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In Summary, Code Geass is about a boy Lelouch who happens to be britannian...Yes one of the bad guys...In fact Lelouch's dad is the emperor, but no one knows he is alive kinda sort of living in exile as a student...But because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time he gets caught in the cross fire of Britannians trying to squash out a terrorist threath...He discovers a mysterious woman who saves his life by stepping in front of a bullet...From there, he aquires the mysterious power of Geass...with this power, he will use it to destroy Britannia...Why destroy Britannia you say? Because his father the emperor did nothing to pursue the terrorist who murdered his mother and also so he can give his sister who is crippled a better place to live...So begins our journey to see if lelouch with his new found power GEASS is able to beat the Britannian Empire...The struggle between the Elevens and Britannians continue...Good and Bad can be debated in this story, you have an Eleven fighting for the Britannians, and Lelouch a Britannian fighting against them...and I question wether Lelouch is the good guy...That is up to you to decide...But regardless, I like this story because it incorporates aristocracy Mecha, SPECIAL Mecha(lancelot), and a normal human who gets a special power...and I love special powers(big fire)...Lelouch is not weak(Shingi from Evangelion) or the stud Mecha Pilot(Amaro from Gundam) and there are other characters to like and get to know...Code Geass did it for me as I hope it can do it for you...Season 2 has just started and it is just as good...
So I decided to start watching this because of an entry in Mecha Chicks... So far VERY good...I like the art, the story, the action...I guess I just like anime done by sunrise...Everything about it just works for me, and I am only on episode one...I like this story so much, that Soukou no Strain and Coyote Ragtime Show is going to take a back seat to it... (five episodes watched) Still VERY Good, i have been looking for an mecha anime to catch my interest for a long time, and this is working really well for me...Highly Recomended!!! Ok, I have finally rated it...I love this series!!! Yes it is still going on, but it has got everything...school, aristocracy, mecha, superhuman powers, character development, fan service :-P EVERYTHING!!! (23 episodes finished) I have to say, with every great anime, there is always a messed up twist...Code Geass is no exception, as we near the end, my head is getting played with much like Evangelion...yes I like all the fighting, the mecha, but I am not sure I like the direction this is going...and what up with making us wait for the ending!!! Oh well, i have enjoyed the ride so far... Last updated Thursday, April 10 2008. | ||||||||
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(Two episodes watched): I tend to be skeptical of shows that are wildly popular--what’s good isn’t necessarily popular, and what’s popular isn’t necessarily good, you know. I’ve been reading a lot of internet and magazine articles about Code Geass, about how it’s all the rage in Japan, has been voted best show of the year, and is set to premiere on Adult Swim over here. So, I became curious and decided to watch the first episode. My expectations had been inflated to the point that I expected a brilliantly complex yet understandable plot, intriguing characters with interesting motivations, wild and exciting action, basically a sort of pizzazz that can’t be put into words. I finally watched the episode and I’m sorry to say that I was not particularly impressed. This actually seems rather simplistic to me; the Britannians are mostly bad with a few good people while the subjugated “elevens” are mostly good with a few bad ones. Blatant atrocities are used to sledgehammer the viewer into taking one side. Obviously any Britannian with the slightest ethics and knowledge of the horrors that are going on would defect immediately. I can't help suspecting that simple-minded patriotism is the source of a good deal of this show's popularity in Japan. For a show that’s supposed to be so wildly popular, I’d have thought it would be more three-dimensional. From what I’ve seen, the premise of Code Geass seems like little more than an excuse for mecha action; in that sense, it kind of reminds me of Eureka Seven, which I lost interest in as well. Lelouch’s mind control ability was fairly interesting; though I’ve got a feeling that it won’t come anywhere near the sophistication of the fellow Adult Swim series, Death Note. I guess I’ll casually watch the English dubbed version on Adult Swim, to see if it gets any better. I watched yet another episode, to see if my first impressions of such an important show had really been accurate. I'm still getting pretty much the same vibe. One thing that didn't make sense to me was that Lelouch is already vowing to overthrow the entire Britanian Empire, because a friend of his was apparently shot dead by a Britanian soldier. That's kind of a stretch; I mean, if a US soldier killed a friend of yours (and you were an upper class US citizen), would you want to overthrow the entire United States, or would you want the individual soldier who fired the shot (or whoever ordered him to do so) punished? The mecha combat seems like the usual I-never-miss-you-nev What I meant was, both Code Geass and Eureka Seven strike me as shows in which the mecha action was supposed to be extremely "cool", but I found it uninteresting. Of course this is coming from a person who watched To Love-Ru immediately before episode one of this show! Last updated Wednesday, April 09 2008. | ||||||||
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Did I like the series - Code Geass? Yes! But not enough want to watch it again, so I could only offer a RENT rating. With lots of mecha action, Code Geass tells the tale of a fallen member of the Brittannia Royalty, who has taken to hiding in Japan at the time that it was invaded. During an attack on the city by independence rebels, LeLouch chances on an abandoned Brittannic transport vehicle and frees a mysterious woman who was imprisoned within. The green-haired woman grants him a strange gift, (never a good sign - don't trust women with green hair), an advantage that just might give Lelouch enough of an edge to help him to realize his dream of freeing Japan from the oppression of Brittannic occupation, while dealing a humiliating defeat to the family that killed his mother and injured his sister. The series is really entertaining, at least until episode 20. And like BF mentioned, the storyline twist at the end had me wondering if it was going to do a nasty MELTDOWN – which has been the downfall of a number of other series. But there is enough merit in the originality of the story and depth & development in the characters to keep me hanging in there and hoping for the best. The characters of Code Geass were developed by CLAMP. So you can expect a gaggle of very cute Bishounen boys and a flock of super saccharine girls. Beyond this, the story is interesting and focused. I think that there are only two or three empty filler episodes, which is a plus. At the end of episode 23, there are a number of significant unanswered questions, which have me wondering if they were just going to be dropped or overlooked. But since there are two more OVA episodes and a '2nd season', I will withhold any judgment. And the animation is also great. Check out the images posted to the Episode Details section if you would like to see more. Last updated Monday, February 04 2008. | ||||||||
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wow. i am really impressed with this series. honestly i don't know why i never took to gundam, but this series really pulls me in. it also helps that the characters are uber pretty haha. so, politics and intrigue galore in what's a pretty much alternate reality. and while that's really dull sometimes, this isn't too bad. actually code geass has the kind of "v for vendetta" vibe. he's even got the mask to boot. but this series carries it beyond the beginning of the revolution and puts us smack dab in the middle of it. and thusly with the ongoing war we get character angst and drama. lelouch is an interesting...actual just who is CC? will we learn more about the geass? will lelouch succeed? what about suzaku? *sigh, so it's really likely that they're going to carry on in the next season (season 2 has been confirmed), but i wanted a resolution heh. the ost is nothing to pay attention to. some pretty tracks but the ops and the eps are pretty bad. and the mech fighting is top notch, heh. no budgeting there. *and btw, shinsen-subs has released a fandubbed episode 23 as an april fool's joke. *wince it's pretty bad, so lol, make sure you've got the right one. so episode 23 ends with the literal destruction of order. it's quite impressive. characters are killed, masses of people die, the lines are drawn and Cornelia and Lelouch prepare to go head to head. i can't wait to see what happens next. Last updated Thursday, April 12 2007. | ||||||||
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Other Sites
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| Official Japanese Series Web Site | http://www.geass.jp/ |
| English Language Wiki Posting | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Geass |
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| English Language Fan Site | http://www.self-destruction.co.uk/ |
| Code Geass Image Gallery (English) | http://anime.akichigo.org/codegeass/1.php |
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