Butterfly Dreams

I could go all “OMG, it’s CODE GEASS!@@$!”, but I think that’s been done enough the first day or two since it aired on Sunday, so I’ll just assume you all know my excitement and move on. I guess it should’ve been obvious that with a one year timeskip, Lelouch’s initial amnesia is a given, but it still took me a while to actually get it. It was like I was watching an alternate universe, because it’s a complete mystery to me (and I suppose you guys as well) as to how something like that can happen after the cliffhanger end of season one. It reminded me a lot of the period of when Light from DEATH NOTE lost his memory and was normal again. Granted, Lelouch was restless, but you have to wonder if he was better off that way, though someone (whoever gave him amnesia) was clearly trying to contain and control him by doing so.

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It figures that by the time I fully support Ryou and Eiko, Eiko dies. Or maybe it’s because Eiko dies that I support the pairing. In any case, Ryou may be joining her, since he’s quite injured, too. Ever since Gundam 00 managed to kill off a main character, I’m not striking out the possibility that Ryou will die. It was obvious something was going to happen to him when he saluted the two officers that were supsicious of him since forever, but Eiko’s death came out of no where. Why Eiko believed she could hide a tracking device in his car is beyond me. If he was the police chief and he didn’t catch that, they’d have one really weak police chief.

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Am I on a GONZO fix or what right now. I wasn’t as immediately hooked onto BLASSREITER as I was The Tower of Druaga, but by the end I was left feeling willing enough to try out the second episode. Like Dragonaut, CG was used for all the fast-moving scenes and fights, which was okay and all, but it left me disappointed with the regular animation, since I didn’t like it at all. If I could just have a lesbian moment for one second: the naked woman at the beginning of the episode wasn’t even hot, IMO. Nor the blonde + green haired woman. I mean seriously, what is with that hair colour combination? Maybe it’s because I’m a girl, I dunno, but it wasn’t working for me. None of the guys were hot, either– well, no, the mysterious guy with the odd design coming down his right eye was nice. So he and Amanda were the only nice looking people. Okay, now to move on from the increasingly shallow talk of animation and character design.

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