Well, it’s past the halfway already, but I doubt anybody can blame me for not having this show very high up on the priority list.

For starters, here are my earlier verdict neatly summarized:

its character cast is so utterly insipid and standard with a Shinji-clone protag, main female with the personality of a cardboard sign, a mentor character whose “brilliant” plans are just complete nonsense, and a bunch of bad guys probably borrowed from Team Rocket. In this regard Guilty Crown is even worse than Shana – it tries really hard to be flashy and cool, all the while being a stale pile of colorless, odorless mass.

Now then, how has GC changed over the 10 or so episodes since?

Not by much at all. GC’s numerous problems plague it just as much as they did three months ago, and this is no wonder since they stem from the very fundamentals. The script keeps wobbling around, and the director whose job it is to adapt the said script isn’t exactly doing too well either. The show has four different people listed being responsible of the script which does raise a potential issue of failed coordination mixed with general incompetence, and the obvious lack of creative passion.

Guilty Crown is puzzling in the sense that it gives off every indication of being created as a marketable franchise, yet it completely misses most of the potential cash-in-points such as insert songs – Inori for instance is left almost completely ignored as a musical marketing element. In a sense this is even more unforgivable than being just a cold, calculated cash machine – instead GC only plain bad, and makes it pretty obvious that the production staff doesn’t really give a fuck about it either. Don’t ask us, we just work here.

As such I’m left wondering what the purpose of the show even is. It reeks of a cashing attempt, but doesn’t actually market itself much at all. Yet it’s too plain and poorly executed to be a serious attempt at creating a blockbuster (as much as such things exist in this business). Oh well, at least Shoe finally grew some fucking balls in the 14th episode. And while we’re on the subject…

So in the Shoe Republik the worth of a person depends on an arbitrary genetic feature nobody can really do anything about. Awesome. How does the Scouter-mock-up even determine the “strength” of a person’s Void? As we’ve seen, Voids come in all sizes and flavors from outright combat-oriented (Inori) to utilities (Tsugumi, Hare) and defensive gadgets (Arisa). There’s no logical way to measure the value of each of these on a single numerical scale, yet this is apparently what determines your position under Shoe’s command. How godforsaken idiotic do the scenario writers expect the audience to be?

Having said that all in all the 14th episode seemed to be the least bad one so far, or maybe all the herpderp has just dulled my senses completely.

TL;DR: GC is still just as bad as it was when it began. A waste of time.