Just started watching Code Geass…
26 August 2007
Random snippet because it’s five (correction, fifteen to six) in the morning and I’ve been up all night, for good reason. Waited a damn long time for Code Geass to finish downloading, even finished reading a book (Turing’s Delirium, go read it, worth the time) in the meanwhile. And then my computer suffered a traumatic, mental breakdown of sorts and I was surprised I even got episode one to play.
That aside, I’m actually liking Geass, so far, so far being episode one. So much for first impression…I’m a sucker for CLAMP, so the characters, and animation, are just pure eye candy. It’s extremely bright and jubilant for, what I’m assuming, to be a dark and heavy series. The mecha, the mecha, I’m also a sucker for mecha and even if I only caught a two minute glimpse in episode one, I’m looking forward to more action.
I’d also like to note the alarming similarities between C.C. and Amber. I’ve read it everywhere, on a lot of blogs, but it’s really freakish how alike they are. The hair, the eyes, even the strange white bodysuits! Very, very strange. And, there’s quite a bit Yagami Raito in Lelouch – the hair, the “I’m a genius bored with life, I’m God and I’m going to change the world, girls think I’m cute and ‘magical’ powers were bestowed upon me.”
And, from the looks of it, I don’t think Suzuka died. My theory: if you’re important enough to be in the opening, you’re important enough to stay alive, at least for a while. Suzuka reminds me a lot, a whole lot, of Sayoaran Li from Cardcaptors Sakura and more recently, Tsubasa. Actually, a lot of the characters remind me of other CLAMP characters, or maybe it’s the fact that’s five in the morning and sleep deprivation is finally getting to me.
From my, extremely shallow, standpoint, Geass is perfect: hot guys, guns and mecha. In any case! I’m going to go to sleep now, I’ll be back in the afternoon to marathon the rest of Geass. And now, to bed (or dropping dead at my computer table).
I had much the same impression as you after watching the first episode of Code Geass.
Not to worry, though…it goes downhill pretty quickly in deliciously disatrous trainwreck fashion.
Somewhere around episode 6 or so I gave up on trying to take it seriously and decided to just enjoy it for the inevitable “WTF?!” moments Sunrise sprinkled liberally throughout the show.
I recommend you do the same. n_n;
Interestingly, I also marathoned Code Geass, finishing the entire thing in the space or 48 hours. Then, naturally, I promptly drove down to Pizza Hut and ordered a dozen large pizzas with extra cheese. I have no idea why, really…
Just as planned. 😀
I mean, uh, welcome to the club? It’s great that you’re loving it so far — I marathoned it over 3 days myself.
Also, I think you mean Suzaku, so lol @ your typo. If it’s that early in the morning for you over there, though, I guess you can’t be blamed. Nothing much to add, except that it gets better. Consider yourself lucky you weren’t one of those waiting all those months for the last two episodes. Enjoy.
i liked geass… its from the same director that gave us planet es and infinite ryvius.
I’m not surprised to read that the characters look so similar to “Cardcaptor Sakura” characters. CLAMP is known to reuse character designs, or actually have the SAME characters populating different series. I was thinking of checking this out but once I read kauldron’s reference that this is by the same director as “Planetes” and “Infinite Ryvius” (the former I disliked and the latter I dropped after three episodes) I guess I’ll just be reading your reviews and not watching. 😉
I believe that the first half (1-12,13,14 or so) of CG is actually superior to a lot of the second half…but even with the Sunrise “plot-twist-o-rama” machine running at full speed, I would be lying if I told that I’m not waiting for the apparent sequel.
It may be a trainwreck, in a sense, but I can’t I didn’t enjoy a lot of it.
Blah…seems I missed a “you” (as in “I told…”) and a “say” (“I can’t…”) up there…-_-
@Everyone – I just wrote up my thoughts on Code Geass. XD I’m going to rewrite everything I said in that post if I were to respond to everyone here, so go read! =D!