History Manga / Guyver

Originally a manga by Yoshiki Takaya, which began running in 1985 and is still currently serialized (32 volumes have been published so far), Guyver was first adapted as a 1986 {{OVA}} entitled "Guyver: Out Of Control". Next came the 1989 TwelveEpisodeAnime OVA series in 1989 ''Kyoushoku Soukou GUYVER'', or ''Bio-Booster Armor GUYVER'' by Creator/Visual80. A 1991 American live action film, ''Film/TheGuyver'', costarred Creator/MarkHamill. Its sequel, ''Film/GuyverDarkHero'', starring Creator/DavidHayter, was released in 1994. Finally, a 26-episode television series by Creator/OLMIncorproated aired in Japan in 2005 under the title ''Guyver: The Bio-Boosted Armor'' (the Japanese title remains unchanged).

Originally a manga by Yoshiki Takaya, which began running in 1985 and is still currently serialized (32 volumes have been published so far), Guyver was first adapted as a 1986 {{OVA}} entitled "Guyver: Out Of Control". Next came the 1989 TwelveEpisodeAnime OVA series in 1989 ''Kyoushoku Soukou GUYVER'', or ''Bio-Booster Armor GUYVER'' by Creator/Visual80. A 1991 American live action film, ''Film/TheGuyver'', costarred Creator/MarkHamill. Its sequel, ''Film/GuyverDarkHero'', starring Creator/DavidHayter, was released in 1994. Finally, a 26-episode television series aired in Japan in 2005 under the title ''Guyver: The Bio-Boosted Armor'' (the Japanese title remains unchanged).

Originally a manga by Yoshiki Takaya, which began running in 1985 and is still currently serialized (32 volumes have been published so far), Guyver was first adapted as a 1986 {{OVA}} entitled "Guyver: Out Of Control". Next came the 1989 TwelveEpisodeAnime OVA series in 1989 ''Kyoushoku Soukou GUYVER'', or ''Bio-Booster Armor GUYVER''. A 1991 American live action film, ''Film/TheGuyver'', costarred Creator/MarkHamill. Its sequel, ''Film/GuyverDarkHero'', starring Creator/DavidHayter, was released in 1994. Finally, a 26-episode television series aired in Japan in 2005 under the title ''Guyver: The Bio-Boosted Armor'' (the Japanese title remains unchanged).

** Though it's since been ruled inaccurate, some have always enjoyed Richard Guyot being translated as "Reichmann Gyro".

* CloningBlues: When Sho is "killed", in every continuity the Guyver rebuilds his body and itself [[FromASingleCell from a scrap of flesh stuck to the control Medal]]. Sho is then struck by the existential question of if he's the real Sho Fukamachi or a copy.
** It's implied in the manga that the control metal becomes the Guyver user's "Brain" otherwise it would be impossible for the Guyver to function with the top of its head blown off or regenerate from a few scrapings with the hosts memories intact. Since the host becomes a new creature while bonded with the Guyver then it's not cloning so much as regeneration and reversion. Instead of the original Sho dissolving when the control metal is removed, Sho's consciousness resides in the control metal and the Guyver body itself is just a construct (which happens to contain a duplicate of the host's mind). This means that the Sho running around right now is still Sho.

Originally a manga by Yoshiki Takaya, which began running in 1985 and is still currently serialized (32 volumes have been published so far), Guyver was first adapted as a 1986 {{OVA}} entitled "Guyver: Out Of Control". Next came the 1989 TwelveEpisodeAnime OVA series in 1989 ''Kyoushoku Soukou GUYVER'', or ''Bio-Booster Armor GUYVER''. A 1991 American live action film, ''Film/TheGuyver'', costarred Creator/MarkHamill. Its sequel, ''Film/GuyverDarkHero'', starring Creator/DavidHayter, was released in 1994. Finally, a television series aired in Japan in 2005 under the title ''Guyver: The Bio-Boosted Armor'' (the Japanese title remains unchanged).

* NotGoodWithPeople: Aptom. In Book 26, Mizuki wants to invite Aptom inside for lunch, however he left practically as soon as she opened the door. Sho commented that he's shy, but it could be that Aptom did once strip Mizuki to torment Sho in Book 5, probably something he regrets, and tries not to face her.

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent
* OrganicTechnology

* PeopleJars

* ExpositionIntuition: Tetsuo Segawa may be the patron saint of ExpositionIntuition: thanks to ''being a science-fiction fan'', he is able to make numerous, highly specific, and perfectly accurate "guesses" about how the Guyver suit works, the nature of the Zoanoids, that they are being controlled by a major corporation, the various details of the Cronos corporation, the [[{{Namedar}} names of individual Zoanoids]], and so forth.

* OffModel: The first half of the OVA was animated pretty nicely, but the second saw a noticeable downturn culminating in Sho's second fight with Aptom, where blood is spurting from nowhere when he chops off Aptom's arm.

* AppendageAssimilation: Aptom does this as a fighting style, cranked up to eleven when he's possessed by a Zoalord.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Aptom (somewhere between the two), in book 26 Mizuki wants to invent Aptom inside for lunch, however he left when she practically opened the door. Sho commented that he's shy, but it could be that Aptom did once strip Mizuki to torment Sho in book 5, probably something he regrets, and tries not to face her.

* TheVirus: Aptom.

As Takaya works without assistants, and has been suffering from chronic illness, the manga is released at an extremely slow pace. Since 2016 there have been no new chapters releaed, and the series is on an unofficial hiatus.

As Takaya works without assistants, and has been suffering from chronic illness, the manga is released at an extremely slow pace. As of 2016 we have had no new chapters and an unofficial hiatus with zero content released.

* TriangleRelations (Type 5): At the start, Sho is in love with Mizuki, who only has eyes for Agito, who cares only about revenge and domination. Made worse by the fact that Agito notices the situation and has no problem exploiting it for his own ends, no matter who's hurt in the process.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: In book 15, a flashback showing Archanfel's origin, there is a brief fight between Guyver 0 and a modified T-Rex!

* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Both the Guyvers and Aptom have taken severe damage - up to and including near-complete bodily destruction - on numerous occasions.)

* HeelFaceTurn: (Aptom, more or less)

** To be fair, by the end of the first movie everyone who knows about the Control Medal's weakness is dead ([[TheStinger Except for one guy,]] [[HeelFaceTurn and he's not talking.]]).

* AnIcePerson: Good guy Hayami, aka Bio-Freezer. [[spoiler: After Hayami's sacrifice]] Aptom is one too.

** The one for book 22 subverts this, Barcus thinks of [[spoiler: Waferdanos' origin]] and the audience didn't know about it before hand!

* BatmanGambit: Agito's first visit to the Arizona Base. The plan [[spoiler: threaten Barcus with the thought of him going to the bottom of the base, and shoot up with the Hyper Smashers, he lies and steals something else, postponing the destruction for another time]]

* BigBad: Archanfel certainly has what it takes to be it, supreme power, an army, the entire world! However he does have the sleeping sickness and if he isn't going to be the manga's big bad then it'll most likely be [[spoiler: Richard Guyot]]

** Sean Barker, played by Jack Armstrong, gets another in the first live action film when [[spoiler: he thinks he kills Mizky, whom Weber, the one he was ''actually'' trying to kill, was holding.]]

* CombatPragmatist: Agito Makashima "What's that? Old Man Barcus is mourning two of his comrades? I'll shoot him six times in the back!" Imakarum "I'll fight in the city so they'll be concerned with civilians" [[spoiler: doesn't work since he tried to pull that on Agito, his fellow pragmatist]]

** Also Neo-ZX-Tole. He takes a level in badass, thus sending his bad ass scales off the level, gains all the powers of his other four teammates, an anti-Aptom virus that stops Aptom from absorbing him, and slows Aptom's healing, all at the cost of becoming a Lost Number and losing his high rank. Due to all these powers he only has only a few days to live. Similarly the powered-up form he gets by absorbing Elegen's power in the OVA, which gives him a massive spike in his offensive abilities but which will burn him out in a short time. [[spoiler: He doesn't live long enough for it to come up in either case.]]

* DeathSeeker: Hayami given [[spoiler: it is hinted he figures he would die, being a Lost Number, soon, maybe even the night they went to get Aptom, he rather sought out a death where he at least got to help rather than peacefully at home. So more of a 'death with meaning' seeker]]

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Murakami to [[spoiler: Imakarum]]

* FourIsDeath: Guess how often [[spoiler: Hayami uses his power?]]

* HeroicBlueScreenOfDeath: Sho after [[spoiler: killing his father.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Takaya LOVES this one. [[spoiler: Murakami in book 8, Yohei Onuma in book 12, Hayami in book 23, Waferdanos and Li Yentsui do this in book 24]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Fumio Fukamachi, Team Five, Hayami, Khan, Waferdanos, Li Yetsui, and probably Purgstall.]]

* SelfDestructMechanism: Barcus' last line of defense in stopping Guyver III from gaining the control metals of the Arizona Relic at the cost of their HQ the results are...devastating to say the least [[spoiler: oh and it doesn't work, Agito escaped]]

* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: Waferdanos and Li Yentsui partially pull this. They give everything they have to 1) get their mentor Dr. Barcus out of the soon to explode Arizona base, 2) get the control orbs to an old Creator ship that Agito wants 3) leave Agito behind to die in the base. For all they give, they only complete the first one and just barely then, for Agito shoots Barcus in the back several times and severely hospitalizes him. Considering the Zoalords were very passionate, and Agito a possible villain/extreme anti-hero it isn't too hard to see those two as heroic.]]
* ShootTheDog: Killing civilians who have been optimized into Zoanoids. They can't return to their human forms, so the only thing to do is to put them down. Even so, Sho WouldNotShootACivilian and refuses to kill them at first, especially [[spoiler: his father]]. When he has to deal with the latter spoiler, his Guyver is forced into HeroicSafeMode by [[spoiler: Sho's own brain death]], while when Sho walks into a town that's been optimized and the people start transforming, the ruthless AntiHero Agito has no compunctions about doing what must be done.

* StormingTheCastle: Happens many times and it's rarely the first raid that gets it the job done.[[spoiler: Chronos Japan HQ, Relics Point (twice), Arizona HQ (twice), Japan's Cloud Gate (twice thus far).]]

* TheStoic: Aso. What is his reaction to see a 52 meter tall [[spoiler: Guyver Gigantic]] burst out of a building? He tells his younger partner to "shut up and keep taking pictures".
* TheStarscream: Richard Guyot; the cabal of Clumegnig, Khan, and ibn Hayyan -- now with added [[spoiler: Guyot]]!

* TookALevelInBadass: Probably the biggest would be Aptom. Who went from a Lost Number that could mimic probably only half of the Guyver's power to gaining most of Team Five's power and becoming quite a threat. For a long time Aptom suddenly became outclassed but recently [[spoiler: has gained it back by gaining Hayami's power, killing Zoalord Khan and then freezing four Enzyme III's stealthly.]]

* TrueCompanions: The strongest may be Sho with whoever decides to join him. It'll always have Mizuki and Tetsuro, books 1-8 have Masaki and Agito (kinda) joining and fighting with him [[spoiler: Murakami lost his life in 8]]. Book 9 had Natsuki joining Sho's team of support with book 12 trading Bio-Freeze for Agito and adding Aptom. Bio-Freeze [[spoiler: sacrified himself in book 24]] but now fans wonder, due to the fact that Takaya always has the third fighter in Sho's band always have a strong weakness if the next third member will be [[spoiler: The Female Guyver II who can only bio-boost for a time period.]]

** Book 9 where [[spoiler: Chronos takes over the world.]]
** Book 10 [[spoiler: The Gigantic Guyver and Imakarum's 1st appearance.]]
** Book 13 [[spoiler: The Gigantic Dark curb-stomps Imakarum]]
** Book 15 [[spoiler: Archanfel's origin story]]
** Book 16 [[spoiler: Agito's Libertus and Griselda appear, and a Zoalord finally falls.]]
** Book 20 [[spoiler: Aptom seemingly goes berserk and becomes Evil Aptom]]
** Book 24 [[spoiler: Agito finally wins the Arizona HQ battle, Hayami's death and Khan summons all of Tokyo's Zoanoids]]
** Book 25 [[spoiler: Khan's Dragonlord form and the Exceed.]]
** Book 26 [[spoiler: The appearance of another Guyver and a Zoalord getting completely curbstomped by Apollyon]]