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  • you sir.. are hilarious lol good review, i hated that bitch nina too the whole time hahaha

  • @YoungDES707 YESS !! THAT DAMN DORK O DIKE

  • (cont.) While he could never match up to Nina, Rolo was a second in any list of "most hated characters" I could make. I *loathed* him - until his death scene, which made me a lot more sympathetic to him, and even saddened by his loss. I've always seen this as another testament to Code Geass, personally - that it could make me mourn for a character I disliked so severely.

    Thanks for creating this review!

  • Love this review!!

    Code Geass is my favourite anime, and I thought the ending was amazing.

    I do agree with most of your criticism, however, and you made some really good points!

    As a previous commenter mentioned, Lelouch's change in attitude is *just about* believable given the situation - and what's interesting for me is that it matched my own attitude. (cont.)

  • I honestly just DON'T understand why R2 has better ratings than original Code Geass

  • 7's a bit too harsh IMO. I mean, how could you hate the middle if there was the Shirley death scene in it??? :(

  • -Spoilers-

    Well I think the reasons that made Kururugi help Lelouch was that he promised that he would kill him and get his revenge when the world was changed. And i don't think Kururugi knew that he had obtained "Code" aka immortality. Other being that all the deaths caused by Lelouch would not be in vain including hes gf. At least i like to think like that makes more sence for me ;D

  • CAN'T - GASP- BREATH... chokes from laughing too much.

  • I have never seen this anime before but it looks kinda OK idk

  • season 2 has more action

  • Hey this was fantastic! How come you don't have more views?! Good work you make strong points and even mix it with some humor!

  • Nina can go jump in all the holes she created with her damn mega weapon. Seriously, the girl is just so damn annoying.

    And personally, I loved the end piece of Episode 8 that you showed. I thought it was great xD Hell, even a dog gets a Zero mask!

  • 6:11 nope i hate her too and suzaku if i spelled that right

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  • As for Lelouch, he had lost the will to live because he thought Nunnally was dead. He still hated Rolo, but he saw no reason for anyone else to die because of him (Euphie, Shirley, etc.). In the end he called himself a liar when he was speaking to Rolo. When he called himself a liar, he was referring to the part about not hating him. He still hated him, but just wanted to comfort Rolo as he died. Better to die thinking you're loved than hated.

  • Concerning point 2, the examples of Suzaku and Lelouch do make sense. Suzaku did have character development and changed as a person based on the things that had previously happened and what was going on around him. To stay the same all series would make his enviornment pointless.

  • I really like how you express your opinions with out slanted favoring. I mean, the only character I can tell you like or dislike is Nina. If I were to make a review, it would probably end up very obvious as to who I love and hate. Good job man. Oh and yeah, I fucking hated Nina too.

  • I started to hate Code Geass.

  • yes im a fan boy of code gueass but everything in this review is true. I hope the next code geass stay away from the gundam formulor

  • The story had some plotholes.

    The dialogue was just cheesy as hell.

    Plot twists were mostly big ass-pulls including the ending(Although I did like lelouch's own ending)

    Music was good overall, but not releasing the best tracks really pissed me off >.<

    And I still can't believe Nina survived...for f***ks sake I wanted her to die...I want an r3 just to see her die xD

  • 'bout time someone else wished Nina could jump off a fckin cliff. God I hated that bitch. You mentioned that there were character inconsistencies, and I certainly agree with you, but I have to ask your opinion of Jeramiah's, because of all of them in this season. I have to say that his seemed reasoned out far better than the others.

  • HOLD IT! I respect your opinion on Code Geass R2, but let me say that I want you think: Are you REALLY thinking that hard into show with giant mechs and superpowers? That's like people taking Light Yagami seriously as a symbol of jus.............Anime fans confuse me sometimes.

  • Am I the only one who thinks it's ironic that about every reviewer on the internet claims that their reviews are their opinion, and that everyone is entitled to one (except the Chinese, amirite?), yet tell people not to express theirs on the subject as they are quite simply just 'raging fanboys(/girls) who cant stand people disagreeing with them' to stop them from ever attempting to express it?

    People are going to disagree with you man dont whine and just pretend not to notice like me.

  • Fair score, they messed up in season 2...

    I really disliked the 1 million zeros episode.

  • Well Susaku does talk about how he was naive untill now and that the only thing that mattered now was the end result, so it makes sense for him to do the shit that he did. Like Lelouche, he changed a lot when something bad happened to them.

  • I agree with what you said, I was thinking 7 out of 10 (overall) while R1 I would of gave a 9 out of 10

  • It was like a night in with a scented candle and a rubber glove

  • If u are giving a review of 7 for the best anime ever made then u are fucking mad...

  • @nithishkolli I enjoyed it, thought it was great, but to say that it was the best anime ever? well I feel that's a bit of a stretch

  • 2:48 I was like wait a sec... keys next to the gurren... sounds like somebody was watching gurren lagann :P but I cant say anything cos code geass and -tengen toppa gurren lagann- are my all time fav animes :3 pointing that out

  • i would have given it an 8 becouse i while it was rushed a bit the cherector development wasnt that bad.

  • the thing i was hoping would happen is nina in a coffin at a funeral and never mentioned after ep 2 of r2 but sadly it didn't happen

  • i dont even know y nina was in the anime to start with she had nothing to do with anything...soo yeah, she wanted to say thanks to euphie for the hotel jacking accident but it did not make any damn sense....its not like she could of killed "zero"! just by watching her in the first season u could tell that she was just a big nuisance

  • I wouldn't call it Gundam disorder since tactics are used throughout the series. I'd call it gundam 00/seed disorder.

  • @soulthepinkmage I don't know if you're hating on Gundam 00(don't care much for seed because it sucked and everyone knows it.)but I thought Gundam 00 was a fantastic anime and did a very good job in telling the story of each character and their experiences, and had pretty good moral to present.

  • @SergeantTomato5 I don't really care about 00 but I'm referring to the fact that there is probably more grunt deaths and beams in that anime.

  • @soulthepinkmage you forgot Wing

  • I love Code Geass R2 but... he's totally right :L

  • I hate Nina too.

  • Point 2 on Suzaku was weird on your part. He changed his ideal over the times of constant fighting and understood.Unlike Lelouch's mood swing.

  • Suzaku changed because it was part of Lelouch and his plan.... and after Euphie died he wanted revenge. He thought if he would of acted rather then being a goodie good he could of saved her. He finds this out at the end of season one... So he didn't really change in season two.

  • I would give season 1 a 9, and 2 a 7. Really, every single thing in this review I agree with.

  • Although I would rate it higher than 7 more like 8 I agree with you on almost every point except that Suzaku's character development was bad. I actually thought it was clever and made sense.

  • Nina's up there with Chi-Chi from DBZ as one of the most annoying anime characters of all time.

  • point 4: this twat

    I agree.

    oh is it only me who believes that lelouch isnt dead??

  • I know you didn't want to do this but still this was good.

  • Lelouche's personality change actually made sense, but some of that Geass crap was actually stupid and annoying. That one part where everyone dressed up as Zero was one of my favourites because it used Britanian laws against them which ended up with the fall of their empire which I thought was a really good idea. I strongly agree that the battles in R2 weren't as tactical as they were in R1 which dissapointed me.

  • oh yea i started to get alil suspicious of nina in R1 when she got cought doin the bad on tht table srry for tht table ya no

  • This show used to be great, but then it got an arrow in the knee

  • @RagnarokKaan That joke used to be funny, but then everyone abused it for everything and it was completely ruined.

  • @RagnarokKaan ...didn't even say it properly.That joke used to be funny,but then it took an arrow to the knee.

  • This is why manga is the best way to go.. ^_^

    -Nina was creepy..

  • @kissyface93 there is another manga for code geass but it is set on an alternate universe

  • @kajimaable Yea~ I know. I've been reading it but it takes a long time for new chapters to be posted. I don't really like it either to be honest. ^^;

  • One star? How old is this review.

  • @MrDizzySpinda Years old, but my account got hacked a few months ago and so I was forced to re-upload all my old reviews

  • I hated Nina I hated the ending and I hated Rolo and what he did to Shirley

  • nina isn't all bad why so many hate her, her obsession with euphie is similar to how i see rolo with lelouch, devoted to the point of going over the edge... she define euphie cause anyone who knew euphie would never believe she capable of murder, yes i love euphie character and if i was her friend i would be just as suspicious.

  • nice review although i don't totally agree, the characters changes r what made the show interesting, no one can stay consistent through out... in season 1 suzaku sold lelouch out to get a promotion cause of what happened to euphie, his old self would never have done that...in season 2 he changed his ideal cause he had no other choice, suzaku is an emotional character and is sway easily by what happened to the people around him...also rolo was dying so lelouch had to lie since he did save him.

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  • ya nina was creepy ,the ending was epic but disappointing, they went into a romantic theme with kallen and lelouch in season 1 to a.......well nothing...........

    i thought that

    ending EPIC but they souldve had a 3rd season just to tell the story better

    AND THEY SHOULD HAVE KILLED NINA

  • @LeonardoDaVIncI360 exactly what i was saying they could've made a season 3 with suzaku and lelouch in britiannia

  • @MinM66 ya i thought they could have gone farther in the series

  • Nina x Table......the most disturbing couple ever

  • @DangofaN1 Why did that even happen???The writers didn't have to add it in but they did anyway...weird

  • Ohhh, dear lord. I don't necessarily agree with the rating, but this review made me laugh so fucking hard. I loved it.

  • It sounds like you are trying so hard to copy Yahtzee.

  • the ending would be a whole lot better if they showed Nina being smashed by a huge rock or get eaten by sharks while swimming in the ocean......

  • NO!You are definatly not the only one who hated Nina.I still don't understand what her purpose even was.

  • @SergeantTomato5 in the second season she made the flei a nuke thats her purpose

    she was so obsessed with ephy person that she would make a nuke to killl millions just to aving some

    girl who in r2 she didnt even know that epy was inocent so her idol was a damn murderer

  • Lelouch was regretful about trying to kill Rolo after he saw how Rolo was so desperatly trying to keep Lelouch from getting killed.Plus,the events that occured before Lelouch regained his memory included Leleouch spending time with Rolo like a real brother.So all of this sorta touched him.

  • @SergeantTomato5 also he never blamed rolo for killing shirley he blamed geass thats why he had the black knights kill all the geass order etc

  • @SergeantTomato5 Yes but that change of character happened even faster than Nagato's....

  • SHUT UP!!!I LUV ASH!!!!!!Naw I'm kidding.I'm not one of THOSE people.I still disagree on the Ash from pokemon comment though.No offence.REALLYY!!!

  • Yeah,I totally didn't understand that "God" stuff.It was like-"No,not God as in creator of the universe all seeing all powerful,all knowing deity.I mean a giant fucking planet that looks like Jupiter in some mystical temple thing.

  • Marianne always had Geass.They explained that about twice.

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  • you said this was in the top 3 endings you have seen in an anime. but what are the other 2 top endings.

  • I just finished watching the last episode after watching the ending of R1 and all of R2 in a single day (5AM here now), and as I take it all in, you are definitely right in alot of aspects, mainly about the sudden character changes and a dragging middle, in the end I still love this anime. I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to watch it again however if only because of how mentally and emotionally impactful it was for me. I give this, an 8 out of 10

  • as much i hat to say cause this is my favorite anime but......your right

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  • i dont care.. i agree with you! i dont think R2 was that good after episode 8.. almost like they got bored with it and half assed the plot devel;opment. But i dont think people should get mad for some one elses view points because im pretty sure they have thier own to worry about..gret review btw

  • The " FUCK that shit we are B.f.f" part made me laugh hard. Just like the part with Shinji Ikari could dropkick a kitten into an orphans face.

    I imagined it in great detail. Awesome.

    (I still think R2>R1 though, but hey thats just my opinion.

  • Meh loved it

  • I am a fanboy but you made some really good points. And i love the ending of this video xDD

  • R2 was such a huge disappointment. I'm not going to discuss in detail how they managed to fuck everything up- I can make my own video if I wanted to do that. But I really liked Code Geass. It was clear they wanted to make a sequel. And then we got... this. It felt so... rushed. So disjointed. There were plot holes all over the place, and it was obvious that some executive meddling was involved here. It really is a shame that this is how the series had to go out, after the bang of Season 1.

  • I could explain the change of character consisting the change of heart by luluic is because rolo saves him even though he said those thing to him and he says that because luluic is angry becaus he thinks naliely died also if there are spoilers in this sorry but like he said there would be spoilers and sorry if I can't spell there names also suzaku changes because uffy dies and he see his way wasn't working and he wanted to do what was best for japan

  • I hate nina cause she's kind of racist. I mean like not for real but shes a fucking bitch being like: You're elevens *scared face but on purpose giving them virtual middle finger* you get my point. Where i disagree is the stuff about lelouch and suzaku changing. Suzaku just gets some sort of break down after fiiring the FEILA. And Lelouch was just incredibly frustrated when shouting at Rolo, yeah sure he didn't like Rolo but he really didn't hate him that much.

  • this is a 10/10

  • @mohdban No, as he says the middle part is just a storykiller. Everything about Lelouch mom was incredibly random, if they had pulled the series longer maybe they would fit some more stuff kind of getting us to understand she may would be Anya but they didn't so it really just was random.

    Point made: Don't judge it just cause of it's genious ending.

  • It's decent. I wish it could have fit better with the first season though.

  • @ouroboroshomuncuil She always had her geass but it was useless unless she was going to die.

  • @ouroboroshomuncuil She always

  • I believe that that last poster was from the Code Geass spinoff, Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya.

  • I always thought that Marryan (or however you spell it) gaining geass just as she was dying was complete crap.

  • death note ending

  • hear just so he could die somewhat happy. And I 100% agree with you on Nina. I hate her so friggin much. I was watching this with some friends and we were all asking why the hell she hadn't died yet. We wanted her gone.

  • I agree with you on a LOT of points here. I definitely prefer the first season over 2nd. I had actually never really noticed the tactics thing, but you are correct. There were times that battles were decided by the mechs rather than brain. But I thought that the Damocles battle was pretty awesome. As for the change of attitude with Lelouch to Rolo. I've never viewed Lelouch as evil and never thought he was heartless. I just sort of chalked that scene up to him telling Rolo what he wanted to...

  • Well a large reason why the second season was so poorly planned was because the fact that the broadcast time for R2 was changed from 12 am to 6pm, causing the writer to change many of the script, allowing younger audience to enjoy. Eventho this was a huge blow to the writer and the older audience that loved R1, R2 sure did bring in alot of younger audience, and raising it's popularity with them...It's pretty much what they did with Seed and Seed Destiny...

  • yeah i kinda got really worried when lelouch controlled god

  • what matters is end results. *the ending* LOL

  • i couldn't agree with points 4 and 5 more

  • The first season was planned out and not rushed? I dropped it on episode 17 because of it's bad pacing, shallow characters, plot holes, and some other shit.

    It was just awful, Code Geass is overrated to no limit.

  • that million zero scene was genius lols

  • I LOL at the part with all the Zeros came out of nowhere.

  • Just like to say that I loved code gease season 1, but hated season 2. Some parts were cool, but around the point where Luluche and that brown hair green eye guy (sorry can't remember his name) decided to join forces, I just lost interests. Too much shit hit the fan, and just the begining of season 2 made me wanted to stop watching it. Season 1: 9/10 Season 2... just freken hated it. (can't give a # because I got half way)

  • Point 4...THIS TWAT!

  • @arckinhu Point 5...seriously am I the only 1 who hates Nina this much? XD

  • @sparklechild7689 HE ISNT. He really isnt.

  • did anyone else notice the dog wearing a zero mask at 5:09 on the lower right side of the screen? (=P

  • Lloyd = Professor ADHD >w< made me lol

    I hated Nina too. Plus that scene in the first season with her and the table was creepy...

  • Gigguk, help me. I need to get my mind off this anime and its damn ending. It made me think so much, that i've gotten fucking depressed as hell. what the hell should i do?

  • Can you recommend me an anime. I've just finished angel beats and it was awesome... My favorites are Code Geass, Death Note, Kaiji, One Outs, Eureka 7, Gundam 00, Gurren Lagann, Fate/stay night

    I like emotional anime but I have like a border of tolerance for moe, or girly stuff, or gayness, I like more mature drawing styles like Death Note, but Code Geass drawing is good too, and a balance of male/female characters, I don't like too many females... Story + emotion matter he most, plot twists

  • @endocomar93 You should definatly watch Elfen Lied if you have not done so already. Seriously, it is FREAKING amazing.

  • @endocomar93 Gundam 00 for the fucking win Bro(or sis)!!!!! I got no suggestions though.

  • I just realized something. Suzaku's reasoning represents the seasons.

    season 1. Bad episodes leading up to a great ending is bad.

    season 2. who cares about inbetween, a dazzling ending will make up for it.

    On a side note, my season 2 representation reminds me of School Days.

  • Baa.

  • You gave Code Geass R2 the same score as Gantz and Bleach!? Fail. 

  • @TheMischaReviews And you fail for insulting someone else's opinion. 

  • you are the anime verson of zero punctuation!

  • Regarding character consistency, I disagree with your opinion.

    I think that what happened in the anime actually linked together well with the actions of the characters. Lelouch treated Rolo the way he did at the end because at first, Lelouch wanted to die(he felt he had nothing to live for), this is why he told Rolo to stop using his geass. As for the Suzaku/Lelouch thing, if I'm right, in the end, Suzaku technically got his own back AND achieved peace so...

  • That was his brother? I thought it was a girl...

  • poor Amy Whinehouse.....actually i have no idea who she was, just noticed that she was mentioned in this vid

  • An opinion that differs from my own?

    I RESPECT THAT

  • i'm not going to be a stupid fan-boy but i think it deserves a 8 period i'm not going to say it deserves a 10 or a 9 just an 8 7 means average 8 means good but not great just saying love your reviews

  • @leftfordeadcharger Not to be pedantic here but surely "average" means a 5 (I mean....its in the middle on a 1 to 10 scale of course). 6 means above average and 7 means good.

  • @gigguk i suppose so keep doing great work

  • @gigguk I agree with you. R2 wasn't as good as R1. However I thought that the reason Lelouch sort of was kind to Rolo in the end was because he thought he was gonna die, and stuff. I didn't really think that Lelouch was sincere when he said "Just what I'd expect of my little brother". Anyway that's just my opinion. I thought that part made sense. But the mecha battles were annoying. I friggin hate gundam and all those stupis narute-like action animes . . .

  • @gigguk

    Some people follow the gamer magazine rating system, which makes absolutely no sense. In gaming mag terms, 7 out of 10 is average for some crazy reason. So there's good, great, excellent, and perfect. On the other end, there is bad to suck. Don't make much sense, but some people follow the thinking that 7 out of 10 is average. I follow the 5 out of 10 is average because it makes more sense to me.

  • @gigguk Get a 7/10 on a test you get C. Anything below 5/10 is an F so yea.... Not average. Average is a 7. A-B-C-D-F. C is in the middle

  • Code Geass is like watching Lawrence of Arabia and Watchmen minus everything that makes Lawrence of Arabia and Watchmen intersting.

  • Honestly, what would you say to a man who just saved your life at the cost of his own? Even if I hated that person with every atom making up my body, I wouldn't be spewing hate at him during his final moments. I don't think there was any inconsistency at all in Lelouch's character regarding Rolo. >.>

  • @lkjkhfggd

    Keep in mind that Rolo had killed Shirley before that. If somebody killed a close friend of mine I would not forgive him, no matter what.

  • i dont know if they said it in the dubbed version because i watched the subbed version but marianne got the geass when she made a contract with C.C. like lelouch did when he accepted a contract from C.C.

  • your right the end was very rushed and i can't complain about the camera angle but i'm a teenage guy so yeah... anyway all in all i thought more of an eight but thats just me

  • I can take Criticism Toward my favorite anime. It really funny

    lol

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  • @LeoCastell4 I have never hidden the fact that I was heavily influenced by Yahtzee, especially in my early reviews but now I don't even watch ZP regularly anymore and I'm a bit confused as to how I am ripping off lines from his reviews that I don't even remember/have not even seen.

    I will say that he has been doing this for a lot longer than me and has hundreds of videos, lots of which I haven't seen...so I don't try to rip him off anymore but British comedy in general is quite similar.

  • @gigguk Yeah I watched your 1000 subscriber video a wile after I posted that comment and got a bit more up to speed which is why I deleted my comment. The sigh in the beginning gave me a feeling of Deja vu and is it turns out was the exact same way Yahtzee opened up his Super Smash Bros. Brawl Review. The thing with the sheep was straight out of his Call of Duty 4 review even right down to one of them going "baa".

  • lol if you read the new manga ch of bleach and see ichigo's new form that clip of johnny yong bosch is really fitting lmao

  • 3:47 that sounds like Hanataro's English dub voice from bleach! is it? im far far far too lazy to research this myself

  • 3:50

    I'M SORRY, I JUST LOST IT AND BURSTED OUT INTO TEARS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH LOLOLOLOL!

  • I hate Nina just as much as you do XD

  • to be fair

    Lelouch reaction to Rolo was completely the same as the audience

    and Suzaku after the death of Euphemia just doesn't give a fuck anymore

    and after the mindscrews he when through when up against Charles he might've gave less of a fuck

    but it is the general consensus that R2 wasn't as good as R2 (in fact you gave it the most praise compared to most reviewers)

  • I am a Code Geass fanboy, it and R2 together are my favourite anime's. In my opinion this is a perfect anime, however I have no problem that you do not like R2 as much as the first. People are entitled to their own opinions and I will not be an idiot and unsubscribe because you don't share my opinion.

  • I pretty much agree with everything you said lol :D

  • Code Geass is a very good anime, but not perfect like most of its fans claim. Nice review.

  • R2 had an epic ending, but most of the plot holes could have been easily fixed, so the middle felt like the writers had abandoned their deskes and left one of those typewriter Shakespeare monkeys in their place while they all fucked off down the pub.

  • I would probably rate it 8 because of the bloody epic ending.

    by the way, what are the 2 other serias in your top 3 endinds?

  • im really curious on how they made that million costume of zero

    i mean WHERE THE FUCK does it come from

    and how come no one noticed it and how did it get distributted -.-

  • @esfelectra It looked good in V for Vendetta.

  • @esfelectra iirc they all had the suitcases with the costumes at their feet.

  • @Merik2013 and millions of suicases can be easely hidden still how do you distribute a million suicases also you have to get the suits put them in the suicases lot of work if you ever tried mailing hundreds of leters it takes a LOT of time >_> and he did that WITH A MILLION SUITS IN SUICASES??? although this IS anime so i kinda have to let it pass
  • @esfelectra No. No you don't have to let it pass. Just because something is in an anime doesn't excuse bad writing. And can somebody explain to me how they all, simultaneously, managed to get those suits on in a manner of SECONDS? And how although there were no voice filters, absolutely nobody could seem to recognize the real Zero's voice? It was one of those things that tries so hard to be awesome that logic simply gets completely obliterated.

  • @SturgeonsPet

    there isnt an answer

    thats why its a plot hole >_>

  • @esfelectra Heh, it was more a general question than to you specifically. Just elaborating on your point. ^^;

  • @SturgeonsPet

    i know ^_^

    it just...make no god damn sense...

    i still think the million zero suit was a cop out way out

    i mean they just redid the same thing in the first season and zero was stuck AGAIN in the same corner

    deporting everyone makes no sense because it DOESNT MAKE GOD DAMN SENSE

    thank celestia for deus ex machina

    seriously though lelouch was into a corner both time and had no way out

    and i think even the creators knew this and dint know how to get out of it

  • I do like Code Geass but I still think Gundam Wing is a better series.

  • code geass is my favorite anime EVER. but what gigguk said is absolutely true. the middle of R2 was a bit of a let down

  • SO MUCH NARM!

  • LOOOOL

  • 0 people were....

    wait, there are no dislikes! everyone loves the reviews :D

  • @WrestleManiafan94 now there are three the peace is broken lol

  • @WrestleManiafan94 now its three oh dammit the peace has been broken

  • @WrestleManiafan94 You had to open your mouth

  • @ragdollxbox yeah I am sorry :'(

  • @WrestleManiafan94 too late, we've got three annoying fanboy twats

  • @WrestleManiafan94 you spoke way too soon. now 3 people disliked it

  • @pokemonMAst3r2010 yeah yeah right im sorry, youre the about 10th guy to tell me :(