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Guilty Crown

TV·2011–2012·1 season, 22 episodes·Fuji TV·Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure·24m·7.3

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The story revolves around Shu Ouma, a high school boy who inadvertently obtains an ability called "The Power of the Kings" that enables him to draw out items called "Voids" from other people. He is then thrown into the conflict between a resistance group called Funeral Parlor which aims to restore Japan's independence from a quasi-governmental organization known as the GHQ. In the process, Shu has to deal with the burden his ability puts on his shoulders and the horrific mystery of his past.

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  1. 01Guilty Crown S01E04FluxS01E04 · 8.2Shu learns confusing things about Funeral Parlor’s agenda in GHQ custody, and it doesn’t help that Gai refuses to answer any questions--or that he breaks into GHQ to rescue not Shu, but a known murderer. Without any straight answers, who can Shu trust?
  2. 02Guilty Crown S01E12The Lost ChristmasS01E12 · 8.2Inori's been kidnapped by forces intent on performing a secret ceremony, and the only way for Shu to get her back is to remember what really happened on December 24th, 2029.
  3. 03Guilty Crown S01E15SacrificeS01E15 · 8.2Shu is conflicted about the Void ranking system, the student body is creaking under the tension, and vaccine stores are running low. At this rate, something--or someone--is going to snap.

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Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode22Episodes2011–12Aired 7.7Season avg
  1. S01E01Guilty Crown S01E01GenesisOctober 13, 2011 7.6Shu enters his hideout for a quiet lunch only to find Inori, his #1 musical crush, bleeding on the floor. After he fails to stop her pursuer
  2. S01E02Guilty Crown S01E02Survival of the FittestOctober 20, 2011 7.9Now that Shu has the king’s power, he doesn’t get to sit on the sidelines anymore. Gai thrusts him straight into the thick of a battle betwe
  3. S01E03Guilty Crown S01E03Void-SamplingOctober 27, 2011 8.0Inori’s everywhere Shu goes for some reason, and it’s starting to fry his brain. But there’s no time to worry about it, because it turns out
  4. S01E04Guilty Crown S01E04Season's bestFluxNovember 3, 2011 8.2Shu learns confusing things about Funeral Parlor’s agenda in GHQ custody, and it doesn’t help that Gai refuses to answer any questions--or t
  5. S01E05Guilty Crown S01E05PreparationNovember 10, 2011 8.0Gai's come up with a new mission, but before Shu can officially join the team, he has to show that he measures up by winning a mock battle a
  6. S01E06Guilty Crown S01E06LeukocytesNovember 17, 2011 8.0A change in circumstances forces Funeral Parlor to carry out their attack against the Leucocyte with drastically reduced manpower, and that'
  7. S01E07Guilty Crown S01E07TemptationNovember 24, 2011 5.7Shu's mother finally comes home, only to find her son living with a girl and an underwear-transporting robot. Elsewhere, a key strategic ass
  8. S01E08Guilty Crown S01E08Courtship BehaviorDecember 1, 2011 5.9Gai sends Shu on a mission to Oshima, where he hopes to find "the rock that started it all." Shu's whole school club gets a free vacation as
  9. S01E09Guilty Crown S01E09PreyDecember 8, 2011 7.8Yahiro reappears with Jun, who's in Stage V Apocalypse disease and can no longer battle the cancer. With Gai out of town, Shu's left to make
  10. S01E10Guilty Crown S01E10RetractionDecember 15, 2011 7.8Shu's having horrible flashbacks, both to images of his battle with Jun and to other, even more upsetting images that soon have him quitting
  11. S01E11Guilty Crown S01E11ResonanceDecember 22, 2011 8.0GHQ is awash in blood, chaos and song. As the Cancer sweeps over Tokyo, Shu faces the truth about friendship and the consequences of inactio
  12. S01E12Guilty Crown S01E12The Lost ChristmasJanuary 12, 2012 8.2Inori's been kidnapped by forces intent on performing a secret ceremony, and the only way for Shu to get her back is to remember what really
  13. S01E13Guilty Crown S01E13IsolationJanuary 19, 2012 7.8Two weeks after the sealing of Mana, Shu and his friends are now cut off from their families and from all of society as GHQ completely block
  14. S01E14Guilty Crown S01E14ElectionJanuary 26, 2012 7.8Rumors are flying about what's happening to people in the quarantine zone, and Arisa is losing control over the frenzied student body. To ma
  15. S01E15Guilty Crown S01E15SacrificeFebruary 2, 2012 8.2Shu is conflicted about the Void ranking system, the student body is creaking under the tension, and vaccine stores are running low. At this
  16. S01E16Guilty Crown S01E16The TyrantFebruary 9, 2012 8.0Welcome to Tokyo: a ravaged world under merciless totalitarian rule. More and more of Shu's old friends are seeing a side of him they never
  17. S01E17Guilty Crown S01E17ExodusFebruary 16, 2012 8.0Discontent within the ranks of the school is reaching fever pitch as the Exodus approaches.
  18. S01E18Guilty Crown S01E18Dear...February 23, 2012 6.0Gai is back, but he doesn't seem like the man he was before. The Funeral Parlor regulars are in shock, Shu and Inori are in hiding, and Aris
  19. S01E19Guilty Crown S01E19RebirthMarch 1, 2012 8.2Things have gone too far, and as a mother, it's up to Haruka to do something about it. But fortunately or unfortunately, no one in her life
  20. S01E20Guilty Crown S01E20A DiaryMarch 8, 2012 7.8Ten years ago on Christmas Eve, Mana, Shu, and Gai had a fateful encounter in a church. That’s the story we already know. The story we don’t
  21. S01E21Guilty Crown S01E21EmergenceMarch 15, 2012 8.0As Funeral Parlor and the U.N. troops converge on Ward 24--for drastically different reasons--Inori hovers on the edge of becoming Mana. Mea
  22. S01E22Guilty Crown S01E22ConvergenceMarch 22, 2012 7.8The Fourth Apocalypse is upon us.

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