Guilty Crown episode 5

Meh, the whole Inori doesn’t really like Shu doesn’t quite fit in. Look at Inori’s internal mono­logue and her actions last epis­ode and it feels as if an external per­son came in and real­ised how stu­pid the situ­ation was and had them change it. Fur­ther­more how did Shu know that the void he pulled from the guy would be use­ful, and if he didn’t know isn’t it a bit too con­trived that the guy was the right per­son at the right time, moreover how the hell was he out­run­ning the Knight­mare frame in the first place?

Last epis­ode was bet­ter as it was stu­pid enough for me to turn off my brain and enjoy the explo­sions. This epis­ode feels as if someone came and tried to clean up a bit which again exposes the flaws you highlighted.

I am unable to like this anime and I only find just enough enjoy­ment so I wouldn’t drop it right away. Nice visu­als don’t really affect me, they make no dif­fer­ence if the anim­a­tion is more than totally derp.

The rest was the same shit again. Nice twist on Inori’s char­ac­ter, but tak­ing last episode’s inner mono­logue into con­sid­er­a­tion she still could be a brain­less moeblob.

I still wait to see Gai’s true inten­tions. What he is up to could be a decis­ive factor in judging this anime. That near-religious respect he gets deserves some atten­tion. Through Inori we get to know that every mem­ber of this organ­isa­tion is centered around Gai, so they will do whatever he wants.

Any­body else hat­ing Kana Hanazawa here? She is a great VA but her roles… well, she became a warn­ing sig­nal for utter stu­pid­ity for me.

So last epis­ode Inori had an internal mono­logue about how “cold it felt” while flash-backing to memor­ies of Shu… and this epis­ode expects me to believe that she has no interest in him and did that on Gai’s orders. Right…I don’t think “have an emo­tion­ally tor­men­ted scene where you obvi­ously miss him with NO ONE BUT A ROBOT around to see it” is part of any “Fool Shu” plan.

Also why did it take so god­damn long for Shu to remem­ber he had super­powers? He ran around like a head­less chicken for a good minute or so chased by Ayase’s mech before finally remem­ber­ing he could pull plot devices from people. Why not make a beeline for the first 17 or under look­ing spec­tator the second the match started?

I per­son­ally hated the “per­ver­ted” scene at first, but I grew to like it when I ima­gined Ayase actu­ally hav­ing to wheel her­self over to Shu to slap him while scream­ing the entire way. Too bad the edit­ing of that scene was terrible.

And hon­estly, I think this anime has more in com­mon with Eureka Seven than Code Geass.

I was dis­ap­poin­ted by the whole “Gai is sick” scene. When he greeted Inori into his room, with no shirt on, I began to have hopes that Gai would prove to be more Lelouch-ey. Also to be noticed; the cross by Gai’s bed was the same as the one from epis­ode 1. Does that mean that Gai and Shu have some prier con­nec­tion? Fur­ther­more, the whole, “Gai told Inori to be nice” made all the other epis­odes make a little more sense. Maybe at the end, they’ll give us all a piece of inform­a­tion that will make us all say “Oh! This series wasn’t stu­pid! Now I can see that everything was delib­er­ately place to fall together in the end!” I can only hope!

I love how much dis­cus­sion there is over this mediocre anime. I’ve given up on hop­ing that it will get bet­ter, but I’ll still watch it.

TITS TITS TITS YEAH

Uguu~

At least it looks like they’re set­ting up a reason (maybe not feas­ible or good) for what appeared to be Shu’s memor­ies of Inori from child­hood. At least, that’s what I took out of Gai’s lines when he was lay­ing on the bed and not doing Inori at all. Seems like she’s some sort of clone of someone else, or at the least genet­ic­ally grown or mod­i­fied. He gave her a life? She was a test tube weapon? Meh.

My first thought when she shot down Shu was “exceeelleeeeeent” but it was imme­di­ately ret­conned to “wait, wut?” for all the reason’s every­one else has mentioned.

Though, in defense of Shu’s actions in the mock-battle, it seemed like they tried out what spikey-hair’s void was when he first asked Shu about it.

At least it’s still prettttyyyyyyyyy

Am I the only one won­der­ing why they even bothered giv­ing Shu a paint­ball gun in the Mock Battle?

Im noti­cing that it seems like every epis­ode the writer is try­ing to fix some­thing stu­pid about a pre­vi­ous epis­ode without actu­ally edit­ting what was stu­pid in the first place.

I can just ima­gine the script for epis­ode 2 get­ting passed around and someone ask­ing why the army is so com­mic­ally evil and the writer say­ing he will just fix that later and hope we just assume that they hap­pend to send out the crazy divi­sion and that every other army divi­sion is normal.

They of course copied this approach for this epis­ode and just had her say that there rela­tion­ship was based all on Gai’s orders.

Ignor­ing the fact that she dis­obeyed those orders to go save him or the the fact that as someone poin­ted out the mono­logue would’nt have been needed, there is another pretty gap­ing prob­lem with what hap­pend in that scene where she con­fessed everything to Shu and its that she con­fessed everything to Shu.

Her con­fes­sion involved her talk­ing about how her feel­ing for Shu are fake and how she only cared for him in order to get him to join the organ­izaion are actu­ally a very good idea that makes a lot of sense from Gai’s per­spect­ive. How­ever, why would you even tell him this and make him inspired to actu­ally quit and leave when you have him feed­ing out of the palm of your hand. What exactly was the plan with being hon­est with him? Was he sup­pose to just accept that she had been lie­ing to him from the start but stay loyal all the same?

Does any­one else think that Inori looks like a less dynamic Yuno (from Future Diary)?