Audience reviews
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Nikosloler
Guilty Crown. An anime that aired in 2011-2012 and was especially popular because of its catchy openings and stunning animation.
I must say ,going into Guilty Crown blind, without having seen or heard spoilers and
only knowing the MAL score of the series, I had quite a lot of expectations.
This is one of my first ,few reviews, but I felt the need to write one for this absolute circus of madness.
The first half of the story (episode 1 - 12) focuses on the cliche archetype of :"boy with hidden past and memory loss meets emotionless girl and gains power to save the girl and the world".if done properly , a series like this can yield great results, however this wasn't the case here. It's a mix of all the generic tropes one can imagine ,mashed into an amalgamation of "soulless". Up until epi…
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This show is had some very strong points in the first half, but then it just went downhill and got lost up its own butt. It looks like it was meant to end in episode 12. Its the second half where everything falls apart. I will try to do this without a wall of text. So I will just mention some things about it that are impossible to ignore. First things first, Inori is an awful character. Are we supposed to like her because she has pink hair? She has no personality, she mumbles and never shows any spark or smile. Not even one scream or outburst of anger, not one cocky comment. No she just mumbles and whispers. Some idiots and writers want to pretend that boring people are cool, they aren't. She acts the way your already SHY girlfriend behaved when she first met your parents. She is never rel…
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Guilty Crown has beautiful animation and great music.... and that's it. This show is one of the worst trainwrecks I've ever seen, everything aside from the animation and the music (so practically everything that is important) is bad. So many plot holes, poorly written characters, so much unnecessary fanservice, so much Code Geass (but a bad version of it) and a main character whose personality changes every 4 episodes (no, that's not great character development, just laziness and stupidity), our main heroine is a emotionless doll that looks pretty and we still don't know if our main antagonist is actually an evil guy, oh and our stupid, bland protagonist has a harem. While watching this, I almost believed that the producers made a list with the most unoriginal anime tropes and decided to p…
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Guilty Crown is a very good example of a anime that throws away the potential originality, in favor of generic action tropes and overdone characterization also a cluster of big budgets, big ideas, many cliches, often bad execution, and a truly horrible fanbase. It uses asspull after asspull and wasn't enjoyable enough for them to be overlooked. The characters were bland and only a few were even slightly likable(Dan, Hare, Cripple, etc), it used every anime cliche in the book, the plot was beyond generic, and it obviously took from other anime without fully understanding what made them good in the first place.
The part of the show where Shu is basically king of the school should have been pretty much the entire anime. That arc had tension, politics, polarizing debate, stuff to really make…
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"My Heart is the Worst Kind of Weapon"
Preface:
Guilty Crown has a bit of a bad rap in the anime community. One side proclaims it as a huge ripoff of popular series like Code Geass and Death Note, and another decries it as a flashy, plot hole and cliche ridden mess with unlikable characters. While I do think that there are very valid criticisms of the plot development and illogical actions taken by the characters, I don't think that it stops this show from being enjoyable.
Without further ado:
Artwork and Animation: 9 I've never been a huge Production IG animation fan, but I have to hand it to them- Guilty Crown looks really good. It's extremely fluid, and the character designs are very reminiscent of Ghost in the Shell. The CGI, while not ufotable quality, is also pretty watchabl…
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What the hell did I just watch. This the second time I have ever gotten physically mad at an anime, the last time was at Aldnoah S1's ending. This anime could be described as the most beautiful, and best sounding train wreck I have ever seen.
Plot:1/10
HA, what plot? You mean that shit on the wall? No explanations, random subplots never explained, contradicting statements, and no pacing whatsoever. Was the author high or something?
Art:9/10
Amazing art, with fluid animation and the use of color is just right. Fight scenes were animated well, they made me feel hype. As well, good looking and well designed (visually) characters.
Sound:10/10 The only saving grace to this anime, the first op was amazing, the second not as good but still awesome. Both EDs were great as well. To top it off the…
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Gulity Crown is one of the most beautiful animes I have ever watched. The art is comparable with Attack on Titan's, if you've seen that show. Both the scenery and characters look very good. I liked the music as well. Great soundtrack and openings.
However, the story is poorly written and hard to keep up with. I don't even think I dare try to explain the plot. When you think you're starting to understand what's going on, there's a plot-twist and you're totally lost again. I started watching this anime in english, but I had to chance to japanese so that I'd have to be more focused and read the subtitles. I thought I'd keep up with the story better that way, but it didn't help much.
The characters are kind of hard to get a grasp of as well, even the main character. I though I had a pretty d…
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The most hyped show of 2011, but is all the hype worth it? To be blunt, no and if you can't see that you probably haven't absorbed a lot of media or you are a twelvie.
Story: 5/10- interesting, but poorly executed.
Neon Genesis Evangelion + Code Geass + darker than black + a hole lot of S*** = Guilty Crown
This show tried it’s absolute hardest to steal from other anime whether it be the seemingly pointless episodic structure of Darker than Black, the group of freedom fighters led by an anti-hero in Code Geass and if I mention the numerous Neon Genesis Evangelion references throughout the show it would spoil a lot of the plot, so I wont. It also has every single generic episode in the book such as the swimsuit episode, the ship/cruise episode and what a surprise it's based in a highschoo…
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Truly original anime concepts are rather hard to come by these days, for a variety of reasons. For one, simple formulaic concepts are much easier to produce and usually cater to a wider demographic. Reason two being that the anime industry is an incredibly fragile business in terms of profit, meaning that risks that should be taken, or unfortunately shafted in favor of simpler anime. However, there is one reason that stands out above all, a general lack in inspiration. Pouring in countless amounts of influences and concepts from highly acclaimed anime of the past in order to create something unique is common ground. However, anime such as Guilty Crown use these influences and concepts and jumbles them up into an incoherent mess of an anime, complete with extremely high production values to…
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“The right to use my friend as a weapon. That is the sinful crown I shall adorn.”
Intro: Whether you like it or not, opinions from others can affect an experience. This can also become apparent when you watch an anime. If you hear negative opinions, you end up going in with low expectations and you might enjoy it more. Set your expectations too high, and you end up disappointed. Today I’ll be reviewing Guilty Crown, an anime that was really freaking popular back in 2011. But unfortunately back then I wasn’t into anime so after hearing generally mixed opinions about it, I decided to check it out for myself. So was it a decent anime or does it completely crash and burn? Well let’s find out.
Story: The story of Guilty Crown takes place in the year 2039 in Japan. 10 years prior an apocalypti…
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"There are no innocents fighting a war"
specially when it comes to the front line.
If you are fighting, you're fight for an ideal, fighting to protect the lives of the ones you cherish, but in order to do it you're ceasing the lives of those who oppose you. Inevitably, together with it comes a feeling that question if what you are doing is right or is wrong.
This feeling is called Guilt. The main focus of this anime.
This review will follow a different approach than the majority here. Trying to present a different viewpoint.
Anybody who searches through reviews will noticed that a lot of people gave pretty low scores to this series, and even lower to its story. Why is it? There will never be a consensus, since each reviewer have a personal interpretation of the matter, however, I strongl…
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If you have read or seen another Guilty Crown reviews you have probably noticed that there is two sides. Those two sides are the haters and the lovers. Also it has alot of romance in it even though MAL's genres doesnt include it.
Anyway lets get onto the review.
= (Story 4) =
The story is not something speciel. Most fo the time i didn't think about it, but after watching the show and thinking bad i realised it was pretty bad. As i said, there's nothing special about the story. It's very sad cause the story could have been so much more then it was. Èven though this show made you wanna watch the next episode right away, but if you want a good story don't watch Guilty Crown.
= (Art 9) =
Everything about the art was just amazing. The backgrounds were amazing. It made the scene alot bette…
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Many people are aware of the financial problems faced by the anime industry, and one of the methods that studios have adopted over recent years to try to shore up their crumbling foundations is to adapt popular manga, games, and more recently, Western comics. This approach has become a tried and tested moneymaking endeavour for the majority of studios, but in many cases this is simply due the fact that the source material caters to the lowest common denominator - which usually means fanservice. Unfortunately, the relative success of these shows have allowed them to become the norm rather than the exception, and with that comes a number of problems.
The sad fact is that while it's okay to find inspiration from other sources, the industry has become so used to the adaptation that studios an…
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When I saw Guilty Crown on the preview list with the synopsis and the production team, I thought this was it. I thought that this would be an anime that would save the industry. Guess what? I was right. After all if you cannot be a good example, then you will just have to be a terrible warning.
Lets get to the good points. Art. It is Production I.G we are talking about here. Even the haters have to agree that the art is amazing. The animations were fluid and detailed. The character designs are appealing as well. The only problem is the uninteresting mecha designs though lets be honest, there are only a few ways that you can draw a giant robot. It is obvious that they spent a large part of their budget in this department. The music is beautiful too except for some engrish and the fact tha…
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The first few episodes had some problems, but nothing unforgivable, and the show actually seemed really awesome at first. There was so much they could do in the world they had set up.
Would the main character become a cunning LeLouche? Perhaps a brave Suzaku? Will we identify with his teen angst like we do with Shinji? Will he seem human?
The answer to all of these questions ends up being "no." The main character is someone you increasingly dislike as the show goes on.
Not only is he generic, he's a bad execution of the generic shonen protagonist. He doesn't feel very human, and his courage & competency literally manifest only as required by the plot, only to disappear immediately afterwards.
Sadly, despite an A-list team and a huge budget they really just made an unbelievably bad seri…
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Guilty Crown belongs to what could possibly be the most frustrating of shows: ones which are well produced but poorly executed. Sharp visuals and a strong soundtrack are always a plus. However, they don't compensate for haphazard writing and overly hammy direction. Guilty Crown suffers from both of these.
The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic Japan, that is ridden with a deadly disease after a catastrophe called Lost Christmas. The nation has been taken over by militarists in order to supposedly prevent the spread of the disease. Shu is a normal high school student, going about his life adhering to the status quo. That is until gets involved with Inori, the lead singer of the music sensation Egotist, and member of the resistance group Funeral Parlor. Shu then finds himself in the mi…
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With the large amount of Guilty Crown reviews going around lately, It wouldn't be too hard to find a 'decent' review, right? well that's not the case at all, It seems that most of the reviews are either written by blind fan-boys/fan-girls or haters, 10's,9's,4's and 3's seem to be the popular choice of overall rating, though looking at Guilty Crown in a balance way, this anime definitely deserves a 7 and I'll explain why in the next couple of paragraphs which will you most likely will flick through.
= Story (3) =
If you have been watching Guilty Crown or have seen some of the rantings on the forums, you would know that the story is filled with cliché's and awful execution (for the most part anyway), So I won't go that in-depth to the story, basically just think of it as a mecha-action-su…
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Cliches. What anime nowadays doesn't have cliched moments? In my opinion, using cliches isn't that bad. That is, when it's not overdone and poorly used.
Guilty Crown is the perfect example of an interesting premise going wrong. It is a very formulatic show : following every damn cliches in anime history. It seems Production I.G tried really hard to make something revolutionary. It is revolutionary ; this anime completely changed my opinion of what a poorly written plot is. And not only the plot, the characters are mostly one-dimensional, and some of them bipolar.
First of all, the story is just plain uninteresting. It's mostly a mash-up of every cliches the team behind the production could find. I mean, couldn't they come up with something more original than the usual "boy meets girl who…
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*edited* As I've finished Guilty Crown, I'll re-review it, keeping the end of the series in mind.
Guilty Crown had an endless amount of potential. While watching its earlier episodes, I really, really liked the series and fought to support it among the fandom. But then, this happened--
music: I'm amazing.
art: I'm beautiful.
plot: I suck
This pretty much sums it up. Guilty Crown's OST and animation are phenomenal, and no viewer can deny that. However, the plot, in essence, sucked. It seems as if it was made to specifically rely on cliffhangers and events that would excite the audience for a few seconds. You could actually relate the plot to the classic penny dreadfuls.
The plot got very lost among those attempted plot twists, as a few elements of the story were not justified or relativ…
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Re-edit 2 years after watching the show!
Story
9/10
The amazing part about it is that they'd leave you with more questions every time they offer some hint. And they do it little by little. Too bad that people never cared to look into it.
Art
9/10
It was wonderful in most episodes, but some were sloppy (e.g. ep 21). The character designs are great. By the way, there are very specific reasons why they made Inori wear those outfits other than the fan-service. Sound
9/10
The OP/ED's are real monster. What's more, they're perfect fits for GC. Departures is singing of the people who died from FP's struggle for freedom (though nominally it seems like a love song). TEGC is singing of hope, one of the bigger themes explored during the latter 11 episodes. EGOIST continues to release songs for ot…
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