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The original series was my first exposure to anime. I'll always love it, for that reason alone. Generally, the animation was good, no us a few episodes. I prefer the style of animation to today's standard. The story was well told, but being so different to the source material is my only real complaint. I also love the new one. Closer to the source material, but with some acceptable changes. It retold the story for a newer audience and even showed off the mysterious Zoalords, which is better than any Guyver/Zoanoid battle in my opinion. I do prefer the older series slightly, but I enjoyed the later too

The old one. Grew up with it. The voice acting and the soundtrack stayed with me forever.

i really do like the animations of the older ones. i always look up cools gifs of guyver and the older ones are always so amazing. but obviously it's older and the animation isn't always amazing, but when it is good i think it's just on another level.

Personally I like the animation more in the older one. An OVA requires a lot more animation work than putting together a TV series where you can cut corners(imo). Some of the animation in the 2005 series is very static and not very fluid. While the designs are not completely consistent in the old OVA the animation is a lot more fluid. Six of one, half a dozen of another right? I mostly prefer the OVA because it uses the same art style as the manga.

I just finally saw that! sorry i've been sorta inactive but i always check on the site for new chapters. i've been on this site for years but never said anything but everyone here is so friendly and has so much love for guyver that i don't feel alone. i will join the review thread though and appreciate your input. i feel like the new series has too much of a appeal to everyone feel and not the dark violent guyver feel i grew up with.

The old one was better in certain ways, especially how it did not hold back the violence (the Enzyme battle... what a contrast) - Guyver is about violence. Humanity's identity in any form is shaped by violence. Not just the human race, but all forms of life on Earth were created for this purpose; and our freedom was gained when our creators wanted to see whether we could be made even better at violence, and we turned out to be too good at it! Warfare appears to be the rule in this universe, with conflict stretching across hundreds of millions of years. Not to mention how people's inner self, or what they believe it to be, is violated, bent and hammered to violence. Sho, an ordinary kid, is turned into the deadliest thing in the world, perhaps the universe. Mizuki and her brother - and Natsuki - being the obvious exceptions. If Mizuki ever uses force, even to defend herself, it will truly be a milestone moment. Natsuki being a Christian, I wish I knew more about Japanese Christianity. I suspect it has a lot in common with Buddhism. Anyway... the old series better in certain ways, but obviously the new one being superior in others. The animation, for one. And while it takes liberties with the manga timeline, it evidently improves the story and allows for more character development. The original... The remake.

Absolutely with the soundtrack, I listen to it all the time still. Later on though, because I became accustomed to watching anime in general, I actually watched it in Japanese instead of English and I liked it more in Japanese.

Haha I started this thread and I haven't even had time to rewatch it yet as I've been so damn busy. Will get on this tomorrow!

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