Jul 20, 2022
My favorite adaptation of the guyver, allthough admittedly not the best.
The reason why its my favorite is mainly up to some stellar animation and art style choices (very close to the orignal manga) that i just personally reallly love. The gore and fights, although very short lived, are best seen to in this movie vs any of the other animes due to not CONSTANTLY cutting the camera away and doing cheap to make one shots and reused animations, there is only one reused animation in this movie during the fight with guyver 2 which is NOTHING compared to how much they reuse in the other
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OVA. I also am not going to compare it to the entirety of the 2005 anime because that would be unfair, the 2005 anime gets into the best parts of the manga and i really just dont think its fair to compare the two in their entirety, as to what the 2005 anime does cover in paralell with this movie, the ova does it better with more detailed gore and a darker feel. Which leads me to my main point about why I think this is the best guyver adaptation
its DARK
and i mean, theres a reason they named the second live action movie DARK HERO
Guyvers story has always been suited to a strangely realistic and serious feel, look at everything chronos does back to back in any adaptation in this series, sure its all dressed up in 80s goofiness but its a very dark and depressing story when you really think about it (and the 2005 anime did a perfect job of honing that in with the characters writing and dialogue, but just not in most of the fight scenes and its art style)
And whilst this movie is very goofy in execution, put under a microscope it has an aura of almost, mental illness. I could talk all day about it, but im just going to mention the example of how sho rips out the guyver 2s control metal without hesitation after she was very courteous to him and leave it at that.
Also id like to mention that i have no nostalgia factor with this series, i stumbled across it last year as a kamen rider fan and immediately fell in love. I am 18. I am not a 40 year old british dude who had this on VHS so please do not think of me as nostalgia biased.
TLDR: I will ____ you if you give this less than a 6.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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