Guilty Crown Episode 1

Good lord that op. The music is great. The action is intense. The animation is really fluid in some rather quick shifting fight scenes. Overall an impressive start to what looks to be a good show.

Say "hi", Inori. 

The setting is a semi-distopian occupied Japan that resembles a less stereotyped Code Geass scenario. There are some cliche elements like a sudden girl appearance (of course she is amost naked) and a main male character who has to overcome being stupid in order to be awesome. But it doesn't feel cliche, which is the key.

Gai gives a beatdown to an awesome background track.

Inori (the above mentioned girl) helps steal some important device. She is chased by Anti-Bodies (secret police?) but is hurt and goes into hiding where Shu (above mentioned boy) finds her. Shu has to man up when this hot, fan-service chick gets arrested and roughly dragged off. Shu is a wimp, though, so this poses a problem. Gai however (to whom Shu delivers the whatsit that Inori stole) is consummate badass. So it's all good. Shu gains some super power in his right hand (and does a Dantalian reach-in-a-girls-chest power up) when he accidentally activates the whatsit, laying waste to their pursuers.

Power up!

I am definitely watching this show this season. Who needs a second episode, seriously? It is like Code Geass and A Certain Magical Index mixed together without the parts I didn't like (the lameness of the moralizing that takes place in both). If the rest of the show runs at the same pace, it will make for an entertaining divergence. And Inori is totally one of  my crushes for this season. Her and Chihaya.

Shu, bro, you made a mess.