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i thought as a whole it was good, the 1st half was alright 7.5/10 but the second half for me was brilliant 9/10, i loved the osts, the animation and the development of the main character shu, but one of its downside is that some of the characters disappoint you and sometimes the plot can be confusing and the ending imo was rushed but overall i liked it even if a minority of people hated it

Its an awesome anime with good OST. People say its "cliche", but whats cliche now and days? I have watched like... almost 300 anime so everything seems cliche now. (and to be honest, I didn't even find it THAT cliche)

You either hate it, or you love it.

Visually: Impressive
Soundtrack: Outstanding
Story: Interesting, at first
Storytelling: Uneven, Weak and serously Lacking at various points.
Characters: Only Shue is truly developed over the course of events and this is done subtly. Everyone else, Only as the story demands it and then, only barely.

Guilty Crown had tons of potential, but FAILED TO LIVE UP TO IT!!!!

It wasn't that bad. In essence there was a lot of hype when Guilty Crown started and many people had high of expectations for it. People got let down and perhaps a little bitter because of the story and character development.
I would say around episode 15 it started going down hill. There were some pathetic character developments that made you want to beat some ass, as well as a few "WTF?!" turn-around moments with a couple "OMG! I can't believe they just pulled that shit" plot twists.
But over all I would say it wasn't half bad. I gave it a 8/10 for its beautiful art/animation, great musicals, and some touching moments. If you liked Code Geuss, you'll definitely like Guilty Crown.

Story: 7/10 It was good for the first 12 episodes. 13-22 was so-so but ending was a little rushed.
Animation: 8.5/10 Good.
Characters: 7.5/10 I felt it could be better..not much developments there.
Soundtrack: 9/10 xDD

Overall, it's a 8/10 for me.

I, for one, enjoyed the show immensely. However it is not perfect at all. I would definitely recommend it, as i did to a few friends, and they enjoyed the show as well.

I would recommend going into it not expecting anything revolutionary.

I think you should feel bad for thinking others should feel bad about their opinions. I love Guilty Crown.

The story is beautiful, but if it had been longer, it would have been way better and 100x more effective with 99% less haters. There will always be haters though, for any anime. The OST and the art is amazing. The characters also have pretty good development. Like Shu, for example. He evolves so much in the entire season.

I tried my best to love GC...

But I just couldn't. All the way from the ep 1, the directing and script is a giant mess. I can't withstand the show until ep. 12, and then dropped it. I spoiled myself with watching one or two episode in the second cour, but it doesn't enough to boost my interest to try the first cour again.

Not that all of the anime are directed decently, but the problem is...

Watching GC is like watching the anime that you loves very much, but with the plot from the anime that you totally don't like. Wasted potential made some people mad, and I'm glad if some people watching it with no expectation at all. I guess my opinion will be different if I'm going with not expecting anything.

But it didn't change that it was directed and told very bad.

It picks up and I would say 90% of what you get out of Guilty Crown comes after around episode 16

i kept lyeing to myself trying to think this show was good and did a decent job at convincing myself for a bit but frankly, its not, it really isnt, it was almost as bad as code geass R2 and for all the same reasons

Its got some decent ideas down on paper but in execution a train wreck accurately describes iti do agree while this is a peice of shit there is so much worse out there, like these 3 just destroy GC in horribleness

http://myanimelist.net/anime/10491/Higurashi_no_Naku_Koro_ni_Kira
http://myanimelist.net/anime/147/Kimi_ga_Nozomu_Eien
http://myanimelist.net/anime/788/Eiken

hell even after listing those 3 abominations i can still list quite a few other shsows that are worse

http://myanimelist.net/anime/2364/Virus_Buster_Serge
http://myanimelist.net/anime/6773/Shakugan_no_Shana_III_(Final)
http://myanimelist.net/anime/4382/Suzumiya_Haruhi_no_Yuuutsu_(2009)
http://myanimelist.net/anime/886/Amaenaide_yo!!_Katsu!!

and so on, guilty crown is awful but there is sadly so much worse

It really isn't bad, it started off extremely popular and then the people who didn't like it became very vocal when they got annoyed at it's popularity. That's pretty much what happened. Haters gonna hate etc.

to be fair, i feel like an idiot for thinking guilty crown would be good in the first place

come on writers of death note, code geass, and high school of the dead, thats a train wreck just waiting to happen, we got a guy who cant conclude series for shit(death note), a guy who doesnt understand how to make plot points go in a coherent pattern(code geass) and.....well HOTD speaks for itself.

Oh well, and the anime community goes on, GC will fade into obscurity when something worse comes, probably the next code geass or something.

I completely agree. When people contend that the anime proved to be completely generic of a shounen, they failed to assess the second half of Guilty Crown. I enjoyed the second half of Guilty Crown because I never watched a sequence of events in anime like that before, it was heart-breaking, and it was full of action and events that inspired mania.

All in all, the second half of Guilty Crown made up for what the first half was missing.

Are we seriously still arguing over this? For God´s sake °^°


You might also be interested in this, I like this guy´s style of writing:
http://www.lostinanime.com/2012/03/guilty-crown-series-review.html

in terms of actual entertainment value, i actually enjoyed GC more than geass. Yeah it has a lot of flaws, but it's still really enjoyable if you dont nitpick. Also a lot of people jumped the hate wagon up to episode 10, so even when things actually got really good around 12 they still hated everything they saw.

It's not that bad of a show.
It's Decent at best that's all I have to say about it.
What made it so bad is because it was so over-hyped and everyone was so excited for it and then in the end it really failed everyone's expectations.

Is it worth a watch? eh, it may or may not be. The art and everything is fantastic but the story kind of just fails at some point after the beginning. Then it catches up again and kind of falls again. . . etc etc. The plot isn't all that great let's just say.

Since it's just decent at best some people like it and some people may not but it's not like "OH MY GOD" *barf* bad.
It's just meh.

I agree its Decent at the same time it feel's like its missing something. But other that the show is Good. And I really like its okay and I like that plot, its okay to and the art. :)

I'm not trying to harp on you or anything and I agree that the anime is missing something. In my opinion, it really missed out on the development of powers. Shu relied on the same powers the entire anime and everyone else relied on the same skills to complete progressively harder missions. Other than that I would agree that the anime was good. The romance was there, the buildup was there, there was almost a conclusion to every character although they might have been short in the last episode, and most importantly (to me) ShuxInori did happen although Inori died...

Basically what I was looking for in a good anime and I found it.

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(I don't want to put a spoiler tag because then people would be less likely to read it)

To everyone who completely hates the anime:

And I don't understand how it was bad. I forgot what the specific term for this phenomenon was but every time you watch an anime or some other fictional motion picture, you have to be willing to discard at least some of your practicality. The most prominent argument among Guilty Crown haters is that there were so many plot holes and that certain things made no sense including the first episode where the Endlave missed several targeted missiles at Inori. You have to understand that the anime wouldn't be possible without skipping over these flaws. I mean of course that scene would have made more sense if Tsugumi hacked the enemy Endlave and caused the missiles to miss but how would that completely ruin the entire anime?

The second argument I see is that Guilty Crown perpetrated almost every generic shounen anime. While this may be true, Guilty Crown executes the sequence of events very well. The show also leaps forward and certain things happen that wouldn't happen in any other show that hid in the safe shadow of predictability. Shu's arm got cut off.... Rarely do animes permanently damage their main character and Guilty Crown actually executed the story based off that very well.

Although this comes across as a review, it really isn't. I'm just defending how Guilty Crown was a good, if not extremely good, anime.

Jpark, I have some aspects in your post I disagree with:

The Shu x Inori was obvious since the very beginning, no denying that. However, those two would hardly have a real interaction which could be considered valid for a romantic build up, as if sharing the screentime was enough. As a consequence, when they realise they are for each other, that they can´t be without the other, etc., one cannot help that it feels "forced". The Tsugumi x Daryl implied pairing had it worse.

You´ll have to help me remember those important build ups, because I recall more asspulls than anything. There was some foreshadowing before the Shu-Gai-Mana revelation, that´s for sure.

I think it´s this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief

There´s a limit at how much you can shallow, specially in an anime that pretends to be serious and pretentious (they touched Christianity and Evolution thematics several times during the series). If some gigantic tentacle monster suddenly appeared in the middle of the city without advicing nor anything, would you have thought it was okay?
The producers even made a rule set for how Voids works, but that core aspect of the show wasn´t even respected ("Eye contact is necessary to extract a Void", "How Shu´s power would change if he got close with others") since at the second half of it, they suddenly started to broke its own rules over and over and over again (how could Gai make a Void missile like that out of the blue in episode 18? That didn´t make any sense!!)

Not sure if it´s a good thing when most of it wasn´t properly managed. I mean, if you´re going to take some serious and important themes such as religion at least don´t pull it in a way that seemed the creators didn´t gave a dim and just did to make it "look cool" when actually they were embarassing themselves.

Because of the budget, the promotion, the noitaminA slot, and the staff (who were shameless enough to attempt to dissimulate the show´s trainwreck nature in an interview) the show was easily relived before its airing, which it´s probably one of the main reasons that it´s now deemed a terrible series when, actually, it´s just an average to mediocre show (at least when it comes to writing and directing). Mind you that I'm not saying GC would be beloved if it weren't a NoitaminA show - its faults are its own, and they would have been pointed regardless. Just wondering if that might have amplified the hate a bit.

I'm not saying ridiculous things like that are acceptable. Anyways, when does something of that magnitude even occur? You're trying to swallow my words to try make my argument seem ignorant. Nothing personal but I read this entire list of about 100 things that don't make sense in Guilty Crown and so many haters were saying "so true!" and "see this is why Guilty Crown doesn't make any sense!" I was speaking more to those people before.

Also the part where I said Guilty Crown leapt forward I wasn't really talking about the religion aspect and serious themes. I was discussing the parts where Shu lost his arm and Inori died. To me, those two things are what really made this anime different from other animes.