Guilty Crown Episode 20 Posted on: March 9, 2012 | 321 views Recap: As Mana’s manifestation into Inori’s body approaches its completion, Gai declares total annihilation of the current world’s populace. He releases Shibungi along with Kurosu Ouma’s diary as means of allowing those alive to know the truth before they meet their demise. Through the contents of the diary, the events leading to the first ‘Lost Christmas’ was revealed. It all began when Kurosu and Shuichiro were graduate research students. They were on the same wavelength in terms of their research on human evolution and natural selection and they became close friends. Not long after, Kurosu began a relationship with a fellow researcher, whom he eventually marries and was followed by the birth of Mana. A few years later a meteorite struck the earth’s surface, which was later discovered by Mana. Kurosu and Shuichiro soon uncovered the mysterious nature of the meteorite, which, contained a virus that proved consistent with the research they’d being doing. A representative, Yuu from the mysterious organization, ‘Daath’ pays a visit to the duo and expressed his interest in Mana, who had become a mutual carrier of the Apocalypse virus. Seeing Mana as an infestation of ‘Eve’ he makes a proposition to use her as well as Kurosu’s ‘yet to be born’ son to create a new human race. However, Kurosu’s wife too was infected and already in a deep phase of the virus infection. She dies after giving birth to Shu and Kurosu decided to turn down Yuu’s proposition. Despite, Kurosu’s decision, Shuichiro continues with ‘Daath’s plans. In an attempt to replicate Mana’s control over the virus, the virus was inoculated into various young subjects, one of which was Gai, who was originally a child saved and adopted by Shuichiro himself. Gai, terrified with having to live as a lab rat escapes from the facility he was confined in and was later swept to shore and saved by Mana and Shu at Oshima, the place where Kurosu sent them so that he could proceed with his own research alone at the university. It was there where he meets the genius sister of Shuichiro, Haruka who decided to devote herself in helping him with his research. Soon, Haruka informed Shuichiro that she’d decided to marry Kurosu, who didn’t show any resentment towards the idea. On Christmas Eve of that year, the Ouma’s had planned to rendezvous at a church where they’d spend Christmas together, however Kurosu was still back at his lab. Shuichiro finds a diary at Kurosu’s office and discovered that Kurosu had managed to find a cure to virus, the ‘Void Genome’ as well as his disagreement upon the selection process by means of the Apocalypse virus. Shuichiro was soon discovered by Kurosu followed by Shuichiro’s plea to allow the two of them to collaborate again. Kurosu refuses and Shuichiro, taking Kurosu’s words as ridicule murders him out of insanity. Haruka later arrived to discover the body of her dead husband. Back in the present, Haruka revealed to Shu that the implantation of Mana’s soul into Inori’s body had been successful since the day of the second ‘Lost Christmas’, however, total manifestation cannot be completely unless all the factors in relation to Mana’s original body are met. She urges Shu one last time to refrain from using his power but Shu assures her that it’s the right decision. They share an intimate moment before making their way for departure. Prior to leaving by helicopter, Shu had made a decision to return the void he possessed to its rightful owners, fearing that his death would also spell the end for the void owners as well. However everyone insisted otherwise, convinced that Shu’s failure in his mission will spell the end for everyone anyway. Shu makes amends with Souta prior to his departure into enemy territory. Impression The entirety of what we saw today could be considered a flashback episode of sorts. It also provided us with answers to the questions that we may have been pondering upon throughout the duration of the series. To be honest, I had originally thought that Kurosu might have died from the Apocalypse virus himself rather than simply shot by Shuichiro from having his pride being shattered. So Gai had decided to give our protagonists a fighting chance before unleashing total destruction upon the world. Somehow it made me wonder whether he actually wants to be defeated or just doing it for his amusement, knowing that he’d win anyway. I’d made a lot of wrong guesses in the past in regards to future events of this series such as having Inori confined from episode 11 till the finale as well as having Haruka killed off in the previous episode. Maybe its just me being pessimistic, but I can’t say its a bad thing since being unprepared would render my emotions to go out of control, possibly resulting in me not being able to write the review for that episode. Well since finale is almost within site at this moment, any pessimism won’t make much difference anyway. Of course many of us are expecting a heart warming reunion between Shu and Inori, but I’m also hoping that all those good people who had died in the past episodes will somehow be miraculously reincarnated. I won’t say I’ll count on it, but at least, it’s a thought. Filed under: Anime Series, Guilty Crown by Jack Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website
