Guilty Crown #17 — Aye or Noe

February 16th, 2012

 

I can’t even tell if that’s supposed to be Nay or No.

Impressions:

Sweet. Finally back to those episodes where I just have to summarize what happened, make incredulous noises, and call it a day. Let’s start from last week then. Remember the cliffhanger with blood splattering everywhere from Inori attacking ol Still-Don’t-Care-To-Learn-Her-Name? It was Mana, not Inori. Okay, not surprising there. She used her magical disease crystals to stab her in the hand (then went crying to Shu later about being a monster). Pres was so shocked by this that she curled up in her room sobbing until she got a mysterious call. But someone discovered her in the middle of her seditious acts so she prostituted herself to get out of it. Yep. Not five minutes after showing both Shu and Inori becoming dangerously unhinged, they felt the need to remind us who the ‘real’ good guys are by whoring one side out.

Then once the attack began with an army of Void users (forgetting that one of them took down an entire battalion before), Shu’s entire army decided to betray him. Then Gai appeared, cut off Shu’s arm and absorbed his power. Ah, Guilty Crown. Why do you do the things that you do? This is an actual question. I don’t know what’s gotten into the water in the writing room at Production IG lately, but there is no way in hell that it can be good for them.

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22 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Aerione says:
    February 16, 2012 at 11:55 am

    Wow…Just…Wow…Is this really the same guy who wrote Code Geas…?

  • TEd says:
    February 16, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    who cares he still got inori so he good

  • Random says:
    February 16, 2012 at 2:31 pm

    Pff this show is so unrealistic. In real life it would take weeks for the UN to reach a resolution.

    Also, Shuu really seems to be having a bad week. Abandoned by his mom. His love interest dies. Everyone betrays him. And now the world plans to destroy his homeland. Oh and he had his arm cut off.

    • moridin84 says:
      February 16, 2012 at 2:57 pm

      Didn’t it take weeks, or even months? They were probably deciding on it since the ‘wall when up’.

  • K says:
    February 16, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    who cares? logic doesn’t exist in guilty crown, only entertainment value.

  • jingoi says:
    February 16, 2012 at 4:14 pm

    Here’s something to fear, what if you didn’t have access to the internet and this was shown on Adult Swim, having limited access to anime, you end up thinking this was a great series. I know this description would apply to me if I didn’t have a pc.

  • Burnout says:
    February 16, 2012 at 4:23 pm

    It’s like the show itself *knows* how much Shu sucks, and has given up on character development for him.

    They’re really *reaching*; I bet this series cost them an arm and a leg. Well, at least Shu’s hARMLESS now.

  • anon says:
    February 16, 2012 at 6:25 pm

    I don’t know. I’m starting to like this show, just by how absurd it is. I hope Shu kills them all at the end.

    • TJ says:
      February 16, 2012 at 9:00 pm

      They should all die in the end, every single character including Shu… that would make the series worthwhile.

      • TMH says:
        February 16, 2012 at 9:55 pm

        Sadly (?) enough, this is probably the first time I agree with the idea of a “Kill Everyone” ending, which I usually don’t go for. I can’t seem to find any more characters that I want to see survive this cement mixer of a plot.

      • anon says:
        February 17, 2012 at 4:58 am

        This would also work.

    • CTT says:
      February 17, 2012 at 12:44 pm

      It’s funny you should say that because I was honestly thinking the same thing

      • CTT says:
        February 17, 2012 at 12:46 pm

        I meant about Shu killing them all btw. Everyone dying is a depressing ending if even all the characters are jerks

  • Kefit says:
    February 16, 2012 at 11:41 pm

    Hahaha holy shit I can’t believe this episode. This show really never ceases to surprise me. I think some of my friends might be interested in whatever drugs the writing staff is on.

    And the bgm staff too. What the hell was up with this week’s persistent lounge piano?

    Also I guess now they have to bring Hare back to heal Shuu’s arm. Unless Shuu gets an APOCALYPSE VIRUS ARM. I guess I’d be cool with either outcome.

    • Alisana says:
      February 17, 2012 at 12:58 am

      I think he ends up getting an artificial arm. Watch back through the intro song and you can see a crystal-like arm with glowly blue-green things running through it (0:49-0:51). You can then see the back of his hand glowing with the same colour when he is using Inori’s void at 0:56-0:58 (Watch ep 17 to match up times)

  • Haba says:
    February 17, 2012 at 12:13 pm

    I sincerely hope for a bad ending where Shu kills everyone (the GAR, his mom, the cripple, the loli). In the last few minutes he is shown embracing Inori, only to realize that she has been dead all the time. Nukes fall, credits roll.

    Only then will I be able to tolerate another four-five episodes of the retard whining and crying.