As of July 2026, Guilty Crown Season 1 aired in 2011 with 22 episodes — streaming now on Crunchyroll. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Guilty Crown Season 1

2011 22 Episodes Animation · Sci-Fi & Fantasy ⭐ 7/10

Right now you can watch Guilty Crown Season 1 on and — and it goes further with its ideas than most genre entertainment bothers to. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. With 233 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Yuki Kaji leads a cast that never lets the concept overwhelm the characters. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Guilty Crown Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Guilty Crown Season 1 uses its genre premise as cover for asking bigger questions. 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. Yuki Kaji and Yuichi Nakamura lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2011. The rules of Guilty Crown Season 1's world are consistent enough that the big swings never feel like cheating. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Guilty Crown Season 1 is satisfying on multiple levels — something to watch and something to think about after. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Yuki Kaji's performance is the anchor the more ambitious moments need. The world-building pays off in ways you will not anticipate on a first watch.

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🎬 Guilty Crown Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
Genesis
2011-10-13
Shu 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 self-respect is to deliver a strange vial she stole to her terrorist pals.
E2
Survival of the Fittest
2011-10-20
Now 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--and the lives of over 100 hostages are on the line.
E3
Void-Sampling
2011-10-27
Inori’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 terrorist action in Roppongi, and Gai’s put him in charge of the problem.
E4
Flux
2011-11-03
Shu 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?
E5
Preparation
2011-11-10
Gai'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 training! But can Shu concentrate on combat after Inori turns him down?
E6
Leukocytes
2011-11-17
A 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. Still, learning a few new things about Gai just might change his mind.
E7
Temptation
2011-11-24
Shu'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 by a missile-happy American who's just joined GHQ.
E8
Courtship Behavior
2011-12-01
Gai 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 his own ends still doesn't sit well with him.
E9
Prey
2011-12-08
Yahiro 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 enemy are about to learn the virus doesn't work the way they think it does...
E10
Retraction
2011-12-15
Shu'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 people in his life.
E11
Resonance
2011-12-22
GHQ is awash in blood, chaos and song. As the Cancer sweeps over Tokyo, Shu faces the truth about friendship and the consequences of inaction.
E12
The Lost Christmas
2012-01-12
Inori'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.
E13
Isolation
2012-01-19
Two 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.
E14
Election
2012-01-26
Rumors 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 that turning in members of Funeral Parlor might be their ticket to freedom.
E15
Sacrifice
2012-02-02
Shu 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.
E16
The Tyrant
2012-02-09
Welcome 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 see a new side of the Voids, too.
E17
Exodus
2012-02-16
Discontent within the ranks of the school is reaching fever pitch as the Exodus approaches.
E18
Dear...
2012-02-23
Gai 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 on any side of this fight.
E19
Rebirth
2012-03-01
Things 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 the only one who's made a decision.
E20
A Diary
2012-03-08
Ten 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?

🎭 Cast of Guilty Crown Season 1

Yuki Kaji
Yuki Kaji
Shu Ouma (voice)
Yuichi Nakamura
Yuichi Nakamura
Gai Tsutsugami (voice)
Ai Kayano
Ai Kayano
Inori Yuzuriha (voice)
Kana Hanazawa
Kana Hanazawa
Ayase Shinomiya (voice)
Ayana Taketatsu
Ayana Taketatsu
Tsugumi (voice)
Kazuhiko Inoue
Kazuhiko Inoue
Shuichiro Keido (voice)
Daisuke Sakaguchi
Daisuke Sakaguchi
Souta Tamadate (voice)
Anri Katsu
Anri Katsu
Argo Tsukishima (voice)
Nobutoshi Canna
Nobutoshi Canna
Makoto Waltz Segai (voice)
Takehito Koyasu
Takehito Koyasu
Shibungi (voice)

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