well talked about I was gettin enthuasist till I’ve been like gettin paranoid with all these ‘images’.

What Do i want? well HIS SOUL WILL BURN IN HELL Because he’s A truly A HOMICIDAL MANIAC!! Destroying an Azadistan, Killing Trinity Bros And of course Neil, lockon’s brother AND he’s just a PUPPET OF RIBBONS ALMACK!!

Finally his Brother LYLE finally AVENGED his brother.

BURN IN HELL SACHEZ.
BURN IN HELL………

you don’t really understand how am i feeling about this all the time. It’s just couldn’t LET GO. especially someone who has a MENTAL ISSUES like ME who havin PARANOID & EMOTIONAL.

You do know in trying to be objective you write with a lot of presumptions? Why? Because firstly I never said I did not like Code Geass but in fact I said I liked it a hell of a lot, which is why I said its awfully weird if your average is my superior. Go here and scroll to my comment:

http://that.animeblogger.net/2008/09/28/code-geass-r2-episode-25-re-end/

As for the 3rd paragraph of your latest reply I’m not going to answer it. For someone who stresses POV so much you don’t seem to do a very good job.

And my questions were never about objectivity. If you mean to say you never stick to one opinion then it never really answers anything because from the outset I asked for YOUR ‘opinion’ so you really didn’t need to tell me you can see the virtue of every other possible POV. Plus I don’t really understand what ‘objectivity’ you’re talking about. Making an opinion about a show using a personalized view under 1 POV is subjective, making 5 opinions under 5 POV is subjective. If you mean you don’t hold tenaciously to one opinion that’s fine but that’s totally unrelated to anything I asked. Being able to provide an opinion on all POV’s doesn’t make you ‘objective’, it does makes you ‘dynamic’.

I am sure by now you know what has happened in the end. And, well I am sure you are the only one who can appreciate Sumeragi and her fake boobs that much. Although, I have always hated that thing where all the intelligent people die just due to looks. Also, Ravages of Time is one of the better adaptations of ROTK I have seen as well. I can not get enough reading those chapters which are translated at a pretty good speed.

Name me an anime better than Geass that covers just as much genres. Go ahead. I am honestly waiting for an INCREDIBLE series that will make me satisfied on an overall level. Manga’s are quite abundant, but anime? Few and far between. Let alone something that makes a large gap between itself and Geass.

I don’t know how I can really reply back without going into walls of text. I simply think it’s easier if you just bring out your favorite anime and I trash it objectively. At the most, you’ll mention one that either I am not familiar with, or one that just doesn’t suck and ranks up there with Geass.

I just think you watched Geass with completely wrong expectations and pov. You probably never asked yourself, what audience is this appealing to, what genre is this, how deep of a message does this show try to convey, how serious is each aspect of the show. Those are beginner questions, and I’m quite sure you’ve never considered them when watching ANYTHING.

I’m sure you know people who like to wait for a series to end before downloading it all and watching it in one go. That is an example of learning how to appreciate a show. I’m not saying you have to, nor am I saying that only those who watch it all in one go can appreciate every series. I’m saying it’s one of the ways to. It’s a different way to use the same medium. How many methods do you know to watching a show? Do you just do whatever you want, and watch it when you feel like it? Do you always watch each week’s episode followed by chatting with friends about it followed by posting on forums and boards and blogs on it? Would you rather lurk? Do you try reading the manga version if there is any and compare? There are so many ways to deal with something as basic and broad as fucking watching tv/shows that it would be stupid of me to try to “convince” you of anything unless I am magically able to guess what kind of person you are based on your posts.

Unfortunately, I’m not at the level of Tokuchi, Akagi, the 8 geniuses, etc etc. I’m simply someone who tries to rate a show based on as many povs as possible, such as my personal ideal like/dislikes, the attraction of it’s target demographic audience, it’s purpose in conveying messages, it’s own innate expectations based on the series and it’s associated parts, etc etc. Just like how I would look at something like 00, and I can give you multiple opinions of mine on the show:

-From my personal POV, it’s dumb and 3rd rate with some awesome moments
-From a Sunrise POV, eh, flunked with attracting female demographic, did okay in appealing to males
-From a Mecha junkie POV which lol has it’s own fucking branch
-Fanboy Mecha Junkie, Nice designs, good color palette, overall complete upgrade from SeeD, and Reborn Gundam woooo!
-Fanboy Mecha ACTION Junkie, It was kind of slow at times, and I didn’t get to see certain gundams fight as much as I wanted to, but PEW PEW lasers WOOOO
-Fanboy Mecha TECHNICAL Junkie(GAMEFAQS has these), Man do you know how stupid Quantum computers are? Stream-lined Super computers are way superior. And because the Arche only had 546.350* GN-particles left, specifically 45.93~ on it’s joints, Lyle’s pistol blew it away!
-Fanboy Mechaphile Junkie, WTF MAN GN PARTICLES? ALIENS? STOP RUINING MY MS IGLOO GUNDAM BRING BACK 08TH MS TEAM! (If only I had a quarter for every time 08th MS was mentioned)
-From a Character Developement POV1: Wow, Setsuna had gone through so much, I’m so glad he’s alive. Tieria just totally took the cake in S2 though. I mean, wow, it’s totally tear-jerking at the end how he made Yaoi with Regene.
-From a Character Development POV2: Wtf? How the hell did Anew and Lyle hook up after a time skip? Is Lyle retarded? How come Marina didn’t change ONE BIT?
-From a Battle Junkie POV: Oh noez, Prince Ali died but at least he gets highest kill count. Sad to see Dark Amuro not even killing ONE PERSON with his Hi-Nu rip off. Wtf was Bob at the end? Did he kill himself? Wait, wtf happened to Commander Katagiri?

I can keep going on, but I’m sure you get the damn point. I don’t choose one opinion and stick with it. I accept them all and choose to display certain ones whenever I please, and will also discuss things around whichever POV I choose to support. It’s called trying to be objective.

I’d much rather you did work for Sunrise though. Maybe then I can convince you to hire me. I may not know Japanese, or anything more than high school english, but I’m quite confident in my god damn common sense is way superior to whoever the hell produces this crap. It’s amazing how they have an academy for nerds to theorycraft whether or not mobile suits can be made in real life in the future, but they don’t take any of that and use it in their series. It would be like Blizzard making books about the Diablo universe then not even touching upon whatever is in them when D3 comes out.

Anyway, if you want to make a point about Sunrise, just come right out and say it. I don’t work for them. Honestly

I don’t try to convince anyone of anything on the internet, it’s a waste of time.

My average is your superior. That is all. If you can understand that, then you can understand that my sentiments toward Sunrise may not be true for you, because we have different values.

Would you prefer Saji and Setsuna? Its okay, you can say it.

Well at least we agree on this: Geass, in its entirety, is FABULOUS. I say this even though it seems a lot of viewers seem to say R2 was far inferior. I have explained in another post somewhere my views to this and I won’t re-post it here. But in short: I don’t think R2 is ‘inferior’ per se, but a fitting and enjoyable continuation of Code Geass with the exception that the ‘thought elevator’ premise was quite a big FAIL. Though I feel R1’s ending was overly surreal and contrived which conceivably affected R2’s plot.

However I do note you did not persuade me to not ‘expect’ good storylines for the very fact you did little actual persuading.

My expectations aren’t high, but at least I want a plot that is whole and developed wholly. What is ‘whole’? A story that gratifies. What is ‘developed wholly’? A story that is executed in a way that satisfies. What’s above ‘whole’? A story that is ’superior.’ Superior because it dwarfs storylines that are whole as they are better in some of the following respects: originality; surprise; themes; dialogue; story execution; characters + development; other technical aspects. Personally I haven’t watched a wealth of anime, but this is a scale which I’ve used for many other literary and visual works.

MSG 00 is, at least in my opinion without having watched it in entirety to absorb any neglected content or due credit, not even ‘whole’. Why? Simply because it doesn’t gratify in any real sense of the word, and I use this word in a literary sense because I can see on some levels it may have offered something of the duration as sexual gratification.

Expanded: the story could have been condensed into one A4 page called the “Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy”; there was poor execution; the only episode that mattered was when everyone got together for some target practice where what’s his face kills his father; the characters are not engaging – with little felt development if not annoying relationships. Despite the apparent technical prowess (visual + sound), the battle choreography is below that of MSG Seed despite the latter’s ostensible recycling of scenes. If MSG 00 was meant to be a serious reflection of social defects, it failed. It also features one of the most annoying characters I’ve seen in an anime which I have watched entirely – Marina – hell I dislike her more than Lacus Clyne from MSG Seed. At least L Clyne had powers to transcend ’space and reality’ and become another arguably less irksome character named “Euphemia” in Code Geass. I cannot understand how Crusader has managed to stay away from desecrating Marina’s presence, especially her absolutist anti-war stance with no obvious religious underpinnings or any other explanation consisting more than one sentence written by a 8 year old. Yes Marina, go f*ck some cows.

As for Ali, good riddens to bad rubbish. I appreciated Ali for his sheer ability to kick the shit out of everything, but his is the mind I don’t ever want to see the inside of…

I loved this ep because Dark Amura got double cock-blocked by a NEET and his trap twin brother. There should be some sort of special achievement for that. DOUBLE COCK-BLOCKED DARK AMURO would look really nice on the leader board.

RIP Price Ali, and the OverFlag is still the best looking, functional grunt suit in the Gundam Universe.

=]You say things that I wish I knew how to before I read your post. My friends don’t like it, but that’s probably because they don’t know ROTK or appreciate the confusing shit that happens. I mean I know I had to go over it twice due to the first chapter.

I guess if I had to name one thing you might not have, it’s that it takes pretty much every named character with even slight relevance and make them important for a chapter or two. Like Liu Yao’s chapters I really appreciated, because even as Arthur Goodman as he is as a character, he had way more shining dialogues that made you think “This guy deserves to be a lord”. It’s just that he got outsmarted by the 5th. The best changed characters imo are ZiLong, Fengxian, and Peach Garden master. I mean DW PINK GIRL is pretty crazy, but those 3 really completely prove their ROTK/DW counterparts different. Zilong is like turning Setsuna into like Char, while Peach Garden goes from Thorkell the Tall to Lucius Arthorius Cassus. Fengxian really makes me smile though, as all his flaws that made no sense logically are replaced with something you can understand. How can someone so gifted have so retarded flaws? It’s makes so much sense that he lacks what others are normally given or dealing with so much because they do not have the ability to belittle all rules.

That and real or not, overemphasized/dramatized or not, just the way they make the named characters so much more…skilled makes you immersed into belief that a man CAN lead millions just from either fame, or smarts, or fighting ability alone. They clearly show us just WHY these men stand on top of the china, and not like bullshit where Tytania dukes have less intelligence than fucking Jim Raynor from starcraft 1. More importantly is because the time frame is so ancient, it allows very basic ideals, teachings, and strategies to work along with the fact that technology hasn’t become a big part of china. You can never make a mecha series with a guy who can destroy a legion alone and people would say SURE. No, because technology closes the gap between mankind’s physical and mental ability, that’s the damn point. Even Red Eyes which I praise, is pretty much a Berserk version of Rambo or Contra or some shit in a awesome looking marine suit. It makes total sense that despite fighting a thousand, one skilled warrior can crush them due to their occupations as just rice farmers struck with fear and panic as they see a god of war rape the front lines.

Or maybe I’m just hooked on the historical action mangas now. First Vinland, then Ravages, then Historie. Damn. All 3 have awesome characters that let the mangaka re-write the explanations of WHY things are the way they are. Specially the latest Vinland.

@Incognito

I don’t want to go into details, because that would involve what I would think would be a good ending for Ali in terms of Sunrise standards. But then I’d look like a terrorist fan. I’ll just say that despite being disappointed, I came into this episode with zero standards, and my facial expression never changed once.

@Crusader

http://kotaku.com/5183011/japanese-people-are-less-interested-in-video-games

This is true. I’ve been to Japan recently. Japan’s care for fashion against video games would be like America’s care for terrorism and oil against helping African children learn to read after 9/11. I shit you not. It’s definitely not a bad thing, but anime/manga are pretty damn close to video games if you think about it, and it doesn’t do THAT much better. I saw more people looking at ghetto looking shoes that I can find where I live than the 11 stories of anime/manga/hentai(basement floor) building. I probably blame the LACK OF AC AND VENTILATION TOO. GOD DAMN AKIBA IS HOT.

But I mean, I only meant the merchandise/selling of series building. The maid cafe’s are damn lined up with sweaty men who looked at me way too much when I magically got a VIP treatment by total accident. But I’ll get back on track now.

@ghostlightning

I understood your first paragraph, or at least I thought I did. Then I read about Macross Frontier and I just completely doubted myself.

But if you feel you want some kind of middle ground or tone down for the Main Hero status, I recommend Red Eyes. Sure it’s uglier than MSG when it comes to drawing women, but it’s more GAR than frigging GAO GAI GAR when it comes to owning, and it’s more “real” robot than pretty much like…any of these bipedal robot series. After all, it’s frigging power rangers mech warriors. With rambo.

@Flash Sword Irene

Am I the only one who’s satisfied with Sumeragi’s looks enough that I don’t want her to have a bad ending? The “smartest” tactical strategy character in 00 considered by most people would be Kati right? Guess what? Ling Yao is smarter than Kati. Ling Yao lasted frigging 3-4 chapters, AND he’s fat and ugly like Arthur Goodman. The gal is just TNA, eyecandy. How can you expect more? Then again I felt that way with Wang until S2 hit, and that pretty much waved the death flag right there. If you get ugly, YOU DIE.

@SDS

I’m pretty jaded, so “good” story lines and plot to me are things that just read over real well. I’m not picky about what type of story it is, I just ask for shit not to make you go WTF THAT MADE NO SENSE. Not the Detective Conan OH SHIT GOTTA READ THE NEXT CHAPTER CAUSE I DUN GET WHO IS DA KILLER or One Outs and Akagi where I’m not pro enough to figure out the loophole to that episode. I mean stuff like PISTOLS BLOWING OFF ARMS DESPITE DOING ZERO DAMAGE LAST EPISODE.

And even then, I still let loose for exceptions as long as you make up for it. Geass is to me, one of the best damn animes of the decade, regardless of what anyone else says. Art quality over 50 or so episodes, animation, choreograph in fights, art DESIGN and STYLE, MUSIC, VOICE ACTORS, all are small and ignored things that most scrubs from Asuki and friends will never understand that MAKE OR BREAK whether or not a plot hole is acceptable or not. You will never look at Karen the same way as Louise regardless of HOW LESBO RAGING she gets (not that she really did) because the way CLAMP DRAWS HER pretty much makes her FAP material to some people with a lil bit of photoshop. I believe for Geass’s case, the term we all come to know and love is FABULOUS. That term is the accumulated sum of all the factors that lets you watch the show and say “WTF FLOATING DISNEYLAND” and go “Oh okay sure thing it’s a WMD” 5 seconds later. You think that POS would fly in 00? HELL NO. I don’t care if you strap the 25th anniversary of Tokyo Disney fireworks, it would still fail. You do that on Geass? Holy crap, the laughter in IRC ensues.

Summary: As long as Gundam doesn’t take their occasional route like with G-Gundam and SD Gundam, they will always be 3rd rate story makers that are carried by semi-cool characters which are then carried by the whole playground game we all love and know as gundam. Do you guys think MS Igloo would work anywhere NEAR as well if it was just WW2 or WW1 or some made up war? Uhhhhh NO?
It’s riding on the established fan base, just like how Mario DS games ride the name and would be absolutely IGNORED if it didn’t have the damn brand on it.

@uruMIE

If you posted that on GameFAQs, a bajillion gross kids would tell you something along the lines of Billy losing control due to Ribbons which in turn striped him of his command to the ghetto bugs. I don’t even remember what happens after the trial strawman popped up, but if they were still attacking after that, then the kids will blame it on malfunction and bs like that.

@Krono

I watched GS and GSD all at once for my first time, so I felt it was more like Geass than it was MSG. Therefore I…felt it was absolutely acceptable. It wasn’t gritty at all, the suits had more brightness than My Lil Pony and friends, and all the main girls were at least C class hentai material besides pre-surgery Meer. GS ended also damn shonen, because of Kira’s I WON’T KILL mode.