A Comparative Code Geass Anime Review

By Leslie Ball


The Japanese art medium of anime has been around since the early 20th century. By the beginning of the 21st century, it had spread widely all over the globe. The genre is defined by colorful, intense graphics, bold characters with huge eyes, and rather weird story lines. A perfect example is discussed in this Code Geass anime review.

The series can possibly be described as a dystopian Hunger Games, meets Orwell's 1984, meets The Wonder Years. Considering the fact that a powerful race of androids named the Knightmares are key to the story, you could probably add Terminator to this mix. It's fun and different and should be labelled with a warning that one gateway episode may encourage binge watching.

Blue-ray discs and DVDs of the television series, shown on the Cartoon Channel, sold better than a million copies. Idsvjbt was shown for two years, winning awards at the international anime fair in Tokyo on both occasions. The show was also made into light novels and manga comics in the United States.

The reference to dystopia is based on the setting in an alternate timeline in what used to be Japan, but, having been conquered by the Holy Brittanian Empire, lost its name and is now called Area 11. The people who live there are referred to as "Elevens."

In the Hunger Games, the underclass dwell in District 12 of Panem. In Code Geass, these are the Elevens, who life in Area 11 of Britannia.

It is its similarities with "1984, " the George Orwell novel published in 1949 describing a then-futuristic society. Where the three political powers in the anime were called Britannia, the European Union and the Chinese Federation, in 1984, they are known as Eastasia, Eurasia, and Oceana. Those who do not believe in coincidence might conclude that the creators at Sunrise, possibly even the writer of Code Geass, Ichiro Okouchi, were channeling Orwell at the time.

The link between The Wonder Years and this series is admittedly tenuous. The only thing they have in common is an adolescent male protagonist. In the Wonder Years, this is Kevin Arnold during the formative years of 12 to 17. Here, the main character is named Lelouch Lamperouge, an exiled prince from Britannia. Desperate to change the world, he willingly receives the gift of Gaessian power, which enables him to dictate the actions of anybody he likes simply by making intense eye contact. By the time he first exercises his new power, it becomes clear why the initial episode was called, "The Day A New Demon Was Born."

You really can't help getting hooked and Code Gaess anime review is as good an example of anime as anything to cut your teeth on as you explore this engaging medium. If nothing else, give a listen to the zippy theme tune, which sounds like it would be at home in a Neopet promotional cartoon, but bears lyrics such as, "with undisguised frustration, feeling lost, feeling anguished." The song, at least, has a happy ending. To discover if the series has an equally happy ending, you will have to watch it for yourself.




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