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

[bobalunatic.livejournal.com]

... Reading these comments, I get the feeling that if Lelouch didn't look like Kamui or Clamp didn't do the designs, a very large percentage of us wouldn't be in this community today lol.

Though I like the battle scenes as much as anyone else, I find myself liking the school scenes the best. There are complaints about how those scenes contrast so sharply with the war segments that they're ridiculous, but that's why I like them. I need moments of light-heartedness and random character interaction to slow down the fast pace of the series (though with more identites being revealed, it seems like the light-heartedness might start dying away).

(Pardon me for sounding like a n00b, but is it possible to edit comments?! I can't find a button or anything.)

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

I love the school scenes better than the battles most of the time, though I love the Zero Is Fearless Leader Is Dorky Schoolboy Prince scenes best. (It overlaps EVERYTHING, I know)

As for the last, no. LJ kinda sucks that way. You can always delete and retype or reply to your own comment to clarify things, though!

[nayami.livejournal.com]

I actually really enjoy the way they do the schools scenes because it helps remind us that despite everything, Lelouch really is just some punk teenager. I'm also amused that it's not always comedy relief, and sometimes some significant developments can come from the school scenes. I'm usually excited to hear about the school scenes, especially when the series was dragging a bit in its middle because I knew if all else failed, they would be entertaintaining and cute.