Yes, there’s more… I won’t rehash all the old discussions about where Guilty Crown came up short as a series. It seems like you’d be hard-pressed to think of a series that garnered more volume of commentary with less affection than GC, so I’m happy to leave that in the […] Read more
Where do I begin trying to summarize the unique experience that was watching Guilty Crown… Back when I did my Fall Preview last year, I made note of the fact that Guilty Crown was easily the most hyped series of the season. I also mentioned that my gut was telling […] Read more
Loud, messy, and pretty – that about sums up the finale of the most maligned NoitaminA series ever. What, you were expecting anything else? A good deli will always have something called mish-mosh soup. Basically the idea is that you take everything that goes into the other chicken soups on […] Read more
Quick note to Yoshino-sensei – putting an apple in your anime doesn’t make you Ikuhara Kunihiko (or the Dead Sea Scrolls). I kid, of course – but I kid from love. Well, not really, but to give Yoshino his due, he had every right to use that reference because he […] Read more
In which all the exposition that was skipped over for 19 episodes was shoehorned in for your entertainment. I always have a bit of a problem with characters launching into long, rhapsodic trips down memory lane for no reason but to fill the audience in on what the writer thinks […] Read more
It’s liberating in a way to know that whatever I say about this show is going to piss somebody off. For a series so many people love to hate, it sure engenders some strong opinions. My view on episode 19 – it was better than the last two (hell, less […] Read more
I think I’ve been pretty patient with Guilty Crown, and I thought I was all-in on the silliness of it. But I might finally have reached my limit. This episode makes me think of a chef working at a restaurant late at night, when he looks around and sees all […] Read more
It’s pretty hard to write seriously about Guilty Crown at this stage, so I guess the thing to do is not even bother trying. I suppose that ep has to go down as one of the most bizarre, over-the-top FUBARs of the last year in anime, and probably set the […] Read more
I was almost fooled by the last two episodes, but… Let me remind you of a couple of things I said in the post last week: I’m quaking in fear that the person Shinbungi says he’s supposed to get to see if he beats Segai at chess is Gai. That […] Read more
After 15 episodes, I think we need to confront the possibility that Guilty Crown has figured it out, and is turning into the show we all hoped it would be. No no, it’s not perfect. From a logic standpoint, the whole notion of the red wall closing around the school […] Read more