Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

[Kraco]

After the second episode this continues to look like a fine series. Whilst the details were very vague in the larger battle in this episode, it's still good there were a part where wits played a role. I hope that trend will continue and it's just not a superior mecha that will solve everything in the future. They did, after all, go through some trouble to make the main character look intelligent with the chess matches and all.

[Church]

I just watched it, so far I'm really liking this series. I was afraid it was going to go down similar paths as some other mecha anime *cough*GundamSEED*cough* (with good reason, heck, they're from the same producers) Even thuogh CLAMP is behind the character design, there is quite a few resemblence to characters in Gundam SEED; in appearance and personality. When Lelouch and Suzaku was fighting, I had flashbacks to Kira and Athrun. But it turned out a lot different, and that's good.
As said before, if this keeps up it'll definately be a very good series.

[Board of Command]

Just picked this up and it certainly looks interesting. Mecha/sci-fi blended with some superpower stuff. Don't see this often.

[Yukimura]

Wow, just blew through the first two eps in a flash and I'm pretty impressed. While I noticed elements from several other shows, the fact that they seem to have been blended so well is a good sign that this show might rise far above the sum of it's parts.

It's funny that just today I was just thinking that supernatural and sci-fi/mecha didn't go togeather too often in anime and all of a sudden Arcness suggests I pick this one up. Good call!

[Kraco]

As if to impress Yukimura even more, the third episode was released:

Episode 3 - gg

Edit: Quite an episode. I was actually positively surprised that the super power had such a strict limit. It makes things definitely more interesting. Otherwise the story also proceeds nicely, and it's good to see Lelouch doesn't hesitate to kill his enemies to get to his goals. And even better he had to confess to himself he's not yet such a cold blooded killer, despite what he has done. The script also looks intriguing enough right now, with nice details like how he fooled the girl to think he's not the owner of the mysterious voice on the phone.

And of course I didn't mind the fan service in this episode...

[Board of Command]

The shower scene was a bit odd. In the beginning Karen was intent on exposing Lelouch and even pointed a "strange" knife at him. But after the phone call she immediately reverted back to her other identity as if nothing happened. She didn't even try to explain what she was doing with the knife and stuff. I expected her to at least threaten Lelouch to keep his mouth shut about what had happened. After that whole thing they just casually walk back together.

Karen completely blew her cover as an innocent school girl but didn't do anything about it.

[Kraco]

I'd just think it as minimizing the damage. After all, while Lelouch "proved" that he wasn't the commanding voice, it should still be pretty obvious to Karen that he's no fool. If she had tried to come up with lame excuses, it could have made the situation worse, from her point of view. For Lelouch it would have of course been all the same. And I tend to think that people who have personal secrets also know how to respect the secrets of other people, and don't make extra inquiries, unless it's their disposition due to a job or something. Well, I'm like that even without many secrets...