#guyferd

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The suit actor’s smile is very charming.

GUYFERD suit actor: 森聖二 Seiji Mori

The cute tokuboy of the day is: Gou Kazama from Shichisei Toshin Guyferd

For those who don't know: Guyferd is Toho and Capcom collaboration, airing in 1996, it tells the story of Gou which came back after knowing that his older brother was missing. He falls into a trap and ended up being modified into a cyborg by Crown, your standard global crime organisation with world domination intentions. Crown has two projects for creating powerful soldiers at the same time, turning people into the cyborgs named Guyborgs and the Mutians, uncontrollable mutants created by a mysterious substance called Fallah. Gou ended also being infected by fallah and transforms into Guyferd while battling a Mutian.

Four previews for the next month’s issue of Terebi Magazine from 1996.  You can pretty much see what was going on in mainstream tokusatsu at the time in these notices.  

You have Gekisou Sentai Carranger going strong as well as Ultraman Tiga bringing Ultraman back to Japanese TV screen in the first full series, live-action, domestic production since Ultraman 80 16 years earlier.  

On the Metal Heroes front the second B-Fighter series, B-Fighter Kabuto is on in the spot that a few years later will be taken by the revival of Kamen Rider.

Meanwhile, the non-franchise series Changerion is lurking around the periphery of the other shows with Toho’s Guyferd sharing the background.