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Juusenshi Gulkeeva (aka Wild Knights Gulkeeva)
Kobuk:
I guess I should make this topic again after having conversed with Robert_Silvermyst and Chipper Blu-wolf about it. :D There was a previous topic long ago, but it's very old and numerous links in it are dead.
Anyway, I've been fixated on an old anime series made by Sunrise Inc. from 1995 called Wild Knights Gulkeeva.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Knights_Gulkeeva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auC_M2WuwL0
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=145
The series (26 episodes) isn't very well known outside of Japan as it has never been brought to and shown in the U.S. As for why, I don't know. Maybe it just wasn't that popular or appealing? What piqued my interest in this series was the anthropomorphic characters in it known as Beast Warriors or sometimes called Animaloids (Animal Humanoids). For those trying to find and buy the series on DVD, I wish you good luck. I'm one of the few people that has it, thanks to my best friend getting it for me. :D Don't ask me where he got it from as I don't know. But for those who want to try and find the DVD set, it should look like the following. Don't settle for anything less!
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8246/28563633414_a3515b6c8f.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8816/28563633434_4b81323e1a.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8079/28563633444_af0057091c.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8098/28563633474_817fcaf6bc.jpg
There is also a "Memorial Box Set" that has 5 colored discs instead of the normal 3. As for what else makes this Memorial box set special, I do not know.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8081/29171597276_26647a9d06.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8348/29171597306_3af1e141f8.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8217/29205844635_4ea59d5bec.jpg
The 26 episodes of the series:
Episode titles:
1. Knights Need To Be Together With Their Beasts
senshi wa kami juu totomoni
戦士は神獣とともに
2. The Legendary Spirit of the Knight
densetsu toiu na no honoo
伝説という名の炎
3. What Am I Fighting For?
kono omoi dare ga tame ni
この想い誰がために
4. The Lost Knight
aoki senshi no meisou
蒼き戦士の迷走
5. The Spreading War
bara wa senka ni moeyu
薔薇は戦火に燃ゆ
6. A Man With the Warrior`s Eyes
senshi no me wo motsu otoko
戦士の眼を持つ男
7. The Shivering Smile
hohoemi wa senritsu wo utau
微笑[ほほえみ]は戦慄を唄う
8. Love of a Fierce Warrior
mahoroba no kyou senshi
まほろばの凶戦士
9. There`s a Light Breeze
suzukaze no fuku basho
涼風の吹く場所
10. The Great Earth is Peaceful
akaki ha, ao ni chiru
赤き刃、青に散る
11. The Start of the Nightmare
seinaru akumu no jokyoku
聖なる悪夢の序曲
12. A New Soul Has Been Awakened
arata naru tamashii no mezame
新たなる魂の目覚め
13. Stubborn Beast Warriors
mou i hangyaku no shishi senshi
猛き反逆の獣戦士
14. Fugitive in the Rain
ame no toubou sha (soushuuhen)
雨の逃亡者（総集編）
15. The Faraway Heart
kokoro haruka ni
こころ遥かに
16. A Nightmare in the Morning
ashita ni furu yami
朝[あした]に降る闇
17. Many Nights
tawamure no yoru
戯れの夜
18. The Howling Fang
doukoku no kiba
慟哭の牙
19. Black Udon
kuroi udon
黒いうどん
20. Golden Snow Scene
kane no sekkei
金の雪景
21. Warm and Sorrowful
atsuku kanashiku
熱く哀しく
22. Fated Prophecy
unmei no yokan
運命の予感
23. Longing
ai takute
会いたくて
24. To The Ends of Bewilderness
samayoi no hate
彷徨[さまよい]の果て
25. Senshi Kira
senshi aki
戦士煌
26. Semshi Toya
senshi momo ya
戦士桃矢
The story/plot of the series is a bit hard to understand, but not impossible. Mostly because of the poor dubbing/translations which IMO are only about 75% accurate. :( Don't expect any fancy CGI in this series. It is all "old school" anime which is hand drawn. This series, from what I've seen on the Net, has mostly recieved a 3 or 3 1/2 rating out of 5. So it's neither good nor bad, but rather average or "slightly" above average.
It's been awhile since I've watched this series, but I'll try to remember what I can. ;)
PLOT: Touya is your average Tokyo high school student until one day, forces from another world/dimension called Darknoids, attack the city on a mission to look for something. Three Beast Warriors from the same/similar world and/or dimension travel to Earth to stop the Darknoids. During the first 1-3 episodes, we soon learn that Touya (and his parents) are not from Earth, but instead from another world where the Darknoids and Beast Warriors come from (Read the Wikipedia article further above). Not only that, but it appears Touya has the long dead spirit of an ancient warrior named Radias inside him. So I guess Touya is the reincarnation of Radias? With his new Beast Warrior friends (Greyfus, a wolf; Beakwood, a eagle; and Garriel, a gorilla) helping him, Touya is able to defeat the Darknoids. But the Darknoids always come back to Earth wreaking more havoc and chaos. They always send some form of large robotic beast piloted by various henchmen to Earth to fight and destroy Touya, his friends, and cause general chaos.
As for Touya's other human high school friends, there is Kira (Lavendar colored hair) who we find out that he is also a knight warrior with special powers/abilities just like Touya, but not until the middle of the series. Unfortuneately, he dies towards the end of the series. Then there is Konoha who cares for Touya and seems to have a crush/fall in love with him. Nothing special about her. She's just your average high school girl.
The Darknoids are commanded by Prince Zaza who looks childish like a young teenager. :P He is the main antagonist. There is also one female Darknoid which I forgot her name. Apparently, I think she suffers amnesia towards the end of the series and changes her allegiances.
As for why the Darknoids keep attacking Earth, it's not so much an invasion, but rather they keep looking for something. Toward the last episodes of the series, I believe it was mentioned/shown they were looking for objects that would help "switch" their world with Earth. They wanted to bring their world (Which was dying) to our dimension, and send Earth to their dimension, thereby saving their own world.
To fight the Darknoids, Touya, his friend Kira, and the Beast Warriors, all have green star shaped crystals that when activated, gives them special powers/abilities and armor. Touya and Kira "transform" into Knights, and the Beast Warriors transform into larger and more powerful feral animal forms. This series is not without a bit of comedy too. There's a blonde woman character who seems to have a crush on Greyfus. :-[ :D
EDIT - 7/1/2017 - When I originally posted this topic, I had included a large list of links to images of characters and scenes from the Wild Knights Gulkeeva series. Unfortuneately for reasons beyond my control, the majority of links ended up being dead and/or the images weren't showing for other reasons. If people wish to find images of the characters from the show, then a simple Google image search should suffice. Some search terms to use might be the following:
Juusenshi Gulkeeva
Juu Senshi Gulkeeva
Juu Senshi Garukiba
Wild Knights Gulkeeva
Beast Warriors Gulkeeva
Beast warrior Garukiba
A selection of fan art I've seen on the Net.
http://orig08.deviantart.net/2e33/f/2010/008/f/e/great_warrior__greyfus_by_aokamidu.jpg
http://pre07.deviantart.net/0228/th/pre/f/2010/008/7/e/graceful_soldier__beakwood_by_aokamidu.jpg
http://orig03.deviantart.net/e50f/f/2010/008/e/7/hearty_fighter__garriel_by_aokamidu.jpg
http://orig15.deviantart.net/745e/f/2010/082/2/b/hard_headed_brawler__tedium_by_aokamidu.jpg
https://static.hummingbird.me/anime/poster_images/000/002/793/original/title_Voin_Gulkiba_Juusenshi_Gulkeeva_11423_2291.jpg?1431568556
https://simkl.net/posters/29/2916790686b534fe0_w.jpg
That concludes my "review" for this series. Thanks for reading. :)
Chipper Blu-wolf:
Should've known you would've posted something about the Beast Warriors! :D
Yes, all 26 episodes are on youtube, with subtitles (for now anyway), so if you can't find that DVD, you still can watch and watch all of it if you please. I was one of the ones that did watch all 26 episodes and its a quirky show. It could've been a lot more. I wanted to find out more about the Animaloids but the writers kept them very one-dimensional and they never strayed much out of the character they were introduced as. Greyfus was clearly the leader, Beakwood was the brains or one that thought things through, Garriel was kind of the goof that got along with most everyone, especially the humans kids, and Tedium didn't come along until halfway through the series, and I'll keep it PG here, so he was a jerk the whole time. Surely they all had more emotion than that, but that's the gist of it for all 26 episodes. Only one episode attempted to dive deeper, and that was the one where the girl wanted to meet Greyfus and create oragami with him.
I guess what bothered me more is the whole show could've been done maybe with 13 episodes, because there's so much repetition with the battles and how the Darknoids are defeated one after another by the Animaloids. They just pull another Darknoid from behind the curtain and say "ok attack". Lots of time is wasted here. Plus the plot is confusing as heck because you never really know what the Darknoids want, and at the ending, you still don't know after they attempt to tell you what the whole point was. (: It wasn't very clearly thought out, and perhaps the translation is bad. I don't know simply because I don't speak Japanese to know any different than what the subtitles tell me they're saying.
Surprised Kobuk didn't post the image I gave him from our conversation; there was only really one line I really liked and it was from Greyfus:
If you want to give the series a shot, give it a go, but I watched it simply for the Animaloids. The humans didn't do much for me.
Kobuk:
--- Quote ---Surprised Kobuk didn't post the image I gave him from our conversation; there was only really one line I really liked and it was from Greyfus:
--- End quote ---
I don't think your image showed up in PM. Bad link or something else?
Kobuk:
As far as the poor character development and poor plot, maybe the series was rushed to completion? Or they had a bad writing staff? Or a limited production budget? I really don't know. But the whole series could've been done far better. Even some of the animation just doesn't look right.
But........for what it's worth, I'll still keep it in my collection. :)
Chipper Blu-wolf:
Its my image from my image host...no reason it shouldn't show up. ^^
Anyway, I find most things that start out as stories (in this case it was a manga) don't always translate the best to the screen. This was probably a victim of that. If I could read Japanese and could find the comic of it, maybe it wasn't so....confusing.
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