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This season genuinely pissed me offfffffffffff god why bring it back just to ruin it

Season one blew me away, but watching season two right after, without knowing how bad it was, killed my love for the franchise. If i give it some time and then watch season one again, maybe ill have fond memories of the show once more.

Great video fellow Dan! This is a terrible season that never should've been made but alas

second OP>first OP

@ManTheDan i bet the phrase "Namjala Latak" in Resurrection is why the Hindi dub of Code Geass exists nowadays. Plus, the whole Indian setting.

Good video fellow Dan

@ManTheDan I have another question for you. I know many Bleach dub voice actors did Code Geass. Which is older, Code Geass or Bleach? I am more into Code Geass than Bleach but I was just curious. I know Code Geass first aired in 2006 (the original series).

@ManTheDan Hey, I have a question for you. Have you ever had mixed emotions either before or after watching an episode of Code Geass? Like even for me, I feel happy one minute then sad the next. No one in my family seems to understand when I say that Code Geass is like that, it's such a thought provoking anime. There are lots of sad media outside of Code Geass, too. I'm not going insane or tormenting myself, it's just how Code Geass is. But I would like to know if this has happened to you, too.

Yesterday I have invented a Kino's Journey Bingo. You win instantly, when a reviewer does not mention the 3 additional episodes that came out after the initial TV run ended. I think you used 1 scene from one of them, so maybe you know. For those that don't know, 2 episodes were released in Japan as OVAs, and were clearly meant to be a part of the original broadcast, one is a sequel to the prequel, or part 2 of 2 of Kino's childhood backstory. Another episode is standalone. A 3rd bonus episode was released even later, animated by a different studio. All 3 were never dubbed or released in the west :(

nuh uh

The series just ended this year. I checked my anilist and remembered you existed and we talked about the series on discord. Ngl while I overall like the series... I felt like the final arc was short considering how long the hiatus was.

I've played all the Yakuza games up until Yakuza Gaiden. I loved Like a Dragon but I feel like what they did wasn't enough to evolve the series into something new. I just feel like if you played a Yakuza game, you pretty much played them all. It doesn't help that the games can take up to 100 hours if you want to do everything. I thought it was the fatigue talking but after playing Gaiden I realized how done I was with the series.

Nice video mate

For me the game was an amazing ending to Kiryus story as the main character Honestly I can’t unhear return of the travelers when I watch the ending

You should watch Inu-Oh (2021)!!!!

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is always disappointing to me. I’m a cinephile and he comes up all the time in film spaces, but I just don’t get it.

uh yea... you just repeated what the comments in the others youtube video its really not your original from your view too bad..

We are Yakuza 6

new dan video dropped, we eating good today!! I kinda wanna play yakuza after seeing your vids

This was nice. I think I'm gonna try and binge it tonight so this was a lovely spoiler free vid to get me excited beforehand! Please share your thoughts on the reboot too if you've watched it because people are split on which version is better (I'm just going with the earlier one first).

I've played all the main Yakuza games, from the PS2 era on, and I'm very fond of them; however I completely agree, their stories are usually a garbled mess, and it irks me that fans are not willing to recognize the writing is so sub par, even when it damages the series as a whole. The last straw for me were the stories of Gaiden and Infinite Wealth: I won't spoil anything, but I think they were a nostalgia pandering disappointment. Thanks for the video, much appreciated!

10:53 it wasn't a headshot, you can very clearly see where the bullet hits on his shirt when he shoots the gun, about a second before his head falls back.

You know how can you fix it? Only Majima has a bag with weapons. He doesn't show up. Saejima sees this and thinks that its now or never. He grabs anything hard hitting he can find lying around and barges into the ramen shop. Beating everyone in a very brutal manner all by himself. He gets arrested and while he's out Katsuragi shoots everyone lying around. He then proceeds to tell the police and bribe his way into claiming that "Saejima shot everyone". Something along those lines. That way we could've finally touched this gray area of borderline commiting murder but not directcly by your hand (but by your actions).

I still think Yakuza 4 is one of my favorites (Also, I remember that one time when someone posted real gore on r/yakuzagames to prove the twist real)

So many people brush off this twist?! You realize that the only thing that comes to anyone's mind when talking about Y4 is "rubber bullets"? This is THE most overused thing to joke about it in regards for this game.

I think your part on Saejima explains it all. The rubber bullets were there for the game designers to not have a playable 'murderer'. They're extremely afraid of writing a nuanced protagonist that kills in cutscenes.

My friend once said about yakuza "it's like the two teams in charge of side quests and the main story had no idea each other existed"

Honestly, Yakuza 4's story feels like if Vince Russo was a fan of Infernal Affairs.

This feels like a twist one of the Ace Attorney writers would come up with.

Kiryu fought a tiger w his bare hands and u worried bout taking the story seriously

I honestly think the rubber bullets plot twist is pretty well done in regards to the ueno hit, but every other usage of them in the rest of the story is ridiculously stupid

Better than 5's Aizawa

Your not supposed to take yakuza seriously it's satirical

While I can somewhat forgive rubber bullets for the Ueno hit (since I love y4), with Aria there is no way 😭

Saving this gem when I get to Yakuza 4. Only played Yakuza 0 a while back, and loved it immensely.

I just realized that I mispronounced Sugiuchi's name the entire video lol. I don't know why I thought it was Suguichi. EDIT: Another clarification that Katsuragi wasn't planning to wipe out the whole Ueno Seiwa clan, just the ones at the ramen restaurant that he considered competition for his rise to power.

Y4 is like one of those games where they have a lot of really incredible ideas and set pieces, but they just can't get them to make sense and flow together. Like, the intentions are THERE and the heart is THERE but what ties them together is just pathetic. Great video!

Had me hooked to the screen, great vid mandadan

good job!

this is a nice video, but a lot of your problems with the series seem to come from your lack of understanding of certain scenes and context of such. about ten minutes in you talk about the scene that takes place in the past with Eren and Armin. that isnt a metaphor. that literally happened. eren, having the founding titan abilities, is able to manipulate the memories of most eldians (maybe all, i forget) and erased these interactions from their memories as not to allow them to fuck up his plan. just thought I'd let you know, there's definitely some stuff you didn't pick up on and stuff doesn't just come out of nowhere like you think it does.

I've replayed the game since making this video and have changed my mind on Ornstein and Smough, that fight owns.

Sorry these takes are shit...

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Hey, nice Videos! Do you have Discord? Greetings from Germany

One problem, i cant find any free streaming websites

I think Suzaku role in the series is heavily missunderstood. You're supposed to find him annoying, but if he was the main character, you'd root for him. Suzaku is a critique of the flawed main protagonists in other meccha/shonen animes. He's the Shinji from evangelion, the Setsuna from gundam zero etc.. and personally I'd say he's even more akin to Eren in AOT than Lelouch is, which at first might seem like a strange comparison, but AOT was inspired heavily from code geass, and the ending of that show is what would happen if someone "dumber"/"less strategically minded" attempted the same as Lelouch succeded in doing. I think the point of Code Geass, (especially considering the movies like Ressurection) is that human violence is fractally inevitable. This is evident by the antagonists in Ressurection, which was a country relying on weaponsales (aka violence) to thrive. In a poethic way, Lelouch flipped the table in R2 from being the small rebellions of the world, to have the warmongers of the world be the small rebellions. This is a much better feat than for instance Eren Jager, or dr.Manhattan whom had the same plan, but rather equallized the playingfield instead of "winning material"

Coming back to this video, I wanna say ‘cause I didn’t the first time that your analysis is good. I didn’t really articulate issues with some of the side plots, just felt they were weak, so it was nice to see someone put this into words for me. Honestly I think the best comparison for this story is Chainsaw Man, and maybe the fundamental difference is tone. I don’t mind that CSM is a bit sleazy or any other things I might normally criticize, because CSM has a very specific tone. Heavenly Delusion has typical anime comedy moments, while CSM has a more heightened/absurdist world which justifies a lot. The story in general is so over the top that its characters’ reactions may feel muted, but it works somehow. Like, in such a crazy world, how could you actually parse your feelings? Also Denji has an emotional core that’s understandable, even if a lot of the time he’s a shitbag teen boy. You feel that he wants a home and a simple life. Also his character development is exceedingly rare for a shonen, revolving around growing past dependency and realizing that horny as he is, he wants intimacy more than just sex. I’m not even a huge CSM fan, but I was able to write all that praise about it, and could say more. What is there to say about Heavenly Delusion? It has an almost non-existent tone. Kiriko and Maru have goals, but no emotional anchor which makes me care about them reaching those goals. It all just feels half-hearted, such a weird contrast from the beautiful art. Anyway thanks for this video because it’s the only place I’ve seen anyone criticize the anime/manga. I watched it with a friend and felt pressured to enjoy it so this is cathartic to me lol.

I had two main issues with this show: unoriginality and fan service. Nothing in the story felt fresh. It’s not that post-apocalypse or creepy schools can’t still be interesting, it’s that this story didn’t do anything new with those set ups. The school storyline was more interesting but somehow there was never any tension. None of the characters were stand out, though a couple were okay. I didn’t enjoy the Maru and Kiriko plot line at all-very few interesting or unique stories. Every episode is just going to be “they get a clue but it doesn’t lead them where they want.” That would be fine if they were lovable characters in an exciting story but they weren’t. The biggest issue with Kiriko and Maru is the fan service and romance angle. Now, those things aren’t bad by themselves. It makes sense for Maru to have a crush, and I don’t always hate fan service (I think it works in Chainsaw Man because it ties into the story/themes). But it was such a turn off here. Kiriko actually being her younger brother is the only interesting idea the story introduced but it never got explored. The backstory was weird and inhuman. Then the story just becomes “let’s tease Maru with Kiriko naked and make sex jokes.” I didn’t feel a bond between them aside from that really. The story tried for it but they just felt like flat characters-they’re clearly supposed to be cool but that just doesn’t do it for me. This isn’t even a shonen, it’s a seinen, try harder.

I've watched it like 8 times now and watched 4 different reaction videos for the whole show, my gf absolutely hates the show but it's my #1 anime for the politics alone not to mention the music, themes, and drama

The widespread criticisms and overall lower regard for Code Geass is because of a generation gap, the hype, and the mechs. Remember, at its core, anime is made for teens. The fanbase is largely young at all times. Code Geass is a mecha anime, which is a hated genre in today's anime landscape. Politics/war/strategy dont fit the modern trend towards fantasy and battle shonen. Older animes are only known to the young fanbase when they have hype. When other young people are gassing it up. It's an 00s anime and feels like one. Very few 'classics' survive this lack of hype. When an anime has a fanbase predominantly made up of 30+ men and women, it loses status.Especially with the dated Clamp artstyle. CG is often compared to two currently beloved animes - which hurts it. Lelouch is often compared to Light from Death Note. The ending was copied, largely, by Attack on Titan. Fans of Death Note and AoT are very critical of Code Geass because they feel attacked. Many of them have never seen CG, despite criticizing it, and proudly state they'd never watch it. These AoT superfans attack anything related to CG on reddit or social media. Often with the same cheap insults of "Code Gayass" and "LeDouche." But that hurts a show. Teens are social. Teens ride hype. Teens rarely think for themselves. So when they see a lot of this, they jump on the bandwagon.