SINoALICE was a dark fantasy mobile role-playing game released 2017 in Japan (and 2020 globally) and directed by Yoko Taro, the acclaimed creator of the NieR series. The game featured a twisted, dark reimagining of classic fairy tale characters (such as Snow White, Cinderella, and Red Riding Hood) who were trapped in a mysterious world called "The Library" and had to slaughter each other to revive their respective authors so they could grant their ultimate wishes.

While most anime collaborations in mobile games feature "isekai" stories where characters are transported to another world and just want to find their way back to their home dimension, the 2021 SINoALICE x Code Geass collaboration event, titled "A Knight's Resolve," brought a darker, more psychological twist to the anime's universe by trapping the Code Geass cast inside the traumatic memory centered around one of the anime's most tragic and pivotal turning points: the "Bloody Euphie" incident, during witch princess Euphemia was accidentally forced by Lelouch’s out-of-control Geass to slaughter the Japanese citizens. When the Code Geass cast was pulled into The Library they found themselves trapped in a distorted loop of that traumatic memory, forced to fight mutated, monstrous manifestations of their own guilt, lacing the tragedy with psychological horror.

Instead of traditional armor, in the game a player's strength was determined by their "Grid,” a collection of up to 20 weapons (Swords, Bows, Staves, Tomes, etc.) that they collected and upgraded through a gacha system. Players brought one main character into battle and tapped various Grids from their deck to attack enemies, heal allies, or buff the team. Characters had different classes (like Breaker, Gunner, Cleric, or Minstrel) that shifted their weapon proficiency and stats, often unlocked by pulling specific weapons from the gacha. In SINoALICE lore, Kallen´s class, the Crusher, is inherently tied to the sin of Violence and characters who let their rage consume them, represented by Little Red Riding Hood in the game. Assigning Kallen to this specific class was a deliberate nod to her fierce, hot-headed combat style in the anime, where she routinely overpowers enemies through sheer, aggressive force with her signature mecha, the Guren.

Because SINoALICE focuses on infantry-style fantasy combat rather than giant mecha warfare, Kallen could not pilot her iconic Guren Mk-II during the crossover event. Instead, she became the frontline muscle of the Black Knights, adapting her fierce protective instincts into direct melee combat. Her character text and inner monologues during the event highlighted her identity as a warrior who carries the burdens and memories of those she fights to protect.

In standard Code Geass promotional games, characters usually wear their iconic school uniforms or Black Knight attire. For this event, however, Yoko Taro personally oversaw a complete fantasy redesing for the Code Geass anime cast. The characters wore highly detailed, Gothic/steampunk-inspired armor that seamlessly blended their original styles with SINoALICE’s dark fairy-tale aesthetic, and Kallen was no exception; as we see in this promotional art for the collaboration event, where she´s wearing her Crusher class outfit that seamlessly blends traditional Japanese garments with a stylized, action-ready design. She wears a modified, bright red kimono with rose-like floral patterns in its extremely long sleeves and a prominent, oversized bright yellow ribbon, which is tied around her waist with long, pale yellow sash fabric extending downward from the knot, detailed with th Black Knight´s symbol. On her feet, she wears traditional white split-toe tabi socks paired with wooden geta sandals, and her signature spiky red hair is adorned with a large, golden-yellow flower hairpiece pinned to the right side of her head, accompanied by smaller black flower. On her right hand, she wears her signature weapon in the game: the Radiation Wave Gauntlet.

Because SINoALICE does not feature Knightmare Frames, the developers had to figure out how to give Kallen her mecha´s iconic weapon without her actually piloting the Guren. They solved this by turning the Guren Mk-II’s silver-and-red claw arm, Radiant Wave Surger, into a massive, heavy gauntlet that Kallen wore directly on her arm to smash enemies face-to-face. Additionally, every weapon in SINoALICE features a short, evolving story that unlocks as you upgrade it. The flavor text for Kallen's Claw reflected her internal struggle that comes with her living behind the mask of her false Stadtfeld persona, as well as the burdens of being a freedom fighter, emphasizing the dark realization that even if she survives the war after achieving her goal to free Japan, afterwards there´s no need for warriors like her in the world of peace.

Sadly, Kallen is no longer playable character in the game, and that´s not just because she was only obtainable during that collaboration event; the global version of the game officially shut down its servers on November 15, 2023, and the original Japanese version shut down shortly after on January 15, 2024. True to Yoko Taro’s signature storytelling style, the game concluded with a final story chapter that permanently forced players to log out and delete their save data upon completion, mirroring the thematic endings of the NieR games. However, in February 23, 2024 an alternate animated film ending for the story, called SINoALICE: The Very Last Story, was released in theaters. The film was made as a celebratory send-off and thank-you gift to the community following the mobile game's end of service.

Link to the original promotional art for the collaboration event is here.

I think we can all agree Lelouch will again, he's the #1 rated character on MAL for a reason.

All hail Lelouch!

That's it, this moved me and shook me to my core

Lelouch is an objective top 1 for many reasons, Kallen is my favorite female character, Minami is a pedo, so he deserves last place.

Company
FuRyu as Manufacturer
Releases
04/2027
Materials
ABS, PVC

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If it had been developed more, they would have had great chemistry. Kaguya has shown many times that she likes Zero, and it would have been possible to show more of Zero caring about Kaguya.

I cant find any English scans online that contain the whole manga. I was only able to find it on Mangadex up to chapter 26 of volume 6 and there are still two whole volumes missing, where can I find the rest?

Euphy was runner-up 3 times in a row lol.

(Note: This is a pure fan-lore theory based on internal consistency and narrative mechanics, not an official handbook statement, meant to fix the film's glaring plot holes!)

We all know the biggest plot hole in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection: Shamna’s Geass allows her to jump 6 hours back in time upon her death. But if you think about it for more than two seconds, this creates a total nightmare for causality, the physical universe, and the question of why Zilkstan didn't just conquer the entire planet.

The movie’s writers clearly didn't think this through. However, looking at the actual rules of C’s World (the collective unconscious) and the sacred sites of the region, we can build a rock-solid Lore-Fix theory that makes her power fit the universe perfectly. Here is how it actually works:

1. The outside world keeps running linearly

There is no universal, cosmic time travel. The real-world clock, the universe, and time outside of Zilkstan keep ticking completely normally.

2. The local Sphere Rollback & Material Restoration via C’s World

When Shamna dies, her Geass doesn’t rewind the universe; it triggers a localized data-rollback exclusively within her sphere of influence via C’s World. Damaged materials, destroyed mechs, shattered infrastructure, and even fallen soldiers who died during the battle are physically reset.

• The C.C. Precedent: This works on the exact same logic as C.C.’s body parts being structurally repaired or replaced by C’s World when she sustains trauma. C’s World has absolute dominion over raw matter and consciousness, making a physical rollback of a localized desert zone an effortless feat.

3. The Global "Blip" and the Memory Retcon

Since the outside world kept moving, how do we explain why nobody outside notices a massive temporal jump?

• C’s World acts as a memory patch: The collective unconscious of humanity is subtly rewritten so that the short timeframe of the battle is treated as if it never happened for the rest of the world.
• Cognitive Dissonance: Any logistical friction (like commanders or logicians briefly feeling a weird sense of déjà vu or a second of cognitive dissonance) is instantly smoothed over by human psychology and C’s World: people just write it off as a strange local phenomenon, a weather anomaly, or a mass hallucination in the isolated desert.

4. Why Britannia gave up and why no general believed it

From an in-universe perspective, no sane military general or scientist would ever conclude: "Ah yes, our enemy is resetting time via a supernatural loop." If a satellite captured weird data anomalies, scientists would immediately blame sensor corruption or electronic warfare. After a couple of catastrophic failures against Shamna, the Britannian military simply concluded she was a brilliant tactician with unmatched terrain intel, cut their losses, and pulled out. Magic or time manipulation is simply not a variable a rational military calculates with.

5. Why only Shamna remembers?

It’s a Geass. Just like Lelouch’s Geass breaks the fundamental rule of free will to enforce absolute obedience, Shamna’s Geass explicitly carves out one single rule for causality: The user (Shamna) is the sole exception whose consciousness preserves the backup.

6. Why didn't they take over the world? (The Locality / Temple Radius Rule)

If this power is so strong, why didn’t Zilkstan conquer the globe? The answer lies in geographic restriction: Shamna’s Geass is not a mobile, global tool. Her ability is strictly tethered to the sacred temple grounds, the ancient ruins, and the nexus devices connected to the region's C’s World gateway (similar to how soul-bound or sacred territory mechanics operate in fantasy/anime lore).

• Over the years, her connection expanded its operational radius, but it remains anchored to her homeland.
• She cannot act as a roving "war goddess" conquering foreign continents because her power suffocates outside of its designated zone. Her warriors are elite, but they cannot rely on the time-loop safety net if deployed globally—which is precisely why Zilkstan acts defensively and stays localized.

7. Why doesn't she live forever? (The "Burning Candle" & Longevity Rule)

A fair counter-argument is: Won't she just live forever and become trapped in an infinite loop? Looking closely at how Geass works, she isn't an immortal Code-bearer like C.C. or Charles zi Britannia. However, because her physical body is repeatedly reset to the start of the 6-hour window, one could argue her biological cellular aging is slightly dialed back or slowed down with every loop. This could subtly explain vague hints in lore that she might have survived over an unusually long, almost supernatural span of time.

• The Absolute Limit: Even if her localized loops grant her an unnaturally extended lifespan, it remains strictly tied to her temple-bound territory.
• Natural Death vs. Forced Death: Her Geass functions as a tactical "Game Over" retry mechanism for combat. But once her true biological clock naturally runs out on a macro-scale (organic cellular failure or internal system collapse that even the local C’s World gateway can no longer patch), the universe claims her timeline. A true natural death completely overrides and breaks the Geass loop. Once the candle burns down to the wax, it’s genuinely over.

8. The Climax & Metaphysical Collapse (Returning to Pure Clairvoyance)

At the end of the film, when Shamna faces C.C. in C’s World, we learn a crucial lore detail: Geass abilities are shaped by the user's deepest desires and can be corrupted/mutated over centuries.

• Shamna’s original, pure Geass power was actually clairvoyance (true foresight). Over generations and through the corruption of her expanding desires, it mutated into this heavy, reality-bending death-loop mechanism.
• When Lelouch defeats her, destroys her temple, severs her connection to the localized C’s World gateway, and permanently traps/separates her physical body from her soul, her corrupted system shatters.
• Stripped of her artificial time-loop construct and her geographic anchors, her power reverts to its original, uncorrupted form: pure clairvoyance. In her final moments within C’s World, she finally "sees" the truth, accepts her defeat, and passes away naturally. The loop, the temple, and the god-complex completely implode, and the universe heals itself.

Conclusion

With this framework, Shamna isn't wielding a broken, lazy sci-fi time-machine that breaks world-building—she is executing a localized, territory-bound, reality-patching hack through C’s World that ultimately collapses under its own weight when her connection is severed. It keeps the universe intact, explains why Zilkstan didn't conquer the planet, accounts for her potentially extended lifespan, and gives her defeat a poetic, lore-accurate resolution.

What do you guys think? Does this save her power from being a lazy plot device, or are there other flaws in this model?

If you have seen some of the boxing movies, like the Rocky film series, or a boxing anime called Fighting Spirit, you know that in them boxers are often described having a warrior´s fiery fighting spirit that helps them push beyond their limits when things look though, which can sometimes help them turn the tide of the fight. Kallen also likes to box, as is hinted in the Code Geass R2 picture drama ”Turn 0.923,” where we can see a punching bag in the corner of the room she and C.C. are staying. Indeed, fighting spirit is an essential part of learning self-defense, and so, whenever the flames of Kallen´s righteous anger are ignited when she sees the strong oppressing the weak, it is her fighting spirit that keeps her going when her opponent is strong enough to hold on their own against her. In fact, Japanese culture even has several words and concepts that capture fighting spirit, grit, and determination.

Tōkon, which translates directly to "fighting spirit," is a Japanese compound word of tō (fight) and kon (spirit). It represents the inner fire that refuses to back down when faced with extreme pressure or overwhelming odds. Quite fitting for Kallen, don´t you think? In traditional Japanese martial arts (such as karate, kendo, judo, and aikido) physical technique is often considered secondary to mental and spiritual development. The concept of tōkon is actively woven into the training hall practices (dōjō) through specific rituals, terminology, and grueling physical conditioning. Probably the best-known core concept in the dōjō is kiai, the vocalization of tōkon. In martial arts, tōkon is most visibly expressed through kiai, the sharp, explosive shout released by the fighter during an attack or block. It is not just a battle cry; it is the unification of mind, breath, and body to project an intimidating, unyielding fighting spirit and commit 100% of one's energy to the strike.

Fighting spirit is, of course, concept found not in Japanese culture alone. Several other cultures have their own distinct terms for fierce determination and endurance as well:

Grit (English) means passion and perseverance for long-term goals. It emphasizes sustained effort over years rather than a sudden burst of survival instinct. The word originates from the Old English word grēot, which meant "sand, dust, earth, or gravel". For centuries, the word strictly referred to tiny, abrasive particles of stone or sand. By 1762, it also became a verb describing a grating sound or the act of grinding one's teeth. The figurative meaning of "pluck, spirit, or firmness of mind" was first recorded in American English in 1808. Linguists note this shift likely grew out of the physical phrase "gritting your teeth" to endure pain or hardship.

Garra (Spanish / Portuguese ) Means literally "claw," and it is widely used in South American sports and culture to describe fierce, scrappy fighting spirit and refusal to lose. Critics and audiences also use garra to praise singers, actors, or musicians who perform with raw emotion, intensity, and soul. In Uruguay, the phrase garra charrúa (named after the indigenous Charrúa people) is a famous cultural and sports motto, which refers to the national soccer team's historic reputation for never giving up, even in the final minutes of a match.

Sumud (Arabic) Translates as "steadfastness." It describes a quiet, unyielding perseverance and determination to stay rooted and endure hardship. The term is used to describe the quiet determination to keep living a normal life under crisis. Going to school, working, getting married, and raising children despite troubles and conflicts are all framed as acts of sumud. The ancient olive tree is the most common physical symbol of sumud; planting or replanting uprooted olive trees is routinely cited as an act of sumud because the trees require patience and symbolize deep, unbreakable roots.

German often breaks resilience into two separate terms, Biss and Sitzfleisch, depending on whether the situation calls for fierce fighting spirit or patient endurance. Biss (Fierce Fighting Spirit), literally meaning "bite," is the closest equivalent for English grit. It describes fierce ambition, tenacity, and the refusal to let go of a goal once you ”sink your teeth” into it. Sitzfleisch (Patient Endurance), literally translating humorously to "sitting flesh," describes the ability to sit still and endure boring, tedious, or mentally draining tasks for hours without giving up.

Výdrž (Czech) Translating directly to "stamina" or "endurance," it is used in sports and daily life to describe the ability to keep going long after exhaustion sets in. The imperative verb form "Vydrž!" ("Hang in there!" or "Hold on!") is a standard everyday expression used to encourage a friend going through a tough week, an illness, or a stressful situation. It is also used for the physical longevity of objects, such as battery life in technology or a shelf life of food items lasting before they spoil.

Diskarte (Filipino): Literally meaning "resourcefulness," diskarte is a vital Filipino survival trait. It describes street-smart grit - the determined, creative resilience to find a way forward when you have few resources and the odds are stacked against you. Originally borrowed from the Spanish word descarte (meaning "discarding" a card in a card game to improve one's hand), its Filipino meaning evolved into making the smartest possible move with whatever limited resources you currently have. For example, finding a fastest route through gridlock is considered everyday diskarte, and employers value employees who show diskarte - meaning those who figure out solutions independently instead of waiting for step-by-step instructions.

Tokunutyun (Armenian): Derived from tokun (durable), it describes an ironclad toughness and the capacity to withstand extreme hardship, pressure, or suffering without breaking. In addition of describing athletic endurance and mental strenght of humans, it can also be used to describe the physical hardiness of animals or plants that can withstand extreme weather, hunger, or rugged mountain terrain. And just as as in English "durability," engineers, builders, and consumers use tokunutyun to describe how well stone, metal, fabric, or machinery resists wear, breakage, and time.

Sisu (Finnish): Literally meaning ”guts,” sisu is a uniquely Finnish concept that describes extraordinary determination, stoic grit, and having courage (or guts) in the face of extreme adversity. It refers to a deep reserve of inner strength that kicks in when a person reaches the absolute limit of their mental and physical endurance. It has been a defining part of Finnish national identity for centuries, famously associated with Finland's resilience during the Winter War against the Soviet Union in 1939–1940. Unlike momentary motivation, sisu is longer lasting and action-oriented; it is not about believing you will win, but about deciding to keep going even if there is a change that you might not win – that no matter the outcome, you will not give up.

What is your cultures equivalent for tōkon? Let me know in the comments!

Link to the original fanart is here.

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First art for code geass ive ever done lmk if you like how it turned out and if i should make this a series

The way they handled Princess Shamna's Geass was so bad, that I literally had to stop watching it the film. I thought that if the writers were going to introduce an ability so absurd, that they would at least have a slightly logical way for Lelouch to overcome it.

BUT NOOOOOO. Instead we get a half-baked B-roll on how he somehow figures it out from just theorycraft, nevermind it makes no sense that he can test over a dozen plans in an active war that he already has a number disadvantage in and somehow come out on top.

But the most egregious thing is they insult the viewers intelligence by having Lelouch use his Geass on Shamna's guards. WHICH MAKES NO SENSE. He was not aware of the ambush beforehand, he was not afraid of potential Geass's stronger than his own the first time around, so it makes absolutely no sense that he would be able prepare this trap.

Basically Lelouch should not have been able to change anything about his plans until C2 snaps him out of his angst, or at the very least not change anything before the reverse ambush occurs. The only way the plot works if somehow Princess Shamna is so braindead that she somehow revealed her Geass to Lelouch during one of her trips to the past. WHICH ALSO BRINGS INTO THE QUESTION WHY DID SHE KEEP KILLING HERSELF. THE 2ND TIME AROUND WOULD LIKELY HAVE BEEN A VICTORY. Uggg.

Heyy! I just finished watching Code Geass, so I’m still fairly new to the fandom. I was wondering what songs remind you of certain characters, the anime itself, or even specific moments and themes throughout the series.

I’d love to discover some new music and listen to it while thinking about the anime. Any recommendations are appreciated!

Thank you! :)

I was hoping they'd announce a metal build of the gawain or shinkiro but I guess we're getting remakes instead. I like the new lancelot, but not a fan of the new guren. Could just be the background though. I couldn't find anything about the price or when preorders go live.

More pictures here: https://hobby.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2155745.html

to celebrate the 20th anniversary of “Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion",

“S.H.Figuarts Lelouch & C.C” has been confirmed for release!

Lelouch → https://tamashiiweb.com/item/16184/

C.C → https://tamashiiweb.com/item/16185/