I don't know if you know, "Geass" is actually derived from something Irish or Celtic, I think? Refers to a pact or oath made by warriors.
I thought the series, as a whole, was really well drawn, and only got better as time went on, to the point that the second season looks so good I've relented and started downloading the HD releases. It might just be the CLAMP character designs, though, they rub a lot of people the wrong way.
Can't help with the voice casting if you're watching in English, thought it was at average american dub level, which is to say, unwatchably shitty. If you downloaded some subs and are listening to the japanese actors, I don't know what you're talking about. All the mains worked well, and as a side bonus they have Norio MOTHERFUCKING Wakamoto as the emperor, who is pretty much the Samuel L. Jackson of seiyuu times ten.
The plot...while it has some themes which play out about as you would expect, and some twists that are just kinda hackneyed, I guarantee you can't predict it all the way from beginning to end. If you're not going to keep watching it and therefore don't care about spoilers, at least look into the scene with Euphemia at the stadium from episode...what was it, 22? I'm certain it'll be up on youtube or something, it got passed around the internet a lot. Find context if you can, maybe check out the wikipedia, it might not be as meaningful without putting up with Euphie's character for the whole show, but it's still pretty whoa. And like I said, while the show is more of a show with robots instead of a robot show, it's still largely a highly referential critique of both the original gundam and gundam seed. I don't know if you watched that through or not.
I did mention that I've never seen Gundam-- it was on the list but Nate went away before we got around to it. So obviously it's going to be difficult for me to appreciate a critique of something I haven't seen. If you pronounce "Geass" using the Gaelic laws of pronunciation, it sounds nothing like Gay Ass. But written out, and without knowing it's progeneracy, it just looks like Gay Ass. I'm watching it on [adult swim], so I have no choice in how it's presented. It's dubbed. I'm going to keep watching it-- what the hell else am I going to do with my time 1.30-2am. I don't know what CLAMP is, all I know is that the characters look like those damn stupid ass shows on early in the morning on Cartoon Network that I sometimes wake up to if I fell asleep during [adult swim]. The ones that are just animated versions of a card game. You're watching the animated characters play the card game. The characters look like that. And I frigging hate that.
I would like to see the seiyuu version of Samuel L Jackson times ten. That sounds like something to see.
CLAMP is a moderately well known group of all-female manga artists who've put out a lot of moderately well known works in the past, frequently shoujo stuff, and were contracted to do the character designs for Code Geass. They're well known for having extremely, almost ridiculously thin and tall male characters, and have fairly characteristic nose, eye, and hair design as well. Some of the stuff they've done is stuff like Chobits, X or X/1999 or whatever, Cardcaptor Sakura, XXXHolic, Tsubasa whatever the shit, Magic Knight Rayearth (I think). Some of their stuff is really, really, really good, some of it is really, really, really bad, and they have varying levels of involvement in the anime versions of most of their shit. Their art takes a while to get used to and some people just loathe it forever. I don't mind it in moderation, and Code Geass eventually settles into right about where it needs to be. Stuff like XXXHolic is just too much.
Norio Wakamoto is the fucking man. Some of his stuff, just so maybe you'll know who I'm talking about...Johnny from Guilty Gear, Chiyo's father from Azumanga Daioh, Vicious from Cowboy Bebop, uh, Lando Calrissian from the Japanese Star Wars dub...eh, whatever, here's the full list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norio_Wakamoto
if you can make linear sense of this I'll give you a prizequeensarcasteMay 18 2008, 11:50:37 UTC
Ahhhh, yeah, I caught that at the end of tonight's episode, C L A M P for original character design or sommat. It sucks and I hate it. It's funny I mentioned s-CRY-ed, that animated piece of vomit, but this ZERO (JEEZ THATS JUST LIKE THE WWII FIGHTER PLANE THAT DOMINATED THE PACIFIC ooohhhhh until we developed the Hellcat but don't tell anyone) (it's really late) looks just freaking like the purple-haired-guy's thingie. If it were Bleach (waaaaaay better show), they'd call it his bankai. You know, the spirit-force robot-thing that he named after the dog he had as a little kid. That and ZERO look shockingly alike and it's because they both suck. It's crap like that that makes it easy for people to write off anime as just cartoons, you know, kids stuff, instead of a valuable and emotionally-sentient medium. I unfortunately almost never get to hear anime in the original Japanese, unless someone I know has the DVD, so out of all of those animes, the only one I've seen is Cowboy Bebop and that of course would be in the dub... Which I actually have seen on DVD, I don't remember if we even ever had the conversation about which format to watch it in.... *thinking* I was a little DISTRACTED, but I believe we watched Jin-Roh and Akira in Japanese. *grumbles* *stumbles off, muttering* bastard
I thought the series, as a whole, was really well drawn, and only got better as time went on, to the point that the second season looks so good I've relented and started downloading the HD releases. It might just be the CLAMP character designs, though, they rub a lot of people the wrong way.
Can't help with the voice casting if you're watching in English, thought it was at average american dub level, which is to say, unwatchably shitty. If you downloaded some subs and are listening to the japanese actors, I don't know what you're talking about. All the mains worked well, and as a side bonus they have Norio MOTHERFUCKING Wakamoto as the emperor, who is pretty much the Samuel L. Jackson of seiyuu times ten.
The plot...while it has some themes which play out about as you would expect, and some twists that are just kinda hackneyed, I guarantee you can't predict it all the way from beginning to end. If you're not going to keep watching it and therefore don't care about spoilers, at least look into the scene with Euphemia at the stadium from episode...what was it, 22? I'm certain it'll be up on youtube or something, it got passed around the internet a lot. Find context if you can, maybe check out the wikipedia, it might not be as meaningful without putting up with Euphie's character for the whole show, but it's still pretty whoa. And like I said, while the show is more of a show with robots instead of a robot show, it's still largely a highly referential critique of both the original gundam and gundam seed. I don't know if you watched that through or not.
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If you pronounce "Geass" using the Gaelic laws of pronunciation, it sounds nothing like Gay Ass. But written out, and without knowing it's progeneracy, it just looks like Gay Ass.
I'm watching it on [adult swim], so I have no choice in how it's presented. It's dubbed. I'm going to keep watching it-- what the hell else am I going to do with my time 1.30-2am.
I don't know what CLAMP is, all I know is that the characters look like those damn stupid ass shows on early in the morning on Cartoon Network that I sometimes wake up to if I fell asleep during [adult swim]. The ones that are just animated versions of a card game. You're watching the animated characters play the card game. The characters look like that. And I frigging hate that.
I would like to see the seiyuu version of Samuel L Jackson times ten. That sounds like something to see.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamp_%28manga_artists%29
Norio Wakamoto is the fucking man. Some of his stuff, just so maybe you'll know who I'm talking about...Johnny from Guilty Gear, Chiyo's father from Azumanga Daioh, Vicious from Cowboy Bebop, uh, Lando Calrissian from the Japanese Star Wars dub...eh, whatever, here's the full list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norio_Wakamoto
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I unfortunately almost never get to hear anime in the original Japanese, unless someone I know has the DVD, so out of all of those animes, the only one I've seen is Cowboy Bebop and that of course would be in the dub... Which I actually have seen on DVD, I don't remember if we even ever had the conversation about which format to watch it in.... *thinking* I was a little DISTRACTED, but I believe we watched Jin-Roh and Akira in Japanese. *grumbles* *stumbles off, muttering* bastard
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