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'''Bio-Booster Armor Guyver''' (強殖装甲ガイバー;''Kyōshoku Sōkō Gaibā''; alternatively "Guyver: The Bio-Boosted Armor") is a long-running (over 140 chapters) [[manga]] series written by [[Yoshiki Takaya]], adapted into a 12-episode [[anime]] series (based roughly on the first four books), an [[Original Video Animation|OVA]], and later two [[Live action|live action movie]]s (Mutronics/Guyver and Guyver: Dark Hero) and 26-episode anime series in 2005. The Guyver itself is a [[symbiosis|symbiotic]] techno-organic weapon that exponentially enhances the fighting capability of its host. The manga was originally serialized in [[Tokuma Shoten]]'s "Shonen Captain" magazine beginning in 1985. When Shonen Captain was discontinued in 1997, the manga was picked up by [[Kadokawa Shoten]] who subsequently re-released all of the previous [[graphic novels]] originally published by Tokuma. The manga is currently serialized in Kadokawa's Monthly Shonen Ace magazine.
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''Guyver'' is said to be Yoshiki Takaya's tribute to [[Shotaro Ishinomori]]'s famous "[[henshin]]" [[superhero]] ''[[Kamen Rider]]'', with possible hints of [[Tsuburaya Productions]]' ''[[Ultraman]]'' as well. It also takes hints from [[Godzilla]] in the form of the Guyver's primary weapon, the Mega-Smasher, which is based on Godzillas radioactive ray breath.
==Plot==
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65 million years ago, [[Extraterrestrial life in popular culture|alien]] scientists came to [[Earth]] to develop bioweapons. They created humans, and used them as the base for powerful shapeshifting creatures called Zoanoids, which are the basis for [[werewolf]] myths and other stories. The Guyver itself existed prior to these experiments and is used by the aliens as a space suit of sorts, and through an experiment, a human being activated a guyver unit and became Guyver 0. Guyver 0 surpassed all expectations, the effect of the bio-booster armour on a human, who is designed for war, is far greater than the effect on the aliens. Unfortunately, the host was physically uncontrollable, and thus dubbed "Guyver," the Japanese rendering of which is ''kikakugaihin'' (lit. "not standardized" or "not to specification" but is usually (and erroneously) rendered as "out of control"). The aliens sent the leader of the Zoanoids, a powerful Zoalord called Archanfel to combat Guyver 0, and gave him a Unit-Remover, a tool to revert a Guyver back to the unbonded Unit-G form. Archanfel removed the Guyver from Guyver 0 and killed the host, but the aliens were now afraid. They decided to destroy humans by throwing a [[Moon]]-sized asteroid at Earth, but one of their creations, Archanfel, a Zoalord (psychic controller of the Zoanoids) managed to destroy it, but at a price. Archanfel was damaged by the aliens when they unleashed a telepathic attack on his mind and seriously weakened him.
Archanfel survived for millions of years in a statis sleep, waiting for the day he'd be strong enough to rise again. He is a weakened state and must rest often, especially if he uses his powers. A Guyver unit would not only restore him, but make him by far the strongest being in creation as he already is incredibly strong. 400 years ago, he encountered Hamilcal Balcus, who helped him found the Chronos Corporation. Archanfel made Balcus the first of twelve Zoalords, beings of vast psychic power, with the ability to transform into massive monstrous forms that are all but invincible. By creating their own Zoanoids from willing (or not) subjects, Chronos can place obedient sleeper agents anywhere they wish, and activate them all at once to take over the world.
Chronos discovered three surviving Guyver units (G-Units), but Test Type ''Malmot'' stole the G-Units and escaped from Chronos, hitching a ride with a truck driver in his human form. The driver tried to take Malmot's satchel, but Malmot transformed to fight him off. Malmot caused an explosion that scattered the G-Units across a forest. Chronos only recovered one, and it was damaged. They gave it to Oswald Lisker, a Chronos USA representative and Hyper Zoanoid candidate, which made him capable of killing half a dozen Zoanoids in thirty seconds. In the OAV "Out of Control," Unit 2 is given to Valkyrie (Valcuria, in the English subtitles), a female Chronos operative.
A Japanese student, Sho Fukamachi, finds Unit 1 while out with his friend Tetsuro Segawa, and it violently bonds with him. The first thing he does as the Guyver is kill a pursuing Gregole by crushing its skull with his empty hands.
Having the Guyver makes him a constant target of Chronos, who sends Zoanoids after him at every opportunity. Sho and his friends gradually learn more about the Guyver and its origins as the story progresses, and even witness the culmination of Chronos's world domination plans, forcing them to join resistance groups and fight to free the world from Chronos.
Guyver 01 later gains an upgrade in the form of Gigantic Guyver (Guyver 03 can become Gigantic Dark by willing the Gigantic armor to him even if it means Guyver 01 cannot fight anymore) capable of killing Zoalords in single combat and a wedge is soon driven between him and Agito Makishima, the controller of the third Guyver unit, and the most experienced of the two. Chronos having killed his parents, the vengeful Makishima soon reveals he has every intention of using his powers to rule the world in Chronos' place once he has destroyed them.
==Character profiles==
===Sho Fukamachi - AKA Guyver 1===
The hero of the series, Sho, 17 years old, is a second-year student at a Tokyo-area high school. He has black hair and is slenderly built. He is a slightly better than the average student, bright but not a genius. He is young enough to still be idealistic, but he fights Cronos more to protect friends and family than from any need to see the enemy brought to justice. If he hadn't become host for a Guyver Unit, he would have happily continued in ignorance of the Corporation. As the series continues he starts to add revenge to his motives, but it never drives him the way it does Agito Makishima. He cares deeply for Mizuki with the intensity of first love, and Tetsuro is his closest friend. He agonizes over how he'll ever rid himself of his bio-booster armour, but as the series continues realizes that it's the only thing that enables him to keep his friends - relatively - safe. As he is the host for the first Unit activated, he is known as "Guyver 1".
===Tetsuro Segawa===
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A large-framed, chubby third-year student; Tetsuro is Sho's closest friend. While he sometimes let people draw the conclusion he is a stereotypical slow, stupid fat kid, in reality he is highly intelligent and can think quite rapidly when he has to. He is a rabid science fiction fan, which gives him the background knowledge to make quite a few accurate guesses about the Guyver armour, Zoanoids, and Cronos. He keeps his hair cut short and wears glasses.
===Mizuki Segawa===
Mizuki is the sort of demure and quiet girl. She starts out with a crush on Agito Makishima, whose only interest in Mizuki is using her to manipulate Sho and Tetsuro. At the beginning she has a bad habit of screaming and fainting whenever she sees Zoanoids, but as time goes on she gets stronger, although she'll never be very aggressive...She is rather short even for a Japanese girl, very slender, and keeps her hair in a page-boy cut that emphasizes her large eyes.
===Agito Makishima - AKA Guyver 3===
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Agito's uncle secretly forced Agito's real father into bankruptcy and the price for bailing his brother out was Agito. Not long after that Agito's mother died, and his real father committed suicide soon following. Adopted as Genzo Makishima's heir, Agito was raised to be brilliant - as well as ruthless and uncaring. The boy came to hate his adoptive father, and through him, Cronos. Agito wants not only to destroy Genzo and Cronos, but also become ruler of the world himself using Cronos' resources. As the series progresses that ideal fades somewhat, but we are always reminded by it through his ruthless personality and actions. He sees Sho and his friends as people rather than pawns in the 'game' he's 'playing' with Cronos. This idea sort of fades after a couple of books, but it reappears strongly again when he has control of the Gigantic Guyver Armor.
Agito is of medium build and well muscled; he is a third-year student at the same high school the others attend but looks older. He almost never allows sentiment to stand in his way, and he comes across as cold and calculating. His motives are definitely mixed, and while not a villain he's not a 'pure-hearted hero' either. He lost his idealism years ago. At one point a candidate-member of the Cronos Elite, he is viewed by them as a traitor. Guyot especially wants him dead. Even though he may have activated his Unit before Lisker, because he did not openly appear in his Guyver armour until after Lisker was eliminated he is called Guyver 3.
===Fumio Fukamachi===
Fumio, who is a widower and Sho's dad; is an easy-going, rather chubby, kind-hearted soul who has done his best to give Sho a good home. Dr. Barcas uses him as an involuntary guinea pig, turning him into the Enzyme II prototype - and programs him to kill his son, Guyver I. He is killed by Guyver I in the battle.
===Genzo Makishima===
Director of Cronos' Japan Branch, he is in charge when Japan Branch loses the Guyver Units. While initially one of the people in charge of developing new Zoanoids, Genzo has, unknown to him, fallen behind in this category as well once Dr. Barcas begins designing the Hyper Zoanoids. His failures to retrieve the Units as well as come up with any significantly new Zoanoid designs results in Commander Guyot relieving him of duty. Genzo is turned into the Enzyme Zoanoid prototype. He dies in battle with Guyver I.
===Oswald Lisker AKA Guyver 2===
A Cronos agent, or as he describes himself to Sho, "an inspector from Cronos HQ". Lisker was in Japan to supervise the transfer of the inactive Guyver Units to Cronos HQ, and was considerably annoyed to discover Makishima had managed to lose them. When one damaged unit was recovered, he insisted on taking a look at it, and involuntarily became its host. As the second known activated Unit, he was called Guyver 2. A man vain of both looks and martial arts skills, he decided to take on the task of retrieving the Unit Sho had bonded with. His control medal which was damaged when the Unit was initially lost, malfunctioned under the stress of combat. Sho takes advantage of his weakened state and strikes the medal, shattering it, and the Guyver begins to absorb him; Sho kills him with a mega-smasher blast to put him out of his misery. Lisker is tall, with curly blond hair - in other words, your typical Aryan stereotype.
A female named Valcuria becomes Guyver 2 in an animated movie which preceeds the OVAs, called ''Guyver: Out of Control'', this is a surprise as the animated film appears to follow, somewhat loosely, the first few issues of the manga up to a point before diverging completely into it's own storyline.
===Cronos Zoalord Council of Twelve===
The leaders of Cronos, all of them have 'Zoacrystals', crystalline structures implanted in their forehead that give them psychic abilities and greatly enhanced bio-energy. They can tap into these powers to fly, and generate energy blasts even without the need to transform into Zoalord battle-form. Guyot, Archanfel, and Barcas are all members.
Guyot was angling to destroy the other Zoalords and become sole ruler of Cronos, but his battle with Archanfel resulted in Guyot's death - and Archanfel (who is the founder of Cronos) once again becomes prime leader of the Council as a result. They are all referred to as 'Zoalords', but the only ones we've seen transformed into battleform so far are Guyot, Archanfel, Fried'rich van Purg'stall, Lǐ Yǎn-Tuí, Waferdanos, and Imakarum Mirabilis.'''
The 13 Zoalords are:
* Archanfel
* Hamilcar Barcas
* Sin Rubeo Amniculus
* Fried'rich von Purg'stall (deceased: suspected murder by another zoalord)
* Luggnagg de Krumeggnic
* Cablarl Khān
* Edward Caerleon
* Jabir 'bn Hayyan
* Waferdanos
* Tuatha Dé Galenos
* Rienzi (Lǐ Yǎn-Tuí) (severely injured in battle with Guyver III; on deaths bed.)
* Richard Guyot (presumed dead until recently)
* Imakarum Mirabilis (formerly Masaki Murakami)
====Archanfel====
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Probably the most powerful being in existence, Archanfel appears to be a young, blond man with pointy ears and cat-slitted eyes. He is actually the founder, creator, and ruler of the Zoalord Council. He is an extremely powerful psychic, and with amazing battle abilities. Archanfel was created by the Creators to be the leader of all the Zoanoids and the people on Earth. Archanfel was the one who used the remover on Guyver 0 in prehistoric times. The zoacrystals that give zoalords their powers were all cultivated using Archanfel's crystal as a base.
Quoted from book 14, page 16:
:And then… cleaving and cultivating one of Archanfel´s Zoa-crystals, we created eleven others. Accepting one of them, I became a Zoalord. In the centuries since then, I have searched for the ten chosen people who would become Zoalords as well.
====Commander Richard Guyot====
A tall, muscular but well-proportioned man, Guyot would stand out in a crowd even without his big blonde hair and abnormal eyes. He is an immensely commanding presence. He has no patience for failure and no compassion for the rank and file troops of Cronos. While he does not spend their lives uselessly, he'll send them to their deaths without a second thought for what he considers a worthwhile goal. Guyot has been bio-engineered into a Zoalord and was gifted with the strength to be the most powerful of all the twelve, excluding Archanfel.
Guyot discovered the secret of the Guyver, before the other 11 zoalords, and made a foolish ambition to merge with it and take control of Chronos. This ambition was discovered by Murakami, and so Murakami made it his goal to destroy Guyot. Agito Makashima also has a grudge against Guyot and Guyot similarly hates Agito for his treachery. Guyot's ambition caused him to hide the device called the 'unit remover', which he was about to use when Archanfel showed up and defeated him.
====Masaki Murakami/Imakarum Mirabilis====
Masaki was a free-lance journalist captured by Cronos and used as an experimental guinea pig in the Zoalord development program. He is a 'prototype body' for the Zoalord form of Richard Guyot. Dr. Yamamura, a scientist involved in the project, discovered Guyot's plans for the Guyver units, and recruited four of the prototypes - including his old pupil, Murakami, in an attempt to destroy the Commander while he was being processed into his new battle form. The other eleven members of the Cronos Council of twelve - all Zoalords - intervened; Masaki is the only surviving rebel. He joins with Sho to fight Cronos, having his own revenge in mind. He doesn't quite trust Agito at first because of Guyver 3's earlier connections with Cronos. He has a Zoalord's strength and the ability to command Zoanoids while in human form to a limited extent. He is not as powerful as Guyot, so loses his battles with the full Zoalord the two times they fight. After Guyot mortally wounds him, Archanfel retrieves Masaki's body . Murakami is turned into an obedient, powerful Cronos general - and a full Zoalord, who assumes the name "Imakarum Mirabilis" to take the place of the fallen Guyot. When his obedience is questioned balcus simply replies with "We performed a 'special procedure' ". Furthermore, he is now more powerful than Guyot was, and has been given Guyot's Zoacrystal. Imakarum Mirabilis has a very unique relationship with Archanfel. They are in constant telepathic link. It is as if he is a part of Archanfel, which explains the nature of his sudden loyalty towards Archanfel.
Masaki is a tall, thin young man with shoulder-length hair. He normally wears sunglasses even at night. After Archanfel gets his claws into him the glasses conceal the fact he now has cat-pupiled eyes; his hair has also now been allowed to grow much longer.
====Dr. Hamilcar Barcas====
One of Cronos' top scientists and the eldest member of the Council of Twelve. He is responsible for designing and creating the Hyper Zoanoids and completing the final work on most of the Zoalord mutations. He is very old, and compensates for his growing baldness by letting what hair he has left grow to his waist. He has no scruples, no scientific conscience; and he appears opportunistic at times. He is over 400 years old, and was one of the founders of Cronos along with Archanfel. He is, in fact, the person who awoke Archanfel from his long slumber. His name is taken directly from [[Hamilcar Barca]].
===Aptom===
Aptom was one of the lost number along with his two compatriots. Lost numbers are Zoanoids who have lost their reproductive ability during processing. This makes them useless to Chronos' long term plans as they cannot self replicate. They have powers/weapons that are non-conventional, but they offered a new approach in the battle against the Guyvers. His two close friends were killed in various battle with the Guyvers. Dr. Barcas was interested by Aptom's abilities, and re-processed him in an attempt to strengthen his powers. Thereafter, Aptom discovers that not only is he now completely shielded from the telepathic powers of the Zoalords, but he is nearly immortal. By absorbing small amounts of DNA from other Zoanoids, he can replicate their forms and powers, as well as mix the attributes of several Zoanoids in one body. He can regenerate himself even if only small bits are left. He needs lots of bio-energy as a result, and that bio-energy must come from fellow Zoanoids. He soon starts killing Zoanoids and becomes a renegade from Cronos. In time, he comes to ally himself with the Guyvers in various battles. Totally amoral, Aptom is the sort of character who is difficult to classify as either villain or hero - he doesn't really fit into either category. His human shape is of a muscular man with a distinctive scar that runs down the left side of his face from hairline to jaw; he often dresses in a leather jacket, jeans and shades. Recently, his body was telepathically possessed by a Zoalord, leading "Chaos Aptom" to fight his former allies, such as Guyver I, unwillingly. Later on he is freed.
===Toshiaki Hayami===
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One of Dr. Odagiri's assistants, he is the sole survivor of that group of scientists that escaped in the relic. The scientists were infected by a virus as Chronos' means of keeping them under control. They figured that the only way to rid themselves of this was to become Zoanoids. The only way to become Zoanoids and not be slaves to the Zoalords was to become lost numbers.
Hayami was the only scientist that survived the process. He possesses the power to affect the temperature of the environment around him to a certain extent. Aptom finds him and, once he realizes what Hayami is, brings him to meet the Guyvers and their friends.
==The Guyver Units==
The guyver units are mysterious bio-mechanisms that bond with a host, giving that being strong armour and enhancing the host's own strength and speed. guyver units were designed as tools.
as the human being was developed as a weapon, the guyver adapts to give the human various offensive abilities:
*Sonic orbs (two orbs at the Guyver's mouth that produce head exploding sound waves)
*The Mega-Smasher (Two high power particle cannons contained beneath the guyver's chest armour)
*Head Laser (A multi directional laser mounted just above the control medal on the guyver's head)
*High Frequency Swords (Blades that extend from the guyver's elbows/forearms. These blades vibrate at an extremely high frequency allowing them to cut through almost any material with ease)
*Gravity globe (The purpose of the gravity globe is to siphon gravitational energy from a higher dimension. Two main uses include giving the guyver the ability to fly and to unleash destructive gravity waves in the form of a directed "Pressure Cannon", also can be used as a one way shield)
Other various systems are revealed slowly as the manga continues.
It is the control medal (located on the Guyver's forehead) that regulates the armour - and prevents the organism from literally eating its host alive and also records the genetic structure of its host; so that if the host is injured or killed, regenerates that host from even the smallest bits of bio-booster material. If the control medal is destroyed, the Unit absorbs its host. The control medal has tentacles that reach into the host's brain, and it is the hard wiring of the control medal that allows the host to use the systems of the Guyver. During the joining with the Guyver, the hosts body is changed permanently. The Guyver leaves 2 growths on the back of the host, that act as a form of 'transciever' to Guyver. When the host calls for the Guyver, a signal is sent and the Guyver is activated. When not needed, the armour is stored in what can best be described as a sub-dimension; it follows the host constantly so as to be instantly available when needed.
While extremely hardy, there are a number of things that can damage or destroy a Guyver. The various Enzyme-type Zoanoids were specifically developed to exude a type of acid that dissolves the bio-booster armour. A battle-trained, experienced Zoalord has enough pure power to destroy a Guyver, as do some of the Hyper Zoanoids. And, finally, the Creators developed a tool called the 'Unit Remover'. It actually deletes host data from the control medal, forcing the Guyver to return to its inactive state. Unlike the Zoanoids, the Guyver is humanoid in form - mostly because its hosts are human. The Guyver would have been used by the command crew element of Creator spaceships, and in later chapters Sho uses his control medal to speak telepathically with one of the craft.
The first Guyver was an experiment by the creators eons ago.
They were curious as to how their newly developed weapons would react to their standard armament (Guyver unit).
However, the Guyver attacked the Creators, destroying one of their ships.
The human would not remove the armor when ordered to.
The Creators programmed the humans to be telepathically controlled by them and so, as this human would not listen, the bio-boosted human was named 'Guyver' (a word meaning 'out of control' in the Creators language).
They gave the 'unit remover' to Archanfel who then proceeded to remove the unit from the human and incinerate him.
It is thought that the difference in the look of the Guyvers is determined by the personality of the host.
==Zoanoids==
The Cronos Corporation has discovered the technology to give humans the ability to transform into superhuman, monstrous soldiers. These 'normal' Zoanoids are the cannon-fodder of the series, and are constantly getting destroyed left and right. When killed, their bodies disintegrate into little more than wisps of vapor and damp spots on the ground, so there are no bodies - human or monster - left which can be used as proof of what's going on. Initially most Zoanoids we run across are members of Cronos, but the Corporation is also experimenting with ways to involuntarily transform humans into Zoanoids without their knowledge. It is safe to assume they erase the memories of these people of their being processed. They can be activated from a distance by any Zoalord. These humans come under the Zoalords' telepathic mind-control techniques as soon as they transform, giving the organization an unquestioningly obedient army of super soldiers. These Zoanoids are genetically programmed to obey the orders of Zoalords (with some exceptions now and then, like Aptom). Once these experiments are successfully completed, Cronos begins to openly make its bid to control the world. Zoanoids come in hundreds of different designs. Some are very specialized, like the Enzyme and Hyper Zoanoid units, and are few in number. Others like Gregole, Ramotith and Vamore are more general-purpose and exist in much larger quantities. While not all humans can be made into Zoanoids, a very large percentage of humans possess the potential. So far, Takaya has shown us no female Zoanoids, but a female proto-zoalord does appear later in the series.
==Guyver: Out of Control==
Produced in 1987 in Japan and in 1993 in the US and Canada, this animated film is loosely based on the original story at the start, before deviating into it's own storyline. As in the anime OVA, Malmot steals the units, but Guyver I is discovered not by Sho and Tetsuro, but by Sho and ''Mizuki''. Tetsuro does not appear at all in the film. Sho becomes Guyver I and defeats a Gregole, as in the OVA, though this one is entirely coherent. Mizuki faints at the sight of the Greole and thus does not see Sho's Guyver form. Sho takes Mizuki home, and at school the next day, two of his friends are murdered. Going to the police, he encounters a Vamore disguised as an officer. Here, Sho consciously summons the Guyver and lashes out with the Mega-Smasher for the first time.
Chronos sends out an inspector to view the only successfully recaptured Guyver Unit. The inspector, a woman named Valcuria, is merged with it and becomes Guyver II. Of interesting note is the fact that the Control Medal is not shown to be damaged when it merges with her until after it fully forms, and even then, it is almost unnoticable.
Sho becomes a wanderer, and holes up in an abandoned shack. Discovered by Chronos, he is told they are holding Mizuki captive. Glowing with energy, Sho sets off a small explosion, and the next day, in Bio-Boosted form, attacks the Chronos Japan base, a massive tanker concealing an underwater and underground complex. There he meets and battles Valcuria, now Guyver II. She has the upper hand throughout the near entirety of the battle, only losing when her Control Medal is further damaged by the confrontation, giving Sho the chance to strike back, damaging it even more, and obliterating her with the Mega-Smasher.
Like Tetsuro, Agito Makashima is nowhere to be found throughout the anime, however Guyver III ''does'' put in an appearance at the end of the film, killing Genzo Makashima, the then-head of Chronos Japan.
The film ends shortly thereafter. Mizuki is returned ordinary school life. the destruction of the Chronos tanker is written off as a 'mundane' explosion caused by a combustion of oil and gas. Guyver I and III are never again seen in either form.
==Guyver OVA==
Divided into two series, this OVA series tells a condensed version of the first five volumes.
===Cast (Japan)===
*[[Takeshi Kusao]]: Shō Fukamachi / Guyver I
*[[Yuko Mizutani]]: Mizuki Segawa
*[[Kōzō Shioya]]: Tetsurō Segawa
*[[Hideyuki Tanaka]]: Agito Makishima / Guyver III
*[[Chieko Honda]]: Natsuki Taga
*[[Jun Hazumi]]: Genzō Makishima / Enzyme
*[[Kōji Totani]]: Gregole
*[[Ken Yamaguchi]]: Vamore
*[[Norio Wakamoto]]: Oswald A. Lisker / Guyver II
*[[Kōichi Yamadera]]: Zerbebuth
*[[Hidekatsu Shibata]]: Richard Guyot
*[[Masashi Hironaka]]: Thancrus
*[[Banjō Ginga]]: Gaster
*[[Daisuke Gōri]]: Derzerb
*[[Juurouta Kosugi]]: Elegen
*[[Ikuya Sawaki]]: ZX-Tole
*[[Hirotaka Suzuoki]]: Masaki Murakami
*[[Yutaka Shimaka]]: Fumio Fukamachi
*[[Seizo Kato]]: Dr. Hamilcar Barcas
*[[Maria Kawamura]]: Shizu Onuma
*[[Kenichi Ogata]]: Yōhei Onuma
*[[Issei Futamata]]: Aptom
===Cast (English)===
*[[David Hart]]: Narrator
*[[Tom Fahn]]: Shou Fukamachi / Guyver I
*[[Melissa Fahn]]: Mizuki Segawa
*[[Víctor García]]: Tetsuro Segawa
*[[Steven Jay Blum]]: Agito Makishima / Guyver III
*[[Gary Michaels]]: Oswald A. Lisker / Guyver II, Zector
*[[Debra Rogers]]: Natsuki Taga
==Guyver The Bio Boosted Armor (2005-2006)==
During the summer of 2005, a new Guyver website, http://www.guyver.jp went online. Aside from a mysterious [[Flash]] intro, the only other item on the website was an advertisement for a "Guyver Event" at the 2005 Anime Fair.
It was then at the Anime Fair that [[WOWOW]] and the head of [[ADV Films]] announced that they would start broadcasting a new 26 episode Guyver anime TV series, starting [[August 6]]. The production is in association with [[ADV Films]], [[Kadokawa Pictures]], [[GENCO]], [[Sojitz Corporation]] and [[Oriental Light and Magic]]. It is currently showing on WOWOW TV Saturday nights at 7:00 PM.
===Cast===
*[[Kenji Nojima]]: Shô Fukamachi/Guyver I
*[[Nana Mizuki]]: Mizuki Segawa
*[[Kosuke Takeuchi]]:Tetsurô Segawa
*[[Katsuyuki Konishi]]: Agito Makishima/Guyver III
*[[Tomo Adachi]]: Natsuki Taga
*[[Kinryu Arimoto]]: Richard Guyot
*[[Tetsu Inada]]: Aptom
*[[Saburo Kamei]]: Hamilcar Barcas
*[[Mitsuaki Madono]]: Masaki Murakami
*[[Yasunori Matsumoto]]: Archanfel
*[[Dai Matsumoto]]: Sin Rubeo Amniculus
*[[Hiroshi Tsuchida]]: Fried'rich von Purg'stall
*[[Tomohisa Aso]]: Luggnagg de Krumeggnic
*[[Yoshinori Sonobe]]: Jabir 'bn Hayyan
*[[Go Shinomiya]]: Rienzi (Lǐ Yǎn-Tuí)
===Theme songs===
*'''OP THEME''' - "Waiting for" - Yo Reiri
*'''ED THEME''' -"Cotton Candy" - [[Bonnie Pink]]
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The TV series covers more of the story than the 12 episode OAV series, being more loyal to the manga, mainly the first 10 or so volumes (covering everything up to the arrival of Guyver Gigantic). However there are key differences;
*'''Guyver II/Oswald A. Lisker ''survives'' his first battle with Guyver I''' due him and Tetsuro's escaping during the first of Guyver 2's many Control Medal malfunctions. He is even kept from fighting up until the final episode of the "Cronos Japan Arc" due to the fact that he is the only Guyver in Chronos' possesion. Though he does meet the same end with a final grotesque malfunction, and then is caught in the collapse of Cronos Japan's HQ, all thanks to their self-destruct sequence.
*'''Panadyne,''' a Zoanoid who has only been featured in the manga in an event following Chronos Japan's destruction, '''makes his first anime appearance'''.
*'''In an homage to the popular story in the manga where Guyver 1/Shô's disembodied arm from the battle with Enzyme mutates into a clone''', the dissolving Guyver 1 in the Enzyme battle turns into the clone's final form.
*'''Mizuki ''doesn't'' get captured by Chronos during the Enzyme battle''' only Tetsuro surprisingly enough.
*'''Murakami's first tranformation into his Proto Zoaform occurs ''before the battle'' with the group of Enzyme IIs.''' It now happens when two of the surviving members of the Hyper Zoanoid Team Five assault Agito's hideout near Mt. Murakami.
*'''We get a brief glimpse of the other three Proto Zoaforms''' in a flashback during the "Relics Point" arc.
==="Guyver Genesis Begins"===
The series had its last episode broadcast on Saturday, Feburary 18th. However it ended on a cliffhanger with the last image being Sho, who had just reverted to human form after defeating Neo ZX-Tole as Guyver Gigantic, in the arms of Mizuki who gets the last line, "Okairinasai!" or "Welcome home".
At this point, the possibility of there being a second season of episodes to continue the story seems to only be speculation. However, a possible hint at a second season could be found in the phrase "Guyver Genesis Begins..." that appears in the beginng of the opening credits.
But as of this writing, neither [[WOWOW]] nor [[ADV Films]] have said anything confirming a second season.
==Synopsis of the Guyver Manga==
There are various synopsis of the guyver Manga written by different people.
The most notable ones are:-
http://www.warriorguyver.com/starsguyverpage/page.htm
compiled through translation of the chinese manga. Also contains poor fan-fiction.
last updated October 6th 2000
http://www.theguyver.net/infosite/guyver_synopses/synopses/synopses_books.html
compiled through summary of the english viz books, and the remainder through translation of the italian books.
last updated November 2005
http://www.neoguyver.com/
compiled through translation of the chinese manga.
only later volumes have been summarised.
last updated July 2005
There is also a full translation of much of the manga available for those who own the Japanese manga.
This translation is available via http://www.theguyver.net
==Guyver Live-Action==
Two movies based on the Guyver Manga/Anime were produced in the early 90s. While the main concepts were there (Chronos, Zoanoids, the Guyver), the rest was changed to the point where it was barely recognizable. The first movie could be considered to be based on the first 6 volumes of the manga, and is considered to be quite campy. The second movie is much darker, likely based on following volumes.
===The Guyver(1991)===
*[[Jack Armstrong]]: Sean Barker/The Guyver
*[[Vivian Wu]]: Mizky Segawa
*[[Mark Hamill]] .... Max Reed
*[[Greg Paik]]: Dr. Tetsu Segawa
*[[David Gale]]: Fulton Balcus
*[[Michael Berryman]]: Lisker
*[[Jimmie Walker]]: Striker
*[[Peter Spellos]]: Ramsey
*[[Spice Williams]]: Weber
===Guyver: Dark Hero(1994)===
*[[David Hayter]]: Sean Barker
*[[Kathy Christopherson]]: Cori
*[[Bruno Giannotta]]: Crane
** [[Brian Simpson]]: Crane Zoanoid
** [[Tatsuro Koike]]: Guyver Zoanoid
*[[Christopher Michael]] .... Atkins
*[[Stuart Weiss]]: Marcus
*[[Billi Lee]]: Mizky
==Series license status==
All of the anime (minus the recent TV series, which has yet to be licensed*) was originally released in the United States by [[US Renditions]]. When their license expired, the 12-episode OVA was picked up by [[Manga Entertainment]] (who has yet to re-release the OVA movie).
However, as of [[January 31]] [[2006]], Manga Entertainment's licence on the OVA has expired. This leaves one to wonder if [[ADV Films]], who has a co-production credit on the new TV series, will pick it up. As of this writing, ADV has yet to confirm the actual U.S. license for this series. The first part of the new series has just been released on japanese DVD and is available for around $100 - $200. The second part of the new season will be released in March. No UK or U.S. release date has been set as of yet.
The Manga has been licensed in North America by Viz, and seven volumes were published in 1992 and 1993 under the "Viz Manga Heroes" label.
It is also licensed in Italy by Star Comics and in Singapore by Chuang-yi publishing.
==External links==
*[http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Animation/Anime/Titles/G/Guyver/ DMOZ. Guyver links]
*[http://www.guyver.jp/ GUYVER THE BIOBOOSTED ARMOR / OFFICIAL SITE]
*[http://www.wowow.co.jp/anime/guyver/ GUYVER THE BIOBOOSTED ARMOR / WOWOW ANIME SITE]
*[http://www.theguyver.net The Guyver Net - Up to date information, complete translations and fan community]
*[http://www.neoguyver.com NeoGuyver Information and synopses based on chinese translations]
*[http://www.bioweapons.com Bio-Weapons Guyver Resource Site.]
*[http://unit-g.sakura.ne.jp/ The Relax Point /JAPANESE FAN SITE]
*[http://www.bio-boost.co.uk Bio-boost info on guyver merchandise]
*[http://www.warriorguyver.com 'Warrior Guyver'Fan fiction site and archive of old dead guyver sites]
*[http://guyverfour.t35.com/ Guyver Four's Bio Booster Armor Guyver Web Site]
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