Sleep. Whether you get 2 hours a night or 14, sleep is something that even the most hardy of humans can't live without. Therefore, if you stay up when you're tired, you're doing something pretty fun or pretty stressful.
I started this, continued watching this, and stayed up to quite late in the night, or early in the morning. I think I only got 2 hours that night. Like Future Diary and Akame ga Kill, something about Guilty Crown made me keep watching. Why?
This was my 10th anime, and even after seeing FMAB and Fate/Zero and Hunter x Hunter (2011) and Code Geass and Steins;Gate, I was impressed. It stood out for the piercing quality of its art, its beautiful and high-octane soundtrack, and the pure epicness of Shu Ouma's pulling weapons out of people's hearts. Production I.G. is something else, truly. The explosions. The Voids. The hairstyles. The mecha. Awesomeness manifested.
Hiroyuki Sawano, the composer. If you didn't know already, he has a penchant for doing soundtracks for post-apocalyptic themed anime -- Guilty Crown, Attack on Titan, Owari no Seraph, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. His style is thunderous, rolling along very quickly in a fashion musically akin to a live-action film soundtrack. I'd say it's kinda close to Henry Jackman or even Hans Zimmer, in the anime world for comparison. It's definitely high-octane. My next favorite after Akira Senju and Kotaro Nakagawa (FMAB, Code Geass). Anyways, Guilty Crown has its fair share of charged music and emotively poignant music, to match the action and gentle moments in the anime. Inori is a very gentle and fairy-like character -- you can't help but be drawn to her.
Character. You have Shu Ouma, the protagonist, who can draw Voids -- weapons that manifest the souls of their source bodies -- from people and fight with them. The world is post-apocalyptic, after a virus swept the populace and a corrupted government monitors the infected. You have Inori, the famous singer and member of the rebellion, who is a soft support to Shu. You have Gai, the rebellion leader with cool long hair (guys look cool with long hair, after all) who holds such a command over his followers. What is really going on behind the scenes? What was the origin of the virus?
Watch as Shu bears the burden of his guilty crown, the power of kings.
