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theguyver.net experienced some issues and I was focusing my energy on this site. I left the administration of theguyver.net in the hands of youngguyver. after time, this forum became very popular and the guyverboard was not as popular. we agreed to shut down the guyverboard and use this forum for both sites. then after some more time, the guyvernet unexpectedly went down. we never really got any kind of info about it and the domain is apparently locked to the old registrar so it is inaccessible to us. and so with that, the site was lost. to get the full story about that, we just need to wait until youngguyver is ready to talk to us about it. I haven't asked because, frankly I left it to him so it's not really my place to say anything. I don't have any right to ask about it.

before we do anything like that, we have to bring up the question of what a watermark will achieve. let's consider the situation that we currently have. we place our mark on the lower right hand corner of each release. if we visit the manga hosting site in question, we see our work being reposted. it is obvious because right there on the page is our mark on the bottom right hand corner. so what has this mark achieved? nothing. so then consider the situation where we make the mark bigger, and cover all of the art with it. we can then go and look at manga hosting sites to see if they have taken it. do you think our watermark will have stopped them? of course not. they will do exactly the same as they have already done. what will we have achieved? you know the answer. I like a scanlation as much as the next guy, trust me. but we cannot let these sites get away with this drenn. plus, seriously guys, if we want manga that is enjoyable to read in english, on the page, then shouldn't we be pushing harder to get it officially published? I know I probably don't do enough myself. I'd like to try harder to get a release over here. I just hope I can help to inspire others to do what I have failed to so far.

I don't know about bioweapons, but nothing happened to warrior guyver, it is still alive and kicking - http://warriorguyver.com/

yeah I agree with you actually. even with my misgivings about the costume designs, I do like the way the dinosaurs look. that chunky design makes me think of cake. the t-rex looks like he has icing on him~! but aside from that, it looks dynamic and the shape looks like it goes through quite an advanced and interesting transformation. it could have a similar juvenile feel like kamen rider fourze, but at the same time could be quite trendy.

sorry, no. only libertus and Griselda. I have a guyver 1 figure, but it is a very old recast vinyl kit, painted by me. probably not very desirable.

if you want to continue watching dairanger, then perhaps we could give you some advice about torrenting? if so, then you can make a new thread about torrenting and we can give you all the details about safety and security etc.

oh, well just keep in mind that any of these fine people posting here could be just as shy as you are. you don't necessarily think their posts are stupid, so they think the same way. that way you don't need to be afraid

wow, that was pretty nifty Matt! nicely done! Lost unit, I am intrigued about your idea, I'll look forward to finding out what you have in mind.

I don't think he had time. for guyver II F, her CM is not damaged like guyver 2. it is made to look like it artistically, but it is just constructed from segments. I'm not sure if it has any relevance there. I don't know where the data came from but there was a slideshow that was presented to shin-tachi in book 7 I think. it had images of guyver II so i am sure they had access to a lot. the remover, work by telling the CM to delete user data. I am not sure that the gigantic armour would even have any effect on the transmission of that protocol. I am thinking that the signal would get through and the CM would obey.

you might remember firehead if you think of a little chibi kamen rider faiz. about 6 months ago, I edited all new registrations to be restricted until after a certain number of comments. after so many comments (not too many) it will upgrade you automatically to a member+ I'm thinking I can upgrade you manually though. I know you from before. I was surprised your post count was so low because i do remember you. I only culled members with less than 20 posts that had not visited in over 2 or 3 months. so perhaps there was an error?

here is a test of the html encoded page. I am thinking this would be a good way to present the monthly chapters and perhaps the tankoubons as well. http://japan-legend.com/guyver_advocacy/htmltest/1301-01.html This is a far easier process than cleaning and typesetting. of course it does not use photoshop so for our typesetters, I would have to give the process and the program to use. once it is set up though, it is very easy.

how would i say... I'm not actually 'angry' or 'seething with rage'.... my anger is more the type that sits in the bottom of my mind and is calm and calculating. I don't react to rage, I just get very determined and very decisive. I make sure I make a decision well. statistics? in december, around 500 people have viewed our latest chapter release. I can't really tell much more than that. are guyver advocacy any better than other scanlation groups? no. I would expect a large amount of them have the same mission as us. manga hosting sites though... what is their mission? to make money off scanlation groups' work? it creams my corn. but as you pointed out, that site does have a link to buy the manga... that is admirable. but why have they not asked us if they can host our work? if their intention is a noble one, then surely it would be most appropriate to actually talk to us? it is very easy to contact us. so I must assume they are not noble, they merely do that to try and appear like good guys. even if we were to consider ourselves thieves for what we do (which I don't) there is such a thing as a thieves code. even thieves don't steal from other thieves. those who do are seen as lowest of the low. this is of interest - http://www.evilflowe...ments/dear-fans I'm going to open registrations. the point has been made. and keeping them closed will not achieve anything productive. I don't agree with watermarks, I agree with the reasoning behind it and i am pleased with the ideas people are providing, but I do not want to give these sites any quarter. I would like to call an end to scanlating in the way that we have been doing. I want to make it very clear, I do not want any images produced by guyver advovcacy that can be ripped off and merely re-posted to a manga aggregation site. I have an idea that i wish to go with. my proposal is a HTML coded scanlation. the page would feature the original japanese image. when the user floats the mouse pointer over the dialogue bubble, the english text would be displayed. there would be no image for manga sites to take and repost. this means that people who like to save the manga on their hard drive, would have no way of doing this, apart from saving the html page itself. but this is far better than having no guyver advocacy at all. edit: Durendal sorry to suggest that you didn't care, I was more hoping to say that you don't make a big deal out of it recently, pretty much what you said

V Guyver, thanks, that's really helpful. I can answer most of your questions with a positive. at the moment, let us say that since I started this website, I have not worked. I was in university, but after that, I went into a really poor job market. I've tried looking at things many way, looking for a way to change my situation, but I am still for all intents and purposes, stuck. now I have an opportunity. I know deep down that it will work well and will be beneficial for me. But it is pretty huge. I definitely need to do it right. actually, I know what my concern was and it was misplaced. I was judging my future by today's standards. I was thinking about how I felt at that moment and applying it to my 'forecast' of the future. When I thought about it carefully, I realised that my future has so much potential if I keep true. I'll share more about it later. wonderful to read about it, thank you!

to be honest I would really like to know how everyone else feels about this. sure, I am paying for this site every month, I did start the advocacy project, and helped to grow it, I do maintain the workings of this place... but I'm not too stupid to realise that if I were to stop doing all of this, some other people would do it instead. also, the other people who have contributed have as much to say about this as I. Durendal, it is clear that you are not too fussed about it. But those pages on that site have been worked on by some of you guys too. how do you feel about it. are you happy for me to champion this cause on your behalf or would you rather I hold back and not react strongly in your interests? then there are some great suggestions here. to place a very large watermark on it would certainly be effective. if people are in favour of that, then I would add my support to that idea as well. personally, I don't think it is fair. sometimes when fans are relying on me to do something such as uploading some files or liaising between our contributors, I make the decision to not do anything because I am so upset by people stealing our hard work. And this is not fair on the people who have done nothing wrong. by all means if you can find a way to help me be ok with this kind of thing, that is if you think it is ok, then do that. because i don't like being angry. guyver0, I need to point out that you are here today, the day this thread was posted, and you have made a large amount of posts, you are contributing constructively, people like you would not need to be concerned. it is easy for any of us to tell who is a supporter of this site and who is not. clue: the ones who don't support this site are not here and do not post. after all, I cannot imagine that anyone here could be so callous and two faced to be here pretending to support us and then rip us off at the next moment.

I've done that with other sites, and been ignored many times. which makes me angrier. and I don't think I ought to go down a path that will make me angrier. to be honest, this is just one site that we have become aware of, this is representative of any number of other sites that we haven't learnt about yet. it's not this one site that is the bad egg, it is all sites like this and it's when another one is highlighted it is one big reminder of how people are responding to us.

I tried watching a bit more and I think it sort of picked up, but I stopped watching because I was starting to feel a little depressed. it's a shame because some of the events that actually happened were quite powerful, it was very impressive. the subject matter though... it is bleak. I mean how much more bleak can you get than people falling into the depths of despair? it had potential to be very uplifting but they don't seem to be hitting the right notes.

ah sorry about that Aether, I got mixed up with who suggested it because we were all conversing at the same time. yeah it's tough. I get so angry when people do this. I feel like I ought to ask myself if I am a hypocrite to get so angry. I mean, we are presenting yoshiki takaya's work without his express permission. but i thought about this. we are doing this to try and raise the status of his work and for that reason alone. we are not simply copying his manga so people can get it for free, we are translating it and presenting a translated version because it is not available elsewhere. but that is where the train should stop. we have made it available in english, there is no reason and no excuse for posting it elsewhere. unless it is in a different language. I agree with leaving various things in public domain, things that are already there. I think that moving on from here, we'll need to think about how we can all approach scanlations of future chapters, but chapters that are already done, they have already been ripped off so there is no sense in withholding them. it achieves nothing.

it does give a better view. right now, I just feel like i'm looking at cos play. it makes me sad when the new series looks like this. it makes me think that the budget is next to nothing and that toei are just giving up on the franchise. I just hope I'm wrong and that there is some excellent details that become apparent when it is moving.

i've closed new registrations for now. but maybe it will achieve nothing by making the registrations restricted. I mean, all that would achieve is stopping people from talking with us. I think that what would be required is a separate user group for people who I know and trust and a hidden forum that gives access to scanlations. after all, scanlations did arise merely out of an interest in helping our friends to read it easier. the translations originally started out as just that. text translations. it took us a long time to decide that it might be ok to scanlate. I mean, our intention is to make it easier for people who own the manga, to read the manga. NOT to give manga to people for free.

if that were to happen, guyver advocacy would have been a success. but up til now all we have seen is cheap-ass manga hosting sites, ripping off hard work without so much as a by-your leave, to drive up their traffic and reap the profits from their advertising.

bbdude, you took the thought right outta my head. I was thinking last night before i fell asleep that the best thing for me to do is to close registrations and then delete all members who are inactive. then make a subforum only accessible to members who I know and trust. those members can get a scanlation. the other members.... maybe we can release just the translation to the general public after a while?

you have 470 posts and have been around since before this site existed. you have no reason to be concerned. but just to elaborate, durendal's suggestion was to give each member a undetectably unique version of a scanlation so that if it were ever re-posted, we could easily track it back to the perpetrator.

scrutinize what? that they are yet another site that have took our work without permission? the fact that they have removed our credits page? the fact that our requests not to mirror our work have been ignored? yes it is very gracious that they voted guyver at 97 percent when they are essentially violating the very i9dea of guyver advocacy. I was planning on purchasing guyveradvocacy.org to push this site into a new era, but things like this upset me so much that I am rethinking it. durendal, if you are reading this, I am starting to think we should go with your idea. to not release any translation to the general public and reserve it only for trusted members who we know well. I'm sick of this drenn. well anyway, thanks for posting this v-guyver. we needed to know.

the shots themselves are awkward. I think what might need to be done is to slow them down, in which case they would need to be slightly animated. or something.