Picture of new official art

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

One of this month's anime magazines - I think it's NewType no, it's Animedia - has some new Code Geass official art for us, featuring Lelouch, Suzaku and C.C..

And it is, well, see for yourself...





So there's that.

From the looks of things, the main reason the picture is there is for some kind of The Best/Most Popular competition, though there is also some actual information down in the corner. I can pull up a higher definition copy of that part if anyone cares the translate, though the impression I am getting from 2ch is that it is mostly just informing us that there will be more information about the Akito Gaiden... later this year.

Sunrise does like drawing this out.

ETA: rkemy has translated some of the text in the comments, confirming we're due to get more information about Akito in the (Northern Hemisphere) Autumn. Plus the Producer's opinion on ~the secret to Lelouch's popularity~.

ETA: chan_chanz has a better quality scan here. Suzaku's muscles still look absurd, though.

Comments

[spongefan1.livejournal.com]

oh my god

[mosaickakera.livejournal.com]

...C.C looks kind of weird here.

[phantomkai.livejournal.com]

wow Suzaku really looks more manly now, and lelouch seems to look more girly type?

[suanz.livejournal.com]

Lelouch looks weird. Think it's the nose.

If he saw this pic, he'd probably say, 'DIE!!'. LOL!!

[darkmaya666.livejournal.com]

Everyone look ugly ;/ Sunflowers are resembling me somehow about CG's ending...

[uwaaaah.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Um, Suzaku? I don't think muscles work that way.

o_o

[kiraya.livejournal.com]

Uh.

[violeteyedhair.livejournal.com]

This.

[codename-windy.livejournal.com]

... Way to not even try, Sunrise. -_-;;;
Not a single one of the 3 characters looks right at all. Suzaku's body is all kinds of fucked up, Lelouch's face is way off, C.C.'s face & proportions are totally weird, etc. Urgh.

The worst part is that I would LOVE and ADORE new offical art of Lulu&co. but "art" like this is just adding insult to the injury.

[rkemy.livejournal.com]

I can read very little without squinting at my screen and playing a textual version of “Where’s Waldo?”, so that’s all I got.

Top right corner: 6th place
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion series

Big font on the right: We were enthralled with the antihero’s magnificent rebellion! _{lit. “drunk with”}

Next to Lelouch’s name is “3rd place”, and next to C.C.’s name is “21st place”.

And the 泣いた！next to the screenshot of Suzaku and Nunnally means “ I cried!“ _{or: “he cried!“ but I think the former fits better given the context.}

And yep, looks like a popularity competition.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

If you actually want to translate, I could probably upload some better quality scans of those text boxes in the lower left corner. Though I am not sure if they have anything of actual interest or are just the usual filler ~we will have more news soon~ stuff.

Up to you.

[rkemy.livejournal.com]

I'm game!

If it's really nothing of interest, then I'll just skim a bit and summarize what it says.

Comment contains large(-ish) pictures

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Hopefully this should work out right:

(http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y292/Drakyndra/?action=view&current=up501972.jpg)

Re: Comment contains large(-ish) pictures

[rkemy.livejournal.com]

The first text is a question to the producer as to what he thinks the secret behind Lelouch's popularity is. He basically says it's because Lelouch is both the protagonist and the villain, and that's rare in anime.
He contrasts him to Suzaku, who he says is "probably" on the right side/side of justice, but that's "boring nowadays".

The other text is about "the ruined country of akito", but it says very little except that we'll get more information about it in fall.

Re: Comment contains large(-ish) pictures

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks for the look over things, anyway.

The Akito information was what I had heard (I'm assuming Fall is Northern Hemisphere, so September-ish onwards), and the quote about Lelouch and Suzaku is interesting, if not entirely new information.

[kerina.livejournal.com]

...wat. Suzaku looks like Steroids and Anorexia's illogical lovechild, and C.C's right hand is bigger than her upper arm in addition to her head being three times too large. Lelouch just scares me.

This kind of thing actually makes me glad the show is over. :/

[biodamper.livejournal.com]

Oh my god your shrivelled old-man muscles, Suzaku.

[suruma.livejournal.com]

Suzaku's muscles are literally rippling

[shirogiku.livejournal.com]

..wat...

That's the result of Lloyd running weird experiments on Suzaku, ne?

Lelouch just tried plastic surgery and failed

[snoozy.livejournal.com]

lol kay this pic disturbs me;
lelouch's face looks like it was photoshopped to the body and yeah, suzaku's arms are like a jumble of bricks thrown together.

c.c. looks normal though.

anyway, the most important thing is that there will be finally some news about Akito, even if we have to wait some moar.

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

MTE
Suzaku just...oh god. And I mean look at his right arm. So little forearm, so much upper-arm.

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

The artists have seriously forgotten how to draw the characters. I started saying that as a joke when there was a little dip in quality, like too much neck hair or too many wrinkles; now I honestly believe it. Every new piece of art is so terrible. I weep for the people buying these magazines.

[puddinchan.livejournal.com]

Did Suzaku's arms die?

[sugar-dustbunny.livejournal.com]

Ever since the series ended, there's probably only been a handful of scans that were decent to look at...everything else has been laughable in some manner.

On a more positive note, glad to see a new scan of Lelouch without his second season mullet hair.

[snoozy.livejournal.com]

glad to see a new scan of Lelouch without his second season mullet hair.

haha, the mullet right; it is actually surprising it's not there this time.

[batzypan.livejournal.com]

...I am slightly disturbed.

[jczala.livejournal.com]

C.C.!!! Glad to see that girl again and she looks so cute.

Suzaku looks weird though... Steroids, perhaps? LOLz..

Lelouch is looking fine, bit thinner to me, but okay.

[trusthurts-15.livejournal.com]

Speechless.

[faye-naruse.livejournal.com]

OMG SO FUGLY D8

They really don't care about promotional art once a series itself ends, huh?

[faye-naruse.livejournal.com]

Oh - thanks for sharing! lol.

[beautifiers.livejournal.com]

the hell?

[stratergy-love.livejournal.com]

What is this, I don't even...

[rkemy.livejournal.com]

I can read almost everything on the higher resolution scans, so I can say that this page here is mostly summarizing CG and its characters, highlighting a few scenes from the anime, but giving us nothing new or interesting.

And if anyone is dying to know, the winner for the popularity contest for the “successive anime series” is K-ON! (second: Gintama, third: Gundam Seed).

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guessed as much. It's mostly just a "Keep it in the public attention" thing, really.

?_?

[francesca orsetti (from livejournal.com)]

what does "successive anime series" mean?

Re: ?_?

[rkemy.livejournal.com]

That’s a very good question, actually.

When I first translated it I had assumed that it meant something like "a series that has more than one season", because the Japanese wasn’t completely unambiguous about it here, and I saw some series listed there that I thought were over (dragon ball series, lucky star…), but I looked up a few of those series and looked at a Japanese definition of 歴代, and now I think it means "a series that hasn’t ended yet/ a series that keeps living on in different incarnations" in this context.

[lawlip0p.livejournal.com]

Suzaku, whyyy. D':

[kariavalon.livejournal.com]

/sob the proportions are so bad... Code Geass in general has odd stylistic anatomy.. but this is quite terrible. CC barely scraped by.. but her proportion scale's off too. D:

l-lool the only thing that looks decent are the sunflowers. 8D;;

[stakemyheart-x.livejournal.com]

*thuds head against desk* Suzaku's skin looks like an old person's....way too stretchy....and poor Lelouch....he looks like he got hit by a bus in the face....C.C.'s head is about to fall off....I am disappoint =[