What draws you to Geass?

[nayami.livejournal.com]

Why yes we are a poll. And yes I do live here. After reading something verity_isle said about people watching Geass for the lulz only and following most of the anime blogs, I asked myself why I watch Geass. I realized the answer has changed from the time I started watching the series to just after the Mao arc, when Geass suddenly became my *show* as I once viewed my other fave Naruto. So as usual, I have two questions to pose:


1. Why did you originally start watching Geass? When might be cool to know too since I know we have people here since October and others who recently marathoned the whole thing. It seems to me when a person started watching Geass partially determines the why.

2. Why do you stick with Geass AKA what do you love about it?


For me, I started with Geass sheerly because 1.)it was Clamp, 2.)Lelouch looks like Kamui and 3.)I love Kamui no matter what hell he puts me through. I did originally just watch it for the WTFery, although I always adored Lelouch. Now I admit I'm into the political intrigue and just how Lelouch is going to screw himself deal with things next. I might add more to this later but I'd rather hear some others first.

Comments

[existentially]

1) Before it began, if that's an answer? I remember seeing the promotion images back in late Spring or so and into the Summer, and began watching as soon as the first ep was out. Also because the character design looked awesome [I'm rather new to CLAMP, just to say~]. PLUS. ...the idea of "Gundams on roller-skates" made me snicker. XD;

2) I really love the whole protagonist is the antagonist deal (such as it is in Death Note); of all the series I've read/seen, Code Geass is one of the very few where I really adore the lead character. I also love strong female leads.

[nayami.livejournal.com]

You know it's not until now that I realize they really on a roller-skates. 0_o

[existentially]

As an avid Air Gear fan, that fact alone cracked me up. XD

[aestalitz.livejournal.com]

It's Air Gear + mecha, I tell you.

I was wondering why the mecha designs seemed familiar, and realized that it's the same guy who did the mecha for Eureka 7.

[existentially]

Exactly. X) Meanwhile, Air Gear is like Tenipuri on wheels. A whole new level of crack for all.

Cool. :D I finally saw that a short while back; I thought I should give it a try, since so many people I know said it was awesome.

[aestalitz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when I first saw Lancelot in the OP and then the battle scenes, I was, "OMG AG?!" The only big difference is that AG has boobs and Tenipuri doesn't. Woe, Tenipuri. (We will ignore swimsuit!Ryuuzaki-sensei.)

And while Lancelot is on rollerskates, Eureka's mecha are on skateboards. XD