code geass r2 2
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Bunny girl Kallen rules the day.
This new season is actually getting off to a nice, strong start, but, as you’re probably familiar with my views on Sunrise, it’s not going to last. Gundam 00 had a nice start, only to be ground like coffee beans by the end. Pizza Hut and table humping aside, the original season of Code Geass fulfilled its train wreck potential marvelously when Euphie went Rambo. I don’t see any reason to assume any different for this season. The train wreck watch for Code Geass R2 has started: I’m going to assume train wreck status, and, if by the end, it turns out be a pretty solid and serious mecha drama series, I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
With this new season of Code Geass, I hope we get some actual answers (I know, doubtful since this is Sunrise) to the franchise. For example, C.C., her origin, and the origin of geass were never explained well the prior season, and now with at least three geass users running amok, it would be nice to get some elaboration on this point.
With that said, we get some fairly lame conclusion to the previous series with the Suzaku and Zero gun duel ending with the two smashing each other’s bluetooth headset and gun respectively, then with Suzaku laying a beatdown on Zero. Has there ever been a wussier male lead than Lulu? The only thing that separates him from Shinji is a backbone. Zero is then geassed by his dad resulting him to be brainwashed into slice-of-life Lulu mode. My problem is still… wait, what about Shirley, Millay, Rivalz, and the other students? Wouldn’t they think something is wrong that suddenly Lulu’s sister is now a brother? Unless, well, this was Minami-ke ~Code Geass~.
OH GEASS NO
“I wanted to be near you. We’re finally all alone now.”
I guess fundamentally the difference between this and Spice and Wolf is that there’s a chance Horo would jump Lawrence. There’s as much of a chance here as salvaging Mako-cakes’ masculinity.
(But the line still ranks in the top ten of “greatest things any bunny suit wearing hottie could say.”)
Part of me wants to give Sunrise a cookie for Bunny Girl Kallen piloting Guren Nishiki while on all fours, but part of me is terrified that this is only the prototype to Tieria doing the same for Gundam 00 ~Setsuna of the Rebellion~ Zwei.
Hawtest emo facial distortion ever?
The downside for Code Geass having an afternoon time slot instead of the old midnight time slot is no more Kallen nakkidness. We just have to settle for Guren Nishiki’s USB ignition key strategically situated.
Speaking of facial distortions… I love the uber frowns from Suzaku and Lulu as they faced off in the flashback scene. Love the budging eyes, the strained look, and, of course, how much Lulu looks like Zetsubou-sensei.
(I was kinda disappointed that Kallen ran away. Horo would never do that!)
I’m still trying to figure out what Lulu does well besides having his geass. He doesn’t pilot mobile suits well, and he gets his ass handed to him in hand-to-hand combat. His tactician ability comes from the fact that he geassed the other side’s pilot into giving him the security IFF codes. If I knew where all my opponents mobile suits were, I’d be a pretty damn good tactician too. I think we can safely lump Lulu into the Sumeragi “Wait, How’d She Get That Job Unless Sexual Favors Were Involved” All-Stars.
(And I love the Lulu “Wait, I have to use this mobile suit in actual combat now?!” face.)
(I still can’t believe that more people picked Lulu as their tactician than Kallen for a Gundam pilot for celestial being a la carte. Seems… wrong.)
Gratz Suzaku for turning to a class A asshole by turning in your best friend and lover for a cheesy promotion. All you need now is a WordPress.com account, and you qualify for being an anime blogger.
One of the worst kept secrets is that Rolo is the pilot of the production Lancelot. Out of all the new characters introduced, I like him the least, just because his name reminds me of chocolate. He also major sways the mobile suit piloting advantage to Britannia, with only Kallen as the premier rebellion pilot. And as we all know, Sunrise does not do well when there’s lopsided teams. I also don’t like giving Lulu any more possible OH GEASS NO playmates.
(And the dude’s geass power is that he can teleport? Along with whatever mobile suit he’s in? Ugh.)
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Gratz Suzaku for turning to a class A asshole by turning in your best friend and lover for a cheesy promotion. All you need now is a WordPress.com account, and you qualify for being an anime blogger.
if you mean the friend that shamed and killed his lover sure
I wouldn’t be surprised if Rolo’s geass power turned out to be some form of mass hypnosis a la Dominique the Cyclops from Trigun. It makes sense (well, more so than teleportation) considering the other geass powers all involved mind alteration.
I’ll accept the Code Geass style trainwrecks anyday, they just serve to enhance the entertainment value of the show with utter nonsense.
Please be a reasonable person Jason.
Lulu definitely got average skill as a tactician, while Sumeragi got zero skills/points in that area and probably suck something to get that job as you said.
Sumeragi got all this “OVER POWERED” gundam suits and she did a half ass job and did not use the gundam specialty to her advantage and got them wrecked all the time. (remember that she has info on some of the battles before they started)
Lulu however got no overpowered knightmare to start with and had to use second/third rated soldiers to complete his goal and did a decent job at it considering what he start with and who he is up against. ( yea i agree with you that the geass thing is a bit cheap but this anime is call “code geass” for a reason and at least he know how to use it)
you should at least put Lulu in the middle of “God of tactics” and “i suck somebody to get this job!!!)
Speaking of harems, I’m a bit surprised that you didn’t note C.C’s comment about having his harem take care of itself. Snarky Pizza-Butt FTW.
Also, while we’re on the topic of Mako-cakes, I think I discovered his last name – Saotome. He goes on to prove trappiness is genetic by founding a Kabuki troupe and having a grandson whose name is Alto, someone pretty enough to be called ‘hime’ by his classmates.
The difference between an actual trainwreck and Code Geass is that one can actually find a fair amount of non-ironic enjoyment in Code Geass, and that even if shit hits the fan in storyline terms the show isn’t utter crap . But whatever.
Rolo Geass is Time Stop … yes, TIME STOP.
“My problem is still… wait, what about Shirley, Millay, Rivalz, and the other students? Wouldn’t they think something is wrong that suddenly Lulu’s sister is now a brother?”
It’s actually not that hard to imagine. Shirley is no longer a factor since she had her memories of Lelouch wiped with that “Forget everything about me” command. But then I think she found that note she wrote about Lelouch being Zero…. Anyhoo, as for the others, Millay was never fully “in the loop” with all the intricate happenings, but then again, she could know more than she’s letting off, after all, she does know that Lelouch and Nunally were from the royal family, but who can say? As for Rivalz, he’s being replaced by Rolo. During that bike trip to the chess match scene, I half-expected the driver to be Rivalz, but no, it’s some new guy. What about Nunally? I think everything played out somehow like this:
“Ah! Lelouch! You’re back! We haven’t heard from you since the Zero incident, and Nunally’s gone too, so it’s not as lively around here like it used to be.”
Ah, gome, I guess I should have gotten in touch with you guys sooner. Nunally’s currently staying at a relative’s house. With all the dangerous things happening around here, I don’t think it’s safe for Nunally to stay here.
“Oh, that’s too bad. But- Oh? Who’s this?
Clumsy me, I almost forgot to introduce you guys. Everyone, this is my brother Rolo. He’ll be attending school with me starting this year.
“Oh, so he’s your bro- EEEHHHHH!!! Lelouch, how come you never mentioned you had a brother?!!”
Well, he’s usually away most of the time, so I rarely got to see him. I was pretty surprised too when he just “suddenly showed up”.
And yadayadayada, you get the idea. With Zero being supposedly “dead”, after a year’s time, everything just settles nicely into place. The one thing I don’t understand is how Villetta became the P.E. teacher at Ashford Academy. Last time I checked she regained her memories including the fact that Lelouch is Zero….so…WTF?!!! I must have missed something.
Viletta and her presence is explained in episode 3. Shirley also gets some screentime, and Rollo and Nii-san get some quality Seed-style expression of affection time too (Sunrise seems to love that).
>> Rolo Geass is Time Stop … yes, TIME STOP.
No it isn’t. It’s AoE freeze & memory wipe.
>> It makes sense (well, more so than teleportation) considering the other geass powers all involved mind alteration.
Exactly.
>> Sumeragi got all this “OVER POWERED†gundam suits and she did a half ass job and did not use the gundam specialty to her advantage and got them wrecked all the time.
To be fair, she was drunk most of the time. Plus, the Meisters couldn’t even win 1v1 against the top pilots even with their Gundams. Graham, Ali, Soma, and Sergei all had success against the Gundams with non-GN suits. It’s hard to win if your uber suits are piloted by nitwits.
Isn’t his Geass more of an AoE immobilize that works by effectively knocking the target out during the duration of the Geass? If you look in the background of the scene in Ep 3 where he uses it, you can see things have changed… but nobody there remembers the changes.
Also, C.C. is very attractive in certain outfits, and Kallen remains a fanservice machine… thankfully.
But there are teleportation powers or he would not escape that suicide attack.
I said Time Stop because when part of the episode was leaked there was a large argument about what it actually WAS with two camps … I think its what Sunrise writers decide to BE for the plot to work as they want.
That is how bad this show is.
Gundam 00 ~Setsuna of the Rebellion~ Zwei.
I don’t care about all of that.
More Wakamoto Norio!
I…. seriously don’t understand why you continue to watch Sunrise shows if you hate them so much (for reasons I find pretty stupid, but whatever). I mean, you bash them for being “trainwrecks” and having nonsensical plots, and yet you enjoy shows like Gurren Lagann, Clannad, and Lucky Star? Yeah, ok.
For the voting, can we write-in vote for Mako-cakes? Just saying that would be the most ideal match for Lulu, at least in the eyes of the Broken.
@ Omnomnom
You haven’t been on this blog very long, have you?
My personal theory: Rolo is actually Nunnally, who was brain washed by being geassed by the Emperor, and then given a male cyborg borrowed from Tierria’s stash.
Be fair. Without the geass anyone would be screwed in pretty much every battle situation in this anime.
His enemies have superior numbers, mechs, pilots, and resources. And they DON’T suck. Mostly. You can’t tell me Cornelia wasn’t pretty bad ass.
I like that they threw out their normal formula (Super human pilot + God Mech = Gundam Spam Massacre) and actually put the heroes at a significant disadvantage for once.
Also, C.C. is really catty this season, no?
I am sorry but Geass simply because a Deux Ex Machina for the writers to use.
Also its still Gundam, maybe you forget season 1 that had Lancelot on one side as the other side had Gawain (BEAM SPAM) and Guren.
Also Brittania might have superior numbers but when do they use it? and what happens when they use it?
Either you get the Black Knights super mechs destroying then or you have Geass … you could say at first it was the Geass use that balanced the scale but at the end of season 1 we were back to the Gundam formula.
But are we at “CSI: Gundam” or “Gundam, as directed by Haruhi” levels yet? That’s what I’d like to know.
Do Lelouch and Suzaku still consider each other friends? As ferfie said, Lelouch did shame and kill Suzaku’s lover, and Suzaku dragged Lelouch back to his hated father. They now seem to be hated enemies.
And boy does Lelouch have the bad end of it if they meet again. Didn’t he learn that even a machine gun turret w/ a 0.05 seconds response time couldn’t hit Suzaku? So what is 1 bullet from a pistol going to do? Lelouch was aiming for Suzaku’s head and he dodged it pretty easily while firing his own gun. If guns can’t kill Suzaku, what will?
>>if guns’s can’t kill Suzaku, what will?
Erm…HIV infection from hawt buttsecks?
Rather appropriately, Suzaku Kick has become a minor shooping meme at 4chan. I fancy some of them even pretty good, like this one:
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