Code Geass R2 — Episode 7

Poor Lelouch has lost his sole purpose in life, rejected by his loli sister whom he secretly lusts for. But it’s all right because he manages to find a new one by the end of the episode. Hurray!
Summary
Nunnally uses her inauguration ceremony to declare her intention to recreate the Japan Special Administrative Region, apparently without having previously consulted anyone else. Rich Britannian nobilities who gather to fawn and have a spot of tea are unpleasantly surprised, and monocles start to fly.

Lolicon alert
Japanese folks and the Black Knights don’t trust Nunnally because everyone remembers what happened the last time a young princess tried something similar.

Pizza Hut, it’s been a while
Lelouch is in a state of despair and turns to drugs. Kallen tries to snap him out of it, and gets raped for it. (Almost.) I think she would’ve been unable to resist if he had been wearing his mask.

Don’t do drugs

Kallen with her hair down <3

“I need some comforting…”

Almost…

Oh wtf
Although they do not know what is wrong with Lelouch, the student council gang decides to cheer him up with a firework display. Lelouch is reminded of what is truly important in life, etc. and regains the will to fight! (Sort of.)


This is like that scene from Star Wars except those four aren’t dead
In the meantime, Britannia Navy has surrounded the cargo ship that conceals the Black Knight’s submarine. Oh no! Will Zero appear in time to save the day again? (Yes.)

“I am Ironman”
I shall not go into details about the battle. It’s probably the most exciting part of the episode, although it’s not that great either.
Comments
Sorry for this boring post. I am not particularly compelled by this episode to say much. It’s not a bad episode per se, but it’s not particularly interesting either. The ending is sort of a twist, but other than that the whole episode is quite predictable. It’s a necessary set-up for the story to move on, I guess.
Judging by the preview, I think the next episode ought to give a greater kick.
Screencaps

More product placement

What does that gesture mean?

Haven’t we seen her before somewhere?

Zero rejected her call :(

Zero’s concubines

Biological weapon

Elevens are prohibited from wearing bright colours

“Work those bodies, guys!”

Chubby

Lelouch is tsundere

Outsourcing

Paper maps are cool but make little sense

C.C. is smiling o_o

I am pretty sure that his costume was on the ship that sank…
Why does methane hydrate produce foam when combusted?




May 19th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
The Rolo x Lelouch scene is sick -_-
Love the starting scene of the show,i cant get enough of
“All Hail Brittania”s or “Yes My Lord” and “Yes your highness!”es!!!!
May 19th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
“Why does methane hydrate produce foam when combusted?”
Good question, really. It should’ve exploded in flames, right?
May 19th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Good change of pace this episode, Emperor Charlie’s still a social Darwinist bastard, Kaguya’s open minded-I like it!
To clear things up, the capsized ships and sinking aquatic Knightmares are due to lowered water density due to the escaped gas (happened in Lake Michigan a few times and sank container ships on clear days!), and methane hydrate becomes gas at sea level, even if its solid on the ocean floor (a difficulty in mining it in the real world, as if crumbles and floats up). Plus, methane isn’t that flammable, you’d need an open flame to ignite it.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:27 am
@ biltwick: Now it all makes sense. Phew. It was hard seeing what was going on in that scene. And I might add, about the Zero-costume, we’ve seen both C.C. and Lelouche dress up as Zero at the same time in season one, so there’s no problem with Lelouche showing up as Zero now either. So, basically no plot holes here, or maybe just a few…lol.
Good episode though, even if it’s about laying the pavement for stuff in the future (with Zero not so fixated with his lolisister). Again, GO Rolo! ^o^ After all Britannia is en evil empire that needs to be pwned!
btw: Zero the drug addict should become a spin-off series. rofl
May 20th, 2008 at 3:00 am
“Methane hydrates are believed to form by migration of gas from depth along geological faults, followed by precipitation, or crystallization, on contact of the rising gas stream with cold sea water.” - from Wikipedia.
and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate#Hydrates_in_natural_gas_processing
i guess “blocked pipes” implies something sticky? foam/bubbles?
anyway, was that Yuffie in the episode 8 preview?
May 20th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Yeah, Lelouch’s closet’s full of Zero costumes. It’s totally the new trend xD
I think they rushed the whole emo-Lulu thing but hey, at least we can get back to some plot-related stuff.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Oh god, just stumbled upon a CG doujinshi, Code Geass - Code Eross.. It’s mainly the usual stuff, but some parts.. ROFLed hard XD They should really incorporate some of the stuff from there:
http://www.fakku.net/viewonline.php?id=2407&page=4
http://www.fakku.net/viewonline.php?id=2407&page=5
(probably NSFW, depends where you work)
“I AM NOT ZERO! MY NAME IS.. ERO!” <- that’s the path this show should take ;3
BTW, the dramatic pose that Lelou did at the end of the ep.. I think that’s what he’s been *really* emoing about - he didn’t get to do a nice pose in the previous episode (not that Nunnully would appreciate it, being blind and all.. but it’s still nice to do dramatic poses… no?).
May 20th, 2008 at 7:36 am
I have to agree that this episode wasn’t overly impressive… never been one for too much self pity in anime. I’m just confused, surely they know that the gold knightmare frame Zero was riding in on belongs to Rolo!?
Ah the wonder of plot wholes, still nothing a compacting of the whole series into three bite size episodes will not cure along with rewrites and new animation a-la Gundam Seed style, can’t fix!!
May 20th, 2008 at 8:32 am
That’s creepy…I’m choosing not to read past page 5, as I know what shall happen…
Lelouch was so random telling those guys to dance and howl and stuff. Someone fantasizes too much…
I found it somewhat conincidental that a large enough…thing of methane hydrate was just in the right place for this attack. I still don’t get why methane hydrate would capsize all those ships…
I’m supposing that because the temperature in which methane hydrate is stable at is 18 degrees celsius, that the explosion of the torpedos caused the methane hydrate to become unstable, thus, creating some kind of bubbly stuff that somehow capsizes ships…
May 20th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Watch this video Dark and tell me what you think :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am0BIQhWJdE
May 20th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
“Lolicon alert” hahahahaha another freak has been detected, anyway it was a “okey” episode just reminds me too much of R1.. they should have let clamp add some twists to the plot.. it better start getting epic.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:56 am
Is it just me or is the Zero outfit making Lelouche’s ass look fat? O_o (last pic of him posing)…Or is that so no one will notice the difference between him and pizza woman C.C. as Zero?
May 21st, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Although biltwick explained it quite nicely already, it seems the methane clathrates are still confusing a number of people, so I will attempt to re-explain it.
- What are Methane Clathrates? -
Methane clathrates (or hydrates) can be thought of essentially as methane trapped in ice, compressed in the sea bed. They are surprisingly common. Due to this, they have been proposed as a source of hydrocarbons in the future, when oil reserves have been depleted (hence why Britannia is mining them).
- What do they do? -
If the methane is released, the bubbles of methane greatly reduce the local density of the water. Boats above that were previously buoyant suddenly fall like bricks. If there is enough gas, theoretically planes above may be affected as well. (Trivia: some people think engine noise destabilizing methane clathrates are the cause of the Bermuda Triangle disappearances)
- What happened? -
Zero ordered the Black Knights to fire upon the seabed near the mining machine, releasing the methane in the seabed (and presumably the reserves from the machine as well), causing the aquatic Knightmare Frames and ships to sink/capsize.
That said however, as Asha so eloquently put it: “Geass is a series about giant floating mechanical suits and psionic powers… think the chemistry of the bubble attack should be the least of any scientific concerns.”
May 21st, 2008 at 9:13 pm
lol if mas selamat has the skill and power of Zero then i’d think Singapore is in ruins right now.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:05 am
the black-haired chinese swordsman looks like master hiko XIII from rurouni kenshin.