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mariprosa

  • US, North Carolina
  • Joined Nov 15, 2007
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VivisQueen Oct 5, 2008

Whoop! I just read and responded to your detailed observations in the forum. Very astute. And I agree with the vast majority. Still had a couple of points... but my post turned out REALLY long as well. ^^;

VivisQueen Oct 5, 2008

***SPOILERS***

I take your points in. Weirdly, I don't see S1 has having too many problems. In fact, apart from poor character development, I found it almost flawless (if that makes sense). What S1 offers in itself is fantastic high-octane plotting, and only this morning I was reminiscing about some of the cool moments that turned me into the CG fangirl I was. Lol. I think with R2 the expectation is that the loose ends left from S1 get tied up and that, although character development won't be superb, the characters will have a purpose like in S1. So when they die, they stay dead and don't just all come back to life for no reason whatsoever except to hang around and not be dead.

There are times when I think 'Hmmm, a 5.5?' But then when I look at other anime I gave this rating to, and actually read the content again, I find the average rating is justified. Code Geass R2 on balance comes out average. Not ridiculously poor that I would hate it forever, and certainly not fantastic. But average enough that it's a big fat disappointment compared to what it could have been. If I were to review both series as a single entity, I'd say Code Geass comes out at 7.5 - 8, which is 'Great'. The combination of awesome first series and an emotional ending would trump most of the flaws. or seen in another way, out of 50 episodes, only about 10 would actually be dire. However, viewed separately, they have vastly different levels of quality in my opinion.

Anyway, what I am interested in are the detailed observations that you made as well. I don't think you ever posted them. I want to know what you thought were good and bad points. One day I too will rewatch both in a sequence once I've forgotten most of it. And I'll see if my reviews will need amending.

Nervebreaker Oct 2, 2008

I saw CG 1 and watched CG2 last episode.....im like that when i like the anime so much i go to the ending first! Tell me Do u think there will be a Code Geasse S3?

God this reminds me of Death note and School days.....

VivisQueen Oct 1, 2008

Oooh, nice on the Batman review! Weirdly I wasn't that bothered about watching it but now I might check it out. :)

Nervebreaker Sep 23, 2008

LOL i saw ur comment on Hikaru's page! And lol yeah he's a monster when it comes to anime watching!

P.S. i saw some of your reviews pretty helpful ty ty