Code Geass DVD Magazine 001 RAW
http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=7798
Info on it:
http://randomc.animeblogger.net/2007...d-magazine-01/
Besides the randomness from the 1st series, a short teaser for season 2 reveals the boy we saw on the promotional page (several pages ago) as Rollo. Rollo Lamperouge.
5 days later... so no double post.
According to ANN, Code Geass Season 2 will be aired Sunday's at 5pm, and will NOT be taking Gundam 00's slot as previous speculated.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...de-geass-april
Also... an interesting point... at the end of the news they say four Code Geass straps, with the most popular characters, will be put on sale...
Lelouch
Kallen
Suzaku
CC
I want Kallen's...
That CC strap will be mine. Maybe Ill get a Suzaku one... and burn it.
Peace.
Those popularity stats are quite alarming. Lelouch > Kallen > Suzaku > C.C. ? What are the Japanese people smoking? Kallen is cool and all, but she's certainly not better than C.C. and Suzaku....I don't think I even need to even say anything.
My guess would be that Kallen is one of the only Japanese main characters in the show (even if she's a half), she does pilot the coolest looking Knightmare (in my opinion), and she's voiced by Ami Koshimizu (who has been in everything lately, and is in everything next season too).
But I really don't see how C.C. is fourth either. I could understand 3rd, as usually the main characters with the most screentime (Lelouch and Suzaku) take the first places, but how could Kallen be so popular with how little she actually appeared?
Popularity reasons:
Kallen - big boobs and tons of fanservice.
Lelouch and Suzaku - the millions of geass fangirls (yaoi anyone?)
Yes, I also believe that kind of thinking is screwed up, which is why I quote Lelouch in saying (read sig).
Peace.
Japanese are always weird in their polls. But whatever.
This are the straps... if they aren't a 'preliminary' (like they often are) and at the end they do not get painted, I think I won't look for them =P
Click to enlarge.
Three previously unreleased Picture Book Specials by gg:
Picture Book 9.33
Picture Book 22.25
Picture Book 23.95
I know overall these are fanservice (either Cornelia, Lelouch, etc) but some of them are plump with secret character development.
EDIT: Okay, only 9.33 is fanservice on this bunch. Given the numbers on the other two, that alone should hint at their darker tone. 23.95 is particularly revealing.
Last edited by Ryllharu; Tue, 01-01-2008 at 09:50 PM.
Interesting. I'll have to get my hands on these straps.
About the polls. I'm surprised that Kallen beat C.C. But if you think about it C.C. hasn't done anything really amazing to garner the attention that Kallen has. I mean Kallen drives one really amazing Knightmare and can match Suzaku. Heck she is almost better than him. If she had two arms to match Suzaku's beefed up robot she'd be unbeatable. It's also been a while since you have managed to see an awsome female pilot with an awsome robot who actually wins battles. With the coming season though we should finally get that backstory that C.C. needs to push her foreward in the rankings.
CC eats pizza. CC wins hands down.
But seriously. Kallen is such a common character type, and she really isnt that interesting. CC didnt even need a robot to kick ass, and she was hot without needing to take off her clothes in two shower scenes.
Heck, even CC pilots a mech, a godlike one at that, near the end. If they really wanted an awesome female pilot with a cool character, Cornelia is much much better, including piloting skills. Unfortunately, she didnt show enough skin or had a whole episode dedicated to her (the only filler episode in code geass excluding recap ones I believe) to climb that high in the polls.
Peace.
There's actually been a lot of series the past couple years with strong, female pilots. The tradition even goes all the way back before the legendary Gunbuster. Yes, they're less common, but there's been at least one every year. Eureka of Eureka 7, Sarah Werec and Lottie of Soukou no Strain being the most recent.Originally Posted by FelixZeroAlastor
Heck, there's even one in the same series (Cornelia, like I said).
Peace.
Those picture books needs more Cornelia >_<
The last one had more Suzaku self-reflection than the whole first season combined. Still, as long as he doesn't do anything about his own folly, just recognizing it won't do any good.
And since Cornelia isn't cute at all, I don't think she's ever going to win any polls.
Actually, his self reflection is more of a self justification, which actually makes it worse.
And Cornelia can be cute, like when she is with Euphie. She just needs to show more skin and she will hit the polls.
Peace.
Suzaku's self-justification did make me hate him more, but it does sort of make sense from his perspective. As near as I can figure his thought process was: "Maybe I was wrong to decide the fate of Japan at 10 years old, I wish things hadn't turned out like they did... Well they are what they are so I'm going to stick with my actions to the end instead of facing the pain of feeling remorse."
Good job Suzaku, avoid the greater pain or accepting responsibility for a wrong choice by convincing yourself you made the right choice and accepting the lesser pain associated with that choice being a hard one. This way not only does he justify his actions to himself but he can even pat himself on the back for being noble and self-sacrificial for bearing the pain of his hard choice on his conscious...
*bangs head against table*
P.S. We need a 25.15 picture book of C.C.'s reflections while escaping from Gawain.
I didn't take it that way at all. I saw Suzaku's speech as remorseful acceptance. He blamed himself for everything that happened. He tried to justify killing his father back then, thinking it would end the war and bring a "peaceful" occupation faster.
Here, he realized it did not make any difference at all. People still died, maybe more, because he killed his father. Then he went on to blame himself for everything. His actions made it safe enough to bring Euphie here, not responding to Lelouch back then gave Lelouch no sensation of support, making him into the monster Suzaku thinks he may have become.
Suzaku ends it saying that since he started all of it, it is his responsibility to end it all, by killing Lelouch, his best friend. Similar to what he did to his father long ago, but there is no choice in the matter because it was all his fault to begin with.
Your analysis of the thought process makes a lot of sense, and I missed the fact that he admitted he might have been mistaken, but when he resolves to continue along the same path he admits was probably a mistake it just pisses me off. There is always a choice between the continuing to work with a broken system and trying to overturn that system in favor of a better one.
Suzaku's actions demonstrate a value system that holds a peace and tranquility as more important than anything, including the personal feelings and lives of people who suffer under said peace and tranquility. No matter how sorry he feels or how much blame he decides to shoulder his actions are still those of a person who believes that those who are unwilling to maintain the peace, regardless of their personal circumstances, deserve death.
I definitely agree.
This part of course, is what makes Suzaku and what has happened so far so interesting. Lelouch has always understood that the only way to change all this was overthrow Britannia by force. Until the beginning of the series, he only lacked the resources to do so. He said that within the first three episodes.
Suzaku however, despite killing his father, was always publicly of the persuasion that change must come from within. Slowly and through the proper methods. It's why he supported Euphie so readily.
But in this speech, we see that Suzaku has utterly turned his face from that. He needs to "end it himself" by killing. Everything he denounced Zero for, he's just vowed to commit. At last, he's absolutely no different in how he acts, and what he thinks. He's become another Zero, just on the other side and without the mask.
He has changed, and I must admit that this change would have made me hate Suzaku less, but unfortunately, he still thinks that he is on the side of "right", despite him throwing away his ideals and opting for revenge. That just makes everything worse.
It is absolutely sickening when he was pointing the gun at Zero in the last episode and he goes whining about how Zero's existence is a "mistake" or is "wrong" that he needs to "correct" himself, when he himself has become the same way. Ignorance is bliss, and Suzaku deserves to get punished for being so damn happy..
Peace.
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