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At least this show knows crazy.

Impressions:

Awesome. You know how I love flashbacks and amnesia. They’re like… the greatest goddamned plot devices ever! And you say that Gai was secretly Shu’s mysterious childhood friend? Even better! Although GC took its usual flair to sense which made it not ‘bad’ at all. Or at least, about as good as it’s always been. I feel so lazy just writing out what happened, but at the same time, I can’t help but just marvel at the words I put down. And of course, Shu ended the episode crying again. Some things never change.

I bet it was the Guardian Forces that took away his memory. But let’s not stop there. His other secret childhood friend was Patient Zero for Lost Christmas, has now disappeared into the ether, and Inori (of course) is the vehicle for her rebirth or whatever. All of this being told/done by jumping through apparently a portal into an alternate dimension covered in blood with bizarre crystals that are supposedly the control mechanism for Lost Christmas. This is all in the first 8 minutes.

At this point (while Generic Villain #7 is having a fake marriage ceremony, mind you) it’s revealed that Mana is crazy as all hell from the virus, threatened to kill Gai if he gets between her and Shu, and machinated Gai into getting shot. She then painted her lips with his blood and basically exploded when Shu is not in fact turned on by making out with her while she’s covered in the blood of their friend. That may very well be the smartest thing Shu’s done to date. Then it’s revealed that they weren’t in another dimension, they were just in a building filled with blood, floating staircases, giant crystals, and eyeballs on stalks as the cavalry comes in. Generic Villain #8 kills Generic Villain #7, Gai gives Mana a hug while Shu stabs him (which… for some reason, turns into another giant explosion), and  then Shu makes off with Inori.

So really, business as usual for Guilty Crown. Sense? That’s for shows that don’t have eyeballs on stalks. I think the biggest joke was Gai saying that Shu was his role model. I’m still trying to wrap my head around that one. This was like a (terrible) final episode though. I highly doubt Gai’s dead either, especially after mysteriously washing up covered in injuries. I’d assume he’s the real patient zero and gave it to her when she gave him mouth to mouth, but given GC’s writing, that’s probably too intelligent a ‘twist’ for them. They probably just had a random shipwrecked boy because there hasn’t been enough child violence yet. I have no idea what the show’s even going to do from here. At this point, I think aliens is the most logical direction. If the whole thing ends up being a Skrull invasion plot, you heard it here first.

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