If there was one fault I could attribute to the first season now that it’s all over, it would have to be the cliffhangers, assuming that while some cliffhangers are indeed faults, not all faults are cliffhangers. One day on IRC amidst the usual verbal diarrhoea TJ of Riuva fame wondered aloud if Code Geass was the pinnacle of mecha anime, and although his statement was buried in a deluge of anal statements shortly after it got me thinking.

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To begin with, it’s short-sighted to compare Code Geass to Evangelion when talking about the pinnacle of mecha, which would be like comparing the proverbial apples to oranges. This stems from the two subsets present within the mecha genre, of which I’ll name Symbiote and Vehicle respectively:

About the title. This is to save some of you the effort of reading through this: there isn’t any, at least not with respects to Code Geass — if you’re one of those who think it is, excuse me while I pause to laugh and make fun of your crap anime that you think is superior to it, like Gravitation or Sister Princess, Loveless or Ichigo 100%. You can press Ctrl+W now.

To those of you who’re reading on, well, I loved it. What can I say? While my eyes were suffering towards the end (like yours would too if you’d watch 23 episodes over three days), my mind was revelling in the sheer quality of it all. As I mentioned previously I loved the unoriginal premise — an unsubtle blend of Gundam SEED and Death Note. Kira (Yamato) + Kira, anyone? It’s more likely than you think!

So I’ve been stuck with watching Code Geass since yesterday morning. After the first episode I was totally convinced that this was Gundam + Death Note, and while I’m struck aghast by how much awesome is concentrated in every episode, I also regret not watching this during its run. Not that you’ll find me complaining though — Shinsen Subs are on top of their league as usual with impeccable translations and quality raws, so it’s not like I missed out on a lot.

On a more unpleasant note, there’s exactly two weeks to my first A-Levels paper (Thinking Skills), and I thought I’d take this time to type out an announcement for it. Expect updates to drop to something like once every two, three days. Four if I can’t finish revising the damn text on time.