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". |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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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! |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.) |
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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. |