Kallen Eleven
I know why Kallen in episode one of Code Geass R2 was mad cool.
I was never much of a Kallen fan back in Code Geass season 1 days, probably because the show didn’t take her seriously until later on. Perhaps I didn’t take her seriously (as a result, or just because). She always seemed like a silly girl yet she is quite dead serious about her goals and her feelings. Hardly a paragon of competence, Kallen is the contrast to that “JUST AS PLANNED” hook some Code Geass viewers dig about the show, so her popularity is spotty as well.
But why the bunny girl outfit? Well for starters CLAMP can design very sensual, attractive characters. Priming their MID-AGER LAZERS to “lol shounen anime” the results are somewhat annoying if boobs are not your thing. But at the same time CLAMP excels at clothing design, so the combination of a bunny girl outfit, which is a fairly spartan uniform if you think about it, and a CLAMP character in a shounen anime, is just jarring.
All the more that’s why there’s already like, 5 pages of this crunk on danbooru?
Well, if I was Kero-chan I would’ve definitely checked:
1. The neck piece. It looks fairly generic but even the shape of the neck cuff is fairly distinctive
2. The adornment on the waist. It helps that we’ve got two other bunny girl models to contrast poor Kallen’s costume, both with slight differences in terms of their … loadout. It adds a bit of character to something so generic, and anchors the various lines going on that you see on a bunny girl outfit. If her boobs aren’t doing that for you anyways.
3. The ears. The ears are one of the most important part of the outfit, and in Kallen’s case it doesn’t sit drooping as it would in most other instances of such an outfit. Of course, she was bouncing around quite a bit.
4. And yeah. Gainax Bounce anyone?
The first episode of Code Geass R2 is almost a tongue-in-cheek self-reference crossed with pop-anime-cultural reference. At least, it is if you look at it that way–with all things Kallen, and with the parallel in respect to the first episode of Code Geass season 1.
The real objection I have is that, ultimately, Kallen in the first episode is just a distraction. It’s a distraction so maybe the viewers forget where we are plot-wise. And maybe that’s a good suggestion, since we’re kind of missing all of that in the pilot episode. Let’s rejoice in the return of one of our favorites from last year, and its ensemble cast. Let’s rejoice in boobs and bunnies. Let’s rejoice in hot school teacher jumping on her student. Let’s rejoice, just as some have planned.
11/11 looks a lot like Mwu. What can I say?
I as well didn’t like Kallen much during season one because she was dumb as a brick or at least that is how I saw here, but I felt oddly attracted to her in this first episode. It’s definitely the bunny outfit.
Kallen as a distraction and what not is some interesting points that I didn’t think about.
I think I might finally finish up those last 6 episodes of Code Geass just so I can finally get to “Bunny Suit Kallen”….
I was always a Kallen fan, mostly because of the contrast you mentioned. She’s practically a foil of Lulu and yet is his biggest follower.
The Black King held on to Kallen’s bunny ears as if they were her own appendages….not something on a head band. That made me LOL. XD