- Confirmed. Haruka DOES have the 3rd Void Genome, though she didn't want to give it to Shu because a second use of the Genome would be most likely fatal for him. He gets it anyway though.
- It appears to be confirmed, though the real form of his void takes is the Tron Lines arm from the opening.
- Let me correct myself. Shu's Void TAKES other people's Voids, and lets him use them when he wants. It's basically a portable Pocket Dimension for Void storage purposes. The thing is he also takes other things with the Voids...like the Apocalypse Virus.
- Jossed: The arm is Shu's Void given physical form.
- It appears to be confirmed. Although Inori may come back in the second season depending on artistic direction.
- Confirmed, she even tries to rape him through Inori in episode 18.
- Which raises the question as to how she'll react when GHQ attempts to pull an Adam and Eve Plot with her and not Shu again.
- I second this motion.
- Partially confirmed. People were complaining that Shu used them as tools. Gai showed what "using as tools" really means.
- Whether or not he succeeds is another matter. Still he does seem to be remorseful over being so iron-fisted; maybe he'll think sacrificing himself is how he can atone?
- You're right in a way. You see, Heroic Sacrifice is ''the very nature of Shu's Void. It allows him to, in Gai's own words, take on parts of others so that he can shoulder other people's burdens. This allows him to do everything from copy other people's Voids to cure someone of the Apocalypse Virus by absorbing the cancer into himself. DAMN!
- His hand with Tron Lines in the second op may be considered as a confirmation
- We know that someone's void represents who they are as a person, and despite his actions, it's safe to say that Shu really does care about everyone. It'd make sense for his void to be something related to saving or protecting them.
- I just want this to be the case because I feel so bad for Shu! He's essentially the show's resident Woobie!
- Or they will unite under Gai's reign and confront Shu.
- It appears to be Confirmed. After seeing the effects of his Void, the onlookers are suitably shocked.
- As of Episode 16, it appears that flashes of Shu's unstable sister Mana are manifesting somehow through Inori, complete with Slasher Smile and what might be another Brother–Sister Incest tease. Even Shu looked freaked out at one point.
- Apparently Inori actively resists it. For now.
- Can't really explain it, but I am just getting this feeling.
- Ep.15, while Shibungi is playing chess with Segai, he says he'll see 'him' if he wins. Could be Gai.
- Confirmed in Ep.16. Though how much they screwed the checksum while assembling him back is yet to be seen It is really screwed up.
- I Knew It!!!!
- Haruka said that "Shu may never forgive me for this. So there's a good chance that Gai really did come back wrong.
- Turned out he came back right. Too right.
- Just look at the new opening, in episode 13.
- Have you seen where it's going as of episode 15? Shuu is now officially R2-Lelouch. "Kindness is pointless. We need to sort the good from the trash!" sounds like something Lelouch could say.
- More like something epic, Code Geass style.
- So in Episode 9, Yahiro's brother Jun reveals that he could see Yahiro's Void and possibly others. Gai has been revealed to be able to see them as well with no explanation offered. Gai may therefore have an earlier less degenerative state of the disease that he keeps well hidden to say the least, thus conferring upon him said ability.
- Prehaps the blood transfusions he receives from Inori are what allow him to keep his condition under control
- Possibly proven correct by Episode 10 due to the fact that the "genetic resonance" broadcast only seems to affect certain segments of the population with a sudden outbreak of the Virus, including, interestingly enough, Gai.
- Confirmed.
- Theory is essentially just that—the Apocalypse Virus which brought Japan and the world to its current dismal state was engineered as a bioweapon for the purpose of destabilizing the world and giving control to whoever is behind the GHQ forces. This is just a hunch, although the bizarre genetic nature of the disease's effects hints at a laboratory origin at least.
- Jossed. The Apocalypse Virus came from a meteorite crash in Japan.
- Well obviously the GHQ is being controlled by Extraterrestrials who caused the meteorite to crash as part of their plan.
- And Second Impact was caused by a meteor. Yeah, right.
- I Knew It!. In Episode 10 Keido declares "Let us finish what we started—what we lost that Christmas" in reference to the artificial activation of the meteorite..
- Actually, in Episode 12, it is revealed that Ouma Mana (Shu's dead sister) spread it because Shu wouldn't marry her and pushed her away. So, kinda true, I think...
- Jossed. The Apocalypse Virus came from a meteorite crash in Japan.
- This has been hinted around at below, but I'm going to break down my prediction. Inori is in some way artificial and modeled after a girl from Gai's past. This comes both from the cryptic reference Gai made in Episode 5 as well as the fact that in the Theme Song there are two Inoris which walk together and become one. I also think it's hinted at from the pendant which Gai is seen clutching in the Theme as well, which probably belonged to the original Inori first. I think that the Apocalyptic Virus was what killed the original Inori, just like what is afflicting Yahiro's little brother. As noted below, her artificiality would explain some of her uncanny abilities and general social detachment, as well as her devotion to Gai. Also in Episode 6, during an Inori Void sequence, there is a brief flash of a much more normal looking girl with straight brown hair similar to Gai's who may in fact, be the original.
- This has been my thought as well. She's possibly a clone of Gai's sister (since he mentions someone he was close to), and the flashes of memory are the sister's (as there are theories that memories could be encoded in genes), each time Shu extracts a Void, he unleashes more of the memories. Which I'll elaborate in a different WMG.
- This may be only partially right as later flashbacks seem to hint she may have actually been Shu's sister, though there still may be a connection to Gai.
- True. More specifically, Inori is modeled after Shu's sister, Mana, who saved Gai the summer before Lost Christmas.
- When Shu gets the Void Genome we see a bunch of quick flashbacks. There was a woman that resembled Shu, in some sort of fire and bleeding. I believe that this may be a repressed memory of some sort, and that it will act as either the cause of Shu either taking a level in badass or having some sort of horrible breakdown.
- Unlikely, as Shu mentions his mother telling him about the outbreak. The woman looks more like Inori, so it's possible she's her mother instead.
- I've been jossed. She's alive and has some connections with GHQ.
- Actually, Haruka is Shu's step-mother. Shu's real mother died of Apocalypse Virus during childbirth.
- Shu's flashbacks show a young girl who resembles Inori and was infected with the same crystal-like state. However, it could have very well been from Inori (or the Inori look-a-like) since the weapon that Shu extracts is sort of crystallized in appearance as well.
- Some credence to this theory is the fact that Gai remarks how Inori very closely resembles someone he once knew in episode 5.
- And that girl is revealed to be Shu's sister (whom Shu had forgotten all about to protect himself from sadness).
- Some credence to this theory is the fact that Gai remarks how Inori very closely resembles someone he once knew in episode 5.
- HAHAHA!! I CALLED IT! But he wasn't abducted because of the void genome. Shu's friend spilled that he had connections to Funeral Parlor.
- Being the asshole Blood Knight he is (They don't call him Kill 'Em All Daryl for nothing) he'll do it purely for the hell of it, or at least have a substantial amount of Break the Haughty Humiliation Conga heaped onto his life.
- seems like he feels something for Tsugumi.
- Aaand he disobeyed the orders beacuse of it, so may be confirmed
- Shu's hair is brown, but he has a lock of pink hair near the front. This could be anything from simple fan devotion to a crucial point in the backstory. We'll find out as the series progresses, probably.
- I dunno. It doesn't really look pink. It's a really pale tan as far as I can tell.
- Yes, you are partly right. In the anime, it's almost always portrayed as a pale tan rather than outright pink. But, here is some official artwork from the Guilty Crown website that shows him having a pink strand.
- I dunno. It doesn't really look pink. It's a really pale tan as far as I can tell.
- Well, Shu's dad had the same strand, so it appears he simply inherited it.
- Most likely jossed, having your Void removed is so big shock that you forget the event and what happened directly before it.
- Un-jossed! Daryl might not remember having his Void removed, but he's seen Shu in action with the voids more than once (although the voids hide his face from electronic devices, including Endlave cameras). Daryl goes straight for him every time they see each other in battle. He seemed rather pissed in episode 10 when he couldn't beat Shu.
- On the other hand, if we go with the WMG that being used as a Void weapon has negative effects, Shu might be killing his "friends" and finding that out will lead him to being a pragmatic hero (or villain) who is willing to sacrifice anyone to achieve his goals.
- The power of his Void essentially makes him into this. He takes in EVERYTHING with his Void...including the taint of the Apocalypse Virus, which appears on his body. However, he arguably lapses into Dark Messiah a bit, as he says he "will dirty his hands as much as it takes for them (his friends)".
- This may or may not be true. It's been confirmed that Gai can see people's Voids, but we don't know why.
- Jossed in episode 10, he suffers from the Apocolypse Virus.
- Un-Jossed, who could have thought that taking away the Void Genome would be as simple as cutting the owner's arm?
- Though, on second thought, it may be subverted: Gai doesn't use the Void Genome, he uses his own void which draws others' voids. So Shu may as well still have Void Genome.
- He doesn't. Gai really took Shu's void, and this is seen when he extracts the Void of a scientist by hand to capture Inori. Shu gets the final Void Genome though.
- Un-Jossed, who could have thought that taking away the Void Genome would be as simple as cutting the owner's arm?
- Probably something like, I don't know, brain damage, probably?
- Confirmed and subverted: keeping the Void away from the user is generally ok for any period of time, but breaking it means dying of the owner
- That is, if he wasn't killed in episode 4.
- They would've shown something like that.
- Wat exactly forces them to not drop it as some big thing next episode?
- They would've shown something like that.
- Jossed. No one cares about that anymore, besides, Yahiro piled up enough other lies
- I think that you do have something there... But I feel like it would wind up being like Code Geass, only from the perspective of those that weren't aware of the details of the Zero Requiem. (I'm not spoiler tagging this because this isn't a Code Geass page, but some major CG spoilers are coming.) Gai wants everyone to consider him evil in order to pull of some sort or massive Batman Gambit involving the population of Japan somehow.
- As of Ep.17, he indeed is evil.
In episode one, she was shot, fell off a bridge, and abused, yet there are no signs of injuries besides a bandage on her arm. In episode four she invaded a highly guarded prison solo in plain sight without being shot down, jumped above 50 feet into the air over a building, and freefalled down that same height with probably no knowledge of Kenji's gravity gun and expected to live. Episode five reveals that she looks like a certain woman and had no name until Gai gave her one. A plausible theory is that she's a clone of said woman and maybe Gai was involved in breaking her out of somewhere and giving her a chance to live as a person rather than an experiment, thus her lines of "He gave me a world." This would possibly explain her lack of a personality as well.
- To no insult to the voice actress, it could be an explanation for her well-regarded singing: it's all the result of programming and hardware.
- I always thought that Inori's outfit◊ looked as if it was based off of VOCALOID Miku Append's outfit.◊ If Inori is programmed to sing, then that would make a lot of sense considering the character designer's (redjuice of supercell) connection to VOCALOID.
- Proven true in Episode 12.
- If there was any doubt about the validity of this WMG, then Episode 18 should clear them all away. CONFIRMED.
It appears that each time he uses Inori's void, Shu sees flashes of what may be her past (or another girl's as some theories propose). This could also hold true for the other people he's extraced a Void from, which could play a role down the road for both Shu's sanity, and growth as a character.
From what has been shown so far, he just seems to be have a rather weird fixation on seeing amazing sights like the Void power, to whether a person like Shu will do what is expected of their nature.
- As of episode twelve, this really looks like the case. Segai even helps out the good guys just because Keido wouldn't let him go any further. He calls it his way of "picking on him." (According to the Funimation translation at least.)
- Ayase's void is a wheelchair.
- Shu's Void is Crown of Thorns.
- It's actually the Tron Lines arm from the 2nd opening, which replaces his missing right arm. It lets him absorb other's Voids so that he can use them at will, AND it can take away the Apocalypse Virus...but only if Shu bears it instead. Also, if he dies when he has someone else's Void, they die too.
- He's too socially capable for that, schizoid personality disorder may be a closer call.
- People with asperger can be socially capable, it's just not an automatism for them since they have to process everything through logic. Given how slow he is in most of his social interactions, it might work.
And about the "Apocalypse Virus is from a meteor" Jossing further up the page...who's to say that it's not simply GHQ propaganda?
- I think it's the other way around. I think that the virus came from the meteor, like GHQ said, but while developing the vaccine, they found out how the virus worked (lets just assume that the crystallization happens when the virus screws with people's genes) and managed to refine the process into the Void Genomes.
- Jossed. The virus was spread and apparently amplified by the original infectee, the first person to touch the meteorite: Mana Ouma. The Void Genome apparently came later.
- I retract that jossed. It seems that the third Void Genome mentioned belongs to the main character of the Lost Christmas video game. If the game takes place during the earlier stages of Lost Christmas or if Lost Christmas itself didn't last for a very long amount of time, then it's still possible.
- Gonna have to re-Joss here. Unless there's an unmentioned fourth Void Genome, the third just got used by Shu.
- I retract that jossed. It seems that the third Void Genome mentioned belongs to the main character of the Lost Christmas video game. If the game takes place during the earlier stages of Lost Christmas or if Lost Christmas itself didn't last for a very long amount of time, then it's still possible.
- Addendum to the above: Gai will imprison them and create a sort of electronic catalog that allows Shu to draw any of the people's Voids, wherever he is and whenever he wants (this is based on the OP).
- Partially Right: In the show's second half YAHIRO sets up a Void ranking system for Shu made up of the students at their school.
- Judging by Ep.16 and everyone's vague remarks, all involved parties are interested in army of void users under Shu's reign, for one reason or another.
- Also judging by Ep.17 and the preview of Ep.18, Yuu has apparently a literal void storage.
- Confirmed in episode 10
- Your power to extract voids has grown!
- Heck, he even fused voids in one episode.
- Well, sort of. He's more part of a Big Bad Duumvirate, the other major player being Yuu.
- Either with Shu or with Gai. Most likely Shu.
- The legs may have an explanation. There are ways to exercise even paralyzed legs.
- Developing WMG further, her leg trauma may be psychosomatic in nature.
- Hare's Void can heal broken things
- Shu's Void can remove the Apocalypse Virus from the bodies of others...but the Virus will appear on his body instead.
- Doesn't look like that's gonna be the case any time soon. Also, it would be too cliché to be likely.
- At this point, there's basically no Funeral Parlor anymore
- Partially confirmed: Shibungi, Kido and Gai are working for the GHQ, Argo, Ayase, Oogumo and Tsugumi are apparently on their own now, as is Shu and Inori. All the others are apparently dead.
- Jossed: Hare's dead, so alas, not by her
- Keido only released the virus. Ouma Mana spread it because Shu didn't want to marry her.
- Jossed, Shu used Yahiro's Void to cut his life in episode 19. Then again, Gai came back, so it's honestly still possible.
- The virus itself needed/wanted Shu for some reason. Mana mentioned genes or something along those lines when she finally popped the question to young Shu when they were in the church. Maybe Shu has compatible or special genes like that; something that the virus needs in order to advance. if this is the case, it could lead to more complications for Shu later in the series.
- Seemed to be confirmed by Shu's dad in episode 20 that he has a specific genetic sequence that is somehow special, so yeah.
- seems like Ep.17 is going to be like this, judging by the preview
- Confirmed for Ep.17, though I suspect there will be yet another such episode.
- That same red ring also appeared when Shu first drew Inori's Void and when Keido tried to Mary her in order to awaken Mana. I don't think that it represents death, but something important bout life and life's connection to Voids.
- Judging by all the semiotics and symbolism stuff in Op 2, she may be the only one of the principal cast who's alive in the end.
- Yep. She does.
- Confirmed. Turned out to be burn scars. He's healed by Hare, at the price of her own life.
- Although having a Void Genome is essentially saying "you have no void," if done well, this could be very cool. At the last moment, his void would be the representation of all of his character development—his hardship hainv g formed his Void into something incredible and powerful. However, if they do this poorly, it could feel like Deus ex Machina meets New Powers As The Plot Demamds, with Suu in desperate need of an omnipotent Void.
- That, or maybe he can revive anyone he used the Voids from.
- Since it's been heavily implied that the Void Genome nullifies the "king" in questions' Void, the fact that in episode seventeen Gai comes back evil and promptly chops Shu's arm off and steals the Void Genome, this might happen in episode 18.
- Confirmed. Shu finally uses his own Void after gaining the third Void Genome in episode 19. It's full effects have been described as the ability to absorb other people's Voids, cancerigenous cells, and the Apocalypse Virus, the latter of which appears on his own body. Also, according to Shu, if he dies while he has other people's Voids inside of him (because it takes them and KEEPS them within him), they die too.
- Proven. Its result is a tearjerker, nightmarefuel for everyone (especially Inori), Took a Level in Jerkass, Heroic BSoD, and a stare that would do Light proud.
- Jossed: Gai and GHQ took them under their control.
- Or maybe there's no President Keido at all.
- Jossed. Segai's obsession with Shu was a subsequent result of his obsession with Voids, although he does seem...happiest...when Shu is the one using the Void Genome. He's not nearly as ecstatic when Yuu or Gai do so. He also doesn't protest at all to Shu gaining the final Void Genome, whereas he pulled out all the stops to keep Ayase from using it. And also, it's been 100% stated that Shu's father is dead: he was killed by Keido. And the previews for episode twenty show that it's going to be another flash back episode, and we've already been shown Shu's dad in the previews. He looks nothing like Segai and seems to be a genuinely benevolent scientist.
- For Souta it'll mostly be out of revenge, while for the others it'll be to "Seperate the trash form the good."
- Jossed. That most definitely wasn't a time-traveling Shu. It was a then-nameless boy escaping from a facility where children had horrific experiments involving the Apocalypse Virus performed on them.
- Also, it was confirmed earlier in the series that he was an informant working directly under Segai. Who's the say hes still not working for him?
- Essentially confirmed. And Inori is scared of it.
- or maybe the scanner shows numbers at random.
- May as well say everyone will die, and the world will end, and Shu will create a new world. What? Don't look at me like that.
- Completely jossed.
- I will become the light to shine in your path, even the king of this world cannot block me out
- There are even lyrics that allude to Shu's Start of Darkness!!I lost all my chances. The time that you, who had been engulfed by darkness / Seemed to swallow all of your hidden despair
- It's possible Gai's Void, which was pulled out by Yuu earlier in the episode AND has the ability to pull out Voids, fused with his new Void-Arm when he absorbed the Genome from Shu. It looks different and does the same things, but it is 100% genuine Void Pulling.
- Jossed, he just took the third of the three.
- Not exactly a WMG, since the guy who helped the raiders was clearly Segai.
- Completely jossed. Shu's Void is essentially an extension of regular Void Extraction. He pulls the Void, and then his Void absorbs it. He can keep multiple Voids (currently unknown how many, but potentially infinite), and use them at will. His arm is basically a pocket dimension where he keeps Voids that he can pull out to use whenever he needs them, and he can simply return them to their owners later. The additional effect of his Void is that it also takes in the Apocalypse Virus infection from those whose Void he extracts. That person is then cleansed of the Virus, but their infection appears on Shu's body instead. And lastly, if Shu dies while he's absorbed other people's Voids, then those people die with too.
- Have you heard of GUILTY CROWN: Princess of Deadpool? Though it's a Spin-Off, so it may very well have a different plotline.
- Despite being a Spin-Off, it is confirmed that it's also a sequel. This cover image has an older, post-epilogue Shu, looking anguished, in the upper left corner.
- How does that look like Post-Epilogue Shu? We can only see his head, and other images regarding the spin-off show him in a school uniform PULLING OUT A VOID
- Despite being a Spin-Off, it is confirmed that it's also a sequel. This cover image has an older, post-epilogue Shu, looking anguished, in the upper left corner.
- They did it with Mana and Gai, so why the hell not? after all, Yuu is an essential part of the plan to bring The End of the World as We Know It to fruition. It's possible he was simply a regular guy who ended up being The Chosen One by Da'ath and is killed and then revived to make him effectively youthful forever. This would also prevent him from escaping the prophecy by killing himself- just revive him and get him good and Brainwashed, and you're good to go.
- Think about it - he's exactly twenty seven years old. That would make him the perfect age to Pull voids during the lost christmas outbreak.
- It was 17, not 27.
- I mean c'mon: It came from a meteor strike just like Phazon and Tiberium, it has the horrific Body Horror effects of Tiberium of crystals growing out of the body, it has the crystalline structure of Tiberium and the purple-bluish coloring of Phazon, and it has the semi-sentient nature of Phazon. As for the Voids: considering that Phazon and Tiberium are basically capable of doing anything in large enough quantities, it's not that much of a stretch. Not to mention at the end of the show, every last trace of the Apocalypse Virus disappears without harming anything else, in a case of No Ontological Inertia AND the effort of a Messianic Archetype, much like how all Phazon in the universe vanished upon the death of Aurora Unit 313 and how Kane used the Threshold Tower to rid the world of all Tiberium at the end of Tiberian Twilight.
- And Yuu is just Kaworu under an assumed name and a different appearance, trying to trigger FOURTH Impact.
- At the True End of the Visual Novel, Scrooge and Carol performed the Guilty Crown to stop the Second Apocalypse. However, their Fate is ambiguous. So, it could be that:
- Both Scrooge and Carol died after performing Guilty Crown (given the fact that Carol had Cancer, and Scrooge is dying due to the effect of his False King's Power). When Sephirah Genomics find their corpse, they extract the completed Void Genome from Scrooge’s right arm to create three copies.
- Scrooge sacrifices himself for Carol just like how Inori sacrificed herself for Shuu who sacrificed for the world in the last episode. If Shuu’s new right arm is really the final form of Scrooge’s right arm, then it’s possible for Scrooge to absorb Carol’s cancer and let her live. Carol will then give birth to Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
- another theory is that both Inori and Overdose (the main character of the Princess of Deadpool Light Novel) are Scrooge and Carol’s children.
- Both Scrooge and Carol live. However, they end up being captured by Sephirah Genomics so that the Void Genome can be copied. They force Scrooge to give up his Void Genome so that copies can be made. As a result, Scrooge’s right arm is decapitated. He does that willingly because he wants to cure Carol’s cancer. Carol is cured and then gives birth to Yet to Come (implied to be Inori and Overdose) who Sephirah Genomics experiment on. As for what really happens to Scrooge and Carol, they were probably released from the lab because Sephora Genomics did not want any interference with Yet to Come AKA Inori/Overdose experiments. Which means that Scrooge/Carol were probably living happily and freely until their last moments after this, although Scrooge lacks his right arm and that they miss their children that they tried to find a way to see them, but failed. With many failures, they slowly gave up and succumb to the death before the beginning of the anime.
- Which makes Inori "Yet to Come". I mean, it's obvious, Inori almost looks like Carol along with having similar roles, and she has Scrooge's eye color. Also, Yet to Come was infected by the Apocalyse Virus within Carol's womb, making her neither alive nor dead, just in a form of a Void. However, when Scrooge and Carol commence Guilty Crown in the True End, with Mana present, this act got Scrooge and Carol crystallize together similar to what happen in the final episode of the anime. The two fugitive have sacrificed their existence not only to save the world temporarily, but also to restore their child with Mana's presence, thus making Yet to Come a "Clone of Mana", now known as Inori.