Guilty Crown started airing a few years back in the fall season when at least
everyone was watching the first episode people were more or less won over by the series'
magnificent music and design. It had the potential to be one of the best
anime of that year, but as the story dragged on, it's easy to find yourself asking what
exactly is going on. It had character designs and art being done by the
well-known artist Redjuice,
music from supercell of Vocaloid fame,
writers from Code Geass,
directors of Death note, and production being done by Production IG.
Unfortunately, though, even with such a stellar team it seems that Guilty Crown couldn't
quite meet up to the high expectations
that people had of it.
The primary weakness was the story and characters,
and while these aspects admittingly did have their good moments,
unfortunately those moments were short-lived.
this story is set in the near future when Japan was recovering from a
near-apocalyptic event which took place 10 years ago, known as
Lost Christmas
Tokyo was the site of a deadly virus outbreak that turned people
into crystals, and in order to prevent it from spreading, a group of countries
occupies japan and places those infected under quarantine Enraged at the
treatment of the japanese people by the occupying forces and the inaction of
the japanese government a rebel group called the Undertakers rises up
against them.
caught in the midst of a battle between the rebels and occupying forces, Shu
suddenly finds himself bestowed with a experimental secret weapon, the power
of the Voids.
Guilty Crown is a science fiction, action anime, themed towards post-apocalyptic
with bits of mecha, school and romance. The story is somewhat cliche as it follows
the 'weak character becoming a hero' storyline. Throughout the 1st part or
up to episode 12, the anime will progress a little slow in the storyline as it
mainly introduces other characters and development, organisations, plot setups,
showcasing how badass voids are, or just covering details of the story to make
more sense. The 2nd part of the story from episode 13 to end picks
up more faster.
But without a doubt it, the biggest flaw to this series, would have to be it's story.
Guilty Crown gets exciting if you prefer series
with plot twist, after plot twist. Plot twists do have the tendency to racket up tension,
which could be a benefit for an action heavy series. However, plot twists also
can disturb
character development and properly paced storytelling, which became clearly
evident when personalities would drastically change
in less than an episode
Is the story confusing?
not really. Boring? not at all, the story has it's moments that just plays out well
in all different angles and the possibilities, that keeps you curious as to what might
happen next
when it comes to the characters in the show, Hiroyuki Yoshino
the Author of both Code Geass
and Guilty Crown somewhat made the two anime's similar enough that could be easily
recognized by the familiar audience. Hence this anime being to hyped for some
to the highly praised Code Geass. However there were noticeable differences
between areas within both of these anime's and focusing on the lead character, Shu.
Shu was gifted with Void powers, along the story he panics, but was able to survive.
This shows something about the point of realism that is being addressed here.
Shu's ability depended on him and a person with a strong heart if he wished
to use his abilities effectively he was literally using his friends lives as a
weapon and that knowledge will later bite him on the ass later on
a lot of the characters also lacked consistency
There is so much backstabbing going on between so many characters. Soon
Soon throughout the series you would start to love and hate each character
due to the decisions made and which we will know why in the end. However
it brings good variety of different character personalities
which fit perfectly to their respective characters. The animations are very smooth
and clean. The visuals were still impressive in each setting.
Guilty Crown will constantly stay smooth and detailed
while rarely have lazy animations.
f you manage to look at the backgrounds and such you'd be surprised
how detailed some things are, but of course its easy to get sidetracked by awesome
fights and explosions
One of the reasons that heavily made me want to watch the series as a whole was
it's composition. It easily captivates you and the timing and selection is perfect
for nearly every scene
Having the music makes a huge difference on certain moments as sometimes it can get
really emotional or send chills. I recommend getting the OST and listening to
the tracks
because they are outstanding and the opening and ending are far well-done
by the popular J-pop group
called supercell. Today's review was Guilty Crown, I acknowledge this final
judgment with the score of seven point nine two out of ten