17 December 2011: It's not easy being Guilty Crown's Potato-kun
Running Shu.
This week's episode of Guilty Crown is about Shu's performance anxiety. Remember how episode nine ended? Yeah, I guess our hero has shell shock or PTSD or Christmas Blues or whatever they call it in the future. And not just a little bit, either.
Guess why Ayase is angry you ran away, Potato-kun. Go on. Guess.
It's difficult for me to praise Guilty Crown because I understand that, by a lot of metrics, the show is not very good. Nevertheless, it still manages to be entertaining if you're willing to watch it for what it is. I'm inclined to nod my head along when critics accuse it of being cliché or generic or unoriginal, but despite being all those things (if the accusations are true), I sure don't know what's going on. That's a positive point in its favor, right?
