Kyôshoku sôkô Guyver Act II (Video 1991)Writer:Yoshiki Takaya |
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Cast
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Takeshi Kusao | ... |
Shô Fukamachi /
Guyver-I
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Yûko Mizutani | ... |
Mizuki Segawa
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Kôzô Shioya | ... |
Tetsurô Segawa
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Hideyuki Tanaka | ... |
Agito Makishima /
Guyver-III
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Hirotaka Suzuoki | ... |
Masaki Murakami
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Masaki Aizawa | ... |
Enzyme II-04
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Steve Areno | ... |
Masaki Murakami
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| Steve Blum | ... |
Agito Makishima
(voice) (as Steven Jay Blum)
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Sonny Byrkett | ... |
Fumio Fukamachi, Dr. Balcus
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Susan Byrkett | ... |
Secretary
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Hal Cleaveland | ... |
Narrator
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Melissa Fahn | ... |
Mizuki Segawa
(voice) (as Melissa Charles)
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Sho Fukemachi
(voice) (as Tom Charles)
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Nobuyuki Furuta | ... |
Dyme
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Issei Futamata | ... |
Aptom
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Between this disappointing animated entry and the horrendous 1991 Guyver live action movie starring Mark Hamil, I honestly suspect a curse of sorts that was placed on the Guyver franchise name during that year.
Part 2 of the Guyver OVA sees material from the mildly popular manga, books 3 to 5 in particular, crammed into 6 short episodes.
On a whole, this feels like an after thought at best, created just because the studio had some leftover cash and did not know where to spend it.
It not only carries on the flaws of part 1, but ends up making a whole batch of new flaws and mistakes. For starters, if you thought the plot in part one felt truncated and confusing, part 2 is a lot more so. You get smacked with the convoluted origin of the guyver units, the coming of the Zoalord Balcus, Hyperzoanoid team, Aptom and the lost numbers, even a subplot involving Sho's dad.
Ooooh……..boy………..
Visually, the look of this second part is obviously inferior to the first. Animation and art detail suffer the usual problems that plague most anime TV series. For an OVA (which usually has a higher budget per episode and longer production period) such standards are highly disappointing. The action involves a lot more standing around talking and blasting brightly colored power balls at each other akin to stuff like Dragonball Z; less of the more savage, in-your-face, hand to hand battles that came before.
The conclusion to the series seems like it was aborted pre-maturely and leaves viewers hanging. Plot threads are hardly tied up as the story rushes toward its disappointing end.
Watch this one if only for the sake of continuity or if you're a long time guyver fan.