Kyoushoku Soukou Guyver

The plot of this OVA is a rough adaptation of the first four chapters of the Guyver manga. It covers the same basic elements of these chapters; Genesis of the guyver, Fight with Vamore, Fight with Guyver 2 and the introduction of Guyver 3. Main differences are the exclusion of Tetsuro and his replacement by Mizuki, The replacement of Lisker with a female Agent "Valcuria", and thus a female Guyver 2. There is also a look at Sho's psychology of how he deals with his situation including a very harsh moment where his friends are assassinated in cold blood.

One night, high school student Sho Fukamachi discovers a mysterious metal object. Then in a blinding flash of light, Sho finds that he has accidentally fused with the Guyver, a mecha of mysterious alien design.

Now, to save his girlfriend, Mizuki Segawa, along with the entire world, Sho must become the Guyver to fight the Chronos Corporation and their biocreatures, called Zoanoids, who are hell-bent on world domination.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Fukamachi, Shou Main

Mizushima, Yuu Japanese

Valcuria Main

Toda, Keiko Japanese

Makishima, Agito Supporting

Kosugi, Juurouta Japanese

Truck driver Supporting

Tanaka, Yasuo Japanese

Marmot Supporting

Kobayashi, Michitaka Japanese

Makishima, Genzo Supporting

Hazumi, Jun Japanese

Segawa, Mizuki Supporting

Tomizawa, Michie Japanese

Chief Ishiwatari Supporting

Wakamoto, Norio Japanese

Maseba, Yutaka Producer

Ashida, Toyoo Producer, Screenplay, Key Animation, Character Design

Watanabe, Hiroshi Director, Key Animation

Matsuura, Noriyoshi Sound Director

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Jun 20, 2013

Shura-shurato

Recommended

Shame on me for not writing a review before.This movie was´nt my 1st introduction of the Guyver genre after seeing the t.v serie´s in the late 90´s( i was nuts as a minor aged kid too see such bloodshed), but u definetly like the ´spark ´of the franchise.For the fans keep in mind that the 1st Guyver anime is only based on the 1st 4 chapters of the manga wich some minor changes thats notable in the 1st t.v serie´s from the 80´s 90´s, and that the production was´nt a milliondollar company but a small studio with limited resources. Storywise i was really into ... it, the whole unpredictabillity of the guyver suits and stuff, more interesting was how the very dark twists further in the story, how short it may be get a nice setting that fits after half the film. i liked the art somewhat, though u have to be used too see 80's 90's handdrawn anime like me but that once again differs for the viewers.For the soundtracks it gave the suspense to what an 80's anime should be, especially when the Female guyver dies, and a bit of rockmusic ofc. All of the ordinary charachters involved have something special to themselve's aside from Sho Fukamachi (the guyver) as for the villians, i mean by that the personality that was given to them, and no girls screaming over the damn place like helpless sluts! each of them acted like real evryday humans.

the t.v show inproved the storyprogressing of the manga and of the art , they kept the strength of most of the charachters alive although sometime's it dropped time to time.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jul 20, 2022

zeirammp4

Recommended

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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 ... 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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Jul 30, 2021

ProxyLain

Not Recommended

This anime tries to be something, but it doesn't succeed.
At first I thought it might be something average, but as the anime went on it just got bad.

The anime starts with a guy hitchhiking in the rain, and a trucker gives him a ride. This guy who hitchhiked was carrying Guyver Guns, for some unexplained reason he was carrying them, and the government was after this guy. After finding him, they almost manage to recover the suitcase with the armors, but the suitcase explodes and one of the armors ended up in front of the protagonist.

Mizuki, the protagonist's supposed girlfriend, had fainted after seeing one ... of the soldiers transformed into a huge monster, and right after the protagonist defeats everyone there, he carries her on his back, but she wakes up, and since he is carrying her on his back, he is holding her and carrying two school bags, she wakes up and calls him a pervert for holding her by the legs, and also gets mad at him. Like, what is the logic? Are they really boyfriend and girlfriend? If so, what's the point in getting mad at your boyfriend for carrying you while you are passed out? It's too silly.

Things really start to come to a head when two of his classmates are killed in front of him in class, then the school guard is also found dead.
Soon after this, the protagonist is interrogated by the police, who for some reason know that he came in contact with the Guyver Armor. How do they know if there isn't even a military man left in the fight that the protagonist was transformed into Guyver l for the first time? It makes no sense.
The guy who interrogated the protagonist also threatens to kill his supposed girlfriend who was with him when the Guyver armor flew off after the suitcase explosion. This guy turns into a huge monster and continues to threaten the protagonist, so the protagonist turns into Guyver and defeats him.

Now comes the bad stuff in this anime. Instead of the protagonist going straight to save Mizuki, he just wanders around aimlessly. An agent finds him, only then he decides to go after her after killing this agent. That makes a lot of sense.
The government already had the Guyver ll Armor that didn't disappear in the explosion, so this armor has Valcuria, a squad supervisor. The problem is that they sexualized a scene that should be horrible; Valcuria moans a lot while the Armor possesses her and penetrates various parts of her body. They literally made this scene as if she was getting a hard-on from the thing (which looked like tentacles, by the way). This didn't even have a narrative function.

For some reason, out of nowhere, Valcuria knows how to use and control Guyver ll. So she is left in charge of recovering the first Armor.
The protagonist goes after Mizuki who was kidnapped by a government squad, and he fights with Valcuria. Obviously he wins, everything explodes, and happy ending (though Guyver lll shows up to save Mizuki from being killed).

It is an action anime, so we expect good animation in the battles. Well, the animation isn't bad, but it's pretty poor. It clearly didn't have a very high budget.
The music I don't even remember, but I remember there was one that was used a lot and it sounded like game music. What bothered me about the audio was the voice when people turned into monsters.
At least the character design is not so bad.

In the end it was another anime full of inconsistencies in the story. It is really bad.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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