have to avoid bio boosting until she delivers the child

I don't think it would work. The G-unit is already a parasitic organism. It might try to compete with Aptom. Plus it adapts to the host, but can it adapt further after that? Aptom is a shapeshifter, it's practically his defining power - but could the armor change shape to accomodate that?

For Aptom to "evolve" he really needs a true Zoa-Crystal. Not impossible though, if he attacked a weakened Zoalord and removed its zoa-crystal then absorbed his left over body he'd basically be a super being. Caerlon's body better be sealed away somewhere safe or incinerated

Essentially... yes. We already know that he has reached limits before. Back when he discovered he had the absorbing power, he got to a point where they were no longer powering him up, so he had to target Hyper Zoanoids. And now that he has absorbed so many Hypers, chances are his "base stats" probably will not improve very much more at this point. Sure, if he finds a Zoanoid with some new power he does not have, he certainly could still gain that... but unless he is able to absorb a proper Zoalord (Khan was still protected by the Crystal. All Aptom did was merge with the diluted giant body of the Draglord), it is unlikely he will ever reach anywhere near Gigantic levels of basic power.

Though it only references the first movie, I still thought this was great. I've always known Caulkin has had a good sense of humor about his past, and it's fun to see him openly mock it.