From 1890b9e4199bce8a8ad6c6f9fa2ecbecf5d6a46e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dakkar Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:18:04 +0000 Subject: review: code geass --- src/anime/review/code-geass/.gitignore | 2 + src/anime/review/code-geass/document.en.rest.txt | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/anime/review/code-geass/du2html.xsl | 1 + 3 files changed, 75 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/anime/review/code-geass/.gitignore create mode 100644 src/anime/review/code-geass/document.en.rest.txt create mode 120000 src/anime/review/code-geass/du2html.xsl diff --git a/src/anime/review/code-geass/.gitignore b/src/anime/review/code-geass/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..08d33d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/anime/review/code-geass/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +/document.en.du.xml +/document.it.du.xml diff --git a/src/anime/review/code-geass/document.en.rest.txt b/src/anime/review/code-geass/document.en.rest.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba6ba68 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/anime/review/code-geass/document.en.rest.txt @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +============ + Code Geass +============ +:CreationDate: 2014-03-19 12:03:07 +:Id: anime/review/code-geass +:tags: - anime + - review +:rating: 4 +:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/code-geass-lelouch-of-the-rebellion-season-1 + +The Empire of Britannia has conquered most of the world. Japan is now +a province of the Empire, stripped of its name and referred to as just +"Area 11". Order is enforced with powerful mechas, and all rebellion +is quickly stopped. + +Lelouch is a Britannian (yes, I know "Briton" would be more natural, +but these are Japanese we're talking about) whose mother was murdered, +and thus hates the Empire. He can't do much about it, though, being +just a student, although a brilliant one. + +One day, caught in the middle of a skirmish between Britannian forces +and Japanese terrorists / freedom fighters, he receives a strange +power from a dying girl. The girl is soon revealed (to us, if not to +him) to be the result of experiments by a semi-clandestine imperial +laboratory. The experiments and the lab are destroyed by their +creators in a hasty damage control operation: Lelouch is now the only +person with that power. + +What's the power? "Just" the ability to compel anyone to do his +bidding (once, he'll learn soon enough). + +With this power, his great intellect, and some kind of support from +the freedom fighters, he vows to destroy the Empire and rebuild a +world in which he and his sister can live in peace. + +This could be one of the great anime of all time, and it is very good, +but its flaws prevent it from reaching greatness. Let's start from +what I didn't like. + +Most of the characters are schoolboys and schoolgirls, hiding their +identities from each other; this set-up is much more fitting a comedy +than a war story, and sometimes it shows. + +There's some filler material, which gets irritating when you realise +that the story is not going to be concluded in these 25 episodes. + +Lelouch's quest to find who killed his mother feels a bit repetitive, +hunting down the main suspect only to discover that it was not them, +and they have very little information on the matter. + +What did I like? + +Clamp's character design, which I usually don't like, works rather +well: the angular faces suit the serious and very determined +characters. + +Lelouch: he's terribly smart, and his efforts to balance his multiple +goals (avenge his mother, safeguard his sister, help the rebels, +topple the Empire…) make for a very complex and interesting character. + +In fact, most of the characters are well developed and have some depth +to them, they're not just background for Lelouch grand plan. + +The story, even with the limitations described above, is engaging and +appropriately filled with twists. + +So, if you like smart characters engaged in complicated plots to +change the world, and prefer mecha battles to shinigami, this is quite +probably a series you should watch. + +Curiosity note: the "Geass" in the title is probably a mis-spelling of +the Irish "geas" or "geis". diff --git a/src/anime/review/code-geass/du2html.xsl b/src/anime/review/code-geass/du2html.xsl new file mode 120000 index 0000000..371d03d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/anime/review/code-geass/du2html.xsl @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +../../../../templates/du2html-review.xsl \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3