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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Years from now, we'll all look back and realize Guilty Crown was the greatest cultural artifact of 2012. Sure, you're laughing now, but you'll see. You'll see that its irrational characters, its internal inconsistency, and its plothole bonanza, all serve to create a single, compelling narrative of the likes that we have never known, and may never see again.

Oh, you'll see. We'll all sit down, and cry when Shu discovers that he's been the target of his sister's incestuous infatuation. When Inori kills someone, we'll shudder, knowing the remorse and guilt that she is truly wracked with. Gai's revival, will be bittersweet, as we both cheer and curse his existence.

And the tropes! Oh, the wonderful tropes! We'll never see such an amazing amalgation of contemporary Japanese animation tropes for years, perhaps even decades. Where else will we find such a perfect collection of bad cooking sheltered girls, disabled tsunderes, and robot catgirl maid hackers?

Like true geniuses, Guilty Crown is light years ahead of its time. May future generations laugh as our unrefined tastes were so shallow and unable to truly grasp its greatness.

...or maybe not. Maybe we will not be able to, and future viewing of this show only used to shock, horrify and disappoint. If it is so, manking truly has a grim future ahead of it.