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+============
+ Code Geass
+============
+:CreationDate: 2014-03-19 12:03:07
+:Id: anime/review/code-geass
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 4
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/code-geass-lelouch-of-the-rebellion-season-1
+
+The Empire of Britannia has conquered most of the world. Japan is now
+a province of the Empire, stripped of its name and referred to as just
+"Area 11". Order is enforced with powerful mechas, and all rebellion
+is quickly stopped.
+
+Lelouch is a Britannian (yes, I know "Briton" would be more natural,
+but these are Japanese we're talking about) whose mother was murdered,
+and thus hates the Empire. He can't do much about it, though, being
+just a student, although a brilliant one.
+
+One day, caught in the middle of a skirmish between Britannian forces
+and Japanese terrorists / freedom fighters, he receives a strange
+power from a dying girl. The girl is soon revealed (to us, if not to
+him) to be the result of experiments by a semi-clandestine imperial
+laboratory. The experiments and the lab are destroyed by their
+creators in a hasty damage control operation: Lelouch is now the only
+person with that power.
+
+What's the power? "Just" the ability to compel anyone to do his
+bidding (once, he'll learn soon enough).
+
+With this power, his great intellect, and some kind of support from
+the freedom fighters, he vows to destroy the Empire and rebuild a
+world in which he and his sister can live in peace.
+
+This could be one of the great anime of all time, and it is very good,
+but its flaws prevent it from reaching greatness. Let's start from
+what I didn't like.
+
+Most of the characters are schoolboys and schoolgirls, hiding their
+identities from each other; this set-up is much more fitting a comedy
+than a war story, and sometimes it shows.
+
+There's some filler material, which gets irritating when you realise
+that the story is not going to be concluded in these 25 episodes.
+
+Lelouch's quest to find who killed his mother feels a bit repetitive,
+hunting down the main suspect only to discover that it was not them,
+and they have very little information on the matter.
+
+What did I like?
+
+Clamp's character design, which I usually don't like, works rather
+well: the angular faces suit the serious and very determined
+characters.
+
+Lelouch: he's terribly smart, and his efforts to balance his multiple
+goals (avenge his mother, safeguard his sister, help the rebels,
+topple the Empire…) make for a very complex and interesting character.
+
+In fact, most of the characters are well developed and have some depth
+to them, they're not just background for Lelouch grand plan.
+
+The story, even with the limitations described above, is engaging and
+appropriately filled with twists.
+
+So, if you like smart characters engaged in complicated plots to
+change the world, and prefer mecha battles to shinigami, this is quite
+probably a series you should watch.
+
+Curiosity note: the "Geass" in the title is probably a mis-spelling of
+the Irish "geas" or "geis".
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