I always get saddened when an anime starts off so strong, but slowly deteriorates from episode to episode. In my view, Guilty Crown fell victim to that. Guilty Crown started of very strong, I was well invested and loved watching during the first half of the anime. But then there came a point where it just became a bit unlikable. However the last few episodes did sort of save the anime in a way.
Ten years ago on a day labelled Lost Christmas, a wildfire spread illness known as the apocalypsevirus debilitates Japan and it's people to the core. Fast forward to 2039 and Japan is nowgovernedby the GHQ due to the aftermathof theapocalypsevirus where the people of Japan have given up their rights and freedoms and have allowed the GHQ to restore order to Japan. As more find that the GHQ is corrupting Japan, a resistance group known as the Funeral Parlor go after the antics of GHQ members during appropriate situations.
One day a pink haired girl named Inori, who works with the Funeral Parlor, steals a powerful tool known as the Void Genome from the GHQ. As Inori is being pursued by GHQ members, a boy named Shu enters the picture andaccidentallyacquiresthe power of the Void Genomeallowing him to pierce into people's hearts and extract powerful weapons. And the story goes in all sorts of directions from there on.
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I feel like the story is sooverwhelmingthat it's hard tocrunchit down into a few sentences. It's sort of like watching an anime where you have to pay really close attention and extract certain clips in the anime and put them together like a hard jigsaw puzzle. Which is how I felt while watching Guilty Crown and what I also believe is one of the downfalls of the anime. There was just too much thrown at you and if you really wanted to understand the anime you would have to link certain moments to a string of others. Which I don't like...haha.
Now don't get me wrong, it sounds like I'm bashing Guilty Crown down to bits. I really enjoyed the first half of the anime. The first half of the anime was where I found it hard to piece certain plot points together. However the action scenes, the animation, those damn cliffhangers and the fightsceneswere amazing. The second half of the anime was where I had most of my issues.
Some of the characters were fun to watch, but there were others like Shu and Yahiro just crawled under my skin. Shu didn't really have a personality, he was too self doubting and had no self direction. And to have the power of the Void Genome and not be a strong figure, that's not the best combination to watch. Inori on the other hand, although very aesthetically pleasing, was basically a rag doll following either Gai or Shu. My issue with Shu really starts to kick in during theremaininghalf of the anime where it was difficult to watch. It's the part where a certain part of Japan gets secluded and Shu lets the people around him dictate his moves. He pretty much becomes a Slaine Troyard from Aldnoah Zero or a Rossiu from TTGL, and when I started to realize that Shu became these people I was like, oh lord here we go... I'm not here for this.
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As for Yahiro, hismanipulative, conniving and backstabbing ways remindedme of Noumi from Accel World. Yahiro did not makemyblood boil to the point where Noumi did but Yahrio did rub me in the wrong way. Not always fun to watch this guy.
So other than that, and besides those issues, I really enjoyed the anime. I thought the animation was pretty solid; I liked watching the animation when Shu grabbed a weapon out of somebody. I thought the fight scenes were exceptional and exciting to watch. The OST was another strong point in the anime. Some of my favourite tracks from the OST was bios, that song became my favourite when Shuu took Ayase's void during that escalator scene.
That's it for this review, sorry if I upset any Guilty Crown fans, these are just my opinions. Please comment down below and tell me what you think of Guilty Crown!Guilty Crown was a show that had plenty of potential, but ultimately turned out to be a terribly written show, with annoying characters, and very little clue about its direction. It started off as one of the most hyped shows for the Autumn 2011 season – there were immensely high expectations, which it ultimately succumbed to. The high expectations largely stemmed from the staff involved with this project – having the staff of Death Note and Code Geass working together sounded like a great idea, add to that character designs by Redjuice, and theme song by Supercell, and you had some form of anime dream team. The issue is, however, that such a ‘dream team’ involved on a single project never truly works, there are too many different approaches and ideas as to what direction the show should take. In a sense Guilty Crown was destined to fail before it even began, largely because the expectations were simply too high – the show was never going to be as good as people wanted it to be.
Guilty Crown (tv Series 2011–2012)
You could also argue that bringing on board people from two very different shows didn’t help either, with Death Note’s tight plot, and the style and drama from Code Geass clashing in Guilty Crown. We also had a case where the story appeared to have been taken from Code Geass, and with a few name changes it was grafted onto the artwork for this show. But, more fundamentally, this clash of styles did not work – you can see where the writers appear to want a tighter plot that twists and turns, coupled with dramatic, and very stylised fight sequences. The problem is that having both together just ended in chaos, with both story elements seemingly as out of place as the other – there was no flow to this series, no clear direction, and at times, no clue. This show was in a sense fundamentally flawed due to these clashing styles with the plot seemingly going in three directions at once while not moving at all.
There were some fascinating pieces of animation, and story where we could see a battle of wits taking place – those life-or-death battles that could be decided in an instant. But then the show would oddly shift into Code Geass school mode, with much teenage melodrama and angst – it was disjointed in every aspect, and the school scenes in particular just felt out of place. It was as if there were two shows being produced, but instead of releasing them separately, they were grafted together in the vain hope that something good would be spawned. And the plot itself was all over the place, with random biblical references, and later on a clear attempt to take the idea of SEELE from Evangelion and try to force it into the story of Guilty Crown. The first half of the series had some semblance of direction, and while Shu and Inori were relatively week as main characters, there was at least a relatively clear plot. the second half, however, was all over the place, with numerous plot arcs and elements being thrown in to what may be the anime equivalent of gumbo. There was no direction, no idea about what the story was about, with random deaths, resurrections, and a mixture of new and old testament references that simply did not work.
To have a central plot point about original sin with adam and eve, only to make the entire final arc take place around what is effectively the Tower of Babel was a clear case of bad writing. Never mind that half of the apparent philosophical reasons for the events in this second half, it is preposterous to try and put the Tower of Babel into the story of original sin, they are different myths for one thing. Guilty Crown appeared to be living under the mistaken belief that adding random biblical references, along with an entire plot device about original sin made it a deep and thought provoking show. The characters kept coming out with, what one assumes are meant to be profound utterances that feed into the shows (apparent) exploration of the human condition. It is pretentious, and badly written – the idea that an Adam and Eve were meant to repopulate the earth in order to cleanse mankind of its sins was not only ludicrous, but clunky. There has only ever been one show where adding biblical references, and in particular original sin has worked, and that was Evangelion – largely because the series was so ridiculous to begin with that such an idea simply worked.
Im Test: Guilty Crown
The characters themselves were quite two-dimensional, which was curious when it appears that Guilty Crown was meant to be an exploration of the human condition. There was never any real character progression, aside from Inori, who at least changed from being an un-feeling doll into someone who can
You could also argue that bringing on board people from two very different shows didn’t help either, with Death Note’s tight plot, and the style and drama from Code Geass clashing in Guilty Crown. We also had a case where the story appeared to have been taken from Code Geass, and with a few name changes it was grafted onto the artwork for this show. But, more fundamentally, this clash of styles did not work – you can see where the writers appear to want a tighter plot that twists and turns, coupled with dramatic, and very stylised fight sequences. The problem is that having both together just ended in chaos, with both story elements seemingly as out of place as the other – there was no flow to this series, no clear direction, and at times, no clue. This show was in a sense fundamentally flawed due to these clashing styles with the plot seemingly going in three directions at once while not moving at all.
There were some fascinating pieces of animation, and story where we could see a battle of wits taking place – those life-or-death battles that could be decided in an instant. But then the show would oddly shift into Code Geass school mode, with much teenage melodrama and angst – it was disjointed in every aspect, and the school scenes in particular just felt out of place. It was as if there were two shows being produced, but instead of releasing them separately, they were grafted together in the vain hope that something good would be spawned. And the plot itself was all over the place, with random biblical references, and later on a clear attempt to take the idea of SEELE from Evangelion and try to force it into the story of Guilty Crown. The first half of the series had some semblance of direction, and while Shu and Inori were relatively week as main characters, there was at least a relatively clear plot. the second half, however, was all over the place, with numerous plot arcs and elements being thrown in to what may be the anime equivalent of gumbo. There was no direction, no idea about what the story was about, with random deaths, resurrections, and a mixture of new and old testament references that simply did not work.
To have a central plot point about original sin with adam and eve, only to make the entire final arc take place around what is effectively the Tower of Babel was a clear case of bad writing. Never mind that half of the apparent philosophical reasons for the events in this second half, it is preposterous to try and put the Tower of Babel into the story of original sin, they are different myths for one thing. Guilty Crown appeared to be living under the mistaken belief that adding random biblical references, along with an entire plot device about original sin made it a deep and thought provoking show. The characters kept coming out with, what one assumes are meant to be profound utterances that feed into the shows (apparent) exploration of the human condition. It is pretentious, and badly written – the idea that an Adam and Eve were meant to repopulate the earth in order to cleanse mankind of its sins was not only ludicrous, but clunky. There has only ever been one show where adding biblical references, and in particular original sin has worked, and that was Evangelion – largely because the series was so ridiculous to begin with that such an idea simply worked.
Im Test: Guilty Crown
The characters themselves were quite two-dimensional, which was curious when it appears that Guilty Crown was meant to be an exploration of the human condition. There was never any real character progression, aside from Inori, who at least changed from being an un-feeling doll into someone who can
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