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 And in THIS OP, it is naitt tyyyme!

So, after about 4 days of waiting for Nipponsei to pump out FLOW’s Single so I don’t have to keep using that PV on youtube to listen to it, and having decided to take a lesson from God of War’s aptly named “Fuck You Button” so I can instead just look for it on Mininova, R2 19 comes out to put show the aftermath of the epic end of the big battle last episode.  What to expect?  Well, like I said last time, I expected revelations and such since the title of the episode did implicite some, oh I don’t know, BETRAYAL!?  Oh, and I wanted Lulu and Kallen to make out.  And Geno to die.  Of course, stuff and such (such stuff?) did happen in the episode, but I decided today to save those portions for last because I don’t want to delve into my sexual frustrations right away…oh, and I also haven’t screen capped anything related, so as I go into the review, please note that I’m at the same time rewatching the episode in BS Player and this is one of those “as you go” things.

 

 Well, I guess baseball or whatever sport they play on that left field is postponed for a while…

Oh, and I really have to give props to Suzaku, who, despite killing some total number of about 35 Million deaths (10 in Primary, and 25 in Secondary, according to Eclipse), which includes two confirmed secondary character deaths and at least the apparent deaths of a cripple and a ninja, he at least manages to just barely miss the school.  Or, should I congratulate Nina for calculating the blast radius?  Whatever, sports are still cancelled, and people are still dead.

Well, enough of that.  Let’s dig into the juicy parts shall we?

“Look for the crippled girl, dammit!”

 “lol noe u dun’t, you idort!”

 …What?  Not juicy enough?  You don’t find the fact that Lelouch is the same way we saw him as amusing?  Psh, fine…

“Bitch, ya said what!?”

To be honest, this felt really random too, seeing as how the Chinese weren’t at all being bitchy about how Zero didn’t lead them at all during the morning fight, and that they all nearly had their asses handed to them had they not at least have one unique Frame at their disposal, and instead the first thing Xing Ke wants to know is where Zero is at…

lol, but Nunnally wouldn’t be able to see the END button you fool!

  Who, at that time, finally stops beating around the bush, and comes clean about his feelings for Rolo, and this is one of the few times in anime where “confession” doesn’t exactly meet the lines of “I want to sex you up” as much as it does an angry child telling it’s parents “I hate you, and I wish you were dead,” which is exactly what he tells Rolo, as pulling the above stunt out of nowhere; we just NOW find out the pendant was for Nunnally?  Yeah, there was no indication before that it wasn’t  for Nunnally, but I feel like being picky.

“…and this is how you pay me back for all my kind unselfish loving deeds? Huh??”

 And thus, I’ll be even more picky about Rolo here being that emotionally broken that he doesn’t try and Geass Lelouch and slit his throat like he would’ve done to the main character of Lost Colors (aka Rai aka Me).  Instead, when Lelouch tells him to get his yaoi ass out of his room, he gets butt hurt and leaves.

 And flattery indeed gets you everywhere, even in a council with the enemy.

 And that’s not the end of the shit hitting the fan, because Schneizel of all people comes in his prissy little ship armed with another Freya bomb to get some negotiations done (rescuing Cornelia in the process), and demonstrating early on what his intentions are in this meeting by first gaining the respect of the Kuro no Kishi-dan’s Tamaki by praising him more than he deserves.  But of the course the real reason he’s here…

 

Yup, the real reason he’s here is to expose Lelouch’s identity, the fact that he has Geass in order to control people, and especially to convince the Kuro no Kishi-dan that he is a fake by (with the help of Kanon’s Britannian YakBak) revealing that he is the one who gave Euphie the command to “Kill all the Japanese,” thus creating the illusion that Lelouch purposely did so.  And of course, Toudou has enough evidence from Asahina’s words to convince him, as does Ougi who comes out of nowhere after having closet sex with Viletta, and deems Zero a traitor as well.  Schneizel even goes the “I might be Geassed too, so you might not want to trust me that much even though I just revealed a bunch of shit to you” route, and asks that Lelouch be apprehended.

 But, of course, Ougi wants to use him as a bargaining chip in order to get Japan back so he can at least think that they Kuro no Kishi-dan didn’t waste 43 episodes of their time just to hand over their leader.  And yes, I’m pretty sure anyone with a working brain cell can figure out that Schneizel’s going to pull an “LOL NOPE” once they get Zero.

 

“And you’re sure you didn’t sleep with her while I was gone?”

 So, after some sexual misunderstandings (which is a lot like my love life) with C.C.’s awesome words, and discovering that C.C. became mind fucked like Kamille in the last episode of Zeta Gundam (…well, not as worse but…not as worse…) Kallen takes Lelouch down into the elevator under orders to meet Ougi in the warehouse, while also trying to bring up the subject that Kallen had an older brother once; but suddenly the warehouse is filled with light and everyone and their mom is pointing a gun at Zero and accusing him of being a dick Prince.

You know, the only reason I remembered there was a blue-haired soldier named Inoue in the first season of Code Geass is because she was named after Inoue Kikuko, her seiyuu who also does Cecile’s voice here, as well as a shit load of other voices in other games and anime that I’ve practically fallen in love with the 40-something year old women and punch myself in the stomach everytime I watch a video in which she was a guest at Anime Expo once, thus destroying any chance I will ever have of meeting her.  As for the Yoshida character?  Don’t remember, everytime I try to think back to that, I just remember that I was also watching Shana at the time, and I doubt there were any other girls in the Kuro no Kishi-dan.

And of course, since Lelouch never tries to tell the truth (more on that in a moment), he goes along with the whole “tools” thing, even indicating to Kallen that she was the most elite chess piece of the entire Kuro no Kishi-dan.  At first, I wanted to punch Lelouch in the face until I realized that with this, Kallen would thus not end up with Lulu, destroying more of my shipping preference to LuluXKallen, and that Kallen would end up with that prick we all know as Geno.

“What!?  Can it be!?

“SUCCESS!” ^_^

Of course, now I at least a little bit of material here that I can use to hope for the two to end up together and have a sex scene that showcases more of Kallen’s nipples be happy in the new world. ^^;

Lelouch: Didn’t I say I wanted you dead?
Rolo: I try not to remember the bad times we had together.
Lelouch: We never had any good times together.
Rolo: That’s okay! I have a really bad memory!

 

To me, the biggest surprise would be Rolo busting Lelouch out with the Shinkirou and using his Geass repeatedley to get Lelouch to safety.  To be honest, I was so set on Rolo betraying Lelouch somewhere down the line and finally being killed by him that I hadn’t thought that Rolo would actually try to redeem himself, acknowledging that what Lelouch said about hating was a lie (as he always lies), and using his Geass as much as possible in order to take Lelouch to what I think is Kaminejima (I’m starting to hate that island…).

 

“Fighting was the only thing I was good at, but at I least I fought for what I believed in!”

 It probably would’ve been sadder for me and everyone else had Rolo not killed Shirley.  Even though he tries to act all Gray Fox with his “I’m not a tool!” speech, but Rolo’s been asking for death ever since Shirley died, and while I do have sympathy for him dying because I’m a self-righteous ninny, I’m not crying all over him like I did with Shirley.

 

 “lol I’m not either.”

Well, good.  Glad you’re on board.

 Yes, but the “I want you dead” part seemed pretty true to me.

This whole episode felt like a big epiphany and realization fest overall as well, since by this line, I can only assume that Lelouch realizes what he is and what he’s been doing.

 

 So much so that he acknowledges that he’s once again lost everything once again: Shirley, Nunnally, the Kuro no Kishi-dan, and even Rolo, yet still has things to do.  As many times as I think that he had RESOLVED in the past episodes (The fireworks, Tian Zi’s marriage, C.C. losing her memory), this seems to really be a RESOLVE that will put Lelouch in the positive light, to rethink what he see believes in, and finally be driven out of the gray area the series always puts it’s characters in and move towards the light.

“I loled!”

In contrast to Suzaku here who, after standing and staring inside the giant crater for a few hours, has finally snapped, and while probably go with the philosophy of “If I can’t be killed, I’ll kill everyone I can!” and enable me to make even more parallels with Metal Gear Solid characters and mechs.

 …Psh, I’ll be happy if they take you away.

Nina might see redemption as well, seeing as how she’s freaking out over the amount of damage caused by Freya.  Personally, I’m still going with the theory that Schneizel will toy with her until he eventually disposes of her, but maybe she’ll go out in a cool way where she points a gun at Schneizel and actually follow what Euphemia wanted…then die. ^^;

And more vague planning by Charles…not diving into this shit again.

 …And they just laugh it off?  No sex?

 And seriously, much like the Chiba and Toudou stuff, why do they bother hinting at a romantic sub-plot between these two, and then smacking us in the face when we think they’re on the brink of getting somewhere?  It’s like washing your hands in the bathroom at a restaurant, then getting a slap in the face from your parents girlfriend because you had to take a piss in the first place.

PREVIEW SHOTS:

Lelouch makes Kaguya a saaaaaaaaad panda.  ;_;

While Ougi tells Orange-kun to find Zero, Orange-kun proceeds to take an example from me as well involving buttons, and hangs up on him.

 

 “Death by spears!? Just like in Eva!

 

Will Cecile play Palpatine to Snappedzaku’s Anakin!?