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I just saw this the other night. It was alright, I guess. No annoying humans or transformers. Unicron was a let down. Or maybe I was too influenced by the voice of Orson Wells. Then again, so much material was wasted. Also just found out that Pete Davidison did the voice of Mirage. So I guess that explains a lot. So Hasbro-verse? A post credit scene that would probably lead to nowhere.

Looks like a message from Takaya. It's a little blurry for me to make out but it says something like after the serialization way back in 85, he always wanted to release a book about his Guyver Illustration from a long time ago . And mentions something about comics cover, foldout pinup, various jackets, figrure package and etc. Message was made last June 2023.

I'm really liking how their naming them. Papsinoid!!!

Ok, no luck. Seems that I wasn't able to back up the old files. So would appreciate it if someone could point me to the right direction. Man, 11 years and we're still not done with this.

Ok, I'm bored and I was thinking of continuing to translate this. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to backup the pages to my NAS so I currently have no access to the novel. I'll have to check if the files are still in my old PC. But just in case I don't, would anyone be a dear and point me to the right direction?

It's so cool that you were able to get those issues. Do you have any Jim Lee during his Punisher stint? My frustrations is that back issues are very hard to come by where I live. And what is usually available are those issues with significant relevance (like first appearance, first cover, first etc.), which usually sell at an insane amount of money.

Just finished Nier Automata ver 1.1a. Currently following Oshi no Ko (reading the manga after watching), My unique skill makes me OP Even at Level 1, Bleach thousand years war arc, and just finished Dead Mount Death Play (currently reading the manga).

Well, season one is done. There are slight differences from the game but they almost captured it 1:1. That's ending A basically. So all the feels is much later in the game. Then again, the scene from the last episode hit me much harder in the game. The ending seems to set up the events for later, but I'm wondering if this gets renewed for another season. I'm also wondering if the next season will be on 9S perspective (which I doubt since ending B is already the title for episode 1) or go straight to A2 perspective.

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.