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Double-posting. Please blame the official site for this. D:

Apparently the Geass team got a lot of questions about the recap episode, so they decided to post an explanation up on the official blog. Translation as follows.

"...The next episode, 8.5 (recap) will be an organized look back at what Lelouch has done in the episode 1-8 and his past.

We've received a lot of requests from viewers who started watching in the middle about what sort of story happened before and that they wanted to see it. We've assembled this recap episode to answer this request. We hope our viewers who did not start from the middle would have more enjoyment of the later episodes as a result.

As for those who's been our viewers right from the beginning, we'd like you to think of this episode as a reaffirmation. If you'd like to bring your friends to watch it with you, it would make us very happy.

Thank you in advance for your support of [Code Geass : Lelouch of the Rebellion] from now on.

*Stage 8.5 will not be counted among the episodes on the DVD, but as a special selection programme. For further information, please check the official site."

...well, I did, but nothing's up there yet. If something's put up, I'll make an edit on this post and give you the breaking news. (Or make a new post if it's further apart and too much of a pain to dig) At least it seems that Episode 8.5 is made because they're answering fan demand and/or this is a good place to recap for middleroad watchers because things started changing post-8, instead of not having enough time to make a proper 9.0. (They did not seem to expect the popularity, haha) Or it could be just pretty words (ironic, if it is) but I'm going to give them the benefit of doubt, it's been very good series thus far. Does the DVD comment mean 8.5 won't count towards the amount of episodes we're getting? We can only hope.

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you should totally say that to the 3 or 4 people translating the tsubasa and xxholic chapters now XDDD

well, it's not exactly an OC, coz sunrise has given this to 3 mangaka's to do already DD: i'm sure she/he writes what sunrise tells him/her to XDDD

Oh, I know people like doing competitive translating stints, but I don't really like them. I've done it (under another name) and it's...not my style. The comparison is fine, but I don't like the feeling of thinking all the work's gone to waste. Collab, though, is something I'd gladly take. On the whole, I'd rather translate something that needs a translator than things that already has them. Otherwise we get poor series that have no love.

OH. You mean it's in the viewpoint of the 3rd person narrator or one of the known cast, but the 'new writer' is the author? That's okay, then. XD I'm pretty used to various cracked canons going round. One has to wonder if Mr. Ookouchi thinks all those scenarios or are they all cracked out by the rest of the team.

i don't find much point in having a lot of people translating something, but i guess it's something that i do as well ^__^;; i still scan stuff when i know people already have it, coz i'm used to it and all XDD i translate either coz a chinese raws leaked earlier than the japanese relase, or coz no one else is doing it.

well there's a writer's info thing next to it, so i'm sure it's not from the pen of sunrise person. the diary entry seems to be in the POV is shirley .____. so i guess a new writer is writing in a character's POV? .___.