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It's one thing to play around with tracing when designing fan-art / non commercial stuff.... Then there's this: http://80pagegiant.blogspot.ie/2011/08/im-zuggernaut-bitch.html

as that first depiction of zuggernaut was back in 1988, i believe something was said about ripping off the guyver as his later appearances totally changed, funnily enough to more of a ripoff of alien! i wonder if maybe this actually turned off some western people from guyver, as newbies to manga they mistook this/or the first appearance of the zuggernaut to be takaya's work of the guyver?

Yeah "Apollon" was a mistranslation. The correct translation of his name is Apollyon since that is what the original Japanese says. There aren't any deeper mixes of cultures or whatever it's simply the same name as the god he is named after; Abaddon, or "Apollyon" in Greek which is where the Japanese translation comes from.

Check in once a month and enjoy these fan theory endings in the meantime (or worst case it never wraps up). I have found my peace with this series status quo:

I agree with most of what you say, tricoben. If he planned to take it to the grave with him though, I don't think he would have searched for an assistant like he did last year. Perhaps he wanted to let someone else do the work for him and oversee things. It may be misplaced, but I do think it will come to an end. It will just take some time I fear.

Yeah man I feel ya... Most of the people here are massive fans and like collecting the toys and models etc but for people in the minority like me that really couldn't care less about owning Guyver shaped lumps of plastic, this is definitely a hard series to stay interested in. It feels very much like the guy is burned out and actually dreads having to sit down and draw anymore. He's happy to make money off the back of the franchise by "assisting" with other projects but it's clear that he doesn't give a toss about selling his manga anymore which is sad. I'll still check in from time to time of course but I'm 99% sure he's taking this to the grave with him so I'm more than prepared for that.

This is basically how Guyver has been it's entire run. Sometimes we get a lot of content/merch all at once... And then nothing for a while. But we still have a bunch of Guyver merchandise on the way, despite some of the pieces being very expensive. This is similar to 10 or so years ago after the 2005 TV series ended and the BioFighter figure line ended. It certainly is not the "right" way to be releasing a manga, but it is the way Takaya gets away with... And as fans, we have to put up with. So if you feel there is nothing for Guyver to offer you, then please move on. There is no reason to waste your time on something you don't feel is worth it. Take a year or two off from it. Focus on another hobby, or maybe just another series. The worst thing anyone can do is stick around and build up frustration because there isn't any new content. I stay a Guyver fan because I do side projects based on my own Guyver related creations. That's how I fight the drought of official content... but even then there was quite a few years were I basically did nothing Guyver related ( heck, I got burnt out on anime in General). And when I came back looking for something, I found new reasons to enjoy it. But as it stands, Guyver has not been cancelled. New content is expected. Eventually. And even if I cannot afford those expensive statues, they are officially licensed... So that mean someone is paying to have this stuff made because there is still interest in a 30+ year old series But what you do is up to you.