Review of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch is given its choice as to why it is considered by some to be the best anime of 2006. The unique thing about this particular anime is that it also happened to be in the same timeline as Death Note and Gurren Lagann. These three anime represented what was really popular in the medium — suspense, action, choices, intriguing dialogue and heroes/anti-heroes/foils. Geass has the power to figure out why war, discrimination, hierarchies and alter egos are the reason as to how people can change so much with how they are dealt in society of today. Lelouch and Suzuka are two peoplethat end up changing the way how they perceive each other through the calm and fiery approaches with their respective alliances — The Dark Knights and Britannia.

Supporting characters like Kallen, Cornelia and Euphemia help, while also hurt, both of their characters through how much they use/or get used to wanting to do the right thing and/or thinking if the right thing is applicable to modern society with how much is being used to control power and action through self-restraint and willpower.

Even the constrast between C.C. and Nunnally show from trying to figure out how much loved ones matter to you, and how much they love to hurt you when making it possible to think you are doing with love by hurting other people. The episodes with Shirley and Lelouch turned into Zero show a dark contrast and incredible duality of man on Lelouch’s part, as it breaks down how much compassion and strength you have for other people.

Most of this anime series is just proof that the world operates on how much sacrifice and how much pain one will be willing to risk to care for the side that shows them how much they want to protect the ones that they love the most. It’s no surprise that even with the chess moves, this anime series while being absurdly over the top in certain areas, hits really home for people wanting to wonder what that cliffhanger between those two former friends was like at the end of the anime’s first season. In the end, Geass is proof that while we do have choices, we also have the power to choose which one matters to us the most and hope that we did make the right decision.