I suspect that Code Geass is going to be as big in the U.S. as NGE ever was when it gets an official release. It’s just too good not to. The opening themes are great, of course, and I especially like Kaidoku Funo, the second opening song by Jinn. So much, in fact, that I got a copy of Lemmings, the album that includes a 3 minute version of Kaidoku Funo (It’s track 7).

Jinn is good. Very good. I don’t understand the lyrics for the most part (alas), but the singing is smooth and perfect (except when it obviously isn’t supposed to be), full of emotion, and the guitar just moves each song along. Each track has a real, appropriate ending. I love this CD.

An article at Overcoming Bias by Eliezer Yudkowsky happens to include an interesting little note on anime: “I suspect this is one reason Eastern philosophy seems deep to Westerners – it has [a] nonstandard but coherent cache for Deep Wisdom.  Symmetrically, in works of Japanese fiction, one sometimes finds Christians depicted as repositories of deep wisdom and/or mystical secrets.  (And sometimes not.)” For the “not” category, I think a better example would be Wolfwood’s Cross from Trigun, but the links are still pretty cool, and it’s a reasonable explanation of just why so much Christian symbolism shows up in anime.

[10/20/2007 - fixed link to Overcoming Bias article. Oops. ]