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

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

I remain vaguely disturbed by the first part.

And with good cause. It's a ubiquitous sexist trope that often gets overlooked (and I mean this about myself too; I probably wouldn't have noticed it without the writers explicitly saying that Lelouch and C.C. are equals so they can't be lovers).

As for Lelouch not letting Kallen make her own decisions, I kind of agree with him. Kallen is one of the many, many people in Code Geass who seems to consider honor before reason, and she'd have sacrificed herself needlessly for him. But I completely see your point about how it's deceptive and manipulative and he's not trusting her to make her own choices.

In R1 I think her character development wasn't entirely about Lelouch. In fact, in the Kallen-centric episode, it wasn't about him at all IIRC; it was about her mother. But otherwise she basically existed in relation to Lelouch, and in R2 her development path was basically her reconciling her image of Lelouch with her image of Zero.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's at all malevolent, but it's still a very condescending way to treat people. It also, as winterfox mentioned earlier, reduces a lot of Kallen's individual agency.

True, but Kallen gets what, one episode that's all about her, rather than defining her in terms of relationship with Lelouch/Zero? One episode out of 50 for a main character isn't real great.