Guilty Crown:
"Story":
Guilty Crown is to anime what Buzzfeed is to feminism: it takes the themes and ideas people care about and have been nurturing for decades across multiple different works, then proceeds smash them all together into one amorphous, mass-produced and easily-consumed piece of shit.
There's nothing to see here but a complete clusterfuck of tropes popularized by various series, with the most blatant rip-offs coming from Evangelion and Code Geass. Not only is the protagonist a dumbed-down and pathetic discount Shinji Ikari, the plot unfolds exactly like how you would expect a Code Geass rip-off would - with the main character joining a resistance group that fights against some kind of authority. However, the difference is that in Code Geass, Lelouch is the boss of his organization. In Guilty Crown, Ouma Shu is just some bitch ass wet noodle who just happens to have special powers and is reluctantly dragged into the conflict by a sexy pink-haired girl who he immediately assumes wants to suck his dick. I honestly do not feel invested in any of the conflicts that occur, thanks to Shu, who always looks like he could be having twice as much fun jerking off in a corner somewhere. But you see, having a flawed protagonist isn't the problem here. The more flawed a protagonist, the more room there is for development and audience sympathy. Take Shinji Ikari for example, I genuinely feel bad for the kid because of his lonely past and because he is forced to face the horrifying ordeal of piloting an Eva just to gain his dad's approval. However, I can't even bring myself to do that with Ouma Shu, simply because he is the one of the wimpiest, whiniest, and most incomprehensible pussies to grace a screen. None of his troubles are even substantial enough to warrant the mental breakdowns that he exhibits every time they occur - he actually has a fairly good life with everything handed to him, from his powers, his friends, and even his hot fantasy love interest. Everyone else in the cast are extremely one-dimensional and cliched, grating enough for anyone who's seen them over and over again in other anime to want to punch them all in their fucking faces.
Not only are the characters atrocious, the writing and plot overall is also a fucking joke. The show pulls deus ex machinas every other episode in the form of extremely convenient Voids that are perfect for each predicament that the characters find themselves. Everything is extremely predictable - no one seems to be in any real danger, and nothing seems to be at stake. At one point, Ouma Shu somehow manages to convince his friends to go on a suicide mission with him because "the guys i'm about to save make me feel significant as a person so I want you to help me save them so I can keep feeling significant." Then right after that arc, a hackneyed and bullshit backstory involving random incest rears its head. At this point, I snapped. The shitty writing was too much for me. There were too many cliched, convenient, and inexplicable plot devices for my suspension of disbelief to stay intact, and so I stopped giving a fuck altogether.
Art:
It's extremely generic and uninteresting but is nice to look at. Other than that, nothing special.
Sound:
It sounds ok. Great, even. Supercell is a godsend. But like Claris, they make great music for really shitty anime. I want to fucking cry.
Characters:
deez nuts
Enjoyment:
Supercell was the only good thing to ever happen to this show.
Overall:
4/10 would shoot myself in the balls before watching this again
"Story":
Guilty Crown is to anime what Buzzfeed is to feminism: it takes the themes and ideas people care about and have been nurturing for decades across multiple different works, then proceeds smash them all together into one amorphous, mass-produced and easily-consumed piece of shit.
There's nothing to see here but a complete clusterfuck of tropes popularized by various series, with the most blatant rip-offs coming from Evangelion and Code Geass. Not only is the protagonist a dumbed-down and pathetic discount Shinji Ikari, the plot unfolds exactly like how you would expect a Code Geass rip-off would - with the main character joining a resistance group that fights against some kind of authority. However, the difference is that in Code Geass, Lelouch is the boss of his organization. In Guilty Crown, Ouma Shu is just some bitch ass wet noodle who just happens to have special powers and is reluctantly dragged into the conflict by a sexy pink-haired girl who he immediately assumes wants to suck his dick. I honestly do not feel invested in any of the conflicts that occur, thanks to Shu, who always looks like he could be having twice as much fun jerking off in a corner somewhere. But you see, having a flawed protagonist isn't the problem here. The more flawed a protagonist, the more room there is for development and audience sympathy. Take Shinji Ikari for example, I genuinely feel bad for the kid because of his lonely past and because he is forced to face the horrifying ordeal of piloting an Eva just to gain his dad's approval. However, I can't even bring myself to do that with Ouma Shu, simply because he is the one of the wimpiest, whiniest, and most incomprehensible pussies to grace a screen. None of his troubles are even substantial enough to warrant the mental breakdowns that he exhibits every time they occur - he actually has a fairly good life with everything handed to him, from his powers, his friends, and even his hot fantasy love interest. Everyone else in the cast are extremely one-dimensional and cliched, grating enough for anyone who's seen them over and over again in other anime to want to punch them all in their fucking faces.
Not only are the characters atrocious, the writing and plot overall is also a fucking joke. The show pulls deus ex machinas every other episode in the form of extremely convenient Voids that are perfect for each predicament that the characters find themselves. Everything is extremely predictable - no one seems to be in any real danger, and nothing seems to be at stake. At one point, Ouma Shu somehow manages to convince his friends to go on a suicide mission with him because "the guys i'm about to save make me feel significant as a person so I want you to help me save them so I can keep feeling significant." Then right after that arc, a hackneyed and bullshit backstory involving random incest rears its head. At this point, I snapped. The shitty writing was too much for me. There were too many cliched, convenient, and inexplicable plot devices for my suspension of disbelief to stay intact, and so I stopped giving a fuck altogether.
Art:
It's extremely generic and uninteresting but is nice to look at. Other than that, nothing special.
Sound:
It sounds ok. Great, even. Supercell is a godsend. But like Claris, they make great music for really shitty anime. I want to fucking cry.
Characters:
deez nuts
Enjoyment:
Supercell was the only good thing to ever happen to this show.
Overall:
4/10 would shoot myself in the balls before watching this again
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