code geass 20
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Fairly pointless episode.
Felt like a filler episode to me. There’s not a lot going on with the characters besides Euphie’s Nadesico-styled declaration of love for Suzaku. Remember when Yurika declares her love for Akito when he’s in the middle of a battle while Akito develops the “Get this crazy chick off of my video comm screen!” look? Well, that’s Suzaku now, 9 years later. (If there’s any anime that needs a remake, it’s Nadesico. We can all use more Gekiganger in our lives.) Felt more like a 24 minute long toy commercial instead. Watching Lancelot launch out of Avalon, it really wasn’t any different than seeing Strike launch out of Archangel. Can someone who has read the manga tell me if Sunrise is butchering the mecha aspect of this series? I get the feeling that the original intent of Code Geass wasn’t to shill failed Gundam ideas, but, thanks to Sunrise, it is now. How did we ever decide what toy robots to buy prior to Sunrise?
(The whole Japanese invasion subplot just felt so throwaway. If they need to chew up time, I prefer to go with the Karen, C.C., Shirley, and Millay go to a hot springs idea.)
I was going to write up a “Top Ten People I’d Like To Geass”… but decided against it. Couldn’t narrow it down to ten.
Notables
Euphie getting dumped…
… and not finding comfort in the bosoms of her crazy lesbian stalker. I’m shocked. This felt like a slam dunk that missed so badly, the force of the dunking carried the ball back to midcourt. Euphie was vulnerable, Nina was acting irrational, and they had a fireplace… so Sunrise chickens out. I shouldn’t be surprised. After all, Raito passed up a Mai buffet in an even more conductive atmosphere.
If there exists an energy pack that small that can charge Lancelot to full, why not just carry a few with him? Or, better yet, if Lancelot already has a cavity to insert the power pack, why not just launch it with the power pack pre-installed? If I ever get a job as an editor for Sunrise, I’m pretty sure that I wouldn’t last a week. I have some common sense.
Long live the glorious Pizza Hut rebellion! Actually, long live Millay’s legs! You’re telling me she needs to be hooked up in an arranged marriage? That’s even more of a stretch than Lancelot not able to carry around a tiny power pack.
This episode also marks a significant turning point: the odds that we’ll see a threesome between Lulu, Suzaku, and Dietrich has now surpassed the odds that we’ll see a Lulu, Karen, and blue-haired girl threesome. That was really hard to type with all the blood gushing out from my eyes.
(BTW, hated Dietrich’s haruhigasm when Zero gives a speech. I hope Karen kills him for looking at her man the wrong way… and soon.)
And don’t you think it’s eating up Karen on the inside that C.C. gets to pilot the new ubermecha with Zero? Man, if only we can somehow combine Shuffle and Code Geass.
Next time on AoMM’s coverage of Code Geass: killing spree!
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I did quite enjoy Zero’s hadron cannons wiping out those tanks though. That was pretty cool. And if this were done by the SEED people instead of the Planetes director, then there would have been TM Revolution playing instead of just normal music.
Huh huh…huh huh… Hardon cannon… Huh huh…huh huh…
I guess Diethard is the new Goebbels. For the love of Haruhi-sama these Code Geass Germans are but a pale reflection of the German soldiers of old. At least they were mildly awesome with their martial prowess, now they may as well start FOX News Japan.
>>You’re telling me she needs to be hooked up in an arranged marriage?
Well, I think I read somewhere that that whole arranged marriage thing was one of the two options to bring the Ashford family back to nobility status. (The other was to fork over Lelouch and Nunnally to the royal family).
>> Huh huh…huh huh… Hardon cannon… Huh huh…huh huh…
Damn, I can’t believe I missed an easy lay-up like this one. My bad. *thumps chest*
Oh, just you wait, Jason. I have a feeling you’ll be giddy in a few episodes.
I found it cute how Suzaku swatted away a dozen helicopters by doing intricate things with his slash hawks, while Lulu settles for vaporising them with a beam cannon the size of Lancelot’s arm. Equally, Lancelot drained fast for the first time in the series due to those wings, but the Gawain was not only flying throughout but also used the aformentionned beam cannon to destroy everything from Knightmares to tanks to choppers to a small insect that was looking at Lulu in a funny way, and remained fully operational. Oh, wait. Applying logic to Sunrise mecha combat again, my bad.
Logic and SUNRISe are two words that you never can put together in a sentence…
Kallen needs to kill C.C. to be the one with Lulu…
Lestaki Says:
I found it cute how Suzaku swatted away a dozen helicopters by doing intricate things with his slash hawks, while Lulu settles for vaporising them with a beam cannon the size of Lancelot’s arm. Equally, Lancelot drained fast for the first time in the series due to those wings, but the Gawain was not only flying throughout but also used the aformentionned beam cannon to destroy everything from Knightmares to tanks to choppers to a small insect that was looking at Lulu in a funny way, and remained fully operational. Oh, wait. Applying logic to Sunrise mecha combat again, my bad.
Notice that now no one is complaining about how overpowered Lancelot is? Just wait until Orange-kun gets his new ubermech, and then we’ll get to make comments about Gawain not seeming overpowered anymore.
>>There’s not a lot going on with the characters besides Euphie’s Nadesico-styled declaration of love for Suzaku.
Amazing Timing. I’m watching Nadesico right now.
>>Syaoran Li
>>Logic and SUNRISe are two words that you never can put together in a sentence…
Espically if you add in mech as well.
Speaking of Shuffle!, Shuffle! Memories ep. 12 (the only one with all-new content) features more psycho Kaede action…
speaking of shuffle, shakugan no shana is getting a second season, scheduled to air this fall
yes… i know this has nothing to do with either code geass or shuffle
Hell yes i do agree Nadesico needs a remake, i sure could use some more gekiganger in my life too, and yes I do remember that scene of Yurika’s declaration of love, freaking hilarious how everyone pops up on the screen to intervene on everyone’s love lives. (and yes, the “get this crazy chick off my video screen” look was priceless), now i want to rewatch my DVDS of Nadesico, thanks jason.
And btw, i still did enjoy this episode, and you probably have heard about whats going to happen in the next 2 episodes, but all i can say is that I think you will have some good material for blogging for whats to come soon.
Hurry up and watch (and blog) the remaining episodes of season 1. You wanted an emo facial contortion? You got one.
You need to get to ep23. We have emo face that is not only pantheon level, but in fact levels the pantheon.
I agree with poster numbers analysis of when Seed felt it was necessary to indulge in T.M Revolution music. Basically anytime Fukuda needed to fit in his best buddy’s music he would call for an extended action sequence. It was quite annoying. That being said this was somewhat of a boring episode I’ll agree, but it showed us that just because Lancelot is top of line doesn’t mean you can send it into an area with an entire squadron of KF’s in clear view of the enemy and expect the battle to go well.
well, the entire season look as if you are watching gundam seed all over again. Wait, I take that back. Finished watching ep 22 and 23 =.=”””.
>1st blood!
>>Double kill
>>> Triple kill!
>>>> Monster kill!
>>>>> Godlike!
>>>>>> Holy shit! Beyond Godlike!
Wish that our blogger can blog it soon!^^