Guilty Crown episode 17

XO I was overwhelmed with chocolate today. Everyone says I have poor eating habits yet people constantly give me candy and cakes and ice cream. They are enablers. I blame it on everyone else.

As I type this I am eating random cake and drinking Code Red. Such a healthy diet before I go to bed.

This isn't spoilery since it happened last episode. XD

But sugary items give me the energy to blog folks. I need to have a bad diet to keep you guys entertained. You really should be thanking me. XD But up now is Guilty Crown episode 17. Spoilers for me…finding it hard to root for someone?

Be on guard EVERY SECOND. Because you are trained soldiers after all.

Episode Summary: Several students are watching the wall move closer to their school and talk among themselves. Shu and his minions show up to yell at the kids for not taking their guard duty seriously. Shu then arrests the kids to set an example. Yahiro and Shu fight later about Shu going too far with his power. They briefly talk about the attack on Arisa and Inori looks guilty. Inori “woke” up and saw Arisa freaking out with a bloody hand. Elsewhere Arisa is losing her mind. She thinks back to Inori attacking her with a crystal …weapon thing. Arisa gets a random phone call (probably Argo) but her watch guard catches her when she starts talking about broken Voids=dead people. She then gets a crazy look in her eye and tells her guard what she knows about the Voids and in exchange for him telling all the other students she sleeps with him? In any event all the students find out and they freak. Quietly.

So quick these kids change sides.

The rest of the world has decided that Japan is a lost cause and they decide to bomb the place. Yahiro gets wind of the rumor going around about broken Voids=dead you and confronts Arisa. Arisa and her crazy self say haha it is not a rumor and Inori did this to my hand. Shu is off being emo about all the tough decisions he has to make and Inori is like…I think I hurt Arisa? Yahiro appears and is like Inori you hurt Arisa! Super dramatic. Inori says she didn’t mean to do it but Yahiro is pushing for punishment as to not show favoritism. Shu points out that Yahiro is a liar too and is harsh as well. And let’s not forget this Sugar incident. Yahiro tries to calm down Shu while owning up to his mistakes but that lands him in demotion land. Exodus Day has arrived and the troops march on to Tokyo Tower. A major power sources is at Tokyo Tower and if they destroy it the mechas guarding the city will be shut down and they can escape. To make this work everyone needs to battle the working mechas while Shu runs to Tokyo Tower. Everyone is shown being shady and talking about Arisa’s plan.

But that was MY power!

When the time comes everyone does attack and some causalities do occur. Shu goes out of his way to protect student while accomplishing his mission. Shu destroys Tokyo Tower with one Void and it comes tumbling down. The robot mechas are disabled and the Tower itself puts a hole in the wall surrounding the city. Everyone rejoices and they start making their way to freedom where everything will be okay. Shu and Inori are like yes we did it…and Arisa confronts Shu. She rallies all the other students and they all pull guns on him. Satou comes out of nowhere and pushes Shu into a rather large pit. Shu stands there is shock as he realizes everyone has turned on him. Inori goes to protect Shu….and gets randomly voided by someone not named Shu. Arisa turns and thanks Gai for coming to save them? Gai and his slightly different self greets Shu…and cuts off his arm. The magical King power is then transferred to Gai. Gai mocks Shu for assuming he was the King and leaves Shu bleeding on the ground. Inori looks on in horror as everyone leaves them to die. THE END!

HAHAHAHA! I hope everyone that was going WOE IS ARISA and INORI IS THE DEVIL is eating a crow tonight.

Okay just kidding. XD But I do think it is amusing how much can happen in one little episode that will make you change your mind about people.

Not that it matters much as every country in the world is coming to blow up Japan. Maybe something they should have done a long time ago to stop the disease? Oh snap I am in a people killing mood tonight.

Before I go along with the chronological order of this episode let me say how sad I am that Gai didn’t stab Arisa when he went down to ….talk to Shu. She could be all smiles to see him and BAM hand through the chest. Like um no sorry don’t remember you random person.

But starting over from the beginning….well I guess we didn’t get to see what happened with Argo did we. I thought I saw Shu holding his Void last week and threatening to break it. Then POOF Argo is gone. Obviously Shu just let him go but it would be nice to see that. With Yahiro looking on in his disapproving way.

Tokyo Tower died though. So sad. :(

Arisa is not dead. She might be an alien though. I have never been stabbed in the hand before (well anywhere but you know). But I am just going out on a limb and going to say that maybe….giant pools of blood don’t instantly appear when you are stabbed in the hand. Then again I don’t think blood splatters all over the mirror when a wound like that is made. But Arisa is not dead folks.

Just Inori has a huge crystal sword coming out of her arm and Arisa has given up on life. Or switched personalities.

Where is the strong Arisa we saw at the beginning of this series?!

Seriously Arisa was crazy this episode. Did she not tell anymore what happened when she was screaming down the halls? I find it odd she has to sleep with someone to get this information out. Very odd indeed. It painted a bad picture of Arisa. If she was going to take over it should have been on her terms, not having to sleep her way to power. She was a leader before and she could lead again. Why sleep with someone when she had the power (knowledge)? It just felt contrived, to make the audience feel sorry for the broken bird. Change of voice, crazy/dull eyes, and using extreme measures to get what she wanted.

So much trauma!

Maybe I am being too hard on Arisa but I think I wanted to like her. She started off as a strong girl, confident and ready to lead. She let everyone overrule her and threw her support in for Shu. Arisa supported the Void system until she found out the “lie”. But she was in the room when Shu found out so why blame Shu? Why allow others to hurt Shu when that is what she is trying to stop?

Let me tell you something that Inori is about to admit to. See how important I am?

Well…I guess Arisa was not at the best vantage point to see and hear Shu’s reaction. And maybe Shu could have stopped this all had he gone to Arisa after the fact. Inori KNOWS Shu is struggling and trying hard to keep it together. Arisa and the others (well maybe Yahiro) don’t. So after Arisa was attacked by Shu’s right hand girl he should have tried to fix it. Tried to bring Arisa back into the fold.

Where the heck are they? This has seriously been bothering me for a while.

Shu is blinded by love thought. A love Inori really…hasn’t earned. I guess I haven’t forgiven her over the whole I was using you because Gai told me to thing. But Inori has been the only one to support Shu and say yes to him the entire time. It is hard to expect Shu to be fair about EVERYTHING in life. Yes he should treat all his troops fairly. He had no problems putting Arisa in her place, treating Satou like a Rank F, and ….basically throwing Yahiro away. But he is a boy in love and a person thrown into the leadership position so I can accept that he made a stupid decision because of a girl.

Me thinks Shu and Yahiro should have worked things out privately...and still supported each other. But I don't recall seeing Yahiro in the overthrow so maybe there is still hope for them?

I think….both boys were right in the fight. I think it should have gone differently…like not in front of Inori but things had to be said. Yahiro, who has been…harsher than Shu, was pointing out that Shu was going too far and was burning bridges. And Shu was right. Yahiro has treated Shu really poorly. If Yahiro had done that crap to me I wouldn’t be trusting him either. Turning him into the AntiBodies could have gotten him killed. His brother died and he blamed it on Shu. Yahiro even said they weren’t friends. So for Yahiro to step up as Shu’s right hand man…yeah it comes across as self serving.

But I think throwing Yahiro all the way down the ranks was stupid. Yes Yahiro did lie to Shu but Inori messed up worse (well in hindsight) and Yahiro is practically banished. Guess an example was set but …yeah. I think it was a stupid move. At least Yahiro was trying to be a right hand man, even if his earlier actions were questionable.

We are ready to fight sir! Even though we hate you and have no battle experience.

I did find the battle slightly pointless. When Shu is in pissed off mode he is pretty strong. Shu could have handed people with the strongest Voids (IE the main people) their weapons and fought with Inori’s. Everyone else could have hid somewhere safe. Not sure where safe is but I think the battle was just there to show a few causalities and make Shu even more determined to protect as many people as possible. I don’t know. I guess it could have earned Shu nonexistent brownie points by protecting everyone but maybe these ungrateful fools need to fight and protect themselves.

And did you see how he had all the sick students safe in the (many?!) trucks. Not really seeing such a cruel dictator after all.

Also….where are all the adults? I know the school got caught up in the danger zone but if the damn Diet Building got squished that means they were in an area where office workers were. Tokyo Tower and the Diet Building aren’t exactly side by side. So where are all the people that were working that day? All got turned into sparkle crystals?

Everything will be okay now WEEEE!

But the plan goes pretty well considering it was a special plan. A few deaths, Shu turns off the death machines, and MAGICALLY Antibodies doesn’t send anyone else after them. Marching off into the promised land, all will be okay.

A big F U?

Or not. Arisa and EVERYONE (well it seems like everyone) turn on Shu. Like thanks Shu and now we hate you. Obviously these people are stupid. Unless Arisa’s grandfather is out there with a plane big enough to whisk all these people to safety they still need Shu. I don’t know, I thought maybe some of the kids would rethink overthrowing Shu. While some of his methods were harsh he did get the most people to safety. He warned them the battle was going to be dangerous but he ended up delivering what he promised. Now since everyone turned on Arisa in a matter of hours maybe I should not be so surprised that the sheeps followed a new leader.

But behold. Gai is here. Not to kill Arisa but to cut off Shu’s arm. WEEE! Censors are for crazy people.

Me thinks when Gai regains control he will be all like NO SHU I AM SORRY!

Is this Gai? Last time I checked Gai couldn’t pull out Voids but he got out Inori’s. And while Gai wanted that power for himself he didn’t take it from Shu. So I am just saying….maybe…just maybe this is not Gai. He is being controlled SHOCKER! Just a tool for Antibodies. Poor Gai being brought back from the dead. Not sure how Gai could say any of those things to Shu as he was not there to see what went down with the school but you know. It was hate on Shu day.

This is coming along pretty interesting. I hope that Antibodies get what is coming to them. Now that everyone else in the world is the enemy I hate for them to come out smelling like roses. But we got EyeBrow Kid, Antibodies, the rest of the world, and everyone Shu knows against Shu. But as Walking Dead has shown me losing your arm means nothing. Fight against everyone Shu. Surely they deserve your love and protection!