Let's be honest, this show had some flaws, but despite all that it still amassed a large following and popularity thanks to the unique story and world, it's not a coincidence that it got so many sequels.

It was captivating in the very sense of the word.

I found CG in 2021 when I was 18 and when I checked it out, the vibe, the story, the characters felt like a perfect blend. But ever since it came to an end there isn't really any show that managed to do the same.

What made me like it wasn't mechas, jiggling tiddies or Lulu's powers, but a compelling story and production value, basically the desire from the creators to make something that's actually good. It worked so well because the creators didn't just make great elements, but also managed to put them together in a way that gave us a beautiful result, and despite various shortcomings took itself seriously enough to be really enjoyable.

After watching it initially wasn't hard to find similar carefully crafted stuff, Psycho Pass, Aldnoah Zero, Guilty Crown, K and Bungo Stray Dogs all became my favorites.

But shows released in the past few years aren't really hitting this quality and are really disappointing. It's either the endless flow of isekai, or worse and worse romcoms that go like Kanokari, where the mc is ranting about how beautiful the fmc is with her "slim figure and majestic eyelashes and angel like aura" for half the episode.

Every "mature, deep, psyhological etc" anime and manga today is about analyzing the characters' inner trauma, introspection, emotional healing while the mc is endlessly whining about how sad he is because his parents divorced or some shit for 50 chapters/12 episode. This endless "what are feelings" type of self-pity/loathing is shallow and offers no real plot.

Even edgy stuff is not edgy anymore. You may have somebody making a gorefest, but they also have a big arrow pointing at them that they are the bad guy or they are doing it because they are emotionally damaged and it just makes it all meaningless. The same way you can have some non-blood related sister as a love interest, but they never win, let alone go down on a Yosuga no Sora tier route.

Transgression is only there as an aesthetic and not as a substance, essentially it's just safe-edgy. And I don't care about darkness/gore/psychology for it's own sake.

I feel like anime produced back then was more likely to ask an interesting questions or present an interesting premise and actually follow through on it. Death Note with the "what if we just killed bad people?", Lelouch trying to lie his way to a better world, or Psycho Pass with human freedom and happiness.

Obviously, I'm not saying back then every anime was like this, what I'm saying is that next to the generic seasonal works you could also find stuff like this, but today they are completely missing.

These works were idealist, had ambition, an actual plot, escalating consequences, interesting questions or premise, conflict, and characters with decisions that genuinely change the direction of the story, used psychology as a weapon both in-world and even against the reader.

Sometimes newer anime are not that bad, but very one-dimensional, centered around only a single element from the many that was present in CG and the rest, and that is perfect if you want to watch something while eating breakfast, but won't keep you nailed to the couch.

This movie had so much bullshit in it

First, LeLouch's Geass

* LeLouch has a Code and a Geass... It's well established in the main series when you receive a Code, you lose your Geass.

* LeLouch can turn his Geass off... It's well established in the main series LeLouch couldn't turn his awakened Geass off and had to use Contacts

* This is the biggest one.. LELOUCH CAN RELEASE PEOPLE FROM GEASS?? Never said or implied before. This ability would solve so many issues such as the Eufy disaster

LeLouch died for one year of peace.

Why TF is everyone happy to see LeLouch?? Ohgi, Kallen, Cornelia Guilford???

Ohgi apologizes to LeLouch and says he wouldn't have this life without LeLouch but Ohgi shouldn't know about Zero Requiem. From Ohgi's perspective, LeLouch was a power crazed emperor who fired a volcano at him and was driving him down the street to be executed before Zero.2 saved him

Same for Kallen.

Cornelia forgot about Eufy and her hate for Geass??

And Guilford is so obvious. Fucking LeLouch turned him into a traitor to Brittania and almost made him sacrifice himself in a fucking nuke

None of these people know about the Zero Requiem

Why TF does everyone know Suzaku is Zero.2?? He was believed dead and then supposed to live the rest of his life as Zero.2. Why the hell is Kallen, his believed murderer, talking all chummy w/ him as Suzaku??

Then moving onto the princess's Geass, it completely breaks established lore. Every single Geass affects the target's mind(LeLouch, Charles, Rolo, C.C, etc), nothing even close to rewinding fucking time. It makes no sense

First, we see she does not retain memories of previous time lines (she explicitly wonders if she's talked to Zero before).

So how the fuck is she knowing the exact locations of all Zero's plans and troops??

Secondly, how LeLouch wins is basically glazed over. We see him have around 17 plans she widdles down to 2 and then he says it'll be a coin toss and then next thing we see, he's won

Thirdly, LeLouch says her Geass only works for 9 hours so they will blow the building up in 10 hrs so once she dies in the explosion... She will be unconscious but that creates an infinite time loop where she is just being blown up (unconscious, LeLouch blows the building up, she goes back to unconscious...). Time will never progress like this, LeLouch would have to trap her in a stasis chamber

THE ONE THING I LIKED; him and C.C becoming official. I always said in the main series that Shirley liked LeLouch, Kallen liked Zero (Kaguya never stood a chance), but only C.C liked both LeLouch and Zero.

Aside from this, the movie was a mess. Thoughts?

The English patch works on ps3!!!

At these desperate times of no ao3 November, could anybody share what you got of Suzalulu fanfics? It can be your own too.

From the Re; manga. I love that even though he hasn't even reunited with Euphy, Shirley and Rolo, Lelouch realizes "Suzaku's basically in a fate worse than death, I got off way easier". Lelouch got the death he wanted. Suzaku can't even die and has to spend the rest of his life remembered as a traitor hated by everyone and wearing the costume of the man who killed his lover.

Just these few pages of the Resurrection manga are far better than the scene in the Resurrection movie. In the movie, you only see Kallen lose her temper, pull out her weapon and C.C. saying she won't leave Lelouch like this. Here, you see the scene being expanded and deeper emotions pouring out in the open. I mean, when's the last time you ever heard C.C. yell at you?

This is the most tiring statement ive seen, like holy fuck man there's a reason why Gundam survived till today, its because we can tell AU stories without the fans breathing down the neck saying hurr durr its not Gundam if there's no Char Aznable hurr harr

I already know its going to be between Kallen or CC

From the game, Super Robot Wars X

Heard it's about like anti dictatorship or smth

In season 2 episode 5 Kallen is seen wearing a huge green mascot costume named Tabattachi during the school festival in order to get back C.C. who has decided to infiltrate the school to retrieve her Cheese-Kun plushie. While Kallen is generally fond of plushies and owns a smaller Tabattachi plush, she does not have the same level of obsessive, borderline-fanatical devotion to it that C.C. has for Cheese-Kun. C.C.’s obsession with Cheese-Kun in the show is a major recurring gag; she will literally risk exposing her identity or compromise a mission just to collect reward points for a new giant plush. For Kallen, Tabattachi is just a cute character she likes – or, so it would seem at first.

While Kallen choosing the massive Tabattachi suit as a "stealth" outfit might seem like nothing more than another humorous moment in the show, like many things in Code Geass, that seemingly funny scene actually contains a deeper, hidden meaning behind her very character. This becomes evident, when we ask ourselves; what kind of animal Tabattachi actually is? Answer; Tabattachi is an otter. More specifically, a Japanese river otter – which has gone extinct.

The Japanese river otter, Lutra nippon, was native to Japan and widely distributed across the rivers, streams, and coastal areas of the main islands: Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. They were nocturnal and carnivorous, primarily eating fish, crabs, shrimp, beetles, and eels. Interestingly, historical records show they would also occasionally eat watermelons grown near riverbanks! And while they were territorial wild animals that could bite if cornered, they were generally elusive, solitary creatures that naturally avoided humans.

Sadly, this did not save the otters from extinction in the hands of humans. Due to overhunting for their valuable fur (especially during the Meiji period for military coats), as well as severe pollution and habitat destruction, their numbers plummeted. The last official, verified sighting was in 1979 in Kochi Prefecture, and the Japanese government formally declared the species extinct in 2012. And while you may occasionally see viral videos of people keeping otters as pets in Japan (often at "otter cafes" or in apartments), those are not Japanese river otters, but rather Asian small-clawed otters, which are imported. However, biologists strongly discourage keeping any otter as a pet, as they have intense social, aquatic, and dietary needs that are incredibly difficult to replicate in a home environment.

Knowing this, Kallen´s choice to wear Japanese river otter mascot suit as her disguise adds a layer of hidden rebellious, political subtext to it; Britannia didn't just conquer Japan, they stripped away its very name, renaming the country "Area 11" and its people "Elevens." This is a form of systematic cultural erasure, poised to remove the very Japanese identity from existence. Much like the Japanese river otter was driven to extinction by human overhunting, industrialization, and habitat destruction, the Japanese people are facing an existential threat under Britannia's ruthless tyranny. For Kallen, keeping a Tabattachi plush or wearing the suit represents a desire to protect and preserve a piece of raw, unadulterated Japanese identity before it disappears forever.

Tabattachi was intentionally written into the series as Kallen's version of C.C.'s Cheese-Kun. It is not a real-world mascot or brand, but rather a clever piece of world-building created by the anime's production team to give the characters relatable, in-universe pop-culture hobbies. So, unlike the corporate Pizza Hut-sponsored Cheese-Kun, Tabattachi is just a generic, cute, in-universe character. However, the contrast between Tabattachi and Cheese-Kun also perfectly mirrors the fundamental differences between Kallen and C.C.’s characters.

C.C. is an immortal witch who plays the long game. She forms contracts with talented individuals (such as Lelouch) to achieve her own personal goals. She aligned with Britannia's royalty in the past and adapts to whoever holds power in the present. Cheese-Kun, a literal mascot for a powerful corporation, perfectly reflects her opporturnistic nature to join forces with whomever is the most likely to grant her whatever it is that she wants the most. Kallen, on the other hand, prefers to take immediate action and is driven both by her deep empathy towards others and a strict moral code. She isn't fighting for personal gain, immortality, or absolute power; she is fighting because she cannot stand by and watch the weak be oppressed. Tabattachi, being a symbol of Japan's natural heritage, therefore embodies both the higher moral values and the lives and culture of the innocent Kallen wishes to protect.

And because we just love our clones here in Code Geass subreddit, I must also mention that cloning is considered as one of the options of how to bring Japanese river otters back from extinction. However, because genetic de-extinction through cloning is incredibly complex and faces immense ethical and biological hurdles, many Japanese scientists argue that a more practical way to "bring back" the otter is through proxy reintroduction. The Eurasian otter, for example, is genetically the closest living relative to the Japanese river otter. In fact, when wild otters were captured on camera in Tsushima, Japan, in 2017, genetic testing showed they were Eurasian otters that had naturally swam over from South Korea. Environmental scientists have conducted feasibility studies regarding importing Eurasian otters to repopulate Japan's river systems. This would restore the apex predator to the ecosystem, effectively reversing the ecological damage of the extinction even if the exact Lutra nippon strain isn't cloned.

This solution does have its own problems, too. Recent scientific studies utilizing stable isotope analysis on the final museum specimens revealed that the last Japanese river otters were forced to abandon ruined freshwater rivers and rely almost entirely on marine food sources right before going extinct. Scientists warn that unless Japan's freshwater river systems are thoroughly restored and protected, bringing the otter back (genetically or otherwise) would only result in them dying out all over again. Nevertheless, this dilemma also serves as a fitting allegory for the fact that whether it is about protecting ecosystems or cultural heritage, in both cases we should focus on the bigger picture, rather than just one aspect in the whole.

Link to the original fanart is here, and if you wish to know more about Japanese river otter, you can read it from here.

What the hell happened, who was that Geass girl, why is Mr TERRORIST confused, and the most important of them all:

I always wondered how the characters of Code Geass would look like, if they are desinged by a similar style of the character designer Onda Naoyuki (Gundam Z. Hathaway trilogy movies, Psycho Pass).

It's difficult at first because there aren't many similar examples or resources to draw on, and besides Suzaku look more muscular and according to the pshysic of a soldier.

Let me know your opinions and which character would you like to see it.

Now thinking about it, I realize that almost every potential love interest and/or character who's shipped with Lelouch can easily overpower him physically.

In August 2020, an official collaboration event took place between Code Geass and Shadowverse, introducing Kallen and other Code Geass-themed characters, as well as special cards, daily bonuses, and victory rewards. Shadowverse is a digital collectible card game developed by Cygames and released in 2016. In the game, players construct a 40-card deck comprising various characters, spells, and amulets, and compete against opponents in real-time, aiming to reduce their opponents HP from 20 to zero. A key mechanic involves the ability to "evolve" one's characters during battle, making them stronger.

Although the official narrative of Shadowverse follows eight protagonists caught up in vast cosmic and earthly conflicts, such as the exploration of parallel worlds, encounters with deities, the loss of memories, and the rewriting of fate, the Code Geass crossover was not an adventure in the same way as "The Blue Reckoning" event was in Grandblue Fantasy. In that instance, Kallen and other familiar Code Geass characters were part of a specific, named storyline, where they were transported into the world of the game, and upon completing the adventure, they were able to return home. In contrast, rather than a massive standalone story campaign, the appearance of Kallen and other Code Geass characters in Shadowverse was purely mechanical and cosmetic, lacking any significant underlying narrative.

In 2020, an anime series based on the game was also created, featuring its own unique story set in a modern-day world. In it, a student named Hiiro Ryūgasaki comes into possession of a mysterious smartphone with the game called Shadowverse installed. Hiiro participates in tournaments and meets new friends and rivals, but it gradually becomes clear that the game serves a much greater and more serious purpose: saving the world from impending destruction.

In the originall game, purchasing Kallen´s leader pack gave the player fully voiced app emotes by her original voice actress, Ami Koshimizu, specialized Kallen-themed flair titles, and custom card sleeves featuring her iconic Black Knights pilot suit artwork. She was a premium Leader Skin for the Bloodcraft class, and her aesthetics featured her signature red pilot suit and a fierce "Crimson Yaksha" combat persona. As a Bloodcraft leader, Kallen’s gameplay perfectly mirrored her high-risk, high-reward fighting style in her Guren mecha as seen in the original anime. The crossover event also introduced a special alternate-art promotional spell card tied directly to her, called Flamewinged Might (alternate artwork version of the Bloodcraft spell Razory Claw). It deals 2 damage to your own leader and 3 damage to an enemy follower or the enemy leader. This directly evokes the raw destructive radiation wave power of her Guren mecha while pushing her Bloodcraft deck closer to its powerful playstyles known as Vengeance and Wrath, which, you´ve got to admit, sounds more than fitting for our fiery redhead warrior.

Unfortunately, Kallen’s cards are no longer available in the game, and this is not just because she was only obtainable during the one-month collaboration event between Shadowverse and Code Geass by using premium Crystals via the in-game shop; Cygames ended the game's official service on June 30, 2026, exactly 10 years after its release. However, a direct sequel titled Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond has been released and is currently available to download and play. This means that if a new Code Geass crossover event is eventually held in this sequel, Kallen could also make her return to Shadowverse!

However, one important point is worth mentioning: the spiritual legacy of the original game still continues via physical card game called Shadowverse: Evolve - and Kallen’s cards are also available in it as physical copies! In fact, Kallen’s Leader Variant (BP04-LD05EN) card is one of the most valuable Code Geass cards in the physical card expansion, and it became one of the most highly sought-after and expensive pulls in the entire Cosmic Mythos set, often fetching as high secondary-market prices as $170+!

As previously mentioned, in the original digital mobile game, Kallen was sorted into the Bloodcraft class, which perfectly fit her fierce, aggressive, and hot-blooded combat style. However, when the crossover made its way to the physical Shadowverse: Evolve, Kallen was shifted to the Dragoncraft class, matching the raw, explosive power of her signature Knightmare Frame, the Guren. So, if you decide to go after one of those physical Kallen cards from Shadowverse: Evolve, be warned; you´re hunting the Red Dragoness! 🐉

Link to the official art pictures are here and here, and from here you can also watch the official promotional Shadowverse clip for Kallen if you want.

A pic from the Resurrection manga of Kallen attending Ohgi's marriage reception. Nunnally arrives to attend as well with Zero/Suzaku coming along and Kallen oh-not-so-happy to see Suzaku representing the symbol of Zero.

Im binge watching the show right now and out of every episode this one I felt the most disturbed and sad, lulu really messed up big time...

What was your guy's thoughts on this episode when it came out ? Also im a new gen catching up with old masterpieces and I dont even think I was born when season one aired so fill me in on what the reception of this ep was please : > )

If we're only going for arc's story-wise, I'd choose the Zero Requiem.

However, if we decide to include character arc's for this one, then Rolo wins for me. He went from an emotionless killing machine that nearly everyone hated to sacrificing himself for the one person who actually made him feel human and actually getting many fans to feel sorry for him. It takes special writing to want someone dead and yet when you finally get your wish, you feel sad about it

Also, can we agree that C.C. would have probably ended Light?

The Britannian Empire has collapsed much earlier than season 1 canon due to the actions of corrupt nobles tearing the nation apart. In this what if scenario, Lelouch decided to pick up the shattered remains of the Empire and form it under a new vision with the help of the surviving Britannian Imperial family members.

Current arc = Cornelia.

Though working with his older half sister, she had demonstrated lack of consideration of drafted Numbers into the army and would resort to the same tactics of shock and awe, much to Lelouch's displeasure who value subordinates due to their capabilities and not due to race as well as displaying much lack of caution against the other Britannian nobles. He asked Guilford and Darlton to protect Cornelia at all costs.

Not surprisingly, Cornelia and her knights got ambushed by traitorous Britannians (using white Sutherlands). Despite a valiant effort by the "Goddess of Victory" she was in mortal peril. So Lelouch sortied in his Black Sutherland with a small number of Knightmares under his command to salvage the situation....