From quick skimming it’s mostly just some background story and Orange-kun with a Geass. I’m going to put out a guess but I think Orange has some kind of super Geass ability now or something that can undo C.C.’s/emperor’s geass and freeze time. The preview showed more school, action, possible Orange doing something, and well shirley.

At the end Orange uses his Geass on Shirley, I wish I knew Japanese to just know what the hell he did if it is even explained.

Lots of silly running about, the maid cross-dressing, and lots of Ashford Academy though. Bleh.

Lelouch goes over his memories still where we left him, but also questions if Rolo is actually his brother. He’s nearly certain he has no younger brother, but is interrupted by a passing soldier who doesn’t even know about the story of “Zero.” Like Episode 2 of the first season, you can guess what he does to the unaware soldier with a KnightMare.

Taking the mech suit, Lelouch escapes, and the story is shifted onto Governor General Carare who is accompanied by both some interesting new characters, and Cornelia’s Knight, Gilbert Guilford. The two are informed that one of Carare’s soldier’s had their KnightMare taken from them. Gilbert insists on fixing the situation but Carare declines. He proudly suggests being the Governor it is his duty, discusses his disliking to spicy Chinese food, and that he’s intrigued in the ‘game’ of a man hunt.

Trust Issues?

Lelouch and the Order of the Black Knights still in the building gather explosives to trace the the frames of the building. Of course with a start of no trouble, and even one of the older members of the order proudly exclaims “As long as we have Zero, we can win!” Though he also mutters about his surprise about Lelouch being a student, but shrugs it off. Zero is Zero.

Not everyone is so trusting. Kallen arrives back from helping clear the first few rounds of KnightMares. So much for a “welcoming parade” for Zero… er- or Lelouch. Kallen walks up to Lelouch questioning if the Geass had ever controlled her in anyway, as her hand shook on the trigger of a gun. Being close enough to converse, Lelouch informs her that her following him was her own doing, and takes her gun. A heart felt moment is cut briefly as Lelouch asks Kallen how long she is going to be wearing that bunny outfit.

During a split scene, you see the king, Lelouch’s father, entrusting Suzaku with a powerful mech suit which he says is their weapon against the gods. The only reason Suzaku has it is because of out of the Knights of the Round, he is the only one who knows of Geass, and of Zero.

Lelouch, Kallen, and the rest that are in the building fight there way out. A mysterious fight emerges, and Lelouch is convinced the fighter is not Suzaku, but the speed of the mech, (user), is too great that the trusting ally, as shown above, risks his life for “Zero.” To not let his friend die in vain, Lelouch has the bombs in the building set off collapsing the building, and crushing the hopes and dreams in more ways than one to the once intrigued General, Carare. So much for his cameo.

Though it is found out by Gilbert and a few others the explosion of the building was also used as a pathway in itself, leading to the Chinese building. As if it were planned.

Skipping over to our lovely cliff hanger, the Chinese Guard asks Rolo if he is not for or is for Zero, and expresses his impatience. Rolo agrees that he too has his own impatience and it is revealed he has a Code Geass and is about to use it at the moment. LOVELEH!

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As we have mentioned before, the return of Code Geass shows itself with the title, “Code Geass R2.” The title of episode one should speak for itself, [spoiler]since from the past Lelouch’s memory was replaced with a false one[/spoiler]. Though whether the new series may be as good as the first is up to you to decide, and your choice to get a sneaky look at the summary heavily crammed with spoilers…

Be my guest. Follow the jump!

Zero is assumed dead, Diethard and Rakshata are still not found, and a few terrorists, (Black Knights), roam free. Not to mention the unforgettable drama between our head leader of the Order of the Black Knights and the newly promoted Knight of the Round, ‘Suzaku.’ It is hard to determine what triggered Suzaku into selling out ‘Zero,’ his childhood friend. Was it between the fact he lost a possible lover, or the many times ‘Zero,’ hid his identity? What ever it is- Lelouch lives a second life.

Sometimes its easier to just forget things and move on in life. For some like our troubled Lelouch, it’s not a choice. We were at the very midst of drama and yet it becomes calm way too soon! The perfect school boy life, skipping class to go gambling. Looks like we’re back where we started from the first episode. Let History repeat itself, aye?

The Black Knights dwindling down in numbers and from sight, elevens back to being elevens. Somehow Lelouch doesn’t feel like the treatment of elevens is fair. Great. He ‘feels,’ but like any Britannian does nothing but step back and watch with his brother, Rolo. Encountering a red headed girl in a bunny suit, Lelouch apologizes, but is given another view of how things ‘just are,’ from the red head, sparking his feelings even more. Soon she was given harsh treatment as property for being an eleven ‘with out power,’ by a certain man just collecting girls in bunny outfits.

Lelouch adjusts to the situation and challenges the man to a game of chess. Though he wins, the man accuses him of cheating in chess. I’d like to learn how you could do that…! Before the man could attack, the building starts to rattle, and the girl in the bunny suit, (Kallen), kicks the man away from herself. Why didn’t she do that before? Between the interference, the battles of ‘terrorists’ and Britannians, Kallen tries to snag Lelouch from the scene but is unable to as Lelouch and his brother Rolo try to escape. During the moment, a certain ‘terrorist’ mech suit reaches its hands out towards him. Confused he still continues to try to escape the area.

The brothers are parted by a desperate fall, but Lelouch is safe, and runs up flights of stairs to be sure his brother was safe. On his way he finds bodies of both Britannians and elevens. One thing that stands out is an eleven bunny girl with a photo of Zero crumbled in her hands. Aggravating him into believing it was at the hands of ‘Zero,’ that all the people had died.

Worse comes to worse for Lelouch, an ‘Order of the Black Knights’ appears. None other than CC shows herself, throwing Lelouch off guard by her memory of his name, claiming to be his ally, and mentioning a contract. Reaching her hand to him, she is shot, and falls into Lelouch’s arms. Facing the assaulter of CC, Lelouch turns to face the Army of Britannia.

The Britannian army appear to be disposing of the bodies, including the ones alive, disgusting Lelouch, and then even informing him that he was being used for them to find CC. As soon as he is being aimed at, Lelouch is given his memory back of the contract by CC.

History of course, as mentioned before, repeats itself. Lelouch remembering his ability questions the morals of Britannia, and then orders the men before him to kill themselves. “YES, YOUR HIGHNESS!”

They aim and fire at each other, and the leader to himself.

The Order of The Black Knights also make an appearance, giving Lelouch the reigns to his name, and his new role as their leader instead of being bait.

Go to GG‘s site to download episode 1 of the second season of Code Geass.

Okay read more after the jump.

Welcome back. Last time to run away from the spoilers!

The episode starts with C.C. alive and the resistance still working and then switches over to Lelouch in school. Viletta(sp) is the gym teacher. Lelouch runs around for a bit. Then we see the new op. ORANGE-KUN RETURNS IN THE OPENING. ALLLLL HAILLLLL ORANNNGGEEEEE.

Lolo is there too, bleh. Moving on we’ve got the start of episode one of Code Geass season two still with us. They’re showing executions of elevens for some reason… Diethard and the scientist lady are wanted (like the previews shown) while everyone else but C.C. is “captured” and they assume Zero is dead. Lelouch has lost his memory.

Lelouch goes gambling and the black knights assault the place they’re gambling. TONS of fighting, lolo (or rolo) drops Lulu to his death. He lives, reaches the bottom where C.C. is at, C.C. talks for a bit, then the Britannia forces show up, they kill C.C., lulu flips out, they burn the bodies, C.C. and Lulu touch ala ep 1 right before he dies. THEN he gets his memory and geass back and then WE GET LELOUCH COMMANDS YOU TO DIE. They shoot each other with the main villain shooting himself in the head.

In the end, he takes back over the order of the black knights with his memory in tact. Start season 2 of Code Geass!

Here is a ton of pictures:

This really brings up a question about Eureka 7. In Eureka 7 they were always eating Pizza that came from a franchise that is native to Japan. Since, we the non-Japanese viewers, don’t know the franchise… we sort of didn’t care. However, when Pizza Hut comes into play. Ho ho ho ho.

I wonder why they have a serious lack of Orange-kun on the promotion page. I know that there is some pretty awesome Orange-kun fanart coming from Japanese related mediums.. but I wonder. Often times it is fun to sit and think about such things.

With that said, the new RAW of Code Geass comes out on Thursday. That means I’ll probably watch it and post spoilers. Not that, anyone cares, but it’ll be my service to all of those hanging to the edges of their seat and somehow found this glorious site through the one google search “Orange-kun”