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[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

The official website and the official blog have been updated with new information. You can now find an art gallery in the official site as the last item under 'special', containing all the old magazine arts from June-October issues. The story section has been addd with Episode 7 (details below). As for the blog, it's been updated with details on the picture drama (written by scenario writer/composer Okouichi) to be included with every DVD release. It's been confirmed that the drama will focus on Lelouch and Suzaku's first meeting, and will not be found elsewhere.

I hope this doesn't mean we have to get DVDs to get the complete story. I'll get them anyway, but the important parts being in the show or not is sort of worrying.



Cornelia has been cleaning out the terrorists hidden in Saitama Ghetto in the way that she does. Her next/latest battle features very similar strategy to what's been used in Shinjuku Ghetto in order to lure Zero out. Though knowing it to be a trap, Lelouch takes the persona of Zero to Saitama Ghetto. He uses the power of Geass to steal a Sutherland and beat back the Britannian troops, but that is also part of Cornelia's trap. Under Zero's command the terrorist forces are destroyed one by one, and Lelouch soon has no choice but to surrender...

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[aestalitz.livejournal.com]

I think I love the gallery section, because (mostly) textless versions of magazine images! *_*

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

I'm a little bitter towards it, because I just forked my money over back issues last weekend. XD But seeing all the stages in the character design is interesting! The show would've looked very different if they kept that red suit-and-tie as Lulu's uniform. Or made the trim/female uniform color red instead of gold/cream.

[aestalitz.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm okay. I buy magazine scans too but they're mostly for iconning/graphics-making purposes, so I'm always happy to see a clearer version. XD;;

Did you notice how they corrected some of the character designs? I mean, Lelouch had white and red hair in two images.

[aestalitz.livejournal.com]

I mean I buy magazines. D:

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

I buy them mostly to read and get pretty pictures. And since old issues basically have nothing to read that we don't know about already---well, at least the pictures are bigger. XD

I didn't see that, which month is it? :o

List of what I saw : Shirley's hair was---er, deep blue? Light black? Suzaku's first pilot suit is red (glad they changed that, he looked like Asuka from Eva) and blue in another, Lancelot was initially red. Lelouch's student uniform had that gakuran-style front buttoning instead of the chef-uniform style we're seeing. (Even the character page still has that) Kallen had an orange color scheme, Suzaku's uniform was green in some pictures, Lulu's jacket was red and white,

[aestalitz.livejournal.com]

I made redhead!Lelouch into an icon here (http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d145/iconsis/icons/code%20geass/Pretties/lelouch-revolution_aestalitz.png) (did he really have green eyes in that magazine? I need to check) and white hair!Lelouch is this one (http://gallery.minitokyo.net/view/258306/). They seem to have corrected the hair colours except for blue-haired Shirley.

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA his hair was WHITE in that picture! XDD!!! He looks so weird. He looks like that guy from Yugioh. I cannot stop laughing hahahaha.

I think I saw Redhead!Lelouch once, but though someone edited the picture. Turned out it wasn't? XDD

Oh, Code Geass, the legends of your character design journey will not cease to amuse my great-grandchildren.

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

I like special stuff being part of the DVD releases. I will usually buy them when I love a show anyway (I have all of Noein and Garakan so far!), but the extra effort put into them makes having them even more worthwhile. :)

Sounds like Cordelia has more tactical skill than poor arty Clovis! XD (But I am sure he was a better painter! ^-^)

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

Dude, I love getting special stuff. XD It shows that the producers actually think of the fans when they make new material for DVDs instead of just plopping a show inside a pretty case, and Code Geass' special stuff looks really good atm. I'm just somewhat worried that Lelouch and Suzaku's meeting may have been better shown in the actual series, that's all.

Looks like Lulu gets pwned next episode, so it seems as you say. XD

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

I think Lelouch getting pawned is good! He had it all his own way at once, but he's actually thrown himself into something pretty serious and just assumed he'll be able to run the whole thing; he got his first wake up when Suzaku went back and here comes the second smackdown! It's good for the story; he initially looked way too powerful, but they are pulling him back and it's a lot better. More real.

Garakan's DVDs are amazing! They have special items (first one came with a harmonica with the Imperial Crest - one of the characters plays it) and they have all had really thick artbooks full of Okama's character designs. Very shiny.

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of Lulu getting pwned. He needs a reality check and some idea of what he's really up against, since Clovis sucks and he won that thinking Britannia is all the same and he can actually win a war with chess plus Geass. Rebellions are complex difficult things, especially if you're the leader, and I'm glad too that they aren't making him plow across fields of fodder with only Suzaku standing in his way. It's assumed that he'll start winning again at some point, but for now, really, he lacks real battle experience.

Garakan? What series is that? The special items sound nice, though!

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Garasu No Kantai! (http://www.garakan.com/)

Clovis...he always makes me think of Vetti, the Emperor of the Galaxy in Garakan. I know it's a tenuous thing, but the roses and he's blonde, on the bridge of the battlecraft and they have similar poses...



However Vetti was actually extremely competant at everything he did and Clovis...wasn't. ;) Poor Clovis!

I'm guessing that as well as losing some ground to Brittania, at one point he's going to have to make some radical conversions or start losing friends too, at school...I think they *might* be won over though, with the exception of Nina. ;)

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

Dude, they look somewhat similiar at least. And you know (from Lulu) that Britannia royals have that 'arm to the side!' gesture going on. The rose Funeral!Clovis was holding help matters. XD

'The power of the King will make you isolated'. So yes, I'm guessing that's what happens. Director Taniguchi likes making shows where shit actually happens, too, unless the show is geared towards kids, so it might be that letting us see fluffy Episode 6 is just to make it feel worse when the fluff no longer exists. XD (Mai-Hime tactics, but hopefully better ending)

Conversion---might be possible. Shirley seems very friendly. But on the other hand, they might not be so friendly if their Britannian lives/relatives are thrown into jeopardy. Which they would be if Lelouch succeeds...Lelouch seems to have a lot of wakeup calls to find yet.

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

I think Shirley and Rival might be persuaded. I am not sure about Millay though. And Nina, right now, no way. When you see Lelouch at school, despite who he actually is, these people do seem to be genuinely his friends. And so is Suzaku. So...yeah, he's already isolated himself with the path he's chosen. And actually, it seems like he might have become CC's puppet, to an extent. So his agenda may not even necessarily remain his own. And Suzaku seems a very moral person; I am not sure he's going to be too keen if he finds out about the fratricide.

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

Millay I think depends on what the Ashfords were on when they took Lelouch and Nanaly in. If their intentions were altruistic, then she'd probably be convertable. If their intentions were more or less selfish (might be more in line with the general idea of Lelouch living with buckets of stress on nonexistent future on his head)---I'd say it's possible, but unless Millay is REALLY REALLY REALLY good, chances are very small. And yeah, I do think they're really his friends, despite the inconsistency from that pretty wide gap in their and Lulu's perception of himself.

Suzaku's reaction to the fratricide would be interesting, and there're so many ways it can go. I'm actually waiting for it. XD And what you said about CC...true. I figured he'd end up fulfilling CC's goal inadvertantly, but that is more interesting. Since her reluctance seems to say it's something Current!Lulu might find ridiculous/unpalatable. Hmm.

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Well, it's the fact that she offered Lelouch a deal and he took it; it's kinda Faustian. He saw a chance at enormous power and without really thinking about the warning he was giving, he seized it. There is always a price when you do a deal like that. At first he was over excited by the power, but now he's coming down from that in a lot of ways.

And the way CC was sitting on the bed during the state funeral holding the Zero mask. Hmmmm....I just think Lelouch might not be wholly the Master of his own destiny.

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

The catch is rather obvious, and I'd like more heroes to actually suffer the consequences of getting the best ESP/sword technique/magic/artifact in the world as Lulu seems to be well on his way to getting. He probably thought it couldn't get any worse from his current life (not difficult, but certainly very emotionally scarring), and it's probably the show's job to prove him wrong. I really didn't seriously think CC's purpose might end up at odds with Lulu's, though. She seems to have been got this 'gotcha! the one!' expression when he was a kid---and it's interesting.

CC seems rather sad there. I thought it's like she's pitying Lelouch for some reason---now that you mention it, it seems like she's more sad over his 'naivete' than because his target was impossible.

[eurys.livejournal.com]

Oh oh, thanks. Looks like Cornelia is hardcore XD. A competent princess with a strategy? Unbelievable!
And I like the fact Lelouch finds himself in difficult situation. Would be boring otherwise.

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

Only a good antagonist is worthy of an awesome protagonist, as they say. XD

[defade.livejournal.com]

O_________O Repeat after me, Die, Cornellia, DIE!! I seriously thought Cornellia was going to die(or at least pwned) in ep 7. But this summary totally made me despair.DDD: I kinda had enough of Cornellia's "OMGWTF ARE U MORONS DOING WITH PREPARING FOOD!?!@)$*!& I DON'T NEED DAMN FOOD, F*CKING FIND ZERO!!!DAMMIT!!!" thing. I totally hated her the first time I saw her in the ending(mostly because of her hair), hated her even more after I've read Newtype, and after ep5 it got way out of control.

....but if next ep shows us angry/angsty/KILL U/scared to the point that he himself is scary Lulu I'll reconsider. Oh, and not to mention blood.<--no idea where that came fromXD;;

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

Hey, at least the more intolerable she is, the more satisfying it'll be when Lulu finally pwns her? Nothing better than seeing the character you love beating the crap out of the character you love to hate.

And you know, summaries can be quite misleading. See also : Episode 6. XD (Though I'll also take Black!Lulu any day. Scary masterminds are made of win, especially if they just tripped over a bush a week ago)

[defade.livejournal.com]

Sure, it will, but who knows how long that'll take...DD: And usually, when an intolerable character dies, he/she always dies in a...less painful manner, at least that's been the case with me for over five years.DD: But I can't wait on how Lulu will escape this time, preferably by his own power.

Ep 6 was the most misleading summary ever. Just by reading it, you wouldn't know it's a super duper OMGWTF crack episode. By reading the summary, you might think it's really serious and all..since they used 'culprit' for the cat.-_-;; Well, I do hope that the summary for ep 7 is also written with more seriousness than the actual episode.

[verity-isle.livejournal.com]

I know! The more terrible the situation is, the smarter Lulu would have to be. And Lulu is best when he's using his brains to the max---since Cornelia 'defeats' him with a trap, it'd be more like a mind duel instead of Lancelot of Cheat. Also on the death : it looks like they're developing her into a sympathetic character, so that might be the case---but hey, look at Clovis.

I thought it'd be like DN's Second Kira! XD Pleasantly, pleasantly surprised. The writers at Sunrise were probably laughing their asses off at us, evil people. I'm pretty sure something unexpects happens. We may actually have not been giving Lulu the credit he's due?

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Eh? Why do you hate her so much? O_O Because of her hair is not really a good reason...O_O

[defade.livejournal.com]

She's just one of those ruthless villains I can't stand - actually, compared to her, Clovis seems more like a lost little puppy. And from my past experiences, 9/10 I'd hate a character with super pink hair. And she happens to fit in the category. At first though, I was only 'Duh. Her hair looks weird.' but it was only after her appearance that I hated her personally.

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Lol! What good is a show without a good villain who makes you delighted or makes you mad! One on the good things about Code Geass is that the personality of the hero has had a degree of ambivalence about it; it makes Lelouch more real than the million hero by numbers characters out there; but normally, it's the power of the villain that can make or break a story.

Clovis, bless him, was hopeless. He was a great artist, but an appalling politican and knew no more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery, as the famous line goes. He'd have been a maginificent figurehead, though, if he'd had a good chancellor behind him actually making the decisions; his public speaking was not too horrendous...but he didn't. He only had Lloyd, and he didn't listen to Lloyd enough! Toy, indeed. ;)

I have a feeling Cornelia is just a warm up for big brother Scheizel too. >:) She does seem to be her Father's daughter though! XD

You can't hate a character based on the colour of their hair though! XD Euphemia has pink hair too, but they're total opposites!

[clamp-hikari.livejournal.com]

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