Code Geass R2 — Episode 15
君は誰とキスをする？
This episode explains the entire basis for Geass: It’s actually a typo for “gears”. Show’s over guys, we can all go home now. Jokes aside, this episode is like one of those Evangelion episodes where the Angels take a break from world destruction and the main characters just talk and emo. It’s more interesting than it sounds, but only if you happen to care more about the life stories of a bunch of faux British chaps than giant robots engaging in asexual intercourse.
Summary
Spoiler alert.
Underground breeze
Geass is like a game of tag that lasts for eternity until you catch someone else. When a person masters his Geass, he is able to kill the one who gave him the power and gain eternal life himself. However, living forever is apparently a very painful thing, so those who gain eternal life then proceed to trick other people into mastering Geass so that they may be freed from an eternity of solitude.
Lelouch is a paedophile
Back when C.C. was young, she was a sex slave. One day, she escaped from the brothel and was taken in by a nun. The nun gave her the Geass power to charm anyone, thus granting her unlimited sexual power. She used this to great effect and became a very popular whore. At the peak of C.C.’s power, the nun revealed her real plan and made C.C. kill her, cursing C.C. to live forever.
Secondary entry point for reproductive organ is located at this position
C.C.’s original plan was thus to trick Lelouch into killing her. Unfortunately, she seems to have fallen in love with him and can’t bear to hurt him. Because of her Geass power, she had never known true love until now. Awww. Sho shweet.
Adult relationships are so complicated
Also, Viletta meets Ougi again but can’t decide whether to kill him or to make mad love.
Thoughts
C.C. has discarded her tsuntsun self and become a teredere young and innocent girl. This is rather disturbing, but will likely provide hours of fanservice and love comedy situations for the rest of the series. Awesome.
“Chiiii? Hideki!”
Also, I don’t see what’s so awful about living forever. Seriously, C.C. should try getting a real hobby beyond eating pizzas. It’s only been a few hundred years since she gained eternal life, which is way too short in my opinion for one to be truly sick of living, unless of course his/her sole pastimes are eating and sleeping.
C.C. has no sense of aesthetics
People don’t enjoy living because they may die one day, they enjoy living because there are things to do and goals to achieve.
“Your puny Geass is no match for my thick and curly mane”
C.C.’s motivations in life are now pretty clear, but Charles is still mostly shrouded in uncertainties. I still don’t understand what he plans to do with Lelouch and Nunnally and why he let Marianna die. Is he a misunderstood self-sacrificing philanthropist doing everything for some greater good, or will he turn out to be a generic supervillain trying to take over the world just for the lulz?
Screencaps
“Guys, we need a bigger body bag”
The King is dead! Long live the King!
He likes it
Is Kallen ever going to be the heroine again? :(
T_T
He dresses like a pimp and now he acts like one too
“…”
So what was V.V.’s Geass and how did he master it so young?
“Why did you save me?”
“I am a voyeur”
The power of Gears
Is she going to do anything soon?
One of those should’ve been Rollo…
There will be C.C. x Charles doujinshi
o_o
So can someone tell me how C.C.’s hair colour turned green?
July 27th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I never said that. If I did probably what I meant was that I was originally confused that they erased her memories because I remember distinctly after watching that part I thought about what I just saw for a bit then I jumped up and said “Genius! Thats the perfect way to make her happy without killing her off!”
The reason I remember that is because 1) I have a good memory and 2) because when I jumped up I spilled a glass of cranberry juice on my cat.
…Now that I think about it, I don’t think I ever said that making her lose her memories made no sense…
July 27th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Ahem, more people know his identity than you think. Kallen, Jeremiah, Sayoko, Rolo, Cornelia, Suzaku, C.C., the emperor and V.V. (though he’s dead). As for on his side I think thats more like 6 or 7 (cornelia is iffy) rather than 2. Also why do you people call him Orange, even Lelouch recognizes him now, he isn’t Orange, hes Jeremiah, but whatever. Lelouch isn’t losing trusted allies though, the ideas of a few minor soldiers don’t mean much.
@sandslayer
uhmmm i said on lelouches side on the moment, kallen isn’t there, Cornelia lost her memories because of the geass. Suzaku,V.V. and the emperor are on the enemy’s side and i’m not sure if Sayako reqognizes lelouch as the first prince. Lol i called him orange because i like that name :P Well C.c. loosing her memories and kallen getting captured, i wouldn’t call that minor soldiers.
Ok so it looks like no Milly from episode 16~20, what about 21~25? Hardly, 5 episode is too short to create a romance and make it ladt, especially in a complex series like this.
@sandslayer
Unless there will be a season 3 comming, I can’t see lelouche like defeating brittania in 3-4 episodes, there are 12 princes/princes or so over, all the knights of rounds are still alive. 1 of them was strong enough to defeat a whole country. And so i can go on. But I don’t think milly will take that kind of place in lelouches heart, I think it will be kallen because he wanted to go togheter with her back to ashford after all of this.
July 27th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Freelance! She just wants to blow shit up ;D
She’s gonna need a reason to join Britannia, so far it’s been connected to Lucciano and/or her brother. But that debates been done, I just said it was bullshit about her leaving Zero with the Black Knights, but it’s also stupid that the Black Knights would leave zero in the first place. The whole massacre “OMG WE KILLED WOMEN AND CHILDREN” was just to make Zero appear as a more ambiguous force, in my opinion. They were looking too much like the good guys. Though, obviously from the standpoint of the viewer we could accept that this was for the greater good.
If most other viewers have missed it, but you have not, please, share your views and observations with us. If you have some real evidence that Lelouch should end up with Milly instead of Kallen, C.C. or on a longshot, Kaguya (my Kaguya fanboi won’t let that go ;o), then present it so I can look at it myself instead of saying “Other people haven’t seen the hints I have.”
No Geass used on her, even though he could thanks to Jeremiah’s Geass Canceller. She’ll join begrudgingly, accepting that she needs him to get her goal and he needs her to get his. Alliance of mutual interest until such a time they can stab each other in the back. My prediction, anyway.
Don’t suppose this has been mentioned, but Jeremiah is meant to be a pretty good pilot, (debut of the Guren Air type, Suzaku: “Careful, she even beat Lord Jeremiah.”, is saying that he’s good, just not as good as Kallen.) Why is he still using a crappy modified sutherland? Fairly sure the new Black Knights models are superior in design and specs, so why not give him one of those? Heck, now that C.C’s not piloting anymore, they could give him her pink one.
July 27th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
But does he need to defeat all of them? I was under the impression that the further up the Knights of Rounds went, the better they were, meaning Knight of One is the best. As long as Lelouch defeats him, or rather, his Ace does (whoever that might be at the time), then he’s effectively ‘won’ that battle. Similarly, to defeat the royalty of Britannia, he just has to outwit the best strategist, who at the moment appears to be Schneizel. After that he’s beaten the best of the best, and everyone else, while a challenge maybe, is knowingly beatable, not to mention if Knight of One(Bismarck, I think?) and Schneizel got royally owned, the Britannian morale would plummet. We already know that Kallen could take on Gino and Anya simultaneously. That’s…Knight of Three and Knight of Six. Fairly good to say the least. Should Kallen return to the Black Knights soon (fingers crossed) then I’d say she would stand a fairly good chance of beating Bismarck.
Further proof that cranberry juice is bad for felines! I’ll call New Scientist.
July 27th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
But does he need to defeat all of them? I was under the impression that the further up the Knights of Rounds went, the better they were, meaning Knight of One is the best. As long as Lelouch defeats him, or rather, his Ace does (whoever that might be at the time), then he’s effectively ‘won’ that battle. Similarly, to defeat the royalty of Britannia, he just has to outwit the best strategist, who at the moment appears to be Schneizel. After that he’s beaten the best of the best, and everyone else, while a challenge maybe, is knowingly beatable, not to mention if Knight of One(Bismarck, I think?) and Schneizel got royally owned, the Britannian morale would plummet. We already know that Kallen could take on Gino and Anya simultaneously. That’s…Knight of Three and Knight of Six. Fairly good to say the least. Should Kallen return to the Black Knights soon (fingers crossed) then I’d say she would stand a fairly good chance of beating Bismarck.
@Amnestic
If lelouch manages to beat him (but he won’t because he can’t even defeat suzaku so far) then there are still 11 other knights of rounds, he might be the strongest but you can’t compare one against the other 11 cuz he might be just a little stronger then the 2nd and the 2nd abit stronger 3rd. Yes but we aren’t sure that sneizel is the strongest of them plus aren’t you forgetting the king itself.
u say kallen can beat them both Gino and Anya, i don’t think so. Gino appeared just to be playing around, if that were his strongest then Suzaku would be higher up. I don’t think kallen can beat gino and let stand beating the knight of one. Kallen hasn’t ever beaten suzaku before, you’re overestimating her.
btw how do you quote what someone says.
July 27th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
For quoting, it’s blockquote and /blockquote wrapped in the triangle brackets.
I never said she could beat, or did, beat Anya and Gino at the same time, I said she took them on, and if I recall, came out of it without a scratch, conversely, both Gino and Anya were hit a number of times, with the Mordred getting stood on. I did say she has a chance of beating Bismarck, which is true, I think, especially with fancy Gurren Mk. Eleventy Billion and One. (That’s my name for it ;D) Gino may have been playing around, but Anya doesn’t seem the type to do that, so we can assume that Anya was at least putting some proper effort into it, meaning she can take on the Knight of Six at least.
Suzaku is the Knight of Seven, and last time Kallen+Suzaku went one on one, both were distracted by the fact that the ship containing Nunally and Zero were in was falling into the sea. We don’t know if Kallen can beat Suzaku in a fair fight yet, they were fairly equal in R1, we don’t know how much they’re skills have increased since then, comparatively.
And no, I didn’t forget the Emperor, as sandslayer mentioned previously, he’s stuck on the Sword of Akasha and as such has no influence in the Britannian war machine anymore. If Schneizel isn’t the strongest at tactics it’d be a case of bringing in a suddenly new strategist, completely unheard of, during the closing episodes. It’d be a ridiculous story move without having the prospect of an R3 for Code Geass, something that, while I’d like, doesn’t appear to be a likely prospect. A strategist which Lelouch conveniently ‘forgot’ about. “Oh, Schneizel was the only one who could beat me…EXCEPT THIS OTHER GUY!” Shenanigans. They’re not bringing in a new genius strategist to take Schneizel’s place at the head of the Britannian army.
Ah, my bad, just went and read the wiki, apparently the rankings don’t have any point EXCEPT the Knight of One. So I was wrong to assume Knight of Three>Knight of Six>Knight of Seven (Gino>Anya>Suzaku), but I was right to assume Knight of One>All other Knights, so my point, somewhat, still stands. I suppose we’ll have to wait for more mecha combat scenes with Kallen Vs. Knights before we can really decide, but I reckon she can beat at least a few of them. She’ll make Gino go full force, still beat him, somewhat trash the Tristan, and convince him that the Black Knights are worth joining. He joins, gets his Tristan refitted (as we can see in the OP), and continues on his merry way fighting the rest of the Knights of Rounds….possibly. We’ll see.
July 27th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
just finished the raw for episode 16
I don’t like what’s happening… are the spoilers really coming true?!?!?! waaaahhhhh!!!!!
will the spoiler of suzaku dropping the freya on japan really come true??? wahhhh!!
and the other spoilers as well like lelouch being removed by the united nations?? wahhh
July 28th, 2008 at 8:58 am
/blockquote\I never said she could beat, or did, beat Anya and Gino at the same time, I said she took them on, and if I recall, came out of it without a scratch, conversely, both Gino and Anya were hit a number of times, with the Mordred getting stood on. I did say she has a chance of beating Bismarck, which is true, I think, especially with fancy Gurren Mk. Eleventy Billion and One. (That’s my name for it ;D) Gino may have been playing around, but Anya doesn’t seem the type to do that, so we can assume that Anya was at least putting some proper effort into it, meaning she can take on the Knight of Six at least.
Suzaku is the Knight of Seven, and last time Kallen+Suzaku went one on one, both were distracted by the fact that the ship containing Nunally and Zero were in was falling into the sea. We don’t know if Kallen can beat Suzaku in a fair fight yet, they were fairly equal in R1, we don’t know how much they’re skills have increased since then, comparatively.
And no, I didn’t forget the Emperor, as sandslayer mentioned previously, he’s stuck on the Sword of Akasha and as such has no influence in the Britannian war machine anymore. If Schneizel isn’t the strongest at tactics it’d be a case of bringing in a suddenly new strategist, completely unheard of, during the closing episodes. It’d be a ridiculous story move without having the prospect of an R3 for Code Geass, something that, while I’d like, doesn’t appear to be a likely prospect. A strategist which Lelouch conveniently ‘forgot’ about. “Oh, Schneizel was the only one who could beat me…EXCEPT THIS OTHER GUY!” Shenanigans. They’re not bringing in a new genius strategist to take Schneizel’s place at the head of the Britannian army.
Ah, my bad, just went and read the wiki, apparently the rankings don’t have any point EXCEPT the Knight of One. So I was wrong to assume Knight of Three>Knight of Six>Knight of Seven (Gino>Anya>Suzaku), but I was right to assume Knight of One>All other Knights, so my point, somewhat, still stands. I suppose we’ll have to wait for more mecha combat scenes with Kallen Vs. Knights before we can really decide, but I reckon she can beat at least a few of them. She’ll make Gino go full force, still beat him, somewhat trash the Tristan, and convince him that the Black Knights are worth joining. He joins, gets his Tristan refitted (as we can see in the OP), and continues on his merry way fighting the rest of the Knights of Rounds….possibly. We’ll see./blockquote\
They underestimated her, don’t think it will go like that next time, btw both gino and anya were hit that one single time by kallen and that again was because they underestimated her. btw knight of six didn’t fight at full capacity either because of the risk of hitting nunally’s ship, she wasn’t permitted to use her main weaponry. Another thing, guren isn’t the only one getting an upgrade.
In the first season they were almost equal but suzaku had the higher ground. Suzaku beat kallen two times in the first season and kallen beat suzaku 0 times. btw it’s more likely for suzaku to have become stronger then kallen because while that year lelouch had his memorie lost suzaku fought the whole time against the E.U. and etc.
Lelouch hoped that the emperor will be stuck in the sword of Akasha it isn’t sure that he really is and he might be able to send command through the sword of akasha aswell. Btw it doesn’t have to say that there isn’t a better tactician out there because no one else presented himself in that way, maybe a smarter prince/princess thought that he could leave it to his other brothers/sisters or there might be a tactician smarter who isn’t a prince. btw just as lelouch says, a battle isn’t determined by live tactics but by strategy. Another thing, Sneizel being the only one to beat lelouch in chess doesn’t say shit. After all Chess has nothing to do with tactics, thats been proven in history.
As wikipedia said it “doesn’t seem” to have any particular bearing on their skill level or dominance over other Knights. Another thing, wikipedia can’t be counted for as 100% reliable since anyone can edit it. It wouldn’t make sense if it isn’t based on skill, It’s called a ranking list afterall and why else would suzaku get the number 7 while he came in as last, why didn’t he get no. 12 then.
I think that your proficy’s aren’t going to go that way
July 31st, 2008 at 11:24 am
You know, i never quite got the reason for CC’s memory to be erased…what was the posing between the King and CC?!?(basically pedofelia)think about it she is lik 500 years old but her body is lik that of a 17 year old. Anyway, basically I didnt get half of the info on episode 15. Someone please explain cause im lost from episode 15 & up. Would really help if you did, thanx :D
July 31st, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Nice review, and lolsworthy comments on the ScreenShots but I have to say that in terms of the topic of immortality the Plot(C.C) is correct(kinda) and your opinion is a bit misguided by the prefixes of “living” of our society and a clearly mortal outlook on life.
Philosophy aside, great review for great show.