KojiKnight
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With Season 3 announced earlier this year (seriously do not click that if you haven't seen the first 2 seasons) for sometime next year, I figured it was about time to rewatch the series that's still amongst my favorites to this day.
Holy shit, it's just as good if not better than I remember.
First let's go over what Code Geass isn't and is. Code Geass isn't the greatest anime of all time. There are plenty of better series out there. What it is however, is the perfect representation of the 'genre' known as anime.
This series which is part Sci-fi, part slice of life, part medieval political, part occult deals with racism, nationism, terrorism versus freedom fighting, daily struggles of a populace under occupation (Japan), and the way power corrupts.
Also pizza hut.
The series does a great job of having you fall in love with characters and having your heart torn out. The twists of the first 4/5ths of the series are great and always leave you wanting to watch the next episode immediately after. The character designs by CLAMP (Card Captor Sakura, Kobuto, Chobits) are striking and unique and immediately recognizable over any other series. The mech combat is probably the best I've ever seen in a TV series, especially one that ran for 50 episodes. Not quite big-budget movie level, but it is all 2D animated.
The only real issue I have with the series is it's final 3-4 episode arc. The ending itself is beautifully crafted, but the final arc that leads there is a bit of a mess and is drawn out a little too long. It also gets extremely and needlessly convoluted, but most anime do (does?) so in some ways it's perfect too.
But seriously that ending... Like most anime it ends open ended. We don't get all of our questions answered, but unlike most anime where this happens because of time or budget restraints (or to sell some god damn LN that'll never get translated) it's a beautifully crafted ending that has it's seeds sown throughout the entirety of the series. The ending is amongst my favorites.
After rewatching the entire thing, I actually dread Season 3. Before my rewatch I was deeply excited, but seeing that ending again? Even the subtitle for it fills me with despair. There is just no way a direct sequel to the first two seasons can work without either some serious retcons, or destroying that ending and the narrative as a whole.
While this is a 10 year old series, the goal is to get people who haven't seen it interested ahead of Season 3 and spoilers can heavily impact that so if possible please use the spoiler tags as necessary!
Holy shit, it's just as good if not better than I remember.
First let's go over what Code Geass isn't and is. Code Geass isn't the greatest anime of all time. There are plenty of better series out there. What it is however, is the perfect representation of the 'genre' known as anime.
This series which is part Sci-fi, part slice of life, part medieval political, part occult deals with racism, nationism, terrorism versus freedom fighting, daily struggles of a populace under occupation (Japan), and the way power corrupts.
Also pizza hut.
The series does a great job of having you fall in love with characters and having your heart torn out. The twists of the first 4/5ths of the series are great and always leave you wanting to watch the next episode immediately after. The character designs by CLAMP (Card Captor Sakura, Kobuto, Chobits) are striking and unique and immediately recognizable over any other series. The mech combat is probably the best I've ever seen in a TV series, especially one that ran for 50 episodes. Not quite big-budget movie level, but it is all 2D animated.
The only real issue I have with the series is it's final 3-4 episode arc. The ending itself is beautifully crafted, but the final arc that leads there is a bit of a mess and is drawn out a little too long. It also gets extremely and needlessly convoluted, but most anime do (does?) so in some ways it's perfect too.
But seriously that ending... Like most anime it ends open ended. We don't get all of our questions answered, but unlike most anime where this happens because of time or budget restraints (or to sell some god damn LN that'll never get translated) it's a beautifully crafted ending that has it's seeds sown throughout the entirety of the series. The ending is amongst my favorites.
After rewatching the entire thing, I actually dread Season 3. Before my rewatch I was deeply excited, but seeing that ending again? Even the subtitle for it fills me with despair. There is just no way a direct sequel to the first two seasons can work without either some serious retcons, or destroying that ending and the narrative as a whole.
While this is a 10 year old series, the goal is to get people who haven't seen it interested ahead of Season 3 and spoilers can heavily impact that so if possible please use the spoiler tags as necessary!
