Discussion Anime / GuiltyCrown

I think we can. He's just moving his head around to stick his ear piece in. If it looks like he's looking at his hand, then it's just the animation director futzing up and forgetting how exactly a blind man would act in that situation. Or not; I've never actually watched a blind person trying to put an ear phone in. Maybe they got it exactly right.

Now that you bring it up, perhaps Shu might not have been *completely*, 100%, "world of darkness" blind, but maybe the kind of blind where he can see only a tiny bit, as blurs at very close range. It would explain how he didn't seem to be staring off into space all the time.

But blind people have better hearing, so Shu may have been able to discern which direction it was. I'm just not sure what blind people would do in that situation.

Blind people aren't Daredevil. That's an urban legend. They just rely on it more, and since Shu was blind for a relatively short time, he'd have developed few of the skills that, say, someone who ws blind from birth might have had.

Close your eyes or wear a blindfold and start moving your hands. It might come to you as a surprise, but you likely will instinctively know where your hand is in relation to your own body. Just like most people can, as we control our bodies not by thinking "and now I need to flex this muscle" but rather by visualising where do we want some body part to be. Thus, barring outside interferences he should have no problems inserting an earphone since it's small and designed to be easily inserted.

I despise Shu and Inori far more.

So you're going to stop watching Guilty Crown again next week?

Too late for that.

Well, why don't we just create another page for them and link it under the Wham Episode entry on the page. We can just put them all there. There was another anime, Pant and Stocking, that did something similar, but with Shout Outs.

I approve this. If we are listing shout-outs and wham episodes for other animes (look at macross or Madoka), there is no reason not to do it for this one. Something like "Wham episode : see the trope's page" would be fine.

OK... But where are all the wham episode listings we already did? Did somebody up and delete them? So we're going to have to rewrite all of them for the list of wham episodes? Ugh... *goes to go make wham episode list page*

Guilty Crown: The only show that tries to substitute Wham Episodes for actual plot or character development.

On the topic of strangely similar characters, the main characters or the Lost Christmas video game look VERY similar to Shu and Inori. Case in point: Shu lookalike◊ and Inor lookalike.◊ (I really hope Shu wids up looking more like that guy. He his HOT!)

Honestly, they had the right idea in that instance. Shu was seriously losing his grip, and was starting to devolve into full Caligula-mode. The advantages granted by his Void Genome were rapidly circling the plughole. Plus, by that point he'd given them their exit-route, so he was no longer necessary.

They've made some stupid decisions in the past, but I don't think that was one of them.

But then what was the point of rebelling after they had a way outside? They were free! There was no more need for an organized system like that. It was as simple as making sure everyone made contact with their families at that point. and you still can't deny how Shu's leadership and strict means of keeping everyone in line was what made that possible.

Simple. They didn't want him to get away with what he'd done. I doubt that the Rank Fs dying from the Apocalypse Virus, the people who'd seen their friends cut down and their Voids destroyed by the GHQ, and everyone else who Shu had forced into line though terror and random acts of brutality were feeling especially grateful towards him, and that's what Arisa harnessed.

Watch someone at GHQ put them through some kind of "The Reason You Suck" Speech about how what they'd done was so predictable and foolish.

(Sorry for the multiple replies; having some weird editing issues.)

Either that or they all get killed.

Sure, but I'm increasingly unconvinced that Shu could have helped them with the 'not getting killed' part. Especially since extracting someone's Void leaves them so massively vulnerable, and his judgement and leadership skills were degrading by the day as he slipped into paranoia and alienated his more sensible advisors.

The "they had the right idea" and this kind of thing is why I think there should be a "broken base" or an "alternate character interpretation" somewhere. There is seriously a huge gap between people thinking that Shu was wrong and losing his grip and the ones thinking that the rebellion is just the students being... well, you see what I mean, and it was necessary given the situation. And there is a lot of supporters on both sides. Also, I'm not going into big discussions here because it's not the right place to do it, but the very fact that they make an huge mess of the destroyed void thing is, again, something that is interpreted quite differently from one watcher to another. And making them more vulnerable.... Please. A PILLAR was needed for the girl with a crossbow. On a battlefield, the body would be dead and destroyed far before the void, except for the weakest ones like Hare, which are not supposed to be on the front line in the first place, hence the ranking system. So once again, it being justified is really realtive. Hence why I think that there really should be some kind of indication of the different views the fans have of this part and of Shu's "evils".

Also no, you are not the only one at all. Sure, Shu wasn't nice, but being nice in this situation would have killed everyone, especially since everyone was too carefree for a post-apocalyptic situation where you are short of vaccines and surrounded. A big slap? I'm completely okay with this. What they did? No, I raged, and I know that a LOT of other people did.

Then again, from what we can see in episode 17, it was planned since a long time ago... maybe even more than when Shu screwed up. I guess that it's what happens when you put some rapists wanabee in your personal police... Ironically, almost all the ones wanting to kill him were NOT F-ranks but high-ranked ones. Souta had to tell himself many times that he was not doing anything wrong.

The rest of the show's animation is so spectacular. I think they need to save money where they can. The wonderful animation for the voids and the cityscapes definitely makes up for the CG robots.

The official site has the OST release as January 25th. I, for one, am stoked. I need this OST.

Although the setting and premise are at least somewhat similar, and the first episode did indeed give me Code Geass flashbacks, it's not fair to judge it by that episode alone, and I do agree that as far as tone and characters are concerned, it's clearly doing its own thing.

Shu does get into pretty much the exact same situation as Lelouch did in the first episode of Code Geass. That's why the comparisons are made, despite them having very different personalities.

part of the problem is that the anime is made by the same people as code geass and a lot of the descriptions of it made it sound kinda like code geass; at least for me i could read a lot of similarity. (to start with, japan is being occupied by some significant international power. there is a mysterious resistance attempting to subvert the grip of said power. cue sexy political warfare.) only when we started watching it, it definitely was not code geass.

as for the ways in which it was not like code geass, ymmv.

It was absolutely spectacular, and I seldom say that about anything.

I am.