Code Geass (update)
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petroniaUp to episode 20, in two long evening marathons with cake and booze. Basically this series is to Gundam Wing what Prince of Tennis is to Slam Dunk (though Geass's political plot makes a lot more sense than GW's). HERE'S HOPING FOR A MUSICAL.
My favorite character is still Lelouch. XD It's like Yagami Light meets Corwin out of Amber squished into the physical form of a teeny CLAMP!bishounen whose features were never designed to showcase that much villainous glee - I just never tire of watching the little bastard go. He charges headlong into moral bankruptcy because innately vicious, I think (this is not the same as saying he doesn't care about people), no surprise in a family constructed as object demonstration of no-holds-barred Darwinian selection. Britannian royalty: SORT OF LIKE FERRETS?
Compared to Light I feels a lot more affection for Lelouch, if not sympathy. Light might be foiled from time to time but Lelouch FAILS. He can't run, he's arse at piloting mechs, Euphie has better wilderness survival skills than he does - and whenever he's down, C.C. can be counted on to give him a kick where it hurts. It's GREBT. XD Whereas Suzaku is the opposite, sympathy but no affection. He's a mess and sinking deeper with every passing episode, much like Zechs in GW you can't root for him even wrongheadedly because he makes no sense. I'd like Euphie to save him; it's certainly not the other way around.
Charmian says Geass is a huge doujinshi fandom now, which I well believe because anyone x anyone in this series is a recipe for hilarity. This setting aside the fact that the canon itself is basically an ADHD cliché collage, so when you're watching you're like, "Wait, didn't I see that happen inGundam Seed Final Fantasy XII Death Note Ouran?" ...It sounds like I'm criticizing it for being ersatz but the verve is as much in the way it's put together as anything. I do think the series is something of an evolutionary end point though (at least, until Japan tops itself yet again XD).
My favorite character is still Lelouch. XD It's like Yagami Light meets Corwin out of Amber squished into the physical form of a teeny CLAMP!bishounen whose features were never designed to showcase that much villainous glee - I just never tire of watching the little bastard go. He charges headlong into moral bankruptcy because innately vicious, I think (this is not the same as saying he doesn't care about people), no surprise in a family constructed as object demonstration of no-holds-barred Darwinian selection. Britannian royalty: SORT OF LIKE FERRETS?
Compared to Light I feels a lot more affection for Lelouch, if not sympathy. Light might be foiled from time to time but Lelouch FAILS. He can't run, he's arse at piloting mechs, Euphie has better wilderness survival skills than he does - and whenever he's down, C.C. can be counted on to give him a kick where it hurts. It's GREBT. XD Whereas Suzaku is the opposite, sympathy but no affection. He's a mess and sinking deeper with every passing episode, much like Zechs in GW you can't root for him even wrongheadedly because he makes no sense. I'd like Euphie to save him; it's certainly not the other way around.
Charmian says Geass is a huge doujinshi fandom now, which I well believe because anyone x anyone in this series is a recipe for hilarity. This setting aside the fact that the canon itself is basically an ADHD cliché collage, so when you're watching you're like, "Wait, didn't I see that happen in
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DAMN YOU *shakes fist*
Date: 2007-03-25 05:47 am (UTC)Yeah, it sure seems like all the doujinshika are all over this series. I'd go so far as to say 40% of the daily updates at YouClub and Toranoana consist of Code Geass stuff. And a noteable amount of those seem to hentai with that blind girl in the wheelchair.
...Well them, I better go clear up some discspace so that I can start downloading this 50+ eps monster x_x
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Date: 2007-03-25 08:16 am (UTC)0_o But how can it be PoT:SD when CG's plot makes more sense than GWing's? I mean, I generally think of the difference between PoT and SD being one of quality, but I don't think the quality differential is that much, because making sense is a biggie.
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Date: 2007-03-25 10:01 pm (UTC)PoT:SD in the sense that it's more conventionally sparkly-pretty, the fangirl bait is more calculated - or at least entirely aware of itself - it has angst but doesn't delve for the heartfelt tragedy/drama response, and the plot has a way of devolving repeatedly into crack. XD For all that GW was bishounen heavy compared to earlier iterations it had that 90s earnestness about it.
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Date: 2007-03-25 11:48 pm (UTC)? But wasn't GWing conventionally pretty by Gundam standards? I think CG is only slightly more pretty that GSeed anyway. XD But yes, they are pandering to the fangirls, only doing so in a more smart way that GWing, IMHO. But because of this knowingness CG lacks a certain kind of sincerity. However, I wouldn't say that CG is not really trying to do heartfelt tragedy/drama, because otherwise why all the angst? PoT doesn't really try to go as deep as SD, but I think it's arguable that CG is trying to move the audience (but the sparkliness does undermine it: personally I wouldn't care if the show was all doom n' gloom, but I am angsth0). But what really messes things up is that I think that CG's politics are more well-thought out, which would be like saying that PoT has a more interesting/intelligent conception of sports than SD. XD
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Date: 2007-03-26 04:25 am (UTC)It is v. intelligent and knowing but I don't in fact feel it's insincere, because you get the impression the creators heartily enjoy their own crack. Like when I said if KKM were one of its own characters it would be Cherie - if Geass were one of its own characters it would be Lloyd. XD
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Date: 2007-03-26 05:10 am (UTC)I think the show that really worked that approach to the edge was Utena, but CG can't really slip into similar space with its style and content. Or can it? Heh.
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Date: 2007-03-25 09:45 am (UTC)He can't run, he's arse at piloting mechs, Euphie has better wilderness survival skills than he does - and whenever he's down, C.C. can be counted on to give him a kick where it hurts. It's GREBT. XD
ILU. ♥
However I.. am slightly ashamed to say I differ on Suzaku though, he's stupid but I just want to pet him. I think it was how bratty he was as a kid that did it. :D;;;
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Date: 2007-03-25 10:09 pm (UTC)The wonder was they managed to wreck the potential for sexual tension, since Lelouch gets to see his sister naked and Suzaku (bless) ignores the girl in favour of the uniform.
I should write up a spurious pairing analysis post for this the way I did with FMA. XD
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Date: 2007-03-25 11:01 am (UTC)Damn it. *goes to look*
He's a mess and sinking deeper with every passing episode, much like Zechs in GW you can't root for him even wrongheadedly because he makes no sense.
GW was the second anime I got into (explains my not-easy-to-squick-ness, o.O), and I think around that point I decided anime has its own internal logic that must not be questioned or worse, closely examined. XD It's Supposed To Make Sense, except it doesn't, not really.
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Date: 2007-03-26 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-26 04:30 am (UTC)I mean. ^^;
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Date: 2007-03-25 06:23 pm (UTC)for ficcing purposesthough I guess I have a soft spot for CC, too.no subject
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