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Main Title	Guilty Crown (a8480)
Official Title	enverified Guilty Crown
Official Title	javerified ギルティクラウン
Type	TV Series, 22 episodes
Year	14.10.2011 until 23.03.2012
Season	Autumn 2011
Tags	actionAction anime usually involve a fairly straightforward story of good guys versus bad guys, where most disputes are resolved by using physical force. It often contains a lot of shooting, explosions and fighting., angstA feeling of general discomfort and uneasiness is present due to either trivial or more serious reasons, often accompanied by depression. Warning: may contain copious amounts of brooding and sighing. Etymology: "Angst" is a German word meaning fear or anxiety., coming of ageIn the strict sense the Coming of age describes a young person`s transition from adolescence to adulthood. In anime the term is used in a more general sense where the protagonists have to face a challenge, make an important decision in their life, take on responsibility, or learn a lesson, and by overcoming these obstacles they reach a higher level of maturity., dystopiaA dystopia is, in literature, an often futuristic society that has degraded into a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian., idolIdols are young media personalities who are considered particularly cute and cuddly and who will, for a period ranging from several months to a few years, regularly appear in the mass media, e.g. as singers for J-pop groups, bit-part actors, TV personalities, models in photo spreads published in magazines, advertisements, etc. Virtual idols are animated characters created as idols. They are often also vTubers and/or vloggers., mechaMecha in Japanese basically means mechanical things; everything from an electric whisk or a car to a spaceship or a robot. Here however we limit it to the more exotic things usually referred to as mecha anime: robots, whether controlled by a human or not, and their ilk., militaryThe military, also known as the armed forces, are forces authorized and legally entitled to use deadly force so as to support the interests of the state and its citizens. The task of the military is usually defined as defence of the state and its citizens and the prosecution of war against foreign powers. The military may also have additional functions within a society, including construction, emergency services, social ceremonies, and guarding critical areas., newNot based on anything, the story is a new work, usually made up by the people involved in creating the anime. Generally if an original work (原作) credit is given, it will be to the studio, or director, or other members of the production team., noitaminAnoitaminA is a Fuji Television programming block devoted to anime, with the intention of expanding the target audience beyond the typical young male demographic., post-apocalypticAfter a major cataclysm has occurred. World War III, an alien invasion, plague, global warming or some other general disaster are common themes to build a post-apocalyptic world upon, where the effects were severe enough that mankind barely survived., science fictionScience fiction stories usually focus on how situations could be different in the future when we are more technologically advanced; due to either our own achievements or having met with other civilizations whom we have learned from., shounenIn the context of manga and associated media, shounen, literally meaning "youth" and often also specifically "boy", refers to a male audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18., super powerBe it an ancient Greek Heracles, a cybernetic muscle-man, or a fourteen year-old girl in a mini-skirted sailor suit. As long as they have super powers, they`re in the show., thrillerThe thriller is a genre of fiction in which tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary heroes are pitted against villains determined to destroy them, their country, or the stability of the free world. The hero of a typical thriller faces danger alone or in the company of a small band of companions. The protagonist may be a law enforcement agent, a journalist, or a soldier, but typically he or she is cut off from the resources of "their" organization., tragedyTragedy is a form of drama characterized by seriousness and dignity, usually involving a conflict between a character and some higher power, such as the law, the gods, fate, or society. - [similar]
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Rating	5.11 (6149)
Average	6.84 (6228)
Review Rating	5.09 (5)
Added by	hidden on 2011-06-07 18:19
Edited by	hidden on 2016-08-29 14:45

Main Title	Guilty Crown (a8480)
Official Title	enverified Guilty Crown
Official Title	javerified ギルティクラウン
Official Title	deverified Guilty Crown
Official Title	fr Guilty Crown
Official Title	ru Корона грешника
Official Title	he כתר האשמה
Official Title	zh-Hans 罪恶王冠
Official Title	zh-Hant 罪惡王冠
Official Title	ko 길티 크라운
Synonym	Kaltės karūna, Вінець Провини, Короната на Грешника, تاج مجرم
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* An original anime project that premiered in Fuji TV's noitaminA program block.

In the near future, a meteorite carrying a foreign virus crashes in Japan, leading to a devastating nation-wide infection and total anarchy. An international organisation known as the GHQ intervenes by imposing martial law restoring order to Japan at the cost of its independence. This incident becomes known as the Lost Christmas.

Ten years later in 2039, Ouma Shuu — a teen with a special ability awakened by the Apocalypse Virus — meets Yuzuriha Inori, a strange girl who incites him to join the struggle against the government organisation's robotic forces and a secret society whose goal remains shrouded in mystery.

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5.11 (6149)

#3653 (#130)

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#142 (#10)

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#221 (139)

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Running Time

approx. 9h 10m

Completed

8186 (60.3%)

Watching

1293 (9.5%)

Plan to Watch

3596 (26.5%)

Dropped

495 (3.6%)

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OVA, 2012, 1 ep, 3.54 (1522), 6.01 (1539)

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recommended by 89 users - 30 for fans - 31 recommended - 28 must see

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by Jasontmn25 on 2023-12-01 08:17

wasted potential for amazing series

recommended

by manubebec on 2020-04-24 08:56

This show is full of plot holes. so, even if it gets all the ingredients to be excellent, it miserably fails to. It's still a good Watch tough.
If you are reluctant watching it, just know that the OST is just one golden masterpiece. Each song is Worth an award.
Even if you don't watch the anime , go and listen to it.

recommended

by bnns on 2018-11-15 06:58

Started out good with lots of action and possibilities and then seemed to go down from there, the ending was decent but was not nearly as enwrapping as when it started out. The main character changes throughout the story starting out innocent, becoming jaded and then refocusing. Action, Mecha, Post Apocalyptic, End of the World, Super Powers, Death of Characters.

recommended

by Esjee on 2018-01-05 02:02

The first half of this show was brilliant in many ways. The second half, however, devolved into a few too many cliches and lost a little bit of the solid magic that made the first half so great. Also, for my tastes, this show was a little too dark. In the end, I think it was that darkness that makes the show rate as low as it does, though the weaker second half does provide completion to the story, which is a big plus. Just that it set up potential that wasn't realized as well as it could be. For fans of powerful action and 'imperfect hero' stories, this show is basically must-see. For everyone else, I'd recommend it, but you'll probably either love it or strongly dislike it.

for fans

by sammy321 on 2017-09-24 15:11

Guilty Crown started well with good music, nice action, decent fighting then towards the middle slowed down. The ending wrapped up this series decently.

recommended

by c0nvex on 2017-04-12 21:14

Starts lousy, but suddenly midway through it gets excellent, to the extent that you appreciate the lousy beginning as it's part of the charm.

recommended

by kuroptd on 2017-02-25 22:32

I have to say there are a to of good points. The animation is amazing, the story has a lot of potential, soundtrack is awesome. Personally, the characters could have been a bit more lovable, I was confused by some of the story and (for me) it didn't start getting good until ep 11. Glad I watched it though but wasn't as good as it had the potential to be. Watch it and see what you think :)

recommended

by SlayerFox on 2017-02-24 03:25

This show is a hidden gem. The story was amazing, as it included almost all aspects of different types of anime (action, mecha, fantasy, school, romance, etc;) and it has a unique plot that left me interested, and I always found that I was willing to watch *just one more* episode at any time of day. The story is not all happy either, as there is major loss, and plot twists that one would never expect. The music was also incredible, and it's a real shame that the show never got a season 2.

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by Fightclubb on 2016-01-23 19:29

Rating: 6.66

Approval: -

Some shows are predictable and badly written. Usually, with the right artwork and enough self-awareness, this doesn't matter in the least if you just want to have fun. Unfortunately, Guilty Crown is not fun, and therefore not good. The show is an exercise in mediocrity and tired cliches, without the tongue in cheek self awareness that makes something truly fun. There is a lack of anything memorable that will have you forgetting the series while watching it.

That being said, Guilty Crown is not completely terrible. It is yet another generic show, executed professionally yet without any unique features. That in itself is quite interesting, because avoiding any original ideas is actually rather hard. While nothing is memorable, nothing is particarly memorable in a bad way either. As far as it goes, that's a win in this case.

Solid artwork is an important part of the show, but the plot is stupid and the characters worthy of contempt. The lack of originality permiates from the core of the series down to the tiniest details, through the use of overly done gimmicks in lieu of actual solid writing. There are a few moments of "ooh, shiny!" which are pretty nice. Unfortunately they don't make up for the fact that you have seen every detail in this show done to death in prior shows which were better. Still, if you're watching Guilty Crown then you obviously want a Code Geass clone, so you shouldn't complain too much when you find an inferior copy.

Coming from a personal perspective, I found the show to be a perfect waste of time. As in, it was time wasted, but not completely ruined. Guilty Crown is absolutely mediocre, yet not bad enough to make me want to drink away the pain of watching it. So there's that going for it.

Writing (Story and Characters):

"Writing" does need the quotation marks when it comes to Guilty Crown Evangelion. It is not so much writing as an exercise in using the copy and paste functions of whatever word processor they could open scripts of other shows with. Only very rarely are there cases does a complete lack of originality ever get this extreme. The plot is completely unoriginal from start to end, all characters are stock characters with little to no development, and in general, that is both the main weakness and strength of the series. It can't be too bad if the source material isn't terrible. It is also not particularly good.

Story-wise, Guilty Crown of the Rebellion fails to live up to the stories it ripped off. While being completely unoriginal is a safe bet in most cases, there is such a thing as too safe. The "twists" require you to have not seen any similar anime in order to be in the least bit surprising. The plot is predictable to levels where anyone who has seen anything remotely close will already have it figured out by the third episode. Not having any glaring faults is no excuse for not having anything remotely good.

As far as the characters of Guilty Crown Wonderland are concerned, they could be replaced with blocks of wood with faces painted on and it would probably be slightly better. For some unknown reason, there is a character driven element to the writing. The person who thought of that should probably be fired and blacklisted in the industry. Not a single character has anything original about them. Some of them are rip-offs so obvious that it insults the intelligence. Still, they are not a particularly homicide inducing bunch.

Mediocre cliches executed in a subpar way is probably the best way to describe Darker than Guilty Crown. Really, the only thing it has going for it is that it copied better works, so it isn't an absolute disaster. And if you're looking for something comfortingly familiar that isn't an absolute disaster, you might get some kicks out of it.

Art (Animation and Sound):

Originality is overrated, thought everyone behind Guilty Crown. Still, where animation and sound are concerned, originality takes a back seat to clean execution. Whatever qualms one may have with the series, the artwork is professionally done. It isn't going to wow you, but if you are looking for a good mix of realism and fluiditiy with forcefully dramatic artwork then this is about it. Unfortunately, many people want a things not to be quite so forced, so while very good, saying the artwork is great is going too far.

The animation is nice. It has moments where it is pretty cool, and has very little in the way of faults. Some action scenes are lazy, with tired cliche shots of robots being split in two, but Guilty Crown is all about being true to form. The character designs, while not unique, are well done and easily distinguishable. The backgrounds are carefully chosen and crafted, and add a bit of flavor to the otherwise dull everything else.

Voice acting is a critical thing in anime. Unfortunately, this is the main weakpoint of Guilty Crown's artwork. It isn't terrible, but the director obviously wanted some shouts of determination and coolness taken out of the first page of the Shounen 101 course book and other copy paste ideas. Still, the soundtrack is efficient and actually quite good at times, the effects are professionally executed, and everything fits the theme of the show.

Professional yet unoriginal artwork is better than mediocre and very unoriginal writing. It is the strong point of Guilty Crown. Still, if you want to enjoy the art, there are far better places for it. There isn't much to complain about, but there is very little to remember anything by. Artwork can elevate a piece to beyond its writing, and here, it fails.

Overall:

I've used words like "tired", "mediocre", "unoriginal" and so on to describe Guilty Crown. And all of those are true. Still, if you haven't yet grown completely jaded from watching so many shows that are similar, it is still above average due to the artwork managing to salvage at least some pleasure in viewing it. Just don't expect a memorable experience.

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by irohma on 2012-05-02 18:49

Rating: 4.5

Approval: 97.3% (1 votes)

Guilty Crown attracted me because it looked safe. The promotion art, like the name of the anime itself, were obviously intented to draw Code Geass fans, promising a mysterious girl and a serious looking protagonist. Well... toss that all aside because Guilty Crown is perhaps the perfect example of why shounen anime nowdays has fallen so low. It's protagonist is nothing serious, is just a stupid typical teenage boy, all the girls from the show are the same tsunderes, the support cast is flashy and shallow and everything else is barely likeable.

All this stuff, however, are not only the weak points of Guilty Crown, but of the vast majority of anime nowdays. Watching this made me wonder if the path of the current japanese television is in fact what pleases a worldwide audience or if they're doing this stuff in purpose to somehow protect their own products and limit the audience to their own people. The tsunderes, lolis, ecchiness, forced school life everywhere, and other elements are not exactly new, but are being so overused these days that is extremely annoying.

All of this together turns hard to review Guilty Cross, as I'm unable to watch it without thinking of the dozens of shows I've tried but failed to completely watch these last 3 years: Dragon Crisis, Shakugan no Shana 2, Vampire Bund, Inu X Boku, Recorder and Randsell, Gosick, Zero no Tsukaima F, Nisemonogatari, Qwaser, and some I've finished as well like Ano Hana, Hanasaku Iroha, Usagi Drop, Linebarrels... only to list my most recent tries, from great to stupid animes, all are overflowed with shy girls, ecchiness and more annoying elements that are easy to misuse and create a terrible show. Unlike Ano Hana, Guilty Crown fails miserably in most of its tries.

Art & Animation
Following the same sequence as the beforementioned animes, Guilty Crown has superb animation and art style. The moe-esque style of the drawing is a bit disturbing because it's so similar to 90% of other current shows, but regardless of that it's beautifuly made and well animated. This is perhaps what can really lure you to watch the series as a whole, because the quality is really good. The first two episodes, in particular, are awesome in this department. The other episodes have lesser quality, but are still superb.

Sound
If there is something where Guilty Crown truly shine is in its sound direction. It starts with vibrant openings, fitting for the genre and perfect for keeping you on track. The enticement continues with the classic and slow dramatic themes of the early episodes, giving you a sense that something truly epic is about to be presented. The later part of the show embraces more of the techno beats that serve better for the shounen action, but still holds its dramatic and varied concept to maintain a high quality. Voice-acting is also decently done even with all the tsundere girls around.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard the sound direction tries, the show itself rarely delivers something on par with it.

Story
Guilty Crown takes a lot of the initial idea of Code Geass, even the names are similar. Japan has suffered from a pandemic 10 years ago and international help overwhelmed the country and made it totally dependent. This resulted in rebel groups, dictatorship from medical groups that try to cleanse the streets from remaining infected, and a division of the nation as a whole. Of course, everything here is supossedly serious and not a theatrical play such as in Code Geass, so this kind of setting can be very promising.

The tale, however, is about a school boy with problems to socialize, as usual, and that gets into trouble when he meets a mysterious running girl. He gains a special power and is forced to join a rebel organization named the Undertakers, where he must face his socializing issues, meet tsundere girls, obey e jealous boy, and live with the dumb cutie.

Don't expect much though
Even with the dumb anti-social protagonist and a dumb girl the show had potential to be something better. Sadly, it loses itself quite quickly to fanservice, tsunderes, and an overuse of the most stupid characters of its cast. From the get-go you'll have a girl moaning when her mecha gets hurt instead of yelling in pain. You'll have a cutie dumb pink-haired girl with absurdly sexy and unrealistic clothing, always showing her breasts. You'll have all girls going shy and angry any time they face a man. Even the protagonist's mother shows off in sexy lingerie for no reason other than please the horny ones around. In resume, all serious parts of the show are spoiled by many stupid ecchi-like details and scenes. To worsen things, it never gets better, on the contrary, the show only gets more and more harem-like with each episode until its late part.

So many stupid things
Okay. After the first half the show gets on the part where school boys and girls must survive. The villains erect a huge wall out of nowhere that is strong enough to wipe tall buildings and from there the nonsense just reaches absurd levels. The protagonist doesn't help in anything, he just keeps playing his dumb role of being the anti-social kid with super powers, and when you think he might learn thing or two with some nicely put deaths he just gets more and more annoying. Then we have apocalypse, Adam and Eve, a bettle-eyebrow boy with super powers, a villain returning from death without any explanation, other stupid resurrections to make all deaths in the show useless, etc. It's hard to keep up in the end with so much nonsense going around. The initial "Japan is struggling with international interventions" just gives place to "let's put this convoluted stuff, revive some characters, etc". Hell, they even decide that somehow the protagonist was the key to everything right from the start and that everyone who is important is a brother/sister or father or mother or lover or anything they could find to create some silly novel revelation.

Character
Like it's Story, Guilty Crown cast is also like to be copied from a rulebook of shounen shows. The protagonist is the typical dumb school boy that gets inside the mess and acts like only anime teenagers would act, there's the mysterious girl that is in fact only the typical shy, dumb, and silent girl, the support here that is supposed to be a baddass but is in fact a bishounen with barely any development, there's even a impaired girl on wheelchair that could give really a bump in the serioussness of the show, but only proves to be a pretty girl with tsundure behavior.

It's hopeless
This could all be salvaged if there was development to turn the dumb guy into someone smarter, or make the characters evolve based on what they live, but that's far from happening here. What you'll see is that all girls from the show are tsundure that will get shy and angry, shy and angry, shy and angry in every single scene they appear until you can't tolerate anymore. The "romance" never progresses, the girls never grow up and the fact that supposedly 16~18 years old teenagers act in such a ways is really annoying, especially with the fate of the world hanging on their shoulders. And yeah, you have probably one of the most stupid protagonists in recent memory, the anti-social guy who never learns and yet is always there to solve the issues and save the day.

Value
No, there's nothing really worth here. You'll see anything you've seen in better shows like Code Geass and Vandread, or in equally poor shows like Linebarrels, Dragon Crisis, Index and many others that tries to mix warfare with teenagers, shy girls, and bits of ecchiness. The characters try to get better but never do so, and the story goes around and around but never really explodes into something new or at least great. There are bits of nice moments, especially at the beginning when some events make you think that things can get interesting, but that never happens.

Enjoyment
It's hard to enjoy something so plagued with overused elements. Guilty Crown is like to be a "What if Code Geass fails everywhere!?" type of show, except that it borrows more tsundure and stupid protagonist than Code Geass ever dreamed of having. What happens in fact is that the show was built to attract Code Geass fans and try to gather some fanbase with it, but I sincerely can't see a fan of more serious shounen truly liking Guilty Crown. There is enjoyment for those who are satisfied with an action show with good animation and pretty girls, but nothing besides that.

Comments
Truly, it was hard to watch everything. I forced myself to watch the same way school life was forced into the setting of this show. It was hard, but I felt an obligation after failing to watch so many titles fully in these last years. I always kept saying to myself "what if it gets better near the end?" to many shows, but never endured. With Guilty Crown I made an effort and was devastated to know that nothing really got better, only the fact that there are a few rare episodes where the shy girls are given rest and action is plenlty.

It's hard to endure something that in a moment creates a twist that makes things get interesting and a second later puts a scene where the guy stumbles on a girl and they trade shy glances and the girl gets angry and yells or slaps him. And when you see this same scene in hundreds of shows, hundreds of times, and even on shows that were supposed to be a bit more serious, I simply can't tolerate. I never enjoyed such scenes, but I'm apt to watch them when I put a show like Love Hina, Aiyori Aoshi, Onegai Twins, etc, but not when I'm watching a thing that is selling itself like a Code Geass copy.

Anyway, I'm sorry if this review looked more like I'm putting my concerns of the genre at the table than truly reviewing the show, but I think this is fair enough considering that the show is so poor besides a gorgeous production quality.

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by lmm on 2012-04-22 21:25

Rating: 7.83

Approval: 74.7% (2 votes)

It seems I'm going against the prevailing wisdom, but I like Guilty Crown. I like it a lot.

Part of this is simply production values, which are undeniably superb. The music in particular is stunningly good, with one character's singing made as central and believable as that of K-ON!. Animation is rarely experimental or truly groundbreaking, but it's consistently beautiful - as pretty as something like C3, in my book. And unlike that show, both visuals and sound are threaded carefully through the rest of the series, matching the characters and scenes. When this works, Guilty Crown reaches heights to match anything out there - the mid-series finale in episode 12, and an earlier combat sequence come to mind.

But while its set-pieces are fantastic, Guilty Crown never quite strings them together into a coherent plot. The underlying premise is never really resolved (making a disappointing ending almost inevitable). Our antagonists reveal powers that seem to make their previous efforts pointless, and their motivations never quite make sense. As with Code Geass, each episode can be utterly unpredictable; the premise conveniently allows our heroes whatever powers are necessary for that week, but even that can’t justify many of the twists and turns. At times it can feel like the whole plot was made up as they went along.

But to criticize these things is to miss the point of Guilty Crown. In truth this show is not really plot-driven, it's driven by character - one character, Shu. And while his powers may be fantastical, his characterization counts as the most coherent and well-explored protagonist I’ve seen in a long time.

Watching Shu develop is like seeing some Freudian progression into adulthood. His initial reaction to his powers may be unheroic ("whiny", as certain quarters would have it - but that’s a very simplistic viewpoint), but it's deeply human, particularly when we remember his age. We see him move through the joy of power and the angst of failure, the power of authoritarianism and the loneliness that results, and finally an enlightened, statesmanlike rediscovery of his humanity, with or without his superpowers. He’s a wise man figure, but one whose wisdom is all the more convincing, because we’ve been with him every step of the way.

And that’s worth sacrificing a lot for, at least in my book; the weakness of the large-scale plot is a cheap price to pay. Far better that than damage the secondary cast, who manage in many cases to be equally well-realized. The secondary female who loves Shu but hasn’t let this entirely destroy her pride. The disabled mecha pilot, whose injury runs through her character; not defining her, but not ignored either (at least for the first half). Even rank-and-file soldiers, and characters who exist primarily as devices (e.g. Shu’s weak friend, who suffers under his authority), get well-defined personalities.

In some ways this is actually less true for the other two leads - Gai, the father of the rebellion Shu joins, and Inori, singer and sort-of love interest. Gai gets a well-developed backstory and some real character moments, but his characterization frequently has to be twisted to support the needs of the plot. With Inori no such constraints apply; rather, she is consciously otherworldly, inhuman even, her personalty defined mostly as an absence of ego. (That her band is called Egoist cannot be coincidence; not in a series this well-produced).

There’s more than a little of Yuki Nagato in her, but Inori never develops beyond a detached innocence. Her relationship with Shu keeps a light touch; there is love, but it lies principally in his desire to protect her, and her willingness to accept him. For me, it’s strange and beautiful and utterly compelling. But for other fans it will be too much (when she’s so devoid of human emotion), or too little (when it’s supposed to be his driving force), or promoting a terrible model of feminine attractiveness (innocent, unresponsive - and at the same time sexualized to the hilt). I suspect that, for more viewers than would care to admit it, the series will stand or fall on how they feel about Inori.

The other determining factor will be presentation. Make no mistake, Guilty Crown is gorgeous. We have come to expect visual smoothness from Production IG, but it’s been married expertly to the rest of the series; the show’s motifs (hexagons and genetic imagery) pervade everything from the eyecatch out; the crystalization visuals of people struck by a genetic plague are at once familiar and distinctive, taking an image but making it GC’s own. There are few opportunities for more experimental animation here, but the weapon mechanic allows an (exceedingly restrained) form of transformation sequence, and some of the later battle scenes could, in their own way, stand up alongside SHAFT et al.

And I’d like to highlight the second opening as encapsulating everything that’s great about this series: stunning music blended perfectly with the visuals, and a narrative that (even in such a purely visual form) manages to suggest the progression of both halves of our lead couple. It bears emphasising just how good the music is. Guilty Crown may not be avant-garde, but it does set a new benchmark for slickness; beautiful as the animation is, the music alone is quite possibly enough to carry the show, and the voice acting isn’t far behind.

But at this point I’m writing as an unashamed fan. Guilty Crown is a long way from flawless; rather, it’s concentrated all its flaws into the overarching plot, letting that bear all the strain wherever possible so as to spare the characters. If character is what you care for, it succeeds, and succeeds massively - but it’s working in a genre that traditionally places a much higher emphasis on story. And equally importantly, nuanced characters who waver and act unheroically will be unwelcome for a viewer who came expecting manly mecha fights.

It also suffers from comparison to Code Geass, something the makers appear to be inviting at times. That series had an equally convoluted storyline and an even less coherent technological premise - but it managed to push them aside for an ending which was, if nothing else, satisfying in emotional terms. Gulity Crown’s ending is not bad by the standard’s of this sort of thing even five years ago, but viewers have finally come to demand a bit more coherence, and Guilty Crown doesn’t give it. This is by no means another GITS:SAC.

But on every other front Guilty Crown scores brilliantly. One could make a convincing argument for calling it the best-sounding animé ever, and perhaps the best-looking one too (admittedly I’d personally still give that title to Bakemonogatari). And, while I seem to be at odds with the rest of the world here, for me the characters worked and worked wonderfully, more human and more engaging than anything I’ve seen in this genre. I honestly think this is a fantastic show, as long as you concentrate on the people, their interactions and feelings, and don’t worry too much about how it all makes sense.

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by grudgeal on 2012-03-24 15:51

Rating: 3

Approval: 77.6% (5 votes)

Guilty Crown - I can't believe it's not Code Geass!... No, wait, actually I can. Code Geass had class.

Guilty Crown is one of those shows that, from its inception and initial presentation, would be defined in its quality by how fast and loose and how tongue-in-cheek the creators intended to be with its premise. When it was initially presented to the world its description was that of a 'mild-mannered teenager given the power of the king from a mysterious woman to save Japan from an invasion', which anyone who has even a passing familiarity with Code Geass would recognise -- even the title brings to mind Code Geass, being two English words mashed together with the same first letters (but, to be fair, in the opposite order). When it came to pass that the show was also made by several of the core direction crew of Code Geass, the comparison only deepened. While the production studio (Production I.G) is different and the show was intended to run in the experimental noitaminA slot (which, admittedly, hasn't been very experimental as of late), the comparisons to Code Geass were obvious from a conceptual stage. And in our current anime industry, a slump that rewards copy-and-pasting, rethreads and instant-sell techniques over attempts at innovation, that comes together as a very non-promising first impression indeed.

But, hey, presentation isn't always everything. There is always hope. There's always the chance the writers were going to pull a fast one like in Narutaru (whose non-indicative premise or first episode completely failed to prepare its audience for what came next). Or that they would fully embrace their lack of innovation, and create a GaoGaiGar!, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann or Black Lagoon-like cheesefest, highlighting the glory of the medium when taken to its most overblown extremes. Or, heck, that they would simply be good enough writers to make people overlook that the premise is hardly the most original. Even a non-original idea can yield an extremely good show: Cowboy Bebop, my favourite show of all times, *is* nothing but repeated homages to 80ies and 90ies western and Hong Kong cinema culture.

Now, the show has come and gone in Japan, and I am here to tell you that of the above scenarios... None of them came true. Guilty Crown really fails at trying to make itself stand out as an independent production, and it takes itself so very seriously while at the same time having little in it that makes it worth being taken seriously.

Animation and Visuals: 7/10 -- Impressive use of CG and distinctive character designs, but there is no true distinction or innovation to its flash.

Guilty Crown, as expected by its production studio and its pedigree in producers, is very well-presented in the art department. The show makes use of many vibrant colours and shiny special effects, especially from all the totally-not-magic-its-all-science effects thrown around. The inevitable giant robots (yes, we knew there would be giant robots) move with the fluidity and grace expected by its genre, and we've got guns and explosions and ~~magical~~ scientific instant crystal formations and what-have-you. The main characters look good and distinctive, with the inevitable Unlucky Overlooked Love Interest getting the shaft for *not* having an outlandish character design, the costumes are varied if extremely dramatically overdone, and the fight scenes are slightly boring in choreography but perfectly serviceable.

Really, I have nothing outright to complain or bring up on the visuals: The animation, the art direction, the use of scenery, character designs, they look great all around even if they're not *terribly* outstanding in that we've already seen futuristic worlds and robots and special effects and outfits that look like they belong in a red light district before in practically every show of the same genre. It's just a pity they're being used to visualize *this* show, which makes my bad humour rub off on the animation direction by sheer guilt of association and causes a lot of unnecessary fan-service I'm a couple of decades too old to appreciate any more.

Sound: 4/10 -- The voice acting is so-so, and so is the music.

Guilty Crown's music, in contrast to its over-solid visuals, is less noticeable. The music is fairly standard beat/techno-pop, with some dramatic elements being set to idol music by the female lead (who has a very dull singing voice, it must be said: How someone so lifeless in voice became a pop-hit sensation I can only attribute to the power of Because The Writers Said So). The attention paid to the audio is one of 'music needs to be there': I can sense no wish to excel, care or desire to build a strong soundtrack out of this, and as a result the music goes in one ear and out the other. Furthermore, it's just another strike on the 'lack of originality' issue: Using dramatic choirs and pianos for drama scenes is really rather passée unless you can either back it up with a really well-made soundtrack overall, to which the choir piece is another piece in a larger image of dramatic music (anime like Soul Eater and Sengoku Basara's anime did this), or you can put a new spin on it (Tengen Toppa did this by adding rap to choir music, in addition to also having a very well-made, distinctive soundtrack). Guilty Crown does neither; it just plays it all straight and creates a music underscoring I find neither memorable nor well-made.

Then there's the voicing. Guilty Crown's voicing shows much the same care and attention to the art form as the music: The main character, main love interest, all the characters are voiced mostly according to how the writers have a preconceived notion about how 'this type of character' is supposed to sound as opposed to as real people, especially given the awful dialogue they're forced to vocalize (but more about the 'characters' and their talking later), and the whole thing feels, if not actually bad, slightly artificial and devoid of any passion or creativity of note: We have the whiny main character, the Rei Ayanami impersonator, the playful cat girl voice, and so on and so on: If you found similar archetypes in earlier anime (and you will) and listened to their voice jobs, you would find no effort has been put into making these characters sound distinct from any of their forebears.

The end result is a competent but in no way impressive sound image, which I am not about to praise over much in any way.

Story: 2/10 -- Only *you* (by which we mean specifically the Chosen One main character) can save Glorious Nippon from Evil Oppressive Gaijin With Room-Temperature IQ using Psuedo-~~Magic~~Science Hax Powers of Unexplain!

And now we get to the 'meat' of the issue. Or, rather, the 'meat-textured paper mache' of the issue. The story of Guilty Crown is, to put not to fine point about it, a very fine example of how *not*, in my opinion, to do storytelling. The sins of this narrative are many-fold, only barely beating out Kurozuka in pure nonsense factor, and I will likely use too much space for comfort laying out in full about its many flaws.

On the surface, Guilty Crown's story seems simple enough: In the future, following a ~~magical~~ totally legitimately scientific viral outbreak of mass destruction in the centre of Tokyo in an event called ~~Careless Monday~~ Lost Christmas, an outside agency that probably is the U.N. if the U.N. had any power (and not, like in real life, rank somewhere beneath the Walt Disney Corporation on the 'international power' scale; really, come to think of it, for the sake of the story the agency might as well have *been* Disney, since their only aspect the story is interested in is that they are Foreign), who have established a repressive military regime over Japan and violated practically every known principle of national sovereignty to prevent further viral outbreaks. Naturally, these Evil Foreigners take to their role as Japanese Overlords with relish and do a lot of outright stupid evil things for the purpose of serving as series villains.

Naturally, Noble Japanese are rising up against their evil overlords, with the 'face' of the resistance being teenage idol singer Inori, who somehow manages to be the Resistance's main field operative while at the same time being a nationally famous entertainer (yeah... You think about that one for a minute). By accident, a mission goes horribly wrong and Inori ends up giving a ~~magical~~ scientific McGuffin to a Random Japanese High School boy I shall only refer to as Shoe (mainly because using his 'real' name may end up confusing him with a character from Fist of the North Star who had some actual claim to being a genuine human being). Shoe then obtains ~~magical~~ scientific powers that allow him to pull large, long, phallic ~~magic~~ science objects called 'voids' out of people in ways not at all intended to resemble a sex scene (and if you think the writers won't make a rape-like scene out of it at some point, I've got a bridge and a book on anime tropes to sell you), and becomes the new ~~Magic~~ Scientific Chosen One, saviour of the Resistance, which he continues to do even as he keeps complaining loudly about his woes of being able to save the world, have ~~magical~~ scientific powers and a soon to be Idol Girlfriend. And that is just the first episode.

Guilty Crown's story, as it is, is completely unoriginal: A hybridised bastard offspring of Code Geass and Neon Genesis Evangelion (with a dash of Eden of the East thrown in) following Shoe's ascension as saviour of Japan and the world by battling the Evil Gaijin and the ~~magical~~ scientific evil disease which turns out to also be an alien invasion and next stage in human evolution that brings instrumentality and ~~magic~~ scientific powers to whom the voids were an antibody made by his dead father oh and underway it is not only discovered that he was secretly The Chosen One to which the entire plot was rooted all along without even knowing it because he also had amnesia without either him or the audience knowing it but also that his dead sister (oh, and he had a dead sister. Did we neglect to mention that?) was the queen of the disease and that his noble mentor is the artificially created husband of his dead sister by his father's jealous rival and who dies and comes back to life through ~~magic~~ SCIENCE! to marry Inori who is not only a hot mystery idol but also a ~~magical~~ scientific ninja with a healing song who is his dead sister's clone she is trying to possess and... Really, the sad thing about this paragraph is that I'm not only *not* making any of this stuff up, but also that I've only started scratching the surface of the show's crazy.

The writers show every sign of wanting to cram as much ripped-off material as they possibly can into the narrative, leading it a badly paced and extremely confusing mess, filled with contradictions, plot holes, and events that make no sense if you take two minutes off to think about them. The Evil Foreigners are cartoonishly evil and incredibly incompetent and their plans and motivations make no sense, the noble resistance is obtuse and hilariously bounces between hyper-competent and utterly ineffectual depending on whether the story wants to show off Shoe's ~~Magical~~ Scientific Chosen One powers or not, and then the whole disease and the fate of humankind's evolution aspects start kicking in halfway through and things manage somehow to deteriorate further. To top of this sell-by-date sundae with a rotten cherry the entire narrative is focused almost entirely around Shoe, who is (in case you haven't caught that by now) not a very entertaining figure.

And then, as a final sprinkle on top of it, the writers were apparently trying to sell this whole story entirely straight. The narrative is completely ridiculous; crammed, chaotic, contrived, difficult to oversee and fails completely at plot twists, and yet not even once do the writing staff seem to think they're created anything but a completely fresh and original story that (according to interviews) they want to be the new Evangelion. The slightest bit of self-insight and an attempt to play the formula might have saved the story from being an utter rip-bore, and yet they continue wringing the contrived and utterly stupid drama, deus ex machina solutions and problems, an understanding of science that makes me angry, and stealing plot points from better shows, episode after episode. And I haven't even started going into the racist undertones, which are one of the things in this show that actually *disturbs* me: The whole initial scenario is set up as a replay of the post-WWII reconstruction but with the implication that Evil Foreigners want to oppress Noble Destiny of Japan, which frankly freaks me the heck out. Is this really the sort of underlying moral themes you want to appeal to your viewers with?

Characters: 2/10 -- A tale of two git~~tie~~s.

As the story is a following of Shoe's protagonist journey to hero (read Joseph Cambell if you want more info on it), it is unsurprising that he receives the lion's share of the screen-time and the story, with Inori serving as the deuteragonist as Shoe's inevitable girfriend and ~~magical~~ scientific McGuffin girl He Must Definitively Protect. The show lacks a true antagonist, or at least one interacting directly with Shoe, for most of its run as the Evil Foreigners are just some evil force with no personal relation to him; this eventually does get corrected but the antagonist is so dumb it doesn't help but make matters worse. The characters are almost, to a man, complete archetypes; like the story, they're all ripped out of similar works and put to work here, dancing as stolen puppets to stolen strings of the authors to stolen tunes they cannot dance to.

Shoe, for instance, is a very obvious Shinji Ikari-style antihero, only denied all the personality characteristics and interactions that made Shinji interesting. Where Shinji suffered at being the puppet to NERV's strings and intentionally kept mentally unstable by his estranged father and forced to fight inhuman monstrosities, Shoe is the Special Chosen one with a unique power and a *choice*, and yet acts like a spineless harem lead whose only vague motivation is to get inside Inori's (lack of) pants but doesn't even have the guts to admit it. Inori is an obvious Rei Ayanami rip-off, but again without the interesting part: She lacks a Gendo and has a chemistry with Shoe that can only be likened to that of a two noble gases close to absolute zero. This is especially frustrating since the show is pushing her down his throat as his soulmate and 'true love'. She comes off as vague and uninteresting, not to mention all her Deus Ex powers and jumping up and down the competency stage as the show demands it and as Shoe need to Definitively Protect his blushing soon-to-be-bride. The side cast, from the evil clown to the evil professor/administrator to the playful catgirl hacker, suffer the same problem: They're unoriginal rip-offs, and they also lack the screen time for the show to disappoint us in trying to make us think otherwise, and any attempt at instilling sympathy or the ability to care for them or anything they do fails categorically.

Most of the character motivations are missing or entirely idiotic, and most of the cast constantly act according to some secret law of drama, as if some vindictive God forced their universe to conform to drama tropes rather than actual human common sense. The dialogue comes straight off the "who even TALKS like that?" school; words and phrases that possibly sound cool in paper but once you hear them applied to any situation in real life it sounds like someone practising for high school amateur drama theatre. Stock phrases and empty banalities fill the air, joined by legions of incomprehensible technobabble and affirmations of obvious emotions, and moments of genuine human communication are near non-existent.

...Which makes it all the sadder that this is a 'near' situation. Shoe actually *has* some moments of human warmth and dialogue that makes him sound like a human being rather than as the avatar of dramatic grousing, where it seems like someone thought over that this is how a conversation could plausibly go between real people. (Of course, none of them are with Inori; the two I remember was with his mother and the wheelchair girl). This somehow makes it *worse*; it makes it all the sadder that he inevitably goes back to acting like an idiot in the very next scene when the drama calls for it. The one bright spot, the one part of this show that I will line out as almost 'good', was the Evil Foreigner commander who was not so evil the show introduced in episode 8 (and, like all things in this show that were almost good, sadly all too fleeting). He was an American, and he was called Dan Eagleman. I am not ******* making that up. And I salute you, mr. Eagleman, for even if you were almost the most ludicrous thing in this ludicrous show, you and you alone had the GUTS! to stand up and be blatant about how utterly stupid a walking caricature you were, as opposed to all the gormless caricatures who made up most of the rest of the cast. Godspeed, good sir.

Value: 1/10 -- Please, don't. Let's just refuse to give it any.

Let me just be very blunt: Guilty Crown is neither clever, nor innovative, nor memorable or special in any way. It is a show that repeatedly and shamelessly stands on the shoulders of giants and then urinates on their heads. It steals plot points and elements in the very worst fashion without even realising why those plot elements worked in the the shows it took them from, and thus fails to understand why this is no longer the case here. And, as a final kick in the face, tries to take itself seriously and present itself as innovative and truly dramatic even as it has so egregiously failed at it, due to the above infractions. Its originality is best expressed with a negative value, and its re-watch value as a number so close to zero it can only be found on a 200-decimal logarithmic scale. I have absolutely nothing, nothing, good to say on it on the value front.

Enjoyment 2/10 -- There may be some found in laughing at how dumb it were. Alas, that pleasure is for those more good-humoured than myself.

Guilty Crown is a show I found so dull and dreary I went out of my way finding plot holes, contrivances and nonsensical elements and violations of science I could rip it apart from, and yet even now I feel I have fallen weary, oh so weary, at having to think of them and more to the point to annoy you, my dear viewers, with my continued grousing of it. Guilty Crown was a failure in making me care about anything in it, story, character, music or visuals, and the very core of its being falls apart at the most minute of scrutiny. There is close to no redeeming factors to it; while I am sure there are those who could find enjoyment in laughing at how overblown it was I cannot, and the writers probably wasn't intending for the show to be seen that way either.

Total: 3/10 -- Well, I for one feel a little guilty for having suffered my way through this, so that may have been the connection they were trying to make.

Would a summary even be necessary at this point? I think that, at this point, you've got my message. Guilty Crown is bad. We're not just talking the 'took the show in a wrong direction' bad of Code Geass R2, or the 'we failed to invest the proper amount of dramatic tension and character focus' of Star Driver. It's more like combining both of those problems with 'we had no idea what we were doing in the first place' of Kurozuka and 'we want to sell things on surface trivialities' of shows like K-ON!.

But, really, the writers of this show wouldn't have made any of those concessions, and that's the *real* tragedy behind this show. Not the utter boorish mess this turned into, but that behind it there are people, real people with real jobs, who thought they were making something new and impressive here and have created a good show. Because from where I stand they have failed, *utterly*, and I would like to disabuse them of this notion. Because there may be some real talent behind this show that could only get better by becoming a little more meta and a little more aware of their failings. And because I don't want the Japanese anime market to become a macrocosm of this show, shameless rip-offing mired in fanservice and two-bit drama some of my friends in middle school could have outdone.

And I really don't want a further promotion of the racial/nationalistic implications this show is mining its initial story path with. Because if this is an indicator, or a promoter, of what Japan wants to think of outlanders, especially in their current socio-economic situation, we may be headed for some *real* trouble our way in a decade or two. And that's something even this show doesn't deserve to have its legacy be a part of.

show review

by ThatAnimeSnob on 2011-10-14 21:11

Rating: 3.5

Approval: 43.7% (14 votes)

Two things define Guilty Crown as an anime. The first is the very good production values, which becomes harder and harder to find in the years we are going through. The artwork is very detailed and coloured beautifully, and the animation is quite smooth (when it wants to be). The second is the story, which is nothing but a patchwork of stereotypes from all over the place. People saw the first episode and where screaming CODE GEASS RIP OFF or whatever other show it reminded them. And it’s not like we were overreacting; it is an obvious Code Geass rip-off since it has some of the same writers in it (plus their initials are an anagram of one another). As the name implies, it is “guilty” for trying to steal the “crown” from other major works. Later on you can easily see they take ideas from Gundam (that little robot Inori has is an obvious Haro rip-off) as well as Neon Genesis (the villains’ plan regarding Mana). I am pretty sure this feeling of deza vu will be absent for all those who haven’t watched those shows. It is the repetition that mostly ruins it, as well as a veeeery bad roster of sci-fi titles; so I personally can’t shake off my mind how bad it is since the first minute.

Although this should normally make it feel like a rehash and an easily forgettable title, the fandom made such big fun of all the scenes it plagiarized from elsewhere that it became famous. Nothing is original anymore but Guilty Crown is making a name out of being a thieving cheesefest. It is even more of a joke when you see the creators of the show making official claims that it is completely original and even better than all the ones the fandom is comparing it to. They are just begging us to boo them, especially when they made nothing but a big blunder with whatever they tried to plagiarize. And it’s not like they didn’t try at all since in strict directing terms there are no fillers and something new happens or is revealed in each episode, adding something to the setting. Also, the production values are as I said great and the premise sounds interesting despite being unoriginal. They could have easily made something amazing out of this, there was clearly potential for greatness if directing and presentation were good.

… Which weren’t. Not in the least. And let me tell you why in simple terms.

1. The overall presentation was very basic. And I don’t refer to the production values which are amazing; I am talking about the main idea. It was a cheesefest. It couldn’t get more generic than that *deep breath* with a meek normal high school boy, with amnesia, getting suddenly involved in a very dangerous situation, receiving a superpower by some pretty chick, who transfers to his school the next day, and then moves to his house, and offers excuses for ecchi. *inhale* I have already seen this stuff a thousand times so no matter how cool it looks, it is still less thrilling than a b-grade silly show from 20 years ago. I always appreciate something that doesn’t feel like a rehash and I definitely don’t find it in here. No matter how well made a steak is grilled, if you eat it after ten less tasty grilled steaks the flavour won’t be the same. As much as you may want to publish a story, you must also wait for the proper moment to do so or it won’t have half the excitement you expected. Sorry to say this but the stereotypes are WAY too apparent in this one. At the same time, stereotypes and rehashes are not a negative thing, since most people never get bored of them. And if you don’t believe me look at what Hollywood is doing. But that is not enough, in order for the re-warmed food to still be edible the presentation needs to be elaborate. And in this case, it wasn’t at all. Why? Keep reading.

2. The setting is not captivating, despite its very detailed depiction of a military dystopia. The basic story has to do with Japan being turned into an oppressive state TM with security mechas TM running around, and with the normal teenage boy TM of our story receiving a power from a supernatural girl TM. We have lots of those in recent years and they all petty much look the same. They also trash whatever serious feeling it was trying to have by making fun of the whole thing and turning it into a stereotypical ecchi comedy with magic later on. I understand how most high selling anime always go light with their otherwise heavy themes, since most viewers watch them as means of spending their time in a funny way. In this case though they went so light to the point everything was just drifting aimlessly in the vacuum of space. You couldn’t get a foothold at something and have fun with it. Unless of course you wanted to make fun of how stupid it is at trying to look serious. What do I mean by that? Keep reading.

3. The action is stupid. I am not referring to the actual choreography, which is by far amongst the most elaborate I have encountered in the past years. The robot action is very exciting with its brawling, missile launchers, huge machineguns, and trashing of the whole scenery. At the same time, it is plain fake and has a hundred directing, plausibility, and storyboard problems. Examples of this sort are mentioned at the end of the review as optional reading. They obviously contain lots of spoilers.

4. There is no excitement. No matter how dangerous a situation is, all it takes is for the hero to pull out some superweapon out of a random person next to him and the problem is magically solved in seconds. He can make enemy units to self-destruct, missiles to turn to harmless fireworks, and top security doors to open in an instant. It is very cheap, anti-climactic, and ruins the gravity of the setting. So what if it didn’t happened in a totalitarian Japan and instead the setting was some fairy land made of cotton candy? It would still make no difference… Skip that, it would make a lot of difference since it would fit a lot better. What is the point of having a sci-fi setting when everything is done with magic? It’s like trying to light a fire on the bottom of the sea. Yes, it was funny when Spongebob Squarepants was doing it but this show is NOT a goofball comedy. It just feels like one because of the ridiculous use of its setting. This can easily apply even in the few rare chances someone gets killed. It is not dramatic at all since you are just thinking “Why didn’t they use their powers to save him?” Seriously, every single death in the show could have been prevented very easily but didn’t just because the scriptwriters conveniently made the heroes forget how to use their powers at that moment. So it is a lose-lose situation no matter what happens.

5. The hero. Why exactly is Shuu risking his life out of the blue? Because he cares that much for others? If yes, it is impossible to feel his passion in caring about anything; he looks and acts like a wuss, like the million stereotypical leads of most shounens and harems. He is more dragged into trouble because he has the hots for Inori rather than actively taking part in a quest to help others. I can’t possibly cheer for him; HE IS BLUNT AND BOOORING! Hearing him scream like a girl and running around scared ten times per episode is just pathetic and the only time he actually does something is only because Inori demands it. Hell man, he even betrays his own friends just because she said so and he doesn’t even blink twice about it. And look at that; all the girls in the show are madly in love with him for acting like A COMPLETE ASSHOLE. HE IS A HAREM LEAD OF THE WORST KIND! What is even worse is when he is supposed to mature later on because some of his friends died. It’s not as if it was the first time it happened or he couldn’t easily have saved them if he wasn’t an apathetic asshole. He just gets emo and decides to become Lelouch without any justification at all. The scriptwriters clearly have no idea what the devil they are doing.

6. Fan service. It is stupid and makes a joke out of everything dramatic in the show. One moment a girl is crying over something terrible in her past, the next moment Shuu trips and falls on her boobs. That is not funny and it is definitely not something we can’t get in an average ecchi show out there. The show didn’t even need it with the interesting themes it had, but just like any shallow work out there, the producers didn’t try to offer quality material in any other aspect besides the production values. And no, I don’t consider boob jokes to be quality no matter how well they are drawn.

7. The heroine. First of all, what the hell is this outfit she wears? A half naked clown fish? Fetishes anyone? And she is supposed to be a pop idol? Macross meets Code Geass? And seriously, the last scene of episode 2 regarding the “mysterious transfer student, oh who could it be?” made me facepalm. Yes, it’s her, exactly as the kitsch stereotype dictates. And guess what, she even moves in his house soon afterwards JUST BECAUSE. And later on she now has ultra powerful superpowers JUST BECAUSE. First she is a frail pop idol, then a ghost ninja, then a cocky sharpshooter, then a healing singer, then some sort of clone of an incestuous bitch, then a horny demon. In one episode she has no qualms to shoot to death soldiers, in another she does her best to disarm and knock them unconscious WITH A PISTOL. And let it be noted that NOBODY told her to appreciate life. SHE IS CONSTANTLY OUT OF CHARACTER! Consistency anyone? Aside from that, her only purpose in the show is to motivate Shuu into doing things he otherwise has no balls to even dream of thinking. Other than that she is just an apathetic sex doll for the otaku audience. She is impossible to be liked as a person; she is nothing but a poorly written cosplay whore that behaves in any way its pimps order her to act.

8. The villains. They are so stupid even a kid could do better. It would fit if they were some pitiful gang of hooligans but no, they are supposed to be an elite military organization which has the entire nation in its hands and plans to take over the universe with an elaborate masterplan. Unless the average I.Q. of a citizen in this show is around 60, then there is no possible way for them to be making so many ridiculous mistakes all the time and yet be world leaders. And even if they really were stupid, that still doesn’t explain how they control all this high-teck equipment. Thus, instead of feeling threatening and intelligent (as they should), they instead pass as a bunch of pitiful retards. There is no way for the viewer to care about seeing them losing. There is no way to despise them for any evil acts they are doing. They are not feeling dangerous at all, so why would he care about them?

9. The producers. It is a collaboration of Studio I.G. and noitaminA. I am fully aware of the wonderful work they have done in the past but their recent works are PLAIN SHIT! Fractale, C, and No.6 are the worst disappointments of 2011 and now they are once more trying to make ANOTHER similar show? NoitaminA seems to not understand that its shows are great only when they deal with slice of life. SO WHY DOES IT KEEP TRYING TO MAKE SCI-FI WHEN IT FAILS MISERABLY?

So how can someone enjoy this show you may be wondering? It is quite simple actually, all he has to do is just stare at the pretty visuals, listen to that porn doll called Inori sing, eat pop corn while things blow up and above all he needs to NOT BE THINKING! Seriously, don’t think at all. The slightest thought that will pass from your mind is enough to make you see plot holes and stupid things happening. You can of course filter all that out and see the whole thing as a parody of Code Geass (which was itself a parody of Legend of Galactic Heroes) and just have fun with how dumb everything plays out. It is by far not a mature or well written show. It is just dumb fun and guilty pleasure (exactly what the name implies) for viewers with really low expectations. And sure, many are bound to love it, in the same way so many loved Twilight. Does that make it a good show? Hell no; it just proves how most people are tasteless casuals. So take the word of a snob like myself and don’t watch this show for any other reason than to point your finger at it and laugh with how bad it is. Thank you for your understanding and in case you actually liked the show for any other reason then I pity you.

And now for some excused scorings.

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And now for a “few” directing mistakes I spotted.

1. (ep.1) When Inori the heroine is running in the beginning of the episode, a huge robot with target locking capabilities throws several missiles towards her from a few meters away. And they all miss her, something which is plain impossible to happen; the recoil and shrapnel alone should have left her half dead and half deaf.
2. (ep.1) Then another robot appears right next to her and guards her, something which again feels fake, unless these 50 ton robots can move invisible while not making the smallest sound or even the tiniest vibration while walking so fast (as in, so fast they need to save the heroine in the nick of time).
3. (ep.1) After that, the girl turns invisible and runs away. What the hell, if she could do it all the time then why was she running visible in the first place? Unless she has super regenerating abilities, her cloaking devise needs recharging, and the missiles are made in Taiwan, this whole scene is plain stupid.
4. (ep.1) The girl is eventually captured and is taken prisoner. PRISONER? They were clearly trying to kill her a few minutes ago. Will you make up your minds already?
5. (ep.1) Another robot fires towards Shuu the protagonist from two meters away while he is standing still and again misses him completely. Yet it hits the tiny vial hiding in his pocket just fine. How is that possible?
6. (ep.1) Weren’t they trying to get the vial back? So why are they shooting at those who are carrying it or know were it is? It’s not made of steel and just a minute ago they were trying to get Inori alive just for that reason… Hey wait, now they are back to trying to kill her. WILL YOU MAKE UP YOUR MINDS ALREADY?
7. (ep.1) The hero is fine, gets up and sprouts a ten meter long energy blade. How is he lifting it? How does he immediately know what it is and how to use it? And what the hell are human-generated magic sabers doing in this sci-fi setting?
8. (ep.2) I now am certain I no longer need to look for realism in this series. The tactical operations supervisor for the rebels is a loli with cat ears which activates computer commands with her butt. You read correctly; with her butt. And their amazing strategy was provoking the enemy units into firing towards them, only to be destroyed by reflecting back their own laser rays with a magic barrier. LOL SCIENCE!
9. (ep.3) Inori transfers to Shuu’s class. Aside from the overused stereotype, how the devil did a pop idiol that is considered a terrorist by the authorities got accepted in a shool? And why is everybody so fond of her when they should be terrified or calling the police?
10. (ep.4) Inori couldn't even run straight without being captured so far, but now turns to a super ninja for no reason at all! She can now fly in the air and even makes bullets pass thought her. And for no reason again, she is not turning invisible to avoid all the unnecessary shooting and jumping around. She could just walk calmly through them.
11. (ep.4) Shuu can escape a top guarded room without even using his powers. And lol at the security; the mecha conveniently stay frozen for 10 seconds while he is a sitting duck as he activates and charges his powers.
12. (ep.6) What kind of a retard would build the control center of a weapon of mass destruction INSIDE the targeting area? The evil military dudes of this show would.
13. (ep.6) Oh my, first Inori is a ninja, now she is a sharpshooter full of cocky one-liners. Is it me or this is not what we see in the first episode? How did a frail pop idol magically turned after a few days into a ninja and now to a John Woo macho-talker with the ability to fly in the air and hit targets from a hundred meters away? Maybe the heroines in Final Fantasy 10-2 know the answer.
14. (ep.6) Apparently the best thing enemy soldiers can do when they know they have a sharpshooter right in front of them, is to run towards her, instead of taking cover and using their machineguns. Other than that, a little girl with two pistols, while standing still in the middle of a narrow corridor, just wasted three elite SWAT soldiers carrying machineguns and wearing Kevlar body armours.
15. (ep.7) Turning missiles to fireworks is far fetched enough but why are all those missiles targeting the few square meters the protagonist is standing on? They could have hit anything else on that huge cruiser he is on, which was after all their true target.
16. (ep.8) Shuu attacks his friend for being friendly to Inori (the only thing he ever shows balls for) and pulls out of him a weapon which CONVENIENTLY is the only possible thing that can help the rebels in their next mission.
17. (ep.8) Inori once again is a completely different character as she disables and knocks unconscious enemy soldiers, instead of just killing them without a second thought, as she did two episodes ago.
18. (ep.9) Inori is again a completely different character. This time she… doesn’t exist. Seriously, they removed her from the story and everybody acted like SHE DOESN’T EVEN EXIST! All that for the sake of throwing in more retarded romance with a different girl.
19. (ep.9) Said girl reads that her lucky stone for getting a boyfriend is the Tiger Eye. And in the exact same second, Shuu comes in holding a tiger stripped pot. WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
20. (ep.9) Shuu is fighting a mecha with a super powerful magical sword. His strategy is to run away while scared shitless and leaving his friends behind completely defenceless. And then his comeback is to… turn around and hit the incoming missile with the sword. THAT’S IT! Nothing more elaborate than that. So why didn’t he just hit the mecha or at least the missile right away instead of running away?
21. (ep.9) Of course he eventually does hit the mecha in order to win. After it has possessed his friends that is. He is thus forced to kill them and end their suffering and gets all emo because of that. Not because they were his friends but because he killed. IT WAS FINE WHILE HE WAS KILLING NAMELESS SOLDIERS ALL THIS TIME BUT NOW HE FEELS EMO!
22. (ep.10) Seriously noble rebels, didn't you realize something was off with Shuu BEFORE you began your next operation? Didn’t you see him acting a bit weird during the briefing and evaluation? And Shuu, you didn't bother telling them you turned emo, did you? You just hid it up until the proper moment to screw everything up.
23. (ep.10) Seriously generic evil military dude, you make this elaborate trap for the rebels and you don't bother to rig the plane into blowing up the moment they get in? Instead you make it start running on auto pilot? I guess you weren't willing to sacrifice a few mook pilots like you do all the time with your mook soldiers.
24. (ep.10) Instead of learning from their past mistakes, the evil military dudes repeat the same mistake by bringing an object with unknown and dangerous properties inside their command center instead of just placing it in a secured facility for study, somewhere far away. No wonder they were all wiped out by their own stupidity.
25. (ep.11) Inori is once again a completely different character. Now she is a sorceress who heals people with a magic lullaby.
26. (ep.11) Shuu manages to convince his friends to risk their lives in order to save TERRORISTS! And all it took was to simply ask them to do it when the media were telling them for years how dangerous they all are. His defence is even lamer as all he needs to tell them is that Inori is in that tower he plans to go. Yeah, Inori, the girl with a thousand faces who is a TERRORIST! The other girls had no reason to help her since she is their love rival. And the boy was Shuu’s nemesis at that point.
27. (ep.11) Their car is sent flying, bounces, and crashes into a building yet somehow ALL of them manage to remain alive and conscious including Yahiro who was ejected out of the car. How is that possible?
28. (ep.11) Shuu shows once again how much he cares about his friends and rewards his classmates’ trust in him by leaving them helpless in the car wreckage. Just three episodes ago he was all emo for abandoning his friends and getting them killed and now he does THE EXACT SAME THING! They were almost killed getting all the way to the enemy base even by using his special powers and now he just leaves them to die by a common soldier who may happen to be close by? Apparently saving Inori is more important than all his friends or his guilt in general. What a jerk!
29. (ep.11) Hey wait a second. Why did he leave them behind and runs all alone to the rooftop? He doesn’t have superpowers without them; he is just an average guy. How does he know he won’t encounter more enemies? How will he survive long enough to get to Inori? He is not only a jerk but also a complete dumbass!
30. (ep.11) And out of nowhere a villain teleports and kidnaps Inori the moment Shuu gets to her. How convenient for him to appear at that exact moment, when he apparently could have done so any time he wanted to since the beginning of the series.
31. (ep.12) You know, having a guy teleporting in front of you is rather excused if he has the magic ability to teleport. Something which the rebel leader didn’t have and yet appeared out of nowhere to protect Shuu from an incoming attack. And apparently, he was fast enough to move faster than light but not fast enough to just pull Shuu a bit to the side and thus not having to bite the bullet.
32. (ep.12) Ah, a classic moment in all shitty shows. The protagonist is miraculously cured from his amnesia and the villains are revealing all their plans to him for no reason at all. I mean, sure, we learning of whatever the hell they want is a good reason, but not excused in-story. It’s plain inability to reveal their plan otherwise.
33. (ep.12) And thus we learn en mass of stuff that were vaguely hinted all this time and now everything makes sense… NOT! WHAT THE HELL KIND OF A PLAN IS THAT? Where is their motivation for doing such a thing? We know what they are doing but we don’t have a freaking idea of why they want to do it or how they plan on doing it. If it was so simple, why didn’t they do it earlier? And why couldn’t they do it in any other way? And if they needed Inori all this time, why were they trying to kill her in the pilot episode. And lots of other crap that make no sense.
34. (ep.12) So after all the mystery is supposed to be now clear, the rebel leader jumps in to save the day. Hey wait a second, wasn’t he gravely wounded ten minutes ago? Oh, apparently his wounds were miraculously healed OUT OF SCREEN! So much for the self-sacrifice he showed and any possible viewer feeling gratitude for his heroic deed. Just let some fakin magic power to heal everyone.
35. (ep.12) And indeed, Shu is again using a magic gismo that defeats the villains in the most anti-climactic and retarded way possible and we get a rushed and lame happy ending. DOES ANYONE EVEN CARE AT THIS POINT? 36. (ep.12) That rebel leader is definitely not cherishing his life enough. In just 15 minutes he sacrificed himself to save Shuu and after he recovers, he rushes in to just sacrifice again to help Shuu beat that incestuous bitch. Oh well, it’s not like he will die from it, since he will just miraculously heal, just like before… Or didn’t he? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
37. (ep.13) So Shuu and Inori return to school and nobody seems to mind of all the things that happened or were prevented thanks to them. ARE THEY BLIND? Shuu saved everyone and nobody noticed the tiniest thing? And of course he is too pussy to admit it himself. These pathetic school bullies come to mess with him and he is about to cry instead of just telling them he has the power to blow up the whole planet if he likes.
38. (ep.13) Some dudes claiming to be freedom fighters attack the school and shoot randomly at innocent students. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? Is the goal of their just cause to be labelled as the biggest jerks on the planet? And how stupid are they if they accept weapons from a mysterious masked guy and simply say “It’s ok, we can trust him”?
39. (ep.13) The crippled chick gets a fancy set of rollers to show off by beating up those jerks. WHAT'S THE POINT; SHUU COULD TRASH THEM ALL ALONE! And what is the point of having personal issues in this show to begin with? No matter what the problem is, Shuu uses his special power like a magic wand to magically fix it. So no, I didn’t feel a thing about her getting all happy with her rollers. IT IS CHEAP!
40. (ep.13) Hey wait a second, there is a contradiction going on here. Up to now only Shuu was able to use the Voids of a person, while that person is left unconscious. All of a sudden the rules changed and now the host of the Void remains awake and can freely use the Void himself/herself. I bet the scriptwriters didn’t even notice the crap they are contradicting.
41. (ep.13) So after this pathetic skirmish the heroes even have the nerve to do a victory pose, as if beating some bully nobodies was awesome or something. I could almost hear the Final Fantasy tune in the BGM. Let me see you doing that with the real army you show-offs.
42. (ep.13) So everybody sees the two heroes having these superpowers and STILL don't care to ask further of whatever the hell is going on, other than cheering for them. It’s not like some weird virus ruined their lives and there is something weird going on that needs explaining. THEY ARE NOT THINKING!
43. (ep.13) So the bad guys somehow trick the whole world to believe there's nobody left alive inside the infected area. And seemingly nobody outside reacts, despite clearly seeing from the distance people moving through the ruins for days. Or it's not like the students all have access to mobile phones, or cameras, or giant spotlights, or heck even an airlift bridge, they could use to inform the world they're not dead yet.
44. (ep.13) So what was the point of building a huge wall around the infected area? Not only it must have cost a zillion bucks to make but it also wouldn’t be able to prevent such a dangerous airborne virus from spreading. And even so, when did they find the time to make it in just a few weeks?
45. (ep.14) Why doesn't Shuu just destroy the wall? It's not like he can't handle a few robots. Too hard? What if he just flies up in the sky and uses his powers to yell to the people outside that there are survivors inside? Too simple? What if he just uses his anti-gravity powers and takes everybody outside by flying over the firing range of the robots? Too anti-climactic? What if he uses any power to make rainbows and unicorns to appear and turns the wall to cotton candy? It’s not like he can’t do anything he likes with his hax powers. Instead of that he wastes weeks in trying to help the survivors rebuild the city.
46. (ep.14) What is even dumber is how he keeps trying to rebuild the city even after he know the military plans on destroying it bit by bit. So it is completely pointless to try to fix something only to see it being destroyed again. He should just go on the offence and destroy the wall, thus saving the survivors as well as months of pointless rebuilding.
47. (ep.14) Speaking of survivors, why do we only see high school kids and nobody else aside from a few random people who are killed on the spot? Where are the parents or the adults in general? Why do these teenagers return to school while still wearing their fancy school uniforms if that place is destroyed and there is no education going on there anymore? Do they still need to look stylish, did the virus destroyed all their clothes besides the school uniforms, is this some stupid fetish for us to keep looking, or the scriptwriters simply have no idea what the hell they are doing?
48. (ep.14) How does that wall walk or has the power to demolish buildings? It is a magical wall? If it closes in the surrounded area, does it mean there are parts of it being crushed by the progressively smaller periphery? And seriously, is this wall the best option they had for destroying the infected area? What about those laser satellites or a good old fashion nuke? And forget all that, if they so much want to destroy the infested area, why do they only demolish a few square meters of it and then just wait? Do they expect the survivors to just destroy themselves with a few pints of demagogy?
49. (ep.14) So much for the demagogy trick. Shuu once again uses his hax powers to magically prove to everyone how the obviously generic evil military dudes are really just obviously generic evil military dudes. And then he becomes their leader. Not because he is the most charismatic, or smart, or whatever. He just has hax powers and can accomplish anything he likes with them. OF COURSE and he becomes their leader.
50. (ep.15) A contradiction once again. Now everybody can have their Voids activated and used by themselves, instead of having just one of them active at a time and them remaining unconscious. And then they want us to believe they are trapped and hopeless??? Can you imagine hundreds of Void users attacking the wall at the same time? Not all the armies of the world would be enough to defeat them.
51. (ep.15) At one point they mention that they are running out of vaccine. Why do they even need vaccine in the first place? They have the healing Void.
52. (ep.15) Because they are too stupid to realize that, the bottom ranked Void users decide to go find vaccine in a dangerous area. How stupid are they to expect not to run into trouble if they know their powers are useless and the area is patrolled by enemy units? Why did they even go there while holding their useless Voids?
53. (ep.15) The guy with the Void that can open anything is ranked in the lowest category. Seriously??? You have a Void that can open anything and that is considered useless? Can any of you imagine what will happen if he uses it on that walking wall? Yeah, what a useless Void he has... But what can you expect from a bunch of idiots who categorize their powers based on a DBZ power level scouter and not based on utility?
54. (ep.15) A girl admits she is in love with Shuu (ok, they all are but she is the only one to openly admit it) and then conveniently gets killed after 10 minutes. Who the hell writes this overblown crap and expects us to like them? Or perhaps we can’t have Shuu getting laid and thus growing some balls the normal way?
55. (ep.15) Oh and by the way, the girl was killed because she used her last powers to heal Shuu instead of herself. Can any of you imagine what would have happened if she had healed herself first? Exactly, they would both be alive.
56. (ep.15) Upon seeing her dying Shuu gets all emo and decides to become Lelouch. Yeah, because this was the first time a person he loved died around him and he is excused to do so… NOT! This is, like, the tenth time he sees people close to him dying and he was always reverting back to his pussy self. Hell man, his own sister died before his eyes and had less of an effect on him and this random chick just makes him a completely different man? The ultimate character development failure has just been born.
57. (ep.16) You would think that the security in the wall would be super powerful and aware of everything that happens around there, since not even an army of super powerful teenagers can penetrate it. And look at that, a common guy drops in with a parachute and nobody manages to see him. If it’s so simple then WHY DON’T THEY JUST GET OUT?
58. (ep.16) So the guy who came in the isolated area tells the students in there (since all the adults have mysteriously disappeared) that he came to take to the outside world the school president. And nobody seems to care at all about FINALLY FINDING A WAY TO GET OUT despite trying for weeks to survive.
59. (ep.16) At one point some students try to steal vaccine and are captured. All the male robbers are left injured and they take to Shuu only a girl amongst them, as if she is the only one responsible. Troll!
60. (ep.16) Said girl joins Shuu’s ranks because her power level is high enough. Ten minutes later from all the people in the world she is killed in order to prove how a void that gets destroyed leads to the death of its owner. So much for introducing a new character; she was just an expandable unit.
61. (ep.17) The plan to escape finally begins and all the students attack with their voids the wall. Something which they should have done right away instead of waiting weeks for that. You would at least think that they wasted all this time in order to find a method for everyone to survive or for their tactical assault to be perfectly coordinated. And NO YOU DON’T! All you see is them running without any plan towards the security robots and getting killed, while Shuu is looking passively in the back. It is only after he decides to attack himself using the super blade that they finally win. And guess what, he practically did everything himself SO WHY DID HE NEED THE REST TO ATTACK AND DIE? This was his masterplan??? He killed half of them for something he could accomplish himself. Couldn’t he at least create fake duplicates by using the void of that cat eared girl? He could at least send these fakes to be killed instead of the actual people. WHAT KIND OF A PLAN WAS THAT?
62. (ep.17) The blond school president betrays Shuu for hiding the truth about the voids killing their owners if they are destroyed. Did she even think for a second that he wasn’t the one hiding the truth but his assistant? Or that it was Inori and not he who tried to kill her? And did she just have sex with all his men so she could seduce them into betraying him? What a bitch!
63. (ep.17) Hey look, the rebel leader is alive again! … for the third time. That just came out of nowhere! Not even the dragonballs could resurrect someone twice in 5 episodes.
64. (ep.18) Oh my, even that enemy mecha pilot is also still alive. And I was so sure Shuu killed him when he went emo for the nth time a few episodes back. I mean, he was so pissed for killing that girl and did waste the other mecha pilots, SO WHY NOT HIM??? So what is he doing now? Oh, he betrays the military because he likes the nekomimi girl… who met her only a few times and she barely knows or cares about him. That just came out of nowhere!
65. (ep. 18) The United Nations decide to nuke Japan because that ridiculous wall-plan. Though it would make sense if they ONLY wanted to destroy the infested part of the city and not the ENTIRE NATION. Don’t they know bombing civilians never works? Oh that’s right, they are only supposed to be doing that so we will hate them for nuking the Japanese. Pretty much what all Hiroshima movies are doing without ever bothering to mention WHY they did it or if their own nation was kind of an ass at that moment.
66. (ep. 18) Oh my, the revived rebel leader kills some students, so their Voids can be used to stop the nukes. That is so noble… too bad they never chose to be martyrs and destroying a nuke a few kilometres above you still lets the radiation and the heat to drop down and kill everyone… Well, at least normal nukes do that, not these made in Taiwan. Not that it made any sense how a single missile can stop a dozen nukes dropping at different directions (not in a line) and still hits the airplane that dropped them. Or how a few people on the ground would ever see an airplane flying above them, dropping something, and immediately knowing what it is. It could have easily been humanitarian aid like before. Much less figure it out and still have time to react to all that.
67. (ep. 18) The revived leader also uses laser satellites to destroy any army invading Japan and protects the mainland by controlling the remote control security robots and has a whole army of zealots. So how did he switch from being dead without controlling anything, to being alive and controlling them all? Those satellites and robots belong to the army you know; they have top security protection, so how did he do it without anyone noticing it? Or how did he switch from a lovable leader fighting for the good of the people to being a megalomaniac asshole with his own fanatics who kills people without a second thought? That just came out of nowhere!
68. (ep. 18) That blond school president is a complete retard. First she has sex with them all so they will betray Shuu for things he clearly is not responsible for and now she betrays everybody because she digs that resurrected rebel leader who obviously won’t blink twice to kill her if he sees it suits him.
69. (ep. 18) What the hell is wrong with the security? A limo full of armed men gets inside a top guarded area and nobody could see them coming before it’s too late? Or how does a grandpa with a sword defeat four men with pistols? That just came out of nowhere!
70. (ep. 18) At least Inori is consistent at being out of character all the time. In this episode she is now a yandere whore who transforms into a demon. Heck, she doesn’t even need Shuu or anyone else to trigger her powers; she just does her thing. That just came out of nowhere!
71. (ep. 19) Will someone ever try to fix the security in this damn show? Shuu just walks in and kidnaps blondie girl right outside the same place their security was breached a few hours ago. Normally, there should be ten times more people and cameras in that place.
72. (ep. 19) Same problem with the evil military dudes. If someone feels like stealing something from them, he or she can just do it without any problem at all. Like Shuu’s step mother for example. She is shot at from two meters away, caught on camera stealing the vial, runs for miles in a top security area, and still manages to escape with just a scratch.
73. (ep. 19) Wait, she is a step mom? What purpose does that have in the story? And if she raised Shuu, where the hell is his sister in those flashbacks? They totally forgot her.
74. (ep. 19) That evil dude with the mechanic eye was driving a truck at full speed towards the crippled girl. Shuu just storms in and makes him change direction… after they chat for almost one minute with the truck still running.
75. (ep. 19) Apparently Shuu is now indestructible, because a whole truck explodes with him in it and just walks away without a scratch. Other than that some nobody’s cancer just affects him with a touch.
76. (ep. 20) Ah, the notorious “Time to explain everything” episode. So the whole virus thing is actually an alien invasion and that kid who can teleport anywhere it feels like it is Death, their envoy. And he wants to create the Fourth Apocalypse. What were the other three? Is this some NGE rip-off? Anyways, he plans to do that by using Mana as the new Eve and Shuu as the new Adam. I guess it is a NGE rip-off after all. Wasn’t Code Geass enough you bastards? Anyways, Shuu’s father invents after decades of research the Voids as means to prevent the virus from taking over the body. This would somehow save the world from the alien invasion. Yeah, ok, how about killing Mana in a few seconds and thus saving the world you idiot? She is clearly not your cute daughter; she is an alien queen who doesn’t give a f*ck about you or anyone else on the planet. Anyways, his father’s rival makes his own experiments as means to create his own Adam and thus having his own little version of the Third Impact… I mean Fourth Apocalypse. But the main specimen, Gai, escapes because he doesn’t want to have sex… I mean be a guinea pig. He falls into the sea and is accidentally saved by Mana. Convenient or what? So anyways, some years later, Shuu refuses to go hentai with his sister, so she goes crazy and blows up, and he gets amnesiac. Her tiny parts somehow get into kids and anyone under a certain age can now pilot an EVA… I mean manifest a Void with the king’s power. So the villains make a clone of Mana and name her Rei… I mean Inori. She somehow escapes with the vial containing the king’s power, becomes a pop idol, and at the same time works as a rebel in Gai’s team without the villains managing to find her. So all this time the villains’ plan was to kill as many Void users as possible for Mana to get her powers back. Yes, lots of human bodies fusing into one; what does that remind me of? Ok, I see, now everything makes sense… not. This is one of the biggest BS I have encountered since The Book of Bantora.
77. (ep. 21) The good guys and the military go to the offence and invade Gai’s base… and he doesn’t use a single killer satellite on them. He just forgot about them. Ok…
78. (ep. 21) Shuu is leading the infiltration team while riding a silly looking hover platform. The rest are inside tanks, mechas, or military trucks, while he is on a vehicle used for STROLLING!
79. (ep. 21) Shuu uses the Void which makes copies of people as diversion. How nice of him to finally remembering to use it; it would sure have saved thousand of lives if he had created a copy out of everyone all these days. Oh well, better late that ever, at least now the power is put to right use… Too bad it CONTRADICTS HOW IT WORKS! It is supposed to create only copies of people and yet in this case it created a copy of a small army, vehicles and mechas included.
80. (ep. 21) Apparently the nekomimi loli is the best hacker in the world, since she did in minutes what all the supercomputers of Earth put together didn’t achieve despite trying hundreds of times. Plus she did it while dancing and laughing. Yup, just fun and games for her.
81. (ep. 21) Once again the rules are rewritten. Shuu can now teleport Voids to his hands instead of having to hold them.
82. (ep. 21) Shuu used the diversion as means to not stall time while going to save Inori… for the second time. So imagine his surprise when he arrives too late and she has now turned to Mana. Hm, could it be because instead of rushing towards her as stealthy as possible as he intended all along, he wasted 10 whole minutes in order to save an unimportant soldier from an enemy mecha? Meaning, despite trying to show compassion for once and caring about someone else besides Inori, he screwed up big time. He is such a fail of a character that can’t do anything right no matter the action he takes.
83. (ep. 22) The finale was a cop-out, rushed as hell, trying to wrap up fifty side stories in 5 minutes and as usual screwing up in everything and using every single convenient cliché in the book. And they are still ripping-off scenes from NGE and even a few from Eden: It's an Endless World. Hollow and emotionless final impressions from a complete disaster of an anime.

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What are your thoughts after watching until the ending?
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Special13 Episode 22 Ending Special Version?
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Ouma Shuu

17, male, 1.81 (89), , , , , , , ,

voiced by: Kaji Yuuki, Tsuda Minami

Tsutsugami Gai

17, male, 4.46 (47), , , , , , ,

voiced by: Nakamura Yuuichi, Watanabe Akeno

Yuzuriha Inori

16, female, 7.16 (128), , , , , , , ,

voiced by: Kayano Ai

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Arugo

17, male, 5.71 (12)

voiced by: Katsu Anri

Daryl Yan

17, male, 2.07 (9), , , ,

voiced by: Uchiyama Kouki

Fyu-Neru

6.48 (7),

Keidou Shuuichirou

male, 2.04 (17), ,

voiced by: Inoue Kazuhiko

Kuhouin Arisa

17, female, 2.43 (30), , , , , , , ,

voiced by: Endou Aya

Kusama Kanon

17, female, 4.14 (11), , , , , , , ,

voiced by: Kotobuki Minako

Menjou Hare

16, female, 7.79 (44), , , , , , , ,

voiced by: Shimamura Yuu

Oogumo

male, 5.54 (7), ,

voiced by: Takaguchi Kousuke

Ouma Haruka

female, 4.44 (20), , , , , , , ,

voiced by: Fujimura Chika

Samukawa Yahiro

17, male, 2.78 (13),

voiced by: Mizushima Takahiro

Segai Waltz Makoto

male, 6.32 (19), , , , , , , ,

voiced by: Kanna Nobutoshi

Shibungi

27, male, 4.15 (9)

voiced by: Koyasu Takehito

Shinomiya Ayase

17, female, 8.23 (74), , , , , , , ,

voiced by: Hanazawa Kana

Tamadate Souta

17, male, 3.16 (10)

voiced by: Sakaguchi Daisuke

Tsugumi

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voiced by: Taketatsu Ayana

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Credit	Name	in Episodes	Comment
Serialisation (連載)	Dengeki G`s Magazine	11-13
Serialisation (連載)	Gekkan Shounen Gangan	11-13
Direction (監督)	Araki Tetsurou
Assistant Direction (助監督)	Tanaka Hiroyuki
Series Composition (シリーズ構成)	Yoshino Hiroyuki
Series Composition Assistant (副シリーズ構成)	Ookouchi Ichirou
Original Character Design (キャラクター原案)	Redjuice
Animation Character Design (アニメーションキャラクター)	Katou Hiromi
Sub Character Design (サブキャラクターデザイン)	Ozaki Tomomi	1-13
Character Design Assistance (キャラクター設定協力)	Igawa Reina	1-13
	Kitada Katsuhiko	1-13
	Tanaka Haruka	1-13
	Yahagi Toshiyuki	1-13
	Chiba Takaaki	6-13
	Honda Masayuki	12-13
Image Board (イメージボード)	Moriyama You	OP3a-OP3b
Mechanical Design (メカニックデザイン)	Ebisu Takuma
	Takeuchi Atsushi
	Tsuneki Shinobu
Prop Design (プロップデザイン)	Moriyama You
Accessory Design (小物設定)	Ozaki Tomomi	1-13
Chief Animation Direction (総作画監督)	Yahagi Toshiyuki	1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21-22
	Kadowaki Satoshi	2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22
	Katou Hiromi	12, 22
	Igawa Reina	13
	Asano Kyouji	13, 22
	Hasegawa Hitomi	22
Main Animator (メインアニメーター)	Asano Kyouji
Main Animator (メインアニメーター)	Chiba Takaaki
Music (音楽)	Sawano Hiroyuki
Music Producer (音楽プロデューサー)	Sano Hiroaki
Music Work (音楽制作)	Aniplex
Music Work (音楽制作)	Fujipacific Music
Sound Direction (音響監督)	Mima Masafumi
Sound Work (音響制作)	Takefushi Akifumi	1-13
Sound Work (音響制作)	Techno Sound	1-13
Sound Effects (音響効果)	Kurahashi Shizuo
Editing (編集)	Hida Aya
Art Direction (美術監督)	Takeda Yuusuke
Art Design (美術設定)	Kusanagi	1-4, 7-8
	Kanehira Kazushige
	Suetake Yasumitsu
	Taniuchi Yuuho
Colour Design (色彩設計)	Hirose Izumi
Photographic Direction (撮影監督)	Tanaka Kouji
CG Direction (3D監督)	Satou Atsushi
Production Manager (製作担当)	Hirano Tsuyoshi	1-13	Fuji TV (フジテレビ)
	Kananiwa Kozue	1-13
	Morishita Katsuji	1-13
	Motoki Madoka	1-13
	Ochi Takeshi	1-13
	Yoshimitsu Satoshi	1-13
Animation Producer (アニメーションプロデューサー)	Nakatake Tetsuya
Chief Producer (チーフプロデューサー)	Ooyama Ryou
Chief Producer (チーフプロデューサー)	Yamamoto Kouji		Fuji TV (フジテレビ)
Producer (プロデューサー)	Kimura Makoto		Fuji TV (フジテレビ)
	Minami Masae
	Wada Jouji
Animation Work (アニメーション制作)	Production I.G
Work Assistance (制作協力)	Studio Pastoral	7, 13
Work Assistance (制作協力)	Daume	8, 14
Work (制作)	ギルティクラウン製作委員会
Production (製作)	Ishikawa Mitsuhisa
	Katsumata Hideo
	Tafu Naohiro
	Terada Atsushi
	Tomikawa Yatsuho		Fuji TV (フジテレビ)
Production Committee (製作委員会)	Aniplex
	Dentsu
	Fuji TV
	Movic
	Production I.G

Script/Screenplay (脚本)	Yoshino Hiroyuki	1-6, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20-22
	Ookouchi Ichirou	7, 9, 11, 15, 17, 19
	Haganeya Jin	8, 13, 18
	Miyagi Yousuke	14
Storyboard (コンテ)	Nagahama Hiroshi	ED2a-ED2c
Storyboard (絵コンテ)	Araki Tetsurou	1, 9, 17, 22, OP3a-OP3b
	Tanaka Hiroyuki	2, 10
	Itou Tomohiko	3, 12
	Makihara Ryoutarou	4, 11, 21
	Tokudo Daisuke	5, 13, 19
	Kaburagi Hiro	6
	長谷川千恵子	7
	Nami Ren	8
	Yonebayashi Taku	9
	Hatsumi Kouichi	14, 18
	Nomura Kazuya	15
	Nagasaki Kenji	16
	Kurokawa Tomoyuki	17
	Tachibana Hideki	18
	Okamura Tensai	20
	福山新市	22
Episode Direction (演出)	Araki Tetsurou	1, 22
	Tanaka Hiroyuki	2, 10, 22, OP3a-OP3b
	Yonebayashi Taku	3, 9, 16
	Makihara Ryoutarou	4, 11, 21
	Tokudo Daisuke	5, 19
	Ezaki Shinpei	6, 12, 17, 20
	Mori Yoshihiro	7, 13
	Fujiwara Yoshiyuki	8
	Fukumoto Kiyoshi	14
	Oonishi Keisuke	15, 20
	Kurokawa Tomoyuki	17
	Kusumi Naoko	18
	Nagahama Hiroshi	ED2a-ED2c
Assistant Episode Direction (演出協力)	Ezaki Shinpei	10
Animation Direction (作画監督)	Yahagi Toshiyuki	1
	Chiba Takaaki	1, 6, 10, 12, 17, 20, 22, OP3a-OP3b
	Katou Hiromi	1, 19, OP3a-OP3b
	Asano Kyouji	2, 6, 11, 16, 21
	Kadowaki Satoshi	2, 18, 20, 22
	Tezuka Kyouhei	3, 9, 15, 17, 22
	Tanaka Haruka	3, 10, 15, 19, 22
	Kitada Katsuhiko	4, 11, 21
	Igawa Reina	5, 9-10, 16, 19, 22
	Hasegawa Hitomi	5, 12, 17, 21-22, OP3a-OP3b
	Kikuchi Toshihiro	6, 9, 12, 15, 17, 20, 22
	Kobayashi Toshimitsu	7, 13
	Sakai Satoshi	8
	Toriyama Fuyumi	8
	Yamada Ayumi	8, 14, 20
	Koizuka Masashi	9-10, 15, 17, 19, 22
	Ebisu Takuma	9, 15, 19, 22
	Ishii Yumiko	10
	Kikuchi Toshihiro	10
	Okuno Haruo	10
	Ebara Yasuyuki	11, 17, 21-22
	Tokuno Yuuga	12
	Yamamura Hiroki	13
	Yamauchi Noriyasu	13
	Shibuya Sakae	16
	Miyamae Shin`ichi	16, 19
	Imai Arifumi	16, 19, 22
	Nomura Kazuya	18
	Takenaka Shingo	18
	Ogura Noriko	20
	Shimamura Hidekazu	ED2a-ED2c
Assistant Animation Direction (作画監督補佐)	Igawa Reina	1
	Kubota Yasutaka	2
	Chiba Takaaki	2, 13
	Asano Kyouji	4
	Kadowaki Satoshi	4
	Tanaka Haruka	5
	Koizuka Masashi	5, 11
	Shibuya Sakae	10
	Usami Moe	10
	Ebisu Takuma	11
	Tezuka Kyouhei	11
Assistant Animation Direction (原画作画監督補佐)	Higuchi Satomi	4
Mechanical Animation Direction (メカニック作画監督)	Nakatani Seiichi	6
End Card (エンドカードイラスト)	Chuuou Higashiguchi	1
	Yu-Pon	2
	Miwa Shirou	3
	助兵器	4
	Tanu	5
	Uki Atsuya	6
	Okama	7
	Tsuji Santa	8
	Mebae	9
	Yuugen	10
	Ookuma Nekosuke	11
	ChanxCo	12
	Maeda Hirotaka	13
	Reject.co	13
Motion Graphics (モーショングラフィック)	Araki Hirofumi
Motion Graphics (モーショングラフィックス)	Hikima Junji	OP3a-OP3b
	Stereotype	OP3a-OP3b
	Yamashita Toshiyuki	OP3a-OP3b
Key Animation (原画)	Hagiwara Hiromitsu	1
	Hasegawa Kazuyo	1
	Katou Hirotaka	1
	Momose Emiko	1
	Moriyama You	1
	Ooya Kouji	1
	Takenaka Shingo	1
	Imai Arifumi	1-4, 6, 9, 11
	Shimizu Natsuko	1, 3-4, 6, 9, 11
	Tezuka Kyouhei	1, 3, 5, 8-9, 11, OP3a-OP3b
	Hasegawa Hitomi	1, 3, 5, 9
	Yamamoto Yuuko	1, 3, 6, 9, 12
	Seguchi Izumi	1, 4
	Fujishiro Kana	1, 4-5
	Igawa Reina	1, 4-5, 9, 13
	Hashimoto Takaaki	1, 4, 6, 9-10
	Chiba Takaaki	1, 6, 9, 12, OP3a-OP3b
	Yahagi Toshiyuki	1, 7
	Ookubo Tooru	1, 9, 11
	Kikuchi Toshihiro	1, 9, OP3a-OP3b
	Asano Kyouji	1, 11
	Ebara Yasuyuki	1, 11, 13, OP3a-OP3b
	Kouda Naoko	1, 12, OP3a-OP3b
	Tokuno Yuuga	1, 12, OP3a-OP3b
	Fujii Nozomu	2
	Fukui Maki	2
	Inose Fujio	2
	Kadowaki Satoshi	2
	Kamimura Masaharu	2
	Maeda Yoshihiro	2
	Nakamura Mitsunobu	2
	Ebisu Takuma	2-4, 9, 11
	Sera Yuuko	2-3, 5-6, 11
	Kubota Yasutaka	2, 5
	Tomita Megumi	2, 5-6, 9, 12
	Hashimoto Takanori	2, 5-6, 12
	Naminoue Yuri	2, 5, 9-10, 12
	Sakiyama Tomoaki	2, 5, 9, 12
	Oofuji Saeko	2, 6, 12, OP3a-OP3b
	Matsumoto Hiroshi	2, 9, 12
	Suzuki Asuka	2, 10, 12
	Fukuyo Manami	2, 12
	Amisaki Ryouko	3
	Geshi Yuuya	3
	Jou Norifumi	3
	Komatsu Eiji	3
	Kouno Maki	3
	Nakanishi Rie	3
	Nishioka Yuuki	3
	Shibuya Sakae	3
	Suezawa Kei	3
	Tanaka Haruka	3
	Umezu Akane	3
	Miyazawa Yasunori	3-4, 11
	Kyougoku Yoshiaki	3, 6
	Souzaki Nobuyoshi	3, 9
	Cho Hyang-Chun	3, 9, 12
	Nakanishi Mamiko	3, 10
	Asaka Kazuyuki	4
	Hamatsu Takehiro	4
	Hayashi Isao	4
	Itazu Yoshimi	4
	Kawasaki Aika	4
	Kouta Fumiaki	4
Kusama Hideoki	4
Nitta Tomoko	4
Ogura Noriko	4
Seki Akiko	4
Tanabe Kenji	4
Tanaka Yuusuke	4
Daidouji Miho	4, 6, 9
Tomita Keiko	4, 6, 9
Kamiya Tomomi	4, 11
Kitada Katsuhiko	4, 11
Kurosawa Mamoru	4, 11
Makihara Ryoutarou	4, 11, OP3a-OP3b
Ishizuka Takeshi	5
Katagiri Takahisa	5
Kim Geum-Su	5
Kotake Ayumu	5
Kouno Megumi	5
Matsuura Mai	5
Nakajima Yuki	5
Nishida Asako	5	as 西田あさ子
Tate Naoki	5
Toda Sayaka	5
Yanagi Ryuuta	5
Yoshida Tooru	5
Koizuka Masashi	5, 9
Honda Miyuki	5, 10
Yukimura Ai	5, 10
Kishi Tomohiro	5, 11
Numata Kumiko	6
Sano Takayuki	6
Shimizu Yuusuke	6
Torii Takafumi	6
Yamakaji Akemi	6
Iiyama Nahoko	6, 9
Shimizu Ryougo	6, 9, 12
Uno Michiko	6, 9, 12
Shimozuma Hisako	6, 11
Honda Masayuki	6, 11-12
Jitsuhara Noboru	7
Maeda Tatsuyuki	7
Nakano Yuki	7
Nakazawa Yuuichi	7
Oomori Hidetoshi	7
Tanaka Ayu	7
Yokoyama Sayumi	7
Araki Toshihiko	7, 13
Baba Kazuki	7, 13
Funatsu Yoshiyuki	7, 13
Kamata Hitoshi	7, 13
Kikugawa Takashi	7, 13
Nagashima Ryou	7, 13
Nakamura Yoshihiro	7, 13
Oka Kaori	7, 13
Ookubo Osamu	7, 13
Takasaki Misato	7, 13
Tsujimura Kazuko	7, 13
Utsugi Isamu	7, 13
Yamada Yuuichirou	7, 13
Asawa Kouji	8
Chiba Takayuki	8
Hasegawa Yukio	8
Hirano Yuuichi	8
Itou Daisuke	8
Kimishima Ikutomo	8
Kudou Akiko	8
Kudou Toshiharu	8
Miyazaki Satomi	8
Murai Sayoko	8
Nanbu Hiromi	8
Nantou Toshiyuki	8
Ochi Shinji	8
Ookuma Takaharu	8
Production Reed	8
Satou Ayako	8
Studio Gimlet	8
Takeuchi Kazumasa	8
Yamada Ayumi	8
Yasuda Shouko	8
Nakamura Junko	9
Satou Toshiyuki	9
Tsunoda Keiichi	9, 12
Fujishiro Kana	10
Futamatsu Mari	10
Gorai Takayuki	10
Hiroo Kanako	10
Igarashi Yuuki	10
Itou Noriko	10
Kanie Kenji	10
Kanno Kazune	10
Koumoto Hiromi	10
Kuwahara Takeshi	10
Nagata Ami	10
Okano Shingo	10
Ono Takashi	10
Owada Yoshihiro	10
Sakamoto Masaru	10
Sasaki Tokihiro	10
Sawaguchi Hiroya	10
Sekiya Kaoru	10
Shibata Yuuji	10
Shigetou Souta	10
Shimizu Atsuki	10
Shimoda Kouichi	10
Sodeyama Mami	10
Suzuki Ayafumi	10
Tamura Daigo	10
Tezuka Emi	10
Tsuzuku Ryuuji	10
Yamazaki Jun	10
Yoshida Masayuki	10
Yoshioka Toshiyuki	10
小林由佳	10
Watabe Yukiko	10-11
Hara Shuuichi	11
Kimishima Shigeru	11
Kiyoike Naho	11
Kouno Toshiyuki	11
Park Seong-Hu	11
Sasaki Keigo	11
Segawa Shin`ya	11
Shen Hong	11
Shibayama Tomotaka	11
Tsusaka Mio	11
Itadaki Shinji	11, OP3a-OP3b
Hayashi Yuuki	12
Kuroyanagi Toshimasa	12
Mannen Asami	12
Niitsuma Rui	12
Nomura Masashi	12
Sugimoto Tomoko	12
Tabata Akira	12
Tokudo Daisuke	12
Nakajima Atsuko	12, OP3a-OP3b
Harada Daichi	13
Hineno Yuuko	13
Iijima Suguru	13
Kawamura Yuki	13
Kawamura Yukinori	13
Minoda Shunsuke	13
Nagayama Megumi	13
Satou Hiroyuki	13
Sugimoto Michel	13
Takahashi Nagisa	13
Yamada Hiroko	13
Yamauchi Naoki	13
Shimamura Hidekazu	ED2a-ED2c
Furukawa Tomohiro	OP3a-OP3b
Kitahara Koudai	OP3a-OP3b
Matsushima Akira	OP3a-OP3b
Yoshikawa Shin`ichi	OP3a-OP3b
2nd Key Animation (第二原画)	Cho Hyang-Chun	1
	Murayama Akiko	1
	Yamakaji Akemi	1
	Iiyama Nahoko	1-3, 10
	Hokiyama Kaoru	1-2, 4-5, 11
	Tsusaka Mio	1, 4, 9-10, 12
	Fukuda Sachiko	2
	Iida Manami	2
	Naitou Yuuichi	2
	Takeshita Miki	2
	Nobuhara Kouji	2-3, 5, 9, 12
	A.P.P.P.	2-3, 9, 11
	Den Saori	2, 5
	Doga Kobo	2, 5
	Imai Yuu	3
	Munehiro Tomoyuki	3
	Noma Satoshi	3
	Yoshinuma Hiromi	3
	Umemura Tomomi	3, 9
	Tomita Keiko	3, 10-11
	Araki Ryou	4
	Kawai Momoko	4
	Matsui Yuuko	4	as 松井裕子
	Oka Yuuichi	4
	Urakami Takayuki	4
	Ishikawa Kayoko	4-5	as 石川佳世子 in ep 5
	Numata Kumiko	4-5, 9-10
	Tsunoda Keiichi	4-5, 11
	Asano Kyouji	4, 11
	Saitou Takuya	4, 11
	Shimizu Natsuko	4, 11
	Ishibashi Kasumi	4, 12
	Artland	5
	Mutou Miki	5
	Takenawa Rina	5
	Yoshima Ikue	5
	G&G Direction	5, 9, 11
	Ekura Animal	9
	Ishii Kazuhiko	9
	Nakanishi Rie	9
	Oofuji Saeko	9
	PRA Sakugabu	9
	Studio Izena	9
	Union Cho	9
	Zexcs	9-10
	Miyazaki Hitomi	9-11
	Mannen Asami	9, 11
	AI	10
	Araki Yutaka	10
	C2C	10
	Hebaraki	10
	Honda Masayuki	10
	Kiyoike Naho	10
	Nagura Satoshi	10
	Silver Link	10
	Studio Pierrot	10
	Tanaka Haruka	10
	Usami Moe	10
	Yuuhodou	10
	Jumondou	10-12
	Asahi Production	10, 12
	AIC	11
	Daidouji Miho	11
	Dream Force	11
Ebara Yasuyuki	11
Ebisu Takuma	11
Hashimoto Takaaki	11
Igawa Reina	11
Imai Arifumi	11
Koizuka Masashi	11
Studio Wanpack	11
Tezuka Kyouhei	11
Kyushu Animation	12
Studio Bambino	12
Studio Mark	12
Tokuno Yuuga	12
In-Between Animation Inspection (動画検査)	Ichimanda Chieko	1, 3, 6, 9, 12, ED2a-ED2c, OP3a-OP3b
	Sugata Tomoko	2, 4, 11
	Furubayashi Misato	5
	Honda Souichi	7, 13
	Akiyoshi Ikuko	8
	Saitou Yuka	10
In-Between Animation Inspection Assistance (動画検査補佐)	Okada Mamiko	11
In-Between Animation (動画)	M.S.C	1
	Numata Kumiko	1
	Oh! Production	1
	Studio Toy Box	1
	Tsusaka Mio	1
	Wish	1
	Go Hands	1-2
	Studio Comet	1-4
	Anime Spot	1-6
	Studio Muu	1-4, 6
	Studio Takuranke	1-4, 6
	Diomedea	1-4, 8, 11
	Doga Kobo	1-3, 5-6, 10
	G&G Direction	1-3, 6, 11
	Studio Pastoral	1-3, 9
	Sugata Tomoko	1-2, 4-6, 11
	Production I.G	1-2, 4-6, 11-12
	Sekii Kanako	1-2, 4-6, 11-12
	AIC Takarazuka	1-2, 4, 6
	Oyama Keiko	1-2, 4, 6
	Trans Arts	1-2, 4, 6
	Kinoshita Mika	1-2, 4, 6, 11
	Sugita Marumi	1-2, 4, 6, 11
	Sunaga Reiko	1-2, 6, 12
	Silver Link	1-2, 11
	Agena Musubi	1, 3
	Agena Yuuka	1, 3
	Henzan Sonoka	1, 3
	Kinjou Masaru	1, 3
	Taka Yoshiki	1, 3
	Masuko Hiromi	1, 3-4, 6
	Takagi Katsuhiro	1, 3, 5-6
	Asahi Production	1, 3, 5-6, 11
	Ichimanda Chieko	1, 3, 6, 9-12
	C2C	1, 4
	Furubayashi Misato	1, 4-5
	Fukuhara Mai	1, 4-6
	Gotou Manami	1, 4-6
	Tobita Yukika	1, 4-6, 11
	Yokoyama Yuuki	1, 4-6, 11
	Saitou Kotoe	1, 4, 6, 11
	Watanabe Ai	1, 4, 6, 11
	Ueda Miki	1, 5
	Aizu Satsuki	1, 5-6
	Inoue Yoshiko	1, 5-6
	Mori Kayano	1, 5-6
	Neo Pictures	1, 6
	David Production	1, 10
	Yuuhodou	2-3
	Taikan Anime	2-6, 8-13
	Kyushu Animation	2-6, 12
	Dangun Pictures	2-3, 6
	Itou Sena	2, 4-6
	Suzuki Nonoko	2, 4-6, 12
	Matsumoto Yoshino	2, 5
	AIC	3
	Delta Peak Production	3
	Union Cho	3
	TYO Animations	3-4
	Artland	3-6
	A.P.P.P.	3-6, 12
	Sunrise	3, 5-6
	Wada Takuya	3, 5-6
	Okada Mamiko	3, 5, 11
AI	3, 11
Chimoto Urara	4
Hoori Yuka	4
Iwasaki Shigeki	4
Katayama Manabu	4
Matano Takana	4
Takehara Naomi	4
Yoshida Kazue	4
P.A. Works	4-6
FAI International	4, 6, 11
Xebec	5
ACGT	6
Saitou Yuka	6
Sakai Reiko	6
Harada Daichi	7
Minoda Shunsuke	7
Satou Hiroyuki	7
Sugimoto Michel	7
Hayashi	7, 13
Akiyoshi Ikuko	8
I&S Factory	8
Urata Takeji	8
Wafuu Animation	8
Jumondou	8, 12
Studio MAT	9
Mawatari Hisashi	10
渡部恵子	10
A-Line	11
Studio Gimlet	11
Triple A	11-12
Beep	11, 13
Marvy Jack	12
Core	13
In-Between Animation Manager (動画管理)	Abe Yoshihiro	1-6, 9-13
Colour Design Assistance (色彩設計補佐)	Satou Mayumi	1-13
Colour Specification (色指定)	Takeda Yuka	1, 4, 7, 10, 13
	Fujita Yuuko	2, 6-7, 11
	Watanabe Natsumi	3, 7, 9, 12, OP3a-OP3b
	Yamanaka Makiko	5
	Fujita Erika	7
	Itou Mie	7
	Okada Yuri	7
	Oomori Nichiko	7
	Production I.G	7
	Satou Kumiko	7
	Shimokawa Mariko	7
	Studio Pastoral	7
	Maniwa Yuuka	8
	Shibuya Keiko	8
	Yusa Kumiko	ED2a-ED2c
Finishing/Clean-up Direction (仕上チーフ)	Hirose Izumi	1-6, 9-13
Finishing/Clean-up Inspection (仕上検査)	Oomori Nichiko	1, 7, 10-11, 13
	Fujita Yuuko	2, 6-7, 11
	Shimokawa Mariko	3, 7, 11
	Satou Kumiko	4, 7, 9, 11, 13
	Yamanaka Makiko	5
	Fujita Erika	7
	Itou Mie	7
	Production I.G	7
	Studio Pastoral	7
	Takeda Yuka	7, 11
	Okada Yuri	7, 11-13
	Watanabe Natsumi	7, 11, OP3a-OP3b
	Maniwa Yuuka	8
	Shibuya Keiko	8
	Shimokawa Mariko	13
	Yusa Kumiko	ED2a-ED2c
Finishing/Clean-up (仕上)	AIC	1
	M.S.C	1
	T2 Studio	1
	Wao Corporation	1
	Studio Targe	1-2
	Fujita Erika	1-6, 9-11
	Matsubara Shinji	1-6, 9-12
	Production I.G	1-6, 9-12
	Shimokawa Mariko	1-6, 9-12
	Ueno Emiko	1-6, 12
	D-Colors	1-5, 10, 12
	Oomori Nichiko	1-4, 6, 9
	Takeda Yuka	1-4, 6, 9, 11
	Okada Yuri	1-4, 6, 10-11
	Watanabe Natsumi	1-4, 6, 10-11
	Satou Kumiko	1-4, 6, 10, 12
	Studio Elle	1-4, 6, 12
	Assez Finaud Fabric	1-2, 5-6, 11
	Wish	1, 3
	Fujita Yuuko	1, 3-4, 10, 12
	Suzuki Makiko	1, 4-6
	Studio Road	1, 4, 6, 11
	Sakai Narumi	1, 4, 11-12
	Light Foot	1, 6
	TYO Animations	1, 6
	Studio Gimlet	1, 8
	Trans Arts	1, 8
	Taikan Anime	2-6, 8-13
	Arisawa Noriko	2-6, 11-12
	FAI International	4, 6, 11
	Honda Erina	5
	Kojima Makiko	5
	Koshida Yuuko	5
	Mizuno Taeko	5
	Nakajima Natsuki	5
	Nakano Naomi	5
	Oku Chie	5
	Sakuma Hitomi	5
	Seo Asuka	5
	Sone Kumiko	5
	Tanaka Mai	5
	Tanaka Miho	5
	Taniguchi Yuriko	5
	Tsukuda Moe	5
	Yokoi Mika	5
	Asahi Production	5-6, 11
	Silver Link	5, 8
	スタジオ・ランロード	6
	Studio Pastoral	7
	Hayashi	7, 13
	Chaos Project	8
	Diomedea	8
	I&S Factory	8
	Jumondou	8
	Maniwa Yuuka	8
	Shibuya Keiko	8
	A-Line	11
	AI	11
	Triple A	11-12
	Beep	11, 13
	Core	13
Art (美術)	Kakizakai Tsukasa	ED2a-ED2c
	Bamboo	ED2a-ED2c, OP3a-OP3b
	Kojio Kayo	OP3a-OP3b
	Masuki Takamasa	OP3a-OP3b
	Nagashima Takayuki	OP3a-OP3b
	Okamoto Harumi	OP3a-OP3b
Art Board (美術ボード)	Bamboo	1-13
	Nagashima Takayuki	1-13
	Masuki Takamasa	1-4, 6-13
	Nishino Takayo	1-4, 6-13
	Okamoto Harumi	3-11, 13
	Jeong Su-Rok	6-7, 13
	Mizukami Eri	10, 13
Background Art (背景)	Okamoto Harumi	1-2
	Bamboo	1-13
	Hirabuki Chika	1-13
	Nagasuna Yoshihiro	1-13
	Nakajima Tomomi	1-13
	Ochiai Shouko	1-13
	Yamauchi Hiroha	1-13
	Hirabayashi Izumi	1-11, 13
	Kojio Kayo	1-11, 13
	Oonuki Kentarou	1-11, 13
	Mizukami Eri	1-9, 11-12
	Nakada Takayuki	1-3, 5-6, 8-13
	Kakizakai Tsukasa	1-2, 4-13
	Jeong Su-Rok	1, 4, 8, 10
	Nagashima Takayuki	2, 12
	Gouroku Hiroshi	4, 12-13
	Nitta Hiroshi	4, 12-13
	Tadakuma Yukiko	4, 12-13
	Telecom Animation Film	4, 12-13
	Washio Yuuko	4, 12-13
	武村知香	4, 12-13
	Masuki Takamasa	5, 12
	Kasuga Minami	8
	Uemori Maho	8
	Inoue Kazuhiro	8, 11
	Kusanagi	8, 11-12
	Hidaka Ayami	10
	Uematsu Hagiko	10
	Anime Koubou Basara	10-11
	Itakura Sagako	10-11
	Matsumoto Yoshikatsu	10-11
	Tamura Seiki	10-11
	Fujimura Takanori	11
	Hayashi Kousuke	11
	Inspired	11
	Okamoto Kouji	11-12
	Katou Tomoyuki	12
	Jinba Daisuke	12-13
	Oonuki Yuuji	12-13
	Satou Yuriko	12-13
	Yamane Yasuhiro	12-13
	宮川美佐	12-13
Visual Effects (ビジュアルエフェクト)	Ezura Hisashi	11
Special Effects (特殊効果)	Murakami Masahiro	OP3a-OP3b
Jumeau Modelling (ジュモウモデリング)	Souma Hiroshi	1-2
Photography (撮影)	Abe Yasuhiko	1-3
	Oota Kazuyuki	1-3
	Furukawa Fumio	1-7, 9-13
	Matsumoto Sachiko	1-7, 9-13, OP3a-OP3b
	Nakata Yumiko	1-7, 9-13, OP3a-OP3b
	Ogawa Mirei	1-7, 9-13, OP3a-OP3b
	Taniuchi Jun	1-7, 9-13, OP3a-OP3b
	Raretrick	3
	Arai Eiji	4-7, 9-13, OP3a-OP3b
	Daume	8
	Sasaki Masanori	8
	Sasaki Shinobu	8
	Sugawara Katsutori	8
	Takahashi Tetsuya	9-13
	Hondai Takahiro	9-13, OP3a-OP3b
	Takahashi Yuusuke	9-13, OP3a-OP3b
	Tanaka Kouji	ED2a-ED2c, OP3a-OP3b
Photography Assistance (撮影協力)	Linefarm	1
	Studio Pastoral	1-7, 9-13
	Raretrick	1-2, 6, 9-12
	Trans Arts	2, 4-6
	Silver Link	9-10
	Assez Finaud Fabric	9-12
	Asahi Production	10-12
	Gainax	11
	Studio BACU	11	as スタジオバク
	Daume	12
	Artbox	13
	Hayashi	13
Photography Manager (撮影管理)	Takagi Hironori	1-13
CG Work (CG制作)	Kawashima Masahiro	1-13
3DCG	Shima Tomoko	1-2
	Yamada Momoko	1-7
	Hamanaka Yutaka	1-13
	IKIF+	1-13, OP3a-OP3b
	Kumakura Chiaki	1-13, OP3a-OP3b
	Morimoto Shiguma	1-13, OP3a-OP3b
	Satou Miho	1-13, OP3a-OP3b
	Mad Box	7
	Yabuta Shuuhei	7
	Daume	8
	Katou Mikio	8
	馬凱	9-12
	Souma Hiroshi	10
	ジュモウモデリング	10
	Inomoto Eiji	ED2a-ED2c
	Koshida Yuuji	ED2a-ED2c
	Orange	ED2a-ED2c
	Satou Atsushi	OP3a-OP3b
2D Works (2Dワークス)	Yamazaki Makiko	1-13
Title Work (タイトルワークス)	Kusano Tsuyoshi	1-13
Editing Assistant (編集助手)	Kaneshige Ryouko	1-13
Editing Assistant (編集助手)	Murakami Yoshinori	1-13
Film Editing (ビデオ編集)	Hon`ami Hitoshi	1-13
	Kamino Manabu	1-13
	Sony PCL	1-13
Colour Management (カラーマネジメントスタッフ)	Morinaka Masakazu	1-13
Theme Song (主題歌)	Ryo		supercell
Insert Song (挿入歌)	Ryo		supercell
Sound Effects Assistant (音響効果助手)	Sound Box	1-13
Sound Effects Assistant (音響効果助手)	Yamatani Naoto	1-13
Sound Work Desk (音響制作デスク)	Techno Sound	1
Sound Work Desk (音響制作デスク)	Nakashima Tomoko	1-13
Recording (録音)	Aoi Studio	1-13
Recording (録音)	Tanoue Yuuji	1-13
Recording Assistant (録音助手)	Aoi Studio	1-13
Recording Assistant (録音助手)	Noda Toshiaki	1-13
Recording Studio (録音スタジオ)	Aoi Studio	1-13
Web Manager (WEB制作)	Deltro	1-13
	Murayama Ken	1-13
	Ogishima Yuuko	1-13
	Sakamoto Masanori	1-13
	Tsuda Takeo	1-13
Promotion (セールスプランニング)	Onogi Wataru	1-13
Publicity Producer (宣伝プロデューサー)	Inoue Aki	1-13
Publicity Producer (宣伝プロデューサー)	Shintaku Youhei	1-13
Public Relations (広報)	Seta Hiroyuki	1-13	Fuji TV (フジテレビ)
Copyright Work (版権制作)	Kawashima Masahiro	1-13
Organisation (編成)	Mizuno Ayako	1-13	Fuji TV (フジテレビ)
PV Work (PV制作)	Motor/lieZ	1-13
PV Work (PV制作)	Satou Atsuki	1-13
Design Manager (設定制作)	Gotou Midori	1-13
System Manager (システム管理)	Aki Jun`ichirou	1-13
System Manager (システム管理)	Eda Katsushi	1-13
Art and Literature Assistance (文芸協力)	Miyagi Yousuke	1-13
Art and Literature Assistance (文芸協力)	Murakami Izumi	1-13
Scenario Work (台本制作)	シナリオプリント	9-13
Production Desk (制作デスク)	Satou Megumi	1-13
Assistant Production Manager (制作進行)	Banshou Kouichi	1, 6
	Mori Takahiro	2, 12
	Ogino Hiroyuki	3, 9
	Naitou Ryouko	4, 11
	Oomori Kazuma	5
	Kawakita You	7, 13
	Katou Mikio	8
	稲垣健造	8
	Hiroki Shougo	10
	Kobori Takanori	10
	Satou Megumi	ED2a-ED2c
	Nakatake Tetsuya	OP3a-OP3b
Assistance/Cooperation (協力)	Nitroplus	1-13

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Relation	Song	in Episodes	Rating	Credit	Staff
opening	Euterpe	1	8.53 (28)	Vocals/Performed by (歌)	Egoist
				Lyrics (作詞)	Ryo
				Music Composition (作曲)	Ryo
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Ryo
	My Dearest	2-12, OP2a-OP2b, S1	8.96 (21)	Vocals/Performed by (歌)	Supercell
				Lyrics (作詞)	Ryo
				Music Composition (作曲)	Ryo
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Ryo
	The Everlasting Guilty Crown	13-22, OP3a-OP3b	8.20 (15)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	Egoist
				Lyrics (作詞)	Ryo
				Music Composition (作曲)	Ryo
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Ryo
ending	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta	1-12, 22, ED1a-ED1l, S1	8.49 (10)	Vocals/Performed by (歌)	Egoist
				Lyrics (作詞)	Ryo
				Music Composition (作曲)	Ryo
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Ryo
	Kokuhaku	13-21, ED2a-ED2c	N/A (6)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	Supercell
				Lyrics (作詞)	Ryo
				Music Composition (作曲)	Ryo
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Ryo
insert song	Ready to Go	1	N/A (0)	Lyrics (作詞)	David Whitaker
				Music Composition (作曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
				Rap	David Whitaker
	Bios	1, 4, 19	N/A (7)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	Kobayashi Mika
				Lyrics (作詞)	Rie
				Music Composition (作曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
	Euterpe: Silence	2, 13	N/A (1)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	Egoist
				Lyrics (作詞)	Ryo
				Music Composition (作曲)	Ryo
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Ryo
	Friends	5	N/A (0)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	Mpi
				Lyrics (作詞)	Mpi
				Music Composition (作曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
	Real	5	N/A (0)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	Cyua
				Lyrics (作詞)	Rie
				Music Composition (作曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
	Bios-Delta	8	N/A (0)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	Kobayashi Mika
				Lyrics (作詞)	Rie
				Music Composition (作曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
	Euterpe	10	8.53 (28)	Vocals/Performed by (歌)	Egoist
				Lyrics (作詞)	Ryo
				Music Composition (作曲)	Ryo
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Ryo
	Departures: Blessing	11	N/A (1)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	Egoist
				Lyrics (作詞)	Ryo
				Music Composition (作曲)	Ryo
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Ryo
	Hill of Sorrow	13-14	N/A (2)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	Mpi
				Lyrics (作詞)	Mpi
				Music Composition (作曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
	Close Your Eyes	21	N/A (1)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	本田みちよ
				Lyrics (作詞)	Mpi
				Music Composition (作曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (Boom Boom Satellites Remix: Meteoric Rain)	22	N/A (0)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	Egoist
				Lyrics (作詞)	Ryo
				Music Composition (作曲)	Ryo
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Boom Boom Satellites
	Release My Soul	22	N/A (0)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	Aimee Blackschleger
				Lyrics (作詞)	Mpi
				Music Composition (作曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
	Salt	22	N/A (0)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	Takeuchi Hiroaki
				Lyrics (作詞)	Rie
				Music Composition (作曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
				Music Arrangement (編曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
image song	Home: In This Corner		N/A (1)	Vocals/Performed by (歌手)	Leina
				Lyrics (作詞)	Mpi
				Music Composition (作曲)	Sawano Hiroyuki
background music	Hana no Waltz	7	N/A (0)	Music Composition (作曲)	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
	Egg		N/A (0)
	Kessen		N/A (0)
	Pianoforte-AdLib I		N/A (0)

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Last Update	Name	State	N	HE	SP	Languages	Source	Rating	Cmts
05.05.2024	Sokudo	complete		22	0	ja en en	Blu-ray	N/A (0)	0
01.04.2024	Anime Time	complete		22	0	ja en en	Blu-ray	N/A (0)	0
19.11.2023	DB [DB]	complete		22	1	ja en ja en	Blu-ray	N/A (0)	0
15.09.2023	Punisher694	complete		22	0	ja fr	Blu-ray	N/A (0)	0
15.05.2023	Beatrice-Raws	complete		22	30	ja	Blu-ray	N/A (0)	0
27.03.2023	Inshuheki	complete		22	0	ja es	Blu-ray, HDTV	N/A (0)	0
18.03.2023	Hi10	complete	N	22	14	ja en en	Blu-ray, HDTV	N/A (0)	0
13.12.2022	00Ryuji00	complete		22	0	ja en de en de	Blu-ray	N/A (0)	0
30.01.2022	EmmidSubs	complete		22	0	ja pt-BR	Blu-ray	N/A (0)	0
26.12.2021	smplstc	complete		22	0	ja en en	Blu-ray	N/A (0)	0
	no group	complete finished ongoing stalled dropped specials only all

Episodes

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EP	Title	Duration	Air Date	Action
1	Genesis (Outbreak)	25m	14.10.2011	stream
2	Survival of the Fittest (The Fit)	25m	21.10.2011	stream
3	Void-Sampling (Phanerosis)	25m	28.10.2011	stream
4	Flux (Indecision)	25m	04.11.2011	stream
5	A Preparation (Training)	25m	11.11.2011	stream
6	Leukocytes (Cage)	25m	18.11.2011	stream
7	Temptation (Round Dance)	25m	25.11.2011	stream
8	Courtship Behavior (Hot Summer Day)	25m	02.12.2011	stream
9	Prey (Predation)	25m	09.12.2011	stream
10	Retraction (Degeneration)	25m	16.12.2011	stream
11	Resonance (Sympathetic Vibration)	25m	23.12.2011	stream
12	The Lost Christmas (Rebirth)	25m	13.01.2012	stream
13	Isolation (School)	25m	20.01.2012	stream
14	Election (Turbulence)	25m	27.01.2012	stream
15	Sacrifice (Confession)	25m	03.02.2012	stream
16	The Tyrant (Kingdom)	25m	10.02.2012	stream
17	Exodus (Revolution)	25m	17.02.2012	stream
18	Dear... (Vagrants)	25m	24.02.2012	stream
19	Rebirth (Atonement)	25m	02.03.2012	stream
20	A Diary (Remembrance)	25m	09.03.2012	stream
21	Emergence (Eclosion)	25m	16.03.2012	stream
22	Convergence (Prayer)	25m	23.03.2012	stream
S1	Reassortment	50m	04.01.2012
S2	Special 1	2m	25.01.2012
S3	Special 2	2m	22.02.2012
S4	Special 3	2m	21.03.2012
S5	Special 4	2m	25.04.2012
S6	Special 5	2m	23.05.2012
S7	Special 6	2m	27.06.2012
S8	Special 7	2m	25.07.2012
S9	Special 8	2m	22.08.2012
S10	Special 9	2m	26.09.2012
S11	Special 10	2m	24.10.2012
S12	Special 11	2m	21.11.2012
OP2a	My Dearest (2-12, S1)	2m	21.10.2011
OP2b	My Dearest (2-12, S1)	2m	18.11.2011
OP3a	The Everlasting Guilty Crown (13-22)	2m	20.01.2012
OP3b	The Everlasting Guilty Crown (13-22)	2m	24.02.2012
ED1a	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (1-12, 22, S1)	2m	14.10.2011
ED1b	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (1-12, 22, S1)	2m	21.10.2011
ED1c	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (1-12, 22, S1)	2m	28.10.2011
ED1d	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (1-12, 22, S1)	2m	04.11.2011
ED1e	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (1-12, 22, S1)	2m	11.11.2011
ED1f	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (1-12, 22, S1)	2m	18.11.2011
ED1g	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (1-12, 22, S1)	2m	25.11.2011
ED1h	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (1-12, 22, S1)	2m	02.12.2011
ED1i	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (1-12, 22, S1)	2m	09.12.2011
ED1j	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (1-12, 22, S1)	2m	16.12.2011
ED1k	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (1-12, 22, S1)	2m	23.12.2011
ED2a	Kokuhaku (13-21)	2m	20.01.2012
ED2b	Kokuhaku (13-21)	2m	10.02.2012
ED2c	Kokuhaku (13-21)	2m	17.02.2012
ED1l	Departures: Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta (1-12, 22, S1)	2m	23.03.2012
T1	PV	1m
T2	PV 2	2m
T3	PV 3	1m
T4	CM	1m
T5	CM2	1m
T6	PV 4	1m
T7	Blu-ray & DVD CM1	1m
T8	Blu-ray & DVD CM2	2m

Direction:	Araki Tetsurou
Series Composition:	Yoshino Hiroyuki
Animation Character Design:	Katou Hiromi
Chief Animation Direction:	Asano Kyouji Hasegawa Hitomi Igawa Reina Kadowaki Satoshi Katou Hiromi Yahagi Toshiyuki
Music:	Sawano Hiroyuki
Animation Work:	Production I.G
Work:	ギルティクラウン製作委員会

Anime: Guilty Crown

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