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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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[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! ^-^)

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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.

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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!

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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. ;)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.