Code geass is one of the first AND best animes I've seen. PERFECTION! But this anime contains brutal voilence and war...I just want you to be aware of that in case that is a problem for pepole who are going to watch in the furure..
Description:In the future, Japan is conquered by The Empire of Brittania using giant humanoid machines called Knightmare Frames and is renamed Area 11. Losing all freedom, the Japanese are renamed "elevens" and relocated into ghettos. Seven years later, a 17 year old Brittanian student named Lelouch is attending high school at Ashford AIn the future, Japan is conquered by The Empire of Brittania using giant humanoid machines called Knightmare Frames and is renamed Area 11. Losing all freedom, the Japanese are renamed "elevens" and relocated into ghettos. Seven years later, a 17 year old Brittanian student named Lelouch is attending high school at Ashford Academy, however, he differs from the other student - he has long carried a childhood grudge of Brittania. After a strange and coincidentiall turn of events, Lelouch finds himself caught in the middle of a battle between Brittania and a Japanese group of terrorists. There, he meets a girl who calls herself C.C, whom he obtains a powerful ability called Geass. With the power of Geass, Lelouch must lead the terrorists to victory and ultimately lead the rebellion against Brittania becoming the masked man, Zero.... (more)(less)
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Due to slight differences in historical happenings, starting with Britain never having come under the rule of The Roman Empire, their technology is roughly 50 years ahead of our own at the time. Incidentally, they use a different calendar from ours. It's 2017 atb(Acension Throne Brittania) by their calendar."
"Information:
Episodes: 25
Studio: Sunrise
Adapted From: Original
Release Date: October 5th, 2006
Genres: Action, Drama, Magic, Psychological, Science Fiction
Plot Summary:
The Empire of Britannia has invaded Japan using giant robot weapons called Knightmare Frames. Japan is now referred to as Area 11, and its people the 11's. A Britannian who was living in Japan at the time, Lelouch, vowed to his Japanese friend Suzaku that he'd destroy Britannia. Years later, Lelouch is in high school, but re"
"This was one of the first eye-openers for me. It showed me just how awesome Anime actually could be. It always comes to me, a certain feeling you have when you know you have found that series that stand out from all those others. You will watch it wide-eyed, completely focused with your curiosity peeked and have that fuzzy feeling inside. While this isn't the best example I can give, this series definitely did it for me. "
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"The thing about this show is it's like if you took Death Note or some kind of The-main-character-is-smart-and-analytical anime and just made it generally more random and worse. Worth seeing? Not exactly sure whether I can say, but I'm not mad I saw it.
Oh, definitely an evocative concept though, namely, England sort of taking over the world and, in this case, subjugating Japan. I give the show credit for bringing up the notion of racism."
"Code Geass - Lelouch of the Rebellion is a mecha quite similar to Death Note. As both the story follows a high school student gaining a supernatural power, which they tries to use to their benefit, "saving the world"... None of them has any problem killing to achieve their goals, both of them becomes a bit.. well.. mad.. while in progress of their work, both of them hiding their true identities (Light disguises as Kira and Lelouch as Zero), both of them are smart, strategic and devious and the s"
almozayaf666 added this to a list 8 months, 2 weeks ago