Salkafar

Welp. 'Endgame' has beaten 'Titanic'. And it breezed past the 2-billion mark in 11 days. It took 'Avatar' 47 days. Of course that was ten years ago, but still...

Given that it took those guys 500 million years to come up with humanity I doubt it. We're like germs to them. We have really brief lives and we proliferate and evolve at an insane rate. Unfortunately for them these germs also have problem-solving intelligence. It could well be that if humanity ever does make it to the stars in 'Guyver' they'll be like cane toads in Australia.

Kronans don't even have mothers. Although they are made of stone, they are functionally hermaphrodites who meld part of their bodies (typically their hands, in a sort of semi-permanent handshake) together and stay put for a couple of weeks, until their shared fist breaks apart and a tiny Kronan emerges. Kronans are also the first enemies Thor ever faced in the comics; in fact they appeared before he did, as Donald Blake armed himself with the staff that would turn into Mjölnir and himself into Thor. This movie version of Korg, son of O-Korg, is more of a parody. Same goes for Miek, who originally was a horribly tragic and evil character.

Am I really the only one who thinks the character Korg sucks?

Holy cow. It made 1.2 billion already. It blew past 'Captain Marvel' in under five days. I wonder whether it might pass 'Avatar', too.

Saw it. It's great. Don't read the spoilers, go see it for yourself.

Resisting kinetic energy, including vibrations, is the definition of structural integrity. You can hang from a knitted scarf or sweater with your full weight and it will very probably not tear, but if you unravel it, it will come apart easily. That's how the frequency blades work. But it's still a function of energy and I don't think they can emit sufficient energy to affect the extremely strong bonds in adamantium. Adamantium doesn't melt, for instance, even in the heart of a star. The vibrations of antarctic vibranium are almost magical in nature, they cause any metal in its vicinity to dissolve, which would suggest it's not a specific frequency. But it can be safely stored inside stone containers with resin seals.

Valvatos, the eagle Zoanoid, I think; flight, and attacking like a bird of prey. Odd how there are no 'regular' Hyper-Zoanoids that fly.

Well, that's just great. I suppose the fact Takaya hasn't come out and said it's over leaves a glimmer of hope.

It's not so much power - he needs the unit so it can heal his sickness.

The Uranus undoubtedly recovered it. That was the whole point of the operation.

I literally didn't see it until the very end.

She does. And the movie manages to capture the feel of the manga pretty well. It encompasses elements from the first four volumes and the OVA. Also: Edward Norton!

If 'Alita' does well... Who knows, we might get a few more manga-based movies. And 'Guyver' has surprisingly much in common with 'Alita' - identity, violence, how to remain yourself...

What does that mean, though?

Currently watching the 5-episode "Master of martial hearts"; finale tonight. It's pretty weird; on the one end it's an ecchi girl-fights-girl-in-a-tournament-for-a-supreme-prize show, on the other hand it has an incredibly sinister undertone, like it's a vicious parody of rather grubby genre. (edit:) Yep. God, that was dark. Dark as Hell. Don't think I've ever seen a story where everybody including the protagonist turns out to be a monster.

Possible. They included Superman's cellular tissue when they made him regenerate after he was mostly desintegrated after 'Our Worlds At War', so he would have a sensitivity to Kryptonite and hence could be controlled. That worked about as well as you might expect. They couldn't even control him on Apokalips.

He can't just quit it and leave us holding our collective bag. It's un-Japanese.

Doomsday was not native to Krypton.

Depends on the venue, like with Goku. In his own universe, Saitama is invincible except against King, but in the Guyver universe he might be just another drop-out sarariman.

Or maybe there really still is a living ship under the temple. The ship's acids would not prove a problem for a Zoalord: they can all generate force fields capable of stopping directed attacks, so what mechanically amounts to water would be no threat. Which makes it a little strange to think Barkas didn't simply go in himself. Perhaps he was forbidden to do so by Archanfel. In fact I think he probably would have had to. Mystery...

Wait, what? I know of only one. The one that ends with Jabir flying away in his Zoaform.

Yeah. 1985 - 400 = 1585. Remember the science did not exist yet. At all. Even in concept. Archanfel had the ability to control Zoanoids, but I doubt he had the knowledge on how they were created. So in practice, nobody on the planet knew what DNA was, or even what cells are, let alone how they worked. Barcas would have had no idea where to even start (Did Archanfel even ever witness Zoanoid production at all?). Nor did he have the tools. They should have made more out of the concept that Chronos guided human civilization to develop science. Shin never said he had been processed 370 years ago. The Zoalords' battle forms may well be a recent development, planned for centuries, but only put into practice once technology caught up enough and they had had plenty of time to experiment on Zoanoids. Remember that Caerleon started to age rapidly the moment his Zoa-Crystal had been removed, which suggests to me the aging retardation is caused by it, not by being processed (although we don't actually know what effect processing has on aging. How old do Zoanoids get?). The Zoanoid who imitated Mizuki was called Gelpess. It was a Lost Number with the unique ability to take on any human form. We have never seen Chronos make a clone, which is unnecessary anyway since Zoanoids can control anyone who has been processed, and it was stated that, for instance, any human could be made into a Ramotith.

Strange thing I just noticed (I noticed it because I finally received volume 32): The newest chapter is not in it. Also two interesting new Zoanoids got no files or even names. That happened before though. It's as annoying now as it was before.