Product Details

• Actors: Andrew Love, Brian Jepson, Chris Patton
• Directors: Charles Campbell
• Format: Widescreen, Color, Box set
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Funimation Prod
• DVD Release Date: June 22, 2010
• Run Time: 650 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003CP61X0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,156 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A world controlled by a sinister brotherhood who hide their fangs behind masks of humanity, known as the Chronos Corporation. While investigating a mysterious explosion near his school, Sho Fukamachi happens upon the Chronos Corporation’s greatest weapon: a techno organic suit of bio armor known as “the Guyver.” But Chronos is determined to conceal their secrets at any cost. Sho soon finds himself relentlessly pursued by its army of horrific bio-monsters. With nowhere to run, Sho is forced to call upon the fearsome power of the Guyver and rip his opponents limb from limb in a desperate struggle for survival.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice set but leaves things open, February 27, 2011

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This review is from: Guyver: Complete Box Set [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

A great set of this classic series from the cyberpunk era. The overall package is appealing and the remastered video quality can life up to even the most recent productions. Overall, it is a great revival of this classic series on BD. It is only sad that the US animes do not tell the full story as the rest was never published outside of Japan. It leaves thus some unsatisfying open threads that I would have hoped to see resolved in the story. But overall a good pick I can recommend to fans of this genre.

6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I love this series, but I don't reccomend this version, July 22, 2010

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Keegan - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Guyver: Complete Box Set [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Guyver has always been one of my favorite series', since it was my first series and I've been watching it since I was 3 years old (the old 12 episode OVA that I has on VHS that is). When I first picked up the DVD version of this remake, I noticed quite a few differences. There are some story differences, but the creators dub this Guyver reboot as the "most complete and most like the manga". True this reboot is the most complete, but it is not the most similar to the manga.

Besides some story differences, which I assume were put in to try and differentiate this newer version from the 1980's-1990's OVA, the art style is completely different from that of the manga and the original OVA. The art style of the old OVA series is sketchier, and has so much more detail on character designs and scenery. This new art style is like the creators conforming to the anime standard, which is less details, more simplistic lines and shapes. It's like comparing the art style of the first episode of DragonBall to the last episode of DragonBall Z. Instead of rounder shapes, the art style has moved to boxier more linear shapes. I'm not a fan of the new art style used on this Guyver reboot, but it isn't terrible.

The voice acting in this reboot is a lot better, as the American voice actor for Sho Fukamachi does an amazing job of making Sho seem innocent, intelligent, geeky, and goofy but not too goofy (which was my only complaint for the voice actor of the original OVA, as he seemed too whiny). Enough of this comparison between this reboot and the original OVA. This is the more complete version, so I would recommend it.

But now for the debate as for whether this BluRay version is better than the DVD version. I would say the DVD version is better and more complete. I would give the DVD version 5 stars, but it saddens me to give this version a 3. The DVD version simply has so much more extra content than this Blu Ray version. I don't know why they couldn't have made a 4th disc for this set that contained all of the bonus features. The Blu Ray version has one episode commentary. Is it me or that just a bit sad considering how much storage space is on one blu ray disc. The DVD box set comes with multiple episode commentaries, anime to manga comparisons, and comes with little booklets that contain character bios, and history on the series. As for whether which version looks better, I can barely tell since the art style is so simplistic.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More complete story, September 7, 2010

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J. Fernandez Medina "Media Fan" (Somewhere in the Carribean) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guyver: Complete Box Set [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

I have both version of Guyver the OVA and the new series. My major complaint with the OVA series is that it lets you hanging at the end. There were to many questions and no answers. On the new seriew all questions left by the OVA are answered and the art is fine by the new standards in anime and is brigther not so dark as in the OVA.

So if you have the oiriginal OVA and felt like me that the story was incomplete my suggestion is to get this series. The art is good, the story is good, and the image is more brigth and clear, I have the DVD version not the Blu-ray version, so I beilive that there will be some improvements in the visuals.