Geass episode 9 postponement

[kaine-maxwell.livejournal.com]

http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=375155
Apperently episode 9 of Geass is being postponed from it's June 1st airing due to the earthquakes in China.

EDIT: more proof:
http://animehistory.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/code-geass-r2-episode-09-postponed-to-june-8th/

Comments

[arhel.livejournal.com]

The scan said 6/1 would be replaced by a "緊急ナビ" episode, meaning a recap/staff interview/etc type of affair. Normally these are done before a show airs to spark audience interest. There's no mention of the earthquake in the scan, that's probably just speculation.

I would guess it's caused by either production problems (if they weren't able to get Ep 9 finished on schedule) or low ratings. How adding a recap would help ratings is a little mystifying, but they might have simply reduced the total number of episodes due to ratings and had to fill in the timeslot with something else. We'll just have to see.

[lulu-quality.livejournal.com]

Neither actually. Low ratings aren't a problem and they're relatively ahead of schedule in terms of production (I think they're recording episode 13 right now). The problem is the episodes take place in the Chinese Federation and the episodes will have battles, presumably with Lelouch ripping up the terrain. In light of the horrendous earthquake, to move the episodes by a week is the right thing to do. This wouldn't be the first anime to have episodes delayed due to natural disasters, terrorist attacks, violence etc.

[arhel.livejournal.com]

As said, it's speculation on my part right now because there's not yet an official reason given. I would much prefer if it were due to the earthquake, that shows sensitivity to international affairs that I generally would not attribute to yon average entertainment industry. =)