Guilty Crown
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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Seasons
After a viral apocalypse, Japan has lost its independence to GHQ. When high school student Shu gains a strange power, he's drawn into the resistance.
1.Genesis
7.813-10-201124 minShu 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 pursuers from hurting her more, his one shot at...
2.Survival of the Fittest
8.120-10-201124 minNow 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 between Funeral Parlor and the Anti Bodies--a...
3.Void-Sampling
8.027-10-201124 minInori’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 one of Shu’s classmates witnessed their...
4.Flux
8.303-11-201124 minShu 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...
5.Preparation
8.010-11-201124 minGai'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 against Ayase's Endlave. Time for basic t...
6.Leukocytes
8.217-11-201124 minA change in circumstances forces Funeral Parlor to carry out their attack against the Leucocyte with drastically reduced manpower, and that's BEFORE Shu pulls out of the mission. S...
7.Temptation
6.024-11-201124 minShu's mother finally comes home, only to find her son living with a girl and an underwear-transporting robot. Elsewhere, a key strategic asset for Funeral Parlor is being targeted...
8.Courtship Behavior
6.001-12-201124 minGai 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 his cover, but using other people for h...
9.Prey
7.808-12-201124 minYahiro 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 a command decision. But he AND the enem...
10.Retraction
7.815-12-201124 minShu's having horrible flashbacks, both to images of his battle with Jun and to other, even more upsetting images that soon have him quitting Funeral Parlor and alienating the peopl...
11.Resonance
8.322-12-201124 minGHQ is awash in blood, chaos and song. As the Cancer sweeps over Tokyo, Shu faces the truth about friendship and the consequences of inaction.
12.The Lost Christmas
8.512-01-201224 minInori'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.
13.Isolation
8.019-01-201224 minTwo 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 blockades off the heart of the city.
14.Election
8.026-01-201224 minRumors are flying about what's happening to people in the quarantine zone, and Arisa is losing control over the frenzied student body. To make matters worse, someone's let it slip...
15.Sacrifice
8.202-02-201224 minShu 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 t...
16.The Tyrant
8.009-02-201224 minWelcome 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 imagined possible... and Shu's about to...
17.Exodus
8.216-02-201224 minDiscontent within the ranks of the school is reaching fever pitch as the Exodus approaches.
18.Dear...
6.323-02-201224 minGai 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 Arisa's not having much luck winning friends...
19.Rebirth
8.301-03-201224 minThings 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 seems willing to let her--and she's not...
20.A Diary
7.808-03-201224 minTen 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 know: where were their parents?
21.Emergence
8.315-03-201224 minAs Funeral Parlor and the U.N. troops converge on Ward 24--for drastically different reasons--Inori hovers on the edge of becoming Mana. Meanwhile, the mysterious boy who first too...
22.Convergence
8.222-03-201224 minThe Fourth Apocalypse is upon us.
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