Code Geass R2

Not my favourite episode. I think the character dynamics is somewhat lacking this time, and the battle scene wasn’t all that exciting either. I think it’s about time Sunrise winds down the series a notch before it runs out of momentum, and start laying the groundwork for a grander set-up.

This week’s raw was slightly delayed because three top Share uploaders were arrested in Japan last week.

Summary

Code Geass R2

Frankly, not much of interest happens in this episode. Lelouch manages to survive Suzaku’s test with the help of Rolo, and is now determined to rescue Nunnally.

Code Geass R2

An air battle involving the Black Knights, the Knights of the Round and Guiliford ensues. During the battle, Karen’s Guren is damaged by Lancelot and falls in a downward spiral of doom as her life flashes before her eyes.

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Pantsu!… Wait.

Luckily, deus ex machina is in play and not only does she not die, Guren gets a timely upgrade courtesy of the whip-wielding Indian mad scientist extraordinaire Lakshata Chawla. (The rest of the gang are back from China too.)

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That lab coat serves no practical purpose

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They wasted all their missile slots for this

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Float docked with Guren

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Arm docked with Guren

They actually designed a way to fire the new arm upgrade like a missile and attach it mid-air with the Guren. There must be like a total of two out of billions of possible situations where such a capability could have been useful. Guess they lucked out.

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I’ve got the power!

It’s about time Guren gets to fly and fire from a distance, because we’ve been reminded about ten billion times of this “weakness” during various point of the series and I’m getting sick of it.

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This makes more sense

The upgraded Guren Kashoushiki (紅蓮可翔式) can also fire its spanking new beam weapon in scatter mode, which uses the same amount of energy distributed over a large radius, and serves to temporarily disable rather than destroy enemies.

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Go Kallen! Kick some loli butt!

That said, I find the whole sentai-style mid-air link-up sequence altogether quite silly, and now that Guren has been upgraded, I hope we don’t ever have to watch that sequence again. Also, isn’t it awfully convenient how only Guren’s right arm gets blown off and the upgrade happens to be the right arm too?

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“NOOOoooOOOoooooOOoo!! My cool and composed image is ruined!”

Meh. Other than that, this episode has some Earl Llyod hijinks, a few unimportant characters dying off (fewer seiyuu to pay!) and Lelouch going all emo over Nunnally. (That siscon bastard.)

Nunnally wants to follow in Euphemia’s footsteps and once again create the Japan Special Administrative Region, and requested to be governor by her own accords. This completely nullifies the point of Lelouch’s daring “rescue” mission. Poor Lelouch is unappreciated.

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“She’s mine, bitch!”

Hopefully next episode will be more interesting.

On another note, I realized something today: Code Geass is ageist! That’s right, Code Geass discriminates against old people! Have you ever noticed how old(er) people die in far greater numbers in the show than their young bishounen/bishoujo counterparts?

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The slumbering dragon has been awaken! It wants milk

Therefore, by my brilliant logical deduction, the Empress of the Chinese Federation is invincible. Long live the empress!

Screencaps

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C.C. has a weird sense of occasion

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The final boss is bored because Lelouch is taking too long

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A grim view of the future for fashion lovers

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You just know that this old guy’s a walking dead man

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“Virtue, eliminating target!”

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Why is she always in a garden? Who builds gardens on a plane anyway?

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Zero is rejected

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Now it looks like Juggernaut from X-men in gay pride colours

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“I can has fly upgradez?”

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Oh look. They are still alive. Yay

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Is that Impulse?

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Go Kallen! <3

SingTel will be bringing the iPhone to Singapore. (Yay.)
I just renewed my Starhub mobile contract for two years. (Boo.)

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