.Shinnen:New Year is a Guilty Crown Mega Crossover co-author fanfic by Ford1114 and Kanius of their personal take being set years after the anime. This special ‘23rd episode’ is about the canon versions of Shu, Ayase, and Tsugumi meeting new people such as their Guilty Crown: The Lost Kingdoms counterparts and the Magical Girls, while there are many subplots to celebrate New Years Eve in Manhattan. However, when Da’ath makes their return with their own Legion of Doom, it’s up to the heroes and villains teaming up to stop then, while the canon!Shu confronts his past for his salvation.
This is also taking place in Kanius Production Abridged as the fourth story, where these corners have parodied what its like for the crossover characters to have parties. The main fanfics that are use in this shared universe are YuYuGiDigiMoon, Digimon Fusion Kai, and Digimon Accel Stream. However, Shinnen:New Year stands out as a sophisticated special with grimmer situations, despite retaining the same tropes. It is also served as the series finale to that fanfic franchise.
This fanfic provide examples of:
- Actionized Sequel: To Guilty Crown and Kanius Production Abridged's House of Madoka. This has a lot more intensive fights and deaths.
- Adaptational Badass: There are characters that obviously have one:
- Upon getting his powers back in Chapter 12, Canon!Shu's skills in using the Void Genome improves and has a headstrong attitude in stopping GHQ/Da'ath.
- Canon!Ayase plays a major role in receiving a new Endlave that's much stronger than her previous ones.
- Ascended Extra: Yuu and Da'ath themselves, going from minor characters and Greater-Scope Villain to the main antagonists.
- Continuity Nod:
- Despite being a stand-alone mega crossover, this references past Abridged corners/stories alongside Guilty Crown itself.
- House of Madoka, the fancy party club that the magical girls owned for the characters is mentioned many times as a past experience of a fun celebration.
- Foreshadowing: Chapter 1 has Jurassic World mentioned as one of the movies shown in the festivities, then the Indominus rexes and other hybrids appear as part of Da'ath's army.
- The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: The heroes are the good, the villains are the bad, and Da'ath are the evil.
- Grand Finale: It's the finale of the Kanius Production Abridged series.
- Kaiju: Godzilla, King Ghidorah, and Mothra makes an appearance. The Kaijus from Pacific Rim also make appearances by siding with Da'ath.
- Mons: Digimon and Duel Monsters. Two Charizards are seen as Kirito and Asuna's partners.
- Mythology: First appear in Chapter 6 that many deities and visitors have their divine celebrations. Prominent examples are Classical Mythology and Norse Mythology. Not only that, but religion exists in this shared universe.
- Take That!:
- In Chapter 2, the LK!Guilty Crown characters talk about how the actual anime have mix receptions with the audience and the YYGDM characters shunned Canon!Shu. This shows some payback at the inconsistent writing Guilty Crown has, though it still saddens for our main character (which takes it much further at the end of Chapter 19).
- Chapter 9 has Linkin Park songs heard during the Dragonball and Naruto scenes, indicating how the music band is so overused back in the early days of anime fandom and AMVs. Minako's rant on Sasuke and the Naruto franchise in general connects the authors' interest on Naruto fades since their mindsets have change, it's also to remind how the fanbase is so flawed.
- Chapter 31. They have Superman from DEATH BATTLE! killed by Inkarnierte Mana as making fun of its fanboys. And also, Sasuke killed gives the middle finger to Naruto flashbacks.
