As has been mentioned numerous times already elsewhere, the first episode of the second season of Code Geass mirrors the very first episode perfectly, just with a lot more mysteries. Why does Lelouch have amnesia? Why is Rollo so gay? Why does Villeta need to degrade herself by becoming a gym teacher? How the hell did C.C. survive a long jump into the ocean? (short answer: the same way she survived everything else.) What does R2 mean anyways? Why does Kallen look so hot in a bunny outfit. Yes, the questions are endless, but I can still count on CG to keep somethings the same.

Lelouch has crazy expressions and arms with multiple elbows. C.C. is still enigmatically cool. The Emperor is awesome. Orange-kun gets the coolest scene in the OP. (speaking of the OP, like every other CG OP it will take me a while to get used to, but I’ll love it when I do. Lelouch riding a horse is just lolz worthy. And the Tristan is a cool design, the color scheme just sucks on it.) Suzaku is an uber-douchebag, and Pizza Hut still supports the Rebellion. Everything already feels familiar and comfortable, but with this being CG things won’t stay that way for long. Lelouch is already planning his comeback, and I can’t wait to see what CG’s comeback is either. I know everyone and their mother, uncle, and estranged cousin in prison will be blogging CG, and count me as one of them.

Now for something completely different. I checked out Kanokon hoping for some kind of fun, fanservicey show, and Kanokon definitely has fanservice of the raunchy variety. Too bad it’s spread too thin and everything else is the show is boring. Kouta is the most pipsqueak harem lead ever. The guy’s like a foot shorter than every other girl and lacks a single bone in his whole body. The main girl has no interesting qualities if you look past her chest, and every other girl is a stereotype we’ve seen before. There’s hints of something that may or may not be awesome having happened in the past, but this episode starts in media res, so anything that’s come before is lost on us now. I don’t think Kanokon is the kind of show I’m looking for at all. I need one that won’t put me to sleep.