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{{quote|''"The right to use my friend as a weapon.
''That is the sinful crown
''I shall adorn.''
''I accept this 'guilt.'"'' }}
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From that point on, Shu takes part in the actions of Funeral Parlor and the "king's mark" appears on his right hand. This mark bestows upon him the "power of kings," the ability to reach inside someone else's body and extract and materialize a weapon, or "Void," from it.
Directed by [[Death Note|Tetsuro]] [[Highschool of the Dead|Araki]], with a story written by [[
A manga adaptation is being published by [[Square Enix]]'s Gangan Comics in their Monthly Shonen Gangan label, and a [[Nitroplus]]-produced PC game [[Spin-Off]] titled ''Guilty Crown: Lost Christmas'', with a story written by [[Demonbane|Jin Haganeya]], who is also part of the show's writing team, and set to be released next year.
The first twelve episodes are more or less [[Whole-Plot Reference|roughly]] [[Deconstruction|comparable]] to the likes of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. When Loop 7, the area where most of the events take place, gets locked down, comparisons to ''[[Infinite Ryvius]]'' and ''[[Devil Survivor]]'' start to become common for a while and, in the end, the series goes right back to ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Eva]]'' territory for its conclusion.
For the list of [[Wham! Episode
No relation to ''[[Guilty Gear]]''. Except that both series have an [[Crowning Music of Awesome|awesome soundtrack]].
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* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Just look at a couple of Inori's outfits, especially the red one she wears for a while.
* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]: The Student Council basically becomes the de facto government for the school once it's quarantined from the rest of the city. As of Episode 14, {{spoiler|Shu is appointed their president.}}
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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: No exceptions. Most people die from the Apocalypse Virus, which in itself isn't a pleasant way of dying. {{spoiler|Gai and Mana are [[Mercy Kill|Mercy Killed]] in Episode 12 by Shu, and Hare is killed in Episode 15.}}
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: A Void is Phlebotinum and it is the personality given form. This can range from Inori's [[BFS]] to [[Rule of Symbolism|shears that severs lives]] to a [[Fridge Logic|literal]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|fridge]].
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: Since the series is part [[
* [[Artistic License Physics]]: The Leucocyte [[Kill Sat]] at the end of Episode 5 is shown to have ''dented'' part of the ocean <ref> In that the explosion on the coastal area was still shown to have a massive crater instead of being full of water</ref>.
* [[Assimilation Plot]]: Daath's ultimate reason for instigating the Apocalypse.
* [[A-Team Firing]]: Daryl Yan, who missed two men from the firing range of less than ten meters in a room with limited space to move.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]:
** Gai's Void. What could possibly be more practical than {{spoiler|a gun that causes other peoples' Voids to manifest?}} The answer is "not much."
** What about Inori's Void? A sword that allows the user to deflect missiles, jump in midair, and later slice Endlaves in half from a distance by simply waving it.
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* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: One-sided. {{spoiler|Mana, the pink-haired girl in Shu's flashbacks, is actually his older sister. While shown to be a sweet elder sibling to Shu at first, it's quickly revealed that Mana wants her own little brother to look at her "with adult eyes." Still, possibly subverted, as this may be just be the worst effect of the virus on Mana's mind.}}
* [[Brown Note]]: {{spoiler|Inori can cure the Apocalypse Virus by singing. The crystal resonance sound itself is more of a [[Brown Note]], activating the Apocalypse Virus.}}
* [[Came Back Wrong]] [[Zig-Zagging Trope]] After {{spoiler|Gai}} comes back in the bad guys's side, he continually claims that his evil actions are just an extension of the original plan, although his general demeanor is notably not-quite-as-sane as before. {{spoiler|It turns out that he was just trying to get Shu to stop him and, by extension, stop Mana and the Daath's plan}}
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Noted [[In-Universe]]: Gai is relatable to Shu and Mana is relatable to Inori. The second opening takes this one step further--while their hands are reaching out in the church, Shu turns into Gai and Inori turns into Mana.
* [[Cataclysm Backstory]]: Lost Christmas.
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* [[Cry for the Devil]]/[[Perspective Flip]]: Daryl gets a featurette in one episode. He is shown to have [["Well Done, Son" Guy|a complex for his father]], which is the reason for his actions. When said father doesn't arrive for a birthday party, he cries. When said father is shown [[All Love Is Unrequited|with another woman that is not his mother]], he is pissed. {{spoiler|The same episode, he is in his white Endlave, and [[Kill'Em All|kills all of the people within his father's command center]].}}
* [[Dark Reprise]]: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Np2oVN1io&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL kr0ne]'' and ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLQ_R3MMnQk&feature=related bios-delta]'' are this to ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9LxXsq0KQE&feature=related bios]''. Also, [[Playing the Heart Strings]].
* [[Darker and Edgier]]/[[Cerebus Syndrome]]: After episode 12...
* [[Decon Recon Switch]]: Initially seems to be a ''[[Code Geass]]'' esque [[Grey and Gray Morality]] world, but GHQ ends up actually being evil, and Shu decides his loyalty only six episodes in.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: A [[Deconstruction]] with dramatic effect, and a recurring theme. Over time, Shu has to learn that he cannot trust anyone, even those who he already made friends with. Episode 3 ends with Shu doing the wrong idea of trusting the enemy and Episode 5 forces him to rethink his relationship with Inori, both of whom he befriended after their secrets were revealed.
* [[Design Student's Orgasm]]: Void usage involves ribbons of [[Unmoving
* [[Determinator]]: Gai, in spades. He has several disadvantages going for him {{spoiler|such as being previously injured from a mission gone wrong, the Apocalypse Virus taking its toll on his body, and being slashed across the torso due to protecting Shu.}} Despite all this, he pulls a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment with Ayase to help Shu {{spoiler|defeat Shuichiro and rescue Inori, though it all just ends as him being [[Together in Death]] with Mana, the love of his life.}}
* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Gai in Episode 5 after the GHQ attacks his location with their Leukocyte. The preview to Episode 6 shows that he's alive.}}
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** In Episode 17, even Yahiro, the guy who came up with the Void ranking system, starts getting uncomfortable at how much of a [[Jerkass]] Shu is becoming.
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: All over the place. Gai, Segai, and Ayase easily deduce that Shu has feelings for Inori with the first two using this fact against Shu, Tsugumi and Shu can tell Ayase's not-so-subtle feelings for Gai, and Ayase teases Shu that everyone in Funeral Parlor has noticed that Gai and Inori share a room together two or three times a month and assume that there's something between them. {{spoiler|In reality she's been giving him blood transfusions.}}
* [[Everyone Is Related]]:
** Shu's flashbacks seem to hint that he knew Inori and Gai when they were children. {{spoiler|Turns out that the Inori look-alike is actually Shu's older sister Mana, who Inori was created to resemble and become Mana's host body, and Gai was his childhood best friend "Triton."}}
** {{spoiler|In Episode 19, it's revealed that Haruka and Keido are siblings, thus making Keido Shu's step-uncle.}}
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* [[Fantastic Drug]]: [[Meaningful Name|Norma Gene]]. The only details we have about it so far, though, are that it's genetic and that it's injected.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Ironically inverted. When Souta and a few other students that have Voids with... [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|limited]] powers hear about a possible Void-ranking system that hadn't even been implemented, they become so offended and afraid that this would be invoked, they run off to prove their worth. When Shu tries to pull a [[What the Hell, Hero?]], Souta angrily accuses Shu of being guilty of this trope. It takes them being caught in the heat of battle to realize just how right Yahiro was about the limitations of their Voids.
* [[First-Name Basis]]:
** Shu calls his mother Haruka. {{spoiler|Partly justified since she isn't his biological mother.}}
** GHQ's suspicions are partially reaffirmed (that Shu's more involved with Funeral Parlor than he claims) since they figure no [[Ordinary High School Student]] would address the [[Rebel Leader|leader]] of a [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters|terrorist group]] by his first name.
** As the series goes on it becomes increasingly more apparent that the creators meant for the show to be easily dubbed in English. Most of the time whenever two characters meet for the first time, one of them will insist on being called by their first name. Even if this doesn't happen everyone calls everyone by their first name regardless.
* [[Five Rounds Rapid]]: Arisa uses her Void to try and hold off a squad of UN soldiers, who just sit back and keep shooting her Void shield with machine guns, rather than opting for heavier weaponry. Subverted in the fact that their guns actually are doing damage to the shield, but it's very time consuming.
* [[Four Is Death]] A contrived example 256 (Four to the Fourth Power)[[Kill Sat|Leukocytes]]
* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]:
** Watch the opening of Episode 6 onward carefully, particularly the part where Inori approaches her mirror image.
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* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: Seems to be Gai's current goal. {{spoiler|The Voids are revealed to be various fragments of Mana that were scattered during the first Last Christmas, so bringing them all together is the only way to return her to full form.}}
* [[The Government]]: GHQ.
* [[Gratuitous English]]:
** The [[Eyecatch|eyecatches]] feature "The boy acquires a special ability fights with the enemy with the essence of the person made a material as the weapon."
** The opening song, "My Dearest", rapidly switches between English and Japanese with the lines, "So everything that makes me whole, ''ima kimi ni sasageyou''. I'm yours."
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*** Subverted in that case. He eventually ''does'' become the kind king that Hare wanted him to be. Albeit, his kindness is his will to do everything for his friends, no matter the cost to himself. {{spoiler|That includes absorbing Souta's virus, thus infecting himself.}}
** Commented upon by the American forces dispatched to {{spoiler|wipe Loop Seven off the map in a UN effort to eliminate the Apocolypse Virus.}} Ten years ago they had been dispatched to the very same area in order to provide relief.
* [[It Got Worse]]:
** Episode 9 onwards. Episode 11 serves as a brief [[Hope Spot]] before it gets even worse.
** This seems to have become a recurring element in every episode after episode 12. Especially episodes 15 and 17.
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* [[Imaginary Love Triangle]]: Zigzagged. Due to an implicated scene between Gai and Inori, as well as Ayase teasing the nature of their relationship to Shu, Shu is left under the impression that Gai and Inori are in a sexual relationship. [[Not What It Looks Like|Turns out this isn't the case]], but the truth is a little more complicated. However, due to slight hints of Gai's jealousy towards Shu's and Inori's growing closeness, it may very well ''be'' a love triangle. In the end, the only girl Gai wants is Mana, {{spoiler|Shu's older sister and}} the girl who Inori resembles. Still, see [[Love Dodecahedron]] below.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Daryl Yan is a constant offender of this in earlier episodes.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Gai and Hare, though the former is brought [[Back
* [[Kill'Em All]]:
** GHQ's ultimate solution to the Apocalypse Virus problem... [[Unreliable Expositor|according to Gai, anyway]].
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** In Episode 18, it's revealed that {{spoiler|GHQ has ''256 Leukocytes in orbit''}}.
*** {{spoiler|They were bluffing}}
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]:
** {{spoiler|In return for treating all the students like crap, Shu is quickly and promptly ousted by Arisa once the students no longer need his power to help them escape the quarantine zone.}}
** {{spoiler|And for betraying Shu after he helped them escape the quarantine zone, the students are killed by Gai's Endlaves and the UN bombers.}}
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** Good job, Souta! Due to your [[Sarcasm Mode|excellent plan]] to prove to Shu that "F"-rank Void users aren't useless, you {{spoiler|get Hare pointlessly killed, and as a result, it convinced Shu that low rank Void users aren't worth saving!}}
** Good job, Yahiro! Your Void ranking system idea is the indirect cause of {{spoiler|Souta and the "F"-rank Void users attempting to prove themselves, Hare getting killed, and Shu's [[Start of Darkness]]!}}
** Good job, Arisa! Your plan {{spoiler|to usurp Shu not only left everyone completely defenseless when GHQ showed up after you thought the battle was over, but also gave someone that clearly [[Came Back Wrong]] the chance to steal the Void Genome!}}
* [[No One Could Have Survived That]]: Gai has already managed to survive several attempts on his life. In Episode 5, Leukocyte 1 was [[Colony Drop|dropped on top of him]], and he survived without a scratch. Again in Episode 12, at the end, where Gai rushes to kill Mana, only to be impaled with [[Human Pincushion|several crystalline spikes, all going straight through him]]. {{spoiler|He did die from this, but not so much he couldn't be brought back to life later.}}
* [[Pet the Dog]]: In episode eighteen, after Shu's gone through {{spoiler|his ''second'' [[Despair Event Horizon]]}}, Shu gives up some of his food to a young child.
* [[Plot Tailored to the Party]]: A rather unsubtle example in Episode 11. In order to get to Haneda Airport while under fire, Shu has to use the skills of all the other film club members' Voids once each.
* [[Powers in the First Episode]]: Last two minutes of the first episode, to be exact. Extra points for the [[Theme Music Power-Up]].
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* [[Robot Buddy]]: Funell, which follows Inori around and is capable of shooting out strings, much like a [[Ghost in the Shell|Tachikoma]].
* [[Rule of Three]]: There were three successfully created Genomes that hold the "Power of Kings," including the one that Shu possesses. {{spoiler|The first one was stolen by Gai, Yuu/Death possesses the second and Shu used the third to replace his original.}}
* [[Sacrificial Lion]]:
** {{spoiler|1=Gai in Episode 12. No wonder they had to keep him alive. Though it was [[Genre Savvy|pretty obvious]] from the beginning it was going to happen around midpoint due to [[Too Cool to Live]]/[[Mentor Occupational Hazard]].}}
** {{spoiler|Hare}} obviously could be considered one.
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*** Funimations subs have gone with Funell and Endlave.
** As is always the case: Guy/Gai. Gai is the official spelling.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]/[[Whole-Plot Reference]]: General consensus is that this series could be considered a partial one to ''[[Code Geass]]'', particularly in the beginning, given that it shares the same "resistance group taking on oppressive entity" setting. While Shu and Lelouch have very different personalities and interests, they are both 17-year old youths accompanied by mysterious girls (Inori and C.C. respectively, who also differ from each other) and capable of using mysterious powers. Curiously, both ''Geass'' and ''Crown'' share the same writing duo mentioned above (though their positions and responsibilities have been switched around), despite having different directors and production studios.
** Most of the first episode felt like one massive ''[[Code Geass]]'' [[Shout-Out]], from the [[Kill'Em All|massacre]] to the gaining the new power at the very last minute.
*** Gai's securing of funds plays out almost exactly like Lelouch's did.
** Another reference to [[Code Geass]] would be Hare, since everything about her screams "Shirley 2.0." {{spoiler|She even dies in Shu's arms and triggers a massive [[Heroic BSOD]].}}
* [[Start of Darkness]]: Episode 20 shows how Keido slowly becomes bitter over Kurosu's abilities to the point where he {{spoiler|murders him and aligns himself with Daath.}}
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* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: "Euterpe" several times, and also the first ending theme "Departures [[あなたにおくるアイの歌]]"
* [[There Is Another]]: There are two Void Genomes floating around out there besides Shu's. {{spoiler|The holder of the second one finally appears in Episode 11.}}
* [[
** Episode 2 has Gai using beam reflectors to annihillate a rather pompous military coup, with the help of Shu using a beam cannon fired at the reflectors. The situation quickly ramps up to [[Beam Spam]] and turns everything into [[Made of Explodium]].
** Episode 5 has {{spoiler|the military using a satellite laser to fire down on Gai.}} It doesn't just take out the location they were firing at; it removed everything within at least a ''five-kilometer radius''. [[Wham! Episode|Whoa]].
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* [[Together in Death]]: {{spoiler|Gai and Mana. ''Twice.''}}
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The guards in Episode 6. If they were in range of accurate handgun fire, especially after one guard is shot in front of them, why did they need to close the distance while wielding longer range weapon? Why?
* [[Took a Level
* [[Transformation Is a Free Action]]: Played with. Shu's first one took two minutes and everyone just stood there doing nothing, apparently out of sheer surprise, but a couple of episodes later, GHQ has factored him into their plans against the Funeral Parlour and [[Villainous Rescue|Major Segai]] has to kill a sniper trying to blast him mid-transformation because [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|he wanted to watch it happen]].
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: The Apocalypse Virus outbreak occurred in 2029, thus setting up the rest of the story.
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