Guilty Crown/YMMV

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  • And the Fandom Rejoiced:
  • Artistic License: Biology: Vaccines don't have to be administered weekly. Biannually is just about the most extreme level within the realm of reality. Possibly justified by the Apocalypse Virus being very abnormal.
  • Complete Monster:
    • Shuichiro Keido is the Big Bad and the Arch Enemy of Funeral Parlor. Upon learning that his friend Kurosu Ouma's offspring would become the progenitors of a new race in the aftermath of the Fourth Apocalypse, he experimented on countless orphan boys to create an "Adam" that would deny Kurosu the privilege of shaping the next generation of humanity in his own image. After learning that Kurosu's research on the Apocalypse Virus surpasses his own, he murders his friend in a jealous rage. From that moment forward, Keido dedicates his entire being to ending the world that Kurosu worked so desperately to save. As the leader of the GHQ Anti-Bodies forces, Shuichiro directly oversees a campaign of oppression and mass murder against the Japanese population. Following the revelation that he is secretly in Da'ath's employ, he later admits that the only reason he helps the organization initiate a worldwide outbreak is to consummate a final act of vengeance against his longtime rival, Kurosu.
    • Segai Waltz Makoto works for the GHQ Anti-Bodies as The Dragon to the aforementioned Shuichiro Keido. He is first introduced torturing a defenseless woman, and in that same scene also "talks" to a man he just hanged. With the help of a student, he captures and arrests Shu Ouma, then tries to manipulate Shu to turn against Funeral Parlor, with Shu retorting that people were killed right in front of his eyes by his men. Segai's reply was that they were unregistered citizens, completely uncaring whether or not it was a good reason to kill them. Segai also shows an absolute disregard for his own men; for example, when Shu uses his power to escape and a sniper under his command tries to stop him, Segai shoots him just so he doesn't interrupt him seeing Shu's power; and later, when he leads an assault on one of the last Funeral Parlor strongholds to spread the Apocalypse Virus further, kills his partner Dan Eagleman for saving Haruka. His life even ends with violence when trying to kill Ayase by hitting her with a truck, only to be stopped when Shu kills him with Shears of Life and Segai seems to enjoy it. A man who enjoys violence and carnage, whether he or someone else is the cause of it,, underneath his polite mask lies a sadistic sociopath whose cruelty and depravity is matched only by his boss.
  • Draco in Leather Pants:
    • Many fans seem to like Shu better as a Jerkass than what he was in the first half of the series.
    • If people dislike Jerkass Shu, they root for Gai. Even though he clearly Came Back Wrong, and even when he was still alive, he was almost as bad as Shu in full dictator-mode. That doesn't stop people from applauding him for taking away Shu's void Genome even though he's clearly on the wrong side.
  • Ear Worm: Episode 1's two insert songs "Euterpe" by EGOIST and "Bios" feat. Mika Kobayashi, and the series' OP1 and OP2 music "My Dearest" by supercell and "The Everlasting Guilty Crown" by EGOIST respectively.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: The show has a surprisingly large number of them, including Ayase, Tsugumi, Hare, Dan Eagleman, Segai, and Daryl. This might be due to the fact that many fans consider Shu and Inori to be very bland and boring characters.
  • Fan Nickname:
    • Shu:
      • "Shoe", or more rarely "Oh my shoe!" After Episode 15, People started calling him "Shuuher" and "Hitler" as well.
      • Shuuzaku and Shoelouch are also thrown about quite a bit.
      • Oumiya Shurou, after getting the third Void genome, which manifests as a replacement arm, and allows him to use any Void he used previously as his own, but with his body degrading more and more. Just like Shirou's situation in Heaven's Feel.
    • After her display of Endlave-slashing in Episode 18, Kerrigan the Queen of Blades for Inori.
    • Souta is sometimes referred to as "Soda".
    • Arisa has been called "The Whore of Babylon" due to her sleeping with one of Shuu's lackeys and leading the Coup d'etat against Shu.
    • "F-ranks" are often shortened to "Franks", partly due to Insane Troll Logic connecting them to Anne Frank.
    • Scythe-tan for the girl who wields a scythe.
    • Daath/Yuu is commonly called "Darth Mugi" due to his thick eyebrows.
      • He is also known as "Bushy Brows".
    • "Tsugumi's Rice Cooker" for Funell.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple:
    • While the official pairing is quite obviously Shu and Inori, many fans actually consider Ayase or Hare as better romantic partners. Some also prefer to ship Shu and Mana.
    • Fans were also somewhat surprised at the hints of a Tsugumi and Daryl pairing, but quickly embraced it.
      • At the same time though, some fans are disgusted at how forced the Tsugumi/Daryl pairing is.
  • Foe Yay: Segai practically orgasms whenever he sees Shu pulling out Voids.
  • Freud Was Right: Since a Void is a representation of a personality, then BFS + Inori's Love = Extremely deredere Girl.
  • Ho Yay: Shu and Gai have a bit in episode 12.
  • Idiot Plot:
    • The entirety of Episode 15. First Yahiro decides to use a Void Ranking system based on the power readings on a random object they happened to find lying around, when it's been proven that all Voids can be useful given the situation. Then after Shu is confronted by Souta and says he doesn't agree with the system, a paper appearing to show the opposite just so happens to get leaked to the F-Ranked students. When they try to break into a local hospital out of desperation, Shu brings Hare along with him to stop them, even though he has no reason to believe any of them are injured yet and she has no means of defending herself whatsoever. Then when they're attacked Souta seems to lose a few brain cells and decides it's a good idea for him and Hare to run out into the open with Endlaves running about, resulting in Hare's death and Shu's Start of Darkness.
    • Actually, Shu specifically told Hare and the other students to take cover and hide while he drew the Anti-Bodies' fire. It probably would have worked too if Souta didn't pull Hare out into the open and convince her to try and fix a car that was in plain view of the Endlaves.
  • Hype Backlash: A result of being a part of the prestigious NoitaminA timeslot, having an allstar production crew, and not living up to its pedigree.
  • I Am Not Shazam: Fans are already prone to refer to the power of kings as the Guilty Crown despite this term not (yet) coming up in the actual show. For the time being, "Guilty Crown" seems to at most be a metaphorical way to refer to Shu's powers.
  • Karma Houdini: Arisa
  • Magnificent Bastard:
    • Gai.
    • Segai, who seems to be playing all sides against each other to test Shu's capabilities.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • "I can't wait to drop this show again next week!"
    • "Guilty Crown sucks! I can't wait for next week's episode!"
    • Ayase's disability and its implications have been subject to a number of memes.
      • "My hips can't move on their own..."
      • 17%. You know what it means.
      • Ayase won't stand for this kind of abuse.
    • HEIL SHU!
    • Party Gai: An image of Gai in a white suit leaning against a wall, photoshopped into pictures of other characters. Usually with Gai's arm over another character's shoulder.
  • Moral Event Horizon:
    • Keido may have crossed it at one of two points - either when he tried to prevent the Adam and Eve of the new world from being an incestuous couple by sacrificing hundreds of children in horrific experiments, or when he murdered his old friend Kurosu in cold blood for no other reason than seething jealousy.
    • Kurosu Ouma crossed it when he agreed to go ahead with the pregnancy that would kill his wife, so that his daughter could trigger the apocalypse by sexing her new brother up. About the best that can be said is that he wasn't too happy about it afterwards.
  • Narm: Episode 17.

Shu:"My arm! MY KING'S POWER...!"

    • Episode 19

Segai: Another person's heart is inside me!

    • In episode 21, when Shu and the Undertakers are moving out to attack GHQ, everybody is going in large armored trucks, a cool bike, and an Endlave. What does Shu drive? A glorified Segway.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • The first two times Shu pulls out Souta's Void on-screen. While most people seem just slightly in pain (or sometimes pleasure) when having theirs removed, the first time Souta bends back unnaturally and his eyes roll up in his head, and the second time he sounds like he's screaming in agony, not to mention Shu runs at him and plunges his hand directly through Souta's chest, and the viewer gets to see Souta, easily one of the shortest and slightest members of the cast, get lifted off his feet and hang in the air off Shu's hand.
    • Hare's death. Yikes.
    • When Gai rips Shu's arm off and steals his void Genome. OUCH.
  • The Scrappy:
    • Shu and Inori. Some people theorize that the number of Ensemble Darkhorses on this show is caused by the fact that people dislike them so much that they leach on everybody else.
    • Souta immediately dropped to this level when one of his boneheaded decisions got Hare killed.
    • Arisa and pretty much all of the students picked up a Hatedom after the events of Episode 17.
  • Squick: The Brother-Sister Incest/Incest Subtext between Shu and Mana (and, since she's a clone, Inori), and Keido trying to pull an Adam and Eve Plot on Mana through Inori.
  • Straw Man Has a Point: In Episode 4, we see that the GHQ really did bail Japan out of serious national crisis, and they are still actively trying to get rid of the Apocalypse Virus, though while doing a bit of military research on the side. They even have an entire medical facility to treat patients who still suffer from the virus, and the people they target are ones who have refused to inoculate themselves, meaning they still act as potential carriers. The GHQ also would not have had any reason to commit the atrocities seen in the first few episodes if their highly valuable and extremely dangerous experimental genetic weapon wasn't stolen by an armed terrorist group.
    • Of course, it all becomes moot when it is revealed that GHQ were the ones to trigger the Lost Christmas event in the first place.
      • It seems more because the GHQ leadership is corrupt and have their own ulterior motives. However, Dan is proof that at least some GHQ staff actually believe in GHQ's stated ideals.
      • Not necessarily the leadership, even though Major General Yan is kind of an asshole, but it seems it's Souichiro Keido and the Anti-Bodies who are responsible for the events surrounding the series. See episode 11, where they were the only ones to suffer no effects from the Apocalypse Virus, and all other GHQ personnel were shown to be confused about the whole situation.
  • Snark Bait
  • So Bad It's Good
    • Getting considerably better towards the 20 episode mark, according to general consensus.
      • Only to fall right back down the crapper during the finale two-parter.
  • They Copied It, So It Sucks: The basic setup and much of the first episode did bear a striking resemblance to Code Geass, which caused many fans to complain. Episode 2 somewhat quelled these complaints.
  • Unfortunate Implications: In episode 14, to see what Tsugumi's void is Shu pulls it out of her while she is held back by everybody else. She is visibly upset by this, but everyone else is smiling and laughing. This scene is played for laughs. Now remember just how sexualized the act of Shu taking voids is? Yeah.
  • What an Idiot!: Everything Souta does. Period.
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