ALL HAIL BRITTANIA
O-o-o-o-o-orange-kun! This episode was Geass lulz at its best. Geass has two levels of awesome: 1) action episodes, and 2) lulz episodes. This one was definitely the latter, because in addition to Orange-kun, we have Kaguya being awesome, Nina going insane, and Zero busting out the maniacal laughter. It was well worth the two weeks waiting time.
Impressions:
Oh Tamaki, you kidder you. I think we men both giggle and cringe inside each time we hear the word “eunuch.” Aside from that, it was interesting to note that apparently India is part of the Chinese Federation but seems to be pushing for independence. I had just assumed they were part of Brittania since they used to be English not too long ago.
That is one big carrier. Now they mention the Gawain here, but it sounds more like they just used the core or parts or whatever for the super carrier, not that the actual machine will be making a comeback. It was another big question people wondered about at the start of this season, “what happened to the Gawain?” Another question answered. What is more informative and foreshadows what happens at the end, is that they couldn’t find Orange-kun’s mecha in the wreckage.
Weekly Kallen service shot, and my, my, that was a pretty hot looking outfit. Not quite as sexy as some of the others, but more casual instead. Kallen is getting more rabu-rabu over Lelouch too, smiling about how he’s come back to them and blushing about the almost kiss. Then getting all embarrassed when C.C. catches them, you’re so cute Kallen. Just make out with him already, we know you don’t care if he’s ready to betray Japan, you’ve seen his softer side.
Showing the part we saw in last week’s preview, the actual groom for the loli Empress is Odysseus, the idiotic oldest prince. And that devious bastard Schneizel was behind the whole thing. What was kind of silly is that I wondered why the eunuchs would bother selling out their country for Brittanian titles. Don’t they already hold all the power in China anyways? Would Brittanian titles give them much more? I guess it’s an ego thing, maybe they just want more acknowledgment, or it’s a convenient plot device. Only you can decide!
Seemingly we now have a weekly requirement of yaoi, because even if he said “lol j/k!” there will be Canon x Schneizel doujins. *Shudder* Anyways, Lloyd was pretty funny as usual, and uh, more on Millay’s “dress” later.
Xing Ke’s (I suppose I should stop calling him Li since nobody in the show calls him by his first name) high pitched shouta voice was really funny sounding for some reason. This part was definitely lulz worthy, a yubikiri with a loli empress who just wants to go outside. Hah.
Suzaku seems to always be surprised at everything; he is such an idiot sometimes. You can see the significant gap between his mental skills and Scheizel’s. Suzaku is surprised and bewildered at Zero’s appearance, while Schneizel is smiling and saying “well, well,” enjoying the new arrival and challenge. I’m glad Schneizel is back in the thick of things because him against Lelouch is going to be a lot of fun to watch. Truly a battle of two brilliant minds.
I waited to discuss this dress until now because this scene has a higher level of gravity defiance. This week the writers decided to give their nod to fans of Millay, because most of the other girls have had their service episode. The funniest part of this scene was Nina being a total crazy bitch to Millay. She calls her shallow but really Millay is just a person who enjoys having fun with her friends. She’s also a very perceptive person who understands others. And she purposefully avoided getting enough credits to graduate so she could spend more time with her friends, including the ungrateful and batshit insane Nina. Nina needs to die soon.
Not only does Suzaku look like an idiot next to Schneizel, he even gets owned by a loli. Kaguya is so awesome in this scene, mentally beating back Suzaku and helping out her husband at the same time. She has certainly become a force this season, and has really been a character worthy of the increased screen time. Aside from her being adorable, she has wisdom and intelligence beyond her years.
He has the same devious smile as Lelouch; they are definitely sons of the Emperor. The chess game was an obvious foreshadowing of the future mental matches that will occur between the two on the world stage, but it was fun to watch on this smaller one. Nina was pretty lulz interrupting it with her insanity, but we knew it wasn’t going to end in a winner for either side for now. It is going to be a succession of draws or small advantages between them until the very end.
Hah! As if you even have a chance blondie, she wants Lelouch’s pants. She hardly looked pleased at his advances. But Anya certainly looked jealous, haha. Plus, aren’t you too busy trying to sex up Suzaku? Man is quite the player for both teams.
Oh Xing Ke, being the awesome man I thought he was early on. I loved the way Hikaru Midorikawa was delivering those lines, with such manliness and gusto. He even looks manly despite the long and girly hair he wears that was swinging around during his swordfight. Animation quality was kind of ok here, but they were definitely saving the budget for next week’s action episode.
Oh man this part was so hilarious, with that girl and her loli voice calling his name in tears, he rushes into her willing arms and…uh wait a second. Not so fast partner, we all know what’s coming next.
Oh snap!
Cue the maniacal laughter! Muahahaha. Did I mention I love the way Jun Fukuyama does Lelouch’s maniacal laughter? Probably. But yeah, saw this coming but it was lulz-worthy nonetheless.
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.” I called Orange-kun’s name outloud when I saw this, I hope nobody else in the house heard me because they’d think I was going crazy. I mean, who doesn’t love Orange-kun? I do wonder exactly where V.V. and Orange-kun were that needed to be defended from Lelouch, it’s something to do with geass but it is left unexplained. Hard to speculate exactly what it was, but I found it hilarious that V.V. is upgrading him Six Million Dollar Man style.
Overall one of the better non-combat episodes we’ve seen from Geass because of the lulz factor. As I mentioned before, I loved the Schneizel vs. Lelouch action, as well as Suzaku looking like a total idiot in comparison to Shneizel and Kaguya. It was good to see that Nina is still out of her mind and obsessed over Euphemia, but even better was that dress Millay was wearing. And of course, ALL HAIL BRITTANIA! We love you Orange-kun!
Next Episode:
Action episode, wee! Looks like Kallen takes on Xing Ke in the mecha from the OP and Suzaku takes on the newly airborne Toudou. Everyone fight over the loli empress!
Crusader’s Angry Drunken Rant
Cecils :3 (Dude what is up with Suzaku’s eye?)
Well that was a grand display of how backward China is everyone has a sword, and the people are always dirt poor and in the middle ages. The scary thing about it all is that in order for Li to be sympathetic he has to be a loli-con as well. Well I guess a lot of bigotry was inevitable given how the Elevens had the gall to pitch camp near Nanking where they perpetuated a great slaughter and rape in the Second World War. Yes, because the Chinese are so dumb and backward that Elevens would be welcome in Nanking while the Elevens were bearing arms and talking about a grand alliance where they provide the brains to take on the hated west.
No one’s Loli as Tenshi
No one’s cute as Tenshi
No one’s pinky’s as incredibly slick as Tenshi’s
For there’s no kid in town half as loli
Perfect, a pure paragon!
Hard to believe that India is conquered territory given how the real one is pretty much one the verge of super power status or at least great regional power. I guess that outside of the Elevens no one else can resist the imperial ambitions of others… Quite why India is handing a bunch of new tech to the Elevens rather than the Sikhs or Gurkhas is quite beyond me, after all India was never short on stout and brave men. Sad to see that such great martial prowess is dead and they must rely on a bunch of Elevens for salvation. I guess Lulu will be the God Emperor of Mankind with his Space Marine Legions with Golden Throne to boot.
No one laughs like Lelouch
Kills mood like Lelouch
In a wrestling match nobody is the bottom like Lelouch!
For there’s no one as scraggly and scrawny
As you see he ain’t got biceps to spare
Not a bit of him’s burly or brawny
That’s right!
And ev’ry last inch of him covered with Nair
Xenophobia aside, it is good to finally have Schneizel and Lulu lock horns I just hope Schneizel is not going to lose consistently after two eps. Just please no more Lulu fucking with the ground tricks any more. If that happens the big threat that was Schniezel will lose its luster. Nina is back to wreak havoc and hump tables, while Millay is getting paraded around by Lloyd. Given how Canon was able to win Millay over so easily I fully expect Millay to be sleeping around Lloyd’s back for years to come. Good to see that Schneizel is able to fuck with Lulu. Gino seems to want to glomp Kallen bad, I hope he does because Lulu don’t swing that way given how he’s keeping lolicious Kaguya at arms length and needs drugs to find Kallen do-able.
Cecile looked beautiful as usual while Millay grabbed a set of ribbons to cover strategic parts of her body. The chess match was great I love to see that Lulu squirm as Schneizel proved that Lulu was but a child. Thus far it seems that Schneizel can put his plans on a grander scale than Lulu who still has trouble dealing with Suzaku.
I was doing this a lot during “When Li met Tenshi”
Li however…man what a loli-con, pinky swear and everything. You have to feel sorry for the boys in red since they were doing their job in trying to keep Li from tapping that. Saving poor people must come second to getting loli in war! After all the only just war is the one you wage for a bedtime romp with a lolicious monarch. The whole Tenshi-san waving her pinky calling out for her Li was just campy as hell in a sort of funny way. Then Lulu had to ruin it by taking Tenshi hostage. I hope Li proves his prowess as a Loli-con tactician and kicks Lulu in the teeth (because Lulu has no balls) and take back his Empress. I hope that Lulu doesn’t become master of China and that Schneizel gets a couple kiekaku dooris in. No one ever gets away with pointing a gun at a loli, NO ONE!
Edit: Here’s my opinion of the chess game. Both Schneizel and Lulu are cheats, for years they have been playing with the wrong set of rules to inflate their own egos. Such dishonesty and treachery is most befitting of these men who know nothing of war, but only of politics. It is to be expected that fuckers such as these make up their own rules that they then break. Chess was never Sunrise’s strong suit, the mere fact that they equate the mathematical puzzle of chess as a suitable analogy for war tells us from the outset that they know nothing of either. I suggest that they start playing Diplomacy. 
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“No one ever gets away with pointing a gun at a loli, NO ONE!”
I did. She enjoyed it. She kind of like these games.
Dude, Crusader, what’s with the breaking out of Disney lyric homages lately? Did you have a Disney Renaissance marathon lately?
Not that I’m complaining. “Gaston” is one of Disney’s greatest songs, EVAR.
@LDC
Post proof of retract!
@L-chan
I was looking up old Disney songs in German on youtube, it kind of went downhill from there. I actually plan on renting a bunch once finals are done to watch them on my 46″ LCD mai bro is going on vacation and left his PS3 behind… XD
I remember geing a tad surprised after hearing that a few years later.. and realizing that the guy who sang it was Odo.
…
But as for the Eunuchs? I think they want more power than they can have being the ‘kings’ of China, so are selling out to join the Britannian Empire, hoping for more power instead of the noose (which is what Charles vi Britannia’ll do, after he secures his grip on their throne through Odysseus).
@Haesslich
I thought Richard White was the guy who was Gaston’s voice actor, I know the Rene Auberjonois was in the Little Mermaid, but not Beauty and the Beast.
Nevermind, he was Louis… not Gaston. Also known as the one who sang “Le Poisson”…
Y’know, it’s kinda odd that they DIDN’T put Rene Auberjonois in Beauty and the Beast, considering it was set in France . . . .
The guys who sang “Gaston” were Richard White and Jesse Corti, the voice of LeFou.
@LDC
I should have put “10 BILLION DOLLARS OR THE LOLI GETS IT!” in a caption. Next time maybe, somehow I don’t think this will be the only time the loli empress gets threatened.
@L-chan
Try being on his IM list, he sends me weird foreign language Disney clips from Youtube, weird fellow.
@Haesslich
I dunno if the Brittanian Emperor cares much about China, unless it has a geass-related site in it. For now he’s just letting Schneizel do whatever he wants, and Schneizel was the big mover for China to secure his own power.
@Calawain & Crusader: Please stop with the Disney songs.
Please, just stop.
I guess India is using Zero as a way to solve the problem for them, or maybe they are just using him who knows… and as for him pointinga gun to a loli… thats really low… even for him
So you were face palming your self “tactically” or just simple face palming?
lol
any ways Unless this all some kind of grand schem i really won’t forgive zero for pointing a gun at a loli.
the battle between Zero and Schneizel was entertaining to watch so even afer 8 years Lulu still can’t beat his brother at least he did not lose Kaguya telling Suzaku that it was to bad that words could not kill all the while being cute was funny to watch
@Calawain you forgot something about Nina she is also a racist and i agree with you someone should just put her out of her misery already
@LDC
Sorry but no, I have yet to finish the ballad of Prince Ali…
@shadowlancer
Tactically of course, we must be wary when dealing with the Lulu Slayer of Lolis and curse upon his kith and kin. Besides I need to conserve facepalms.
The tactical face palm was awesome, man.
>>you’re so cute Kallen. Just make out with him already, we know you don’t care if he’s ready to betray Japan, you’ve seen his softer side.
YES HURRY UP! XD
>>high pitched shouta voice was really funny sounding for some reason.
Man, I thought I was the only one lol-ing during that part
>>Oh man this part was so hilarious, with that girl and her loli voice calling his name in tears
I thought this was unbearably cuuute!
>>It was good to see that Nina is still out of her mind and obsessed over Euphemia, but even better was that dress Millay was wearing
I thought Millay’s dress was disturbing …
>>I guess Lulu will be the God Emperor of Mankind with his Space Marine Legions with Golden Throne to boot.
That’d be fun to see
>>Just please no more Lulu fucking with the ground tricks any more.
I agree … I want Death Note back
>>Gino seems to want to glomp Kallen bad, I hope he does because Lulu don’t swing that way given how he’s keeping lolicious Kaguya at arms length and needs drugs to find Kallen do-able.
Yay, I really hope so to because Gino is awesome. I wonder if Anya got jealous?
>>The whole Tenshi-san waving her pinky calling out for her Li was just campy as hell in a sort of funny way.
Yeah I couldn’t stop smiling at the cuteness either
>>No one ever gets away with pointing a gun at a loli, NO ONE!
Except me
The episode was definitely worth the wait, I must say. But man, Nina’s so damn annoying. We are in a dire need of a bitchslap here, Sunrise.
Anyhow, now that Lulu’s set up camp in that island, how is he going to keep pretending to be the ordinary, my-memories-are-still-wiped-out student at Ashford? Did I miss something? (Is it summer vacation?)
Orange-kun!!
LOL at tactical face palm. Crusader-san, you winz t3h interw3bz, sir.
I’m surprised BOTH of you missed out the inconsistencies in the chess scene, though. It’s patently, and obviously ridiculous once you take a closer look.
Well, I guess that in order to provide useless violence, action, and one draw after another, Lelouch is not going to win so quickly. I’d be asking for too much from the writing staff :/
@Ascaloth: I’ve explained to you elsewhere that the chess scene was meant to be more symbolic posturing between Lelouch and Schneizel then any sort of real serious chess match. If they wanted to make it a huge focus they would have devoted more time to it and showed more then a few cutaways of the match. Instead there was more focus on the very end of the match and Lelouch and Schneizel’s little exchange about what makes a true king or leader.
It’s only ridiculous if you don’t get the point they were trying to make with it about where the two stand. Again, chess match not important, dialogue between Schneizel and Lelouch, very important. It’s going to come up later when they actually start having real battles with Knightmare Frames against each other.
“I guess Lulu will be the God Emperor of Mankind with his Space Marine Legions with Golden Throne to boot.” wouldnt it be more fitting if lulu was the leader of the forces of chaos?i mean,what does he want? he´s fighting the emperor,he´s probably champion of tzeentch^^
and where the heck is the EU?if the empire would have made it to take over the federation with this marriage,the EU would be in baaaad trouble,and dont tell me theyre just sitting there and waiting for things to happen,i wanne see some proper EU-agents take action against britannia,where are they?im kinda disappointed -.-
nonetheless,a great episode
GAD! Are they trying to put romantic angles in Geass??? That’s… eww!
Odysseus is a gignormous pedobear – even to the point of reaching out of Tenshi’s hand. That was just wrong on so many levels.
Come to think of it… Nina is the only racist in this series. Everyone seems to be more into merits than race. And LOL at Jeremiah.
@LDC
Hey don’t blame me, it’s Crusader doing the Disney crap, not me _-_
@EvilDevil/Shadowlancer
The man will do anything to win.
@Onizuka
Yeah she is a nasty racist too, even to her fellow Ashford student Suzaku, and in front of everyone. She also provides excellent emo facial expressions.
@Myu
He left it for good, last episode he left the area saying that he had no regrets and nothing was left for him in Japan. He only intended the school game to last for a little while. Villetta being on his side allows him to keep the Brittanian’s in the dark about it though, since she can continue to just report he is there.
@Ascaloth
I don’t know much about chess, but I figured something was fishy when he said checkmate when it wasn’t. But I really didn’t care to be honest, I don’t usually pay attention to that kind of detail, ruins my enjoyment. I actually have to agree with Kaioshin, which is kind of scary.
@Coaxen
It’s no fun to watch if he wins easily, much more exciting this way.
@N-ark
The EU lost to Schneizel and signed a peace treaty according to the last episode. So they are out of the picture.
@Biankita
Odysseus is a bit dumb and creepy, but I’m not sure he would even know what to do on the wedding night. He probably just sees her as a little girl and not really a wife.
Of course there is one key piece of information that Kaguya lacks on the use of words to kill that makes it hard to see these antics as those of a wise intelligent loli and more of a silly foolish little girl. Kallen’s the only japanese in that faction actually making informed descisions (and with Suzaku, the only japanese in the entire show), the respect I have for them stems from her. Kaguya could use a healthy dose of self respect, actually.
“I don’t know much about chess, but I figured something was fishy when he said checkmate when it wasn’t. But I really didn’t care to be honest, I don’t usually pay attention to that kind of detail, ruins my enjoyment. I actually have to agree with Kaioshin, which is kind of scary.”
Haha, *claps hands and does boogie*
That’s the thing, when there’s a choice between having fun and worrying about detail that was never really the key focus of a scene anyway I choose fun every time too.
I have never seen such a butchering of the game of chess; I mean, Schneizel illegaly moves his piece and then says Checkmate. CHECKMATE?! They even base an analogy of off something that makes no sense!
And Tian Zi’s voice during the whole “I remember the promise” bit was just stupid, extremely “campy” as was said.
Am I the only one who actually thinks of Orange-kun as Jeremiah Gottwald?
Oh, and Nina is fsucking crazy ^_^.
For some reason, I couldn’t watch the last part, from the chess match… so i missed the best part of Lelouch and Schneizel face off.
Anyways, the most annoying without any doubt was Nina, i mean.. why is she soo like that! and why Millay didn’t say anything?? she should have some dialog at least, they just left it off there…urgh…
LuluxKallen was ok for me, better than the other fan service for the fanboys…lol… that whole scene with C.C was funny.
Li and pinky promise thingy was wierd… really i didn’t think he would be that sort of character, it didn’t suit his previous image, but it wasn’t that bad.
Suzaku looking idiot was really a highlight. Can’t wait till Schneizel and Lelouch start their strategical fights ^^ but Leoulch shouldn’t get all that crazy with the maniac laughters like Light, then he will lose…
Oh sweet! You used the pic of the PAP’s Snow Wolf Commando Unit for the tactical face palm. So sweet! XP
No one laughs like Lelouch
Kills mood like Lelouch
In a wrestling match nobody is the bottom like Lelouch!
For there’s no one as scraggly and scrawny
As you see he ain’t got biceps to spare
Not a bit of him’s burly or brawny
That’s right!
And ev’ry last inch of him covered with Nair
>>I was rotfl when I read the last bit of those lyrics. Crusader maybe you should do more Disney parody songs for anime, huh?
I’m now part of the slash pairing party for Kallen and Gino. They would make cute strange-hair-colored babies and Lulu can just go masturbate in a corner with his chess set.
But I want more Schneizel! I wouldn’t mind being part of the Brittainian Party of Uber-awesomeness and World domination if he was the monarch.
heyy calawain..i believe xing-ke is li’s first name. as in the full name is li xing-ke, with li as the last name, and xing-ke as the first name. Think chinese naming system
@n-ark
No Lulu is not Chaos, he’s worse he is dishonest, cloaking his tyranny with pretensions of justice and freedom when in fact he offers only idiot idolatry of him in Japan. Chaos is brutally honest about what it is, Lulu walks around with a cloak of lies and an army of deluded fanatics.
@Calawain
Hey you approved… don’t put all the blame on me, comrade. We win and fail together.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in THAT, now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks,
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
@Christina
That is one vote for MOAR!
@Jack
I get what your conclusions are, but your reasoning escapes me, it’s not really clear from your writing.
@Kaioshin
There’s no dancing in Code Geass
@Randor
There is no Jeremiah Gottwald, there is only Orange-kun.
@Emmi
Xing Ke is a closet lolicon, trust us~
@Christina
A plague upon your house, no Gino and Kallen, Lelouch or nobody! Fie!
@Islandloner
I was just going on what Wikipedia said since they list everyone else in the western order and they have his name as “Li Xingke.” So they could be wrong over there, wouldn’t be the first time. I’ll stick to Xing Ke for now though since everyone in the show refers to him as such.
@Crusader
Very well my brother, I will sit in the foxhole with you.
There seems to a general agreement that Nina needs to die. But I must admit, she was quite fun to watch when she tried attacking Zero. She should still die though, for what she said to Millay.
@Calawain
Well, there’s the bit where Suzaku subjected himself to public (and audience) humiliation from a twit to (successfully!) keep Lelouch from using geass on a room full of dignitaries at whim. As for why she’s a twit (and Kallen isn’t, not even referencing the Euphemia disgrace):
Lelouch is a snake. In one case he tricked Japan into pulling off an Asiatic Vespers and abandoned them to the consequences for personal reasons. Lulu revealed what he thought of Japan- absolutely nothing. Personal isn’t the same as important, but to Lelouch if it isn’t personal it isn’t *important*. Kaguya recognizes that trait about him- so she’s willing to settle being his concubine. Kallen recognizes that trait about him and slapped him in the face. Kaguya needs a sense of self respect for herself and her nation. Kallen isn’t willing for her hero worship of the Zero persona to make her Lelouch’s comfort girl or to settle for her nation having the status of cannon fodder. Kaguya is. She doesn’t get that she deserves better.
I want to see another conversation between Kallen and Suzaku. Those are the only two people with Japan as a priority that possess the closest thing to adequate information about the situation, and they’ve made two very different choices with it. They’ve probably got something worth saying to each other.
I am sorry for this post, but I am a little lost. Are all of the countries still in this or just some of them, are Russia, Germany, or the US in here?