#code geass rolo

[happybirthdayanime]

October 25th

[cliothedaydreamer]

⊱ ─ CLIO’S FANART

" Meow We're black cats We'll jump across the mirror Meow As we go beyond the night We might want to snatch you away On Halloween night we'll leave our shadows only "

> Zen'yasai no Kuroneko, Mayuko (translated by unknown, but presented in a video by darklinege)

[catalogcurriculum]

Did anyone else get major Twin Peaks / Julee Cruise vibes from the Code Geass Soundtrack?

(Pssssssst you can check out our full dive of Code Geass YouTube and Spotify!)

[j-psilas]

Will we ever get anything quite like Code Geass again?

I don't think it's possible.

Code Geass is Japanese nationalist propaganda disguised as a global political drama, disguised as a military mecha show, disguised as yaoibait, disguised as a teen melodrama, disguised as a high school romcom, disguised as a Pizza Hut commercial...

...except those layers aren't layers at all, but are instead comingled in a giant snake ball of insanity.

The lead writer, Ichirō Ōkouchi, only ever worked as an episode writer for other shows prior to Code Geass, and never took the helm of an anime series ever again. And it shows. [EDIT: Several people have pointed out his other lead writing credits to me. So I misread Wikipedia—sue me. I maintain that this guy is a better episode writer than he is a lead writer.]

The minute-to-minute pacing is impeccable from a mechanical standpoint, with tension and stakes rising to ever-higher peaks, balanced out by the slow simmers of the b-plot and c-plot. It keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat at all times. Meanwhile, the large-scale plot is the most off-the-wall middle school nonsense I've ever seen, continually surprising the viewer by pulling twists too dumb to have ever have been on their radar—and therefore more effective in terms of raw shock value.

"Greenlight it!" was the mantra of this anime's production. It must have been. It has, in no particular order, all of the following:

Character designs from CLAMP, the foremost yaoi/BL group in Japan at the time—for characters who are only queer insofar as they can bait the audience, and only straight insofar as they can be more misogynist to the female cast.

Speaking of the female cast, hoo boy the fanservice. We've all seen anime girls breast boobily, with many cases more egregious than Code Geass, but there's something special about it happening immediately after—or sometimes in the middle of!—scenes of military conflict and ethnic cleansing.

Pizza Hut product placement everywhere, in every conceivable situation. High-speed chases, light slice-of-life scenes, intimate character moments, all of it. Gotta have Pizza Hut.

The anime-only Pizza Hut mascot, Cheese-kun. He wears a fedora.

The most hilarious approximations of European names—which I would love to see more often, frankly. Names like, I dunno, "Count Schnitzelgrübe zi Blanquezzio."

A depiction of China that is wholly removed from any modern reality, with red-and-gold pagodas, ornamental robes, scheming eunuchs, and a brainwashed child empress. There's a character named General Tsao, like the chicken.

Inappropriate free-form jazz in the soundtrack, intruding at the most unexpected times.

A secret cabal not unlike the Illuminati, run by an immortal shota with magic powers, holding influence all across the world, at the highest levels of government. They matter for approximately three episodes.

An unexpected insert scene of a schoolgirl using the corner of a table to masturbate. She's doing it to thoughts of her crush, the princess Euphemia—because she believes Euphemia to be as racist as she herself is, and that gets her off. This interrupts an unrelated scene of our protagonist faction planning their next move, which then resumes as if uninterrupted.

Said schoolgirl, in a fit of hysteria, threatens to detonate a worse-than-nuclear bomb in the middle of her school. She then goes on to develop an even more destructive version of that bomb, and become a war criminal, in a chain of cause-and-effect stemming from the moment she finds out that Euphemia wasn't actually that racist.

A character called "the Earl of Pudding."

A premise that asks us to believe that the name Lelouch is normal enough that he didn't need to change it when he went into hiding as an ordinary civilian. "No, that's not Prince Strimbleford von Vanquish! That's our classmate, Strimbleford Smith."

The collective unconscious, a la Carl Jung, within which the protagonist fights his villainous father for control over the fate of humankind. After this is over, the anime just keeps going for about ten more episodes.

An episode in which a mech tosses a giant pizza.

A gay yandere sleeper agent who can manipulate the perception of time.

Chess being played very badly, even to the untrained eye. Lelouch frequently checkmates his opponent by moving his king. This goes hand-in-hand with the anime's crock of bad chess symbolism.

A fictional drug that can most succinctly be described as "nostalgia heroin."

Roller-skating mecha in knightly armor, and some of the most sickass mecha fight choreography that I've seen.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture. This anime is what the average Westerner in 2006 thought anime was, and it was made in a confluence of factors that cannot be replicated. I've never had so much fun watching something that I found so... insulting. Repugnant. Ridiculous. Baffling. I love it sincerely.

Catch me cosplaying Lloyd Asplund at a con sometime, or maybe even the big gay loser himself, Lelouch vi Britannia.

[rolorules]

By E~n.

[palarien]

i'm geasspilled ᵗʷᶦᵗᵗᵉʳ ᵐᶦʳʳᵒʳ

[akolnoix]

so i've been watching code geass

[werothepine]

I'll use you up and then throw you away like a piece of trash-

[ayy-junipei]

Day 7 | Trickery

(Sequel to Costume Cringe)

[kallencc]

curiosity: when drawing the illustrations, the CLAMP group wanted everyone involved in the war to have chains and those who were not involved had ties. Furthermore lelouch's allies have black wings while britannia's allies have white wings

[pierroettie]

finally making (decent) fanart for something I've been into for like 3 years consistently lol

stylistically different from my usual stuff cuz I was kinda just messing around

[sau-cen]

[stormxwings]

If I were a Bird

[yu2ki]

code geass lost stories icons 🧁

[rolotouto]

Lost Stories: Magia-stick Academia

The newest Lost Stories event features Rolo as part of Lelouch's family! Alternative Universe, but that's okay. They could have easily excluded him and didn't. (Note: マギアスティック is "Magia-stick" within the game's English text, but I thought they were going for Mageasstic... Right? Isn't that the obvious pun?)

Lelouch: Well then, time to display my abilities by making your favorite dishes.

The setting is that, in this world, people have magic that allows them to summon Knightmare Golems, but not everyone belongs to the same rank: people like Kallen and Suzaku are S ranks and they summon the strongest Knightmares and such, but Lelouch and his friends, Shirley, Rivalz and Milly, and also Nunnally, are Ds. For some reason, Rolo is instead a B, though! Summoning magic from this AU kind of parallels piloting skills, but also Geass, I think? And Rolo is both a skilled pilot and a Geass user in the original, so I'm assuming that's why he gets to belong to a higher rank.

Lelouch: I'm home, Nunnally, Rolo. You were both doing homework, huh?

Rolo: Yeah, Nunnally was teaching me the theory. I'm behind everyone else, so...

Nunnally: That's because of your chronic heart condition. It can't be helped.

Rolo: No. As a class B, if I could enter the Owner of Rounds through achieving excellent grades, that would make your lives easier. So I'll do my best.

Nunnally: I'm sorry, Rolo. Not only are my legs incapacitated, but I'm also a class D, therefore... Lelouch finds this society unfair, where one's rank/class determines the treatment they get, their opportunities in life, etc. He himself ends up becoming a rank S through training his magic for years, but he knows that his little siblings have physical handicaps that make it difficult for them to improve their ranks, no matter how hard they try. The rest of the event is quite long and I skimmed through it a little, not gonna lie, but mainly it focuses on a Knightmare Golem tournament at the school which Lelouch is actually using for his goals. The participants' strong attacks (Kallen and Suzaku, powered up by everyone's magic) will help him unseal "the witch without a name": this AU's C.C., who was sealed in the past because people feared her. Lelouch had already come into contact with her when he was a child, and he had been training his magic ever since in order for her to grant him the wish of "a world that isn't bound by power," for his siblings' sake. The story is almost over. A week after he unseals C.C. and makes his wish, we see that everyone is happier now. Kallen's mom is healed because her illness was magic-related, and the same goes for Nunnally and Rolo:

Rolo: Me and Nunnally too. It seems that a magical power dysfunction was one of the reasons for the strain on my heart and Nunnally's legs being incapacitated. Nunnally herself adds that she'll be able to walk again one day. However, when the student council friends ask them if they too haven't seen Lelouch since last week...

Rolo: You are right. We haven't been able to meet Brother after that.

Nunnally: We don't know where Brother is either... So Milly decides that they should go search for Lelouch together, and they all agree.

Milly: Of course! It'd be too cruel for him to leave behind his dear little sister and brother, no?

The ending then shows Fukkatsu!C.C. telling this story to some NPCs, so I guess she was the narrator all along. Which means C.C. was the one who decided to change Lelouch's motivation in life to be Nunnally and Rolo instead of just Nunnally? Thanks... ---

On another note, there's a survey going on right now for users to choose characters/costumes they want added into the game, and Pilot Suit Rolo is one of the options. There'll more than one winner, because the characters are divided into different groups, and Rolo's group is made up of merely 3 options: Pilot Suit Rolo, Pilot Suit Benio and R2 Kaguya. If Rolo won, Pilot Suit Rolo would be added not as an alternate skin, but as an actual unit with his own lines and everything. Now, considering the type of fanservice that the game focuses on, the poll could be just Rolo vs Unnamed Background Female Character and I'd expect the latter to get more votes. And Benio and Kaguya are actually characters with fans, so the chances of Rolo beating them are... I'm not going to say 0, but... Well, I personally won't mind it that much if he loses, because I'd rather he got a different alt and, so far, he's been the kind of character who only gets an alt a year at most. But if he won, I'd be happy that there's demand for him, of course!

[rolorules]

By Hakken.