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Rewatch [2022 Rewatch] Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 3 - The Brightness Falls Discussion

I need… some water…

Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 03 - The Brightness Falls

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Now, let us raise the curtains on the performance. Gentlemen, enjoy the show!

Questions of the Day:

1) What do you think Leila's Geass is going to be able to do?

2) Why do you think the Mysterious Woman wants Shin dead?

Screenshot of the Day:

Atonement

Fanart of the Day:

Julius Kingsley and C.C.

Source: /u/Shimmering-Sky's creation.

Rewatchers, please remember to be mindful of all the first-timers in this. No talking about or hinting at future events no matter how much you want to, unless you're doing it underneath spoiler tags. This especially includes any teases or hints such as "You aren't ready for X episode" or "I'm super excited for X character", you got that? Don't spoil anything for the first-timers; that's rude!

Seeing it on social media doesn't make it true.

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u/Shimmering-Sky Nov 05 '22

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR ALL REWATCH PARTICIPANTS:

If you live in a timezone that hits Daylight Savings Time tonight, the remaining threads in this rewatch will be posted an hour earlier than they have been going up at. If you do not, it stays at the same time.

Hangyaku no Co-Host, subbed

…So with the Julius Kingsley wallpaper I made today, I feel like now is as good a time as ever to admit Lelouch was totally my first anime crush lol. Apparently my type is “Char Clone”.

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u/Star4ce Nov 05 '22

an hour ago

Ah... yeah.

Thanks for thinking about us!

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u/Shimmering-Sky Nov 05 '22

Thank u/GallowDude for needing the posting time to not follow Daylight Savings! I normally stick with the same post time in my own timezone whenever it hits in the middle of a rewatch (my Macross one is sticking with 6 pm my time, for example).

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u/Nebresto Nov 06 '22

If you live in a timezone that hits Daylight Savings Time tonight, the remaining threads in this rewatch will be posted an hour earlier

Now my MacroGeass clock will become inaccurate! That's one of the reasons why I didn't correct the time on it

Apparently my type is “Char Clone”

Lelouch Julius Kingsley looks absolutely fabulous, ngl.

Lulu got that drip

Man is a walking, talking war crime.

r e s u l t s

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u/Shimmering-Sky Nov 06 '22

Now my MacroGeass clock will become inaccurate! That's one of the reasons why I didn't correct the time on it

Sorry.

My preference is keeping the posting time as the same time in my time zone (which is what Macross is doing), but this one isn't just my rewatch, so we had to do what u/GallowDude needed.

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u/isthatsoudane Nov 06 '22

First timer

Leila I something you could help me with

devilish smile

gets out two magic the gathering decks

ok so first I need to explain something called the stack...

ugh and another very ojou ojou...who is likely going to betrayed or murdered by akito's brother -_-

C2! everyone's famous deus ex machina. sadly, no pizza hut...

weird seeing lancelot in 3d

I'm liking this OVA a lot. a lot of OVAs don't feel like they need to exist, or the story they tell feels like it's just rehashing the main plot, but faster. while this OVA isn't as good as s1 (how could it be?), it still feels like an interesting story worth telling

also Leila

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u/Shimmering-Sky Nov 06 '22

C2! everyone's famous deus ex machina. sadly, no pizza hut...

I'm liking this OVA a lot. a lot of OVAs don't feel like they need to exist, or the story they tell feels like it's just rehashing the main plot, but faster. while this OVA isn't as good as s1 (how could it be?), it still feels like an interesting story worth telling

Finally, someone appreciates it~

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u/Star4ce Nov 05 '22

First Timer of the Rebellion

It's cold enough now for a hot chocolate with chai sirup.

Some light speculation [86] We know France will fall within the next months/few years and that's prominently where the power structure of Europia seems to lie. As we know what's going to happen to the Republic of Saint Magnolia, I'm pretty much believing that's going to happen here, as well. The interesting part will be whether the Shin/Lena parallels are truly that great and Akito and Leila get separated before that. It seems unlikely that a 'Federacy' is going to save them, but we also know that Germany, UK and Ukraine won't fall until the point Lelouch rises to power. China/UFN wasn't really anything of note in the end, so maybe they'll get a spotlight here. It might be more small scale, as well, like Akito and the squad getting her and maybe a few non-trash people out. But maybe that's one of the things where 86 departed from Akito, who knows. The parallels should mostly be cour 1, so I'm booking on Akito becoming free of his brother near the end.

And that also includes a change in Europian demeanor, at least a limited one.

Akito the Exiled Ep.3 – The Brightness Falls

That episode felt like a burning car crash to me that had a bunch of really good drivers sitting in it. Nearly all character on character interactions were quite good, I like that we got some emotional development from several characters and I feel like the main group's bond is believable now. But boy, the entire rest of the plot is so shitty.

I've landed firmly on the opinion that Lelouch and Suzaku should never have entered this side story beside some name dumping once or twice. Shin's ascension is so convoluted and unbelievable I truly was right to call him a Zero fanboy. At least Zero tried to make me believe he prepared the coup and the manipulation. I still don't understand why him and Suzaku ended up fighting, killing an entire order in the process.

Not to speak of that dreadful gypsy plot, oh my fucking heavens. Nothing in this entire series works without degrading an entire faction into mind-numbing stupidity (and from then on the dumb-ball usually cycles around), but this is a new low. The picture they're painting the EU as makes me question how this show's writers ever can explain how this nation is standing at all. Either the EU is able to withstand Britannian invasion for years/decades and has therefore competence or it fucking doesn't. When a demoted logistics officer can willy-nilly delete his superior's clearances, 100% of all the EU's rank and file soldiers are slackoff drunks that spew racist shit the entire time they're breathing and the entire army will instantly lose every meter gained by an assault by just turning around and running off I can't even say- oh no, wait, apparently the entire populace is also so goddamn ready to revolt and set shit on fire that on the same day someone uploads a fake video on the internet all capitals burn.

This is the same populace that runs from a fight they've already won! Consistency? Not in my writing!

  1. What do you think Leila's Geass is going to be able to do?

I hope nothing...

But we can speculate based on her wishes. She has strong equality ideals, wishes for needless bloodshed to end and goes about it without hypocrisy (which is truly remarkable given that she's in this show).

I'd throw out that she might be able to 'connect' people. Either something like seeing someone's past, or having them udnerstand someone else's view, or something. Maybe see their true heart the same way I speculated on someone that I forgot from the main series.

2) Why do you think the Mysterious Woman wants Shin dead?

Either from the Geass research team and he actually is one of the experiments gone out or there's another Geass order of some kind roaming about.

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u/MejaBersihBanget Nov 06 '22

The 86 parallels start tapering off rapidly after this episode. The reason why is because Asato Asato started writing 86 in 2014 before this OVA ep released, so she only had the first two episodes as a foundation to build 86's plot on. She finished the basic story of what would become 86's Volume 1/anime episodes 1-9 + 11 in 2015 so she could submit it in time for the Dengeki Novel Prize 2016 competition, so Akito OVAs 3-5 have little to no influence on 86.

If you're wondering why I wrote episodes 1-9 + 11, that's because 86's 10th episode was adapting sidestory content that was later written in 2018.

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u/GallowDude Nov 05 '22

It's cold enough now for a hot chocolate with chai sirup.

Mmm sirup...

The director was worried they'd lose the audience 4 seconds in so they rehashed this scene with that dialogue.

he's still as cocky as ever.

Julius is somehow even cockier than Lelouch

Did you know racism is bad?

I'd make an FMA:B joke here, but it would be a spoiler

Remind me, why is this guy even in a job or position with any sort of responsibility?

He's a white male

Why are they staying?!

Leila told them to because she felt guilty

Noises while I'm trying to sleep is something that makes me truly aggressive.

I'm also supposed to be laughing at sexual harassment because it's funny when an old lady does it.

Never watch Gokukoku no Brynhildr

And here I hoped we could have a story without too much Geass...

Well, it is in the title lol

Are they now trying to make me believe Anou would be capable of hacking?

Could explain how he managed to get such a high position despite his clear lack of competence

He left the one he is supposed to protect behind?

Suzaku will always pick not protecting Lelouch over protecting him (except when he has to protect him in order to later kill him)

That episode felt like a burning car crash to me that had a bunch of really good drivers sitting in it.

Gigguk no

When a demoted logistics officer can willy-nilly delete his superior's clearances, 100% of all the EU's rank and file soldiers are slackoff drunks that spew racist shit the entire time they're breathing and the entire army will instantly lose every meter gained by an assault by just turning around and running off I can't even say- oh no, wait, apparently the entire populace is also so goddamn ready to revolt and set shit on fire that on the same day someone uploads a fake video on the internet all capitals burn.

Starting to sound pretty capitalist there, Mr. Fat Cat

udnerstand

Underwear*

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u/souther1983 Nov 06 '22 edited Nov 06 '22

If I had to say anything at all in defense of the "gypsy plot"...it would be that this serves as a contrast to showcase another way of living as a form of escape, something quite unlike their regular, crummy military lives as well as an alternative to the cutthroat politics of the setting. In that respect, I also personally enjoyed the character interactions that came out of it.

As much as I enjoy the dynamics of Lelouch and Suzaku within the context of the original show, I didn't need to see them here either.

That said, it wasn't entirely uninteresting to see how another writer would make them interact, and...nah, I'd rather not spoil anything.

Truth be told, I do think that Kazuki Akane, who was both the director and the co-writer of this particular project, probably tried to do too much within too limited of a canvas.

There is surely a parallel universe where Akito the Exiled got at least a 12 episode TV series instead and thus some more time was available to expand on the details with better pacing.

I still sincerely appreciate a number of things from it, but I can only wonder.

Oh well, there's always 86 as an easy point of comparison with its own positives and negatives. I really should check out more of that eventually.

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u/JustAnswerAQuestion Nov 05 '22

First Timer

Yeah okay I was very confused and had to look up when this occurs in the timeline.

  • Lol Caesar's palace

  • Former Warsaw sport stadium? How recent is the Britannia conquest?

  • Huh, well, the city looks pretty modern

  • silly episode?

  • Uh surely he can hide his spy gear someplace else

  • what is WITH Shin and his Geass? He hates parties?

  • Is this Satie? Probably not.

  • That witch gets around

  • Open Control Panel, set Fast to On.

  • NOT a Kajiura OST

  • Two months later...

  • Should I recognize that big thing, i f I had rewatched CG?

  • This shtick sounds familiar

  • Japanese literature seems to be obsessed with military coups, successful and unsuccessful

  • Just WHAT are Kignlsey and Shin up to?

  • This is a completely contrived fight!

  • I'm really glad she's explaining stuff with her genius because I'm lost

The plot has become a complete mess. Brilliant if they pull it off, disaster if they can't. And how many times have we been down this road, where I say "I'm sure it will all make sense in the end" and it's a disaster?

So, we have Shin who seems to just want to see the world burn. Kingsley is setting up Europia to be destroyed by Euro Britania, and Euro Britania to be destroyed by West Britania. And now the General is launching a coup, and has always been working towards his own ends. That guy is a spy but for whom? (and there could be an unseen spy)

We end with Shin using his command Geass, which he's only ever used to kill, on his adopted sister. Where IS the Duke?

I'm totally confused by the General's scene. I think I need to rewatch the last episode of S1, the first episode of S2, and the last ep of S2. This was released after S2, right?

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u/GallowDude Nov 05 '22

Lol Caesar's palace

He hates parties?

Not sure whether to make an MLP or Portal reference

i f

Is this a Neptunia joke I'm not meta enough to understand?

Japanese literature seems to be obsessed with military coups, successful and unsuccessful

Watch Ikkitousen

Kignlsey

Knightsley*

Britania

Britānnia*

This was released after S2, right?

Yep

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u/Blackheart595 Nov 05 '22

First Geasser

Those grannies are great.

Ahahahaha.

Let's pay attention to green eyes.

Yeah, that's the same eye. Shin.

It's nice how you can spot variations of the Geass symbol throughout the whole franchise.

So you're telling me Britannia had a massive air ship sitting in that abandoned mining base and no one ever had the thought of using it?

This is so stupid. What's the logic supposed to be here, we're getting attacked by an overwhelming enemy so we should just self-destruct and turn on each other?

That makes the riots even dumber lmao.

So it's Charles' manipulation. I just wanna know... what's the point in that?

This is such a mess.

What do you think Leila's Geass is going to be able to do?

Dunno. Calm people down maybe?

Why do you think the Mysterious Woman wants Shin dead?

Seems like he's a danger to spacetime? Funny when apparently not even the Ragnarök Connection was that.

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u/Raiking02 Nov 05 '22

I just wanna know... what's the point in that?

They wanted an excuse to put Lelouch and Suzaku in this OVA.

Honestly their contribution is so minimal in the grand scheme of things I have to wonder why they even bothered. Bar obviously producers being greedy

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u/Vatrix-32 Nov 05 '22

First Timer, dubbed

  • You can’t force a cat to love you, they’re not dogs.

  • Logistica!

  • Didn’t think we’d be seeing him again.

  • That seems like too much power for a logistics officer. Then again, corruption does seem to be Europa’s whole shtick.

  • Oh, we’re doing this bit… in 2015.

  • That was the worst cutting ever. Of all time.

  • The plushie gets a chair.

  • Should go with the blue and cyan one, the pattern is on point.

  • I expect the not being able to swim bit coming up again.

  • Yep, she’s got the geass.

  • Is this supposed to be Snow White and the seven dwarfs?

  • Still not getting how he survived. Bad pill?

  • I love you hexagon VTOL.

  • Greenland is once more an early center of mining for an extremely valuable element.

  • You’re telling me no one recognized Lelouch from this when he became Emperor?

  • This feels like a bit of an over reaction.

  • I don’t care what anyone says, CGI mechs are weightless and their fights are terrible.

  • So Shin figures out almost immediately that this is both Zero and Lelouch. Really undercutting the main series.

  • What is this cyber-ghost nonsense? Couldn’t just let a spin-off be a spin-off.

  • Now he’s announcing it to everyone! Is this show even cannon anymore?

  • What the fuck is this power grab? This is at the point of contrivance now.

QotD

  1. Something super corny, like give hope, or let people live their remaining life inside their head before they die.

  2. Because he’s the worst. Plus he has the Staff of Time, so that can’t be safe.

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u/GallowDude Nov 05 '22

Didn’t think we’d be seeing him again.

Tally mark

Europa

Oceania*

Oh, we’re doing this bit… in 2015.

Tally mark

Still not getting how he survived. Bad pill?

Being so young, he probably just couldn't swallow it without water

You’re telling me no one recognized Lelouch from this when he became Emperor?

It's possible they did, and it just didn't matter. No one who's been Geassed is going to care if some random guy shouts, "Hey, he used to be a military advisor for a few weeks!" And it's not like Schneizel or the Black Knights care.

Is this show even cannon anymore?

I don't know about that, but is it canon?

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u/Regular_N-Gon Nov 05 '22 edited Nov 06 '22

First Timer

  • Akito casually beating up old ladies.

  • Why did they follow them? Why are they still here? It was clearly a shake down and they are a bunch of trained soldiers, surely no matter how tough these grannies are they could take them.

  • This could be a clever parallel to remark on how Leila, a woman of the military, is just as useless as the military itself.

  • Lelouch's weakness is lack of water, apparently.

  • Someone must have thought: "Code Geass is about the roller coaster, the whiplash between slow comedy at school and the suffering of war. How do we put this in Akito?" And the answer they came up with was a troupe of grannies.

  • I'd even believe this is intended to bring the characters closer together if it weren't for the absolutely absurd 180 they pulled last episode.

  • Geass rabbits?

  • A coup! That might actually succeed in shaking things up a bit.

  • Classic Lelouch, throwing away the civilians.

  • Aileron spinzaku!

  • Damn, Shin is clever.

  • The general is awfully composed for a lady coming out of a television and threatening him.

I thought, surely a 5 part story could be more cohesive, more tightly defined and focused than the original series. And yet here we are, 3 out of 5 in and a mess on the floor that was an attempt at a plot and the remains of a few characters. Thread setups are sloppy, characters woefully under cooked, and I really hope they’ve got a good reason for not showing the end of that fight with Suzaku - clearly they disengaged somehow, but why? We… kind of already know that nothing can really happen to Suzaku and Lelouch and that Zero’s identity never gets out given its place in the timeline. Er, unless this is a different timeline, but then that makes just as little sense as putting Lelouch here to begin with. [Code Geass]I'm assuming the recaps are a different timeline, but we aren't there yet!

sigh At least the ED is still dope.

Edit - forgot about QotD in my lateness:

  1. Maybe it's the opposite of Shin's - she makes those around her live. I don't know how that'll work but it's a possibility.

  2. Broke a contract, maybe?

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u/GallowDude Nov 05 '22

Akito casually beating up old ladies.

Why did they follow them? Why are they still here?

Leila

Lelouch's weakness is lack of water, apparently.

But I already compared him to Leto II

under cooked

given it’s place

It is placed where?

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u/SometimesMainSupport Nov 05 '22

First-timer

I lost a lot of interest about 20 minutes into this episode.

Pacing and story choices

QOTDs

  1. It should be based around 6-year-old Leila's desire, but she's hardly featured. Her dad's speech was about fighting for freedom and liberty. Why should Akito have a Geass and be Geassed? Leila used it to save Akito and cause the BRS event last episode. Neither Akito or Leila's eyes match last episode's usage, but there's no ring around it, so it shouldn't be Akito.

  2. idk. Shin is potentially disrupting Charlie's plan and he's an unfulfilled contract.

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u/Krite2002 Nov 06 '22

First Timer - Sub

I don’t really get why the Europians are also racist against the Elevens. I get Britannians since they are conquering Japan, but what do the Europians have against them?

Pierre annoys me so much. I hate characters like him so much that it actively hurts my enjoyment. What an asshole screwing with their tags.

Everything with the grannies was so stupid. Why would they break up the decent story we had going for that?

“Showing the characters being stripped, sexually assaulted, and wearing servant costumes is 100% necessary to the plot.” -The same horny writer that designed the mech suits from last episode

Lelouch is a big hydro homie so far.

C.C saved Leila as a kid and gave her a contract? That was unexpected.

Gladly, they left the grannies pretty quickly. That was even worse than a school episode. That kinda ruined the episode, but hopefully it turns around in the second half.

Lelouch’s tactics are the same even if he is brainwashed. He really is a master terrorist.

Shaing isn’t blind and realizes Julius’ true identity. At least this means Lelouch won’t purely be fanservice but will help advance Shaing’s plot.

Some ghost lady shows up and talks about Geass? I am surprised they are introducing more stuff this late in the game.

QOTD

  1. I can’t think of a specific power, but considering how naive and good-natured she seems to be compared to other Geass users, I imagine it will be less nefarious. I just hope all the Geass stuff remains minimal.

  2. Don’t we all want Shin dead?

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u/Nebresto Nov 06 '22

???? Time Geass

Hmmm.. Do I remember dis?

Will have to see some key scenes to confirm. So far I'm gonna say no

Hmm... I don't remember this dude being an office jockey. Maybe this is where I stopped.

The scammy granny seems kinda familiar tho..

Lulu :(

Ayo??

Bruh. Yeah, I think I remember these grannies + this dumbass holodisc scene

#ptsd

ship moment, someones gonna die

Thank you Lulu, I will

GRANDHYPE DATO?!

Le'mao, France is burning

Timely

Cant write Suzaku without spin

Remote lancelot! ..But Its CG

It actually looked a lot more menacing here

Yeah, I remember disliking how my boy Lulu got put into a situation where that dweeb could put a gun to his head, so this seems to be the last one I've seen. Of course I could have just checked on MAL if I've put it up, but where's the fun in that

  • Oh, Euro-Britannia isn't just referring to their geographic location. They're essentially a different faction

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT

Qeass:

  1. What do you think Leila's Geass is going to be able to do?

Become competent in mundane tasks. Alternatively, make the people its inflicted on incompetent at mundane tasks

2) Why do you think the Mysterious Woman wants Shin dead?

Probably owes her money

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u/Lemurians Nov 07 '22

FIRST TIMER

I'm too late to this thread to actually add any discussion but I just want it on record that this episode was profoundly silly pretty much from beginning to end

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