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Jul 03 2008

Categories: anime, code geass, responses
Tagged: code geass, code geass:anya, code geass:kallen, moe:symmetrical docking, sky girls

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OH GEASS YES!

It took me a while to plow through all the comments, but they all had a similar theme: this show is beyond ridiculous now. I’m not sure if it can be redeemed, but, more importantly, I don’t think I want it redeemed. I like the broken, ridiculous, melonpanriffic Code Geass, and I think they need to make it even more broken, more ridiculous, and more melonpanriffic.

wcq: You didn’t need to put that final picture there. You really didn’t.
Not only did it burn my eyes, it scorched away enough of my brain that I now think it’s okay to be gay.

You’re welcome! Derailed by Darry– breaking visitors since 2001.

Tetsuei: Jason!!! You fail!!! No mention of Miya-Miya in the Britannian strategic meeting?

Guinevere looks too much like a drugged-out, worn-out ho. At first, I thought she reminded me of Nina… but after sleeping on it, I decided Guinevere reminded me of Takano from Higurashi, especially during the last two arcs in Higurashi Kai.

I’m not sure what’s worse news this week: the Sonics moving to Oklahoma, Brett Myers being demoted to AAA, or Baron signing with LA, and then hearing Jim Rome rip on Northern California for two hours. I liked it when he told everyone to waste water to piss us off… except that LA gets most of their water either from groundwater or the Colorado River.

Tarage: Nina: “So, she canceled the engagement… I’ll mail her a table.”

12 episodes and no table humping. This is worse than 24 episodes of Higurashi and not one loli murderer.

Neriya: Why the focus on Shirley? Her only role in the series is being swimsuit-chan. Also why did Kallen, Nina, Nunnaly and Euphy not turn up at the school at the start of this episode in order to take part? And finally what a great education Ashford provides, upon graduating you have all the qualifications necessary to take up such high class and executive jobs as weather woman…

Well, at least a weatherwoman is a step up from being a stripper. Shirley was an unnecessary character from the start– hell, all of Ashford was unnecessary. Have you ever heard of a leader of a rebellion go, “Hey guys, I know we’re in the middle of this insurgency, but I need to get back to campus. I have this project report due, and I’m supposed to help decorate the gym for the school dance.” I felt that Code Geass just couldn’t decide what it wanted to be: a gritty rebellion / strategy show or a harem anime.

cpbong: I’m worried about Millay leaving. Now who will continue the shinanigans and hijinks at Ashford Academy? That was where the anime should be focusing at!

See, poor Milly-less cpbong would probably prefer a harem comedy at Ashford. I’m definitely worried about the dresses– without Milly, we’re down to just Cecile’s ridiculous cleavage overflowing dresses.

Yukimura: If anime has taught us anything it’s that teenagers win the battles adults can’t. I can’t think of many adult mecha pilots who can put up the kind of stats an angsty teen can. Since they’re so effective it would just be irresponsible not to use them.

I might have to disagree with you on that. The greatest modern mecha pilot is probably Simon, and his spiral power peaked when he was an adult. Allen Schezar was pretty damn good too, beating Escaflowne piloted by Vaan. Same with Belfangan Clouseau wiping the floor with Sagara (without use of the lambda driver, of course). Roy Focker, Isamu Dyson, Guld Bowman– Macross had a few memorable adult pilots as well. Then there’s Mr. Impossible and Kira from Gundam Seed (graduate student). You can probably even toss Spike in the list as well. There’s a lot of great adult mecha pilots.

For teens and kids, I usually have an image of someone who isn’t great at first, but somehow lucks into a winning situation. For example, someone like Renton or Shinji. Like, if my life depended on it, would I chose Shinji or Simon to pilot a giant mecha?

rikchik: Loved Anya’s use of Mordred and the overreaction of the Brittanian Armed Forces. Tell me again, why do we let 15-year-olds pilot the most powerful war machines in the fleet?

Because it’s moe. It’s the Juusoukikou Dancouga Nova / Gravion / Jinki Extend / Sky Girls strategy: you have to round out your fleet with all the crucial demographics, including epic melonpan and DFC loli. Britannia needed a counter for the Black Knight’s epic melonpan in Kallen, so they deployed Anya. It’s rock-paper-scissors.

(Wait, why are we discussing why Britannia is sending 15 year old girls into battle? It’s Britannia! They let a 14 year old girl with multiple handicaps lead a region currently experiencing an insurgency. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Britannia deployed Fuko in a huge flying wooden starfish next.)

K.K.: Geass Canceler is gold. Finally we can kill off Suzaku. I cannot be the only one who wishes a million deaths upon him.

I don’t think Suzaku is killable. He brings in the valuable fangirl demographic.

saimaisama: Forgot everything I just read. Too busy staring at the last picture to care anymore.

See? Fangirls everywhere are dreaming of Lulu x Suzaku or Gino x Suzaku. To take that away from them would be just too cruel.

Kouryuu: Rather than that I think “We finally had Lulu paired up with a real woman for a viable, possible heterosexual relationship, and they decide to kill that by removing her geass.” is the more disappointing factor. I mean he’s been hinting at his interest in her this whole time: He asked her for help with regard to the Chinese Wedding Crisis, He says this episode that he doesn’t want her involved precisely because of her love for him (which is a somewhat twisted sign of love) and other signs–compared to Kallen’s one-sided love, this could have actually worked…. but no. They have to keep Lulu available for the yaoi fangirls. OTL

Yaoi fangirls 4tw! Don’t you guys feel bad watching an anime that appeals to yaoi fangirls as much as anyone else? Reminded me of when I watched some weapons of Iraq special on Military Channel, and all the commercials were either for “I can’t get it up, not even for delicious Kyou!” drugs, medical help alert bracelets, or McCain for president. Needless to say, I felt very uncomfortable watching that show.

(Good thing fansubbers don’t include commercials for their releases. For all we know, Code Geass R2 is brought to us by tampons, Hannah Montana, and the T-Mobile Sidekick.)

Myssa Rei: That last pic! MY EYES! YEAARGH!

Pseudo-yaoi aside, Geass is still still proving entertaining, but, by the God Empress, I wish that they’d just stop with the side-jaunts already and just resolve some of the major plot threads! Well, okay, Millay’s story’s been put to rest, but there’s everything else left over from the first season, AND the stuff that the seem to love adding in this iteration. Sword of Akasha! Jovians! The Chinese Federation! Lulu’s siscon!

Myssa, the fangirl federation called, and they want their membership card back. How could you be advocating for plot above Suzaku x Lulu action? That’ll be like me writing about how awesome the dialogue writing is for Clannad during an episode where Kyou stretches in her gym outfit for 23 minutes.

Hedric: Suzaku dies because Lulu’s geass wears off… there goes all the suzaku x lulu yaoi pairings. Highly unlikely, since he retains his memories. just a few I could come up with in 2 minutes… So is Lulu still a siscon or do his actions w/ protecting shirley redeem him?

A deus ex machina will save Suzaku. He can’t die, Lulu won’t die, and Code Geass will not die. It’s amazing that Code Geass won the Anime Kobe Award back in 2007… over Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

But Lulu… I have no clue. I think he’s still hot for both Suzaku and Nunnally– I mean– 100+ dates and nothing! The guy’s like Flavor Flav, but at least Flavor Flav tries to get laid during his dating process.

Dissent: I liked the girl who called Lelouch, “my honey.” I think we might see more of her as she has her own page on the geass website.

She’s Miya, I think. I had flashbacks to Full Metal Panic when she called Lulu, “My honey!”

Sixten: Oh, speaking on behalf of my masters at J.C.Staff, if you’re going to watch an action series with mild Boys Love elements, why not Nabari?

There’s nothing mild about Code Geass R2. I had my finger on my TV’s power button when Rolo dragged Lulu into that closet space with him, ready to turn it off if Rolo and Lulu started smooching like Ranka and Sheryl in my dreams.

Minikui: Did you read this on wikipedia?

She (Sayoko) is the 37th successor of the Shinozaki School (篠崎流, Shinozaki Ryuu?) of martial arts, and is referred to on her official profile as a supermaid (スーパーメイド, suupaameido?).

That technique probably includes changing her breast size at will.

Another rule-of-thumb I generally have when watching anime: I shouldn’t have to search through Wikipedia to find out why the meido’s breast size is constantly changing. Actually, I just remembered that I talked about inflatable breasts before, and, surprise, surprise, it was in the context of Code Geass R2.

teabeans: Upon closer inspection of that Risk game board/strategic military display; which half of the AEU–er EU exactly did Schneizel conquer? Looks like Britannia hasn’t even touched the continent unless that peace treaty he negotiated with France counts as “half.”

France should never count. Conquering France is as difficult as getting to second base with Fubuki. I’m still disturbed by the fact that Iceland is nowhere to be seen on that map. I’m also peeved that America is the root of all evil here… I mean… just because we’re the home to George W. Bush, Starbucks, Microsoft, United Airlines, the RIAA, the MPAA… nevermind. ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!

Megaman0: Isn’t it funny that no one even referenced or remembered Kallen…I mean here your personal bodyguard is in mortal danger and you just go on a hundred dates.

Okay, there’s two ways to look at this one. The first is that I would do the exact same thing. My hawt, nubile bodyguard who would do anything for me just got captured by my archnemesis, and she could be carrying his child for all I know. I can’t rescue her because I suck at mecha combat, and he doesn’t. So what would I do? Audition hundreds of girls to find a replacement. Honestly, if I were going on hundreds of dates, I probably would just scrap the whole rebellion thing.

The second way is that Lulu doesn’t care for Kallen. He tried so hard– twice– to redeem Suzaku, even wasting a geass on Orange-kun, and he decides instead to join his ridiculous student council game instead of trying to free Kallen. Honestly, with the effort he put in this game, he could have rescued Kallen and Nunnally by now.

EvilDevil: “This is going to be one heck of an interesting doujinshi.” cant wait for the yuri-rape…

Just who would have thought it would be Nunnally on top of Kallen.

pakxenon: I really recommend a Guardian Character for Lelouch. It would really help him by preventing his plans being foiled by yaoi undertones one after another. Unless Sayako is already one…

Just had an image of Saito being summoned by Lulu, and then being whipped by Lulu when Saito drools after Shirley.

melange: My take is Sayoko got Lulu hooked up with as many girls as possible in a hopeless attempt to ‘cure’ him of his Gay-ness and Sis-con in a Kira-esque beam-spam way On the gundam-shopping-ish preview… It’ll look more similar if the Alex Dino glasses was on black haired Lulu..

I think you are right about Sayoko’s ulterior motive, but it doesn’t seem like it worked. Her only real chance is for someone to geass Lulu and go, “Women are wonderful!”

Yes– Alex Dino! Another hilariously bad Sunrise name. Honestly, I racked my brain for hours trying to come up with awesome dinosaur mecha names for Heart’s Content, and Alex Dino just trumps them all. Can’t you just picture Alex Dino as a friendly tyrannosaurus rex?

Xellos-_^: I need to hired my own Ninja Meido, setting you up with 108 girls that fast. Sayoko is better then any internet dating service. Even through Sayoko is not as hot as other Meido in the Meido pantheon She stills needs to be inlcuded. Able to feed you both DFC or Melonpan when using her Ninjstu arts and setting you up with dates with upto 108 high school girls. Whats not to like.

Another Sayoko question! I like answering Sayoko questions. I think right now, the three meido who have a shot at the pantheon are Sayoko, Tome, and Fubuki. I just wish more fanart existed of all three. Though in terms of moe, Tome is at the top of that list. I mean, if she seduced Chiko, she would be fast-tracked for the pantheon.

(Why does every Megami spread for Kamen no Maid Guy feature Naeka? This drives me nuts… almost as nuts as five groups fansubbing Macross Frontier with 0 on Maid Guy anymore.)

Galen2: A few nights ago at work, a friend of mine told me “Your new nickname should be Rolo!” Of course he was holding a box of the candy of the same name, but that wasn’t where my brain first went to. I shouted “OH GEASS NO!” in front of about 25 co-workers and my bosses, walked into a corner away from everyone else and whimpered for a few minutes. A few hours later, I requested to be sent home sick as I was feeling slightly nauseas and was ready to spew at any moment. As soon as I got home, I opened up my meido picture directory just to see if I still was my good, old, normal self. It probably doesn’t help that the first picture I saw, for some reason, was of Kogarashi. I got derailed twice that night, and not the good way let me tell you. I think I’ve gone to a new level of broken

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