code geass r2 17
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Bow down and lick my feet.
Wow, the spoilers are coming true. We can knock off the following:
☆ Before Ougi betrays the Order, Diethard takes Viletta hostage and threatens Ougi to continue his job as a vice commander. This is because Ougi is able to hold all these members of different characteristics together.
☆ Suzaku gets to know that Lelouch got his memories back. He confronts Lelouch, and when Lelocuh confesses that he is the reborn Zero, Schneizel, who had someone follow Suzaku, sends in forces to arrest Lelouch.
☆ The contents of Lelouch and Suzaku’s conversation are recorded, including his Geass that can command people. This becomes an important factor that led to the OotBK’s betrayal.
☆ Believing Suzaku had tricked him, Lelouch decides to go the path of the demon king.
☆ Nina had put her nuke on Lancelot, thinking it as a “stronger†bomb. When Suzaku uses it during his fight with Lelouch, it blew up Tokyo, killing nearly 10 million people.
☆ The emperor wants to connect ruins in all parts of the world to Ragnarok. To destroy the old world through this, and create the new world.
☆ Guilford ends up taking Orange’s path.
I’m not sure if knowing these spoilers hurt or help my enjoyment of the series. On one hand, I’m not surprised by the ridiculous plot twists, on the other hand, I might have liked doing the dropjaw at ridiculous plot twists. But this show has gone off the deep end, and it’s turning out to be yet another Gundam series. If the mecha looked a bit differently, this could have been a Gundam series.
I wonder if Sunrise will continue this franchise with spin-offs and more sequels much like how they’ve milked both Mai Otome and Gundam thus far. I’m definitely hoping for more– I could always use more blogging material.
OH GEASS NO
We were about two inches away from the greatest OH GEASS NO ever, and Schneizel screwed it up. Maybe we should send him a fruit basket for stopping Lulu’s and Suzaku’s reconciliation. Beyond the spoilers, the way this show is heading, it seems like maybe we’ll get out of this two faction rut. I can see Schneizel trying to overthrow Charles, and he’ll get the Black Knights on his side by bribing team with Japan (consistent with the spoilers). Lulu, Suzaku, Kallen, Anya, and Orange-kun will form a new faction. And Charles will be by himself.
The conversation between Suzaku and Lulu was awkward but intensely riveting. I enjoyed their back-and-forth, but it was sad seeing Lulu so desperate to save Nunnally. When he dropped to his knees to beg Suzaku, I was thinking, “Wait, he’s not going to… no… way… whew! He’s just bowing down.”
Suzaku and Lulu only wish they were this close…
Mi-mi-mi-mikuru BEAMU!!!
The spoilers, I think, confused “bandage” with “ring.” I’d love to see a slave girl C.C. spin-off series, or at least a Code Geass and Spice alternate retelling of the story. Andohbytheway, does C.C. have any function left in the plot? Did she ever had more than a token function anyway? Or does she solely exist to prance around in skimpy clothing while promoting Pizza Hut Pan Pizzas?
The way Suzaku can’t let go of Euphie… it does remind me of Shinn and his sister’s cell phone. Suzaku needs to move on. She’s dead! But maybe because he knows it’s a Sunrise anime, there’s a chance she could be back. I definitely vote for Zombie Euphie at that point.
Why are all the prisoners in this show ridiculously hawt women confined in ways that accentuate their hawtness? It’s like the bizarro Guantanamo Bay.
Those look comfy too…
Lulu sends his geass-powered brother and his uber-meido ninja to save Nunnally, but no one remembers Kallen. Kallen, I won’t blame you if you deflect and/or star in a sex tape with Gino.
He has no depth perception. “Hey, let’s give our biggest and most powerful mobile suit to the guy without any depth perception!” What is this? Planet Express?
(Whoring more plastic robot toys to the very end. Sigh.)
(So Lulu used Xing-ke as a faint and sent his most trusted troops to Tokyo. Schneizel probably predicted this and hence why he left four of the knights at Tokyo including Suzaku and the atom bomb. Then again, if Schneizel sent Gino, Suzaku, and Anya to fight Xing-ke, they’d probably rout the Black Knight forces and cause a game over. Too logical.)
Okay, so we know what “☆ Guilford ends up taking Orange’s path.” means. I liked how devious Lulu was in getting Guilford to become his pawn. I just hope it doesn’t backfire when Guilford tries to sneak into Cornelulu’s bed at night.
Why does “Freya” / “Prayer” remind me of the GN Armor from Gundam 00? It’s been a while since we got a good mobile suit battle in Code Geass though.
They’re attacking with a floating pyramid… with the two loli queens inside… I… I… I’m out of things to say. No words in the English language can describe this ridiculousness. “Sunrise being Sunrise” is the closest we can get, I think.
Whatever happened to the “Xing-ke doesn’t have a lot of time left to live” plotline? Am I the only one who still remembers this point? And I wonder if he’ll deflect with the rest of the Black Knights. He has no reason to want Japan back besides just to stick it to Britannia. And if Sumeragi stays with Lulu, I can’t see Tian-zi turning against him either.
(For people keeping score, they introduced two new “major” characters this season, Xing-ke and Rolo, and both have little to do with the plot. Even though Rolo did kill Shirley, it’s not like Shirley was an important piece of the puzzle either.)
Maybe it’s because I don’t watch a lot of Japanese weather reports, but how many weathergirls in Japan use hand extension props?
The camera adds 10 pounds. To the right place.
Lulu’s rage when he realized that he was betrayed him reminded me a lot of K1 during the original Onikakushi-hen arc after K1 finds needles in Rena’s food. Too bad Lulu doesn’t have the physical prowess to smash everyone’s head in with a baseball bat and needed Orange-kun 2.0’s help to escape.
Seems to be a lot of zoom-ins of eyeballs this episode.
And, finally, some apologies. I’ve been too busy the past few weeks to go through all the Code Geass-related comments and e-mails. I do read them, just I don’t have time, but I just don’t have to respond. Plus, no one’s been making a compelling case for YTAMR lately, so I haven’t been properly motivated either. I’ll try to get that back on track once I get some more free time.
(Disappointed that Strike Witch Kallen doesn’t have the obligatory magical girl bunny ears.)
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Yes, I was thinking exactly the same. It’s too bad that the yaoi doujins will have to wait until C75…
(…Fsck. The things you make me say, Miao.)
First comment GET? What are the odds?
Well, there’s a bunch of spin-off mangas; you can bet Sunrise’ll animate some of them at some point. I’m hoping for Knightmare of Nunnally myself, for the premise of giving her a geass, vision, and a powerful knightmare, then having her pwn single-handedly.
Problem is that all the chapters after the first 2 that I can find look boring, probably explaining why they weren’t ever translated.
first!
On one hand, I think I like sassy C.C. more than the new one we have now. At least then Lulu was still ‘maybe not gay’ if you squint really hard. Now, when most of his harem has either been kidnapped, tied up, killed, or simply useless which makes it too easy for Sunrise to set up the OH GEASS NO moments.
On the other hand, maybe I’ll just replay their almost-reconciliation and wallow some more in the broken-ness.
Mondays are truly marvelous.
LOL in that picture of Diethard, Ougi and Viletta I mistook the telephone on the table for a box of tissues
I’m pretty sure that I read somewhere that there will be no more season of Code Geass, means that this is the last season. I wonder how they could fix an ending for such trainwreck plot.
“Oh, we’re Sunrise, we don’t need a rational ending, let’s just see where the plot takes us to.”
Li lives because loli
lurvinkisses cure cancer and whatever else he had. Though it was sad to see Li acting more like Todou Mk II instead of giving him a “just as planned” moment.Still I was hoping that Ten-san would use his drill to pierce the heavens and not limit himself to some overzealous dentistry. Well at least there will be a big bang next week.
Wonder if they will name the new space fortress A Baoa Qu…
The only thing I could think of when Guildford’s Geass activate was how Lulu could already be seen as a girl. Also we haven’t had a lot a good low camera angles lately. It’s like the only thing they are still trying to do is set up the OH GEASS NO! moments.
Strike witches Kallen’s plug suit should end mysteriously at the waist.
When Guilford called Lelouch “hime-sama” I was thinking, “wow, that’s the most accurate name he’s ever been called”
I enjoy how sunrise basically forgets the development status of their own characters. Lelouch needing to make his lies truths and “become a real ally of justice”… hmm.. doesn’t that sound familiar to the refrain incident? Wasn’t his decision to return to being Zero despite Nunally’s situation supposed to indicate that he wasn’t still doing it entirely for her sake and the sake of revenge on Britannia? Or was that him just realizing that there was still things he could do about the situation?
WHERE IS MY KALLEN!?
Lulu is all “lets go say Kallen” at first. Now why doesn’t he do it. I’m sure having your ace would be great right about now.
I also wonder what Lulu will do when the OoBK abandon him. Go down on Susa…wait no I mean Rolo…aw forget it.
haha Jason, you forgot to include the part where Lulu turns into Cornelia..i went ROFL, and got a stomach ache…Lulu can be beautiful when he wants to.
Damn, i’m such a fan of Luluko. shit…
@KG
Yeah, he could just use his geass to make everyone believe that hes a woman. (OH GEASS NO moments ensues) There is no need for him to whore himself to suxaku. And I find it suspicious why lulu(ko) used “that” command to Guilford. I mean he could just said something like; “rescue me when I do this.” So far, his geass powers demand absolute obedience, using Cornelia was unnecessary and probably wouldn’t produce a different result. (except perhaps the emotional outburst from guiford.)
Maybe, he wants something ~else~ from guilford! OMG!! Lulu(ko) decides to go the path of the anti-harem!! Replacing C.C., Shirley, and Kaguya with orange-kun, suxaku and guilford!! OH GEASS NO!!
that has already happened if you hadn’t noticed…
CC, Shirley out. in comes Rolo, Orange-kun, Suzaku and now Guilford.
brilliance.
The REAL thing that bothered me, after all things are said and done, is the fact that Lulu sent ROLO, of all people, to rescue Nunnally. Granted, Sayoko is with him, but… ROLO! Though I doubt that they’d kill off Nunnally this early, sending a psychopath with a brother-complex to save your sister is something I’d think that Lulu would be smart enough NOT to do.
yep lulu going to get screwed over by everyone then they all COME back to kiss up to him so that they can win then he pulls a “sunrise strategy ZERO/LULU style” everybody then have a orgy of death then happiness then lulu will either die forgotten but everyone happy or lulu will live with suzaku for the rest of there life.
There is a strong lack of lack of pants in your last image.
We demand that this be rectified immediately.
They don’t use pointers with little hands on them like Millay is using, but yes, almost all the weather women I’ve seen on Japanese TV use little pointers to touch the weather maps and indicate portions of it. but they’re normal pointers, like one might see in lectures, classes, or the occasional western news cast.
That’s “feint”, btw. Nice to see someone else got the Gundam Seed vibes, with Lulu playing Kirs to Suzaku and his alternate universe (read: stupid version) of Athrun and the latter about to betray his homeland in a big way. I can’t wait to see Nunnaly nukes next episode. I suspect that Rolo was sent so Sayoko would off him over the course of the mission, which should have involved Orange/Jeremiah instead.
Now, as Lulu of the Rebellion is scheduled to end this season according to the scriptwriter, I wonder if this means Nightmare of Nunnaly is next to be animated? It’ll be like Strike Witches with more crazy Nunnally, more bro-con, and more loli in skintight plugsuits. Sunrise just can’t lose with it and their target audience.
Nuked, even. Suzaku killing the Govenor General and the meido along with Tokyo would be faaaaaaaaaaaabulous. Like “following the murder princess’ footsteps” or “making Nina hump a table till it broke” fabulous.
…The funny thing is: I just watched the first episode of Strike Witches last night (and the second one this morning). XD
*tries to imagine a Strike Witches version of Code Geass and has a brain explosion*
Haesslich: I’d think that unwittingly unleashing Freya on Tokyo would hammer the point home that, not only is Suzuku an unredeemable and obssessed hypocrite, it’ll also make him a STUPID unredeemable obssessed hypocrite. Just a bigger bomb? Puh-lease, that’s like saying the Excelion (from Gunbuster) is just your average capital ship.
One word…
Sunrise..
/end argument..
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Is that a tissue box I see?
Or that the Arc en Ciel, from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, is “just” a cannon (or, to reference the same series, that Nanoha’s Excelion Buster is “just” magic; heck, you could use any of the ultra-powerful attacks [particularly Nanoha’s] in MGLN as examples for this! XD)
Anyway, my thoughts on the matter: I have a feeling that Suzaku will end up deciding not to use Freya/Prayer, but somehow the “Live” Geass is going to activate and will cause Freya/Prayer to be used.
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What the hell are they feeding Kallen in that cell?
Whatever it is, I needs to get me some of it.
Lulu was so broken by Suzaku’s backstab that he completely forgot to confront Schneizel about Marianne’s murder (like he planned to way back when). Looks like we’ll never find out what happened that night.
“Why are all the prisoners in this show ridiculously hawt women confined in ways that accentuate their hawtness? It’s like the bizarro Guantanamo Bay.”
we need more hawt prisoners!!
I propose the creation of a new webgame/meme/whatever: “Oh GEASS Now What?”
Here’s how this would work: someone would propose a wacky, funny or just plain stupid plot twist or other element to inject into (or overwrite) the Code Geass continuity (i.e. Zombie Eupemia, Zero’s Geass creating clones made of butter), and someone (or everyone) else explains how that particular twist would make more sense than the existing canon.
So let’s start with a very easy one: Lelouch accidentally Geasses himself and
fulfills your disturbing genderswap fantasies is now convinced that he’s a woman.>>So let’s start with a very easy one: Lelouch accidentally Geasses himself and fulfills your disturbing genderswap fantasies is now convinced that he’s a woman.
Unfortunately, didn’t Lulu geass himself once already in season 1? Oh wait, right, logic.
>>So let’s start with a very easy one: Lelouch accidentally Geasses himself and fulfills your disturbing genderswap fantasies is now convinced that he’s a woman.
I love you.
How about: Orange-kun de-geasses Suzaku so Lulu can geass him into believe he’s Euphie brought back to life.
Lulu: Bwhahahahahah! MY HAREM IS NOW COMPLETEEEEDDD!!!!
And what about rivalz?
What about his feeling?
With Shirley death, Nina@armageddon away, He is now for ever alone in his club room.
Come on dont let him commit suicide once he know about zero and kallen !
saimaisama says:
>> How about: Orange-kun de-geasses Suzaku so Lulu can geass him
>> into believe he’s Euphie brought back to life.
The reason that the above could make more sense than the existing canon is that it could tie directly into one of the 47 billion betrayals that Lelouch must face. Suzaku could be a reverse trap, confusing the hell out of Lelouch and giving an enemy an opportunity to strike. “Lulu likes a giiiiirl…” *KER-NUKE*
How about this: C.C.’s current condition is due primarily to the funky chemicals and hormones that Pizza Hut puts in its pizzas.
Did anyone notice that when Guilford saw Cornelia in the car it was Sexy Cornelia? Wouldn’t he remember her as Season 1 Cornelia? Unless they’ve been hav-
Meeting on the side or something…
Rolo’s on the Nunnaly retrieval team…? This is going to end in tears.
…All I really want to see by episode 24 is Lulu and Karen back together again.
Strike Witch Kallen should have Cat ears. I know it’s totally against the Strike Witch ethos, but I’ve seen my fair share of her as a nekomimi.
Of course, you’re right in that canon-wise, they should be bunny ears. God I loved that episode.
And yeah, I think they decided to drop Xing-ke’s sickness. Most likely because of popularity polls secretly harvested from 2ch. Now he’s just there for the odd fangirls who love to draw Xing-ke / Eunuch yaoi.
There’s only one way they could have made the scene of Demon King Lulu any worse/better, and that would’ve been with his head slowly sinking into the Zero mask in his lap as the camera pans around him and he then does a Raito inside his mask and proclaims everything is going according to Keikaku.
I can’t be the only one that watched that rescue scene with Guilford and thought “Well, hope Lelouch didn’t get accidentally decapitated by Guilford’s enthusiasm” when the Vincent sliced the roof off.
Maybe Lelouch is really a girl and Anya is the key. That explains his girlish actions.
>> He has no depth perception. “Hey, let’s give our biggest and most powerful mobile suit to the guy without any depth perception!†What is this? Planet Express?
Ah come now, the “man with an eye-patch with a rigged weapon” thing isn’t anything new, in anime or just stories in general.
As for Suzaku being unable to get over Euphy, at least he has the excuse of everyone reminding him that he’s her knight and what not every time Zero becomes the subject of conversation while he’s around.
>> Lulu sends his geass-powered brother and his uber-meido ninja to save Nunnally, but no one remembers Kallen. Kallen, I won’t blame you if you deflect and/or star in a sex tape with Gino.
The writers of Code Geass hate women. Kallen has been captured since episode *10*. TEN. That’s 30% of this series. She’s supposed to be the best pilot, but I guess they realized that was far too progressive for a Sunrise show and backed off by putting her in a breastquarium for the rest of the show (kinda like how they seem to have backed off having Nena do anything in 00 pt2).
And it’s not just her. Euphie is a zombie. Shirley got unceremoniously offed and Milly might be joining her. Kaguya/Empress Loli/Nunnally have basically always been on pedestals. Viletta makes a hobby of falling off things and hitting her head. Sayoko gets ninja upskirts constantly (when she’s not getting worked). Marianne was unceremoniously gunned down despite being some kind of badass pilot. CC is neutralized and harmless now (when she was originally extremely powerful and in control). Cornelia’s still tied up. Cecile still hasn’t bagged Lloyd… okay, well, that last one’s not really her fault as such.
Basically Code Geass screws over everyone, but females get screwed over worse. If some random-ass semi-important character like Diethard got captured, you think they’d just leave him sitting in jail for 10 episodes? He’d be dead, betraying, or busted out within 2-3 at the most. And Kallen is actually supposed to be important to the story…
p.s. Ever notice how about half the time someone visits her at the breastquarium, they LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN, and she does NOTHING to attempt to escape? Hell, Nunnally comes in alone half the time. She’s BLIND and IN A WHEELCHAIR, she’s not gonna be able to stop Kallen just making a run for the door. So what if she’s unlikely to be able to escape successfully, she knows Nunnally won’t let them hurt or kill her, so she ought to at least be TRYING. But no, she just waits around passively, because that’s what she’s been ordered to do by writer fiat.
King in Prussia: QFT
Really, Sunrise’s motto, second only to “Let’s f*ck it up!” is “Women, nice to look at, but don’t let them do anything REALLY important/dignified.”
But “breastquarium”… it doesn’t roll of the tongue like OH GEASS NO or similar memes. A decided lack of actual water doesn’t help either. You’re gonna have to work on that one.
>> But “breastquariumâ€â€¦ it doesn’t roll of the tongue like OH GEASS NO or similar memes. A decided lack of actual water doesn’t help either. You’re gonna have to work on that one.
Well, I was trying. What would you prefer? Boobriquary? Chestrarium? Rackrarium? Cleavage Container? Panipticon?
King in Prussia: Well lets add up the numbers, shall we? Japanese are misogynistic. Male nerds are misogynistic. Anime made by male Japanese nerds for male Japanese nerds? Women are fucked.
As for naming Kallens ‘cell’, its obviously a Melon Pan-orama.
It actually strike me as odd that the Black Knights still doubt Zero after all he had done for them. Of course in reality Lelouch is doing it for his own benefit, but from the stand point of the Black Knights, he has done everything he had promised them to do and more.
Code Geass seems not to know what to do with C.C at the moment, they’ve stopped her being the one Lulu goes to for advice/catty comments, she can’t pilot anything so can’t come whizzing out with her guns ablazin’ and she can’t help with anything Geass related. So basically all they can have her do is look happily at a plaster. I may have to give up on this show if she at least doesn’t get her black costume back.
I have a terrible fear that Sunrise is going to pull a “The Emperor is Lulu from the future” plot twist, but that might just be because of the Emp’s speech thing when he and Lulu were floating about in that gear place.
Also isn’t Xingke meant to be as clever as Lulu and as strong as Suza? Shouldn’t he just pwn everyone? I kind of feel Sunrise hasn’t really developed him right, I mean we got that little cameo of him in S1 and everything and he just hasn’t been allowed to live up to it. If he doesn’t unleash some kind of super uber masterplan before the series finishes I will be very disapointed.
Breastbox.
>> What would you prefer?
La Bustille? Bralcatraz?
Still hoping for a bizarre dream sequence in which they deliver a statue of Kallen made out of Pizza to C.C. and she eats it in all the right places.
When the enemy has a breast size minimum like the Black Knights do for their pilots, I think it’s pretty clear what the advantage of having no depth perception must be for a soldier.
I actually don’t have too much to say, since everyone else has already done/said so;so I just have questions:
-How many episodes in s2?
-How many seasons of CG?
-What role does the all-female manga(ka?) group CLAMP have in this misogynistic affair?
-Why hasn’t Jeremiah’s anti/de-geass been utilized to the fullest as it is the only one of its kind?
-Will there in fact be an actual yaoi/yuri couple?
–On that note, will there actually be a REAL couple? This circumlocution of relationships does not follow the misogynist trend that has been brought up to topic.
-I can understand a bit of hostility toward Sunrise and any production/developing company in general, but is there honestly a better anime than Code Geass out? And the question is not rhetorical; the disappointment of fillers, lacklustre new season episodes, and otherwise lack of familiar anime has me solely dependent on CG, which isn’t inherently a bad thing.
Sorry to add no flavour/colours (no, just, no; I just got over the mania of that song) with insightful and/or tasteful commentary, but I just had a few inquiries on my mind.
I apologize again; I’m confused with the tag tag tag.
it should be pretty damn obvious even to lelouch that suzaku was set up. But then what’s the point of this anime if it doesn’t have over the top illogical relationship conflicts between those two right?
“I can understand a bit of hostility toward Sunrise and any production/developing company in general, but is there honestly a better anime than Code Geass out? And the question is not rhetorical; the disappointment of fillers, lacklustre new season episodes, and otherwise lack of familiar anime has me solely dependent on CG, which isn’t inherently a bad thing.”
Good question. But I think this entire blog and the comments themselves are supposed to be a big fat middle finger pointed at the communal body that people call “Sunrise” (let’s just suspend into the realm of anime-blogger-impossibility the fact that Sunrise is a giant anime company with not just one writer, one director and one animator; and let’s also forget the fact that that same o-so-shunned company bestowed us with true gems like Cowboy Bebop, Planetes, Vision of Escaflowne, SOME good Gundam shows, Infinite Ryvius and the list goes on….). Some people just find Sunrise-bashing fun, lol. Back to the question though: No, not really, darling. Macross Frontier is good, but any true fan of the Macross series would realise that it might not be the best way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of such an interesting franchise. Code Geass is an excellent show and we all love it. We have just different ways of expressing our love ; – )
I am new by the way, and I am here to make fun of the fun-makers. *bows*
So Lulu’s character song is out. It’s a beautiful tune about overcoming adversity through love and friendship. The first time I read it, I thought he must be singing to CC.
Nope. WHO WANTS SPINZAKU!? O.O
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Strike that, it was Rolo’s. Everything is right with the world again.
my japanese teacher had that pointer finger thing for like two years… then someone stole it. hahaha!
boom
More like “…………………WHOOOOOOOOSH!”
Nina created the Macro-Maid, a bomb which sucks so hard that it can take in everything for miles around it.
…
How fitting.
Anything within 1.3 kilometers of ground zero, actually.