Review of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

Many people tend to compare Code Geass to Death Note, while they do have things in common, Code Geass is no match for Death Note. This review only contains first season, because after finishing the first season I have no desire whatsoever to continue second season. I will explain why Code Geass is no masterpiece and at most a decent anime so bear with me before clicking that not helpful botton. Story: 6 Code Geass is essentially about a high school student Lelouch who was given a power named Geass to control other people by looking through their eyes. Lelouch is heir to Britanian Empire, butafter his mother was killed and his father show no emotion for his mother's death, he relinquished his rights and was expelled to Japan, a nation colonised by the Empire. Lelouch, with his Geass power, now tries to overthrow the Empire and revenge his mother's death. The reason why Story of Code Geass is only worth a 6 is because also many said it has a lot of plot twists and colliding ideology, etc, etc. By further looking into the story, the plot is actually very simple and cliche. The main storyline is about Lelouch and his childhood friend susake's colliding ideology. So to put it in a simple way, Lelouch seeks peace through violence and power, by destroying his opponents at all costs and Suzaku seeks peace by "trying to gain a position within the empire and avoid violence". How is that even "complex"? You could easily see that sort of ideology collision in Deathnote, light Vs L, Akame ga kill, night raid vs Ran, naruto, pain vs naruto, attack on titan, Eren vs armin. Though they differ a little in different animes, it is basically the same approach where one supports violence and the other takes a softer approach. It is amusing how anyone could say that it is "unique" and "complex". Code Geass also has a lot of plotholes, one thing I dislike the most is that the mecha element in this show is completely a mess. There is no explanation given to the standards involved in these fights, we don't know how these mechas function, their weaknesses or their relative strength. There is a mech called lancelot, appeared to be one of the toughest mech out there, but even then we don't know how strong it is quantitatively, what I mean is that in these battles, what we can see is lancelot destroying one mech after another in early episode and then another mech is introduced driven by kellan and after that another bad-ass mech driven by C.C and lelouch. What I see is that the show throws powerful mechs at you without explaining anything about them. This makes fights in Code Geass lackluster because all fights at the end resorts to the fact that which side has the most bad-ass mech, this fact completely defeats the "tactic" element in Code Geass. Apart from that, the Geass ability is very inconsistent through the show, there are no rules for this ability like there are ten rules for death note. Another problem with Code Geass is a common problem in most shows: it trivalise the idea of "rebellion" or "revolution". Same in Akame ga kill, rebellion is depicted as something only about power fights, little was mentioned about politics, economics and other key elements. I know you can't demand an anime to consider all that, but i am not contented with the way Code Geass deals with the idea of "rebellion". There are many other problems that I will not mention here due to word counts, but all other problems are not minor.

Art: 7
Art is consistent through out, although i am no fan of this type of animation, It is generally good.

Character: 3
Now this is the worst part of Code Geass, many other people say that characters in this show are complex and different. Yes they are different and varies a lot, but they are no way near complex, some of the characters are completely ridiculous and irrational.
Let's begin with suzaku. Image your country is colonised by another country, and there is a guy from your country who joined the invading country and fights your own people. This guy is what suzaku is. He tried to change the status quo by securing a position in Empire at the same time fighting lelouch multiple times where he literally destroyed many chances of Japan being independent. But for now let's assume he is really that stupid and believe in whatever he believes. now look that what he is doing, did he try to secure a position in politics and try to persuade royal members? did he make propaganda about equality and peace? NO and NO, he sits in his lancelot and fights his own people, this is how this guy wants to change the empire from within. Now at this point I can still bear with this incredibly irrational character, but not until the point he faced zero and when empire fired missles at them he refused to escape even though it means dying with zero. Now What the heck is with this scene? Let us be clear that suzaku tries to change the empire from within, now how are you going to do that if you are dead? I am curious. After watching that episode, suzaku in my opinion changes from an irrational character to a complete joke.
Now let's talk about lelouch, he is not bad character but is very inconsistent, as smart as he is, he doesn't know if someone's following him, becomes easily emotional in battles, accidentally caused a massacre( yes you heard me right, the biggest plot twist is accidentally caused, this literally means the following plots and what lelouch does after that is not what he planned for ). As a main character with so many sentiments, his background is as plain as it could be: "my mother is killed so sad I need to revenge for her".
Other side characters are either occupy little screen or are irrational in different degrees.

enjoyment: 4
I did enjoy the show, that is what make me finish the first season, otherwise I would have dropped it mid way. However, once I finished it and think about the show backwards, it is a joke to me, what Code Geass is is an anime that takes many popular elements of the decades and mix them together in a very bad way and produced a half-decent hybrid that has so many plot holes and irrational characters. Yet many people think this is a masterpiece. But no , trust me, if you really think deep about suzaku and lelouch's motivation and their doings, you would realize just how ridiculous they are.

Overall:
No masterpiece, only a decent overrated anime.