Guyver - Character Profiles
 

 The following is a file contributed by Matthew Stephan who is the author of it while I only
editted the file.  Many thanks to Matthew Stephan for making this section possible!!
 

 

Sho Fukamachi - AKA Guyver 1
The hero of the series, Sho, 17 years old, is a second-form student at a Tokyo-area high school.  He has black hair and gray eyes, and is slenderly built.  He is a slightly better than the average student, bright but not a genius.  He is young enough to still be idealistic, but he fights Cronos more to protect friends and family than from any need to see the enemy brought to justice.  If he hadn't become host for a Guyver Unit, he would have happily continued in ignorance of the Corporation.  As the series continues he starts to add revenge to his motives, but it never drives him the way it does Agito Makishima.  He cares deeply Mizuki with the intensity of first love, and Tetsuro is his closest friend.  He agonizes over how he'll ever rid himself of his bio-booster armor, but as the series continues realizes that it's the only thing that enables him to keep his friends - relatively - safe.  As he hosts the first Unit activated, he is known as "Guyver 1".
Agito Makishima - AKA Guyver 3
 Agito's uncle secretly forced Agito's real father into bankruptcy and the price for bailing his brother out was Agito.  Not long after that Agito's mother died, and his real father suicided soon following.  Adopted as Genzo Makishima's heir, Agito was raised to be brilliant - as well as ruthless and uncaring.  The boy learned to hate his adoptive father, and through him, Cronos.   Even from the beginning, Agito wants not only to destroy Genzo and Cronos, but also become ruler of the world himself using Cronos' resources.  As the series progresses that ideal fades somewhat, but we are always reminded by it through his ruthless personality and actions.  He sees Sho and his friends as people rather than pawns in the 'game' he's 'playing' with Cronos.  This idea sort of fades in the after a couple books, but it reappears strongly again when he has control of the Gigantic Guyver Armor. 

 Agito is of medium build and well muscled; he is a 3rd form student at the same high school the others attend but looks older.  Brilliant, he is studying college-level subjects.  He almost never allows sentiment to stand in his way, and he can come across as a cold, calculating bastard at times.  His motives are definitely mixed, and while not a villain he's not a 'pure-hearted hero' either.  He lost his idealism years ago.  At one point a candidate-member of the Cronos Elite, he is viewed by them as a traitor.  Guyot especially wants him dead.  Even though he may have activated his Unit before Risker, because he did not openly appear in his Guyver armor until after Risker was eliminated and therefore he is called Guyver 3.

Tetsuro Segawa
 A large-framed, chubby third-form student; Tetsuro is Sho's closest friend.  While he sometimes let people draw the conclusion he is a stereotypical slow, stupid fat kid, in reality he is highly intelligent and can think quite rapidly when he has to.  He is a rabid science fiction fan, which gives him the background knowledge to make quite a few accurate guesses about the Guyver armor, Zoanoids, and Cronos.  He keeps his hair cut short and wears glasses. 
Mizuki Segawa
 Mizuki is the sort of demure, quiet girl and good housekeeper that Japanese men dream of as the ideal wife.  She starts out with a crush on Agito Makishima, whose only interest in Mizuki is using her to manipulate Sho and Tetsuro.  Eventually she realizes that Sho is her true love interest.  At the beginning she has a bad habit of screaming and fainting whenever she sees Zoanoids, but as time goes on she gets stronger, although she'll never be very aggressive...She is rather short even for a Japanese girl, very slender, and keeps her hair in a page-boy cut that emphasizes her large eyes. 
Natsuki
 While in the first two books Natsuki is a throw-away character who is friends with Tetsuro and Mizuki, by the ninth volume she emerges as a stronger, more independent woman who helps hide our fleeing heroes as well as joining them in their fight against Cronos.
Zoanoids
 The Cronos Corporation has discovered the technology to give humans the ability to transform into super human, monstrous soldiers.  These 'normal' Zoanoids are the cannon-fodder of the series, and are constantly getting destroyed left and right.  When killed, their bodies disintegrate - turn into dust - so there are no bodies - human or monster - left which can be used as proof of what's going on.  Initially most Zoanoids we run across are members of Cronos, but the Corporation is also experimenting with ways to involuntarily transform humans into Zoanoids without their knowledge.  I assume they erase the memories of these people of their being processed.  They can be activated from a distance by any Zoalord. These humans come under the Zoalords' telepathic mind-control techniques as soon as they transform, giving the organization an unquestioningly obedient army of super soldiers.  These Zoanoids are genetically programed to obey the orders of Zoalords (with some exceptions now and then, like Aptom).  Once these experiments are successfully completed, Cronos begins to openly make its bid to control the world.  Zoanoids come in hundreds of different designs.  Some are very specialized, like the Enzyme and Hyper Zoanoid units, and are few in number.  Others like Gregole, Ramotith and Vamore are more general-purpose and exist in much larger quantities. While not all humans can be made into Zoanoids, a very large percentage of humans possess the potential.  So far, Takaya has shown us no women Zoanoids.
Guyver Unit(s) 
 The Units are initially mysterious bio-organisms that bond with a host, giving that being strong armor and enhancing the host's own strength and speed.  They are actually living things, feeding off the host's bio energy as well as harnessing it to power various weapon systems such as the megasmasher (laser cannon), sonic swords, gravitonic generator orb (which allows the Guyver to fly as well as generate a nasty gravitonic pulse as a weapon), and other various systems revealed slowly as the manga continues.  In addition, the control medal that regulates the armor - and prevents it from literally eating its host alive - records the genetic structure of its host; so that if the host is injured or killed, regenerates that host from even the smallest bits of bio-booster material.  If the control medal is destroyed, the Unit absorbs its host.  The control medal has tentacles that reach into the host's brain, and it is the hard wiring of the control medal that allows the host to use the systems of the Guyver.  In addition there are telepathic organisms that attach themselves to the back of the host which allows the host to call the armor into being, as well as communicate with other Guyvers.  When not needed, the armor is stored in what can best be described as a sub-dimension; it follows the host constantly so as to be instantly available when needed.  While quite powerful, there are a number of things that can damage or destroy a Guyver.  The various Enzyme-type Zoanoids  were specifically developed to exude a type of acid that dissolves the bio-booster armor.  A battle-trained, experienced Zoalord has enough pure power to destroy a Guyver, as do some of the Hyper Zoanoids.  And, finally, the Creators developed a weapon that Cronos, upon its discovery, calls a Unit Remover.  It actually separates the control medal from its host, forcing the Guyver to return to its inactive state.  Unlike the Zoanoids, the Guyver is humanoid in form - mostly because its hosts are human. The Guyver seems to have been designed for use by the command crew element of Creator spaceships, as in later chapters Sho uses his control medal to speak telepathically with one of the craft.  Later in Books 14 and 15, we learn that the Guyver Unit was in fact, NOT an armor for the crews that live in the Creator's spaceships.  In fact, the Creators created the Guyver specifically for enchancing the battle ability of humans.  However, due to the 'out-of-control' aspect of the Armor, the Guyver attacked the Creators, destroying one of their ships.  The remover was sent to defeat this Guyver which it did.
Genzo Makishima
 Director of Cronos' Japan Branch (operating under the cover name of Max Pharmaceuticals), he is in charge when Japan Branch loses the Guyver Units.  While initially one of the people in charge of developing new Zoanoids, Genzo has, unknown to him, fallen behind in this category as well once Dr. Barcus begins designing the Hyper Zoanoids.  His failures to retrieve the Units as well as come up with any significantly new Zoanoid designs results in Commander Guyot relieving him of duty.  Genzo is turned into the Enzyme Zoanoid prototype.  He dies in battle with Guyver I.  He is a large and somewhat portly man that  believes in leading through fear rather than by inspiring loyalty.
Oscar Risker/Guyver 2 
 A Cronos agent, or as he describes himself to Sho, "an inspector from Cronos HQ". Risker was in Japan to supervise the transfer of the inactive Guyver Units to Cronos HQ, and was considerably annoyed to discover Makishima had managed to lose them.  When one damaged unit was recovered, he insisted on taking a look at it, and involuntarily became its host.  As the second known activated Unit, he was called Guyver 2.  A man vain of both looks and martial arts skills, he decided to take on the task of retrieving the Unit Sho had bonded with.  His control medal which was damaged when the Unit was initially lost, malfunctioned under the stress of combat leading to his death.  Sho takes chance of his weakened state and strikes the medal, shattering it, and the Guyver begins to absorb him; Sho kills him with a megasmasher blast to put him out of his misery.  Risker is tall, with curly blond hair and blue eyes - in other words, your typical Aryan stereotype. 
Creators
***There are two explainations of who the Creators are and the origins of the Guyver from the comic books/manga.  The first one was by Masaki Murakami who looked at things from the Human's point of view and rumors that they THINK happened.  (I guess that Yoshika wanted to make the story better and more rich with the second explaination??)  The second explaination is seen BY Imakarum Mirabilis after he is defeated by Gigantic Dark and was taken to Archanfel's regeneration chamber.  There, he sees the memories of Archanfel and finds out the true orgin of Guyver and the purpose that Archanfel has for taking over Earth.  (For more, read the updated synopsis when it comes out.) 

Masaki Murakami's Explaination: 
 Thousands of eons ago the Creators - an alien race (or races) - discovered the primitive, primeval organic soup that existed on the planet Earth, and began genetic experiments.  Their most successful genetic strain resulted in the human race.  They designed humans to have the capacity to draw on their own bio-energy to become super-strong fighting organisms.  (It's inferred from some of the passages that the Zoanoids could have been made in any shape; Cronos just seems to prefer the psychological effect of making them monsterous.)  They also intended the Zoalords as controllers for the Zoanoids.  The Guyver Units they left behind are an older technology, something they brought with them rather than developed from Earth life-forms.  Sometime in the dim past, after the human race had begun to emerge, the Creators abandoned their experiment before it was completed.  Speculation is that they were designing humans as bio-weapons to be used in some war, and were forced to abandon their planetary laboratory by their enemy before they could finish. Yoshika hasn't drawn any pictures of them yet.

Archanfel's Memories:
 Thousands of eons ago, the Creators - an alien race (or races) - arrived at a primitive volcanic planet and began experimenting with life!  Their purpose was to create the ultimate solider for the battlefield that had tremendous combat capabilities, intelligence, yet obedient.  After a series of trials, they developed the one tool they wanted.  It was the Zoanoids, hence the Human Race.  Later, the Creators produced another experimental weapon, Guyver, a bio-boosted armor which had the capabilities to enchance the combat capabilities of its host 100 times.  However, something went wrong, the out-of-control aspects of the Guyver did not allow the Guyver to be controled by the Creators and in turn attacked them.  Though in the end, the Guyver was removed using the remover, the Creators felt threatened and in an attempt to protect themselves from a possible threat in the future, the Creators decided that this project was a failure, abandoned it, and then left Earth. 

 In the comic books/manga, the Creators were drawn to be spherical objects that were embedded into their Bioships.  It resembles the look of a Guyver control metal.  The Creators act as a collective, and their collective is represented by the symbol that Archanfel wears on his clothes as a pin. (also the symbol on the door to his chamber on the Island of Silha). 

Commander Richard Guyot
 A tall, muscular but well-proportioned man, Guyot would stand out in a crowd even without his lemon-yellow hair and amber-gold eyes.  He is something of an evil doppleganger of Clark Savage, Jr., AKA "Doc Savage" to pulp fans.  He is an immensely commanding presence with a stunning intellect. One of the top leaders of Cronos as their Commander of Operations, he is largely responsible for creating their current plans for world domination.  He has no patience for failure and no compassion for the rank and file troops of Cronos.  While he does not like to spend their lives uselessly, he'll send them to their deaths without a second thought for what he considers a worthwhile goal.  Guyot has been bio-engineered into a Zoalord and was gifted with the strength to be the most powerful of all the twelve, excluding Archanfel.  He also has telepathic powers that allow him to control any Zoanoid or Hyper Zoanoid. As the final Cronos Overlord processed into Zoalord form, he believes he's also the strongest of the twelve.  Even in human form he is extremely strong and has a telepathic talent to communicate and control Zoanoids. He wants to bond with a Guyver unit as that will make him far stronger than any of the other Cronos Overlords.  He is obsessed with destroying Agito Makishima, and makes the mistake of getting distracted with Guyver III's elimination in the middle of a power duel with Zoalord Archanfel, his main rival for the control of Cronos.  This proves a fatal error.
Fumio Fukamachi
 Fumio, who is a widower and Sho's dad; is an easy-going, rather chubby, kind-hearted soul who has done his best to give Sho a good home.  Dr. Barcus uses him as an involuntary guinea pig, turning him into the Enzyme II prototype - and programs him to kill his son, Guyver I.  He is killed by Guyver I in the battle.
Aptom
 Aptom is one of several shape-shifting Zoanoids. He and his two compatriots were experimental typed Zoanoids.  They have powers/weapons that are non-conventional, but offer a new approach in the battle against the Guyvers. His two close friends are killed in various battle with the Guyvers.  Dr. Barcus is interested by Aptom's abilities, and re-processes him in an attempt to strengthen his powers.  Thereafter, Aptom discovers that not only is he now completely shielded from the telepathic powers of the Zoalords, but he is nearly immortal.  By absorbing small amounts of DNA from other Zoanoids, he can replicate their forms and powers, as well as mix the attributes of several Zoanoids in one body.  He can regenerate himself even if only small bits are left.  He needs lots of bio-energy as a result, and that bio-energy must come from fellow Zoanoids.  He is soon killing Zoanoids just to survive, and becomes a renegade from Cronos.  By volume 10 he's actually fighting on the side of the Guyvers against the leader of Cronos, Archanfel.  Totally amoral, Aptom is the sort of character who is difficult to classify as either villain or hero - he doesn't really fit into either category.  His human shape is of a muscular man with a nasty red scar that runs down the left side of his face from hairline to jaw; he often dresses so he looks like a hood, and he definitely has an attitude!
Masaki Murakami/Imakarum Mirabilis 
 A rather bitter young man, Masaki was a free-lance journalist captured by Cronos and used as an experimental guinea pig in the Zoalord development program. He is a 'prototype body' for the Zoalord forms, including Richard Guyot's.  Dr. Yamamura, a scientist involved in the project, discovered Guyot's plans for the Guyver units, and recruited 4 of the prototypes - including his old pupil, Murakami, to attempt to destroy the Commander while he was being processed into his new battleform.  The other 11 members of the Cronos Council of 12 - all Zoalords - intervened; Masaki is the only surviving rebel.  He joins with Sho to fight Cronos, having his own revenge in mind.  He doesn't quite trust Agito at first because of Guyver 3's earlier connections with Cronos.  Somehow he's gotten his hands on a super-pistol called a Zoanoid Buster that was made by Max Factories, the cover title for Cronos Japan.  He has a Zoalord's strength and the ability to command Zoanoids while in human form to a limited extent.  He is not as powerful as Guyot, so loses his battles with the full Zoalord the two times they fight.  After Guyot mortally wounds him, Archanfel retrieves Masaki's body (it doesn't disintegrate because he was an expermental prototype). He has Murakami regenerated, this time insuring various mind controls are inserted. Murakami is turned into an obedient, powerful Cronos general - and a full Zoalord, who assumes the name "Imakarum Mirabilis" to take the place of the fallen Guyot. Furthermore, he is now  more powerful than Guyot was, and has been given Guyot's zoacrystal.  Imakarum Mirabilis has a very unique relationship with Archanfel.  They are in constant telephatic link.  It is as if he is a part of Archanfel, which explains the nature of his sudden loyalty towards Archanfel. 

Masaki is a tall, thin young man with shoulder-length hair.  He normally wears sunglasses even at night.  After Archanfel gets his claws into him the glasses conceal the fact he now has cat-pupiled eyes; his hair has also now been allowed to grow much longer.

Zx-Tole
 Leader of the Hyper Zoanoid Team Five, the most powerful of the Hyper Zoanoid Five.  His Zoanoid form is rather beetle-like; and in addition to strength, an armor that can withstand a Guyver's megasmasher and telephoto eyes, he has numerous bio-laser projectors all over his body.  In human form, Zx-Tole is actually the second smallest of the five, but well-built. He has short, dark hair and dark eyes.  He eventually dies in combat with Sho while Guyver I is wearing the Gigantic Guyver armor.
Derzerb 
 The strongest of the Hyper Zoanoids, he has very thick skin and the ability to breath fire.  A horn sticks up from his forehead and gives him the appearance of a rhino.  In human form he is a very large, Negroid man with short white hair.  He is tallest as well as largest of the five.  He was absorbed by Aptom.
Gaster 
 Gaster has somewhat pointy ears and shoulder-length brown hair in human form.  As a Hyper Zoanoid he seems top-heavy, with huge liquid reservoirs build into his shoulders.  He combines the liquids into bio-missiles that he can fire at will and then control telepathically.  He also absorbed by Aptom.
Thancrus 
 Thancrus has long, lank, dark hair and is very slender.  Second tallest of the Hyper Zoanoid Five, his form is whisp-thin next to his fellows.  His Zoanoid form is also thin, built for speed - his weapons are huge sonic swords with which he can cut nearly anything.  He was the first of the five to die, under the hands of Guvyer III.
Elegen
 Elegen is a living electrical generator, like a huge electric eel.  His battle form is somewhat slug-like, and he has several long tentacles through which he can send thousands of volts of power into an enemy.  He can also fly to a certain extent.  At one point he shocks Sho's control medal, temporarily separating Guyver from host.  He is in human form a medium-sized man who would never be noticed in a crowd except for his baldness.  He was the first of the Hyper Zoanoid Five to be absorbed by Aptom.
Dr. Barcus
 One of Cronos' top scientists and the elder member of the Council of Twelve.  He is responsible for designing and creating the Hyper Zoanoids and  completing the final work on most of the Zoalord mutations. He is very old, and compensates for his growing baldness by letting what hair he has left grow to his waist.  He has no scruples, no scientific conscience; and he appears opportunistic at times. He is over 400 years old, and was one of the founders of Cronos along with Archanfel.
Shizu Onuma
 Grand-daughter of an old Makishima family retainer, she helps our heroes escape from Cronos and joins with them in their resistance movement.  She is sweet on Agito, and he seems to return the interest at times.  She is small and slender, and has long black hair cut in a traditional Japanese hairstyle.  Unlike Mizuki, she is much more aggressive and brave.
Yohei Onuma
 An old family retainer of Agito's biological father, he and his grand-daughter Shizu have been taking care of a villa the young man inherited from his birth father.  He seems to have been one of the only people Agito could confide in once Genzo got his claws into him.  One can see from his spirit where Shizu got her determination. He dies in volume 12 trying to protect Agito from an Enzyme III Zoanoid.
Cronos Council of Twelve/Council of Cronos Overlords
 The leaders of Cronos, all of them have Zoacrystals, and most have highly developed control of their psychic abilities and bio-energy.  They can tap into these powers to fly, and generate energy blasts without the need to transform into Zoalord form.  Guyot, Archanfel, and Barcus are all members.
 Guyot was angling to destroy the other Zoalords and become sole ruler of Cronos, but his battle with Archanfel resulted in Guyot's death - and Archanfel(who is the founder of Cronos) once again becomes prime leader of the Council as a result.  They are all referred to as 'Zoalords', but the only ones we've seen transformed into battleform so far are Guyot, Archanfel, Fried'rich van Purg'stall, and Imakarum/Masaki. 
 The Cronos Overlords are:
  a) Archanfel
  b) Edward Caerleon
  c) Sin Rubeo Amniculus
  d) Hamilcar Barcas
  e) Luggnagg de Krumeggnic
  f) Fried'rich van Purg'stall
  g) Cablarl Khan
  h) Waferdanos
  i) Jearvill Bun Hiyern
  j) Imakarum Mirabilis (formerly Masaki Murakami)
  k) Rienzi
  l) Tuarhan De Galenos
  m) Richard Guyot
Dr. Shiyu Odagiri
 One of the scientists working at Relic's Point, he helped develop the Zoalord mutation, working with Dr. Yamamura. When Guyot tries to kill Masaki and Agito, it is the doctor and his crew who rescued and hid them in Relics' Point.  He is in charge of investigating one of the Creator's spaceships, and he knows it will take Guyvers to penetrate the vessel successfully.  He is killed protecting Masaki and Agito from a blast fired at them by Guyot.
Creators' Spaceship
 An organic-appearing craft, it seems the Creators 'grew' rather than built their spaceships.  The three Units thus far revealed in the story all came out of this ship. When the Guyvers enter it, it appears to them that they have entered a living being rather than a mechanical device.  It is able to communicate with Sho through his control medal, and he is in turn able to control it, commanding it to allow his friends to enter unhurt, and guiding its flight.  While this particular ship was destroyed by the Council of Twelve to prevent its being taken by their enemies, there are other similar ships buried throughout the world, and Cronos controls access to several of them.  This particular ship seems to have been a previously undamaged research vessel.
The Ark
 This ship was actually constructed/grew by Cronos in the Dead Sea.  They used the technology and blueprints of the Creators to make this ship.  This is ship, like the Creator's ships, are alive and living vessels.  It takes the powers of all twelve Cronos Overlords (including Imakarum), augmented by their Zoacrystals, to wake up the ship. Shortly it is orbiting the Earth, becoming the headquarters for the Council.  Agito remarks sourly that it's obviously a battleship of some kind, which is used to house billions of troops.
Archanfel
 Archanfel appears to be a young, blond man with pointy ears and cat-slitted eyes.  He is actually the founder, creator, and ruler of Zoalord Council.  He is an extremely powerful psychic, and with amazing battle abilities.  His battle form are different from the rest of the Zoalords due to the fact that Archanfel was created by the Creators to be the leader of ALL the Zoanoids and the people on Earth.  All the other Zoalords were produced from his body.  (I believe that the Zoacrystals were from his body and then through the advanced bio-engineering techniques, the other Zoalords were created.  He didn't give birth to them or anything!) Archanfel was the one who used the remover on Guyver 0 in prehistoric times.
Toshiaki Hayami
 One of Dr. Odagiri's assistants, he is the sole survivor of that group after the climatic battle at Relics' Point.  Odagiri processed him into a Zoanoid.  He possesses the power to affect the temperature of the environment around him to a certain extent.  Aptom finds him and, once he realizes what Hayami is, brings him to meet the Guyvers and their friends.
Zeus' ThunderBolt
 A group of underground resistance fighters who are trying to push back the rule that Cronos has on the world.  The leader of this group is Agito, the Guyver who introduces himself to Guyot as Zeus.  (The name of the organization seems to suggest that they are pawns/instruments of Agito for his plan of word domination.)
Dr. Yamamura
 A brilliant scientist who was abducted by Cronos to bio-engineer the Zoalord forms.  He reappears in Book 15, seeking revenge on Cronos.  He allies himself with Agito, and develops Hyper Zoanoids for him to combat Cronos.  His motives are to show the world and Cronos the amazing scientific knowledge he has in terms of Bio-engineering Zoanoids.

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