After the monumental episode last week, it comes to no surprise how bad the animation got for this episode. And although there was no cool action, the episode was a light hearted school drama episode. Coupled with the bad animation, it was almost like watching Shuffle! again, except I like this more. XD

So Ranka now attends the same school as Alto. No need for her to hang around outside the gate desperately trying to contact him anymore. This I felt was a weird choice to just randomly do but I liked the potential that she would get closer to Alto. That was kind of ruined when Sheryl popped onto the scene, stealing the attention of everyone and making Ranka enter her down trodden state again. Also, Ranka in a carrot suit was weird and random, and it wasn’t more pronounced than then how DFC Ranka really is. 

Dirty looking scenes are dirty. I really like Sheryl in this episode, showing off more of her personality from the date episode, being so childish at times. It is quite funny actually. 

What really confuses me about her adoring fans is how courteous they are in giving her some space, to go about freely. It wasn’t until they hunted down her panties that they actually interacted so much. Hm, seems to show how much more they desperately want her underwear than her, which is sad but oh well, more for Alto-hime. 

Again I say this, Sheryl is adorably cute at times, especially as she struggles to handle the flight suits smashing into walls… multiple times. What I found weird, was that she is missing panties and decides the clever idea is to hike her skirt up more. 

And alto saves her as she riskes her life for her panties. Is it just me or the music hear sound like something from Pirate of the Caribbean. Alto does seem to have much more moments with Sheryl and Ranka is desperately falling behind. 

I like this weird squirrel slug thing, to the level of Ranka’s phone and I like that a whole lot. Does it have any importance to the story on a whole I have no clue. I think that it came along with the bishie character from the last episode. He is actually there on Frontier and has met Ranka, confirming that their songs are the same. We are left hanging on what becomes of that though. 

Finally, Sheryl follows the crowd and enrolls in Alto’s class as well. Now there is no escaping for Alto… ‘Poor’ him. I sure hope the next episode looks better… 

It’s been pretty much more of the same. More Vampire themed angst. More slowly developing back story and character development. More hot Yuuki biting. More intense drama. And I was loving each minute of it yet again. 

So, a lot of the main character’s past have been elaborated on in the last few episodes. Zero’s relationship with his old teacher, the Vampire Hunter who saved him from a vampire before at the cost of his own eye, to which I must say he sports an awesome looking eyepatch. This is somewhat harsh on Zero’s part, being taught so horrifically the true terror of vampires and then having his family killed off by one, himself turned must be pretty traumatizing. And then to have your new hosts seem so close with a vampire, I can see why he attacked Kaname with that knife. 

Yuuki also shows off her past, which a downwards spiral of overdependance and her increasing infatuation for Kaname, which is feeling so sickenly disgusting to me now. Their relationship needs to be resolved somehow, no matter whether they actually end up together or completely break ties. I hate this dancing around. Although what I do love is Yuuki trying to keep the fact that she had offered herself to keep Zero sane away from Kaname, and Kaname pretends he doesn’t know to appease her. He also doesn’t go and completely goes to tear Zero to shreds because of how Yuuki would feel. This was about the only point (apart from his earlier flashback scenes) that I had some ounce of a liking to Kaname. All the other times, I think he is a stiff prat. I do love the scene where Yuuki is totally freaked out when she spies Kaname drinking blood from a lady vampire. 

With all this talk of peace between vampires and the humans, the night class are actually very hostile, especially in terms with anything to do with Kaname or to harm him. A pretty powerful scene was that one of them already had their hand at Zero’s neck in the time he had to draw his gun. 

At the moment, I really want to see Yuuki grow up. She is too hung over Kaname, and totally missed the fact that Zero was the one to lay the blanket, thinking it was Kaname. Zero is actually in quite a pinch, rejecting the blood pills, he needs to feed on Yuuki to stay off the onslaughts of being a level E (obviously this shows there are levels D, C, B and As out there) while also having to face the idea that Yuuki would probably prefer Kaname doing that to her. Also, it was left hanging that the woman who turned him is still alive and on the loose. 

The subs went completely unnoticed by me for nearly a month and I only caught up now but I am in dire need of weekly doses of this shoujo goodness now. The OP and the ED have my congratulations for being the only combo to make me want to watch the whole way through both (besides Gurren Lagann that I can remember). I love the OP and the ED is so deliciously haunting with an unusual (at least in this era) 3/4 beat. I love it. I wonder when the singles are out… 

Hell, this is all I will look forward to now. The PV for the new School Rumble OVAs (released similarly in volume like Tsubasa Chronicles) is now streamable from the Official Site. It looks good, and it looks to cover quite a number of key chapters (fan appeasing ones) from the manga. This is going to be so amazingly awesome!

Thanks to Moetron for the heads up.

Seriously, not so much happened… just a few intense moment but overall this episode seemed shorter than the rest. It is public now that Nunnally is the General Governor now, and about her plans to reinstate Euphie’s old plan, bring equality to Area 11 and giving the Japanese back their nationality. Obviously this is not met well with the Japanese owing to how the last time this was promised, the princess went on a massacre spree. Anyone want to see Nunnally on a kill spree now? Also, it is kind of touching (if I didn’t hate Suzaku) how close he and Nunnally are… especially the hand touch. Also, I find it funny how low an opinion the Japanese have of him. 

And… Kaguya-Hime! This episode alone was great for the decent amount of Kaguya. I like her utter devotion to Zero, when really most would really think they were doomed. Zero does save them all in the nick of time there though. But her devotion is pretty deep, her being so lenient of Zero, I would have thought she would be possessive. Now I like her even more! Like before wasn’t enough…

“And together we will be Zero-sama’s Harem, and we could do each others hair while one of us take their turn with him. Ah, a hero like him will definitely be able to last enough for all three of us. It was like that in the doujins I have read!” 

I have no fucking clue what that was about… I have been moe’d out and my brain is on the fritz it seems. Also, I have only just noticed I have only seen one Kaguya doujin, and hell, Kallen was the main emphasis of it actually. Anyways, I have to say I like the outfits they are wearing and the awkward moment by Kallen and C.C.

Lloyd gets some more screen time as well, and Cecile too! What I want to know is why she is with Guilford there actually, but it is most probable that she came to see Suzaku but he left before he was actually discharged. And Cecile thought Guilford could use the food. I thought Guilford was about to rage when Lloyd picked up that sandwich but actually it was pity! XD Oh god, hilarious. There should be more of them, just cut down the Suzaku time. 

It was at this time I though Lelouch had totally cracked. Lelouch has been so emo about Nunnally and has even been having a Shinji Ikari moment riding about in the train with no destination in mind. What finally we saw, though not that well was something I wanted to see for a while - Lelouch just absolutely abusing his powers. From geassing the whole compartment to leave and cram themselves into the adjacent to the weird things he got the Refrain sellers to do had me cracking up. I don’t know if he totally just didn’t care what he did right then or was particularly malicious. That one guy will probably do push up until he dies as Lelouch had given no conditions to stop. The others too - I laugh at the one who will die from dancing.

And we has a cute little C.C. moment. There has been at least one every episode recently (I so loved the gun malfunction) and I am liking that. She wasn’t like this in season one! I just wished she would play a bigger role than she has now - Kallen seems to be taking a fair share of the spotlight. I hope this means that the ending half will have more C.C. probably to really delve into the mysteries of the Geass. I would enjoy that. 

Hot and steamy moment here… I loved it, almost like a moment from some indecent shoujou manga which I love. Lelouch was just so uncaring here, seeking comfort and just plaining stating out that Kallen should supply that, as only a woman can. Oh boy, he is as much a smoothe talker with the ladies as Ulquiorra.

And SLAP! woah, I actually wasn’t expecting that but then again, he isn’t wearing his mask and being very over the top about it so I can see why Kallen didn’t let him. What is funnier is if it did happen, Rollo would have been spying on it. Rollo seems to be so in love with his nii-san (ignoring the bit where he doesn’t comment on Lelouch mentioning Nunnally in his sleep to which it is kind of creepy that he was there for that) and is getting way too close. Physically. 

And when I thought, it would all just be done and over with, as Lelouch rediscovers his way or some such tripe, it comes and slap me in the face with an awesome pwning of the Britainian empire yet again. My word, seeing those ships just topple over (which is extremely dangerous and would have probably killed a lot of people) was just damn hilarious and we see Lelouch is completly back in his game. Hm I want to have a little look at those ships again (have an interest in navel warfare I do) and about the Carbon Hydrates and see whether this would actually happen (at least a little bit if not at this grand level). I would do it now but I don’t want to chemistry myself out with my Physics exams this week. I got time to do both Physics and Chemistry when the final year module exams roll about in two weeks time. ORZ.

And so Zero announces joining the Special Administrative Region in his usual over the top way. It looks like not that much of the Black Knights like this decision either but we will have to wait until next episode to really see how this plays out. So here it end. Looking back, I thought it was weird when Lelouch’s friends stayed behind for him and their little talk about everybody… Does anyone know that Kallen is a terrorist? Also what was weird was the talk about the shape of happiness - like glass, that is always there but you can’t always see it, but if you look at it from different angles it shines. A weird if nice analogy, shame it came from Suzaku who even the Japanese knows that he sold Suzaku to the Empire… lol. 

Well, I can’t wait for next episode, hope much more will happen as this episode was somewhat slow. Also, I apologise for how late this one is to my normal times but it was murder getting this episode. In advance, it is unlikely I will get to seeing and blogging Code Geass until the Monday of next week as I will be down in Kent all Sunday hopefully annihilating the the Kent Exiles yet again (46-8 last game, but it is a whole new game now. A sword requires thorough beating and we could be facing a team who really wants revenge). I look forward to this as I have been moved to a very good position in the roster and will probably start, but it doesn’t matter as long as I get at least as much play time as last game which was almost all. Ah God, I love American Football. Team Pride Blitz. Forgive the little Football rant.

Man this has been a long post… And I have an exam tommorow! D:

All the money seemed to have gone to this episode, owing to how much glorious action and (actually good) CGI was used. This episode was only musical extravaganza and an orgy of awesome mecha dog fighting… and I loved it. 

Ozma has his Kira Yamato moment. I loved the action from before but it got spectacularly better on the large scale. The CGI really works well in this environment somehow. It was a spectacular show especially when Ozma released that volley of missiles. 

And a little Sheryl fan service… The other half  of the episode, mostly in the background to the fighting was a lot of music, mostly from Sheryl. Although some scenes were reused for her ‘Iteza Gogo Kyuu Ji Don’t be late’ it was a nicely choreographed scene between her and the action. 

When the huge Vajra battleship/creature came out of warp, I was so stunned. This thing is massive and looked pretty unnerving. It was at this point, the Vajra reminded me more of the Tyrannid forces from Warhammer 40000, with their biological weapons and creatures even moving through space on a huge creature. I guess I never made the connectin before because the Vajra looked more bug like (though I have seen a swarm decked in beetle green with yellow markings) and are more freaking huge normally. 

Is this the villiant then, perhaps behind the Vajra or another exterior force looking on to the battle. He just turned up for a small bit and then was never showed again, I am intrigued. 

I loved here when Ranka joined in with Sheryl to sing the final song, although I wish we could hear the song clearer as there was a lot of loud action happening during most of this song, which sounded good to begin with. 

And the backpack steals the show. I want one, even if I would never wear it. It was kind of sad how despondent Ranka looked on seeing Alto wasn’t there, and even worse when she realised that Ozma and Alto are probably out fighting as pilots. Although she pulls through and sings with Sheryl. 

And you knew this thing could transform as soon as you saw how the bridge looked like an oversized head unit already… but it was still a cool moment to see it transform and then lay down its huge beam cannon attack. And the thing is, it was only using one, it had another one that it stored for that one shot. 

Finally the dude from the opening has appeared. Although he actually saved Luca and Alto, it is still pretty suspicious what he was doing there and such. Perhaps I am suffering from already stereotyping him as a villain but you were all thinking it looking at the OP.

And I do have to say, this was an epic episode of a perfect blend of action and sound track. The next episode preview looks pretty low quality in terms of art, but after what they did for this episode, I am not surprised. The next episode looks to be interesting because of Sheryl at Alto’s school and in the flight suit.