Lelouch's new mecha + future eps summaries

[hellion-3.livejournal.com]

Alrighty, new info coming from Newtype March. The translation is credited to Celiss Galeva from GameFAQs. Among the new spoilers is something of great interest, namely Lelouch's future, personal Knightmare Frame - the Gawain


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The Gawain is on the lower left side...while on the upper right one, is Schneizel's flying fortress, the Avalon - the one we see in the new OP (from where Lancelot takes off with that Aile Pack-spinoff.

Information garnered from Newtype March include the following:
- The Gawain is a two-seater. Who's the copilot? C.C.? Kallen already has her own and Toudou will most likely get that new Guren (Sanshiki?) model.
- This Knightmare Frame can fly.
- It is stolen. ("This mech will not be handed to the likes of Zero", anyone?)
- It uses a powerful Hadron cannon.

All in all, the famous Gundamjack trend seem to have made its way through Code Geass now. Wheeee. Rejoice. Or despair.

And by the way, the Gawain might be what Pubes and Fake Okouchi mentioned about Schneizel having another superior 7th gen. mech in his private army. They were nevertheless right when they said it was an ugly mech for a protagonist - and it will get even more evil as Zero gets familiar with it, or so those two warned. Since they're both (more or less confirmed with the proven spoilers they've provided on 2chan) CG staff members, we can already take that statement as a given. From other things I've seen on GameFAQs, it seems that the Gawain will make its debut somewhere around ep18/19 - or at least, it will be stolen at that moment.

Other tidbit from Newtype March:
- 15th of Feb is confirmed to be a recap episode, Truth of the Mask (ep17.5).
UGH.

Future ep summaries:

"Stage 18: Kururugi Suzaku, I Command Thee

Suzaku enrolled in the Britannian military because he wanted to change from within the Britannian Empire's policy of sacrificing the weak in order to expand their territories.

"Protect the people to the fullest" -- Possessing this strong conviction and a kind heart, he receives the approval of the 3rd Britannian Imperial Princess Euphemia, and advances to the position of her Knight.

News of this is relayed to the citizens as well. At this, Diethard, who is in charge of the Black Knight's intelligences, advises Zero to assassinate Suzaku.

He claims that having Suzaku, a Japanese, publicly serving the Britannian Empire is detrimental to the Black Knights, the JLF, and the Anti-Britannia movement on the whole.

Listening to his words along with Zero, the members of the Black Knights..."

And:

"Stage 19: The Island of God

In the intense fight with Zero, Suzaku is somehow blown away to a deserted island, where he unexpectedly encounters Kallen as well. Without even getting a moment's chance to puzzle over the meeting of a classmate at an unexpected place, he is shocked by the fact that she is a member of the Order of the Black Knights.

Stage 20: The Kyuushuu Campaign

The Deputy Vice-Minister of the old Japanese Government, Zawazaki Koutarou (Not too sure about the reading of the kanjis in the name -- I'll double check later), occupies a portion of the Britannian-governed land "Kyuushuu" and proclaims it as his territory. In order to surpress his actions, the Britannian military storm the base Zawazaki is in, but..."

Enjoy.


EDIT
Fixed. LJ ate part of the url...
For those who still can't see it, here are two cropped pics:
The Gawain


The Avalon

Comments

[black-rose.livejournal.com]

I got the impression in the very first episode she appeared in that she was a stronger character than too many people have given her credit for. I agree that she doesn't have to have Geass to be strong. Perhaps her power is in her ability to sway the hearts and minds of the people - not even necessarily as a tactician.

Zero isn't being honest with the people that are following him - backing him, sure, he's being mostly honest. But the people fighting for him believe he's championing the cause of Japanese Independence at least on some level, and I think his actions have already put that facade at risk (hence Kaname is beginning to question) - mostly the part where he blew up the last of the Japanese Liberation Front (minus Toudou). That may also get him out of favor with even his backers if/when they find out (assuming they don't already know - and since Zero was sent to help the Japanese liberation Front, it seems likely the Kyoto (sp?) guys will be upset to find out Zero is the reason that the general and company are all DEAD).

Remember, too, that the intro to the episodes changed to point out that Lelouch was given 2 powers - the power of Geass and the power of the Order of the Black Knights. The first power, only CC can take away. The 2nd could be taken by anyone with the brains to figure out how and the correct forum to air Zero's dirty laundry.

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Lelouch is using the Order as his private army to pursue his private vendetta. They're in for a very rude awakening (especially worshipful gullible Karen) when they find out the truth about their beloved leader. >:) He doesn't care about the liberation of Japan.

(He wasn't able to blow Toudou up because that would have involved Toudou being there and actually doing something; he's been almost wholly useless up to this point. I have an opinion on most every character in this series except him. He's that exciting. ^_____^)

[black-rose.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I've been feeling like the Black Knights would be in for a rude awakening for sometime. Although I wasn't entirely sure of it until I re-watched the episode where the Japanese Liberation Front met their end and I realized, ooooh no. Mr. Zero in fact BLEW THEM UP.

I was pretty sure he didn't give a fig about whether Japan was liberated - if they managed it in the wake of the destruction of Britannia, cool, otherwise, this is Lelouch/Zero not caring.

And Toudou, I didn't even register him the first time around. In episode 11, they start talking about him, and I'm like who? What? What guy, where? And then I rewatched episodes 1-8, and still missed him. And then rewatched episodes 1-5 (I've been pimping the series to friends as I drag them over to watch it), and that's when I was finally able to go: ooooh. Ok. Guy sitting in front of a katana with a Japanese flag in his vicinity doing nothing has a name. Got it.

Of course, watching episodes 9-11 and then going back and watching 5, I recognized Tamaki as the guy arguing with Suzaku. Bah. How are we ever supposed to keep track of some of these guys?

(Toudou better have a part one of these years. All those snippets and conversations discussing him better have a purpose, eventually!)