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looks like a new tv series. japanese and american joint venture. guess we'll have to see where it starts off. http://eg.nttpub.co.jp/news/20050331_06.html

yeah...i was really confused when i saw the the us rendition version too. i just wish i had the convention tapes again. and also an all-in-wonder card to rip it in it's glorious bootleg quality.

Hikuro: murakami was killed by guyot who was in turn, "killed" by archanfel. rumour has it that guyot comes back in the ongoing manga serial. but anyways, guyot is killed when archenfel pulls out his zoa-crystal. archanfel then puts it in murakami which turns him into imakuram miribilis. guyver 0 got remover-ed and was disposed of. and yes, the animation quality was very inconsistant in act 2. the version of act 2 that i got had very consistant animation. i can tell you almost exactly what was different. - intro was the original with boxes with scenes from act 1 - initial guyver kidnapping scene had different zoanoid and guyver fodder death animations in the original - murakami sports a white suit instead of whatever color it was(or vice versa) - the fight by the waterway at the end of the episode starts getting funky after ramotith gets his head blown off in the new act 2 - the funky animation isn't there at all when guyver fights the zoanoids - megasmasher sequence is different enough but follows the same principle as the new act 2 - no data file at the end of the episode some other differences were: - balcus has different colored clothes and a green, not red zoa-crystal - the lost numbers are wearing the men in black uniform and not the regular guyver fodder suits. - enzyme 2 was a different color - murakami was different colors - solum has different colors - the guy that melts has a different death sequence(hell, everything about him was different except for the actual melting animation. - now that i think about it, episode 8 was horribly butchered. at least ep 7 had enough of the original animation. but i guess my point is that the best animation in the newer releases was from the original print and was typical of the entire original act 2.

i didn't think act 2 was all that bad. horrible voice acting aside of course. the original act 2 had MUCH different animation and different color palettes. in the later reincarnations of act 2, like manga or even us renditions, there's a huge amount of inconsistantcy in the animation. from what i've seen, there's only like 15% of the original animation left. it's unfortunate because most people who haven't seen the real act 2 say it just plain sucks. i just wish i still had the tape so you guys could've seen how good it actually was. i was pretty lucky to find it at a comic con like 11 years ago. but i'm sure there are some copies of the original animation sitting around out there.

i have a mediocre unsubbed copy of episode 2. it's a 121 mb file and i could upload it somewhere. and uhhh...*ahem* cross fight! dan-gai-ooo!!!!!

wasn't there an avp game for the atari jaguar?

he was also in Spawn and Universal Soldier(the third one). but i'm pretty sure he didn't do too much in Spawn. his imdb profile also says he's also in the first Universal Soldier. i'll have to look for him the next time it's on tv.

you might want to check if you have the latest drivers and directx 9. not sure if that'll help, but it's the only thing i can think of.

Wow!!

oooh...that was a decent book too. forgot about that one. *sigh* if only my collection wasn't tossed many moons ago.

Oh please, if they made that comic into a movie it would suck so bad. Noguchi gets let into the predator pack? Come on... that's oozing cheese. i'd actually hate to see that particular book ruined by an onscreen rendition and never suggested that.

don't get me wrong, the latest trailer is far better than the previous 2, but the only aliens vs predator for me is the original dark horse miniseries drawn by Chris Warner and written by Randy Stradley. nothing comes close to that book except the AvP pc game that kicked ass!!! well, only because we finally get to use the pulse rifle...woohoo!!!

i think that he's referring to Batman:The Cult in which another "batmobile" was used that looked more like the monster truck Bigfoot. written by jim starlin, art by berni wrightson, and colored by bill wray. it's easily on par with dark knight returns, it's just on a different scale. another good batman read is arkham asylum by grant morrison and dave mckean.

if i recall correctly, frank miller stated in an interview that his screenplays for robo 2 & 3 were bastardized. i'm pretty sure it was in an interview for his "NEW" robocop comic series that is supposed to be a more true representation of what his screenplay for robocop 2 was. but in my mind, the original robocop will be the only robocop. cain and that guy from robo 3 can never hold anything up against clarence bodicker!!

the link i gave earlier is a clean downloadable version. but here it is again. metal gear trailer