Guilty Crown #07 — Enter: The Sportsmaster

November 24th, 2011

 

Is there anybody ever asking "Does this make sense?"

Really not sure why even the LQ raws are so slow for GC nowadays. Oh well.

Impressions:

What the hell are you doing, IG? This just completely defies all sense. Let’s start with the least stupid and work our way up. Shuu’s mother is a drunk, rubs herself all over him, and also apparently involved with some of the most powerful men in the city. Uh, okay. There’s also the school president who goes out of her way to save Shuu for no real reason, but luckily, she has a Shield-ball void that turns missiles into sparklies. Sometimes it also stops the force of their impact too, sometimes not. I’m not sure even IG knows. 

Then we get to the party and the shuupidity kicks into overdrive. Shuu sees his mother there, so how does he react? "SHE CAN’T SEE ME HERE! AAAAAAH!" Then he begins crashing through a bunch of people in an effort to lay low. He then proceeds to run up to the same person that she was talking to not a minute later, screaming his head off once again because apparently he was trusted with the Terrorist Cellphonetm instead of Gai. And I still haven’t gotten to the worst part. After trashing a base, killing at least a dozen people, and destroying a pair of attack satellites, the big bad government responds not by arresting the two members of the terrorist cell wandering around in public, but by… putting an American high school PE Coach in charge. Or I guess the Sportsmaster since we’re talking about horrible concepts for villains. Who proceeds to decide to attack a ship with some of their unsavory elements by putting missiles on their sides. And then starts bellowing about GUTS when it fails. There is so much wrong with this that I don’t even know where to begin. They’ve managed to trump the evil clown with something worse.

 

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12 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Azusa Miura says:

    Just drop it, man. The posts is not funny too, you seem hurt watching it, like I am.

  • Kunagisa says:

    Don’t drop it!! This series is so full of tsukkomi material it’s worth watching it just for that.

  • Flawfinder says:

    Oh god, this episode was funny. Everything was just so stupid that it became hilarious. That fireworks scene with the missiles? Are we supposed to take that seriously? That was the funniest part.

  • Anonymous says:

    this show it’s a masterpiece

  • Shinji103 says:

    The kicker here is that you labeled a bunch of easily-explained things as making no sense, yet completely MISSED the thing that’s actually really wrong here:

    The fact that Shu is somehow inexplicably over the incident with Inori back in episode 5 and is even back to calling her normally despite having reverted back to calling her -san in episode 6.

    • Aroduc says:

      The government overlooking super powered terrorists that just destroyed billion dollar satellites to have a gym teacher publicly launch a few dozen missiles at a cruise ship full of rich and influential civilians is easily explained? This should be good.

      • Shinji103 says:

        I never said THAT one was easily explained. (naturally, you pick the most extreme of the examples :P) Still doesnt’ change that you missed the blindingly obvious and actually most serious mistake in this episode.

  • TOP2NE1 says:

    Sportsmaster may have a ridiculous concept, but at least he actually does villainous stuff.

    In Young Justice he’s sowing seeds of dissent!

  • $$$ says:

    this anime is really bad.

  • Burnout says:

    The main problem with this show is the absolute lack of consistency; It feels as though the characters are from different anime entirely. We have the absolute pussy of a male lead, the girl who’s CC/Rei 2.0, the drunk mother who’s an expy of Misato, and a guy who desperately wants to be Lelouch.

  • DmonHiro says:

    I did enjoy one thing: Segai (the clown) not giving two shits about Sportsman. He seems to be the sane one in this show… and that’s weird.

    • Avisch says:

      It IS rather worrisome when the most sane (and somewhat like-able) character in the show looks like Kefka.