Kyoushoku Soukou Guyver (2005)

I liked how they were able to make guyver and zoanoids look so much like the original designs while also making them look modern as well. I enjoyed the longer plot and how we learn a bit more then we did then in the original.
tho I feel the music in this was not as great as the original, I enjoyed how it allowed the plot but also changed things from the first anime and added in some new things. All and all I really loved this anime and hope they will do some more seasons one day.
I would have to give it a 8/10

Story (6/10):
The story of Guyver The Bioboosted Armor followed a very standard and by the books method for Sci-Fi anime. You got the MC who (surprise surprise) got no mother and live alone with his super understanding father and suddenly acquires a power that causes his ordinary life to shatter, an evil organization the controls the world from the shadows and are after the power that the MC got.
The show also implement the usual "that not even my final form" and "that not the final boss" methods that are usually used in this type of show
The plot reminded me of Zetman which is a 100 ... times better (only read the manga so i am not sure about the anime quality)

Characters (6/10):
Every single character is the cliche of their respected type. You got the MC that as usual goes in the usual loop of "i can't do it" to "i can do it and will protect everyone" the MC doesn't give you any reason to rally behind him as a viewer really. You also have the childhood friend who the MC loves and of course is oblivious to the fact and got a crush on some other guy, and don't forget the best friend who is the only person that knows the MC secret at first and insist on being with him although he is useless.
You also have the guy helping the MC with ulterior motives and the mysterious stranger how knows alot about the truth of everything
Even the Evil organization got the standard hierarchy you see in every similar show

Art and Animation (5/10):
The show simply looks old in every aspect whither it's the environments, the characters, or the animations the show offers bellow average visuals. I am sure it is an improvement over the old show but it just look bad compared to the stuff that were out at the time it was released, hell even some older stuff look better especially the animations, the fight scenes were a pain to watch.

Music & VA (7/10):
the music offers nothing of note it didn't stand out much. Both the OP and ED were the norm of such a show.
The Dub was not half bad although it was kind of stiff at some points especially when screaming was involved :D

Effectiveness (6/10):
I was mildly entertained by the show even with all it's flaws but i still would have rather watched any other thing instead. The only reason i finished it was to give an accurate representation of my thought about it in this review
Oh i almost forgot to mention that it didn't have a proper ending (if you can call that an ending)

Overall (6/10)

Guyver is basic shonen adventure dreck (extra emphasis on "basic") where a mediocre high school student dons a suit of alien power armor to fight an organization called Chronos.

It was boring and terrible, and I watched it to the end because apparently I am trash for this kind of thing.

The source manga has not aged gracefully, and the anime would have felt dated and backwards even on its initial release over a decade ago. Characters don't seem to have strong personalities to distinguish them from the basic outlines of the tropes that were molded from, and the overall flatness of these characters cause the "serious" ... dramatic beats to spew an endless fountain of bathos and narm. This is particularly true of the female love interest Mizuki, whose main purpose is to exist in an endless cycle of hopeful waffling and emotional breakdowns so over-the-top that they were hard to take seriously. The lead character Sho does not escape this comical overreach either, with a personal crisis that occurs near the middle of the show only succeeding at eliciting guffaws aplenty.

Guyver does better with its anti-heroes. Although their personalities are just as rote as any other characters, at least there is conflict built into their situations, which means they are more engaging by default.

Pacing is better than average. Guyver basically starts off as a simple monster of the week formula, but soon starts to break the status quo and veers into more of an adventure structure with a longer set of rescue arcs. Although the focus on monster fights as obstacles results in conflicts and resolutions that feel artificial, this anime does successfully escalate the threats over time. However Guyver ends on an incidental fight with a tertiary character, which leaves a bad aftertaste.

While Guyver is dense with action fights, little of the animation is particularly expressive. At the very least, the gross insect-inspired monster designs were pretty fun.