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One cool thing they did in the anime...
(Actual plot spoilers)
Reversing the narrator voice for episode 11 was also a nice touch.
in the start of the P4 The Golden anime it was treated like NG+ with all his social stats and persona levels maxed at the start
And since the main appeal of the show is just watching Karyl make ridiculous faces I could definitely due without those kind of jokes.
There's better ways to write a character with amnesia, and many of those ways can include comedy too! But having a character just try and eat coins and do other things that people with genuine amnesia don't really do is just lazy hack writing and it makes the artform worse just by existing imo
Honestly, it’s not too bad! They’ve done a decent job of adapting it.
I had to look up and see if Keicho’s hair was as ridiculous in the anime, and it looks like it got toned down a little bit for the live action, but not by much.
The entire scene where he tries to eat the coin is pretty well written. A lady is making fun of Kokkoro as being his girlfriend after she denies being his sister. He's hungry and trying to get food. She just hands him the coin without telling him anything so he tries to eat it.
If you are a hungry child and your mom hands you something you'd stick it in your mouth. That's what kids do. She even responds like he's a child after. Even getting him to spit it into her hands.
It's a joke defining their relationship, not as lovers or even as master and servant like Kokkoro claims, but as a mom looking after her clueless child.
It's not some complex slight.
On the positive side, nearly all the scenes set at school and nearly all the objectification of the female characters is removed. The character of Mao is completely excised, and Shirley doesn't get fridged.
On the negative side, a lot of pivotal battles and scenes from season one are glossed over, the first half of season two is covered at such a breakneck pace that many major events occur off-screen (including Lelouch getting his memories back and dropping a building on Viceroy Calares), Euphemia and Rolo get almost no build-up or character development, and Shirley doesn't really do much of anything at all.
I'm not sure who these movies are even for. Hypothetically the shorter runtime and lack of time wasting "anime bullshit" (high school scenes, fan service, etc) would be better for new viewers, but the section covering the first half of season two especially glosses over things so quickly that only someone who has seen the show before would have no idea what's going on.
I think my "favorite" change so far involves Nina and Euphemia's relationship. In the original series the two of them are part of a group of hostages at a hotel detained by a Japanese liberation group, with Euphemia drawing attention to herself to hopefully save everyone else. In the movies these events never happen; instead, Euphemia just presented Nina an award for academic achievement or something.
Yeah, this ending is just bunk, if you ask me, at least based on the most recent chapter.
And, yeah, it started off So Good, but other than the Goldy Pond arc, everything else outside Grace Field has felt like a bit of a let-down, and all the new bits of world / characters just seem to dilute the original things that I liked about the story.
Suzaku: "You could have tried to work within the system!"
Kallen: "And what about the people who can't get into the system?! How are we supposed to tell people it's wrong?!"
Suzaku: "You!"
Kallen: "Don't you dare look down on others, you egotistical punk!"
They needed to be some unknowable hp Lovecraft shit.
lelouch's actions and thought process break down to even a second of scrutiny
and instead of controlling the royal family to not be shits, or launching a coup and being a good king(or just abolishing the monarchy himself), he becomes a tyrant after creating a civil war to... help people and create a stable state without injustice??????
just
what
Unless something major happens I'm happy to enjoy the movie for what it is and consider it non-canon to the original series.
It's not a half-bad goal I think, but the problem with it is that it has no longevity. Nunally might be a good ruler, but what of the next person on that throne? Or the person after them? The whole grand scheme only works briefly. Granted there's ways to make it so Nunally never leaves the throne, giving her a Code to make her immortal being the chief one, but that just leads to an array of different problems as the world inevitably diverges from her beliefs and biases while she remains the same for eternity.
Actually, looking at the Code Geass wiki:
So she's not even in charge of Brittania, much less the world. Lelouch's actions mainly amounted to reducing Brittania's power and influence and preventing Charles and Schneizel's plans.
Personally I think I mostly like Code Geass for the central conceit, setting, characters, and ideological conflicts. The execution leaves much to be desired.
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Prime example:
For the most part, at least.
Even Lelouch's own voice actor pointed out in an interview that Lelouch could have hypothetically used his powers in a more effective and peaceful manner, but that Lelouch had other competing ideals and motivations.
For one thing, the revelation to the Black Knights' inner circle that the leader of their Japanese liberation group is both unidentified and confirmed to not to be Japanese himself seems like it should be a bigger deal than it is portrayed. In the original series the Black Knights only care once it is proven to them that their leader has mind control capabilities and is himself of Brittanian royal blood. Even then, their primary concern is that they are uncertain as to the extent at which they have been manipulated by mind control. The fact that their leader is someone descended from the family that conquered their homeland isn't given near enough importance.
I could also see more being done with the conflict between Suzaku, a Japanese man serving as a soldier for his homeland's conquerors in the hopes that he could achieve reform to make things better for his people, and Kallen, a biracial individual who could pass as Brittanian Kallen Stadtfield and avoid racial discrimination but instead fights for the oppressed Japanese as Kallen Kozuki in a Japanese liberation terrorist organization that opposes Brittania.
In addition, there's the fact that Princess Euphemia's proposal for the Special Administrative Zone of Japan is viewed a lot more positively in the show than I expect it would be in reality. Despite members of the Black Knights being skeptical of the idea, Lelouch is convinced it is a death blow to his anti-Brittanian movement. In real life I'd expect a proposal for a modern day glorified ethnic minority reservation to go over like a lead balloon.
It's also never remarked upon in the original series that more than one of the Purebloods (a Brittanian group primarily drawn from the nobility opposed to the "Honorary Citizenship" system) is a person of color. I'd expect Brittania, as a society that developed from an AU colonial America that lost the Revolutionary War, to be explicitly white supremacist. However, Pureblood member Villetta Nu is clearly a person of color, as is at least one more minor character introduced briefly later on in season two. Further, supplemental materials reveal that Villetta is not of noble blood, but that Jeremiah (a white Brittanian) longed for an opportunity to bestow upon her the rank of Baroness so that her descendants could be counted as nobility. That sounds like an interesting story, but one that is never elaborated upon in the original series.
And, of course, there is the morality of Lelouch's own methods to consider. His ability to impose his own will upon others, to compel them to perform actions completely against their nature.
I want a woke, leftist, anticolonialist take on Code Geass is what I'm saying, I guess. That may be a silly thing to want, but it seems clear to me that Code Geass's original creator wanted to explore many of these topics but perhaps was never given the full opportunity to do so.
like i'm pretty iffy on how things have turned out, but i think one of the series' greatest strengths is its continuing escalation of "and here's how it's still a prison this far up the chain, even for the antagonists"
The actual game apparently uses short animated cutscenes mixed in with regular dialog windows, and from what little I've seen of them floating around on Youtube, the MC behaves exactly the same in-game as in the anime.
I think one big issue with Promised Neverland is that we're finding more out about the demons SO late in the game that story ends up really scrambling to play catch up in both setting up dilemmas regarding what we learn and then offering solutions pretty much right after.
She's also, far as I know, the best actual pilot in the series by a country mile? Which is actually a pretty neat detail if so.
Yeah, Suzaku is next best and whenever he beats her, it's as a result of shenanigans.
I imagine those two have hate-sex for days.
I love Black Lagoon, but I also recognize that it is very very very of its time and more than a bit edgelordy, but I'm a big sucker for a great action scene and some of those action scenes are all-timers.
Dub-wise, it's great. Maryke Hendrikse starts out a bit rough for Revy, but after a few episodes Maryke grew into my default Revy voice. Everyone else does great and comes to play from the start, though.
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