“Yesterday’s” Comic> Bio-Booster Armor Guyver V3

This can’t be from Japan. All the hair colors are normal.

Bio-Booster Armor Guyver: Dark Masters

(contains all 8 chapters of Bio-Booster Armor Guyver part 2, but it’s the third collection…it’s how Viz does things)

Viz Comics (November, 1995)

(originally published by Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co.)

Sho’s friends and father end up at Relics Point, where Chronos learned about the “creators” and located both the Zoanoid process and the Guyver units. They also learn that Agito is part of Chronos but actually working against them using Guyver 3. Gyro and a new head bad guy, Doctor Valkus (a fellow Zoalord) uncover Agito’s identity and with the arrival of Murakami and Sho they’re able to escape, except for Sho’s father. As our heroes recover, Valkus sends Lost Numbers to their hideout, sicking the others on the Guyvers as Sho returns for his father…who has been turned into a new version of Enzyme. During the fight Sho refuses to kill his mutated father until he’s knocked out, and the armor does the job for him.

Also, Murakami is a Zoalord apparently. That’s what’s interesting about this story. The secrets don’t feel like they were pulled out of nowhere. If Takaya doesn’t have a plan or things thought out he’s darn good at faking it. While we get a fleshing out of Agito and we see there are people who care about him  Sho’s father finally makes an impact in this story, but it’s only to essentially be fridged. While the tragedy could be said to work it’s only because we care about Sho and not his father so it’s hard to connect. Maybe if he and his relationship to Sho had been explored in earlier stories, like seeing Sho trying to hide the Guyver from him as well as Mizuki we would have come to care about him and feel sorrier for Sho when he wakes up and learns what the armor did, as he will in the next collection.

Still, I have the Amazon Affiliate Link if you want to buy it and help me and the Spotlight out a bit. It’s not for kids but older fans may find a good story here. It is kind of bloody, but the black & white makes it easier to handle. Still, I kind of PG-ed how Sho is “knocked out” before the armor goes on auto-pilot.

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