Incidentally, this universe's Kronos is well aware of the
existence of magic and ki-powers; however Arkanfael distrusts
magic, so Kronos's research in that area is limited to defenses,
and why bother putting a soldier through ten years of training
to shoot fireballs when you can pop him in a tank for two-three
days and turn him into a Vamore or Menzel?

Of course, a trained mage could take out anything short of a Zoalord (and even then do serious damage to it)

   Although the Ranma 1/2 universe seems pretty short of
_combat_ mages.  Magic might just be too slow and uncertain for
such use...
   (Kronos _also_ knows about Qinghai province and the
weirdness therein, and is working on plans to deal with them
as efficiently as possible...)

Nicely written, again... Although,if I were in Guyot's skin, I would be
very afraid. 10 Guyvers would probably have a chance to destroy
Chronos. With 20 of them,and  one given to a prototype Zoalord...
Can you say destruction? I knew you could!

    Of course, if Guyot knew just how powerful Arkanfael really is,
he wouldn't be worrying about _fifty_ Guyvers.  Of course, he'd
be way too busy worrying about Arky at that point.
    (In Volume 15, in a prehistory flashback, Arkanfael destroys
a planetoid the size of the _MOON_ in one mighty blow...)

though if he was a Guyver, Guyot might be powerful enough to kill Arkanfael himself.  Gave it a pretty good showing as I understand it.

   Depends on how you look at it: Guyot was in battlestyle and
barely holding his own against Arkanfael's HUMAN form.  Finally
had to resort to his ultimate gravity-attack, the False Black
Hole, which appeared to suck Arky in.
   Then, around ten minutes later, just as Guyot was about to
finish off Sho and Agito, Arkanfael returned in his own transformed
state and struck Guyot down with one blow, ripping the zoacrystal
right out of his head.
   Of course, with all the action going on, he forgot to mop
up afterwards; so, as seen in volume 14, Guyot survived, escaped
the destruction of Relics Point, and is even now plotting revenge.
How effective a Zoalord can be without his crystal remains to be
seen...

    So Kunou--Ikazuchi no Guyver--will essentially be wearing a
twisted biotech samurai o-yoroi...and have conscious control over his
ability to call lightning...

Figure his blades will be foreward pointing like the Zoanoid Guyver in the movie.

   No, they'll be outright hand-held vibrokatanas.  (Growing out of
the inside of his wrist or something, I'm still trying to
visualize the arrangement.)

Is Murakami going to get a Guyver?

   Yes, but because of his condition it won't boost his powers
as much as they'd hoped.  (Had to use much of its power just
to keep him alive; five days of mind control pushed him right
to the edge.)  Still, he _will_ be fairly impressive.

Will Akane, or are they going to try to turn her into a Zoanoid?  (Maybe turn her into a Zoanoid, than they use a spare Guyver to make her into a Guyver Zoanoid protected against the mind control.

   Haven't made the final decisions yet...Akane will get
a Guyver, but probably _not_ Zoanoidship.  (Ukyou, now...it all
depends on how quickly Ranma's able to round up the team once
Sho's made the situation clear...)

Just think of Ranma if he had Giganticus.

   It's "Guyver Gigantic", no "us".  (Gigantic Dark when Agito's
in control.)

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