Yamamaya (post: 1353319) wrote:CC is still the best anime girl, no exceptions.
Yamamaya (post: 1353333) wrote:Preferences my friend, preferences.
Yamamaya (post: 1353319) wrote:CC is still the best anime girl, no exceptions.
Yamamaya (post: 1353333) wrote:preferences.
Man, Yamamaya, you are hilarious tonight.Yamamaya (post: 1353319) wrote:no exceptions.
But I does it really matter what kind of show it was, if you enjoy watching it?In an attempt to actually talk about the show, I found it entertaining, but disappointing. One of the more noticeable flaws was that it couldn't decide what kind of show it wanted to be, a problem which became a lot more evident after the season break.
I didn't mind. There was some charecter development and comic relif (read: cupid day) you couldn't really get from a more action packed episode.Not too long after, we have terrible high school shenanigans.
Yes, but I thought making the big reveals so random made them more unpredictable and thus shocking.Further along, the show just suddenly breaks and moves at breakneck speed while piling on insane development after insane development. Note that this was not the same as, say, Gurren Lagann's AWESOME moments or some amazing reveal. This was just pulling stuff out of a hat at random.
Again, it didn't feel like a Mecha show, but was it supposed to? If I enloy an anime as much as I did CG, I couldn't care less what genre it fits under. And the whole fast typing thing looked cool, IMO.And in the end, while it contained mecha, it didn't particularly feel like a mecha show. This is probably because Lelouch isn't the ace pilot and so the show doesn't revolve around a particular mecha, like the Nirvash or the RX-78-2. After all, after the first Lancelot or Guren, did you bother to remember their upgraded versions, or whatever that thing that Lelouch magically flew with fast typing was? I didn't.
S.M.O.G. (post: 1353392) wrote:But I does it really matter what kind of show it was, if you enjoy watching it?
S.M.O.G. (post: 1353392) wrote:Yes, but I thought making the big reveals so random made them more unpredictable and thus shocking.
blkmage wrote:And in the end, while it contained mecha, it didn't particularly feel like a mecha show. This is probably because Lelouch isn't the ace pilot and so the show doesn't revolve around a particular mecha, like the Nirvash or the RX-78-2.
In this case, my problem isn't that it's not a single solitary genre. It's mostly because other problems stem from this one. If the show could decide what it wanted to be, the writing could have been more focused and it would have been better at the one thing it wanted to do rather than spend time flailing around in inconsequential stuff.
LadyRushia (post: 1353403) wrote:I'm curious about this, but I'd rather see it for myself. I didn't get this impression from the first season, and I've only seen the first two episodes of the second season, so I don't have the whole context of the show to work with. When I think about it, I can see a little bit of what you mean here, but when it comes to the first season I think it works well.
Yet, it was still an enjoyable anime with an antihero akin to Kira of Death Note, except that Lelouch was a bit more sane than Kira.
goldenspines (post: 1353317) wrote:Code Geass was okay.
Firstly, I congratulate you on finishing a whole anime series. You have no idea how hard that is to do sometimes. Secondly, before you announce the first anime you finish as the "best anime", you need more stuff to compare it with. Stuff like Baccano!, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Ouran High School Host Club, Fullmetal Panic and many more.
That said, if you want to discuss Code Geass, I can change the thread's title for you. In fact, I would reccomend it. ^_^
Fish and Chips wrote:There are other things I could rampantly complain about, particularly the female cast.
It's not the comic relief that bugs me, necessarily, it's the mood whiplash. Obviously if the show was nothing but softly distilled DOOM AND GLOOM with noodley appendages, it wouldn't be any fun to watch either. It's just that there's a good chemistry for these kind of scenes and failed attempts, and the juxtaposition of them in Code Geass was jarring to say the least. Jumping from whatever weekly atrocities the god emperor of Britannia has on his schedule to inflict because he feels like it to a preppy high school festival just doesn't sit well with me.LadyRushia (post: 1353488) wrote:I found those segments amusing and welcome as comic relief. High school moments in the midst of much more serious events have never bothered me in anime.
If anything, it might be the oversexualization. Let's start with Kallen. Code Geass obviously wants to present her as a strong-willed female pilot in a difficult situation, half-Japanese, half-Britiannian, posing as sickly to allay suspicion, fighting the injustice of a cruel system, and getting interrupted in the bath a lot.LadyRushia (post: 1353488) wrote:What are your problems with them? Personally, I don't like Mina or Nina or whatever her name is. Her little scene in whatever episode that was when Nunally walked in on her creeped me out. The other thing I don't like is how much fanservice happens to Kallen and C.C., and probably a few others. As far as characters go (both male and female), I didn't feel that any of them were underdeveloped, even the minor ones.
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