Thank you
GlenStef

FAAAAAAAAAAABUUUUUULOOOOOOOUSSSSSSSSSS!

If Geass is a tale of theatricality and FABULOUSness … well … it is.

/me touches Daniel

Ryan:

Maybe you should clear your cache, or something? I did that. Maybe it will help you, too.

Yes, I totally love lavender. It’s FAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLOOOOOOOUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSS!!!

That’s what rocks in Nogizaka Haruka.

Camario:

I have no qualms whatsoever with liking anime worse than Code Geass. I like Gun-doh Musashi, and I also like Zaizen Jotaro. Oh god, /me facepalms.

I was just turned off from the ‘tactics (lulz)’ and the ‘chess games’ in the series. They really disappointed me, because a lot of people expected an intelligent show what with the espionage and all.

I admire you. I mean, while I can speak about my love for Geass, I can’t speak about it as positively as you.

Oh, the C&P comparison was because Lelouch reminded me of Raskolnikov. Whether that will be true by the end of the series, we shall see. But the intelligent, anguished, and ‘virtuous’ nature of Lelouch can most definitely be seen in Raskolnikov. Plus, they are very idealistic people. I hope I called it right.

I think Code Geass is definitely full of theatrics and being over-the-top, first and foremost, but there’s also enough rebellion and pseudo-tactics for those mildly to moderately interested in those. Sometimes the combination works, sometimes it doesn’t.

Me? I try to take a little bit from both columns and I’m usually happy enough, more often than not, though admittedly less so in R2 compared to the first season.

But trying to compare Code Geass with Crime and Punishment seems futile. I don’t think the series is trying to be some sort of literary masterpiece, even if it may share some themes or superficial similarities with those…but at heart it’s meant to be fun, not profound. If that’s enough to make it pretentious, so be it, but all in all, I think it’s entertaining with a few laughs and interesting toppings every so often, which is just fine for me. Nothing more.

Pretty theme, it makes it more enjoyable, also isn’t the fab purplish color one you like? Lavender was it? yaay

Second, Hatsukoi is totally on my “to read within the month” list, I took note when you mentioned it before. Also, Nogizaka is yummy, though I’m only 4 episodes in and will catch up by this evening. I, too, very much like Haruka’s newfound self-assertion; she’s becoming strong…

Cheers Michael!

Anyway, nice theme and I still love you too.

/me touches Michael

No, I haven’t started on Kaiba yet.

I will watch it soon. I’ve often trusted your sagacious judgments, so I’ll watch it maybe after I download Legendary Gambler Tetsuya. :3

while the series purports itself to be the next Crime and Punishment (and I actually think that part of the series’s basis was from that novel), it is actually just another Cat in the Hat.

Sounds like Kaiba.

I’m assuming you haven’t started Kaiba yet because you haven’t yet bashed it for being the embodiment of pretentious crap.

It’s actually an assumption of mine: I think that anything aspires to be intelligent when there is a sufficient suggestion of tactics, rebellion, and chess. Definitely the chess. It’s simply something that would not appear in any anime that does not aspire to appeal to intelligence. Of course, I may be mistaken, but if I never had any aspirations with regard to being taken as intelligent, I’m going to remove those elements in my anime series. It’s either people would see those elements subtly, or not at all.

Actually, I would have liked Joseph Heller to have given up. Catch-22 would never ever be forgotten, and it seems that it was the culmination of all his inventiveness, imagination, and innovation. But since I could purchase his final novel for a steal, I did, and I read it. It wasn’t as good, but hey – he also recognized his limitations. He knew he couldn’t do it, but he wanted to try anyway.

The thing is, Geass could have done it. What is occurring right now is not the limitations of the series. It could have been told more tautly and more carefully, as is deserved by tales of espionage and rebellion (and tactics … AND CHESS!), but it wasn’t. They could have done without the chess and the ‘tactics,’ but as they simply had to deal with those at least they should have accompanied the ostentation with substance.

It’s fun disagreeing with you – at least we have something to ‘fight’ about. GODDAMN TIME ZONES, I WISH I COULD TALK TO YOU ON IM.

I still love you, Daniel! <3

I’ll be posting this until you like it.

At this rate I’m going to wind up reading it, given how I liked Lilim Kiss.