Revisiting the chess board

Lets take another look at this chess board from R2 16, and switch Lelouch and Schneizel’s positions as the kings. Lelouch, garbed in white as Britannia’s Emperor, and Schneizel, with the Black Knights as his new bitches. Read more »

R2 16 makes R2 09’s chess game make sense

Fuck I just realized something.

THIS SCENE IS ILLEGAL MOVE

Remember a long ass time ago when I said that in R2 09, Lelouch moving his king a square back was symbolic to him being a coward? I think I was right, but Schneizel is not the white king, Charles is. Schneizel was more than happy to offer up his King to Zero because he wants to get rid of daddy too. However, Lelouch is actually scared shitless of daddy so he, literally and on the chess board, takes a step back.

EVERYTHING WE KNOW IS A LIE. SCHNEIZEL IS ACTUALLY THE MAGICAL OFF-SCREEN GRAY PIECE. FUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

Symbolic Chess Fuck Yeah

[twilightBlanc] you should post about the 18 white chess pieces and the 16 black pieces…

I admit I didn’t actually bother to blow this up and count, so lets just trust twilight’s counting ability and talk about something else related to this dumb chess board. Read more »

R2 16: The calm before the shitstorm

Schneizel’s fabulous 30 seconds of screentime

• I think the pizza C.C. eats in China is a half and half pizza using the Mayo King pizza and the Purukogi pizza with a sausage roll crust from JP Pizza Hut.
• Apparently Lelouch put his contact back on inbetween leaving the World of C and the end of R2 15? Or, alternatively, the World of C is not actually “reality”. He had his contact on when he left reality, so he had it back when he came back to reality. Maybe this is related to how the Emperor escaped being trapped there too.
• Since the Knight of 10 is a jackass and he doesn’t have his own voice actor, does this mean he’s going to die next episode?
• There’s a Valkyrie group in the Brit military who use… pink Lancelots? …pink Lancelots? Pink Lancelots? Lloyd makes a lot of shit, but what the fuck guys, PINK LANCELOTS?
• Rolo looked kinda cool in his glasses and suit.
• Oh, and this chessboard setup? You can overanalyze it to fuck and back, but the tl;dr is that if it’s foreshadowing anything at all, it’s foreshadowing Lelouch living at the end, both sides losing a lot of people, and that Lelouch will bear the blood of the dead on his… erm, head.
• I think this has been a running joke among fans for a while. What the fuck is it with Australia? You can tell by that map that red = Britannia, blue = United Federation of Nations, orange-yellow = Euro Universe, so what’s up with Kangaroo Land? Our history is that Kangaroo Land was settled in by the Dutch, and later colonized by Great Britain. Did Europe never go there or something and the natives all died off then global warming started and it turned into a cancer-emitting beacon so the people there are mutants and no one wants to go there anyway? To think that people from the Code Geass universe might not have ever seen the cuteness that is a Koala… (Edit: Also what the fuck is the pink spot in the Middle East? Iraq became FABULOUS or what?)
• The closed caps said Prayer last week, and Freya this week. Make up your fucking minds. Maybe her bombs are powerful because it actually contains the power of a 1.49mil dmg Ether Strike. (Well, I guess that only makes sense for the US version…)

Overall, transitional episode is transitional. There’s other stuff to be said, mostly speculation based off of the Korean blog buuut I kind of want to go play Atlantica Online. >_>

The Black Knights Cast List

The Order of the Black Knights

CEO: Zero

Commander in Chief: Li Xingke

Secretary-General: Kaname Ogi
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Todo Kyoshiro
Chief of Staff: Zhou Xianglin
Chief of Information and Media: Diethard Reid
Chief of Science: Lakshata Chawla

1st Squad Leader: Asahina Shogo
2nd Squad Leader: Hong Gu
3rd Squad Leader: Indira Tharoor
4th Squad Leader: Chiba Nagisa
5th Squad Leader: Ahmad Khayrallah
6th Squad Leader: Nguyen Bang Vu
7th Squad Leader: Fryderyk Szymanowski
Command Warship Captain: Minami Yoshitaka
Chief of Special Forces: Sugiyama Kento
Domestic Cleaning Officer [read: maid]: Shinichiro Tamaki

Asst. Chief of Science: Yusuku
Asst. Chief of Science: Sonthi Kun Moo
Ikaruga Communications Operator: Hinata Ichijiku
Ikaruga Communications Operator: Futaba Ayama
Ikaruga Communications Operator: Mutsuki Minase

God fuck everything.

Luciano’s VA = Asahina’s VA

Same voice actor. Not Fujiwara Keiji. Srsly.

Best part of R2 16

Kallen starts doing a 16hit combo on Suzaku. This scene was awesome.

This is Straight Cougar, a.k.a. the Knight of 10

Everyone, this is Luciano Brandli, the Knight of 10. Since there are over 9000 posts of, “WHO IS THIS GUY IN THE PREVIEW?!” on the internets, this is a kawaii informative post. He pilots Percival and is nicknamed the Vampire of Britannia. He is, in actuality, Straight Cougar, and Percival will turn pink and become really fucking fast. He last appeared in ep 2 with the rest of the Knights of Rounds.

~ the more you know ~