Shin Mefilas

Came across this completely by chance while browsing in HMV, was very presently surpised.

Long time know see all. Only recently heard the news. I sort of knew this day would come but it doesn't soften the blow. It's such a shame that Takaya suffered such health problems and I wish him all the best as a fan. Guyver now finds itself alongside other unfinished works as Chapter of Ho-Oh & Getter Robo Arc. Still I brought me much fun over the years and was an important part of shaping my taste in entertainment. It also lead me to joining online forum and having fun talking about my faviort things with fellow fans. Thank you Takaya and thank you Guyver. You'll always hold a special place in my heart.

No updates I see, how unfortunate. Well I hope your all doing well.

All good points. I only speak from my perspective of the subject, and it’s that simple to me. I am myself at all time and I treat others respectfully and respect some bare minimum respect in turn. But then my view point is one far more open minded and understand to others. How that philosophy mesh’s with others is taken on a case by case basis. Perhaps at my core I don’t need others to agree with me or care what they think. That said I’m well aware that their are plenty of people who spend their time doing the reverse. of course the other issue in it all is when you apply restrictions, we’re do you stop? How do you know your restrictions are the right ones beyond what you feel? Worst of all how do you stop them being abused, even by yourself and don’t forget that just because you brought them in, dose not mean your the one befitting from them in the end. I personally prefer an imperfect, adaptable system then a hardline one. Im not suggesting that’s what your advocating for mind you. I just use it as an example to explain my thought process.

I spent so much of my younger life being bullied or treated as mentally backwards that I've got skin that that would put solid steel to shame these days. It was either go insane or deal with it, and little me dealt with it. I really don't give a toss what people say about me or think in their little, narrow minds. Thats not to say I'm impregnable though, no matter how strong you are we all have our limits. Usually I get more annoyed by people saying things about those I care about then myself. On the subject of free speech, I feel we all have the right say what we and be judged by what we say. If your spouting garbage fine, just be prepared for people think garbage of you.

Despite being a person who dearly wishs for the universe to be filled with gods, monsters, aliens etc, I have never seen anything that convinces me that such things exist. Well aliens are a high probability but not in the way we like to imagine. The closet I ever got to anythings supernatural I came to realise was just the product of groggy mind waking up, worse I found myself embellishing it mentally with fantasies of my own as time when on. These days even the memory is a patchwork of recollection and imagination. Sadly the human experience, even our own, is not as reliable as we like to believe and thats totally excluding lies. So many things, chemicals, trauma, your own mind making things up and even things like infrasound, can affect your senses and even emotional state that you can genuinely see something that is totally real to you, but is not. I've come to accept that no god plays a part in my life, my actions, good and bad, are my own and my reasonability. My morality and values were crafted by life experience, as are my flaws. The rest is just the random whims of living on a planet with so much else going on it. And if I'm wrong, well then whatever deity in the universe wanted me to worship them should have put some real effort in. 😛

Been away a long time, sad to see that things haven't improved but then thats a risk with long running Manga. If, and lets not lose all hope here, but if Guyver never comes back lets not forget it. It was my first anime, and it's an amazing series even if it remains unfinished. These days I find myself watching one of the series that inspired Guyver, Ultraman as well as all it's sequels and spin-offs. I even see some of the inspirations for Zoanoids. Zx-tole Zetton Even now I think of Guyver even when I haven't watched the series in years.

Looks really good. I would have preferred the title Maximum Carnage but this one is fine. I like that they seem to be keeping Carnage’s connection to blood, in the comic the symbiote bonded to Kasady’s blood through a cut. This made it almost impossible to remove or destroy. I wonder if Carnage will still be Venom’s offspring or something else? I mean is this a natural birth or is Carnage a piece of venom that has become its own entity? Either way Kasady seems to think he and Eddie are like family in a twisted way. That plays into his first appearance also, as Carnage created a twisted family dynamic amoung his followers in Maximum Carnage.

Goodness has it really been over a year since I was on the site. My dose time fly. Anyway to explain my log absence, I just took a break and while I did a lot happened. Case in point I met the love of my life and we are getting married this year. My fossil collection has had a couple of intreasting editions and befor covid I was able to visit china and it's many prehistoric museums. To name a few things.

We don't know much about these anti-aptom cells or the virus the interferes with his regeneration. Based on Aptom's talk dialog he finds it amazing that Zx-tole could have such abilities on top of all the powers he gained. That suggests to me that they are highly advanced feet's of genetic engineering, and there is a limit to how much modification a zoanoid can have befor it will become a lost number or just degenerate from it's biology being overtaxted. Both those modifications are too advanced for normal zoanoids at this time in guyver, and look at it in an rpg way, it takes up the limited ability slots of hyper zoanoids. I'm shore Barcas would have been working on them so he could universally upgrade the zoanoids at some point but such things take time.

"In the year 2030, Tobi City, Chiba Prefecture. Yun Arikawa of the local "multipurpose" Otaki Factory investigates clues in a European-style house, long thought abandoned. Mei Kamino, a graduate student studying fantasy creatures, investigates mysterious signals received from the Kyushino District administration bureau "Misakioku." Two strangers, visiting completely different places as part of completely different investigations, both hear the same song. This song brings the two together, and leads them into a battle beyond imagination which grips the whole world. A mystery left behind by a lone researcher, monsters appearing across the globe, and a world dyed red. Can these two face down the hopeless future (Godzilla) that threatens mankind...?"

I think we as Guyver fan tend to forget that Guyver's high of popularity was a looong time ago. I wasn't even in my teens when the early manga and ovas were doing the rounds. While it did have something of a rival in the 00s it was not the big return to glory many of us hoped. In the west guvyver has sadly long been forgotten by most anime fans, hell I can only count a hand 4 or 5 reviews of the series on youtube off the top of my head that I've ever seen. Even people who specifically review older anime like Bennet the Sage, have never done an actual review. I sadly think that is nothing but an old curiosity for only the most dedicated of older anime fans like ourselves. Once we go, it will be something people only find in old bargain bin shops or by chance online.

The King of Braves GaoGaiGar thanks to Matt's praise for the series. Just finished episode 3 and I'm enjoying it a lot already.

Time and the Rani Plot: The Rani has returned after her last encounter with the Doctor, with yet another malicious scientific scheme. Taking advantage of the post-regenerative trauma the recently regenerated and unstable Doctor is going through, the Rani hopes to achieve control of an approaching asteroid composed entirely of strange matter. Can the Doctor figure out he is being used for the Rani's evil experiment, and what is behind the door the Rani won't allow the Doctor past? Information and Thoughts: To say that the Seventh Doctor's era started with difficulties is like saying the Beetles were a mildly successful band. The show had been going through what was easily it's most tumultuous period over the previous two years, stuck in the middle of a three way battle between a producer who wanted to leave, a disgruntled head script-editor and BBC high up looking to cancel the show. While this didn't effect the 22nd season to badly, personally I think it's pretty great with only one poor story, things all came to a head in the 23erd Season. The BBC executives became actively hostile, messing with the shows budget and run time. The head writer, who had been ill during the production of the season long story arc "Trial of a Time Lord", died leaving the story without a proper conclusion. The script-editor quite and in an act of spite legally forbad the production team from using any ideas from the deceased writers notes on how the story would end. Naturally this all resulted in what is easily the worst season in the classic series entire run and left none truly knowing what the future held. Fans and the general audience also turned against the show at this time, due to the bad stories, complaints of the shows increasing violence during the high of the video nasties scare and the BBC actively working to turn them against Doctor Who. It was in this atmosphere that Seventh Doctor's era came into being, and it didn't get any easier. The producer, who thought he'd finally be leaving, was told at the eleventh hour that he was going to have to stay and that the show would continue but only if Colin Baker (the Sixth Doctor) was fired. So not only was the show going to now have less episodes and less budget, it now had no script editor and no leading man. By the time that was all rectified they also had only have the normal production time. An up cliff battle if I ever saw one. Prior to starting this dedicated following of the Seventh Doctor's era, I have only ever watched stories from his later season were the character was more developed and the show back on track. I'd never watched any of season 24 till now and the difference from this story from what would come later is almost whiplash inducing. The story is clearly suffering from massive re-edits to compensate for the change in leading man as well as possible other changes enforced by the BBC or fear of being perceived as to violent. This is made worse by the fact that it's not a particularly strong story anyway with parts of the Rani's plan making no logical sense. Production wise its a very mixed bag. Most of the story takes place on location in a quarry or on sets, with said sets looking about average for the show. The enslaved Lakertyrans, who are ment to be reptile humanoids, look passible enough but Rani's henchman, the bat like Tetraps, look positively awful despite having well functioning animatronic heads. Where issues crop up rather noticeably is in the animated/digital affects. The Tetrap's guns fire awful looking sparkles which turn into a net, which appear to be dropped on the actors head, a swarm of killer insects is represented by 3 or 4 green fly blobs on screen and while this is the first time a 3D model of the TARDIS is ever used in the series, it looks severely dated. On the plus side most of the miniatures used for the story look pretty good, save for the Tetraps's Lair. There are also one or two moments of green screen that don't look particularly good ether. Perhaps the worst part of the whole thing is how unceremonious the Sixth Doctor end is. While multiple later works would try to rework events preceding the TARDIS's crash landing to give Sixth a more dignified ending, which we will be touching on after we've gone though all the main episodes, at the time and within the continuity of just the show it really just looks like the Doctor fell and banged his head. It's easily the worst death suffered by any incarnation of the Doctor. This all came about becuase the BBC would not allow Colin Baker to reprise his role for one more full story. He in turn refused to come back for the regeneration, which resulted in Sylvester McCoy having to dawn a wig and have bad CGI affects put over his face. It's pretty hard to judge the Seventh Doctor in this story. Not only becuase this is a regeneration story, in which the character is always more erratic, but also because McCoy had had no time to develop the character. The Rani giving him amnesia and trying to manipulate him only compounds the problem. As a result Seventh in this story comes off as a bumbling professor who constantly gets old saying wrong such as "Absence makes the nose grow longer" and "Time and tide melt the snowman". That said, while he lacks the darker intensity he would later have, characteristic's of the Seventh Doctor personality can be seen here. In particular moments were he broods about not now who he is or talks about sensing evil. He also has noticablie more humility then the Sixth Doctor. In spite of all the problems though I think McCoy performance is entertaining enough but it clearly lacks any kind of direction. Honestly if this was my introduction to the Seventh Doctor I'd likely not be as interested in his era. As for his outfit, I've always liked it. Yes the question mark jumper is a bit on the nose but you get used to it very quickly. His companion Mel is a bit of an odd duck. She was introduced during the confusing Trial of a Time Lord story arc were we see her in the Sixth Doctor's future. How she came to travel with him is a total mystery within the series, though again later works have explained their meeting. Mel is ment to a computer expert and something of a fitness freak, though in this story you'd be had pressed to tell. While in the last season she was never written in a way that fully displayed what her character was described as being, here she' relegated to mostly being kidnapped, held hostage or screaming and generally dose little to advance the plot beyond finding the Doctor and getting him to come to his senses. That scene is also one of the better parts of the story as Mel was knocked out when they crashed and had no idea the doctor regenerated. The Rani is sadly a noticable downgrade from her dabut in Mark of the Rani. The Rani is a rogue time lord like the Doctor and the Master, she is a brilliant chemist who suffers from a total lack of empathy. She see's the universe in chemical process and scientific facts, though she dose also possess a desire to rule and was the queen of at least two worlds at some point. She's was created to be something of an oppasite to the theatrical, over the top evil the Master displayed in his overly complicated schemes. But again you'd never have guess tat if this was your introduction to the character. While her end goal is very much in line with the her personality, her plan is full of logical flaws and pointless complications. It's a real shame because Kate O'Mara is fantastic in the role and dose a great job of elevating the material. The rest of the caste do an ok job, their are no real stand outs good or bad. On a side note, while it dose look very dated by todays standards, I've always loved the Seventh Doctor's title sequence. In fact I'll say it's my faviort. I'm not shore if the 3D model of the TARDIS used in the episode was the same as the one used in the title but the title model looks better at least to me. I also want to say that I have a real soft spot for this really old CGI even if I do give it the odd jab now and then. It gives the Seventh Doctor's era a distinct visual look from pretty much every other era of the show. To sum up this is not a very good example of the show or introduction to our new leading man. It's very messy and in much need of some polish but then given what was going on behind the scenes I can't be too hard on it. The is a lot of disagreement over wither Time and the Rani or The Twin Dilemma is the worst story in classic Doctor Who, ad the worst post regeneration story. In my opinion they are equal in different way. I feel that Time and the Rani has the better production values and story, for all it's flaws, but is really let down by not having a clear idea of the Doctor's character. Twin Dilemma a worst story and production but is elevated by Tom Baker's performance. While I can't say If this is the worst of doctor Who, I can only recommend this story on the fact that this is the Seventh Doctor's first appearance and not much else. Final Score: 2/5