Guilty Crown - Mech and cute girls is never boring

[Mano]

who is that? gai?

[christianbelouve]

[Sphinx]

^ seconded

[Mano]

i was like

then i remember how code gay was...

[thanh_kinkin]

I want to do this so much...

[christianbelouve]

[blackangel]

Gai bị tẩy não?

Hay Gai muốn thế thật?

My head hurt :(

[Kei12]

Mindfuck episode !

[Mano]

ảo tung chảo

[Sphinx]

tbh i can kind of understand why Arisa flipped that shit. And as always, Shoe has no one to blame but himself, for failing to remedy the situation in whatever way possible.

First, that evil Inori's expression. It screams "im here to kill you cuz you know a big secret that threatens my Shuhrer's reign and were about to spill it to everybody", and I don't think no one ever bothered to explain to her that she was just possessed by Shoe's dead yandere evil older sister who (still) wants to marry her brother. Shoe, way to go.

Second, last episode when Argo found out about the whole deal with broken Voids, you might recall that Shuhrer got his hand on Argo's Void, pulled a poor imitation of a mixed expression between Yuno's yandere raepface (the madness) and Light's keikaku doori (the evilness), and said something along the line of "so if i destroy his void, he will shut up 4eva". Yeah, and Arisa saw it. Shoe ended up not killing Argo (the wuss), but does that make it less likely from Arisa's POV that Shoe might attempt it sooner or later? Does Shoe try to convince Arisa otherwise ? No, he just proceeds to make the unwise decision of going overboard with the I am king shit and confides his woes in Inori, which is completely counterproductive since she's only good at looking good and looking submissive and cannot give an advice on people management to save her life.

Lastly, you might recall that Arisa is a coward at heart, which is why her void is a shield. When someone who fears too much lets the fear go to their head, that one tends to go to some extremes to feel more secure and eradicate that fear. Which is what Arisa did. And it's Shoe's fault for not understanding her nature, regardless of whatever shit he might have fed himself about the power of the king let him touch the hearts of people.

So please for God's sake, Shoe, quit pretending you can be Gai or even can be in a position of power however remotely. Quit believing in Gai's shit about how you can be him whenever you like, because the role model for him was you in the first place. That cool, confident Shoe is a thing of the past, he's dead, as in to be gone for good and zero chance to be conveniently brought back just because the plot needs it; not to mention he might not have existed in the first place because you might recall again that the little bastard caused the 1st lost christmas because he lost it and called his traumatized, insane sister a monster, which was a poor example of situation control. Now you are a pussy who has no social skills and makes all the wrong decisions and CANNOT lead people for shit's worth. And the worst thing is you are stupid enough to play along with their decision of making you prez despite knowing how much you are NOT leader materials after 12 episodes of being compared to Gai the Magnificent, then stupider still, you actually buy the shit about the power to extract void gives you power of a king. Wrong genre savvy, Shoe, just wrong. Just like Gai couldn't learn from Kamina's stellar example of staying dead to not further trainwreck the plot, you couldn't learn from Simon's wise choice of making Rossiu the boss and be content with being the boss's dragon. Forget the 2nd OP, don't grow a new arm and leave everything to Gai.

A quote from Sun Tzu to you:

[..] if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.

You do not know your enemies, you do not know yourself, you do not know your ally, well expect youself to fail hard in life.

/rant over