So Lulu and the gang are back for another round of stretched-out limbs and mecha, sorry, Nightmare battles. OH BOY! I have to admit, I saw and enjoyed the first season. It felt a bit to me like Death Note, if Death Note hadn’t been so retarded. Death Note done right, if you will. That’s not to say Code Geass wasn’t full of its own little gems, but it is at least able to resist bursting through the doors of Campiness to sing out, “HERE I AAAAAAAM!” (Code Geass just knocks politely.)

After the end of the first season, I was all but wetting my pants for the premier of R2.

One episode in and the new season promises to be…uh…very familiar?

We join sweet little Lulu at school, as he scampers through the halls, outsmarting his scantily-clad gym teacher. Oh, those gym teachers. Off our hero races, joined by his…brother.WTF.

Where did he get a brother? Wasn’t there a sister? What happened to her? And why is he wandering around so happy? What happened to Susucku? (Did you see what I did there? I put SUCK in his name! Ha!) Where’s Kallen? Who got shot? HOW DID THEY SOLVE THAT WHOLE MESS?

Oh, wait. Kallen in a bunny suit. I’ve forgotten all of my questions. Please, Code Geass, continue to spoonfeed me bad anime cliches.

So, with the exception of Kallen show off her goods, it’s pretty much business as usual. Lulu is kicking ass at chess, the Elevens are being mistreated, the Britannians are acting evil. Cue explosions. Yawn.

Enter the Mysterious Chinese Character, accompanying a rather ridiculous parody of a Chinese diplomat. (Oh, you Japs and your racism.) He’s a whiz with a sword and cuts off the guards’ holsters when they tell him he has to hand it over. Haha! I would have prefered if he’d cut their pants off to reveal polka dotted underpants, but there has to be a line somewhere, right?

BUT WAIT. Kallen’s Nightmare is on the scene. I love this gimmick. I love her goofy ass-in-the-air posture. The only thing that could possibly, possibly make it any better is if there was some kind of phallic joystick she had to sit on in order to steer. Hard to believe it was left out. Somebody is sleeping on the job.

Lulu takes a bad fall and even his pointy-faced brother is unable to save him. (You just know if it was Death Note, that would have been a ten minute sequence.) But thank goodness for all concerned, C.C. shows up.

If you don’t see the echo of season one here, you’re a moron, so I won’t even deal with that.

Instead I’ll skip to the part where it looks like Susucku is…heh…sucking. Oooh, I giggled for a good long time over that one. And then, when he…

Hey. Wait a minute.

Where’d he come from? How come he’s alive? How come all three of them made it out alive? What the heck happened? I NEED SOME FREAKING ANSWERS.

Aaaaaand…it’s over.

Are you kidding me?

No. No, Code Geese never kids. That’s how people get hurt.

Next time: Um…Lulu flails his arms around a lot. You know, like always. And Kallen sticks her butt out. This is gonna be good!

P.S. Does anyone else hate the OP and ED as much as I do?

P.P.S. Apologies for the distended images. Just got a new computer and life after ACDSee is proving to be challenging.

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