Newtype Gaiden Scans! Sort of.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

So, scans of this month's Newtype have made their way online, and we finally have some more information about the upcoming Code Geass Gaiden, Boukoku no Akito.

And by "more information" I mean Knightmare Frame designs.





Anyone care to translate the article to see if there is any other new information there?

Also, for those who weren't aware, three chapters of Shikkoku no Renya have been scanlated so far.

Comments

[snoozy.livejournal.com]

There's still the issue of Lelouch deceiving and manipulating her "so she can be happy", rather than letting her decide that for herself.

Ah, that essentiatlly was the case for pretty much all his closed ones. /xcept C.C. and Suzaku techincally speaking/

It is true what you say about Kallen's chara, you've got all the points in the world, if you examine it on the surface; however her poem-thoughts that got released along with the Complete Best boxset, gave her justification on why she ended up being so hung up on Zero and then Lelouch. (he made her bro;s wishes take form, her country, a new hope etc bull etc blah etc.) So it is not about Lelouch per se, it is what Lelouch embodied for her and made her believe. Till his act as a huge dick and then we all know what happened afterwards.

At any rate, most of girls that were involved with Lelouch, had this kind of kamikaze-air around them. Shirley was deceived by him and still wanted to be there for him. Kallen too, though in the last episodes she chose her country-beliefs over him. /Lelouch's dandy 'dumping' to her in R2-22 played a huge role on that one though.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Ah, that essentiatlly was the case for pretty much all his closed ones. /xcept C.C. and Suzaku techincally speaking/

Yeah, and I think that was a big character flaw of Lelouch's actually, since it backfires spectacularly at several points, and Nunnally even calls him on it in the final episodes. (And Zero Requiem is about gambling on other people to do what makes them happy, rather than just deciding it for them)

[snoozy.livejournal.com]

Well, sometimes it was just an excuse for him to accomplish his own goals the whole 'but that will make you happy' especially in season 1, cause in R2, he got more softie lol but yeah, Lelouch had this habit of doing things his own way and really thinking that is what makes his close people euphoric.

ZR was a reset plan. Bring everything back to the beginning and believing in people find their own happiness afterall. That was a first for Lelouch. /and last, baw.

[nayami.livejournal.com]

I am asleep and have to go to work but I just wanted to point out how much I love this interpretation of ZR and how it's LOADS better than the one the creators ramble on about from time to time. As do I enjoy the discussion of Zero's ultimate flaw regarding his selfish/selfless love issues.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

It's always been my interpretation of Zero Requiem, and I think there is certainly enough evidence to back it up as canon - to start with, the whole thing comes into play immediately after Lelouch realises all the shit his parents have done "to make people happy".

But yes, I have seen Lelouch described as "selflessly selfish" (Or maybe it was the other way around) - he'll do anything to make those he loves happy, except decide for themselves without him. Lelouch has a kind of... egocentric view of things, and a tendency to interpet things through his own sense: thus "gentler world" becoming "kill off my family". (Which is why it bothers me a bit when people take his word of what happens as The Only Valid Interpretation. Lelouch isn't the most objective observer of his own life.)

[snoozy.livejournal.com]

Well that is what Lelouch said pretty much to Suzaku in the last flashback scene. He carried all the burdens of everyone /himself included too of course/ and wanted to believe that people were not gonna repeat the same bullshit. Long shot, but in the ending we saw, it worked. /so far at least hehe/ 8D