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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: England that is all
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I would have to agree with Duel above, the problem with the racism is that it feels very forced, and just looking for sympathy for the Japanese again, this worked in R1 and R2 cause of how evil and racist Britannia is supposed to be, but here it's happening with the EU, who are suppose to be the last bastion of democracy and equality in Code Geass world.
But we are getting them shown being racist for no real other than they can be. It feels unneeded in that way, cheap and pointless. Now yes we all know how racist Europe can be in history, but so is Japan, we don't need to go on what they did in ww2. To the Chinese and other Asians etc.
The racism to me feels very hypocritical coming from the Japanese, when they are still somewhat xenophobic today, love the country, the people and culture (I have been there), but sometimes I really hate how they like to portray the west, and ignore their own flaws in their own culture and history. Course we do that as well, but with them, it feels really annoying to me for some reason.
IT feels like the director is trying to make the japs the 'Jews' of the Code Geass world, which is very offensive I feel, leads to unfortunate implications on the part of the writers and director. As it happened with the way Nina, Ohgi and some Britannians got wrote in r1 and r2 at times.
As for the second episode. The problem is that four episodes just isn't long enough to tell the story they are telling to tell. Plus the problem I have with jap characters being most of the main characters, with a Britannian among them (yes Leila was adopted and all that, but that happened when she was six), I thought this series was suppose to be about the EU and it's people, and yet not one character who was born in the eu is among the main characters.
I know this is an anime, but come on, this is just insulting I feel to not have a main character from the EU countries.
As for the characters, apart form Leila, Michaele (who got killed off), and Jean row a little bit. they just come off not being interesting, Akito feels too bland, boring and too much like Suzaku to feel interesting. His brother feels boring as well, he hasn't done anything to really grab my attention yet. His main fighter Ashley feels too much like Bradley, blood knight and that's it.
The other three main characters, The one with green eyes, we got some background on him, but it just made him unlikeable, whether that's intentional I don't know, but personally, I'm suppose to root for a guy who suffered some scars on his hand and back? then blows up a building full of some people who did not deserve it?
The other two we haven't learned much yet, but again they don't feel interesting. Hope the next two do something with them.
for the whole Julius thing, just feels unneeded if it is him, to me it feels sunrise has little faith in the product and feel the need to grab attention. Plus it just feels more unneeded angst for the poor guy. Come on wasn't R2 enough on that front, too much angst is a bad thing.
I don't think Akito is terrible, just feels like Sunrise have dropped the ball on it really. Shame as I was really looking forward to the series portraying the EU, but it just feels overall, a huge waste.
If you want a good portrayal of the eu in code Geass universe, look at One and only son by Juubi K, he does a fantastic job of doing the eu there. Much better than what has been done with Akito.
This is all just my opinion, if your enjoying, that good for you. But for me, it just feels they have missed an opportunity to tell a complex story and gone for the easy stuff.
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