I felt like I was hit by a sledgehammer while expecting a slap in the face. This is the feeling I had at stomaching the insane plot acceleration in this episode. In the past few weeks, the pacing has been slow with episode being not so important but ever it has been picking up steam just recently (I can’t believe I have Rolo to thank for it) and this episode saw quite a lot of the entire plot revolving around the Geass at least accounted for. We also got a little mention at what the Code in Code Geass is (it was lame however). 

I was taken aback. I almost believed for a bit that the Emperor just upped and killed himself right there and then. It was so anticlimactic and I was so surprised when he got back up having taken V.V.’s ‘Code’ (Pfft) so no need to worry about his Geass now, just how to kill the damn bastard. Charles now having the ability to give out Geass may be profitable later on, or it could get cheesy. What follows was complete Mindfuck… not full on Gainax level but it was quite weird, to which we finally get confirmation to C.C.’s wish (which wasn’t having Lelouch’s child sadly - had such RomCom potential before, I was glad it got some back at the end) which was to die. 

This is so what I have been looking forward to for a long while, getting to learn about C.C.’s past. From Loli Slave Girl C.C. to betrayed spoilt ‘Rich Girl’ C.C. was an enjoyable ride. We got some insight into the growth of the Geass, highly likely Lelouch will get to a two eyed stage soon. No wonder C.C. is such a cold person with the betrayal from the Nun though. The end was a great segment, even I was emotional, shouting at the screen for C.C. not to go through with it and for Lelouch to save her. 

And in the end, we find C.C. with no memories from when she had come into contact with the Geass, rendering her a Moe Slave girl… I was almost expecting Lelouch to sport a grin like from the end of the first episode but then I remembered this was Lelouch we were talking about. A cute dependent girl wouldn’t have him grinning. I am very interested in where this is going. C.C. is one of my favourite characters and the new personality may make her more likable or the opposite. From the preview it looks to be good. 

C.C. also seems to be without her Code. Either it is just faded for now since she doesn’t have her memories or either Charles or Lelouch now has it (we see Charles sporting his on the palm of his hand). Also, Shniezel gets a little power boost with something similar to a nuke which Nina has finally completed. From the OP it seems the big players will be Lelouch, Charles and Shniezel. Let’s see how that works out. Also, worthless Villetta and Ougi have their moment (Sayako was cool and so should have easily killed her) - something big better occur or I feel it will be a dragged on waste. Suzaku also didn’t drug Kallen (Gonna say her at any point, Lelouch? What about Nunnally?) and Nunnally is showing she is not one to be taken lightly. I like how she knew Suzaku was lying. 

It does seem to be turning around but I suspect the next episode to not be as info packed as this episode but we can expect some nice C.C. fanservice and such. I know for one that always picks the show up no matter what. XD We are past the halfway mark, let see how much of a train-wreck this can be!

Kaguya-hime! After two weeks I have missed Kaguya Code Geass so much. I missed the alluring characters and over the top plot. What I didn’t miss were the annoying huge end of episode cliffhangers, even though this week’s one was definitely one to talk about. 

The Typical Harem Scene

I have played around with the idea that Code Geass could easily function as a harem anime and this little incident does seem to support the idea. Typical harem moment except Kallen is the one on top. One has to wonder when everyone else is busy establishing their new base why Kallen is in such a get up, and then you remember she was the fan service machine at the beginning of the series. 

May I just say, it is glorious to see C.C. eating pizza again, and the triumphant return of Cheese-kun. C.C. is very relaxed about the compromising situation which makes her interruption all the more better. I now really wish for a Code Geass spin off without the whole ‘take down Britainia’ thing going on more with a school romance thing. I would definitely want to see that. XD

Last note on the subject, this was such a funny shot. Lelouch is a lucky man.

Where The Men Give A Nod To Lloyd

Cecile has shown already that she has marvellous assets, but this episode, she goes conservative going for a cultural look befitting the hosts. Seriously, she wore the skimpy dress at a private meeting with Zero with the Knights but this here. I am a little disappointed but not so much. 

Lloyd, ever the resourceful man, has Millay in the skimpy dress. Lloyd should be a man to envy considering how the women decide to dress like around him. I am disappointed that the Knights were kept to their uniform only because I wanted to see Anya in something other than that uniform.

Prince Schniezel turns up as well, with some arm candy who just happens to be Nina. You know, she isn’t all that bad when she wasn’t so insane or Euphie obsessive. Schniezel also makes a lot more talk than even the first Prince who is actually marrying Tianzi. 

Where The Loli Strikes

Kaguya-hime. Here she shines, showing up with the most outrageous guest ever and being all so relaxed about it. It is made clear here that Suzaku and her are definitely related, as cousins. She also talks him down pretty well, talking about the time Zero saved him. So not just the pretty Japanese princess, she does bring something to the table. More reason to like her. 

And one last time - Kaguya-hime!!! I loved her posing here and getting right into the other party’s face as they came to confront them. Koji Oe has a good almost frame by frame of Kaguya at her best in this episode. Man, she is so awesome.

This Is Not Checkmate

As a chess playing Britainnian (so what if my best game was when I was drunk) I feel it is my time to rage here at the show of horrible chess playing. Though all we saw was the end really, it is an illegal move to make any move where the King would become in check which explains my surprised gasp at this move, however I really raged when Schniezel said Checkmate, which it so plainly is not considering Schniezel’s King was in check and Lelouch was still able to make a move. I call ridiculous on all of this and then I remembered it was Code Geass, so I stopped being serious. 

Ah, there is the crazy Nina we all remember minus the table humping. She shows a wide range from racist to homicidal here, being a huge bitch casting aside her friendship with Kallen so easily because she identified herself as Japanese, and brandishing that knife on Zero in a situation where even the Knights of Rounds did nothing. Calling Euphie her goddess only made her seem crazier. 

Where Zero Crosses The Line

So at the wedding, I am intrigued by Kaguya’s new get up. Her last outfit was very nice. Anyways, onto the wedding, Xingke seemed to interrupt at the traditional ‘raise your objection now’ section of the marriage rite. I would have felt better if we had some of the wedding stuff before the interruption to build up the tension (but that could be because this is what I expect from these situations. I am a romantic at heart). 

So the back story between Xingke and TIanzi has been elaborated on and it was sweet and touching really, what with the pinky promise. For some reason I am really reminded of Kurenai here, what with the little girl who really just wants to get outside of where she had been confined to and the the older boy. Although, Xingke has more questionable feelings for Tianzi me thinks. Tianzi at the altar calling out for Xingke with her pinky raised high was an adorable scene. 

And Zero is on the scene, ruining a perfectly good reunion between Xingke and Tianzi. He is not earning any points at all, and his whole justice thing will probably take a hit with him having a gun up to the Empress’ head. I have absolutely no idea where this plan of Lelouch’s is going and I am assuming this ridiculous turn of events is Sunrise at it’s old ‘we need a cliffhanger at the end’ scheme again. It wasn’t that it looked like he was adding another loli to his (underused) harem or the gun to her head, it was the maniacal laughter accompanying it that annoyed me.

The Parting Shot - Champagne in the Desert

Look who is back! Orange-kun, oh how we missed you! Alas, you have stopped becoming the butt of every joke and now ever so badass. Well, you would have if not for the absolutely horrendous mask you have on - it is worst than any masked character from Gundam. But yes, he is back, and from the sounds of it he will be making a move soon and he has his old spinning top of doom back - the Knight Giga Fortress. I hope to see more from him, as he made a large impression with his entrance at the end of the last season. To which I am reminded that the Gawain has been salvaged and built anew or at least salvaged to make some cooler frames. There were new frames now in the Black Knights’ possession and the preview for the next episode shows a lot of action. Now that, I am definitely looking forward to! XD

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:

Zero has been on a killing spree and all the victims had one similar factor… Each one has one thing in common. They are all Governor-Generals of Area 11. Indeed the position seems to be cursed with Zero killing the last three. 

Prince Clovis - killed personally face to face - shot.

Princess Euphemia - killed personally face to face - shot regrettably but still killed.

That Guy - Unimportant enough not to bother personally - crushed under building. 

And next is Nunnally! I am sorry but this is what I thought when Nunnally was revealed as the next General-Governer of Area 11. I am still damned shocked that Suzaku got one over Lelouch although the look on his face was brilliant. I wonder how more difficult this will make Lelouch fighting Britainia. 

Oh and I would like Suzaku to get his Knight of One dream and rule over Area 11. Maybe then Lelouch could actually kill the bastard. He should have taken up Rollo’s offer, seriously. 

I am feverish, tired from unplanned football training and somewhat bored of episodic reviews… expect some more of this weirdness (the post) at odd intervals. Also this post was somewhat an excuse just to use my tablet… yeah, I fully exploited its use, yeah…