天下制覇

I think they hit all of them.

Impressions:

Ha. They really did it. Well, probably. When deaths are people being consumed by some kind of psychic virus that infects buildings and mechas and then transforms them into sparklies, it’s not really clear if characters have actually died. Of course, it would’ve been a lot more jarring if Hare hadn’t raised every single death flag imaginable. Or if she was a character who actually mattered. "We’ve basically ignored this character for the last two months so… let’s show how she’s come completely into her own, the main character is now responding to her feelings, and everybody is appreciating her… Got your attention? Dead! Bwa ha ha! We are Der Maestro of writing!" Kill off a character who has done more than flash her breasts and nurse Shuu’s angstiness and we’ll talk. She didn’t even rate enough to get a special ED. Or if you’re trying for visceral and brutal, spending a couple minutes slowly dying ain’t the way to get it done.

Still, compared to Guilty Crown’s usual vomit of bizarre plot events, this was just a regular cliched death of Useless Cheerleader Character instead of spiralling off into realms unknown. It’s certainly a step up, even if it’s also a step towards requiring more effort on my part than simply repeating what happened. I could make fun of the car with the craziest turning ever, or how Ayase’s wheelchair is apparently well-rooted enough to allow her to shoot a rocket launcher I guess. Or how the chopper broke off from attacking the people with a rocket launcher to lazily shoot at the two apparently dead kids on the ground, but that’s reaching compared to what the show usually gives me to work with. I can’t wait for Shuu to go back to angsting after a whole 0 minutes away from it either.