Code Geass attempt at comedy opinions

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Ricky Lee

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What are your opinions on the episodes of Code Geass Lelouch Of The Rebellion which try to provide comedy relief? Typical episodes centered in Ashford Academy are comedy relief episodes. Though I would never call it filler, ever episode contributes to the plot.

Most people I have dicuessed this with, don't like the comedy. If you don't like the attempt of comedy, may I ask why?

Do you think it is forced? Not properly executed? Or just too out of place for the subject of the show?

I don't know too many animes that are 100% serious with no comedy at all. I do get the vibe, the comedy is just out of place. A show like Bleach or Naruto Shippuden, have much more goofy comedy things, and it doesn't feel out of place, but the main plots are serious.
 
The only people I know of who dislike the comedy episodes I know from online forums like this one. My anime club love code geass, even the silly comedy.

An anime can't satiefy everyone though. I think people rather would have more focus on the main story and the sillyness isn't their type of comdey so it just annoys them.
 
Personally I need some comedy relief to break the tension. I don't know if I could watch a show that is 100% seriesness. It be to depressing.

But my question to the people that don't care for the comedy, why don't you like it? Is is the comedy itself, or the execution of the comedy?

I don't hate the comedy relief episodes also. They can be fun, though they are not nearly as funny as Bleach. Though Lloyd, he is as funny as any character on any show. My overal opinion, the comedy is good, but I have seen funnier.
 
I am not a fan of the Ashford episodes of Geass, not going to lie. I generally skip them when rewatching the series except for the two-minute tidbits of actual good stuff. It's partly because the male-oriented fanservice was most excessive in those episodes, but mostly because the tone shifts so drastically. The execution is significantly better in season 1 as well, but I prefer the overall darker tone of the series, so the random more light-hearted episodes often just didn't feel like they fit. Again, it was worse in R2 (episode 12, anyone?), but overall, those were not episodes I loved.
 
I don't know why, maybe there is something I just don't "get", but most comedy attempts in anime do nothing for me these days.

Over the top wacky dialogue, stupid situations, obnoxious sex humor/fanservice type things and anime cliches such as sweatdrops or a person suddenly 180 degrees flipped with their head on the floor (though I don't recall that in Geass) are all I usually see.

Now, give me Lloyd's or someone else's witty dialogue or something like Ichigo and Rukia arguing or Rukia's childish drawings and yeah, I'll probably chuckle.
 
It might be a cultural thing where japanese culture finRAB such silly humor more funny than say western fans.

There are few comdey episodes in the show so I've never seen it as a big deal.
 
I'll be the one to say it
save from the fanservice (which was way too much) I liked the comedy centered episodes. It washed the stains of flair for the overly dramatic out of the series. But then regarding fanservice elements, it is all over code geass ad nauseam. I actually do enjoy the strange and unpredictable situations these assumingly serious characters have - and usually episodes do expose some sort of character weakness (pizza for C2, lelouche being more out of shape than an obese man running a marathon) I think its priceless humor. Again perhaps after season 1, me and code geass couldn't hang because of the use of so many tropes, but the comedic episodes were a minor saving grace to a series that almost made me strongly dislike giant robot anime.
 
I can understand using comedy to lighten the atmosphere up to a point, but I'd definitely identify with the "forced" complaint. A lot of the comedy involves things that happen or people that show up for absolutely no good reason. The catch is that in the rest of the show Lelouch is winning or losing by virtue of his planning, intellect, and mental wit, so crazy comedy can feel like a completely different show. It's almost--almost--akin to Light of Death Note doing a song and dance nuraber while holding a cane and wearing a top hat. It wouldn't work, right?

The issue with that is mostly assorted moments in R2's first half, including R2 12, which is the worst Geass episode of all time. In season one things were relatively balanced, and that episode toward the end with the giant pizza was an exception. And even there, they remerabered to move the plot.
 
There was a line etched in the sand. This line was the season 1 finale, when the show took a darker turn and in theory said 'From this, there is no going back'.

The problem is, the comedy moments completely ignored this. At a time when the narrative should have been more focussed on the morality issues that had been pushed to the forefront, we got fanservice and hijinks. The result being they undermine the plot. Geass focus is much like a yo yo; it delves into dark questions of human motivation and the expansion of cultures, before sharply snapping back and giving us some tasteless fluff. Like if you did a serious film about the Holocaust and then halfway cut to some Allied soldiers judging a wet t-shirt contest and one of them trying in vain to find a toilet to deal with his bad case of the runs.

Then again, this is the series which has officially licensed books of yaoi 'For Girls' and yuri 'For Boys'. It's like some Mobile Suit Gundam fanboys wrote a lemon fanfic, pitched it to a studio and ran with it convinced they were making some credible morality tale.
 
I absolutely hate the comedy - honestly, coupled with the fact all of the characters are so OVERWHELMINGLY dry, it's the single reason I gave up on Code Geass.

The show simply cannot decide what it wants to be. Is it a serious tale of morals? Is it a story of one man's revenge? Is it a silly schooltime variety show? A series of fanservice shots? Drama? Comedy? Action? Geass tries to juggle too many plates and virtually all of them shatter - and the ones that don't, I'd imagine, are simply thanks to the laws of chance.

If you want to be silly, be silly. If you want to be dramatic, be dramatic. If you want to be both - for the love of God, do it well.

It's a shame, honestly, because I wanted to like the show, and I did find a some hidden gems; however, it simply isn't worth wading through the crap to get to it.

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Wow, that was harsh, wasn't it? I need to go take a walk or something.
 
harsh but sadly true about CG...it felt like it didn't know what it wanted to be and it showed with the needless death and betrayals of everyone in hopes to save the fans and give the aha if you keep with us something good will happen.

Then it kept coming and coming and coming. It wasn't groundbreaking just poorly executed. And it made me as a watcher regret the series a lot. But then the comedy episodes made me go away and make me forget about what the series struggled to be and poorly executed plot decisions concerning the turn of the series.

I think I see the comedic episodes like I could see haruhi chan, something that wouldn't happen normally but it is fun to wash out some inconsistencies within a franchise. But then again that's just me. btw is it bad to actually like the parody series for code geass more than code geass itself. Dunno...
 
Ashford Academy does suttle reprents a world that we all should strive for. It is open to people of all nations, and they try to push the liberal ideas of being civil with one another regurdless of nationality. Principal Ashford, he is very idealiest. So I think these Ashford Academy comedy episodes, as its own message.

Anyway you notice this show is a robot machine show, in which the main character does not have a star machine. The Lancelot and the Gurren, as well as maybe a couple of others, are the star knightmares, none of which is used Lelouch / Zero.
 
Ashford Academy was pretty clearly a school for spoiled Britannian brats. Look how much difficulty Suzaku encountered at first, to the point he even encouraged Lelouch to distance himself.
 
You seem to have a predijeges against kiRAB that come from family that don't actively fight. When we disguessed Mobile Suit Gundam 00, you called people spoiled brats than also. If my memory is correct, you referred to Saji Crossroad as a spoiled brat? He was a just an adverage Joe that lived in a regular apartment with his sister. Nothing spectatulor about that.

Back to the topic at hand, Nina is the only Ashford character (not counting the nameless extras) has a raciest attitude. But I give them the benefit of the doubt, because Suzaku was an accused murderer. It is like having OJ Simpson as a classmate. It is natural to be a little apprencive of someone after hearing he might have killed somebody.

Anyway, still I give Mr. Ashford credit for not being a segerist like Emperior Charles incouraged, but also for not holding a grudge against Lelouch and Nunnally, and looking after the kiRAB of the woman who single handedly ruined his families social standings by being murdered. Most people would be resentful in that situation.
 
Um, I'm a very active defender of Saji Crossroad. You clearly have me confused with someone else.

And without giving my life story- I think I have every right to dislike people who have everything handed to them on a silver platter. Especially when in a story you base characters on that and give them no likeable qualities.
 
Maybe so. I remeraber I wanted to disguess Saji and Louise, and their original roles on the show. And this person said they were two spoiled brats. Must have been somebody else. Louise I grant you, but Saji is not. Though still coming from wealth doesn't make someone less of a person. It was still terrible and unexcuseable what happened to Louise's family. And those that know the reason why that happened, makes it even more reprensible. If that wasn't you, please except my hurable appology.

Listen I am not saying the students are perfect tolerent people. I really meant was the attempt of indegrating the schools was a good syrabolism of an ideal world. The ideal world that Nunnally wants and Lelouch is determained to make happen. Just because something indegrated, doesn't mean they aren't raciest people. But still just an indegrated school is a very idealist thing to attempt in the Code Geass world.
 
Ashford Academy is why I never finished Season 1 of Geass, let alone glanced at Season 2. It was THAT bad. Out of place, about as funny as an episode of Tim and Eric, and just plain stupid. If the damn place burned to the ground a few eps in, the show would have been way better.
 
No, if your watching it on AS now then the comdey episodes are over. I think there are only 3 or 4 in total anyway. For a 50 episode show thats not much.
 
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