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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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oh god your publisher does suck, not being mean or anything DDD: i'm happy i have the advantage of taiwan publications here XDD ~~even if he does, i'll go make suzaku elope with euphemia. and bring nunnally along too.~~

i tend to like the released volumes here, but then scanlations are good for speed :D course i didn't ^___^ i'm the good girl around here :D

Oh, they do, they do. This particular publisher does awesome translations so much that I never wanted to buy the original Japanese, but they like to drop series that didn't sell well. The others...the speedy one has worse translation than gg's subs, and the other one with decent translation that didn't drop series are as fast with releases as snails. One manga in particular ended like....5 years after the Japanese ending. -_-; ~~And steal his superhero comics. You know he has them, from the way Zero dress. You know he LURVES them~~

Same, although some volumes are MUCH WORSE. I do read some series almost entirely off the net. :D Of course, with Wild Life, it is then debatable if scanlations are faster...

aww that's bad DD: the translations here are good most of the time, coz there's only 2-4 main companies here, each company taking a particular 'group' of manga. culturecom takes most of the JUMP ones, while tongli takes the magazine/sunday ones. another publisher takes the majority of the shoujo ones, and the last one takes whatever's left XDDDD that's.. way too slow D: ~~OH DEFINITELY. HE WORSHIPS THEM EVERYDAY BEFORE GOING TO SCHOOL ♥~~

i can't stand reading manga on the net, i'm fine with chapters, but not with volumes. the feeling of holding a manga has much more appeal to me XDDD it's hard to find fast scanlations.. especially with series like Wild Life and MAR... this is of course where the advantage of knowing chinese comes in :D

We do have that, too. The one doing Wild Life takes Shounen Jump and most of the 'intelligentsia' manga. The other one takes most stuff from Kadokawa Shoten, another takes the shoujo stuff and the other takes what's left. Oh, and another one for manhua, but it's generally decent. AND YES I KNOW IT'S SLOW. -_-; ~~I have this idea in my head actually that Suzaku eventually learns who's Zero because he recalls fanboying Zero the Masked Kamen Rider with Lelouch as kids~~

I do have the Japanese knowledge advantage. But the sad fact is, Japanese import is like..10 times more expensive. ;_; There are some series I read volumes on the net because I didn't like it enough to buy but like it enough to read. Everything else, though, I waste copious salary on. XDD;

sorry for saying that all the time ^___^;; i wish we got korean manga and all ;___; we don't even get english comics D: ~~HAHAHAHAHAH was it even out whent they were kids?? XDD wait, they were 6/7 years old 'now', so they should have. LELOUCH YOU HAVE LOST COZ YOU USED OLD FAVOURITSE DD:~~

i could help you find raws if you really wanted.. but it's hard to find older japanese raws .___. for that kind of manga, i rent them ^__^ it's this fairly popular trend that's here, but then the comic industry is kinda against it kinda not XDDD

Oh, dude. I was joking. I make indecipherable jokes like that all the time. ^^;; We do get Korean manga, haha. But the quality SUXXORS. English comics is something we can both lament, but in the face of everything I don't miss it much. You KNOW he was trying to bring Suzaku over to his side in Episode 4 by using the OLD FAVOURITE HENSHIN HERO MASK. He was trying Freudian message! Like, 'recognize me, Suzaku! I am Lulu! To your rescue!' Alas, Suzaku is dense. And the mask stuck, woe to him

Haha, renting is around here, too. But I hate rentals generally, and there isn't a decent one in my town. Sure miss university. *sigh* Don't worry about that, though. Patience is a virtue. I can wait. ^^

oh. i'm too dense. must go and decrease my volume :D *science joke. ignore if you want* the closest thing we get to english comics are english versions of japanese comics. which are a bitch to buy D: ~~HAHAHAHAHAHA you're reminding me to upload this video for all the suzaku/lelouch fans to see~~

aww man that sucks DD: i know of 3 stores or so, but i only go to one frequently ^__^ i normally read from rental stores when the series is too long (detective conan/yakitate japan/tenipuri) or i just want to try it out. if i like it, i try to buy it if my money allows me to.

me and patience have hate each other. hence my addiction to LJ, and big f-lists XDD

D=M/V? :3 Oh, the nostalgia. Been ages since that equation. XDD I don't buy those. As expensive as the Japanese originals, too. -_-; ~~What video? I am no fan, but do upload~~

Patience and I have something we call a truce. If it doesn't abuse me, I don't abuse it. Much. Occasionally we break off treaties, but the international trade's a little too profitable for prolonged war. Thus the current sad situation.

Also, do we take the discussion elsewhere or remain here? :o

YES! XDDD i don't remeber that equation, even if my life depended on it. D: ~~i will, today XD along with translations~~

i'm sleeping, so i guess it's fine ^___^;; comments are much needed in this comm, and we're just helping out. a bit :D

It just happens that chemistry is one of my favored subjects, along with biology. And I have long memories, usually. XD;

Very well, then. Sleep tight! :D