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Guilty Crown [Series]
Xtras:
The people who ran it though in one sitting seemed to like it more than people like me who watched it week by week. I'd say all in all, Guilty Crown is worth a watch because it is an entertaining show, but don't set high standards. Fantastic music, character design, artwork etc. but a subpar storyline at the end of it.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Xtras on April 14, 2012, 10:17:20 PM ---The people who ran it though in one sitting seemed to like it more than people like me who watched it week by week. I'd say all in all, Guilty Crown is worth a watch because it is an entertaining show, but don't set high standards. Fantastic music, character design, artwork etc. but a subpar storyline at the end of it.
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As everything you said. I agree.
10/10 for the series - for everything in it and most of the story (not all of it), excluding the way it was directed in the middle. It did live up to it's name - Guilty (many regrets) Crown (king).
Series did go weak in the middle when Shu met Jun's brother and for a few episodes, then picked up fast. Also, you always gotta keep a mental awareness that these characters, well most of them, are kids. :P If they go haywire or chicken out, well then ... you gotta think about what made them go that way.
Looking forward to the OVA.
Havoc10K:
I suppose you could say that a highschooler can have a mental breakdown and I agree, but having 4 mental breakdowns is a bit much, even Shinji had only 1 serious mental breakdown and a few stressing days.
Somehow your theory about this is contradicted later in the series or even in the first arc.
(click to show/hide)Inori not knowing that Shu can save her jumping down a fucking 20 stores.
Lasers that are damn slow, and as far as mentality goes, Inori doesn't have a problem killing people and that other guy they rescue from prison being a high schooler and a mass murderer. Yeah, it all makes sense.
Explain to me, since I know your anime girls preferences, why do you like Inori ?
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Havoc10K on April 17, 2012, 04:07:30 PM ---1- NOpe
2 - You don't
3 - Inori is having a personality problem.
Personally I think :
(click to show/hide)They killed the best girl in this show. She was actually a girl you could actually like, she even had a proper personality and wasn't an over used tsundere.
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Revisit the lyrics in the songs, her "personality problem" that you claim, her feelings and .. well just about everything. I didn't expect it to end that way, but Inori did the right thing and full-filled her promises and role to the end. The lyrics ... read the lyrics.
xShadow:
I meant to post this earlier, but I forgot.
--- Quote from: Havoc10K on April 16, 2012, 05:35:27 AM ---I suppose you could say that a highschooler can have a mental breakdown and I agree, but having 4 mental breakdowns is a bit much, even Shinji had only 1 serious mental breakdown and a few stressing days.
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Actually, I think many animes underplay just how crazy some of the situations their people are in. Four mental breakdowns is actually on the light side, if you look at things realistically. Not all people have the same amount of hardiness, and not all people move on very easily. For instance: in real life, you realize that some people really don't ever get over a death? It takes them several years to even achieve some sense of real peace.
Let's face it: Shu isn't a strong person. Gai is. Shu is just a normal guy. You don't really know what the hell a normal person will do in that kind of situation. Even trained soldiers have PTSD after seeing a war.
I kind of find it funny that people get really annoyed when their characters aren't all immovable war machines. It's like a lapse towards unrealistic immovability is seen as an improvement.
That being said, Shu's still the reason this series ended up bad. You just had this one normal kid that got thrust into all of this crazy stuff that he obviously wasn't prepared for. His original motivations were practically, "Let's do something different, because this shit's boring." Well, you're boring, too. Everything that happens regarding him is dull. He acts pretty normally. You can't objectively say the anime is bad because the lead acts like a retard. No, he just acts normally. It may be retarded by IQ standards, but by comparing it to real life, there probably isn't a terribly huge amount of discrepancy (maybe just at a few sections).
The problem is that to me his role felt trivial, because there wasn't a point in his involvement. If they for instance made Gai the protagonist, then Shu could have damn well not existed and the show would have been more interesting. This anime had really good potential, but they chose a horribly dull focal point as the main character. Such a limited protagonist could only do so much. It was like watching a documentary of a guy that got swept up in events horribly beyond his control
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