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if we check the diagram of enzyme II where it shows a cross section of them, doesn't it show the enzyme generating/storage organ in the area where guyver III punched that enzyme?

I believe showa is the reign of emperor hirohito. the emperor of Japan through world war 2 and up to the year indicated by Dave. the thing about N city, it was made to be vague as it is not a real place. it is based on a real place though. Nagano. there is a mountain very much like minakami there, you can find it on google earth. but it doesn't appear to be as large as mount minakami. so it is N town, N prefecture. is takeshiro in the manga? I don't recall. I think takeshiro could have been a name given to the village just for the 12 part OVA.

special effects have a long way to go IMO. I think with special effects, the physical models have so much charm. I think it's more about the craftsmanship than any technological capability. I am not sure about hurricanger but i think there was some CGI in it, but it didn't look bad. it was used well. I think CGI needs to compliment the live action footage. A good example of how physical effects can be better than CGI is the film prometheus. a lot of the sfx in that was done physically. the tall white dudes, they were real people. I don't think any CGI could have come up with something as amazing as that. because it is effortless. it is real. there is no mistaking it. no worrying about light rays or transparency etc. it's real. and its beautiful.

the fire is really nice again! the image looks really good. I don't know ghost rider but i think it has something to do with johnny cage. is it a comic book or a novel or something? anyway, he looks scary. a flaming skull and all that. wouldn't wanna mess with him!

I liked that bit. I read a little of that part because i noticed he called him 'ama-chan'. I translated it as 'softy'. I was toying with whether to post it because it was so funny, but i didn't get chance to check it.

sure, yeah I would consider western union. There is a store in town that has a western union computerised thing. I think it is as simple as setting up a password. last price on it? well the bare minimum is my starting price. but I would be very unhappy with that amount for it. I think I would be very happy with 60, so I think I would be satisfied with 40. I might be ok with a bit less, but it really depends on circumstances. if a complete stranger offered me less than 40 I would say no straight away.

for paying in cash, the buyer would be able to send it by recorded delivery. this is as safe as any other method as if a dispute ever came up, there would be proof of the mail arriving at its destination. the £60 may be steep for some people. that is the buy it now price. I set it at that because the book is so rare and real collectors would pay that price. I know if I had a job, I would be prepared to pay that much. but anyhow, that is the buy it now price, the auction starts at 25. btw, if any of the regular members on this forum want to buy it, I would be willing to end the auction early and negotiate on a price.

that really depends on the criteria. can there ever be a 'pinnacle', story wise? as long as they continue focusing on story seriously then we can look forward to good series. the effects... well I have been very impressed with dairanger in some places. for example, the bits where we follow ryuseioh flying are incredible. that thing is so well made and is a delight to watch. in comparison, all recent super sentai have been pretty poor. making those marionettes is a true art and you can see the love that goes into them. the CGI effects are not quite so lovingly crafted. I don't know about dairanger being the best sentai in history, I heard tell that jetman is the best. I don't know though because i've never seen it. well I did watch the first episode a bit and there was some rather good comedy moments in it.

yep, I agree. i guess it would be relatively simple to fix that shot considering that guyver is not actually moving in it. I'm not really good at drawing guyver from scratch though so I'd need to hunt down a manga frame with that kind of pose in it.

most members don't understand Japanese. The current available version is quite small and difficult to read, also, Guyver Four said he is going to get a better version so it's good to wait for that. also, Durendal is away on work at the moment. thanks I'll look forward to what you come up with

it's got a lot of pages so its a pretty big job to capture each page. I've uploaded all images I took of it. perhaps it'll be something that I can re-obtain in the future when I'm working. but right now I need to eat.

well guys, I have listed my CD and Novel for sale on Ebay. I just really need money so sorry to those who were waiting for me to finish uploading scans/photos of the novel. CD http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271112160951 Novel http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271112179978

I like the detail on the guy in the background. the ones in the front make me think of kamen rider double. the fire is really nice. I didn't notice it. just looked at the logo and realised it was flames, so i looked at your flames everywhere, very nice, looks proper.

thanks salkafar so I prepared some more colour schemes, here is the colour scheme/s proposed by mr mctaco:- and what it would look like if aptom didn't change his colour.

Thanks I appreciate it. I'm not sure exactly why I felt this way on this occasion. If I figure it out I'll let you know.

so far I have seen 4 or 5 episodes of dairanger. I have to say this is outstanding! I mean, having gotten used to the formulaic structure of much super sentai, this is quite surprising. a whole episode with NO MECHA? wow, this is certainly what has made it stand out for me. I have been watching super sentai for a while and i got the impression that the writers had a sort of rule book and rule number #1 is "there must be mecha fight in every single episode" . in fact, for a long while, I was convinced that each episode had to have a mecha fight at around 3/4 of teh way through and then a short 5 minute roundup after the mecha fight. I figured that gobusters was 'progressing' by not having the mecha fight at the end all the time and also breaking it up a bit. but now I find out that there is an earlier series with far more integrity than even gobusters. I don't even care that it is old because it seems that I'm actually watching a series where story trumps the special effects. sure, watching tokusatsu is bad when it is old and the main focus is the special effects. because when the main focus of the show is a por quality compared to what i am used to, then what can they possibly do. nothing. it is just bad. but when the main focus os the story, then it doesn't matter about the quality of the effects.

thanks for the update. I would like to watch a current kamen rider series, but I certainly don't want to watch trash. I was thinking of checking up on it to see if it had improved but sadly it seems it hasn't? that is a real shame. I don't even mind if there is minimal story and just a monster of teh week, as long as that weekly stand-alone story is interesting in and of itself. shows like kamen rider ryuki had periods where the main story didn't really move along. but even those individual episodes had interesting plot twists and turns that made it interesting and worth watching. even shows like gaoranger had interesting individual episodes.

Don't want to be a douche, but I do object to my work being edited in such a fashion. I've tried to be ok with it, but however I look at it, I just don't like it. I spent a lot of time on those vectors and to edit them so frivolously actually hurts. I'd like to say feel free to do whatever you like with it... but on this occasion, I just can't. could you remove it please and use the original image by takaya? I'd certainly appreciate it.

I was thinking about a light red just now... let's see what everyone else thinks. I can make a further revision based on that.

well let's see what the verdict is. this is how i initially thought of it before i found out who it was.... this is how i think it might be coloured. I think you can guess why i chose this colour scheme. in case you don't get it, the crystals are coloured as aptom omegablast chest crystals, the 'skin' is coloured as aptoms imitation guyver form.

good, nice qulity. so a japanese good quality version should not be too long then so, I'm looking at the way it is shaded, it appears that when it detaches from shou, the shading changes so I think that is suggesting it is a different colour from aptom's omega blast form. but what sort of different colour... I would like to think it wouldn't be blue as a change of colour from blue-ish, to another blue-ish colour wouldn't be that noticeable to show a different shading effect. maybe i'm just reading into it too much.

heh heh, I would love to do that... but it is crazy work to do by myself. it took a few nights to do a 3 second clip animating is difficult, but to be honest, a lot of the work that takes more time is the colouring work and stuf that somebody else could potentially do. no animation skill is necessary for that. so if anyone was thinking about offering to help but think they cannot animate, please say so and we could work on something. the animation itself is merely lines.

agreed, it is so awesome to see shou being so bold. he has gone from a fleeing rabbit to a respectable warrior.

great finds! sad that a guy had to die for us to find this, but amazed that there is a real life richard guyot!

thanks salkafar, bbdude I did just remember one issue. I recall the framerate of the original clip was not constant. I animated in twos ( that is repeating each frame twice) whereas the original clip is not completely consistent and sometimes has 3 frames and sometimes has 2. also, the rames are slightly blended at times. probably deterioration due to transferring to diffrent sources and alteration of framerate along the way.