[Anime] Code Geass: Akito the Exiled

DMCMaster wrote:Did anyone watch Code Geass in wonderland?

Plue wrote:is it crap because it sucks or because it is updated slowly? I only read like the first chapter.

Revy wrote:

DMCMaster wrote:Did anyone watch Code Geass in wonderland?

I heard it was another picture drama, so no.

Destructo wrote:Akito the Exiled is a theatrical release. The BD will come out August 26th. I should've said that in the OP

DMCMaster wrote:Did anyone watch Code Geass in wonderland?

shakoor_h wrote:

DMCMaster wrote:Did anyone watch Code Geass in wonderland?

Just had a chance to watch this today, and my only thought throughout the entire thing was "WTF is this shit?"

MikuHatsune wrote:why does it seem like this new series is creating more plot holes?.....oh right sunrise derp

Taniguchi On Geass: "NOT AS PLANNED"

Tamaki’s Girlfriend posted a write-up about part of a Taniguchi interview (Taniguchi is the guy who’s directing Geass) at a board which must not-be-named etc. This is just about part of the interview, not the whole thing. In the part of the article she wrote about, Taniguchi talks about how Code Geass has been a total saga of NOT AS PLANNED for Taniguchi.

She said she didn’t mind if I re-posted what she wrote, so here it is, though she can’t answer any questions about the rest of the interview as she is avoiding spoilerific places like here. Hit the read more for her write-up~

The following is Tamaki’s Girlfriend’s write-up, as it was originally posted in English. There is no English translation of the interview itself. Tamaki’s Girlfriend read it in Japanese then wrote about it in English. I modified no part of it. Anything that seems like an opinion is her opinion, not mine.

Reading Taniguchi’s interview in the recently published Code Geass Roman Album really depresses me. Taniguchi = Lelouch, indeed. Code Geass has been one long string of “NOT AS PLANNED D:”s for him and the production staff. Apparently the decision to give R2 the new Sun5 slot (Takeda Seiji’s idea, after rejecting the original Lelouch of the Rebellion?) was more of a curse than a blessing to Taniguchi, because his plan had been to continue where things left off in episode 25, which would have been possible had he been allowed to keep the same timeslot in October 2007. Producer Kawaguchi wasn’t exaggerating when he said in the early R2 promotion articles that the Code Geass team had to throw out all their existing plans for season 2 and start all over because of the new timeslot.

Might explain the decision to cut Suzaku’s relation to the Geass (which was supposed to have been something deeper than just “he has the potential”), Kallen’s father (and Naoto?), and Cecile’s relationship with Suzaku, among other things.

Also, Taniguchi was seriously considering leaving the anime industry as a form of apology to the fans when it turned out that production was way behind schedule and they had to use up two slots for recaps. Season 1 was supposed to have ended with episode 23, but fortunately there was enough fan support for the Sunrise execs to greenlight episodes 24+25. The episode 25 ending is the ending Taniguchi planned to show from the very beginning; according to him, he once thought of using it as the opening scene of Stage 1 (which would have made the whole of season 1 one huge flashback; I think that’s actually pretty cool)

Taniguchi planned the season 1 ending with the firm belief that he could jump right back into the story 6 months later and tell the story to the same audience, so when he was informed of the new timeslot, Taniguchi was completely crushed. He was asked to write a short message to his fans for the special screening pamphlet back then, and apparently all he wanted to write was a letter of apology, which wasn’t allowed. Neither was he allowed to explain the situation to the fans, which is understandable from a Sunrise exec point of view, but not quite fair towards Taniguchi, IMO. When his colleagues reported back from the special screening (which Taniguchi did not attend) and spoke of the audience’s “Ehhhhhhhhh!? D:” reaction to the ending, Taniguchi’s reply was: “You think I don’t know that!? Don’t make it sound like it’s something to be happy about, you moron!”. Seems like he was really unhappy about things then XD

Some of you might remember Taniguchi’s cameo in Bamboo Blade; apparently he talked about his unhappy situation with his friends Kurata Hideyuki (scriptwriter for GunxSword and Bamboo Blade; Taniguchi “killed” him in Stage 10) and Saitou Hisashi (director of Bamboo Blade, animation director for Infinite Ryvius and S.cry.ed). After that, “Taniguchi” appeared in Bamboo Blade announcing he will retire from the anime industry after his next project. Taniguchi remarks in the interview: “They totally read my mind, back then.”

It’s kind of sad that we’ll never see the original Code Geass story as Taniguchi envisioned it. And he doesn’t seem to have any confidence in himself as a director; to him, all his projects might very well be his last. I just hope things will work out better for him in the future. At the very least, studio execs (Suzaku?) should stop screwing with his plans ><

The following is whatever I felt like saying.
I’m interested in how Geass was supposed to work out originally, R2 in particular since they scrapped and re-did it. I doubt that R2 13, in particular, was anything remotely like how it was originally planned out. I believe that “Sayoko is a Ninja” and Orange was brought back are largely due to 2ch and they found ways to include them. Tamaki’s Girlfriend has said before that the animation production was constantly behind, and that they would’ve had time to fuck ep 10 to make Orange live. I also recall reading early on that Rolo was bullshitted specifically for the “new R2″. (Edit: I believe it was when Koshimizu/Kouzuki was talking about one of the writers being challenged to “ease new viewers” into R2? Someone correct me if I’m not thinking about this correctly s;dlfkkl;234.)

MikuHatsune wrote:its just weird that they went from hulking giant metal robots that were fairly slow to something so maneuverable.....

MikuHatsune wrote:its just weird that they went from hulking giant metal robots that were fairly slow to something so maneuverable.....

LastBlues wrote:

MikuHatsune wrote:its just weird that they went from hulking giant metal robots that were fairly slow to something so maneuverable.....

they weren't that slow. The Britanian knightmares were more maneuverable than the crap that the Japanese was using.

Maybe the white knightmare the main character was using has a luminous core