[TV] The What Anime Are You Watching Thread!
GasBandit
Staff member
Krillin: "So... Vegeta's living here [at Bulma's house] now? Neat..."
Yamcha: "The man single-handedly responsible for murdering most of the entire gang is taking a shower in the next room. 'Neat' is not the first word that comes to mind."
..
Vegeta: "EARTH WOMAN! Where's the cleansing powder?!"
Bulma: "We don't have that here. We have soap."
Vegeta: "... the hell is 'Soap?'"
Bulma: "It's that yellow block there made of animal fat."
Vegeta: "That sounds AWESOME!" (chomp)
Vegeta: "..."
Vegeta: "BAAH! This tastes nothing like what you just said!"
Yamcha: "Ok, I changed my mind, this IS pretty neat."
GasBandit
Staff member
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Resurrection (Spoilers for Code Geass S1 and S2 below)
Genre: Sci-fi, action, drama
Fanservice: the usual PG-13 busty, scantily clad gratuities and skin-tight mecha pilot suits.
Premise:
But unfortunately, there's too much going on and too much to cover in 2 hours, and the breakneck pace of the movie just can't do everything Justice. If you're a big time Code Geass fan (like me), you'll probably want to watch it anyway and you'll find moments of enjoyment in it, but all in all I'm really left feeling teased with what could have been an excellent story if it had been told in ~24 20 minute episodes instead of 1 2-hour movie.
Verdict: 2.5/5.
Also what the hell has happened to Jonny Yong Bosh's voice? I had to double check and make sure that was still him voicing Lelouch. It is, but it sounds more like somebody else trying to do a JYB impression.
Genre: Sci-fi, action, drama
Fanservice: the usual PG-13 busty, scantily clad gratuities and skin-tight mecha pilot suits.
Premise:
A 2 hour extended coda to Code Geass. A year after the fall of the despised Emperor Lelouch brought about world peace, a nation whose entire livelihood depends on global conflict kidnaps Nunnally and "Zero." This sets off a chain of events which threatens to bring the world back to war.
Meanwhile, CC traipses across the globe, dragging the near-mindless shell of Lelouch in tow. Apparently, the interaction of his "Code" with that of Emperor Charles and Empress Marianne caused Lelouch to become nearly de facto immortal, much like CC - and much like had happened to CC previously, Lelouch's mind has been sealed away in the remnants of the extradimensional plane known as "C's world." The problem is, all the previously known gates into C's World had been destroyed by Lelouch during his reign. The last hope is to find the temple of a splinter faction that split off from the Geass Order cult centuries ago - and bring about the resurrection of the world's most cunning and nefarious villain so that all the sacrifices of Zero's Requiem will not be undone a mere year later.
Ok, it actually sounds a lot cooler than it turned out to be. This premise could have been a great third season. But for a 120 minute movie, all it did was make things super rushed. I can't help but feel a bit let down after watching it. And as I said before, this movie is in the continuity of the other abridged Code Geass summary movies, and that means a lot of things have been retconned. Mao was never a thing, Shirley was not killed by Rolo, and Nina never sexually abused a piece of academy clubhouse furniture. I was rather disappointed by that second fact, as the death of Shirley was a pivotal point in Lelouch contriving and deciding to execute his "Zero Requiem," and it feels like this retcon robs many characters of development and cheapens the gravitas of events in the series as a whole. However, Shirley doesn't play much of a part in this movie at all, so that helps it from feeling too "disconnected" with accepted canon.
Meanwhile, CC traipses across the globe, dragging the near-mindless shell of Lelouch in tow. Apparently, the interaction of his "Code" with that of Emperor Charles and Empress Marianne caused Lelouch to become nearly de facto immortal, much like CC - and much like had happened to CC previously, Lelouch's mind has been sealed away in the remnants of the extradimensional plane known as "C's world." The problem is, all the previously known gates into C's World had been destroyed by Lelouch during his reign. The last hope is to find the temple of a splinter faction that split off from the Geass Order cult centuries ago - and bring about the resurrection of the world's most cunning and nefarious villain so that all the sacrifices of Zero's Requiem will not be undone a mere year later.
Ok, it actually sounds a lot cooler than it turned out to be. This premise could have been a great third season. But for a 120 minute movie, all it did was make things super rushed. I can't help but feel a bit let down after watching it. And as I said before, this movie is in the continuity of the other abridged Code Geass summary movies, and that means a lot of things have been retconned. Mao was never a thing, Shirley was not killed by Rolo, and Nina never sexually abused a piece of academy clubhouse furniture. I was rather disappointed by that second fact, as the death of Shirley was a pivotal point in Lelouch contriving and deciding to execute his "Zero Requiem," and it feels like this retcon robs many characters of development and cheapens the gravitas of events in the series as a whole. However, Shirley doesn't play much of a part in this movie at all, so that helps it from feeling too "disconnected" with accepted canon.
But unfortunately, there's too much going on and too much to cover in 2 hours, and the breakneck pace of the movie just can't do everything Justice. If you're a big time Code Geass fan (like me), you'll probably want to watch it anyway and you'll find moments of enjoyment in it, but all in all I'm really left feeling teased with what could have been an excellent story if it had been told in ~24 20 minute episodes instead of 1 2-hour movie.
Verdict: 2.5/5.
Also what the hell has happened to Jonny Yong Bosh's voice? I had to double check and make sure that was still him voicing Lelouch. It is, but it sounds more like somebody else trying to do a JYB impression.
GasBandit
Staff member
Cells at Work > Osmosis Jones > Cells at Work: Code Black
Hasn't had an updated translation on Mangadex in 2 years.
Don't watch stuff as it comes out so no hurt for me. But thanks for the kind thoughts
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