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I love watching anime, I dont collect any memorabilia as I watch anime for the awesome Entertainment, not to mention ive never come across any in Australia yet....
I try to be open about anime genres and will normally give any recommendation a go but im pretty picky when it comes to them unfortunately.
My main anime genres that I like the most would be Action, Comedy and Harem.
In my personal Opinion watching Harem animes are normally extremely funny as the guy either doesnt know the girls want him (Infinite Stratos), the guy gets chased around by them but doesnt want that kind of relationship (Nagasarete Airantou)
And lastly when the guy is just not seen in that kind of way and just a friend...(I know ive seen one or two like this but...i cant remember haha)
I also enjoy a good amount of gaming, keeping to the type as ive typed enough already. RTS, FPS, RPG, ACTION, Puzzle.
But i have to say these ones as they are my very favourite's - Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2, Overlord 1 & 2 and Populous the Beginning.
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Normally one should finish an anime before writing a review.
And normally i do, for gods love, i even managed to finish things like "Master of Martial Hearts"
But Guilty Crown was somewhat special to me.
Special in the way that one demotivational wallpaper shows, the two owls sitting next to each other, one had it's head tilted by roughly 160° and under the picture is the sentence "Special doesn't always mean better" or at least something wih a similar meaning.
Every Plottwist was just screaming: "You know, that you could watch the same story with a much better execution, right now? The DVDs are just behind you, you don't even have to illegally download it..."
Ans so, when the show went totally nuts, i did just that.
But yeah, normally people should finish an anime, before writing a review.
But to the thee points you pointed out in your last comment:
1. While the reason for the military oppucation is different, it results in the exact same scenario:
-Japan is under controll of a foreign force.
-Lot's of japanese are forced to live in extremely run down ghettos.
-The military even shoots unarmed civilians, elder people and children.
The situation similarity shows especially if you compare two scenes to each other.
The first one from Code Geass, after Clovis orderd to kill the people in the ghetto:
You see an elder couple sitting in their appartment.
The door flies open, a footsoldier tkaes aim and shoots the two old people.
The second scene from Guilty Crown:
I'm not sure about this one, but i whink it was in episode two, the scene where that crazy mecha-pilot shot a mother right in front of her daughter.
Both scenes serve the purpose to show how grim the situation is and how ruthless the invading forces are handling their job.
So, the reason for the occupation and the name of the invaders is different, but it's still the same background the show sets up.
2. You are right, Lelouch is the son of the emperor, but was stripped of this title and he was stripped of his influence.
For the most part of the show, Lelouch is even considered dead by his family.
So, even if he is technically the son of the Britannian Emperor, he is not able to use these benefits.
I guess, you could say, Lelouch Lamperouge and Lelouch vi Britannia are, from an outsiders perspective, two different persons and Lelouch is forced to be Lelouch Lamperouge, a normal boy without any connections to influential people at all.
3. What i meant was the fact, that Inori/CC are directly involved into the Maincharacters gain of a special power and the situation it occurs.
Just ask yourself for both cases, what whould have happened, if the maincharacter had decided not to help the damsel in distress?
And for the situation the "level up" occurs in:
the maincharacter hold the girl, soldiers taking aim at them, both are sure to die, level up, the maincharacter uses his power for the first time, every soldier dies.
It's one of these scenes i mentioned in my prior comment, one of these shot-by-shot-remakes.
1. the comparison between Code Geass and and Guilty Crown
-Japan is occupied by foreign military.
-A normal young boy (Shuu/Lelouch)
gets a strange power which requires eyecontact (at least at first in GC, there are numerous scenes where ther is no execontact at all),
-granted by a strange girl (Inori/CC).
-While the boy just wanted to help somebody (the wounded Inori/the Truckdriver)
-he gets drawn into a fight between terrorists and military and eventually joins the terrorists and uses his power in order to help the terrorists out.
-the initial fight takes place in a ghetto
-the terrorists give them self a fancy name (undertaker/black knights) and declare that they are the actual good guys
-a big climax in a different dimension thingy (at the sword of akatosh/however it was called in GC)
and to be honest, this was as far as i watched GC.
Then the whole incest and amnesia crap startet and i declared the show officially as FUBAR.
Up to this point, there were not just these plot points, which were identical, but there were also shot by shot remakes of code geass scenes, like when shuu/lelouch tried to kiss hare/kallen because he "needed comfort".
as i said, there are lots of other scenes and plotpoint which were coppied.
and since i think i made my point clear in this matter, i'd like to move on.
The Mechas in GC are no different from the ones in CG, if the mech gets shot down, the pilot dies in GC as well, if the connection is not terminated in time, just as a pilot in CG dies if he's not able to eject his rescue-pod in time.
But to be honest, that wasn't my point in my review, my point was, they are about the same hight, they move the same way, the terrorists ACE pilot starts of with an old model and then moves on to a very strong prototype machine.
Regarding the twist you are speaking of, i didn't watch the show far enough to get to that point, i think.
But you wrote "Explain that." which makes it look as if the twist was even for you very unreasonable, since it lacked explanation.
And something like that is bad writing.
i just read your Guilty Crown review, and i wanted to give you some of my thoughts on it:
"and i haven't seen an anime that reminds me of it yet"
-You do, you even rated it 10, it's called Code Geass.
It's not my intention to promote my own review, but read the first 5 paragraphs and you'll see, what i and dozens of other reviewers think of this topic.
"Now the art that was amazing (...)Cant really find a reason why someone would say otherwise"
-Somebody could say otherwise, since the quality of the art is not consistant. It's great in the frst episode, but the quality drops ather quickly, with exeption of some climaxes.
This is something, that was criticised on other anime, like Angel Beats, so it's just fair to criticise hre as well.
"And if even 1 character was not in it you would feel that the series was ruined completely."
Wow... i'm trying to do this as serious as possible, but you aren't making it easy to do this with a straight face.... but i'll give it a shot:
-Most of the characters are totally useless.
The three footsoldier guys, useless.
The pseudo-hacker-loli girl, useless.
The mother, useless.
The Maincharacters friends, useless, well, aside of being void dispensers.
All these characters throw in irelevant plotpoints in order to distract from the fact, that there are many episodes, where nothing is happening in the mainplot, or because they needed something to make a radical change in character of the maincharater so the mainplot could go on.
"Inori(...) Shes quiet, indifferent, strong and weak all at the same time."
-There's a word for that, indecisive. In decisive writing to be accurate.
To stay at the GC is just like CG comparsion, she's basically Nunnaly, Euphy, C.C. and Kallen in one character.
They just couldn't decide which stereotype whould make marketing GC the easiest, so they smashed them all together and let her switch personalities to fit the situation in order to get her screentime up.
"I recommend this series for those of you out there that like a good twist"
-Those arn't twists, those are just Deus Ex Machina.
Things like amnesia or the inconsistency of the Void power are nothing but tolls to get plottwists out of nowhere so nobody had to think up any background and the writers just could go with the flow.
So, yeah, those are my thoughts on your thoughts.