#K.R. liveblogs CG

[krshush]

NOT ME Having fucking C*de Ge*ss feelings listening to In Our Bedroom After the War!!! Nope! Absolutely not--!!!

[krshush]

I always describe CG as like... When I use the term "this [other media] is up my alley!" Code Geass MADE a number of the bricks in that metaphorical alley. I don't know how else to explain it in all its formatting of much of my brain. I can also point out to you a lot that's WRONG in it, I know, I don't need it to be perfect, I just can't deny things it left in my mind.

The way Lelouch is the protagonist in a story that, with just a shift of the perspective, could make him the antagonist. That he isn't wrong in his goals, his hatred for the Empire is justified as is every rebellion against its colonization, but his end Has to justify all his horrible means in that rebellion. The complications of identities, how many faces Lelouch himself shifts through and that almost no one sees every single one, because very few would understand them all. The way Lelouch may be villainous for a good goal, but it's almost as satisfying to see when he fails at something because otherwise he's such a smug bastard.

Lelouch's relationship with Suzaku. The amount of LAYERS there I can't even fully unpack without becoming the fonking jonker. It's about the "We were unlikely friends as kids, we were--we are fucked up by generations of war our families continue, and I'm going to stop it. I swore this vengeance to you: not only for you, but to you specifically that day. We still have secret signals to meet. You don't know I saved you. I thought you were dead. I want you dead except I don't know it's you under that mask. We will be each other's undoing." It truly has me going batty, LIKE

girl help with a lot of #Classic Anime rising back up, I am thinking about Code Geass.

[krshush]

hey why is this Crunchy exclusive Code Geass shirt like this

who... Who Decided This. who decided C.C. should make. a V. with her hand--

[krshush]

unfortunately, I went to Twitter a bit ago and saw someone mention a CG popup store that has. these.

please god look at them. they’re so cute I’m wanna SQUISHHHH THEMMM

[krshush]

C,,,Code,,, Geass,,

[krshush]

SHAKES IT MORE VIOLENTLY LIKE AN OVERUSED STIM JAR AS SUZAKU AND LELOUCH TEAM UP FOR [REDACTED]

Well, back to it

[Puts my brain in the CG Brine Jar and SHAKES IT VIOLENTLY]

[krshush]

"I'm afraid you're not the type of person who can keep your mind empty. There's a part of you that's a critic, constantly watching your own moves, and there's another part that's an observer, watching the critic watching you."

[krshush]

The Mao mini-arc of CG is here to wig me out

[krshush]

Episode 2 does just drive me INSANE the way they IMMEDIATELY establish that Lelouch cares SO much abt Suzaku and the thought he died after even so many years ago AND YET Suzaku lives on to pilot the Lancelot, the BIGGEST and MOST CONTINOUS threat of a mech to Lelouch's plans on any battlefield, AND it is only so effective BECAUSE Suzaku is piloting it. Neither Suzaku nor Lelouch know who is in the other mech, behind the armor or the mask.

The amount of double agenting and masks that is so immediately established is Deliciousn is the thing.

[krshush]

The psychic damage I just dealt myself upon realizing At Least I Have Nothing by Saint Motel is a late-series Suzaku song.

[krshush]

Finally back on that OVA Bullshit for at least one (1) more ep and WHY is [redacted]'s geass so much more fascinating and complicated WHAT is his fucking DEAL

[krshush]

Me @ me: I cannot fucking believe you--

I… I have been. thinking abt Code FUCKING Geass again since like 8:30 PM. It is now 1:43 AM and I’ve almost convinced myself to rewatch.

What is 2020 doing to me.

[krshush]

I cannot shower in peace without CG brainworms

anyways ever realize if CG had focused on Suzaku it’d read like a more standard shonen anime w/Lelouch as the Best Friend with Homosexual Tension, the Surprise Twist Betrayal and Gay-Coded Villain?

Yeah. Huh.

[krshush]

I made the mistake of thinking abt CG while in the shower, so who wants a Discord ramble I made to a friend about Suzaku and Lelouch while I’m On This Bullshit Still (ft. me trying to Avoid Saying Direct Spoilers for friend’s sake dkjhf)

god the way that Suzaku and Lelouch are at like, different fucking wavelengths on how to undo the empire's terribleness is so good to me.

Lelouch, in all his overthinking and knowledge and rage, goes for revolution. Straight up. Dons a mask and calls it Zero, Zero who becomes a leader to the revolution that's been trying to start in Area 11 (Japan, except stripped of its... almost everything really, since the Britannian Empire won out) ostensibly to kill his father the Emperor and make the world a better place for his little (blind, wheelchair-bound) sister to live in. But Lelouch is a VERY Ends Justify the Means guy. He's not particularly nice. He is not particularly compassionate. He knows war is going to stain him the fuck up with blood. He knows it. But it all has to be worth it in the end. He knows it.

Suzaku has seen the effect of Ends Justify the Means though, firsthand. Suzaku's father died and Japan fell with him, but Britannia winning stopped the bloodshed of the war. But Suzaku still feels hollowed out, after What Actually Happened to his father. There's still pain and grief and regret that looms over Suzaku to the point of flinging himself into danger, for selflessness, for death. And he hates watching Zero start bloodshed back up again, especially when Suzaku opted to change the system from the inside out: he's gotten to become an Honorary Britannian, became a soldier, became a soldier good enough to pilot a Knightmare Frame. and he genuinely believes you have to uphold honor in your means to justify the ends, naive as that is even when he believes it from experience...

...Except when he doesn't, anymore. A Lot of things happen to Suzaku in just the first season, and his morals break. He's still going to change the system from the inside, but everything about maintaining Good Means goes out the window after being frustrated and betrayed and stricken with grief even more over the course of the season. And a lot of those bad things happen because of Zero, because his childhood best friend under a mask decided Ends Justify Means, and he doesn't even know that’s who it is.

For a portion of season one, Lelouch doesn't even realize Suzaku's the pilot of the Lancelot that's been giving him so much fucking trouble on he battlefield too!! They pass like fucking ships in the night except the ships have guns and swords and mechs fighting each other!!!! There comes a phone conversation late into the first season that is so tangibly tense with Suzaku unsure that Lelouch is Zero, but Lelouch encouraging Suzaku to come out and fight and kill Zero that it just!! it JUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK

to say NOTHING of the fact Lelouch has his own fucking emotional ups and downs as his plans and mistakes end up failing closer to home time and again and it fucks him up!!! But he's past the point of no return!!!! He's GOTTA keep going!! He’s GOTTA make all this WORTH IT!!!!!

they both go on such JOURNEYS as characters through the whole SERIES and that alone makes me just lose my mind, there's a LOT, I'm fucking EXCITED about this DUMB SHOW

[krshush]

"Since the dawn of time, the young have rushed to their own deaths. Every hero is just another dead man walking."

Okay, damn,

[krshush]

Currently realizing I am not immune to technological advancements in animation bc there is just something VERY satisfying about seeing CG with different animations esp in the mech fights

Y'all know how I said maybe I'll be done w/Code Geass once I finished watching R2? That was a lie I remembered I still have a subscription to Funimation where the Akito the Exiled OVA is, so I'm gonna be watching that

I haven't heard great things abt it, but I have heard Julius is a spectacle of an antagonist, so I gotta at least try