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Analyzing Code Geass Anime Review

By Leslie Ball


Anime is a Japanese art form that has made it across the seas to the United States and all over the world. As the name implies, it is an abbreviation of the Japanese word for animation. The style is characterized by vibrantly colored graphics, deep, complicated characters with big eyes and outlandish story lines. This Code Geass anime review sums it up nicely.

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.

The DVD and blue-ray discs together sold more than one million copies. The show ran for two seasons, in 2006 and 2007. It was shown for two years on the Cartoon Channel. Both years, the show won awards at Tokyo's international anime fair. It was also made into light novels and manga, which were produced in the USA.

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."

Why Hunger Games? This is because of the downtrodden population of Elevens ring-fenced within Area 11. In HG, the impoverished population in the post-apocalyptic universe of Panem dwelt in a place called District 12.

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 final parallel, "The Wonder Years", takes note of the protagonist, Lelouch Lamperouge, the exiled Britannian prince. He starts out as your typical idealistic young college student. At almost the exact same moment as he receives his Gaessian power to command anybody to do exactly as he wants by just making eye contact, it becomes perfectly clear why the first episode is entitled, "The Day A New Demon Was Born."

The series is gripping and the first episode will leave you wanting for more. It's peppy theme tune could be a commercial jingle for a type of girly cuddly toy, teenage makeup or a new kind of bubble gum, yet the lyrics paradoxically talk about mournful anguish. The song has a positive outcome. If you want to know if the ending of CG is happy, you are going to have to watch the episodes and discover that for yourself. Think of Episode 1 as a gateway to a new addiction and be prepared to binge watch over and over again.




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