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It's truly been a while since I've seen such a spectacular trainwreck.

8 episodes of a slow-burn sci-fi with first contact, politics, technology and negotiations become shitty fantasy drivel. The way the genre shift and twists are executed is so terrible I don't even know what this author was trying to accomplish.

I mean if a romance was going to be the main point/solution instead of you know science and negotiations then maybe they should have spend some time developing that instead of spending 2/3 of the shows building the mcs' relationship only to destroy it in one scene so a character with like 3 ... scenes in that 2/3rd can win. And you know what's funny? It doesn't even matter why she's right. Naturalism and fuck yeah humanity is right by default because look the other guy spilled his spaghetti, snapped and went yandere so you have no choice now. Besides conveniently enough she's a cute mahou shoujo so why wouldn't you pick her? What are you gay? That's obviously not the right answer.

And more importantly I sure hope you didn't think you think for once we'd avoid the evil technology/progress cliche. Or that we'd actually solve things by talking which by the way is literally Shindo and Saraka's job and they are supposed to be awesome at it. Because tough luck, I'm returning all the alien gifts and here have some fucking energy swords, disney healing kisses, and a shonen final battle with a deus ex machina instead. You know if it weren't for that end I might have accepted that mess but it was far too wacky and shits on every point this show seemed to be trying to make.

Seriously is Shindo a high-functioning sociopath? Did someone play too much fe14? Did that hack of an author just wanted a hax mahou shojo in a school uniform and then wrote everything else? Is the right answer being a xenophobe/technophobe? Was this merely a terribly elaborate prank against that bully of a seiyuu?

In any case if you want a gary-stu with a harem ntr ing evil aliens with magic watch an actual battle harem since they are usually honest about what they are from the start instead of pretending to be serious.

Guilty Crown is the show I was most excited for and it has proven to be a great disappointment. I know hardly anything is original nowadays but this feels like a poor man's Code Geass.

Admittedly the animation and sound are excellent; it's obvious we're talking about high production values. Unfortunately that's where the positive things end.

The plot is contrived and shallow, the action seems pretty silly, and the characters are boring, i.e the wimpy school kid who turns into a badass when it's convenient, the friend-or-foe? ruthless strategist, the fanservice female protagonist...

I don't know, it feels like I'm expected to watch this (and subsequently ... love it) for the cool visuals and the scantily clad girl. Nothing wrong with enjoying it for those reasons but that is not what I thought this show would be.