Overdrive!

Today, I finished Code Geass R2. That's right, you heard correctly. I finished watching Code Geass R2. I took 1 day to complete what some of you took more than half a year to finish!

Hahahahahaha!!! Hahahahaha!!!! Hahahahaha!!!!

Well, that's settled. Funny though. My eyes aren't hurting. The last time I did this, my eyelids felt very heavy. This probably means that I've achieved a whole new level of otaku power. Wahahaha!!!

Anyway, I'll write the review on both Code Geass R1 and R2 soon. But I will give some comments now.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!






As I have said before, Lelouch is very similar to Light Yagami. In fact, half of R1 was practically a restyled Death Note. Everything up to the final showdown with Mao had so many things similar to the events in Death Note. In fact, I got really bored watching it. After all, Death Note put forth much more complex strategies that could be explained so easily. Code Geass lacked that.

However, I was impressed by R2. Unlike a lot of other anime, this one did not include showdowns of "special power" users. Meaning, there was very little Geass vs Geass.

Finally, I never thought that there was such a way to change the world into a much more peaceful place, or rather, I never thought anyone could do it. Light and Lelouch had the same idea. They wanted to create a new, peaceful world. Both of them used wicked means, but each of them chose a different ending. Lelouch's plan was brilliant, not as perfect as Light's, but a lot less risky. Light's plan failed because he was the only one who could carry out the plan. Lelouch's plan succeeded because he entrusted his plan to someone else. For that, I salute you, Lelouch.

BUT, I still prefer Light's plan. It's more effective as long as a successor continues to exist. But I guess I'd be considered a genocidal psychopath, huh?










SPOILER END!!

Now then, because I'm typing this from a computer without Japanese word capabilities, I can't place a Japanese title. Too bad.