26th October 2011, 2:57 PM
Guilty Crown is basically a challenge from the producer to see how much garbage you'll willing to put up with if they pair it with great animation, thoughtful worldbuilding, and an interesting conflict between idealistic terrorists and a super-corrupt government. All that sounds pretty awesome and it is. Here's where the garbage comes in. The main character? Bland, boring, annoying. He's cut from the same cloth as Shinji Ikari, but without the deep psychological wounds to make things interesting. He pairs up with a girl who barely wears any clothes and shoots weapons out of her chest, also she's cut from the same cloth as Rei Ayanami [emotionless, falls in love with boring main character for no discernible reason]. The main guys gets some crazy powers and destroys the bad guys. Then the show throws in lots of cheap fanservice sandwiched between scenes of innocent civilians being gunned down like animals. There's also an excitable loli who wears a skintight bodysuit and is the subject of 50% of the cheap fanservice [gotta bring in those otaku dollars!]. For good measure, they also throw in the bog standard insane villain who loves killing people because it's fun and it just plain evil for evil's sake, don't need any logic or reasoning here nope! Also, the end of episode 2 is absolutely dreadful: main guy gives up his life of heroism to go back to being a bland loser in school BUT OH WAIT the one girl transfers to his school! GUFFAW!!!
The really bad thing is that this is one of the noitaminA shows and it's produced by Production IG.
The really bad thing is that this is one of the noitaminA shows and it's produced by Production IG.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.