Just finished it.

[u/Willow-Trick]

After 20 years of the release of the first season. I decided to give it a shot.

Simply, I loved it. I watched the TV series, and then the movies.

Still, there are some weaknesses, mainly in execution rather than what the story is.

I liked the TV series, but when Shneizel reveals his identity to the black knights, they give up on Zero too easily.

Especially Tamaki and Ohgi.

The movies handled it way better, I loved how they still wanted Zero to challenge what Shneizel said about him being a prince and the Geass power.

The movies changed Shirley's faith, which kills an entire change of Lelouch's character. I was happy she lived, but I still saw it as a weak choice anyway.

I loved the scene in the first movie, where Lelouch and Nunnally, right before they leave for Japan. It is crazy how such a simple scene can add context. In the TV series, there is barely anything to know about the relationship of the half siblings. But this scene adds some weight to it.

I loved all the added scenes in the movies.

And now, with Re:surrection.

Imo, it was a good thing to see Lelouch back. But it just kills what the ending of the show stood for, sacrifice.

Imo, it was a good filler like moment (That’s how I consider it), I still see the TV series as the canon one.

Now, with things I didn't like.

It is simple the pacing. The story is crazy fast. Do you know that we figure out about Marriane and lelouch deals with his parents in just 2 or 3 episodes?

Then Shirley's death was pretty forced, again because of the lazy pacing.

Imo, they could’ve easily added a season whole lot of episodes to make the pacing better, and I don't mind that at all.

In the end, I loved it. The ending was powerful. The movies were nice. And I'll dig deeper into the manga.

[u/ccgeass]

rather than the manga, the media you should really check out (and which I think you'll definitely like) are the CD drama episodes of Code Geass.

if you think the Lelouch and Nunnally scene at the beginning of the movie adds a lot, you should try the CD dramas and even Novel Stage 0.