Guilty Crown #05 — “By The Way, We Have A Death Laser”

November 10th, 2011

  

Wait, what?

Impressions:

And since IG apparently blew the budget on the gravity fight last week, it’s off to ‘wacky’ terrible antics and training this week, because Shuu has apparently forgotten how he leapt thirty feet in the air and is now back to being only barely capable of running, so of course they go from him being inept against a random grunt with a knife to "an impossible training exercise" which he of course aces by the power of attacking a random bystander while they were trying to innocently drink on the sidelines. I’m not sure why everybody was so impressed by that. It’s also a tad annoying that they’re playing off this blood transfusion thing between Gai and Inori as some kind of sordid sex scandal to make Shuu even more angsty. How is that even possible? The kid is already a bottomless cavern of self-loathing.

And then there’s the meat of the episode, the godawful antics surrounding Ayase. Let’s just recap this sequence of events. She’s assigned to watch over him, he sees the wheelchair and takes pity on her so she gives him a concussion for it. She then apparently strips him naked and hides his clothes, so she can scream and slap him when he walks out naked. At this point, the magnetic connection to his penis has been established and she can no longer show up on screen without his body colliding into hers and her clothes being knocked off. I’m actually kind of impressed that he didn’t notice a girl in a wheelchair as he was crying through his tears and collided into her with enough to send her about 8 feet away from it.

Oh yeah, and in case there was any doubt about who was evil despite the show’s attempts to occasionally present the good guys as not-so-nice, the baddies have an orbital cannon that they’ve begun firing on urban targets. Seriously. Not 15 seconds after the bomber reappears and Ayase glares at him like he’s Gai’s one true love, hinting that he may in fact really be an evil bomber what bombs at midnight, they suddenly pull an orbital cannon out of their asses. Between this and Blood-C, I’m starting to wonder if the writers at IG are just stoned 100% of the time.

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19 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • amyable says:
    November 10, 2011 at 11:45 am

    A Tick reference in my anime review? This is why I love thee. Never change.

  • Insatiable says:
    November 10, 2011 at 12:16 pm

    I have never wanted to kill a male protagonist so badly. I’m dropping this show immediately.

  • Flawfinder says:
    November 10, 2011 at 3:36 pm

    I don’t think the writers are stoned, as stoned people usually write good stuff, or at least produce something that’s funny.

  • The Moondoggie says:
    November 10, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    What with the new guys elf ears? Also What do you mean by sordid sex scandal? I’m confused.

    • Baby Choo CHoo says:
      November 10, 2011 at 5:50 pm

      Well I guess since you’re here at this post, you don’t mind spoilers, but spoiler alert anyway:

      There’s a point in the episode where Shuu sees Inori walking into what’s-his-face’s room.

      http://tenka.seiha.org/images2/gc5/gc5_51.jpg

      Shuu, being who he is, runs away crying, and knocks over wheelchair girl.

      http://tenka.seiha.org/images2/gc5/gc5_54.jpg

      She figures out what he was up to and proceeds to say something along the lines of “we all pretend not to see it, but we all know about it by now” or something something something, referring to Inori and what’s-his-face of course.

      Point is everyone thinks is something involving sex, or at least that’s what it’s being played off as by the writer’s, but in actuality, it’s revealed shortly after that they’re spending time together because of the blood transfusion.

      …ya know, because they have to do it in the middle of the night while both being half dressed because that’s the only way to seem less suspicious.

      • The Moondoggie says:
        November 10, 2011 at 7:40 pm

        Well that’s just shit. I can see this will just make Shuu’s Abyss of Emo-ness even deeper, bu will open his flag to more girls in the rebellion. I want to see the wheelchair girl’s void weapon.

        Portal Gun! Portal Gun! Portal Gun!

        Still, why the bomber dude has elven ears?

        • Aex says:
          November 10, 2011 at 9:33 pm

          I’d actually like it if this went Harem, might force Shuu to grow a pair and Inori to grow a soul.

      • burnout says:
        November 11, 2011 at 2:55 am

        I do have to wonder, though. Maybe letting them believe they’re having sex is *way* less complicated- And possibly less disturbing- than going “No, our relationship is totally platonic. But, um, I sort of need to get a blood transfusion from her every month or so. Or my swag withers on the vine.”

        One can be handwaved. The other is a “Wait, what? Why do you need her blood, again?” which opens up all kinds of awkward questions.

        • Aroduc says:
          November 11, 2011 at 10:25 am

          Like most things in the show, it doesn’t make a whole ton of sense. “Once a month, they go into a room filled with medical supplies and one tiny bed surrounded by equipment. Aha! They must be screwing. That is the logical answer.”

        • Nanaya says:
          November 11, 2011 at 1:33 pm

          What part of “Japan” do you not understand?

  • burnout says:
    November 10, 2011 at 5:20 pm

    I have to agree. Shu sucks *so much*, damnit. And this was the same guy who was doing kung-fu leaps and superjumps in the previous episode, when he sliced and diced like, a hundred, giant robots.

    Could he at least *try* not to be such a giant pussy? I swear, it’s like they went out of the way to make him as spineless as possible.

    • The Moondoggie says:
      November 10, 2011 at 5:26 pm

      I think they’re going for the Evangelion angle: Shuu reminds me of Shinji so much here.

      • Nan says:
        November 10, 2011 at 6:00 pm

        Then they’re missing a big step there. Shinji was based more on a serious (and untreated) case of medical depression, while they seem to be selling Shuu as that based only on his personality. Why they decided that is beyond me.

        • Aex says:
          November 10, 2011 at 6:07 pm

          Shuu’s actually worse than Shinji and Inori is even colder and more soulless than Rei… that impresses me, just not in a good way. Gai is also more of a dick/evil mastermind than Gendo… seriously, did they plan this? If I had to kill off one, it’d still be either Gai or Inori though.

  • Hans Solo says:
    November 10, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    Bah. Wake me up when there’s a Tsugumi episode, otherwise no reason to bother with this anymore.

  • The Phantom says:
    November 10, 2011 at 10:41 pm

    Main character needs to be replaced by a mute shadow.

    He’s so fucking annoying that I sometimes want to smash my screen.

  • Rednal says:
    November 11, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    *Sips tea* Y’know, personally, I thought he was at least growing up this episode. Previously, he’s been manly mainly when using Inori as a weapon, but it looks like he’s actually starting to grow up. Personally, I don’t mind if a main character is less than awesome, as long as he gets better by the end of the story. Growing up, y’know?

    Also, I like that there’s a girl in this shows who is A) Not a whiny, helpless little brat, and B) Appears legitimately capable of getting spineless male leads to grow a pair. Or at least work on growing them.

  • curious says:
    November 12, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    I am loving this show and tired of hearing about cliche’s what shows are not cliche in some way or another, the use of voids is at least different.
    People obviously do not pay attention if they think Gai and Inori are having sex as it showed they were not. Everyone just makes bad assumptions.
    What is strange to me is that Gai and Shu are the same age but Gai does not look 17 but older and Shu looks younger. The only purpose I can see for that being as Gai is such an attractive character is a set up for yaoi, which I am looking forward to the doujin’s that will come from that :)