The Guyver - Bio-Booster Armor, Vol. 2 [DVD]

I remember renting this series back in the good ol' days of video stores and VHS. I also remember seeing all but the last two episodes of the series. Well, it's nice to have the original animated series complete on 2 dvds. It's also worth noting that I have the updated Funimation series, as well. Even though the art style and animation of the original may be a bit dated by todays' standards, the story, action, and character designs are not. I'm not going to reveal the story, but suffice it to say that it definitely follows the formula previously established by western superheroes like Shazam/Captain Marvel and Spiderman (except that it is more graphically violent than both of them). Since we all know that a hero is only as good as his/her villains, Sho Fukamachi (high school student & the main hero) has plenty of them to bedevil him and his friends in the form of the Chronos Corporation and their monstrous creations, the Zoanoids. I am a big-time monster fan and the zoanoids greatly fit the bill. Of course, I do not recommend letting little children watch this because, as I said earlier, it is graphically violent. Dismemberment, broken bones, and plenty of bloodshed, just to name a few. Also, it is based on a manga series and is faithful to it, for the most part. However, one doesn't need to read the manga to enjoy this animated series, although it may enhance one's enjoyment of it.It's also worth it to note that there were 2 Americanized live-action, straight-to-video movies made in the 1990s. Having seen them, neither of them could do justice to the Guyver. In order for a live-action movie or series to even begin to do justice to this character and his world, it would require a budget and a level of SFX that's either equal to or greater than that allocated for a typical episode of A Game Of Thrones. Otherwise, it's easy to see that The Guyver is best realized as an animated series (except for the execrable "Guyver: Out Of Control", which I'm glad hasn't seen the light of day as a dvd).If you're a fan of old-school, action-oriented anime with an edge, you should definitely add this series to your collection.

I reviewed volume one a long time ago, and it seemed I should include this one, obviously. Of course you benefit if you have the complete series. It's a whole experience. You should know I love it! These 12 episodes are the very best Guyver series hands down! I should point out that to practice my Japanese and for a preference for Japanese audio I avoid the English dub. I know people are critical of the English opening but I can only overall speak to the Japanese presentation. An outstanding series! In fact it's in my all-time top 4 series! Get it to have all of the best Guyver anime there is! It's a violent and brilliant anime!

I bought this item used, but it was like it was right off the shelf. I am a big fan of this series and to have the DVD in such mint condition was awesome. Great seller and I recommend them.

OOh violent. kick butt and blood everywhere. Teen ends up being turned into this monster and some big brother org tries to kill him. Classic

The video quality is great and it seems that some of the effects are animated at a different FPS or my mind playing tricks on me, some seem a bit modified to look like a greater quality of animating them. The soud is great also, great quality Dolby 5.1/2.0 English track aswell as a 2.0 Japanese track, too bad we get only 2.0 for that one but at least my ears seem to tell me that there isn't a whole lot of difference in quality. There's of course as you'd probably know, for those who do their homework, some neat bonuses such as Zoanoid data files(although already included on the VHS..but not on 2nd act VHS from Manga), Original unmodified(yay for none of that U.S. Rendition's credit text and subtitles) Japanese Intros/Outros, and some others that will make you guys happy, I don't want to spoil the excitement that much so I won't state all of them. Thank you Manga Entertainment! And thank you guys at the U.K. for having it remixed and for getting the man called "Mad Dog Winston" to create the awesome soundtrack for the Manga Edition of this awesome 12 part anime series.

Needed the original music.

had the originals when I was younger love it.

Awesome