Guilty Crown is an anime I've been watching for 3 fricking weeks now, which is the longest I've ever taken in watching anime.
Anyways I've finished it finally today.
Warning: There are some heavy spoilers so read at your own risk.
First of all, since this anime took me 3 weeks to watch so my memory in some parts are very blurry.
Let me explain the basic story.
The anime takes place in the year 2039 in Tokyo. In the year 2029 December 25th, a virus called an "Apocalypse Virus" strikes Japan and the whole country falls into chaos. Of course not everyone is infected. They call this the lost Christmas. The Japanese government cannot clean this mess up, and Japan gets governed by a 3rd party organization called "GHQ".
This is the what happens to person with the virus.
Shu Ooma, In the year 2039, happens to meets Yuzunori Inori, a popular singer. She happens to be a part of Anti GHQ/resistance group called "Shougisha(I have no idea what it is called in English)" Shougisha's main objective is to free Japan from GHQ and fight against GHQ.
He meets Gai Tsutsugami, the leader of Shougisha.
Shu gets an amazing power, joins Shougisha and fight against GHQ.
This power is an ability to take out an object, usually a weapon from people. This object is called Boid(I'm spelling it right hopefully because I don't watch with subtitles.)
Cast
One thing I found really cool and interesting is that
These to combos right here(In the anime these two are friends(?) and a popular combo from oreimo)
Happens to be
These two right here. Both very different characters indeed but this was quite a topic.
other voice actors include the psycho from
Fate Zero.
And some other very popular voice actors.
News related to this Good and Bad.
With Japan, this anime wasn't popular as it should've been. Even before episode one, viewers so hyped because of the amazing cast and amazing soundtrack.(This aired in end of 2011 and start of 2012, I was still in Japan.)
The big reason the first episode wasn't very popular was because they say it is an exact copy of Code Geass. The funny thing is the story writer is the same person.
The setting they say like fighting to win freedom from GHQ, and an amazing power is so similiar to Code Geass was a huge problem.
I personally haven't watched Code Geass yet but it is on my list.
People say the story is way too fast paced and lots of parts in the story remain unexplained. Lots of parts remain as a question like how did he do, that how the fuck did he get out of that, those kind of questions. Viewers really had to guess those parts alot. Even though lots of them were very obvious what happened.
The story wasn't bad either. it wasn't amazing but, there were nice twists and interesting plot line. They just took it little too quickly.
Having a special power and saving the world kinda thing isn't very new to the table as well so it didn't stand out that much.
For me,it is amazing the fact that with this cast, with this drawing, and this soundtrack, with almost an A+ level on so many aspects, That only the screenplay directing and little bit fucked up story can bring down this much on the anime.
Of course, the Blu-Rays weren't sold that much. It wasn't bad numbers but for the shit ton of money for all that expensive voice cast, director(he was also the director for Death Note), and so much soundtrack, it was a minus. There were major things that saved them though.
A, they put in 2 episode per Blu-Ray package for a 22 episode anime which meant people had to buy more.
B,The soundtrack was a huge hit and sold quite a number.
My personal thoughts/Best,Sad moments
I personally think this anime was very good. Even though there were some parts not explained, but I do not understand why people were picky.
I do understand why this anime wasn't as popular as it could've been though. People do have different opinions.
Somethings I don't really like was the main character. He does start out like a usual wimp, scared character. I hate characters like that. But I hate even more is he turns so fucking different after Hare, his good friend dies.
She dies after saving Shu's ass(well shu tried to save hare as well so)
He turns very cold after this. I hate this of him even more. He acts like this for a while until his arms get cut off by revived Gai.
I mean yes, of course, in order for the story to go on and become more interesting, something interesting had to happen. I understand. Just an opinion.
The ending got me so bad. It was very sad ending, Shu tries the save the world by receiving all the virus by himself with Inori but Inori just takes it all herself and dies.
Speaking of these two, Inori,Shu love line wasn't very good. I honestly didn't feel that much love between them. I felt like there should've been more events between those two.
The Apocalypse Virus is gone, the world didn't end. yay. (this is in few years after)
Also, they ended the anime so forcefully. It feels like there are more missing pieces that they should've filled in.
There were very heartwarming parts indeed. That really was an important element in the anime I think.
Inori of course was a popular singer so she still remains as a memory.
The moment I thought wow Inori is gone and she is remembered, where is Hare?
Her name was written on the birthday cake. She's gone but still remembered.
And of course Shu,
I personally don't mind sad endings these days because I've watched too many happy endings.
Soundtrack
Like I said, The soundtrack was very good. All by supercell
This is the first opening of the anime, My dearest.
Second Opening Everlasting Guilty Crown.
This is a soundtrack that comes out during action scenes and stuff. I love this song too.
Anyways there's more too check out and thanks so much for reading, tell me if there are some mistakes.
Anime Grade: A-
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