Aether

yeah Kachanski was a fail from what i remember. ha ha! imagine if they did show that the human race hasnt died and has ascended to a higher level of being and good ol dave lister rolls up smelling of curry and beer singing crap songs, with 3 other morons.... its funny because they are searching for something they'll never find because they will never fit in anywhere, they have essentially created their own world /universe and thats what i want to watch, where the 4 /5 travel around crazy planets and meet crazy beings and its all good fun along the way - thats how i remember Red Dwarf from back in the days, it cant be such a hard formula to replicate. they had some fails with the latter series so maybe they will just go back to basics for this new series.

So heres another one of my pointless customary end of Sentai Reviews... TENSHIN DAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes, next is Gosei Sentai Dairanger (Five Stars Squadron Dairanger). first off i'll say that this is kind of an old Sentai from 1993 . The Mecha was used for the Zords in the second season of MMPR and its also where they knicked the design for the White Ranger. Secondly i'll say despite its age it certainly kicks much ass! Theme Tunes - The opening is a classic - ''Tenshinda! woah woah woah woah...'', the closing not so much, but still has its own charm. Story - the Gorma tribe vs the Dai tribe, milleniums of war come to a head in Dairanger. its one of the better stories of the 4 sentai ive seen so far. it was threaded all the way through the episodes, and there were a few twist and turns, and it really built to a climax at the finale. Characters - all the main characters were likeable and have their own personalities which are explored throughout the show. each has a little story going on that runs through the series, some more than others but its all good. the supporting characters are cool. the bad guys are, lets say interesting, and they have their own stories going on aswell as the main battle of the Gorma vs Dai, which makes it all the more interesting. Also i want to say here that the acting of this cast was good where it needed to be as there is some dramatic moments, and also more to the point passionate. There was extreme passion especially when it came to powering up - ive never seeen more passion put into transforming than from these guys!!! TENSHIN DAA!!!!! AURA CHANGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Suits and Morphers - Suits were a little too white for me, but i loved the Aura Changer!!!!!!!!! Action - action was pretty good, being a sentai based on kung fu there was a decent amount of action. despite them being dated the effects were pretty good and suit the whole feel of this sentai... as a side note to my personal view- i grew up watching Hong Kong movies including Jackie Chans 80's movies like Police Story and stuff by Shaw brothers with tacky glowing lazer chi / ki beams and such, thus the feel of Dairangers to me is kind of mix of that. even though its in the early 90's it feels like its in the 80's and the effects even though sub par by todays standards are obviously top of the range for back then - and i loved it all! Mecha - i liked the Mythical Qi Beasts but wasnt too sure about the mode when Ryurangers mech just stood on top of the rest. The finishing move was used too much i think, but i suppose they have learnt from this nowadays and make things more varied. Comedy - i wouldnt say that Dairangers has that much comedy in it that i can remember. however the stand out laughs for me were the perverse antics of Kou. what a pervert!!! You could say there is unintentional comedy in there- for example the 3 main Gorma look like they are going to an S and M party. truly evil, but this is suposed to be a kids show!! Also towards the beginning of the series some of the monsters are a bit comedic, i mean there were dolls running about with steak knives threatening people, which was disturbing, weird and funny at the same time! things get less like this after the first few episodes though. Ending -excellent,unpredictable, stuff happenend, stuff needed to be sorted, it got sorted in a cool way. You couldnt really ask for more than what was given. Conclusion - in a nutshell despite its age Dairangers is great. This could be because of the aformentioned nostalgia of 80's kung fu and special effects but i would say if you hold Dairanger up against some of the post 2000 sentai it certainly comes out very well. There are a few episodes that could be considered a bit lame but it depends how you see them, however i just found those eps funny, like the football and Baseball episodes- they are like WTF??? but so ridiculous you cant help but smile and they end up being episodes you need to have seen for reasons i wont spoil. There are also some great characters in here aswell. The stand out one for me is the bad guy who appears in eps 26 and 27 - i can say that these are the 2 best episodes out of the 200+ episodes of sentai that i've seen so far. freakin awesome. what else can i say??...its an oldy but a goody!

apparently this is old news but i only just found out that the Red Dwarf posse is back for series 10. ''The tenth series of the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, is to broadcast on UK television channel Dave from 4 October 2012.[2] It will have six episodes and is the first full series of Red Dwarf since 1999'' to be honest i cant remember any of them past series 6 i think, but i'll still probably give it a watch.

Thanks for the explanation Ryuki. its never simple is it - i presume if Takaya wanted them to be calld creators that there is a standard word for that in japanese?? i now see where you are coming from with 'Advents' even though its not exactly what i thought, i think it fits both reasons that like you explained they 'came' down to earth and also caused the 'arrival' of humanity on earth. I think all the others dont sound as good - like 'descended ones' or 'visitors' - theyve ben done anyway. i like creators, you can tell why they used it but now i know exactly why Advents was used i like that just as much. oh well, i thought it was great. when you consider how much was packed into it, it worked well. amongst what G3 was up to Sho had to rejuvinate, save tetsuro, fight his way to Guyot, get an explanation of the Advents and escape while cronos Japan blew up!!! thats a bit to fit in!! Also the bare bones of this chapter, gave the OAV production a good story to work with and made it badass ( despite all the differences between them it still worked well.) as for the sudden vibration blades - i understand what you are saying... but heres a little theory... if you look at the first 2 times Sho Bio Boosts he is boosted with the blades extended, straight into an immediate life threatening situation, after that he boosts with retracted blades, so maybe after that second time he had learnt about them and gained control, and so from then on when he boosted he had to decide wether they were needed or not i.e whether to extend or retract them...?

#6 - VIZ - Destuctive! - Chuang Yi - The Destuction of Chronos Japan - Advocacy - Big Turnaround! Destruction of Cronos Japan! Sho rejuvinates and saves Tetsuro - awesome!! Guyot divulges information on the creators and Cronos' plans to bend humanitys destiny to its own will for world wide domination and the fact that humans were developed as weapons and are the basis for the next step in evolution - the zoanoid. Translation differences : while all 3 explanations are slightly different they basically say the same thing, the main difference is the name of the aliens... Viz - Creators Chuang Yi - Creators Advocacy - Advents Advocacy, if this has been explained before i either missed it or cant remember?? i assume it is because they caused the 'Advent' of humanity?

all true. 2 things to consider other than the issues already discussed... 1. we still dont know the purpose of Apollon abducting the Segawa's - have they been saved or taken hostage? 2. We haven't seen Apollon since the abduction - he might be assassinating Alkanfel while the Segawas are taking up 2 chapters not really doing anything or he could be chillaxin thinking how mysterious he is to himself or he could be chilling with Arkanfel ???? or.....

i agree Starwaster nothing makes much sense at this point!!! well i think the most significant thing is the height of this guy - unless a zoalord can grow without mutating, who the hell is it? surely no one is that tall in human form? whoever they are has to be in an altered state and like starwaster said theres no way it can be a transformed Zoalord, maybe by transforming into 'Apollon' it alters their state again??, unless he is directly from the Advents and their average height is 8ft tall? i think i get your theory Ryuki about the Boost armour acting as just a power accelerator for someone who is stronger than a human guyver to start off with ( wouldnt that be a Zoalord?) but i dont see why Apollon would be covered in Control Metal material... maybe this is a kind of Guyver unit in reverse i.e small amount of Boost creature and way more control metal?? my way of thinking at the moment is that the bio boost creature is the raw material of the Guyver units whereas the Control Metal is the harness engineered by the Advents..... so seeing as Apollon's suit of armour seems to be 100% control metal material it would suggest that he is more Advent than Zoalord or that some Zoalord somewhere got a hold of a whole lot more Contol Metal material than has ever been found before and has crafted this armour. bah, i dont know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh yeah i think the the cape is there simply to make him look powerful and cool!

quickly looking at this i would say that the nose would start where the sphere is at the front, so it would accomodate his nose and eyes, from there you can follow the contour of the head to fill the helmet... i think i get what you are saying starwaster, you reckon Apollon is just a puppet that acts as a quasi Alkanfel, because hes too tired to do the work himself??

haha good question i dont know, i think i mean just next line paragraphs ... i'll copy and paste it here and edit it how i mean, feel free to edit my post if you wish to remove it from here... my suggestion may not be exactly where you would wish to split it but i'll leave that to you, if you do so.

it wont help me, i know i cant afford it!!! if you do get enough to get them produced keep us informed we'd all like to see the end product.

ha ha! good to read that again we have something in common Ryuki - Samurai Pizza Cats!!! also nice to hear you think you have found a place you feel that you belong, that must be a great motivation to get there. only thing i can critique is to say if you are writing an essay or statement etc. you should avoid abbreviations. i know the above is just informal on the board but you start off with i'm, and have a didn't , but you also have an i am in there, so if its formal writing you might want to keep an eye on that. er...to prompt another writing session for you...if thats what you're asking for? then how about this?... i think ive read you want to develop games, so what is the game that has most inspired you to want to develop them yourself?? or maybe better - what makes you want to develop games??

i can't offer much help here, other than saying it looks like it does the job of what you want it to i.e: i cant ofer any advice on how it looks in term of design as i know nothig about web design etc. to say oh you should do this or that... only thing i would suggest is for the 'about' section - i would split up the writing so its not just one big clump of text as that can be over facing ( i learnt that i think from some of my crazily long posts on here so now i tnd to split the writing up a bit more in appropriate places i think it looks more inviting) so..... hi i'm.... i am a... i have maintained a.... i am self taught in japanese.... i am seeking employment....

yeah i remember that from the Animerica interview, they gave him 1 year to do 6 chapters to make up 1 volume. which makes me think just how long these older chapters are compared to the newer ones, but i guess if it was spread over a year then really each chapter equates to 2 months of work / 2 chapters - so it works out the same! anyway, he still didnt have to kill sho, i just see it as a bold move and a clever story device to get Guyver one into the Chronos Japan building for chapter 6... i'm glad Takaya didnt getstuck with a romantic comedy to work with!! but after volume 1 i dont think there was any chance of that happening!!

i cant remember the specific speech you are refrencing about Guyot, but maybe he was refering to the fact that he thought the Guyver would be more powerful if it was hosted by a Zoalord rather than a normal human?? To be honest i cant remember hearing the Guyver feeds off the host for energy. i thought that the Guyver was powered by energy from the boost dimension? and like you said that power is drawn in by the gravity controller. according to the VDF, when the Armour appears in this dimension it crosses through a wormhole creating the explosive sphere, so it sounds like the gravity controller acts like some kind of mini wormhole that constantly syphons energy from the BD into the guyver. metaphorically speaking maybe its like the Guyver's 'heart' pumping boost dimension energy 'blood' throughout the Guyver.

not much i wanted to say on these chapters really, so heres a summary... #4 - VIZ - Volatile! - Chuang Yi - whos the third shadow - Advocacy - secret manuevering! the 3rd Shadow!? Well this is where the manga and oav diverge . Zerebubuth is a prototype Hyper Zoanoid but not developed by Makashima as in the oav. also the confrontation between them is at a riverside and housing district rather than at a warehouse. respective spellings from each translation: Zelbubuth Zerbebuth Zerberbuth #5 VIZ - Tragic! - Chuang Yi - Driven to the Edge - Advocacy - Great Pinch!! Shou Absolute Despair!? we learn that Agito is actually involved with Cronos as he is inside Cronos Japan with Guyot! Guyver vs. Enzyme!! Tetsuro is abducted by Cronos!!! i cant believe the pace at which the Guyver was set, lets remember this is only the fifth chapter, and the main protagonist is killed by Enyzme!! thats a bold move by Takaya and must have been quite a ciffhanger for the original readers of the serialised version at the time, no wonder Guyver gained popularity.

@ Daveblackeye yeah i really like the reaction of Guyver 2 in the original panels. i wish it had been kept in the tankobon version but yeah other than that the newer panels are much better. Also the design of Guyver 2 is much more suitable and less of a generic looking guyver 1 clone. @ Ryuki no arguments here just discussing our opinions and preferences i would say that the literary style you described doesnt really suit (english) speech though... er...its kind of like saying that Yoda speaks normally because he can be understood, but really he doesnt speak normally at all - speaks strange he does! i dont want to dwell on it and please dont get me wrong, a lot of the Advocacy's work is fine, its just in some instances its not the syntax i would excpect to see when reading a manga (or any comic etc). like ive said in the past, and always will do, i'm thankful that you and the others love Guyver so much to even have bothered translating it at all... if it weren't for you i would never even have known Guyver was still going, and after loving it so much back in the 90's im really glad the story continued and was available in english - be it written 'backwards', forwards, upside down, horizontal or vertical!!! ~ on the unit remover i didnt think it would kill the host either, i just wasnt sure if anything had been said... that factor is one of the things to look for if we wanted to define the specific type of symbiotic relationship because some are dependant on eachother for survival after the merger, others arent, and seing as its possible for both unit and host to exsist after seperation that gives us good info( im sure this is what i based my previous thoughts on.) i suppose the main fear of losing the unit isn't being eaten alive like when the CM fails then, its just the loss of the power of the Guyver to fight against Cronos (well, unless one of the zoanoids or Zoalords is feeling peckish after the unit has been removed ).

i understand what you are saying on all points.... so just to explain my thinking.... when i used 'super lifeform' twice (instead of just 'this') i was re enforcing that the boost organism was being talked about rather than the 'intelligent life'... but yeah im not insisiting my version be used or anything its just how i would prefer to read it. And for these important points of the manga i think its good to have a good translation, its so interesting how much of a minefield it can be switching between languages. as for the balloon thing im not so sure, because doesnt japanese and some other languages sort of talk backwards, if you get what i mean? ive noticed it in a lot of films and anime where something at the beginning of a sentence in the english subtitles is actually said at the end of a sentence or vice versa?? so when its written exactly how its said word for word it makes it quite awkward to read, because its not standard english syntax. ~~~~~ my view (re-enforced by those charming videos ) is that i think harm and control is a big part of a parasite's nature, which the Guyver doesnt seem to do to its host really - unless the control metal fails... i think the actual organism is a parasite and the control metal is the the factor that makesthe overall guyver a symbiont. i think that's why the parasitic nature was highlighted in book 2 because the metal was damaged. i cant remember if it has ever been said that the host would die if the remover was used on a human? if it has been i guess it would have been by Guyot. i think it makes sense that the parasites were captured by the creators and controlled by their invention of the Control Metal.

oh well, im stuck then!

no one minds a double post around here do they really like the work your putting in Ryuki, hope im not being too critical to make you get all your japanese books out!! so after your revision of that panel here's another slight rearangement for the sake of it, using your translation as a basis apart from the stuff that ive added in Parenthesis... [The Bio Booster] organism is a strange ''super'' life form, [whose] function is to amplify and strengthen intelligent life by pervading and binding with it organically... The Control Metal organises this boost suit, by restraining the [''super''] life form from multiplying rampageously... [thus] a freely removable bio-boost armour system is formed... That is the unit-g.

well maybe this is some kind of chicken and egg conundrum because i dont think that the hormones can be made without the necessary information from DNA and that needs the mRNA... a quick wiki and this statement form 'peptide hormones' kind of sums it up: ''Like other proteins, peptide hormones are synthesized in cells from amino acids according to an mRNA template, which is itself synthesized from a DNA template inside the cell nucleus'' the process maybe hormonal but the actual mRNA must have some change to it by the organism in the first place or during a boost ,for the signals to the DNA to change the hormones to tell them what to tell other places in the body to do.

i agree its not a parasite... a while ago i did some reaserach and came up with it being a 'facultative endosymbiosis' where one thing lives inside another where 'the relationship is beneficial but not essential to survival of the organisms'' and also a 'Mutualistic sybmbiosis' which is ' a biological interaction between individuals of two different species, where both individuals derive a fitness benefit, for example increased survivorship'... this seems right to me as the Guyver needs a host to be active but obviously doesnt need it to live or it just wouldnt exsist or be alive once it was removed from a host, but the host may increase its 'survivorship'. The host may not gain anything per se until the armour is activated and the Bio Boost takes effect and obviously becoming a Guyver increases 'survivorship'.

well at least i think we have figured out why Viz went for all those one word chapter titles - they were all the names they came up with for the meaning of the Guyver when they first translated it!!!! Awesome!, mysterious, risky, volatile, tragic, destructive, terrifying, explosive, amazing,adversarial, deadly.... 'Exceptional' is cool ( it just doesnt sound 'cool 'enough to me), but i suppose thats not the point is it? we are looking for an accurate representation of the given description... on the out of standardrized / non standard what about on this pic on the spine maybe?

#3 - VIZ - Risky! - Chuang Yi - inspector riskers challenge - Advocacy - Challenge of the inspector in this chapter Risker goes to challenge Guyver 1 and of course ends up as guyver goop being eaten by the boost organism. An anomaly i spotted in chapter 3 is that the panels where Risker explains about the unit G is different in the Viz version. in fact the whole of the chapter in the Viz version seems to be the original and Takaya obviously redesigned Guyver 2's design and redrew the entire chapter for the tankobon.... we see sho strike the metal and G2's reaction, but in the tankobon version we dont... also i noticed all 3 versions are different in the explanation of the unit G sorry Advocacy but i find it too literal and Chuang Yi's is too vague, i think Viz gets the point across best. for no reason heres an amalgamation of them of my own: ''The Bio Booster is a mysterious intellegent parasitic super creature that merges organically with its host to strengthen and enhance their biological functions. The Control Metal acts as an organiser, restraining the rampaging growth of the creature and forming a 'Boost Armour System' that can be freely activated and removed by the host. this is the Guyver unit!!''

well i get what you mean, i suppose anaomaly is more used for events, anamolous is more acceptable i think... anyway im just now how are we supposed to get a secret descriptive connotation into our name without using a descriptive adjective to do so in english? 'refined anamolous beyond normal product' is a bit long aswell.. er...Unique has a positive vibe going on ... special edition (product type thing) Extraodrinary Exceptional... oh man, i think i'll go back to what i said here: (or whatever word is deemed suitable , maybe this is just lazy on my part!) does the name of the original oav have the same kanji as that particular panel in the manga anyway??

well, like i said unless Takaya really does do some kind of 'science of Guyver' book to tell us how HE thinks of the workings of Guyver its all theory i suppose but some makes more sense than others... nice one. but it doesnt explain if the advents/creators put that casing on or if it is part of the organism itself? the casing seemingly just dissapears once the unit is activated... i wonder if the unit remover has anything to do with putting the case on the unit?? Thats a great observation about the hormones dude.... if that is correct then that kind of changes everything... it would mean that the organism is probably linked into the endocrine system, of which the pituitary, and pineal gland are part of and churn out a lot of important hormones- so this gives another function of the control metal more clarity as it is clearly linked to portions of the brain. another unfounded possibility could be that aswell as being used for telepathy and signalling the unit from the boost dimension, the growths on the host's back could be some kind of extra hormone gland? who knows!?