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The artbook is released today. For those who bought it, how is it? Anything to drool over?

It's a free special poster to celebrate the release of the artbook.

Okay, I am a little embarrassed to say that I was only able to watch this the other day. I did enjoy the film, but there are certain nitpicks that I wanted to point out. They certainly goofed up that Batfleck (lots and lots of things wrong with how he was portrayed), and certainly made Keaton Batman really cool. I still don't like Ezra Miller as the Flash. He really runs funny. And I really found that they did Henry Cavill dirty here. All of the original Justice league was in the film except Cavill (and of course Ray Fisher because of his harsh words). They even included a Nick Cage Superman and didn't even have the decency to include Cavill? and CGI Cameo, really? And replacing Affleck with Clooney is the cherry on top. Really? The guy who literally killed the Franchise, and who openly admitted to playing Batman Gay? Despite the film being quite passable as a stand alone movie, you can see that there are a lot of politics involved in the making of this film. I'm not happy with the way they made this, but I will give James Gunn the benefit of the doubt because he came in late on the game. If Gunn caved to the management's pressure, Superman Legacy will also be doomed.

Cool! If I was 20 years younger and have a lot more time on my hands, I'd probably dab my hands on 3D printing. Alas, responsibilities awaits. (not to mention my wife would kill me for buying an expensive 3D printer. It's already hard enough to sneak in small toys!!)

LOL. Techno Organic Man 1! Let's all start calling Guyver 1 as Tom from now on.

Nice. So this is more like a prequel or a remake? A refresh perhaps? Godzilla looks much more terrifying to me here.

I definitely loved the songs in Macross Delta. Definitely better than Frontier for me. But nothing tops the original Macross. I still get chills every time I watch it. Oh, the Character development and the love triangle!! It's like watching a Korean Drama. Definitely way ahead of its time.

That's basically the premise of all the popular franchise available in mainstream. Unfortunately, the gore factor of Guyver puts the maturity level outside of mainstream. Unless we can spend millions of dollars buying Guyver related merchandise, the most we can do right now is hope for the best.

Wow! 15 years and this post is still here. But I guess it won't be long before all the images I posted disappears. Since Photobucket, which I mainly use to host these images, no longer caters to free account, they will eventually delete these. And I can't be bothered to transfer/switch all of these to another web hosting server. So enjoy these while they are still here. Cheers!

It's already showing, so who's seen this? I planned to see this but couldn't find the time to do so. Similar to other movies playing, I'll reserve my criticism/praise until I see it for myself.

I'm confused. Does this take place in 1994 basically retconning all of the bayformers (or I guess they practically did that with Bumblebee)? Or is the 1994 just a flash back thing? Nice that they stuck with the much more classic-er Optimus Prime look. So they asked Ron Pearlman to do the voice of Optimus Primal instead of Gary Chalk?

I'm not much into TCG, especially the Magic the Gathering franchise. Although I did get into the card game with Ani-Mayhem and Star Trek TNG. Unfortunately I never found it interesting enough so I guess it wasn't for me.

Well, I believe the term "Cult following" means that the numbers are low to be mainstream. In addition, interest doesn't necessarily equate to sales numbers. Interest alone is not enough, and corporate needs those interest to be translated to sales. You ask everyone you talk to that is interested in Guyver how much Guyver merchandise they have. Most likely, they won't have much. At the end of the day, it's still all about the money.

I think this could be a lot of things. A very solid indicator is the sell-out numbers. Obviously since Guyver is serialized under Shonen Ace, which is published monthly and has a much smaller circulation than other popular magazines like Shonen Jump (which is published weekly), the exposure is not as mainstream like those of Naruto, One Piece or the likes. The author might also not be too keen on accepting collaboration with other forms of medium. The reason why we see a lot of Guyver figures is probably because he is friends with Max Watanabe who is a legend amongst hobbyist. In addition, when they rebooted the anime into a 26 episode series, it did not do quite as well as expected. Lastly, us cult followers of Guyver are few in numbers, and despite our support for the franchise, does not generate enough profits to merit pressures from management to push for Guyver.

If you're interested, here's another video from the same channel with behind the scenes look on how he was able to achieve such fluid animation. He actually has a "making of" video of the one I posted above, but I feel that this video shows a lot more of the process involved in making a stop motion video (including video editing). Besides, this one has the 8 fps vs 24 fps comparison.

Funnily enough, the reply to that tweet is mostly people complaining to continue the serialization before releasing such book.

I still liked Ted Kord better. For some reason, I still can't seem to warm up to Jaime Reyes as the Blue Beetle after all these years.

Well, I think FPS also is a big factor. I saw a comparison video one done in 8 FPS and 24 FPS, and it makes a world of differences. Obviously most of the videos he created was using 24 fps, hence the smoother quality. You'll also note that both of them are using figma figures, so the articulation is the same. I've also watch the other videos involving characters from other franchise and the smoothness is consistent. To be clear, I'm not dissing the Guyver video, and I have to admit that a lot of hard work was indeed put into it. Credit is definitely due for the effort alone. I'm just merely saying that I prefer a smoother animation.

Although unrelated to Guyver, this is by far the best stop motion animation I've seen since we're talking about stop motion. The movements are just too smooth: His channel also features the making of the videos.

Looks like they're at the premiere of Shin Kamen Rider. Doesn't really mean they're working on something, or could mean they're just enjoying the premiere. I get this vibe that they're just good friends hanging.

It looks like they're banking on Nostalgia alone, and this is even half-assed. I would have a better opinion of this if they took the Shattered Grid storyline. Well, all I can say is good luck to them.

Oh, so missing 3 of the original members, I guess the producers didn't exert much effort for this. Yellow Ranger is understandable, but Red and Pink too? Not much of a reunion now, is it?

It looks like this was filmed before JDF's untimely demise, so hopefully he gets to appear here. I was never a fan of Power Rangers since I was more exposed to Sentai in the 80's prior to the MMPR's popularity, but I still watched a few episodes just to scoff at how they butchered their sentai counterpart. I'm just happy they didn't touch Bioman and Maskman. (still sore that Saban butchered Mask Rider Black)

It's not as fluid as I'd expected since I've seen one youtuber doing a fantastic job making stop motion animation (involving Street Fighter characters), but this looks awesome nonetheless.

I would say the Kang in Quantumania has a totally different demeanor from He Who Remains (from Loki). So that says a lot about his acting. A little bit off from my expectations of Kang, but I feel he works.