Code Geass

The ending scene.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion is a yaoi mecha animu noted for its clever and original plot. It became the the cancer of /a/ for the whole summer of 2008.

The show was created when Pizza Hut, thinking they could get a bigger piece of the Japanese global market, began writing and producing what would eventually become a new anime that would include innovative and brand-new elements never seen before in the genre: giant robots, large-scale military invasions, heaps upon heaps of still-attractive bishie corpses and more tits than a Playboy shoot. These were all included in an effort to attract a wider audience. The show was largely subsidized by Japan, so the show also features a staggering amount of the bullshit post-war propaganda that Japan has so desperately tried to feed the world.

The result, against all odds, was not an altogether bad show, but then again one can only speak purely in terms of comparison.

The Show

The anime takes place in an alternative-history world where Japan has gotten pwned by the Holy Empire of Britannia thanks to the latter's giant rollerskate-wearing robots, which are clearly more effective than tanks and other conventional weapons -- an absurdity, as we see later on that rocket-launchers can fuck them up.

The coat of arms of the Holy Britannian Empire consist of a Serpent and a JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION GET IN THE CAR!

Despite having killer-cool mecha (and lots of female military officers with e-size tits), Britannia is still just a bunch of British Francophone Nazis, who want to take over the world and do what Hitler would have done had he not put bullets in his head.

And because the Japanese love them some historical revisionism almost as much as increasingly bizarre sex practices, they have taken great pains to ensure that no one notices that Britannia is doing everything the Japanese did to the Chinese during World War II.

First Season

Lelouch Lamperouge is the repulsively unlikable main character -- a pretentious bitch who lives his life in the lap of luxury, surrounded by beautiful women whom he has absolutely no attraction to. This self-indulgent lifestyle apparently is not enough for the spoiled aristocratic cunt, so for the sake of the plot (and nothing else) he one day wakes up with a terrible case of butthurt over the way the Japanese people are being treated.

He enthusiastically joins up with the local Japanese revolutionaries, but because he didn't have an invitation he had to convince them that he was worthy. Reluctant to admit his sexual preferences, Lulu (his nickname -- as if you didn't think he was gay already) was suddenly accosted by a green-haired bitch everybody thought to be dead -- in doing so, he promptly receives unique paranormal superpowers called "Geass" (moar liek "Gayass", amirite?).

Things get needlessly complicated when it turns he's the son of the Emperor of Britannia himself, but because Lelouch is so noble and true to his word, he sallies forth to perform heroic acts for great justice against his father's evil political state. He does so with the pretentious insistence that he, a strategic genius, can never be defeated, despite getting his ass handed to him about every other episode.

Yeah, Euphie! Go on with ya bad self!

His fiancé is Suzaku Kururugi, a green-eyed, brown-haired Azn (because clearly Azns always have green eyes and brown hair) who has decided to join the Britannians because he firmly believes in his childhood ideals. Although the two are engaged to be married, they only fight when they're inside their Mechs because they don't know they're actually not enemies... kinda like another anime you may have seen.

Lelouch declares himself the defender of justice, calling himself "Zero," a name and number which the Japanese seem to have a weird fetish for. After creating the Black Knights as a kind of pathetic vigilante group, he starts to fight back against his own nation.

During the course of the show (and again, for no particular reason), Lulu finds his awesomely hot sister Euphemia, who professes a pressing need for white and fluffy storyline development. Lulu objects, but after being offered to get into her sister's panties (no, srsly, there's that one episode where he says his sis was his first love) he readily reconsiders.

The two of them gather a whole lot of people in a closed stadium surrounded by armed military men -- always an auspicious start for creating a "white and fluffy world." While there, Euphemia asks Lulu to go to a dark backroom, where he accidentally her, causing the bitch to spontaneously go where Harry Truman pussed out and give some Japs the smackdown they so richly deserve. She grabs herself a gun and starts to party down like a pro.

Lulu, in order to hide the fact that he made such a colossal error, kills her, causing yet another needless character death (there are several in this anime and it's not even done by Gainax). Watch the JewTube clip to catch all the filthy action:

He then proceeds to go on an epic rampage against the Britannians and doesn't afraid of anything. He raises a huge fucking army, and almost takes over Japan, before his army of inept morons goes down in spectacular failure and start to lose the second Lelouch leaves to go save his useless, whiny, blind, cripple loli sis. Lelouch's army apparently forgot there's a reason why Britannia controls 2/3rds of the world.

When he arrives to the place he thought he'd find his worthless cunt of a sister, a challenger appears to start the decisive battle...and the WHOLE MOTHER FUCKING SEASON ENDS RIGHT THEN AND THERE.

Second Season (R2)

The story should have ended there, but no... just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it always does.

You see, one day, some executives from Sunrise (the morons that made this confused mess of an animu) decided to communally smoke some expensive weed to get inspiration for new ideas. This proved to be a terrible mistake, as they all agreed in their collectively impaired judgment to make a second season for Code Geass.

This happens quite a lot: a good anime will go horrifyingly down the shitter when an addition is made to the original story. And because the Japanese never learn from their mistakes, a second season had to be made for Code Geass as well so that it, too, could be epically ruined.

Lelouch finally puts those powers of his to good use.

It was already clear for the viewers that this continuation would be a bigass trainwreck from the get-go when a new lead character, Rolo, was introduced. It didn't take a genius to figure that this whiny faggot would prove to be the improbable animu version of Scrappy-Doo -- a younger, stupider, uglier, infinitely more annoying version of the main character.

Things could only get worse from there: the continuity of the entire fucking show was totally ignored, so that the first seven episodes were made by following the same damn scenario as the first season, leaving the viewers to wonder whether this new incarnation of Code Geass will be a similar disappointment as Higurashi, a.k.a Nipah~, where the timeline is reset practically every episode.

And so, after re-experiencing the whole plot, the viewer is treated to what amounts to a gigantic animated clusterfuck: Lelouch finds himself owning the entire world having made a pretty fair trade-in of China against Japan. He is now surrounded by an entirely new cast (of course), including a Chinese princess and her pedo knight, a fake brother that Lelouch intends to use and dump later, as well hundreds of other nations leaders that he infected with Geass so that they would join him. So he finds himself being the new leader of half of the world, and goes on to kick his father's ass who owns the other half.

The plot jumps to Rolo taking Lelouch to the Wonderland of Joy, and dying from the divine punishment of using the Za Warudo move that was way too cool for a faggot like him. Lelouch suddenly (once again, for no particular reason) finds his sense of purpose in life...and then levels up his Geass to level 50 to battle against a floating Jupiter-like thing on the ceiling that came from a hidden dimension in his basement. By this point, no one who watched the show knew what the fuck was going on.

Lelouch finally makes good on his engagement to Suzaku and happily marries him... but then finds himself in a world turned upside down face, so now in control of the bad guy's side half of the world, fighting against the good guys.

Ironically despite making absolutely NO FUCKING SENSE, this is the best the show ever gets, Lelouch stops being a whiney bitch and just acts like a total dick.

This is eventually ruined by the ending of course.

Happy Ending!!!!!!!!!!111111!!!!111111!!!!1111111111!!!

TOW makes sure you always find what you're looking for.

Hey, It Happens All the Time

Apparently the people that made Code Geass thought it a bright idea to make every episode end the same way in order to make the show popular. Despite what many with common sense would readily figure out, all the loyal fans still took the bait.

At the end of each episode, one or more of these totally unpredicted happenings occur:

• Good guy becomes bad guy
• Bad guy becomes good guy
• Unexpected truth is revealed
• One of the main characters dies
• Somebody turns out to actually not to be dead even after getting a goddam nuke dropped on them.

Opening Themes

Like many animu, Code Geass features way too many opening sequences and songs to go with them. Here's a rundown:

• Flow - COLOURS

huge, booming, epic anthem that impresses nobody because it clearly tries way too fucking hard JIBUN WOOOOOOOOO~

• Jinn - "Kaidoku Funou"

A Japanese girl shrieking into a microphone in a failed effort to "sing", ending up sounding more like the audio to some weird porno with a Japanese girl shrieking into a microphone while scraping her vagina with sandpaper over a guitar track being played by some hobo they found on a street corner.

• Access - "Hitomi no Tsubasa"

Mind-melting, ultra-hyper explosion of glittery, super-saccharine J-Techno from the people that brought you the soundtrack to Gravitation. Listening to it will make the world seem sparkly and wonderful.

• Orange Range - "02"

The same guys who did the first Bleach opening bring you a semi-crappy J-rock/rap that leaves you dissatisfied. I continue to fight!!!

• Flow - "World End"

The dudes from OP 1 are back with an even MOAR overly-epic theme song. This one is on every weeaboo fangirl's MP3 player.

When These Powers Combine: The fan-made OP below combines the best parts of the OPs to make a truly EPIC video. (Sry for being srs.)

Those Damn Robots

If you'd like to know more about the sexy mecha featured in Code Geass, take a look here. Yes, it's text. Shut up and click.

Characters

• Lelouch: Main character of the series. Watched V For Vendetta one too many times and decided to go for it because, well, he has superpowers, after all. Nicknamed "Lulu". No, really. Also has a strange tendency to mercilessly kill people around him for no apparent reason, perhaps because of their knowledge of his true sexuality and the fact that his name sounds very much like "the douche." He was recently caught homosexually making out with his "theoretical enemy" Suzaku Kururugi. (Milly Ashford recently informed the media about this information.) He is also known as Zero, a super hero/villain/twig/kitteh that wins his battles by weird hand gestures.

Even Suzaku can be awesome sometimes.

• Suzaku: Lelouch's childhood friend boyfriend. Had the bright idea that killing his dad would bring peace and joy, and stop Britannia from taking over Japan. Even after his anus was made three times larger by his Britannian fellow soldiers, he still keeps on believing he does it all for a a righteous and worthy cause.

How Lelouch imagines it, using the same irritating chess metaphor every episode.

• Rolo: An 16 year old boy who is clearly asking for it like the demented fanboy that he is. He keeps humping his brother's Lelouch's leg with hopes to fulfill his dream of becoming just like him. He can cast Za Warudo, but because of his inherent weaknesses, the results are always embarrassingly bad.

• Kallen: A pink-haired half-Azn who joins the Black Knights, despite being half-Azn she has blue eyes and can pass as white. Absolutely the the biggest whore in the series, she would probably suck of just about anyone Zero tells her to. She tried really hard to get people to like her, but because of her lack of personality she more than often fucks just to get herself through the day, and when she can't her ass is usually hanging out for all to see. People confuse her hotness because you see her ass on the screen more than you do her own face.

• Princess Euphemia: She's a homicidal freak continuously pretending to be in love with Suzaku when she actually wishes to be a porn star at playboy. Eventually she has kills many because she didn't get the lead for playboy. Eventually Euphemia (aka Euphie) gets killed by her brother because she flirted with Suzaku. ((yay for her death!))

• Ohgi: While he pretends to be a Jap, his curly hair and the yellow badge from the Third Reich on his jacket all reveal that he is in fact a Jew. He was one of the original terrorists, which should surprise nobody, as it is well-known that Jews delight in doing terrible things to the world.

• Villetta Nu: A silver-haired tanorexic bitch who is significant only because she was one of the first people Lelouch mindfucked, and because you get to see her tits as well. Later on she gets amnesia and lives with the token Jew of the show (Ohgi) until he impregnates her at the end of the 2nd season.

C.C., the token cumwhore of the show.

• C.C.: Lelouch's ladyfriend who follows him around like a green-haired puppy. Gave Lelouch the Geass early on in the show. She was born hundreds of years ago as part of another needless plot twist. After spending many years excelling as a reliable semen swallower for everyone she met, her vagina was, despite her eternal youth, worn out so badly that she wanted to die. Her death, she requested, be as her life, with cum all over her face. Been known to spontaneously orgasm at the sight of Pizza Hut merchandise. C.C. is well known as the character with perhaps one of the biggest asses in all of Anime, often referred to as "Pizza Butt" but retarded fanboys.

• XCVIII Emperor of Britannia, Charles di Britannia: The emperor of 2/3rds of the world, he's also a massive Evangelion fanboy who thought it would be a cool idea to copy the plot, and do a shitty job of it. His favorite quotes are "ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!" and "People are not equal." He dies by turning into a magical rocket. He seems to have been the only heterosexual man in his family, and going for it so much that the number of his legitimate predecessors alone is measurable in three fucking digits. Not mentioning the fact that he admitted having preserved Lulu's mom's original body so that he could use it later.

• Schneizel el Britannia: Lelouch's big bro who has a truly irritating habit of showing up at inopportune times and, resultingly, turning whatever episode he appears into prime horseshit. An excellent example of how the males in Code Geass are all sickeningly pretty. His retarded name is an endless source of humour at his expense.

• Clovis la Britannia: Another of Lelouch's big bros and Dude it doesn't matter, he got his brains blown out in the third fucking episode.

• Marianne: Lelouch's mother and one of Emperor Charles' concubines. She's dead still alive dead, and is was a whore for her entire life.

• Jeremiah Gottwald: A member of the Brittanian army gone batshit crazy cyborg. Goes fucking insane at the end of season one, then goes to Lelouch's side in the name of LOYALTY!!!. Also pilots a gigantic fucking orange. Also known to cancel Lelouch's gayass power.

• Nunnally:Crippled, whiny, ignorant, pretentious whore who happens to be Lelouch's sister. After doing nothing throughout the whole thing, it turns out at the end she not only faked being blind the entire time, but also somehow botched the opportunity to destroy the entire world. Why? Because she's a damn cripple, and she's going to Hell (and you could see her nipples in one of the episodes).

• Li Xingke: The Chinese guy that appears in the second season. He's a combination of both Lelouch and Suzaku, except he's less gay and less retarded, which seems to contradict the entire show. He's also an active pedo.

• Diethard: Supercool news reporter with equally supercool news reporter hair. He is only good for two things: getting shot and crying like a bitch in the final episodes, and the fact that his name forms an exact rhyme with "retard".

• Nina: A fugly xenophobic failure both at life and death, only good for being useless, raping tables, and having the inexplicable surname "Einstein". Oh, and she also invents a nuke, not that anyone cares. She has a one-sided, obsessive lesbian love affair with Princess Euphemia, and has an epic freakout when Lelouche kills her. See the Jewtube vid on how she rapes the table.

• Gino: A fugly homicidal rapist who is sexually attracted to Lelouch until one day Suzaku buries him alive. He serves no point to the story other than to try to seduce Kallen, but his moves fail on her, because he is clearly a dirty Mexican Jew.

• Anya: Emotionless Rei Clone that starts appearing in the Second Season, completely boring with no personality, yet so many people like her. In reality she is Lelouch's Mom, which further begs the Question "How?". Bandai wanted her to be the New Rei and get lots of merchandise made of her, but they failed because they are Bandai.

There's also like a hundred other characters in this show that nobody cares about or remembers.

FAQ For Fags

Oh sure, yeah, I'd be crying too if I had all that ridiculous power.

Because Code Geass just might be the most confused thing you've yet seen on your television next to the six-hundred million or so filler episodes of Naruto, here's a quick rundown of the questions that will inevitably arise:

Just What the Hell Is This "Geass" Crap, Anyway?

Geass, also pronounced as "gay-ass", is a sexually transmitted disease that modifies your DNA and gives you amazing powers. This skill can be leveled up, and by reaching the level 99 you can gain access to God Mode.

Lelouch's "Geass" ability is to make anyone do whatever he wants, no matter how absurd or immoral. Regrettably, what he really should have used it for never appears in the series, but then again, that's what Yaoi fanfiction is for, amirite?

Pro Tip: "Geass" is a variation of an ancient Celtic word that means "contract" or "curse".

Wait, Haven't I Seen This Shit Before?

Why yes, yes you have.

After watching a few episodes, you'll get a strange feeling of déjà vu. You see, this plot was originally played out on Death Note.

The main difference between Code Geass and Death Note is that the latter is about creepy emo kids, while the former is about significantly-less-creepy-and-emo terrorist and Fascist kids -- although both contain the seemingly mandatory overload of delicious Japanese homolust.

Both contain and equal amount of tiresomely ambiguous homosexual situations, as if Shounen Jump needed any more faggotry.

You Mean They Made A Manga Too?

It may be even less original than you think.

Well, duh.

Someone had the bright idea to add some mango to this ghastly train-wreck of an animu -- in fact, to add several mangos that all have various degrees of failure to account for.

The best known of these gems of literature is Nightmare of Nunnally, where Lelouch's helpless, worthless, whiny, stupid, and just plain annoying sister Nunnally suddenly gets amazing superpowers. She can summon a stylish mecha that looks totally nothing like something from Neon Genesis Evangelion, has the ability to see into the future and, most importantly, she can create a doppelgänger to finally satisfy her natural needs -- as she's a cripple and can't reach it otherwise.

However, the actual manga has remained hidden for a very long time, and only recently has a link to it been discovered. Click here to discover the true meaning of TL;DR.

Rating

Sweet delicious yaoi, yes sir.

• Characters: 2/10 Suck
• Story: 3/10 Partially because of R2 but mainly because it sucks
• Action: 9/10. It's about taking over teh world and giant robots, after all.
• Lulz: 4/10. The parts where it tries to be funny, fails. There are exceptions: the moment when a chink named Mao tries to chainsaw C.C. and stuff her into a bag, and when the Britfags decide to burn down the Jap ghetto and shoot all the motherfuckers for teh lulz.
• Faggotry: 20/10. Out of all animu you'd ever watch, this one doesn't even need to be shooped to look gay, screenshots alone are enough. The way main characters look and dress (and jump) are shockingly homosexual, especially the combined efforts of Lelouch and Suzaku. Gayness is outright implied in more than a few parts: when Rolo approaches Lulu saying, "I will be always with you" and, and practically every other conversation between Lelouch and Suzaku. Just look for "OH GEASS NO" on YouTube.
• Furry Fandom: 4/10. They dress up in animal costumes for some reason in one episode, and the pink-haired cumwhore dresses as a giant green beaver in another.
• Product Placement: 30/10. Just for the Hell of it, try taking a shot every time you see a Pizza Hut logo. Be warned: you may die of alcohol poisoning.

Image Gallery Vi Brittania

Code Geass Gallery About missing Pics

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  Lelouch, getting what he deserved.
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  That crazy bitch sure does have a great O-face.
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  C.C. finally proves she's good for something.

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  Humongous tits seem to be part of Britannia's domestic policy.
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  Watch Code Geass, receive cock mongling.
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  C'mere and give Pedobear a hug!
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  As if the show wasn't gay enough, it turns out that the protagonists are closet furries.
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  Suzaku does it completely and utterly wrong.
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  Mao tries to please C.C. but ends up dead. Um, spoiler alert?
• Kallen, engaging in a kawaii nom nom.
  Kallen, engaging in a kawaii nom nom.
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  A live action Geass movie is also planned.
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  You're desperate. She didn't even take it all off yet.
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  We are not amused.
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  Looks like all that aggressive advertising really paid off.
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  Pizza Hut, which serves Coca-Cola, reveals another marketing strategy.
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  Boy, talk about poor timing.
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  She's who the fanboys fap to every night.
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  Suzaku attacks Lelouch using an amazing new technique...
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  ...so he can show his boyfriend who's boss.
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  Touching moment, or horror movie? You decide.
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  Lelouch thinks Suzaku has a been a very bad boy.
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  ...what.
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  Comic relief for a show that was unfunny to begin with.
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  Subtitles telling it like it is.
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  Sorry...didn't mean to bother...
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  A complicated Bleach joke superimposed on a confusing plot-twist that occurs in the second season.
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  You know an anime sucks when the main character looks gay even when he's escaping certain doom.
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  Lelouch fails to deliver yet again.
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  Aww, don't~
• Orange-kun, the tool of the series.
  Orange-kun, the tool of the series.
• Don't forget the ranch dressing.
  Don't forget the ranch dressing.
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  Lelouch's refusal of teh pussy made the girls desperate.
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  Lelouch wishes!
• Just as planned.
  Just as planned.
• Orange Boy?!! FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU
  Orange Boy?!! FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU
• Time's man of the year.
  Time's man of the year.

See also

• Britfag
• Japan
• Death Note
• Nazi
• Genocide
• Homosexuality
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• My Little Pony

External Links

• More Code Geass yaoi than you can handle.

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