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The introduction of Daath still feels completely out of the blue as well as Yuu.
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I really like Guilty Crown overall, and find it impressively ambitious, but it's important to remember that it's still a big budget anime with lots of anime conventions in it.
Yuu is the mysterious, vaguely nefarious, shouta. That's a fairly common character archetype in action-packed anime shows, I find.
He's kind of like the blond, petite, ojousama over in
Rinne no Lagrange; he's there since "It's anime, dude!"
Yeah, it's
weird, but there are certain character types that anime shows just love to have for some reason (also kinda like maids, even when maids seem totally out of place with just about everything else in the show).
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Gai’s address to the UN was pure cheese on a stick. What the fuck is the GHQ and how the hell is it so powerful? Is it really America? They’re too damn scared to make it outright explicit so they just hint at it? There are a lot of holes in its concept of international politics. It's far too Hollywood-ish...
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Gai has an array of orbital death rays (i.e. Leukocytes) surrounding the planet, under his control. The guy also has powerful Void abilities. That alone gives his threats much added "Oomph!" in my opinion. You only need a decently sized/armed military beyond that to make you somebody that the UN would want to take deathly seriously.
The international politics of this show is messy, but I have no problems with Gai's current standing.
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I don’t understand why Keido just suddenly decided to shoot Kurosu. It makes no sense whatsoever.
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Really? I thought it was pretty clear that Keido killed him out of pure jealousy. In fact, that's a big part of the reason why I compared Keido-Kurosu to Doom-Richards of Fantastic Four fame.
In the Fantastic Four comics, the main reason Doom wants to kill Richards is simple jealousy. Doom can't accept that there's a scientist out there that's quite possibly smarter than he is. Keido likewise can't accept that with Kurosu. It wounds his ego too much. So Keido killed him.
Is it extreme?
Definitely, but it's fairly common in popular fiction.
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As others have stated, Gai and Keido’s acts don’t fit with what we’ve seen.
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With Gai, what I find hard to square with his current actions is why he was doing what he was doing back during the first half of the anime. I still haven't quite figured that out.
With Gai and Keido, I think that their overall goals are kind of crazy, which is odd since they both seem reasonably sane. But hey, maybe they just mask their madness well.
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A lot of people don’t seem to like the Shu/Souta reconciliation but I really liked it. Some people are saying Souta was being jerk was I don’t think that was the case. He wasn’t pushing Shu away because he didn’t want to forgive Shu. He was pushing Shu away because he didn’t want Shu to forgive him. But I guess a lot of people are still mad at Souta because he apparently killed Hare (He didn’t really) and that he betrayed Shu (However, if my best friend suddenly decided to make me work like a slave and still leave me to the mercy of a very traumatising disease, I’d probably feel like killing him too).
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I still view Souta's reckless foolishness as the main reason Hare died, but I don't hold Souta's betrayal of Shu against him. Like you wrote, Souta had perfectly good motivations for turning on Shu.
I don't much like Souta, but I don't have any great desire to see him die. The
real douchebags of the coup against Shu already "got their's" at the hands of Gai.
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At first I wondered why Shu wasn’t getting nearly as much attention in terms of admitting to his sins, but then I realised he didn’t need to. I think the loss of his arm was supposed to be interpreted as karmic retribution. It seems to me to be a pretty common trope in anime actually. Similar to Redemption Equals Death but not as severe.
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Good point.
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My only problem now is that they’ve made Shu too good. In the last two episodes, I thought he was great. I sympathised with him and thought he was awesome when he got his powers back. But now it almost seems like he can do no wrong. Even though he was wrong about giving their voids back, he wasn’t wrong to ask first. And he doesn’t have any doubts about anything either.
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Shu spent most of the anime being wishy-washy. That was a big character flaw for him. It only seems natural to me that the completion of his "coming of age" character arc would involve him becoming more decisive and resolute in his decisions. A man not carried by the winds of change and the whims of stronger personalities, but rather a man of firm convictions who knows who/what he values and what he's going to do to protect that.
I like this about Shu now. It's time for him to not have many doubts any more, imo.
If you look at the major protagonists of similarly "larger than life" anime storylines (Madoka Magica, Steins;Gate, Mawaru Penguin Drum, etc...) they also put aside all their doubts going into the "Last Act" of the anime. This is just tried, tested, and true storytelling, imo. And in Shu's case, it's definitely helpful, imo.
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