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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- I watched this at the cinema today. It felt insanely long compared to the first part. Literally more than 2 hours. And the story progression speed is insanely fast. Many things unexplained and cut. How did Lelouch regain his memory? Why did Orange-kun team up with Lelouch? Uhh, we never got to see Roro's power??? And quite a lot more.... Personally however, I liked part 2 way more than part 1. Much more intense starting off with total massacre, and I felt like there were a lot more new cuts and scenes compared to part 1. The new music is okay. Wasn't really impressed. Looking forward to part 3 in May! Hopefully we get new info about Resurrection of Lelouch at the end of the 3rd(final) movie. |
tahsin98 said: How come those you mentioned remain unexplained! I mean they are important plot point! Also Shirley is alive this time, isn't she? Yea, i feel like they skipped too much. Covering 50 episodes worth in 3 movies....yea it will be difficult. At least they have new cut scenes. Wouldn't recommend for newcomers to Code Geass to start with these 3 part movies anyways. And yea, Shirley is alive :v She seems pretty irrelevant to the show compared to the series lol |
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| Watching Code Geass Handou now. I have stopped at 18 minutes where they have sipped the kamine island conflict and brought out a lot of characters early. And lot less plot holes and stuff. The new mechas are amazingly drawn. Along with the mask taking scene of Zero. BTW, Kallen never ceases to mesmerise me.  This just shows how much adorable and hot she can be at the same time. After watching the movie right now. Not sure how to feel about it. The subbers done their job brilliantly,but it looks like Shirley is alive. I hate the fact that Shirley is alive and I hate her(She even exposed the fact outloud that Lulu was in Black knights in front of everyone when Zero came into the student council.) To be frank, I think Shirley may not die in Oudou. (That's the angle they are going for I think). That's gonna carry over into r3 I believe, which means well, shit. Anyways, They could have used her death in a positive manner but why did they have to go for this???? To all those shirley haters, remember, Jeremiah was the one who saved her. That's right. You better respect the Orange. And of course he is angry at V.V. stealing Jeremiah's Seigfried. Cause it is in his favorite color you know. I am not happy with the compilation films. The compilation films are definitely not catch up films. Definitely not. They are meant to change the storyline, which is controversial. Of course, if they kept the same story for R3, that may still create controversies because of people who say R2's ending is perfect(which it is), but I preferred that they keep the same storyline. Just like how many people enjoyed TDKR even though TDK's ending was nice, I think they could have adapted TDKR's storyline of how the villain returns to bring back the truth(Well, I prefer that the hero did, but I hope Lelouch returns from the grave to put an end to all lies and bring a truthful end). Kallen is put on the bus, CC is becoming more and more of a creator's choice for romance, which I see,(but not acknowledge. I guess Lelouch would end up with CC after all. Shit.) and they are STILL going the Ohgi-Viletta route(COME ON. That sucked big time.) I prefer it if they developed Sayoko and Jeremiah as a couple(I mean, the both of them look so purrfect for each other). And Kallen. Why in the world did they skip the romantic development between her and Lelouch in R2? That was the best part of R2.(You should also see the part in R1 where Kallen decides to stand by lelouch despite the carnage. Nothing can beat that moment.) Well, Shirley brought back from the death undermines Code geass as a whole, because tragedy is a part of code geass. It makes character development a nice reality. And they abandoned it, which is quite bad by my standards. Anyways, rate this a 7/10 Cause hated it mostly, but some nice parts were there. I will still rewatch this and previous movie after Oudou. They skipped the Lelouch returning as Zero from his memories part. That wasn't good by my opinion. Cause first, that was a pivotal part of R2 which revived the tension in R1. Second, Rolo isn't nicely developed as a character.He was one of the best grey moral characters in R2.(To be frank, I didn't mind him shooting Shirley, for reasons mentioned above). And third, I think it is a bad way for rewriting R3 by ignoring the important moments of R2.(It's probably Sunrise. They tried to mess up R2, they may be doing the same here). Lastly, seems like they are going down the Suzaku x Nunnally route. Not that I don't mind. Just don't mess up Resurrection. I don't care if the compilation films are bad, but atleast make up for it by bringing back the Code geass greatness. |
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| I am disappointed they skipped a lot of interesting plot points from the old series, but this is a whole new story, and I am really loving it. They made a few changes, and I really liked them because I feel like we get to watch more of the story. I hate how recaps say they will have new scenes, but it's usually only in the beginning, and at the end! Damn, I hate Suzaku all over again. I don't care even if he looks like Syaoran from Tsubasa. I just hate this guy!! I understand the way he feels, but that is no reason for me to like him. The part where Zero's mask is broken by Suzaku looks amazing. Lelouche's hair moving in slow motion makes him look really cool. Glad they didn't cut that out. I love Rolo, and wish he had more scenes. He killed Shirley in the original series, and that had made me kind of mad, but when I rewatched the series again, I was glad he did. That girl was too annoying!! |
| They really missed out the good parts in it. I really wanted to see Mariane's story and Orange's loyalty to Lelouch be remembered. |
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| This was a long movie. Saw a few changes they made to the original, other than that it was a good movie overall. |
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| Cancelling major events occuring midway in the movie in the same movie (and not very long after)? This is NOT a good thing to do. Between this (due to a probable stupid reset between the two half of the series) and numerous things coming out of nowhere (probably thanks to cuts), plus the fact this movie had the ass between the two halves, Handô offers a rather poor construction. And yet ? And YET, the movie was starting to seem quite long before it ended ! Enjoyment: 1/5 Score: 4/10 @CodeBlazeFate This was... really not good. I'm glad I dropped this show between the two series, I would have been furious to see everything I spent time on be spoiled like this. |
Rei366 said: Yea, it really should have been two movies instead of one, and oh boy did this film fuck up the reset and resurgence of Zero so hard it legit made me angry. The movie just gets worse as it goes on and it's the single biggest reason why people are so hesitant about recommending this movie trilogy. I don't hate it, especially with the great new scenes, but boy did this suffer from cramming two movies into one, hence why it feels so long.Cancelling major events occuring midway in the movie in the same movie (and not very long after)? This is NOT a good thing to do. Between this (due to a probable stupid reset between the two half of the series) and numerous things coming out of nowhere (probably thanks to cuts), plus the fact this movie had the ass between the two halves, Handô offers a rather poor construction. And yet ? And YET, the movie was starting to seem quite long before it ended ! Enjoyment: 1/5 Score: 4/10 @CodeBlazeFate This was... really not good. I'm glad I dropped this show between the two series, I would have been furious to see everything I spent time on be spoiled like this. |
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| Nyan~ ! Even after all these years, Euphy accidentally getting forced to kill all the Japanese gets me every time ... not even remembering it when she's in the bed ... poor Euphy =/ Even if the buildup was lacking in these movies ... it was still emotional. Seeing this movie made me realize how much I appreciated the main series, this second movie felt a lot more rushed (even though I know they're trying to fit in 16 hours of content in 3 movies). 6/10 unfortunately, I know it's a recap but I have to judge it for what it is. |
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PrOxAnto said: Nyan~ ! Even after all these years, Euphy accidentally getting forced to kill all the Japanese gets me every time ... not even remembering it when she's in the bed ... poor Euphy =/ Even if the buildup was lacking in these movies ... it was still emotional. I know right, it’s one of those moments that I think about from time to time. I was so shocked and legitimately depressed then and the whole scene just rekindled all of those emotions. |
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| I feel like numerous important content were dropped from this movie, in particular compared to the first part. Nevertheless, it was a fine movie with the second half being awfully rushed and incoherent, I felt, but the first half was solid. Why’d they remove Lelouch’s mother return and such? Another notable change was the removal of Shirley’s death, I wonder if she’ll have to role to play in the upcoming Fukkatsu no Lelouch movie. Moreover, many of the romantic developments between Lelouch and Kallen were totally omitted. I’m sure there a few more too but it’s been a while since I’ve watched the original series, so I can’t realy pinpoint where exactly. Second half of this movie made me really confused over the whole Geass concept and such, I should really go back to rewatching the series too but 50 episodes is a big commitment so who knows if it’s possible this summer for me. I hope the next movie will clear things up for me. On another note, looks like the movie compilations are moving towards the Lelouch x C.C and I’ve no problems with that whatsoever. Looking forward to seeing Oudou(Movie III) and Fukkatsu no Lelouch! |
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| As someone who hasn't watched Code Geass in over 10 years, once this movie hit the R2 content it became completely incomprehensible. Zero's revival made no sense (just a brief mention of a magic kiss ten minutes later), nor did Jeremiah suddenly buddying up with his sworn enemy. Rolo was basically non-existent and it also made no sense why he joined Zero's side when he was a dang Britannia spy reporting to Suzaku of all people. And then all the China stuff, the declaration of war at the end... I had to read wikis to remember what the hell was even going on. A shame since the first movie was so enjoyable, as well as the first hour or so of this one. But then again I recall my enjoyment back in the day also mostly being from the first season, with the second being a significant drop in quality. So, uh, here goes the third movie? |
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| The first half of the movie, basically the rest of R1 was fantastic. It looks like they wanted to cover far too much of R2 than they had time for and I'm assuming they didn't wanna push it into the next movie since they wanted to save the final half of R2 for it so the end result was kind of messy. They cut far too much from R2, lots of things and events just happen, skipping from place to place and I'm pretty sure to anyone watching this without context from the anime, this would've made no sense. Luckily, I doubt anyone would watch this without watching the anime first. Though it looks like they just wanted to showcase the C's world stuff more than anything else. I can't believe they cut the scene where Lelouch regains his memories, where is my second Lelouch x C.C kiss? :( The C's world scene where C.C. tells Lelouch that she wants to die and the way Lelouch tries to desperately talk her out of it eventually leading all the way up to "She's my.. She's my.." and him saying that he'll grant her wish always gets me. All these years and Lelouch x C.C. is somehow still one of my most favorite pairings in anime, Heh. Time to read more fanfiction. xD |
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| Wow... That was bad. Really bad. After the quite decent first part, I didn't believe they would be able to bastardize the original story this poorly, but they managed to pull it off. First things first: This movie completely and irrefutably proved that these recap movies needed to be a tetrology. Three movies was just enough to cover everything this movie was trying to cover. There as so much incredibly important information that was just completely missing from this episode. God forbid someone watch this as their first experience of the show. They would have absolutely no idea what is going on. Lelouch getting his memories back wasn't explained, Rolo was relegated to a much less important character than he was supposed to be, and those small scenes like Orange confronting Lelouch being cut out (among many other scenes) just made everyone's motivations that much more obscure and confusing. The only part of this movie better than/on par with the first movie was the animation and sound design. The disgusting story, however, diminished the characters and butchered my enjoyment of the movie. It can't get any worse, right? 7/10. |
| To be honest, this is even worse than the first movie. I definitely do not recommend this to anyone. Too many scenes were cut that the plot feels incomplete. It feels like a bunch of unrelated stuff meshed together. The last 30-50 minutes were the worst, a bunch of episodes basically put at the end quickly jumping from one scene to another without any context and trying to cram in everything. My favourite character in all of this is Euphemia and although she's here and the most impactful event with her too, she wasn't developed enough at all and it felt useless despite how important she was to the storyline. The same goes for basically all the characters. Again, it all boils down to one problem: this wasn't supposed to be a movie. |
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| This whole movie and all the changes they made are just... really bad. Really, really bad. Didn't think I would ever have to say this about Code Geass. :( It is a disgrace to the original story and especially to Lelouch's character. |
Well, this is definitely a typesetter's note that I can get behind: At least Shirley lives to see another day. Other than that, I guess the production team went a few omissions too far. It must have been an ordeal to understand for a complete novice to the Code Geass franchise. Luckily, Kallen was still there. Still, seeing Euphemia kill all Japanese and the aftermath were as heart-rending as ever. |
Led_WaylineJan 11, 2020 1:28 PM
| Omfg this was horrible... I had to see how they raped my favorite anime, it was painful to watch :'''( |
| The first movie had its issues but it was pretty good overall, this one though is irredeemably terrible! I was planning to re-watch the anime but decided to watch this instead because it's shorter, I should've known better, I only hope the third movie and the sequel are worth it. |
| Too many stuff happening successively that Ive got to pause from time to time to collect my thoughts. That pacing was really rough. The transition in between though, I think I'm fine with it. Changes were made in the plot to keep the story progress without a break. I could understand that fast pace in that view point. I guess the only notable thing that could be taken out of this summary movie is that Shirley lived on and Lelouch never really have the amnesia as the biggest change. |
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Was gonna post the same thing. Awesome note right there. In total, I enjoyed this movie given I just binged the whole series so I understand everything happening behind the scenes. People really should give it a chance and it should already be obvious that they remade the story so expect some changes. Shirley lived so that was a good thing to see probably fan service due to the impact her death had. |
| I gave the first recap movie a 9, despite not having the better parts of S1 there since I always loved the series from its first episodes, and I m a major fanboy for this franchise, thus I even liked to see newer scenes animated with better art, even if their purpose was to mend some insane cuts they did on that movie. But this was on another motherfucker level of insanity, OFF THE CHARTS. What I really loved about this movie, was mostly stuff from S1 than S2, despite overall liking S2 better... Euphy scene got me again, easily so, as expected, even if they skipped that many scenes of hers, and the part of the Island, so much missed details on the later stages of S1, I still forgave it, I came prepared to see them butchering part of the plot and many of the SoL I loved that slowly lightened the mood, let you breathe... let you care for the casting. Most of those are gone. But what shocked me is that in just around 1h 10 min they reached as far as in the story as episode 16 of S2. More than 25 episodes of content were edited and adapted to this second movie, from S1 and S2, WOW. What this means for fans is obvious, pure plot fuckery of the highest. Yes this second movie had many more newly animated scenes to my delight, but they come to try to mend much more EXTREME cuts and rush of pacing than what we saw with the first movie. I just wanted to rewatch the series ASAP so I could get to the sequel movie, and it was always my mindset I would see the "recap" movies and the sequel movie, and then go back and reach S1 and S2. But I thought I could at least tell people that don't want to see S1 + S2, to give these movies ago... NO, just NO. It is seeing to believe it, they probably 80-90% of the scenes from S2 ep1 to ep16 at this point, you could barely call it a rewatch of S1 and S2 anymore. At the same time, I m able to not give a shit and just take the moments I enjoyed, which were most of the scenes from the most part, I never expected much from these recaps, to begin with, but if I was another, I would have totally given this abortion a much lower score. 8.4/10 = 8 All those scenes I loved to death still manage to make this movie interesting to time, even if I lost myself in the plot later on, which will happen even if you are a fan of the series... goes to show how convoluted and messy this butchering of most of S1 and S2 was. WOW. |
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| After all these years, it's still hard seeing Euphie's death again. I think it must be one of the biggest regrets Lelouch had. He understood what he did and what had to be done meant there was no going back. It was a major turning point for his character and the story. |
| Man, fuck Suzaku "Change the empire from the inside" Kururugi. Stubborn sob. On par with the first movie from the opening battle on Shikine. A 9. The silly festival scene wasn't enough to put me off too much as I did empathize with C.C. when Suzaku the idiot ruined the pizza dough (you ruin even the comedy scenes), and it did lead into one of the most memorable scenes which Euphemia's massacre of the Japanese (so she also got blindness from shock like Nunnally did, as she needed to touch Suzaku's face as she died). An 8 They should've compiled R1 into two movies and give a clean split when the movies compiling R2 begin, I don't want this super rushed info dump in the middle. I remember so many people hated Rolo when I watched R2, this movie but this movie doesn't even show enough of this humanoid bomb to form an opinion on him. They skipped the Empress Tianzi engagement arc, which I really like. now Xingke is "just there". The R2 bits were a 6 until the fight with V.V. Back then I was a Shirley-Lelouch shipper, so I don't know how to feel about them keeping her alive in this trilogy if she barely interacts with Lelouch. I feel more for C.C. tbh, especially when she lost her memories. Overall a 7, first movie was better, no doubt. |
Fortress_MaximusFeb 10, 2021 5:14 PM
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| Just finished it just now! I like how the first half completely finishes R1. They actually were able to animate all the main important points and even animated how Suzaku vs Lelouch face off at the Shikine Island and how Suzaku presented Lelouch to Charles. Kallen crying and going off like that. Much more dramatic than the TV series. I also forgotten how sad and brutal on what happened to Euphemia :( Definitely got caught with Lelouch rogue Geass. If only he didn't joke about killing all the Japanese :| At least they kept that scene since it was very impactful to the plot, despite the outcome. Just hope Square Enix won't chicken shit and change theirs on FFVII Remake later down the road It was also nice to add some extra scenes with C.C. and how she survives the fight with Orange-kun when she was floating in the ocean. Though, things starts to go rocky once the R2 section begins. For starters, they skipped a lot of the intro of R2. We just see Lelouch being brought back as Zero. Didn't even saw the kiss that brought his memories back (only mentioned afterwards) and Kallen is captured and never freed Lelouch like in the early R2. Skipped alot of Rolo scenes and he was just there fully convinced, same with Jerimiah and V.V. Though, the series really focus more on the hatred/fight between Britannia and Eleven. I never paid attention to the politics, but the movies really emphasize the difference and the discrimination between the two. I never thought about it that much until this movie. Doubt you can even do this kind of portrayal on any other nation (*cough China) and if it were to happen, it would have been cancelled long ago. Some nice cool scenes, like expanding Ohgi and Villetta's relationship. Suzaku having dilemma on how to deal with Lelouch and vice versa. I also believe they extended some of the fights like Kallen vs Suzaku and Cornellia vs Zero. Overall, it is a great movie with some new altered scenes and extended scenes within the characters. But it's probably advisable to watch the TV series or the other Summary Movies first rather watching this as your first experience. Lots of scenes where you assumed you already know what happened due to the previous knowledge. Loving the new ED and insert songs as well! Need to get the OSTs! I would give it around 8/10. I really don't like the cut content, but I understand why they couldn't animate the whole R2. Gonna be interesting how the 3rd movie concludes and connects it to Resurrection ^^  |
SomaHeirApr 9, 2021 2:26 PM
| nah man dis aint it 😑 |
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| Suzaku. Lelouch. Zero. Kallen Kozuki. Suzaku. Thought Elevator? Suzaku appears. Zero has been captured. Kallen gets out of Guren. Dat ship. LMAO at Orange-kun telling Shirley not to get herself killed thus making Shirley live in this timeline. Watch date: 1/2020 |
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| love CG ofc but for some reason feel like this one dragged a bit, more than the first one at least! onto the last of the trilogy before I can finally caught up with the Re;surrection movie! |
| I have a third testicle that gives me psychic powers |
| This part cut the episodes worse. Many unexplained plot and seems floating all around. They just show fight, fight and fight, not any better than the first episode. They bring a new clip more longer than the first one but they waste many points. Not really expect too much on the movie, but seems episode two feel pointless. Even to Shirley they still making her as a part of the story which don't know what she gonna do and what is the point of it. Not a good one, TV series way more better and not recommended to watch this episode. |
| ALL HAIL BRITAAAAAANNIA!!!!!!! This was batshit insane. I have no idea what's going on anymore. I love it. |
| The story progression speed was insanely fast. Personally I liked Part 2 way more than Part 1. Much more intense starting off with total massacre, and I felt like there were a lot more new cuts & scenes compared to part 1. The ED Song was amazing at least for me. Looking forward to part 3. Really enjoyed it. Score 8/10 in MAL. Finished on 16th June 2024 at 16:45 Hrs IST.  |
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