The Everlasting Guilty Crown - Guilty Crown OP2 [Piano]

Sheet music → mymusic.st/animenzzz/41485
In a way, The Everlasting Guilty Crown symbolizes the end of a long journey because it’s going to be my last piano arrangement for the Guilty Crown Anime series. I personally regard my Guilty Crown piano arrangements as my favorite works, because they are all written in the so called “special-type” arrangement style - piano pieces with a highly individual character.
It’s not surprising that most of these songs are composed by ryo (supercell) because I really admire his ability to compose these brilliant melody lines, which is always touching the deepest part of my soul. Arranging The Everlasting Guilty Crown was probably one of the biggest challenges I was facing this year because I wanted to surpass my former self again and take the meaning of “Anime piano arrangement” to the next level.
One of the most distinct characteristic of the original song is the piano ostinato (a rhythmic pattern, that is repeating the whole time in the background), which is being introduced in the beginning of the song. For this arrangement, the piano ostinato is only vaguely hinted in the left hand at 00:28 and it also appears in the right hand in 00:59. It only starts to develop during the intermission in 01:43 until it finally reaches its full bloom in the second verse in 02:08. This is the moment where The Everlasting Guilty Crown is really starting.
From this point on, I was trying my best to carry the spirit of the original song through the second half of this piano arrangement. But the turning point of the entire piece is the calm before the storm in 04:38. In this short moment, I was reflecting all the past arrangements I have created, all the struggles I had to go through in order to continue and my constant obsession with perfectionism. So I utilized everything I could think of to make the final chorus count, be it three hand technique, fast right hand runs, or multiple voicing.
The original piece has an unexpected “open end” in E-major chord and the unfinished chord progression is yearning for a musical conclusion. I wanted to give this arrangement a grandiose orchestral finale and as a result I used a B major key for the first time. The piano ostinato is being played again in fortissimo and the piece ends with four B major chords to give the final chapter of Guilty Crown a fitting ending.
Well then. Thank you for reading my story behind the creation of this arrangement. The Guilty Crown piano pieces I have arranged so far have influenced my arranging career like none other and with each of them, I was discovering a new path and it has helped me to develop my arrangement style substantially.
Euterpe (2011) was my first big experiment with an improvised music structure and creating an individual finale.
• Euterpe - Guilty Crown...
Bios (2012) was my first project to utilize the full sound potential of the piano with a powerful Rock-style piano arrangement.
• Bios - Guilty Crown OS...
My Dearest (2013) was a summary of all my classical music knowledge and my most ambitious fusion between the world of classic and pop.
• My Dearest - Guilty C...
Departures (2017) was my first arrangement with jazz elements and it was written in the “orchestral” arrangement style.
• Departures - Guilty Cr...
The remake of My Dearest (2020) is a continuation of my old (2013) arrangement and showcases a further refined “orchestral” style with a more nuanced melody phrasing.
• My Dearest - Guilty Cr...
And now The Everlasting Guilty Crown. A “story telling” - focused arrangement, with everything I have learned so far as an piano arranger.
These 5 pieces represents my CZcams history the best and for some reason, I can’t help but feel nostalgic. 10 years on CZcams, it’s really been a long time.
To all the people who have been following me on CZcams during these years:
Thank you for your continuous support. I am really glad that the Anime piano community is steadily growing on CZcams. The new generation of Anime pianists is being more active than ever and I am really happy that the term “Anime piano” has been acknowledged by many people in the world already.
Thank you for these 10 years,
for giving me encouraging comments,
for contributing to the Anime piano community and most importantly,
for listening to my piano playing.
Animenz
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Piano arrangement by Animenz
Original Song: The Everlasting Guilty Crown
Anime: Guilty Crown / ギルティクラウン
Published by: Aniplex (2012)
Composed by: ryo
Performed by: chelly (EGOIST)
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[@vigneshs9587]

# Top 10 people you want as your neighbour

[@Mustang-ll9ud]

It is like Christmas every week now. Animenz is spoiling us with his arrangement lol

[@lu-uyhoang6238]

Egoist is seriously underrated. Both this and all alone with you is amazing.

[@dannyemerle447]

Being totally honest, I feel like your arrangements are actually better than the original songs most of time. I love listening to every one.

[@tyreehills132]

You should do code geass 2 ed plz

[@WTFKerFlims]

I miss Inori...

[@rockyplays_7790]

This song is actually underrated as hell. My dearest is great but so is this

[@koheitakeda7238]

繰り返しの音を聞いてるとなんか無性にエモい

[@user-sg3wg8kz7h]

楽譜あっても100%この演奏通りに弾けないなと思ったの初めて、って言うくらい完璧

[@user-lk7lf6ff7v]

すばらしいアレンジですね

[@Animenzzz]

2020年に取り組んだ中で最も気に入っているアレンジの1つです。ギルティクラウンの曲はいつだって自分の中で特別な曲ばかりなんだ。過去10年間でアレンジした他のギルティクラウンの曲にひけをとらない出来になるよう持っている力の全てを注ぎました。みんな見てくれてありがとう！これからもベストを尽くしていくよ (´・ω・`)

[@CSMPiano]

I've told you before but I'll took this opportunity to say it again in the comment, this might be a bit messy since I want to tell you everything I felt after listening to this video without filter. This is one of the most emotionally powerful arrangement you've done this year yet. In a way, this video is truly the culmination of your 2020 orchestral style, the most "story driven" arrangement you've made, as well as a brilliant call back to the important milestone of your arranging career.

[@ItzDrewGaming]

And now we've finally hit full circle with the Guilty Crown OSTs and openings.

[@Kiranime]

I love all your Guilty Crown arrangements <3 I was introduced to your channel that way ^^

[@hendrixcrossan9104]

how can someone already dislike this? they haven't even heard it yet!

[@zengarang]

What a marvelous addition to the godly Animenz Guilty Crown library.

[@purewaterruler]

Hi, I'd just like to share a long essay about this piece. that I wrote for one of my classes. I didn't even get to talk about the coda because I already hit 1000 words when the amount that I was supposed to write was like 200 because I think this piece was so good:

[@Geroscientist]

The OP/EDs of Guilty Crown, coupled with the OST by Hiroyuki Sawano absolutely makes it my favourite anime in regards to music, really looking forward to this!

[@Plash14]

I think when Animenz held down the B key at the end of the piece, it is as tho he did not want to let go of Guilty Crown and still wanted to continue making arrangements from it. Thus holding onto the B key is like holding on to Guilty Crown ;-; ... and then when the other hand lifted it up, that sorta gave me the vibe of "Hey bro, it's time to go . . .", signaling an end of a wonderful journey.

[@andreamodenese97]

I would like to hear PLANETES played by you, that’s a pearl 😍😍😍