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[Week in halfey.me] The end of Shitty Crown and Black Shock Rooter

  By Halfey Halphstein | March 25, 2012 - 7:42 pm | ,
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No thanks for being shitty.

Finally a certain shitty show has finished airing. It’s a show that made me obsessed about its shittiness. At first I didn’t expect this series to end this ‘early’ because I thought it would end at 24th or 26th episode. So I was right after all that the 11th episode back then was the end of season 1 (assuming that this series was aired in 2 seasons continuously). I guess the makers gave up prolonging the series after they messed up with the settings beyond repair, or rather they could not stand all the shits being thrown at this series any longer.

All the effort to save Inori gone to waste because in the end not only Inori was gone, Shuu also lost his sight forever. I am totally disappointed. Well at least Daath/Daat/Death can still be defeated despite his God-like abilities. I don’t understand the part that he being the humanity’s will to evolve. It sounds like bullshit because it makes this series seems unable to decide whether to follow the Evangelion path or the Code Geasspath. It could follow both paths but I don’t see any proper plan for that.

I did try to rationalize some of the character actions though. For example I think the reason Gai turned evil is because he regained his childhood memories, the time before he escaped from being Shuichiro’s lab rat. Some people mentioned that he had to become evil in order to save Mana but I don’t buy that. I still believe Mana could be saved by killing Shuichiro.
 

I still want more of this series.

It’s a pity that a series like Guilty Crown was destroyed by the makers because of inconsistencies as well as indecisiveness in the plot direction. It could have been better if they just let it end at episode 12 or 13 like most other anime do. While Shitty Crown is as shitty as it is (and is irrecoverable), I am satisfied with Black Rock Shooter‘s ending. Actually I’m satisfied with the overall series itself despite my hatred towards yuri. Everybody’s happy and to be honest I never imagined the four of them would become friends in the end.
At some point I felt like apologizing to Saya-sensei for thinking that she was the evil one. The truth is nobody is evil but it was the connection to the “other world” that affects the actions and emotions of those girls severely. The fighting scenes were great, especially the final battle between 2 “Black Rock Shooter(s)”. I must say it felt more intense than the greatest fighting in Madoka Magica.
I still have some complaints about it thought but it’s not related to the story itself. It is that the series was too short. I wish it was 12 or 13 episodes. My other complain is Hanazawa-san didn’t sing for this series. Well I like supercell and Miku singing (and it’s not like Hanazawa-san always sing in every series she’s in) but I haven’t heard her singing for a while since Ro-Kyu-Bu.
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[Week in halfey.me] Shitty Crown ep. 20 & Schoolgirl Pirates ep. 10

  By Halfey Halphstein | March 11, 2012 - 7:25 pm | ,
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More shits are revealed in this week’s episode of Guilty Crown. From last week’s episode we should already know that Haruka and Shuichiro are brother and sister. That was fine but I found another unnecessary thing happened in this latest episode where once again they have to rely on sex.

So this is Mana and Shuu's real mother.


That is not really a problem by itself but for a show that I expected to stand on its own by its seriousness it’s hard for me to accept that. Then we’re shown the historical connection between Shuichiro and Gai. However I don’t see any point in doing that anymore.

Although Gai seems to remember everything from before, it doesn’t make sense that he becomes evil now when he was once a hero. Not to mention Mana who once rejected Gai is now happily being reunited with him. The inconsistencies here has made all the characters’ previous actions seem pointless.

Moving on to your favorite pirates in miniskirts show, I’m delighted that we’re presented with the glory of Chiaki-chan in pirate costume. That maybe her first time acting as a captain because her father is still a captain of Barbarossa (she’s currently ‘disguising’ as Marika, acting as Bentenmaru’s temporary captain).

Now I know how she does her job as a captain.


The pursuit for the golden ghost ship continues as the crews ‘sailing’ through the raging “space storm”. It was quite an intense moment especially when I saw Bentenmaru firing direct hits at the enemy ships. Something wasn’t right though because the ‘enemy’ didn’t seem to try contacting or identifying Bentenmaru.

Oh BTW since this is not really an anime blog allow me to talk about something non-anime as well. We witnessed the announcement of “the new iPad” on Wednesday. Once again Apple’s “annual incremental upgrade to iGadgets plot” being staged on and we can expect something ugly to happen soon.

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Week in halfey.me: Shitty Crown ep. 19 & Mouretsu Pirates ep. 09

  By Halfey Halphstein | March 5, 2012 - 9:19 pm | , ,
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Finally we got to see more Chiaki-chan this week after her absence in the last episode. Not much to talk about despite the growing political tension with the Serenity kingdom and stuff. Although things seemingly start to get serious with Bentenmaru is involved with matters in hand, I would not expect much considering there are only 4 episodes left, unless something unexpected happened in the production and this anime got extended number of episodes (like what Production ID did with Shitty Crown).

It seems like my speculation last week was half-true. Not sure if I got it right but Both Bentenmaru and Barbarossa are hired by the same client to hunt the golden ghost ship. However Chiaki said their order is “to eliminate whoever is getting in their way”.


Wait, what? Does this mean Bentenmaru and Barbarossa were hired to fight against each other? I hope I am wrong here but even if it’s true it seems like both parties are aware of this and things look like they are still in control. In the next journey Princess Gruielle will join Marika in the journey.

If not because of Inori I might have stopped watching this long time ago.

Into Shitty Crown. In the last week’s episode (which I didn’t have a chance to write a review although I wanted to) we’ve seen how evil-ish Gai is though this is just a sign of how inconsistent the story has become. I wonder if Gai was the evil from the start then what was the point in being good in the middle and fighting for freedom and rights, only to revert to being evil?

So this is Inori's "true form"?

No explanation could save it anymore at this point. Even Arisa has killed her own grandfather for the sake of getting close to Gai (although she already gave her virginity to an unworthy guy before). Even more weirder Inori with her ‘newfound power’ of manipulating the whatever crystal was seen confronting Gai face to face and she used her ability like an expert like she was trained long enough to use it. In the end Gai proved himself to be superior and managed to defeat Inori with ease and take her into possession.

Nice view of her new "easy to rape/f***" battle costume.

In episode 19 feels like the beginning of the series of ‘apology’ episodes. Many things I hoped to see is finally here. Shuu’s mother joined the rebellion team but not without revealing another unnecessary stuff that does not have anything to do with the story, that is she and Shuu is not blood related. This might explain why Shuu calling her Haruka-san but in Mouretsu Pirates it has proved that it does not take them to be non blood related for Marika to call her mother Ririka-san. Oh yeah did I mention Shuu’s mother and Shuichiro are siblings?

It’s a good thing that Shuu regained his “King’s Power”, thanks to the Void genome stolen by his mother. With that power he ‘compensated’ his lost right arm with the whatever crystal. He also could draw his own Void and finally managed to kill the clown Makoto, something he could have done earlier. Shuu was arrived at the right time by threatening Arisa to take him to where his mother is or else the power could have belonged to Ayase.

Anyway Shitty Crown is Shitty Crown. The only reason I still keep watching it is because I hope to see a good ending (and there’s Inori too). Other than that this show is just shitty that its only attraction now is the awesome music by supercell.

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[Interpost] People bitchin’ about me bitchin’ about people bitchin’ (we can go deeper)

  By Halfey Halphstein | February 21, 2012 - 10:36 pm | , ,
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Well you’ve seen I’m complaining a lot since the last few weeks. However if you “go deeper” you’ll see those complaints aren’t just complaints but also reviews, though not really reviews. That said, for me there are 2 things worth reviewing, which is the “praiseworthy” things and “complain-worthy” things. As long as those 2 things exist I’ll keep doing reviews, I mean praising and complaining.

Anyway here is another (latest) complaint from me; the women of Guilty Crown, explained in 1 picture, because a picture worth a thousand words (well not really 1 picture but 6 pictures joined together).

Number 2 from right should have read "Deceitful MILF" instead of "Deceitful Mother of God" because the former 'description' is far more accurate than the latter.

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[Interpost] Derpressing

  By Halfey Halphstein | February 18, 2012 - 9:16 pm | ,
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“Seeing my favorite characters turning evil or doing evil things is very depressing, you know?

Yes, there’s nothing more depressing than seeing your favorite characters turning evil or doing evil things. There are reasons to why people like certain characters in anime. For me the reason has always been something related to innocence, purity and clean reputation.

If, the character I like suddenly turned into evil for whatever reasons out there (actually I would not accept whatever reason for them to become evil) it would be very very depressing to me. In most cases that kind of even would make me feel like being betrayed as a fan of the character.

When I said about being a ‘fan’ it doesn’t mean I’m talking in a position of being a big fan of a certain character. I am talking about characters that I ‘LIKE” but not necessarily a character I’m being a fan of. Let’s take Madoka and Mami-san (from Madoka Magica) for example. I’m a big fan of Mami-san but for Madoka, she is the character that I like. Although there are differences it doesn’t mean I would allow any of them turned evil.

That said below are a few characters that I’m not a fan of but I like them that it made me depressed upon seeing them turning evil and/or doing evil things.

"Legalized piracy" is bullshit. There's no such thing. There's no excuse to 'pirate' any shipment to begin with.

In Mouretsu pirates, if what they’re doing is not a crime then why would they need weapons and firearms? Isn’t it a crime is there’s a criminal-victim relationship here?

Multiple personality disorder is something I've grown bored of.

In Guilty Crown, Inori who always bear an innocent looking face is actually a dangerous person who could kill at her will.

I know Shuu is wrong but now you're no better than him bitch!

Also Arisa Kohouin, a women from a ‘noble’ family who is supposed to be pure, respectable and full of dignity, has cracked under pressure, broken and submitted to fear that she has sold her virginity for the sake of survival, although the survival achieved that way would be pointless. I hope she’ll get pregnant next week because I don’t think they used any protection (not to mention she might have “taken it all in” so that Nanba could do her a favor).

And this woman looks like she's going to sacrifice her son.

There’s also a possibility that the woman in the pic above might be the one who caused the death of her own husband. I mean she’s willing to become a ‘bad’ mother for his son so it would still make sense if she is already a ‘bad’ wife long before that.

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[Review] Revolution: Exodus (Guilty Crown ep. 17)

  By Halfey Halphstein | February 17, 2012 - 10:07 pm | , ,
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While most people think Guilty Crown is getting better, I personally think it has become worse that it now has resorted to using sexually provocative theme to draw the attention from people who have lost interest in this show. Yes, Arisa, in her desperate attempt to conspire against Shuu, has offered her body to Nanba so that he could become a mole in Shuu’s regime. To make it worse, they must have fucked at least twice! Damn! Oh yeah I could think of something even worse! Shuu’s mother might already have become Shuichiro’s sex slave!

Seduction in progress.

Done fucking, probably for the second time, if not third (or more).

Seriously they have to rely on sex now? Seems like this show has fallen even lower than it was. On the other hand Inori somehow realized her attack on Arisa wasn’t really hers will but more of something inside her that acts freely, though that ‘thing’ and her must have shared the same feeling to protect Shuu.

Gai is back, now with evil aura. The man who used to call Shuu friend has now confiscated the King’s power, a power that he said is supposed to be his. And yeah he did that by dismembering Shuu’s right arm, the place where he got the King’s sign on.

The inconsistencies seem to have no limit here. Gai remembers Shuu hence the “Long time no see” greeting he made there but where’s his memory about Shuu being his friend, as well as he was weaker than Shuu too? Oh crap the anime makers just conveniently throwing stuff in as they please.

What will happen to Shuu next? I hope the next episode will not be an ‘apology’ for this one. That said, I hope this anime is still ‘fixable’ with the number of episodes left.

Guilty Crown has failed to become the new Evangelion. And now it feels like it’s trying to become the next Code Geass. A failed Code Geass.

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The new Evangelion(s) or the next Evangelion(s)?

  By Halfey Halphstein | February 10, 2012 - 11:31 pm | , , ,
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The latest development in Guilty Crown ep. 16 has kinda pissed me off. The inconsistencies have reached its peak, no thanks to the new arc introduced since episode 12. With it’s trying to become the new/next Evangelion, the story is now full of stupidity, EMO and madness.

I know unexpected and unpredictable things maybe entertaining but not like this. At least Gundam franchisesare more consistent in making good and evil characters but in Guilty Crown, it makes me sad that even cool characters like Inori and Shuu’s mother also became ‘evil’. Shuu’s mother is now helping Shuichiro in his evil plot while Inori has turned into another Mana.

Speaking of Shuichiro’s evil plot, it seems like they’re reviving Gai but what for? Is it Gai the actual key person in his evil plot instead of Mana? Then what about the ‘battle’ they started back then, it was for nothing or just a red herring for a more evil plot like this?

I’m not sure if I can still take this anymore. What a shame if characters like Inori and Shuu’s mother suddenly become enemy when *cough* they’re too sexy (and Shuu’s mother is a MILF too!). Also it seems like Shuu is now nothing more but Yahiro’s ‘puppet’, made me think Yahiro might be manipulating him so that he could avenge his brother?

I wonder what is happening here. WTH they’re turning my Inori into some sort of evil? Seriously? Now I have a feeling that eventually everybody will die, including Shuu and Inori. BTW where’s the love between Shuu and Inori? Where has the love gone? Give me back the romance dammit!

I don’t understand how could an anime that is supposed to be about fighting the oppression could fall this low. Seems like the makers want to put too many stuff in it to the point of destroying the foundation of this anime. There are still less than 10 episodes left so let’s hope something better will happen next or this anime will be remembered as one of the worst Evangelion wannabe of all time.

Speaking of Evanglion recently somebody told me Rinne no Lagrange (RnL) is trying to become Evangelion too. I respect what he feel for that anime, except that I think he’s wrong. RnL is too happy-fun to become the next Evangelion. If you ask me, it’s more like the mecha version of Madoka Magica, as I mentioned in my one of my previous posts.

By the way if I am to count how many ‘new’ Evangelion out there based on audience reactions, now there are 3, which is Guilty Crown, Rinne no Lagrange and Senki Zesshou Symphogear. For me we don’t need a new Evangelion (I’ve never liked EVA to begin with for it’s EMO). If anything we should try having something that’s better than Evangelion and if possible to make people think that Evangelion is not that great.

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[Review] Confession: Sacrifice (Guilty Crown ep. 15)

  By Halfey Halphstein | February 6, 2012 - 8:59 pm | ,
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I’m sad that Hare’s dead now and I must say it was an unexpected development (I was hoping she would last until the end). Maybe this is the reason she never had any important role before but I can feel her importance level briefly rocketing up in since the start of the new arc, which is why I think she shouldn’t have died. Including Hare’s demise there are at least 6 problems they’re facing now:

  1. The “red line” shrinking the Loop 7 area is getting closer day by day. It’s just a matter of time until everything in the area got wiped out. The only way to survive is to escape but getting close to the red line may also mean instant death.
  2. Not all voids are weapons. Half of them are just tools. Not being weapon doesn’t mean they’re useless though, just like Hare’s void.
  3. Voids have varying strength, which can be measured using a special device* dropped by the terrorist during the school assault earlier. Either the strength depends on the owner or the user, Shuu seems to have no problem using any of the voids. The worse part about it is Yahiro proposed for the students to be ranked based on their Void strength (those on the top will have higher priority in receiving the vaccine for the apocalypse virus) though Shuu personally against it but he was indecisive about it.
  4. Hare is dead and now they have no healer. She might still be alive if she healed herself first. However she decided to heal Shuu first whom she loved and then got shot before she could heal herself.
  5. After Hare’s death Shuu no longer believes in kindness and gone berserk. There’s a chance that he will become “the lesser evil of the two” now. Maybe this incident will force him to be more decisive, after he decided to become the ‘king’, the one who holds the ‘guilty crown’.
  6. Shibungi, the man who used to be Gai’s second-in-command was seen with the clown Makoto. He might have been the ‘mole’ in Undertakers all this time though if that was true it would be a major plot hole. My other speculation is he was taken there for some reason.

Hare's untimely death. I kinda liked her so her loss is a bit unacceptable to me.

Shuu is now very powerful that he can defeat the distant enemy from where he stands.

One thing I’m hoping to see next week is for Shuu to have ‘inherited’ Hare’s power. Usually that happens when a dead person got revived from a special power (after all Shuu was more less dead before).
*I’ve got the feeling that this device was deliberately ‘smuggled’ by the clown Makoto during the school assault the other day (he might have planned to break the unity among the revolting students), just like how he tried to use Shuu to ‘smuggle’ a tracker pen into the Undertakers nest.

 

[Review] A certain anime that I thought has finished airing

  By Halfey Halphstein | January 28, 2012 - 9:52 pm |
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I thought Guilty Crown was finished at episode 12 though I did have a feeling that it was ended prematurely. The airing of episode 13 proved me wrong though previously this anime was announced to have only 11 episodes and I’ve never followed the news about it but only watched the anime instead. However at the beginning of episode 13 it feels like a continuation OVA with those school festival and stuff that almost convinced me that the anime was over, until the assault that happened at the second half of the episode.

Many new things were ‘introduced’ in this episode that I think is a beginning of a new arc. Not only the OP/ED are new, the two girls from the somewhat disbanded Undertaker, namely Ayase and Tsugumi, now joined the students in the school where Shuu goes to (after all Undertaker is now leaderless now that Gai is dead). It’s a bit awkward though that the other students just accepted those two like they were always with them, not sure they just didn’t realize it or just didn’t care.

Shuu’s power also seems to have ‘upgraded’ probably from the contact with ‘Eve’ in the previous battle, where now the the people whom he drawn a weapon (Void) from could now retain their consciousness and even use their own Void. However it seems like Shuu is not the only one who can draw a Void. Ayase seems to be able to do the same thing too, though she probably can only draw her own Void, which is in the form of “winged leg braces” that allows her to literally ‘fly’ around at awesome speed. This is another thing that I feel awkward about because it’s as if Ayase ‘suddenly’ found that power.

Ayase with her "newfound power."

I did say that this is a new arc so of course there’s something new about the bad guys too. As I’ve told in my last review, the ‘clown’ Makoto Segai is somebody that should never let to live although he seemingly had left the band of bad guys in the last episode. In this new episode he’s the one responsible in supplying the terrorists with weapons and vehicles (including an Endlave mecha) that were used in the school assault. Even more disturbing he have one spy infiltrated the school and joined the students as well. Lucky there were no casualties in the assault and the school festival was resumed after Shuu and Ayase took care of them.

The clown Makoto is not the only bad gay though as at the end of the episode it seems like the real bad person, Shuichiro Keido who was killed by Shuu in the last battle now assumed the leadership of Japan’s provisional government and to make it worse, he even issued a command to ‘seal-off’ the Loop 7 area, which is where Shuu and everybody is. Now I wonder if Shuu will lead the new ‘Undertaker’ movement to fight not only the clown Makoto but also this new evil government.

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[Final Impression] As guilty as crowned – It suddenly become Evangelion?!

  By Halfey Halphstein | January 17, 2012 - 8:19 pm |
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Guilty Crown, one of the anime I closely follow since last year has just finished airing. The ending was OK but a bit disappointing. I’m also not joking about the title above. Read on if you wish to know why.

When I said Evangelion I mean there’s a sudden appearance of ‘Death’ and nobody bothers to defeat him. Also in the end some characters that I think should be killed were left alive. One of them is the ‘clown’ Makoto Waltz Segai whom I found opportunistic as he left the scene (and even helped Shu’s mother, Gai and Ayas to locate where Shuichiro is after that). Another one I think should die is the mad Daryl Yan.

At least the title now makes more sense but it failed to explain about ‘Eve’, who first discovered her or how she was discovered, etc. It also failed to explain about Inori’s background but only gave a very vague clue about her. It may be possible that she is Mana’s clone (again if that was true then it would be another copied element from Evangelion).

I guess the rest will be explained in the yet-to-be-released game? Anyways I think I should stop here. Writing any longer would only make me rage even more and that would be no good for you readers to feel my wrath coming out from your computer/tablet/phone display.

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