Matt Bellamy

Once again Max Watanabe comes through and posted an image of himself and Yoshiki Takaya. Though Takaya looks very different compared to all his previous photos.

 

Here is to hoping that his weight loss was on purpose and not because of something serious!

12 hours ago, durendal said:

New Gundam series is out.  Witch from Mercury.  So far I like it.  It has some parallels with Revolutionary Girl Utena, but I'm still enjoying it nonetheless.  I'm also surprised that this has come out in Netflix.  Although not so surprising since Hathaway's Flash streamed in Netflix as well only a month after it's premier.  Can't wait for part 2.

I haven't watched it yet... But like the previous attempt... G-Reco... I don't like the character designs or the outfits designs of the characters... The mecha designs look decent though, so I will still be giving it a chance. Waiting until I get 3 episodes built up to watch all 3 and see if it makes sense at all... Unlike G-Reco...

But also, old man who doesn't like a lot of newer tropes/trends with series (ie no longer the generation things are made for)... so... oh look! A cloud for me to yell at!

Deadpool 2 didn't do much for me the same way the first movie did, as I believe that one review put it properly that " Deadpool is almost too much... but the breaks in the story in the movie help you not get completely sick of his shtick."

Deadpool 2 was too much and not nearly as good in my opinion ( also didn't help the kid they were trying to save was a complete ass and kind of wanted him dead).

But here is to hoping that Hugh Jackman's Logan/Wolverine can help the third film find a better balance. I mean he's carried multiple X-men movies almost by himself, I am sure he will do well for this franchise.

5 hours ago, ALASTOR said:

Sorry but your theory is wrong.

Yoshiki Takaya is a lazy person but also a smart one: That's why we never seen the Advents.

No theory is "wrong" until proven by Takaya.

Just like the theory that Imakarum is Apollyon. Some people still believe it is someone else, despite all the evidence from the books saying otherwise being pointed out to them.

You can discuss and call theories unlikely or implausible... unless it is a topic that has been covered in the manga. If it has, then something can be "wrong", because the author said so.

5 hours ago, ALASTOR said:

You have a big collection.💪

You should find a better position for The Guyver from the movie (he looks like he's hiding 😁).

Could you show besides the Guyver what else you have.

(I can see a card from Yu-Gi-Oh and some Mecha) 👍 I like it!

 

Yeah, the Guyver in the back is actually Guyver 1 and not from the live action movies. But it's a very old kit. he is kind of hidden due to actually having his horn broken. Gotta get some glue to fix that up.

There also isn't any Yu-gi-oh stuff in the picture at all... though that is not me saying I don't have any, because I do. Was a pretty big fan of the card game for a while... Though figure wise, I only have a chibi Dark Magician Girl (always loved my old spellcaster deck)

I am currently waiting on getting some new glass shelves cut, as my current shelves are full... But have a ton of space in between that I can move them around to fit more... But I currently have over 6 of the glass units full, plus some extra shelves on my computer desk and on my walls... things that rage from a TON of Iron Man figures ( have always been a huge fan, even before the MCU), other Marvel Legends, lots of Gunpla, various mecha shows like Tekkaman Blade, Macross, Gaogaigar, Gurren lagann, Getter Robo, Code Geass, Evangelion, Pacific Rim, Transformers... a bunch of Kamen Rider/Sentai figures... Some video game figures from Halo, Devil May Cry, Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, KOTOR, Megaman X, Zone of the Enders...

But most importantly... the Samurai Pizza Cats.

I... have a... LOT of random stuff from various series/genres. I still have pics from my old place of all my shelves way back from 2013... but I have added so much since then as well.

Finally got some shelf holders to compensate for the size of the Sanken Gigantic figures, so now I have a shelf to put my newer BFC figures.

4 hours ago, durendal said:

Well, I'm actually surprised that it took this long for the scanlations to be posted somewhere.  Despite the advocacy's efforts to curtail unauthorized reproduction and support the author, there are just some things they cannot control.  This just means that the longing the more avid fans haven been feeling all these years will be felt by the general public as well.  

Hmm... perhaps given the attention widespread scanlation does to a title, perhaps this will let the author know that there are a lot more fans out there than they expect, and hopefully push out new chapters.  Well, here's hoping...

Well, the person uploading them says it is their own translation. So it's the way that we have always said someone should do it if they wanted it all out there for free: Go do it yourself. It's not nearly as hard as it used to be with translation software getting better and better.

But no one ever wanted to put the time in for Guyver. Now someone finally has, and the rest of the free readers can now access what they new person is posting.

Pre-order is up!

https://www.goodsmileus.com/product/figma-guyver-1-ultimate-edition-10337

Just saw this image, and it seems to be legit. Guyver 1 is getting a what looks like, a completely new Figma release. Kind of makes sense when you compare the quality of the two Female Guyver 2's and Guyver 3... the original Guyver 1 Figma was pretty poor in comparison.

The two big difference seems to be the megasmasher area of the chest and the head. No longer has the figma joint sticking out like a sore thumb, but the additional ab piece has been removed. The head proportions also seem to be improved. Much smaller eyes than the original figma.

*EDIT*

Added more pics that were found on twitter.

On 8/1/2022 at 4:10 PM, MrDawn said:

All of Archanfel's zoalords serving under him are male. Why did he only choose men? 

 

I would assume that it is because even when Guyot was chosen, Men were always only known as the stronger sex throughout history. It only makes sense he would choose male individuals who likely were succeeding in whatever field they were in when they were chosen.

Remember, we're not talking decades. We're talking centuries ago when most were picked.

On 7/28/2022 at 4:10 PM, MrDawn said:

I can neither confirm nor deny. The way Yuki stated in this above post is that Aptom is basically a rechargeable battery. Even if he is completely drained of his own energy, he'll recharge over time (obviously). The amount of time that it takes for him to do that though is unspecified. Some of the Lost Number type zoanoids that he ate and assimilated, were glass canon types much like Toshiaki Hayami the Bio Freezer zoanoid. They hit heavy but the amount of bio energy that they put out drains them quickly. Hayami's freeze attack left him drained and to the point of passing out.  Aptom seems to be suffering from this weakness as well when he burns too much energy using the same attacks.

Originally, Aptom was designed by Dr. Barcas to optimize into regular zoanoid types and he could increase the power output on their attacks and not suffer any fatigue from it. Barcas didn't want him eating other zoanoids and so with him not wanting Aptom to cannibalize his own kind explained a lot of things to me. 

When he started eating the souped up zoanoid types (hypers and lost numbers); keep in mind those advanced zoanoids were optimized to end fights quickly because of how much energy they put out. Like in the anime, Richard Guyot thought by upgrading  Zerbebuth with anti guyver genetic traits was with the idea  for that zoanoid to beat the guyver quickly. Unit 1 figured this out and waited until Zerbebuth used up his energy reserves showing off and went in for a killing blow when he wore himself down doing so. 

We know that Cronos's biggest problem with its combat types is energy usage. Including the Zoalords. This is why their Zoacrystals are basically batteries to power their own Zoa forms. This is also likely why Aptom runs out of gas so quickly, because he does not have a battery to draw from... Where the Guyver draws its energy from the boost dimension/hyperspace... Thus why it is likely a Guyver Zoalord would be so powerful.

And Aptom was not DESIGNED by Barcas to do what he can do. He was designed to mimic multiple types of Zoanoids, but was always considered a failure as they always came out weaker than wanted. It was Barcas trying to perfect his idea that forced the mutation into what he became... But Barcas had no idea what he was doing and only accidentally created what Aptom now is, and only found out after Aptom told him when he was absorbing Elegan.

On 7/29/2022 at 12:55 PM, MrDawn said:

Son, you have a gift. Do you ever sketch zoalords?

Occasionally! Been a while though.

Since Max just posted another tweet about the 1/6th scale Guyver 1 figure, I thought I would start a thread compiling older and new tweets from him regarding the Guyver figures.

As of July 4, 2022, this is the latest:

6 hours ago, ALASTOR said:

In the manga Aptom says to Dr. Balkus " By absorbing another organism into my body, like this... I can convert its flesh to heat energy" which charge his body energy. Zx-tole can absorb ambient heat energy but also solar energy (like the Ark), "which Alkamphel utilized to restore the body of Imakarum Mirabilis leaving the Ark without energy." I believe he can do it but never thought about it. Like when he created a energy shield (utilizing Elegan's powers) to protect himself from the Megasmasher the same way Hyper Zx-tole did versus Guyver 3's Megasmasher. He has a lot of potential but doesn't have much imagination.

I would be wary of using the Viz translation as a definite source, as the translation is not great.

Most other sources just list it as "bio energy" that he absorbs along with their flesh.

14 hours ago, ALASTOR said:

Could he recharge his energies with the wings he gained from Zx-tole DNA?

No, that's a different type of energy. For the Blaster Tempest, Zx-tole was absorbing ambient heat/radiation from the surrounding area to charge the attack. Aptom would need more than just extra heat energy to live off of.

Some of you may have seen some of these if not all already if you were on certain Facebook groups or following me on Deviant art... but here is a dumps of artwork I have recently completed.

GuyverC Gigantic - Originally just did the head and cropped out the body, since I just reused my Guyver Gigantic pic... But recently decided just to finish it off.

 

Female Warrior GuyverC

 

Giant Female GuyverC - Artemis

Gigantic Warrior Guyver 2 - Juggernaught

 

Warrior Guyver 3

 

Gigantic Warrior Guyver 3 - Zeus

 

 

Warrior Proto-G Archanphel

Warrior Proto-G Archanphel Battle mode

 

W'Kar Sho Fukamachi - Deus

 

W'Kar Agito Makishima - Ares

 

On 5/18/2022 at 1:11 AM, NotHappyUG said:

Yeah that's at the start of book 32, since I can't get a hold of 29,30 or 31 at this time I thought it was rather wtf? I figured out Testoro and Mizuki are still on the island and begun to make sense lol. But yeah book ended with Gigantic Dark Exceeded grabbing what's his face zoalord who turned into a ball. I'm guessing then Guyver is still on hiatus?

Welcome back.

And the story went a slight bit farther than that. That is where book 32 ended, but there were 2 monthly (small) chapters after the fact... but the chapters basically just explain how Exceed Darkness escaped the super cell (Gravity implosion technique) and that Jabir ends up trying to run away, with his large ash form starting to dissipate and then showing his normal battle form on that last page flying away.

And that was over 6 years ago now.

Here is the 2 raw chapters if anyone wants them. They would basically equal 1 chapter in the normal volumes. I don't even have the translated chapters on the PC at the moment due to an HD malfunction.

Book 33 - Chapters.zip

On 6/10/2022 at 4:38 PM, jead said:

Hi, can anyone reupload these? Me and a good friend are looking for them, but all the uploads are down... Thank you!

These aren't the original scans that were offered, but the scans I made of my own books for my friends.

But we are all Guyver friends, yes? 😄

Vol 1.

https://mega.nz/file/j0cyiZob#-yS1388R9rrDzn5efa3LmeS9T3u0FzIPRsl16shT7Zk

Vol 2.

https://mega.nz/file/mg9WwbqL#tVrrnBfGRLAmvsGfpCpu8JzpbzTw4TCGsWOgXtN8FE0

Vol 3.

https://mega.nz/file/r5l0WBCa#_7Y1M7opBkS9VFZzcfrh0aAZPFXAlGcdffon7II3bEM

On 2/10/2022 at 8:11 AM, MrDawn said:

Just wondering. Is the Zeus reference that Agito keeps using, Guyver 3's appearance, and his feud with Chronos hint towards the lore of the Shinto deity of thunder, Raijin? 

 

No, it's all Greek based thinking. Zeus is the Child of the God Kronos/Cronus, and was the God who eventually defeated him and became King of the Gods. Just like what Agito wants to do. Defeat Cronos and take over.

I've posted it before, but here is what I would do:

- Guyot eventually uses the unit remover on Female Guyver 2, becomes an imperfect Guyver Zoalord. he will kill Balcus and Shin

- Shizu will likely die to protect Agito, knowing she doesn't have much time left.

- Apollyon fails to kill Guyot on his own and is injured.

- Sho and Agito fight Guyot and with Agito's sacrifice, Guyot is destroyed

- Apollyon takes the dying Archanphel and the Ark into space.

- Sho lives on

Whether or not the remover exists to remove Sho's unit or not I dunno... I mean our theory that the Guyver unit makes one immortal is just that, a theory.

On 1/30/2022 at 12:38 PM, Hyper_Guyvantic said:

@Matt BellamyDid you finish Legendary Defender? What did you think?

As a whole (seasons 1-8) the series was good but it wasn't great. I do agree with you that the music for the most part was rather lack luster up to Season 6. Especially the lack of that wonderful beautifully epic song we all grew up with (Voltron DotU/Voltron-3D/Voltron-Force) - which I understand if they couldn't use it for copyright reasons but something other than the song they had that tapped into those nostalgic emotions. When  still hear that classic song to this day I still get teary eyed and chills. But I think the showrunners wanted to do so much that they hurt the series. 

I actually only watched to the end of season 2. Season 2 kind of bored me too much... Then when you find out a show removes your favorite character I just didn't care. (yes Shiro came back, but that was later and I didn't care by the point).

Ok, I guess now it's official spoiler time! 😁

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Not going to say much, only that it did bring that realization that this Spider-man had not "grown up" yet. I know a lot of us just assumed that he had already went through the "Uncle Ben incident". Now we have proper Spider-man, instead of hand-held Spider-boy.

Well drenn.

Our little community was so small I never dared to think one of us would get it and succumb to it.

My condolences to their family and loved ones.

On 10/18/2021 at 7:55 PM, jerrygoodman said:

Okay, refresh my memory, what is the name of the magazine that the story was featured in?

Shounen Ace

https://web-ace.jp/shonenace/

2 hours ago, Masamune said:

Is the consensus that Takaya owes the fans an explanation, or not?

To be honest, if he has no intention of picking up the series he should at least put the fans out of their misery.

Explanation? No. he can do whatever he wants with his life.

But confirmation whether or not to continue hoping for more? Yes. We absolutely do deserve that.

 

6 hours ago, jerrygoodman said:

Okay...has there been ANY blips on the horizon?

Nope.

The only thing that has "changed" is that Japanese Twitter conversations have increased because they have been worried now that Miura has passed away, that the same thing might happen to Guyver.