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I Feel so Sorry for You.
THIS… IS…. SERIOUS BUSINESS! SHE IS NOT CG, SHE’S A DOLL! MORON!!!!!
HOW DARE YOU INSULT INORI BY CALLING HER CG?! SHE’S A DOLL, YOU FOOL!
DAMN RIGHT YOU’RE A MORON.
MAYBE THEY DO THINK ABOUT IT. I WOULD. (BUT WITH BETTER INSULTS)
So… what were they trying to say with this, exactly? Could his words be Shuu’s… GUILTY CROWN?!!!
Show, Don’t Tell
Guilty Crown has been terrible at this so far. Last episode they showed that Gai was a genius by having Shuu and Inori say “Wow, everything went according to plan. Gai is a genius.” This episode was similar.
As one example, the new villain is introduced. Random Bad Guy A: “Is he smart?” Random Bad Guy B: “Almost too smart.” He traced some drug network in a week, too. Great, now we know he’s smart. I’m so scared, they’re going to get caught.
Next we explain the properties of Voids. “How should we do this?”, the creators must have asked.
“I know, we’ll have Shuu recite the Void Rules!”
“Where do these Void Rules come from?”
“He’ll make them up! It’ll be like how God gave Moses the Ten Commandments!”
“But that was cool cause it had lightning bolts, pyrotechnics and idol worship.”
“True… I know! Listen to this! In the middle of reading them, we’ll have Shuu grope a random girl’s chest!”
“Brilliant.”
Come on, this was retarded. Rule 1: Voids can only be drawn from people 17 years old and younger. The reason is unclear, or at least it’s a secret from me. That’s nice. Why do I care? That’s not even a rule, it’s a fact. This is a power that can only be used by pedophiles.
Rule 2: When you withdraw a void from someone, that person loses their memory of the event. Ok. I feel like you could have told this much more effectively just by having Inori lose her memory. Why announce it out of nowhere? And again, it isn’t even a rule.
And the recital of rule two is the cue for some groping.
I didn’t even realize people aside from Inori had Voids though. Was I supposed to?
Inori
So this girl is supposed to be a member of the underground resistance. She’s also supposed to be a popular idol. How is it, then, that she is so utterly worthless on her own?
After meeting him the other day, she is now utterly independent on Shuu. She moves into his house, worries that she’s a burden to him, and asks “Shuu. Can I stay with you forever?”
Ugh.
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OBVIOUSLY YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE DEEP SYMBOLISM OF GUILTY CROWN. IT IS THE STORY OF ALL GENERATIONS.
…I’m having way too much fun mocking this thing.
INORI HAS SEALED HER HEART IN THE DEPTHS OF THE REFRIGERATOR. HER HEART IS COLD AS ICE.
He pulled a void out of someone else in the last episode.
Also, if you use the power on someone the same as you, you aren’t a pedophile, but I get where you are coming form. 😛
And, this show isn’t thaaaat bad, I mean Inori is pretty cute, right, right?
Also the image of him complaining about no one caring about his feelings made this episode for me. Seriously, I have no idea why, but I loved that moment.
I think, people were expecting this show to be more serious, but now, it’s gone the comedy route, though the unfortunate thing is that, it can’t pull of this kind of generic comedy while at the same time, be introducing such “serious, evil” villains.
What, seriously? I don’t remember that at all. Goes to show how memorable this show is.
That moment when he complained that no one cared about his feelings was hilarious. Unintentionally so, perhaps, but hilarious nonetheless.
And you’re right, the comedy here isn’t working. At all.
You know what really ticked me of? “The twist”, not because it wasn’t expected, but because it was stupid. I knew that the friend was Sugar all along (so obvious), but after the make up scene, I had hope, hope that finally I could watch an anime with a decent male friendship, BUT NOOOOOO, they just had to go and throw that idea out the window.
I actually like the idea. The problem was the friendship was never established prior to this episode, nor was it established all that well in this episode. Even the scene where they made up was narration instead of actually showing the dialogue between the two. So when the twist came, all I could say was, “what an ass”. And I also complained that Inori should have shot the guy, because she’d at least be doing something useful in this anime.
I disagree, Inori provides Inori fanservice, and that is really one of the few good things about this anime. 😛
Agreed about the friendship. That “friend” is just a complete ass. Inori should have shot him. Of course, I don’t think I could be friends with the main character without lying through my teeth either though, so I’ll cut him a bit of slack.
Hahahaha, I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought it odd that he was condemned for likening her to CG, despite his friend thinking of her as a doll. As beautiful as her character design is, Inori truly lacks in anything that even remotely interests me. Her one outstanding feature, which isn’t even her voice actress, is the music that “she” sings. I still can’t get the first song from the first episode out of my head.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if the owner of the fridge void is a character from Ben-to…
That song in the first episode was beautiful. But she’s still completely empty as a character. Shuu’s friend is right, she is nothing more than a doll.
Perhaps the fridge belongs to the Ice Queen.
That CG conversation cracked me up. Even the show admits that Inori doesn’t have a personality! And why the hell would a secretive terrorist organization have a famous pop singer as a member and not try to disguise her identity at all? That’s a hilariously bad decision and I really hope it bites them in the ass somewhere along the line, but I think I’m using earth logic here.
This episode was so bad. I’m glad we’re past three episodes so I can drop it guilt free. I don’t care about Shu’s predicament one bit and bloody teardrop guy can do what he wants to him for all I care.
Her dual idol / resistance fighter role makes no sense at the moment. And people from her class were able to guess she was a terrorist sympathizer from the lyrics? Why isn’t the occupation force on her tail?
Drop it guilt free? Won’t you have a….*GUILTY CROWN*?!
I only lasted 6 minutes this episode. The BG music was really aggravating, and then once they reached Shu’s apartment it was simply too much to bear.
You didn’t miss much.
Well, that “GOTTA CATCH EM ALL”-part was lol, but yeah, this show isn’t properly functioning.
Also, as someone mentioned about Inori being a famous pop idol. What about the resistance itself? Showing their faces? Talking with Shuu in an open place? Come on.
I have only watched some of Code Geass, but at least it didn’t have these problems. Right?
No, half of Code Geass was about how Lelouch outsmarted everyone to avoid these problems. Here they just aren’t thinking about it at all, it seems.