I planned to do this a little more detailed but school and watching raws has completely eaten my time… I took these screenshots during a chemistry lesson actually. So well, I said I was going to do a more in depth look but facing the truth, not so much happens in it, except Lelouch regaining his memories in one of the most fan satisfying ways ever. Most of the new information for the series can be garnered from the OP and ED with some bits here and there from the actual episode. I’m going to have a quick look at that.
Firstly an important point, being Lelouch is back in his old environment again. Villetta doesn’t seem to know about Lelouch being Zero by her actions and is a teacher. Lelouch has no reasons at all to skip her classes in my opinion. Shirley is again unknowing once again.
Interestingly enough, no one acts any differently to the complete lack of Nunally and the new addition of Rollo. This suggest the extent of the memory manipultion is quite large and whoever did it must be quite powerful.
Rollo has some time in the OP next to a distinctive Knightmare Frame and it is mostly he is a spy. The Frame makes me think he may be a one of the Knight of Twelve, the group Suzaku has now entered.
Suzaku is now a high rankingBritainian knight as can be summised from the fact that he took his order and gave his report to the Emperor in person. Lancelot (and alle striker pack =P) return. As an old favourite, I have to say its charm was with its quick movements and the swords. Now he favours the air with a gun, which while powerful before, now has a new attachment from its backpack.
I don’t generally like transforming mech which turn into other vehicles because most times the designsare just damn awkward to accomadate the other design. In this case, the design was fine but it was an unnessesary need. it wasn’t that much of a change really, and it is still able to fly in the air. The pilot seems way too chummy with Suzaku…
Loli pilot with a frame quite similar to Virtue Gundam from Gundam 00. Fitted with what looks like four hadron cannons (I should really go over how weird the physics is in the show) to produce a huge overkill beam. I like the character design (especially the tatoos) and I hope she is developed upon.
Orange-Kun!! Jeremiah will be making a return this season. I want to find out what really went down at the end of episode 25 really. With how it all ended and then to just straight in without explaining how it came to this. I am looking foward to that each week.
Character dump… and my precious Kaguya-hime all the way in the back. T____T Glad to see a good stock of characters from the first season including a lot of my absolute favourites like Llyod and Cecille.
The emperor has the geass. This makes me think that he is behind Lelouch’s memory loss. VV in the end also is shown with the emperor showing perhaps from where he got a contract for the Power of the King. VV leading Suzaku in the right direction to capture and lure Zero from the Black Knights who desperately needed him.
The plot is now pulling into a much larger conspiracy involving the emperor as well as the large unknowns about him, VV and Suzaku as well. These are the questions I look forward to being answered the most in the upcoming episode. The next episode preview shows some more fighting but I know it is going to be awesome nonetheless. It comes out tommorow, I can’t wait.
On a slightly unrelated note, I am a secret mac fanboy running on windows and I was able to get this post done thanks to making my XP run laptop looking more like a mac, making me work faster and I swear, the actual machine ran faster too. My… what a productive use of a Chemistry class on a saturday. Just thought I would share, for some random reason. Clicky for larger…
