Code Geass Episode 5: Discussion!

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Episode 5: 皇女と魔女
The Imperial Princess and the Witch










We begin by seeing Cornelia taking control of Area 18 with her army. For whatever reason I always somewhat felt that Lelouch had some sort of a similarity with her. Well, at least for this episode they were both introduced with a fiery entrance (at least Zero was shown to the public that way in the last episode). Cornelia has decided to take control of Area 11 and avenge the death of her brother, Clovis. Her goal? To find Zero!

Lelouch returns home to see a familiar face of someone whom he thought died via bullet to the brain. I guess I'd be a little surprised too. I mean, he did watch her die in front of him. There was a bullet in her head, after all. She survived and there's not even a scar to show she was ever shot. At any rate, it's nice to see that Nunnally and C.C. are getting along pleasantly—except she's under the assumption that Lelouch is marrying her. I gotta say, though, I didn't get the feeling that Nunnally really believed the breaking of that cup was legit. Unfortunately for Lelouch he doesn't get to have a lot of his questions answered by the mysterious C.C..

In other news poor Jeremiah has lost his leadership due to the whole "orange" incident. No one trusts him after he let Zero escape and even attacked his own men claiming they were disobeying his orders. For those wondering what "orange" meant, Lelouch claims it was just a casual remark that some people will want to know the meaning of and others will begin to analyze what it does mean. Suspicion. Luckily for Suzaku, due to the whole ordeal they acquitted that there was not enough evidence to charge him with the murder of Clovis, so he was found innocent! Other than that other terrorist groups are making a ruckus because of the whole Zero thing, thinking it's time to revolt; even the Japanese that Toudou is a part of wants to act now, but Toudou seems to be very patient and he wants to wait and not get caught up in the whole Zero thing.

Anyways, is it just me or is this entire anime built on lies? When Suzaku meets Euphemia for the first time one of the first thing she says to him is a lie. She's being chased by bad people? Moreover she lies about who she is—well she omits the fact that she's the princess Euphemia and just tells Suzaku that she's Eufie. However, I get that she did that so she could see who he was on a different level. For example when Suzaku stepped in when some Britannian soldiers were creating a ruckus with an Eleven. He took a lot of heat from the Britannians. Later he stepped in when there was a coup d'état against Jeremiah, which later caused Euphemia to step in and stop the fight using her royal power. Maybe it was a test for Suzaku because she knew who he was when they met, I believe. Either way, Lloyd knew the entire time, that bastard!

I gotta hand it to Lelouch, though. He put Geass on a girl to test how long Geass stays on a given person for. Every day at the same time she goes to the same spot and carves in the wall the same image. Even C.C. is impressed.

Suzaku is attending Ashford Academy! :D

Next time: 奪われた仮面
The Stolen Mask

P.S. I will be deleting previous image batches from my flickr account within the next week, save for this one.

Comments

[kiraya.livejournal.com]

...after last week's creepy ending it sure is pretty amusing to see Nunnally and C.C. have gotten all buddy-buddy right away.

Geass has allowed Lelouch to "drastically advance" his schedule, huh? I have to wonder what his revenge-plans would have been without it... I'm sure the
money he wins off chess gambling plays a major role.

...I'd completely forgotten the Guren was mentioned this early.

I love pausing on screens of text to get a closer look at them. While it's a little odd that Suzaku himself is the only result for "suzaku" (unless they censor non-Britannian cultural references?), the English in the first result is rather well done. Though lol at the gibberish links.

...actually in the open magazines in that scene, they mistakenly refer to Suzaku as both a private and a warrant officer. And romanize his name as "Kululugi," which while understandable still makes me lol. And the text repeats on both pages in both publications. And "challenger to the imperial court"? How the hell would anybody know that at this point? Or are we supposed to take it as mere sensationalizing? ...And I'm sorry, but I can't help finding "Eleven" a bit of a ridiculous title for a news magazine (but props to them for correct usage of "viceregal"; there's an SAT word for ya).

Oh Euphie. ♥ I love how she comes across naive and innocent, but really has a pretty damn good grasp on things. And her optimism. Wibble.

Suzaku's pronoun of choice for his outing with Euphie: "boku."

On the topic of lies, I will confess I like that nearly every character does it. Makes for a delightfully complex shades of grey thing -- all the arguments over who's "right" are then pretty pointless, no?

I like that Viletta is smart enough to figure things out, or at least start in the right direction for it.

...is that building at the beginning of the Shinjuku scene the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building? It'd make sense, but... very X-ish. It throws me off.

Suzaku's pronoun of choice while dealing with Tamaki and company: "jibun."

God, Suzaku, the people you rescued are such ingrates. Go Euphie! (And again Suzaku's all shocked people are actually looking out for him. Poor boy.)

...I do love Lloyd's bizarre sense of humor. "Too bad you were acquitted! You have to work for me again now."

[nayami.livejournal.com]

...after last week's creepy ending it sure is pretty amusing to see Nunnally and C.C. have gotten all buddy-buddy right away.

Seriously, what exactly did C.C. tell her? And why isn't Sayoko here to intervene in RANDOM STRANGER hanging around Nunnally? Fail ninja meido, fail.

Geass has allowed Lelouch to "drastically advance" his schedule, huh? I have to wonder what his revenge-plans would have been without it... I'm sure the
money he wins off chess gambling plays a major role.

LOL. That would be priceless. This reminds me I forgot to mention Lelouch's hand-eye motions here. With him covering the non-geass eye when talking about how the Geass has given him power to move forward and then switching to cover the geass eye when saying that he still would have made his attempt with it. Just a clever animation thing here, aside from me simply adoring the coolness of the pose. It's one of my favorites.

...I'd completely forgotten the Guren was mentioned this early.

Me too!

[otakukeith.livejournal.com]

Geass has allowed Lelouch to "drastically advance" his schedule, huh? I have to wonder what his revenge-plans would have been without it... I'm sure the money he wins off chess gambling plays a major role.

He was going to invent subprime mortgage lending and collapse Britannia's economy. :P

[kiraya.livejournal.com]

A+, would lol again