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[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

A Code Geass community! And a lively one, too. This is awesome to see indeed.

*ahem* Yes, this is a pesky introduction post. I just started watching the anime yesterday and was hooked left, right and center. Oh, it's not perfect by any means, but it's been so long since anything hits all the spots with just the correct punch. Though Death Note is currently considerably the smarter show, Code Geass is far more enjoyable. To me, that is. I've loved the director's previous Ryvius and I don't think Lelouch will disappoint. Hope there's a lot of mutual fanship to be found here. ♪~ (I tend to rant, sorry)

Though I don't have any creative output to offer to the altar at the moment (translating things always put my brain through a rut) I do have a few questions/guesswork around. Some of these are data gathering for fic, but some are just curiousity. If you don't mind?



- How exactly does Britannia's succession system work? My ears told me all Lelouch said in Episode 2 was "第十七後継承者", 17th successor, and the sub concurs. However, the sub and wikipedia (geass.co.jp has woefully little information) both says "second in line" (I didn't catch this line in the Japanese track, but I assume it's around his line about Empress Marianne, which I didn't completely understand). He's not 2nd prince, and even 3rd prince Clovis is his elder. So how does it work? Does the Emperor just assign whoever he wants on the line to the throne?
- Do you think it's a little too much coincidence that the only person Lelouch visibly softens to cannot be affected by his power? Nanaly's blind. I smell a plot coming about this.
- I'm sure most people also noticed this. In episode 1, when Lelouch's eye first went Geass, all the soldiers were freaking out over what was going on with it. But currently, when he uses the eye and it doesn't work, nobody seems to notice that his eye is red and has wings in the middle of them. Heck, Kallen was far closer to him in Ep. 3 than the soldiers in 1 ever were. What gives?
- Suzaku. A little early, but what do you think his ultimate role is? Best-friend-opposite-side ala Kira and Athrun, Love interest the White Knight, leader of a different philosophy and the True Unifier (by marrying Euphemia) or something else? While I figure the last one to be a given, I'm also betting on him becoming a foil. Lelouch's development doesn't seem to go into the Raito direction, the monster with no heart but a bunch a morals (and yes, I know about the 'reversed' Raito). Lelouch's problem seems to be the opposite : he has too much heart and too little morals to go along with it---and with the OP being optimistic rather than dark, I'm guessing Suzaku is someone to keep Lelouch from going *entirely* mad. They're now in the same class, after all. What's the point of that except throwing their character development curve together? (Of course, he's going to oppose Zero. But ultimately, he's not L, and I don't think he'd be there to kill Lelouch...)
- If Lamperouge is really Empress Marianne's maiden name, isn't it rather stupid for Lelouch and Nanaly to use it? I mean "Oh, this kid...same name as the dead prince, same surname as his mother. Wait a minute..." should occur to someone eventually. They should've came up with a more random surname. Unless that one is REALLY common, but since she's a noble...
- Lelouch will find it difficult not to be compared with Raito, so let's throw it in his face : Death Note or Eye of Geass, what's better? You can kill anyone with the Death Note, wherever, whenever and however. No one the wiser. Eye of Geass, you have to be standing there in front of that guy, can only be used once, but it covers just about everything and you can order a daily schedule.
- Does the manga translation want an assistant translator? >_>

Also the Lancelot is so totally impossibly overpowered. But I guess Lelouch can't have it too easy C-2 is utterly awesome. C-2/Lelouch FTW. ♥

Comments

[clamp-hikari.livejournal.com]

Idk, I’m very confused myself. I hope the later episodes clear everything up…

Yup, I heard 17th alright, What was his brother? Euphoria is the 3rd I clearly heard. So the purple haired one is earlier… then what makes Nanaly?

Well since this anime group did created the gundam series… I guess Kira Athrun role is not that farfetched.

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

Clovis is 3rd, and he's older. Euphemia is also 3rd princess, Cornelia is 2. Schneizel is 2nd, too. We don't know the rest. But assuming there's a balance among the number of princes and princesses and everyone has equal right to the throne based on age, Lelouch would be....the 9th prince or something. Which is funny, since he played chess with Clovis as a kid. XD

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Clovis is quite a bit older too; 7 years between them (Clovis is 24).

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

He is? OMG. THE MENTAL IMAGERY.

14-year-old Clovis : Ha! This game is somine!
7-year-old Lelouch : *yawns* Checkmate, niisan.

....It's interesting that Lelouch uses 'niisan' instead of 'ani-ue' or 'niisama', though. Is he just being insulting by using a term meant for commoners, or were they particularly close as children?

[clamp-hikari.livejournal.com]

@,@ *head explodes.* Cornelia is the purple one... who's Schneizel? And how'd u guys know all this?

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

schneizel was mentioned right before clovis got shot, he said that cornelia and schneizel would know who murdered lelouch's mum ^__^;;

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

Schneizel was mentioned in Episode 3 when Lelouch held Clovis at gunpoint. He and 2nd Princess Cornelia knows something about Lelouch's mother's death.

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Asa oither peoiple said, episode 3 Clovis gave names; as for Clovis' age, Asuka published it with the manga along with the other characters (not Cordelia or Schneizel's though, but my assumption at the moment is that they're older than Clovis).

[clamp-hikari.livejournal.com]

...I don't read the manga... they SCREW the clamp characters.

I'll depend on you two for info I guess @.@ *heads feels better but still a bit screwy*

stupid LJ errors

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

I like the manga's style; it's softer. But I am not getting it for the artists as such, but for the story (and for the information and extra bits manga usually have within them). ^-^

[clamp-hikari.livejournal.com]

>>I like the manga's style
...which one?

I like the story too but I go for graphic too. In the manga world, Clamp is one of the few manga artists which I accept the quality of drawing... And the only one I love.

In my opinion, CCS and Code Geass is the only animes that captured the 'Clamp look'.

And about the manga characters's age, you're probably right but I'm picky about graphic. If they're ugly they're old--- I know not a good theory to go by

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Oh oh! p.s, Schneizel also appears in the opening titles (we think it's him anyway!). I put a picture in this thread. ;)

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Knowing Lelouch, he's probably being insulting. ;)

Yup, Clovis is a whole 24 - Asuka published one of those relationship charts and it had the ages of all the main characters on it; the oldest character is ... Lloyd! XD He's an ancient 29. :) And so far the youngest is Nanaly (14).

[clamp-hikari.livejournal.com]

hmm... clamp always manages to draw characters younger than they acutually are. oh well, I can't tell age anyway

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

I think every manga artist does! This may be why I have become so keen on tracking age data...:DDD

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

Dude. You think the chart would still be in the tankoubon version? They usually are, but I don't know Asuka all that well.

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Might be...or I could just scan it! XD

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

That wil be LOVE. ;_; Japanese? or Chinese?

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Japanese; putting it up now. :)

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

lelouch is the 11th prince ^___^ it's said in suzaku's manga :P

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

That still leaves a lot of Princes unaccounted for somewhere...O_O!

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

You know, the Emperor is a stud.

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Can't argue with the evidence! ^-^b

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

Does that explain why Lelouch now has two and a half sorta-love interests within the span of five episodes?

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Yup, it probably does!