The Lulu Who Leapt Through Time (Alternatively, FABULOUS!)

First of all, happy belated Canada Day to all the Canadians out there, whose festivities are partially responsible for the lateness of this post.

Another contributing factor was the fact that, put bluntly, it sucked. Code Geass fillers aren’t exactly the shining example of story writing the world’s ever seen, but they come off as a lighthearted, mildly entertaining break to the action nonetheless. However, this episode’s asshat competition was just stupid, as was Sayoko’s overbooking of Lulu’s schedule with dates with countless Ashford ladies.

Thankfully, the episode was redeemed with some major “OSHI-” mindfuck moments, as is usually the case with these fillers. However, given how bad the filler part was along with the fact that this post is quite late, rather than do my usual summary & thoughts, let’s try something else…

Do want.

FUCK YEAH ORANGE-KUN!

Jeremiah, Orange-kun, Gottwald returns to the stage with a figurative bang. Seems like all his talk about coming back more powerful than Zero or C.C. wasn’t for naught, as he returns with quite a unique power, the “Geass Canceler”, which does exactly what the name suggests, canceling the effects of any previously cast geass.

The repercussions of such a powerful tool are immense. The backlash of having every single instance in which Lulu used the geass on someone reversed would be crushing. I’m not about to go back, track down all the times Lulu’s used his geass and analyze the effect of its reversal, but seeing Shirley hit with one such reversal should give you an idea of how much Jeremiah’s new power changes this little game.

Not only will Lulu be in trouble, the Emperor’s memory rewrite geass will be affected as well, and who knows how many people are under its influence, all of Ashford Academy at the very least.

It will be interesting to see how Orange-kun uses his newly acquired toy, whether he turns it into a tool for exacting revenge on Zero, who essentially ruined his reputation and life as a Britannian noble, or whether his aspirations are even more far reaching than that.

One thing I hope to see come out of this is for instances in which Lulu or the Emperor geassed someone, but it was never made known that they had been geassed. While this reeks of retcon, which I usually abhor, the possibilities of “WHAT A TWEEST!” moments are too tantalizing to get caught up in the details of.

FUCK YEAH CORNELIA!

And so the theorizing over the fate of Princess Cornelia comes to an end, alive and well, she seems to have gathered quite a bit of information over the past year and change, not only managing to find Bartley hiding out in Jeremiah’s cave, but barging in with what seems to be an extensive knowledge about the geass.

I can’t wait to see the explanation of where she’s been, what she’s been up to and her new agenda. Not to mention Guilford’s inevitable creaming in his pants upon seeing his highness alive and well.

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Sort of want.

D’AWWWW, shota Lulu

More development for the AnyaXLulu relationship, not in the romantic sense of course, although that would be incredibly hot. As the only logical conclusion suggested, Anya seems to know Lulu from childhood, having a picture of him in shota form. With all of Lulu’s lies piling up, it’s sometimes easy to forget the most basic of ones, like the small detail that no one in Ashford knows that Lulu is an ex-Britannian-prince, I know I did, which is why I was so surprised Lulu managed to dodge this bullet. I love Anya’s character (most of the time) and am glad to see that she’s much more than background scenery along the walkway that is Code Geass’s plot, can’t wait to see more of her.

Oh god kill it with fire

Despite the insanely annoying background character pictured above, this scene was well played, showing that it’s Schneizel who wears the pants in this family, second only to the head of household, Emperor Charles, himself. Quelling the talks of a war with the Chinese Federation, Schneizel suggests gathering a small platoon and basically strolling around China telling people to join them…or else, and hoping they don’t call his bluff. It’s a brilliant strategy when you consider the state of unrest in the Chinese Federation, which makes it highly probable that there will be those who are quick to side with the Britannians.

Can’t say I liked the Emperor in this scene though, who is quick to pass off his warmongering and haughtily state that “Only fools wage war” when he was a step away from doing so.

Isn’t that the outfit that C.C. lounges around in?

Having been captured by the Britannians, Kallen’s spunk has taken a serious decline as she greets her latest prison visitor with an apathetic rant about how she doesn’t care what they do to her, whether it be questioning, torture, or even execution. Curious that it would be Nunnally who was sent (or perhaps came of her own accord) to see Kallen. While their time together was relatively short, the two did spend time together at Ashford, apparently enough so to establish a bond strong enough to warrant a visit. The conversation between these two shall be an interesting one.

Wasn’t too sure what to make of this one. I don’t really care much for Milly, she’s a character whom I neither hate nor particularly like, but is always there, often the driving force behind the god awful filler episodes…hmm, maybe I do hate her. Anyways, I digress, Milly’s sudden graduation and career change, one which killed her shot at nobility was a jarring one, mostly because I, as probably many other people, thought she was nothing more than a comic relief character. The whole issue of her “all talk, no action” attitude, which Nina looked down upon, wasn’t such a big deal that they needed to do this for her character, but it didn’t waste too much time and was a fitting, albeit sort of cliche, move.

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FUCKING STUPID.

Asshats. What the hell were they thinking?!

This was beyond the realm of stupid, beyond cat chase stupid, and I’m sure you all know how much I hate the cat chases. Not even the ShirleyXLulu development was worth this crap, well not to me at least, but then again, I don’t really care about Shirley.

…dame?

This was so stupidly out of character for Anya. Given, she’s a noble and that’s going to lead to some culture shock when she attends a normal school, but Anya has never been shown to be an illogical person without common sense, so I don’t know where this came from. Anya is a deadpan loli, not an idiot, no matter how naive she’s supposed to be, I’m pretty sure that launching in Mordred for a game of tag wouldn’t have been a good idea, to even the thickest of characters. What’s worse is how she reacted to the whole ordeal, with a simple, overly cute “…dame?”. She’s a fucking Knight of Rounds, the best of the best knightmare pilots, whose duties I’m pretty sure include rational decision making. It’s one thing to whore out moe appeal, Sunrise, but damnit, there’s a time, place and character for doing so, and that was not it.

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Anyways, next episode is titled “Assassin from the Past”, to whom which I can only assume they’re referring to Jeremiah. Lulu’s monologue has him worried about diplomatic issues as well as how to deal with Shirley, who is shown walking around with Lulu like everything is right as rain, which we can only assume to mean that she chooses to sit on the whole Lulu being Zero and responsible for the death of her father issue for the time being.

Complementary Miyu screencap, because her voice is teh sex

~ Shirukii ~