CATDOLL: The complete series of Guilty Crown animation is broadcast again, and the audience's evaluation forms a watershed

On April 27, the Guilty Crown Blu-ray box set was released in Japan. This well-known work from 2011 is still the focus of controversy today. After the recent rebroadcast of the animation, netizens gave a huge contrast in the ratings before and after.

Guilty Crown Blu-ray Box Cover

To commemorate the release of the Guilty Crown Blu-ray Box, the NICONICO website broadcast the entire Guilty Crown TV animation on April 25 and April 26. For many viewers who joined the TV animation late and have never been exposed to Guilty Crown, this opportunity is very rare, and it also allows them to fully experience the influence of the topical work of that year. However, according to the website's statistics on the audience, the ratings of the first 11 episodes and the last 11 episodes formed a sharp contrast.

Episode 1 to Episode 11 Opinion Survey: 82.1% of respondents said it was "very good"

The plot of "Guilty Crown" was not fully in-depth in the early stage, and the overall story was still in the foreshadowing stage. The audience was also infected by Hiroyuki Sawano's music, and the daily life of Shu and Inori and other classmates became the focus. At this time, the "very good" score on the first day accounted for 82.1%, which can be said to be very impressive.

Episode 12 to Episode 22 Opinion Survey: "Very Good" 54%

However, starting from episode 12, the plot of Guilty Crown began to take a sharp turn for the worse, with Matsuri's death becoming the biggest turning point. Coupled with the increasingly bloody plot in the later episodes, many viewers could not accept the development of the story. After Matsuri's death, his personality became colder than before, and he decided to implement a class system to manage the school, which caused dissatisfaction among his classmates and seemed to make the audience in front of the screen quite resentful...

Guilty Crown story background: In 2029, Japan fell into anarchy after the "Lost Christmas" incident, and the supranational organization "GHQ" centered on the US military took over Japan. The protagonist Shu Sakuramitsu is a boy who doesn't care about the world and keeps a distance from others. Until Shu met his idol Yui Inori, he not only got the power of the king that can use other people's void, but also got involved with the anti-government organization Funeral Home - "Using friends as weapons to fight, this is the Guilty Crown I wear!"