1. Who killed LeLouch mother?
2. How will Cornelia react if she knews Zero is her respected little brother? (they seem to have good relationship)
3. Any plot twist that might happen in the future. Perhaps, Brittanian is not as bad as we know.
4. Whom C.C talks to? Aliens? the real villain of the series?

HOLY SHIT! that was rather unexpected, the last few episodes have just been o.o, cant wait for the next one!

I wonder how Lulu is going to deal with his whole red-eye syndrome now though. I mean he has to take that mask off sometime espiecally during school and stuff. It'll be really interesting to see how he deals with it

LeLouch geass now out of control... he half jokingly gave Euphie absolute order to kill all japanese, just beyond my imagination. Though it's better than Geass end up in cliche way.

Begins the season working as a bunny-girl waitress at a casino in the Babel Tower, which forcibly employs Elevens as waitresses and even has a coliseum for them to battle each other in.

(a new character):Wants to be remembered, so she maintains a blog which she frequently updates and is always snapping pictures with her camera-phone.

The new Governor General of Area 11 is a cruel man named Carares, who holds executions in the garden Clovis built on top of the administration building.

Shamelessly taken from the animesuki forums, a few tidbits

TRANSLATION:

'After one year...a new destiny has begun.

Knight of Rounds, Kururugi Suzaku

New Character, Rollo

And a new Zero appears

New TV series to be aired at spring '08!'

Confirmed by official sources

- 1 year time skip (official trailer)
- New character's name is Rollo (trailer, NewType January)
- Suzaku has joined the "Knight of Rounds" (trailer)
- Zero has a new look (trailer, NewType January)
- Zero might not be Lelouch (Kawaguchi in NewType January)
- New season starts Spring 08
- Season 2 will take place on a global scale

By Fake Yoshino

- Season 2 starts off with scenes that appear to depict normal, everyday life; he doesn't say whose
- Rollo is a character with an "interesting role", and that "(yaoi?) fangirls will probably like it very much" (Alluding to his being Lelouch's sibling?)
- Suzaku's new position will also be an interesting one (Most likely alluding to his joining the Knight of Rounds)
- New season will air in the Sat6 slot (currently Gundam 00's)
- Subtitle for season 2 hasn't been decided upon yet, but it'll be "mostly the same"

By Taniguchi

- Taniguchi: "Fu-kuyama will find himself in an interesting position in season 2." (NewType Taniguchi + Fu-kuyama interview)
- There'll be romantic developments for Lelouch in season 2; the writers deliberately kept them out of season 1 because they felt they needed to show what Lelouch's goals are without complicating matters (PASH! Taniguchi interview)
- Season 2 will have battles after battles after battles... (PASH! Taniguchi interview)
- V.V. is one of the many "key person"s in the show, along with the new Chinese character. (PASH! Taniguchi interview)
- Some of the things that happened in Season 1 will come back to haunt Lelouch in Season 2; "he needs to learn that life is one continuous series of events, and that everything is connected" (PASH! Taniguchi interview)
- Lelouch will meet a lot of new people in Season 2; how he deals with them and gets them on his side will be something worth watching. Who knows, there might also be a betrayal... (PASH! Taniguchi interview)
- "The story has only just begun. I'm really sorry about that. (bitter laugh)" (PASH! Taniguchi interview)
- Not many characters will die from here on (Koshimizu's interview, from the Complete Guide Book; she talks about being relieved to hear it, but then realizes that "not many will die" also means "some will die".)

By Kawaguchi

- While most of the battles in Season 1 relied on Lelouch, season 2 will test the Black Knights' strength as a proper organization. Lelouch using his Geass for outrageous schemes will still be part of the show, however. (NewType)
- "I want Lelouch to continue leading a double life in season 2" (NewType)
- Not many characters will die from here on... but there will be a living hell waiting. (NewType)

By Anonymous

- 1 Year Later
- New character's full name is Rollo Lamperouge (spoiler provided long before NewType January)
- Villetta becomes an Ashford teacher in order to look for Lelouch
- When asked what becomes of Suzaku: "He's busy with his Knightly duties. From what I've seen so far, I don't know if he ever goes back to school."
- Lelouch's hair is slightly longer (not quite shoulder-length)
- Lelouch remains the protagonist; his stance hasn't changed much
- Lelouch remains an Ashford student

By animators, through their blogs

- New Chinese character looks like Yasha from CLAMP's RG Veda
- Rollo has a helmet? (Rides a bike? Unless KMF pilots are suddenly required to wear helmets now)
- There is a scene where Lelouch moves a chess piece
- "The siblings (Lelouch and Rollo) are not much alike."

New!* - A character who looks like C.C. appears.
New!* - Most of the characters on the enemy side are "good-looking".
New!* - Lelouch is as "dark" as usual (the term used in the Dark Nunnally sense), while Suzaku appears to have gone back to being Ore-Suzaku for good.

Link to the original Animesuki forum post
Code Geass season 2 -- SPRING! - AnimeSuki Forum

There is another Lelouche sibling who is alive who we're going to meet. I guess he is that baby that their mother was holding when their home was attacked (if memory serves, I could just be making stuff up, or was that Nunnally...). That and certain spoilers point to the possibility that this new sibling (Rollo is allegedly his name) isn't exactly loyal to his blood siblings...

Oh, and one more thing.
And 1 year leap eh? Bradylama, your prediction on the Gundam 00 thread about the season gap also being a time lapse seems incredibly likely.

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with luluoche (not spelled right huh ~_~) having lost his memories. how many times have you not seen this happen to the main character. Also, it seemed as tho it recreated a few scenes from the first episode of the first season when he first got the geass. It sorta reminded me of how shakugan no shena second started off by recreating the first season but I don't think it'll be that bad, shana really dissapointed me ;_;.
I was actually confused in the start of the episode so I wikapedia'd the episode list to see if I missed anything.
It was a bit of a slow start but I feel like it's going to get much better. I have to admit, when he got his memory back at the end I just thought "The king is back! =0"

Zero will make a plan to rescue the rest of the Black Knight

So did anyone else notice that (presumably) the emperor's Geass in his right eye?

Also, what the hell is Sunrise's Jupiter fetishr? Its in Gundam and its in Geass (connection between GN drives and C.C? hilarious).

It would also appear that Ogi didn't die from the gunshot wound that woman gave him. Who is now also a teacher at the academy? Interesting job change, oh and she is capable of leaping out of the second story window and land right on top of Rivalz, who surprisingly doesn't end up with a herniated disc or something but I digress... oh that and most of the Order of the Black Knight's elite are still alive, and it appears there is going to be a jailbreak episode next week.

I also found the parallel between this first episode and last season's first episode entertaining that is ordering a group of Britannian soldiers to kill themselves, an order with which they answered with an enthusiastic 'Yes your highness.' Very awesome.

Though I must say I'm not terribly impressed with the music so far, I found the OP to be quite mediocre and the episode lacked that Britannian theme that the first season had.

And in the end credits did anyone else catch the pic with the Emperor and V.V? if the Emperor has Geass powers could it have come from V.V? Also, where is Nunally, Lelouch will probably be rather pissed to find her missing and Rollo sort of in her place.

That new lord general of Japan/Area 11 (take your pick) is now dead after his short stint of being the ruler. We also discover that the Emperor has not one of his eyes with Geass, but two. In the accompanying scenes we see what happened between the last episodes of S1 and S2. After seeing that scene Suzaku's position as the 'good' guy (if you held that view) really comes into doubt. That and the emperor has some kind of crazy dig floating in mid-air.

In other news it would appear that this time around Lelouch is willing to drag other nations into his war against Britannia (which from the opening intro appears to actually only be in possession of the Americas, and not Europe, despite its name).

In the meantime we find out the whereabouts of some of the other characters of the cast (including that crazy girl who wanted to set off an atomic explosion at school, she isn't happy to see Zero again)

We also discover that Suzaku and the Emperor are now BFF. That and Rollo too possess the Geass (Geass users really seem to be growing exponentially this series)

Rolo's geass = teleportation?

Could be, though I was under the impression that Geass was strictly a mind manipulation ability. So maybe he blocks perception of his movements or something for a short time.

If it were, I wouldn't think he should've been able to warp a whole Knightmare, only himself. Anyhow, if he really could teleport, why would he even try to go through the front door to the Chinese Federation hideout? It could be because of not knowing the interior maybe, but still, I find it unlikely, there should be ways to around the problem.

Then again, didn't Mao have the Geass symbols in both his eyes, even though he only had one Geass power? I'm thinking that the stronger power gets it goes over to two eyes in the end. It's also possible that the number of eyes with the Geass symbol has no particular significance at all. They might have given Lelouch the power in only one eye so he had a weakness they could exploit in some way (like when Suzaku covered his eye when faced against the Emperor)

Lulu caught Rolo... only to be caught. Lulu almost using his geass on Rolo only before Rolo teleported and turn the table. Cliffhanger

Throwing away Rolo like a used rag? You beautiful bastard.

Rolo will replace LeLouch and becomes Zero? Also, wasnt preview pics depicted Rolo wearing Zero costume?

Anya is Marianne's reincarnation, or is very closely related to Marianne (clone lol). This explains why Marianne told her bodyguards to leave her before she was murdered, and why C.C. says "is that how it is?". Apparantly Anya's hairstyle is the same as young Marianne in a pre-production sketch, but I've yet to see the picture in question.

Total shocker: Zero and Xing Ke made an alliance.

Seriously this shit is just awful. The show is getting way too big for its britches and the writers can't handle geopolitics for shit. The Eunuch Generals are cardboard cutout aristocrats and a national revolt is treated with the significance of a sneeze. Nevermind the godawful scene where everybody stands around funneling exposition from their stupid mouths so Lelouche can learn the power of heart with the help of Shirley's fanservice.

And the Order? What is that shit? A mystery that's gone on for a season and a half and whoopdy fuck it's casual conversation.

Sayoko made LeLouch busy making promise to date all girls within the next 6 month.

Shirley dies in the next episode

Much like Rolo and Villeta Lelouch manages to convince Gottwald (Orange-kun) to join him after a brief dialogue about Lelouch's mother and how she was actually Gottwald's first charge. Wow really? is Lelouch that good that all he needs to make someone switch sides is to exchange like 4 lines of dialogue? Maybe he should go have a talk with his dad. And for like the past 3 episodes they've built up Gottwald as this character who was going to take vengence on the people who put him in his miserable state. Who knows maybe there is more at work here.

Shirley dies, and really for no reason other than she was at the wrong place at the wrong time and talked to the wrong person, it doesn't feel like the event really moved the plot at all, it seemed like the writers felt they needed to kill someone again and they happened to pull Shirley's name out of the hat this time. Though from the dialogue before she dies it sounds like they may or may not do something with her. But either way the writers are pretty damned.

I've suspended my disbelief for a while now hoping the series would pick itself up soon, but from the previews it looks like they've already magically found the place where V.V is set-up his super secret lair, no doubt characters will randomly die and allegiances will switch.

Perhaps I worded my post in a wierd way, my gripe isn't so much with orange's side switching, its with how quickly and easily it happened. We get several glimpses of this guy in previous episodes to build him up to be some kind of major new nemesis, and all we get is him having a short fight on the campus, and a conversation with Lelouch before he switches sides. One would figure with the build-up they gave Orange that a bit more should've happened before Orange heard what Lelouch had to say, instead it all ended very quickly and rather disappointingly.

But maybe its just me

Suzaku pulls the trigger

I knew that Geass would activate in the worst way possible

she's the real nunally?

What's a maniac like Lelouch going to do when it's him vs the rest of the world? That's gotta be exciting stuff right there. Besides, Lelouch still has his most important allies (Jeremiah/Kallen/C.C. even though she's currently on permanent moe mode) so he won't have to pull insane hax just to keep even. Suzaku looks like he's about to snap as well, which should be fun to watch. Anyone else thought he was going to ask Jeremiah to cancel out his "live" geass?

Finally Rolo bites the dust, though Sunrise just had to make him a decent guy at the end. I guess his life was just a tragedy, and Lelouch's little monologue as the next ep preview played just made me go "aww."

LeLouch's geass actually could reach the whole world (though I doubt it might happen, maybe he could geass everyone in the world using television) and he commanded the world to overthrow Brittania.

Nunally is thought to be alive, it will be interesting to see that she is fake and Anya is the real Nunnally

I kinda think the roles will be switched for a small while and suzaku will be the bad guy and luluoche the good duy (well for luluoche he can be bad or good on your point of view) since it looks like suzaku is on a verge of a breakdown. and Who knows, we only saw a small scene with him and jeremaih so maybe his geass was cancelled.
I kinda like the fact that zero is hiding the truth with his evil outlook but it's not paying off for him at all.
Rolo finally gone =0 with sappy music. He was put in a position where he was way to naive but I guess it payed off for zero at the end. Way I see it towards the end is zero dies, and suzaku carries on his memory somehow and then after that maybe a movie/ova becuase I just don't see a season 3 happening at this point.

Also agree with sakabadger, LOL NINA you dumb horny lesbian fool. wtf did she think the weapon was for, a sprinkled pinata of peace?
Oh and how messed up would it be that jeremiah finds nanully by some strange coincidence and zero is already dead at the end of the series =p

And what the christ is up with his mom being in somebody else's body? It just reeks of bullshit.

ALL HAIL RURUSHUhttp://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6...p727195op1.png

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PSYCHO CRUSHER!

I love how he gets a new outfit and all the black knights have this expression of, OH FUCK.... WHY DID WE BETRAY HIM DX hahahaha

The future for the show depends entirely on Lelouche and Schneizel's objectives. Does Schneizel intend to rule or disband the empire? Lelouche still has to face the nature of Geass and its remaining legitimacy with the Sword of Akasha undone. Is his intent to unify the world and then undo Geass?

There's still a helluva lot of potential left in this story. I hope they don't fuck it up.

Most likely from the previews, it looks like the Knight of One has a Geass ability, and from what Schniezel wants from his past experiences, it looks more like he wants totalitarian control. I mean Cornelia was a total bitch all the way through season 1 and 2, so she might get what finally is coming to her. It would be more irony if it came from the hands of our beloved "Orange-kun" to deal the final blow :D. I stil hopes he has Ohgi put to death. He saved that fucktard before his execution and he had the balls to say "Traitor?"

r22:
-LeLouch joins UFN, trying to become dictator?
-Brittania vs Schneizel = Schneizel on par because he got FLEIJA, plus... Nunnally is still alive

I've been thinking about Lelouch's actions, and I'm wondering if he's making himself the enemy of the whole world to unite it? I just can't see how any more war would do any good though. Why go to such an extent?

maybe he wants to destroy brittania and himself, so people will be united after the dictatorial Lelouch get ownage. He's destroying oneself to make happy ending for everyone

Well I'm pretty sure if he just could tell people his feelings and thoughts for once and not come up with another convoluted plan that his goals would be met. I can understand what his goal is but I doubt it'd really work in reality, especially now when Schneizel and Nunnally duo has come up to ruin it all, it'd be all for naught if they teamed up with the others because they're just out for the power once again and I doubt he'd be able to kill off Nunnally.

But then again it's anime world and Sunrise we're talking about here, plothax is bound to show up.

By the way, I was soooo expecting Nunnally to open up her eyes to show a Geass. It'd been real hilarious if she did.

It contained too many good stuffs, Schneizel being taken over by geasss, Nunally overcoming geass, And diethard died like an idiot as well. I am starting to get pissed at Kallen and the black knights, By the way Does that mean Cornelia is going to be the next schneizel, seeing as she is on the Black knights base

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ORANGE KNIGHT GROWS ORANGES HURFDYDURFDURF

Lelouch is alive from my perspective. He's like Charles..think he got the code to become immortal. The driver could be lelouch..it's all speculation though. I think the creators either want you to guess he's dead or alive.

so, anyone would prefer if sunrise gives as clear hint that lelouch is still alive?

The zero requiem was one of my guesses in which why lulouche was acting the way he did but the ending itself was superb. I honestly hope they don't bring about an ova or movie explaining how he survived because he took all the worlds hate into himself and took it with him in death and that was an ending worth remembering. Cheapening it into something like a miraculous recovery or bringing back to life with some sorta geass would make it seem like FFX-2 which ruined the ending for the first part.

There's already plenty of speculation that Lelouche is alive and well. Off the top of my head...:

a) C.C. is talking at the end of the episode and ends it with a "Right, Lelouche?" Given the upward tilt of her head and raised pitch of her voice, it would seem to imply that she's speaking to the driver, whose face has been completely covered the whole time. There was someone who made a graphic showing the driver's hair was the same palette as Lelouch's, but that's just way out there.

b) When Nunally touches Lelouche as he's dying, she sees all of his memories and understands just what exactly has gone on. There was a similar event between Suzaku and C.C., so it's reasonable to assume this memory exchange occurs when someone has a Code. So: Lelouche has a Code (and is thus unable to die)?

c) In the Sword of Akasha, Lelouche has a confrontation with Charles who, as you know, has a Code situated on his right palm. At one point Charles grabs Lelouche's throat with his right hand. When he disappears, neither Charles' palm or Lelouche's throat are visible. The speculation is that Charles transfered his Code to Lelouche at that time.

Of course, even if he were immortal and still alive after his stabbing, it would've been a real pain to get the body out of there with the mob incoming. On the other hand, Jeremiah is just awesome like that, so whatev.

but bringing people back to life is just a cheap way so i like to believe it ended the way it did. If they decided on some extra episodes I can only imagine it would be someone who actually got corrupted with some geass and tries to follow luluoche's footsteps in trying to take over the world and many people will die such as C.C, Xian Xe and tougu as to just finish off the series for good.

Okay, I just finished watching it. I rewatched Season 1 and then watched 2. Must say that I enjoyed the ending considerably :3

However, I don't side with the idea that Lelouche is alive. I'm just gonna look to Saka's post since that's the one I saw up top here =x

a) She's looking up to the sky. TALKIN' TO HEAVEN, MAAAAN.

b) I didn't see it as magical memory touch goooo~ but moreso her mind putting all the pieces together of what he was doing. Cued off of her seeing him with a smile on his corpse.

c) I think folks were just digging at this one :0

The anime seemed the type that would've walked out and said "yes, he is alive". I think some folks are just trying to make what they will of the ending. I figured it very much hammered things down. Still, I would've liked a bit more focus on Suzuku in regards to him only being Zero from that point on.

LeLouche = RuRuushu = R.R. = R2 (like C.C. being pronounced C2)

I'VE CRACKED THE CODE LELOUCHE IS ALIVE

I don't really care if he is alive or dead, but I think it's great that there's seemingly enough evidence to go either way. Speculation about this sort of thing (as compared to shipping wars) is great.