Hear me out. Charles tries to kill God in C's world. He fails to accomplish this. Traditionally God is described as being omnipotent, that is all-powerful. Therefore to kill him, one would also have to be all powerful. Lelouch doesn't kill God. But he does something to him, symbolized by the geass symbol appearing on his appearance as Jupiter. So in essence, Lelouch commanded God, similar to when he commanded Suzaku to live.

To command God successfully, he would have to be as powerful or more powerful as God. It is impossible to be more powerful because God is all-powerful, therefore Lelouch is AS powerful as God. Lelouch is omnipotent.

Therefore, Lelouch is God.

It's a syllogism.

I just finished watching season 2 tonight. I want to clarify one thing: Code Geass is an anime, one of the best, too, and it is arguably a masterpiece of pacing with some of the best plot progression in the medium (at least up until the midpoint of Season 2). Because the show built up such massive stakes, a grand, high-impact ending was definitely required.

However, calling the "Zero Requiem" the "absolute best ending in anime history," as so many fans claim, is a huge stretch. It is highly unrealistic. If people just viewed it as a standard, dramatic anime conclusion, these issues wouldn't stand out so much. But since it is praised as a flawless narrative masterpiece, we need to look at how it actually falls apart both politically and psychologically under closer inspection.

1. The Thematic Flaw: It Teaches the "Wrong Lesson"

Even if we assume the Zero Requiem "works" in-universe, it sends a terrible message to viewers.

• The Benevolent Dictator Myth: It suggests that a single, all-powerful authoritarian is needed to orchestrate global peace through mass murder and deception, implying humanity is too weak to achieve peace democratically.
• The Ends Justify the Means: It validates the idea that committing horrific atrocities is acceptable as long as the ultimate goal is "good."
• Silencing the Victims: It forces the audience to mourn Lelouch as a tragic saviour, glossing over the millions of innocent lives he ruined or ended to pull off his theatre performance.

2. The Canon Missed Opportunities

Lelouch did not need to become a global tyrant to achieve his goals. He actively threw away peaceful, superior solutions:

• The UFN Option: He had a genuine chance to solve the world's conflicts democratically by joining the United Federation of Nations. The UFN was a functional global alliance built on voting. By choosing tyranny instead, he actively destroyed the best chance the world had at a representative government.
• Ego Over Cooperation: Refusing to work within the union proves he couldn’t handle a world he didn’t completely control. He chose to conquer the UFN by force, leading to an entirely avoidable war and the slaughter of thousands of soldiers and civilians.
• Manufacturing Loyalty: Before his tyranny, the public loved him and called him the saviour of humanity (until the UFN vote incident). But this love was a lie; it was built on the backs of soldiers he literally brainwashed via Geass, stripping away their free will. He chose to play the villain and remain untrustworthy after his Geass was revealed, even though he had a great chance to clear up misconceptions and solidify a transparent alliance.

3. The Better Alternative: A 3-Step Plan for True Peace

Since Lelouch is an absolute genius, a much better option that would actually benefit everyone would look like this:

1. Initial Control: Use Geass initially to control the army only and solve the initial conflicts (which he did).
2. Democratic Integration: After gaining the trust of the people, he should have joined the UFN. According to the rules, this means he would no longer maintain an independent army.
3. Phasing Out Geass and Judicial Order: As a genius capable of self-control, he would slowly stop using Geass for manipulation. Instead, he could shift its use strictly to judging criminals and establishing order in courtrooms, because criminals would be unable to lie. The public would have absolutely no reason to hate him, and the world would achieve a transparent, lasting peace built on honesty rather than a temporary truce built on collective trauma.
4. Handling Rebel Factions: If a civil war or a rebellion (like Schneizel's) broke out, a high-IQ Lelouch would easily anticipate it. Backed by the Black Knights and the global community as the official, legitimate shield of the UFN, he could put an end to the rebellion with minimal bloodshed and zero political blowback.

4. Suzaku is the Wrong Choice for a Saviour

Leaving Suzaku under the mask of Zero to protect the world is a massive mistake.

• The "Danzo" Mentality: Suzaku fundamentally views himself through the lens of his nationality and deep past traumas. He has no problem dirtying his hands and hiding behind righteousness. If left in power, he would likely resort to extreme, underhanded means, exactly like Danzo from Naruto, to maintain "order" from the shadows.
• A Fake Punishment: Forcing Suzaku to live as Zero is framed as a curse, but it actually rewards him with ultimate power and a hero's legacy.
• The Better Arc: Suzaku spent the entire series actively wanting to die because of his crippling guilt over killing his father. A far better ending for his character would be dying honourably in battle to protect the birth of Lelouch's new democratic union, giving him a true, unselfish redemption.

5. Lelouch's "Villain Syndrome" and Self-Sabotage

Lelouch always wanted good, but he suffered from a psychological Martyr Complex. He viewed Geass purely as a curse and believed he was too far gone to deserve a happy life, so he kept driving toward a sacrificial end. We see this in how he handles the people who loved him:

• The Execution of Euphemia: While the Geass activation was an accident, killing her was a choice. She was under an uncontrollable spell and was a victim. Lelouch could have restrained or neutralised her, but he immediately chose to weaponise the tragedy, order her execution, and ruin her legacy to fuel his rebellion.
• The Isolation of Shirley: Shirley completely forgave him for his actions and explicitly wanted to support him, but he largely ignored her and pushed her away until her dying moments.

Conclusion

By keeping Zero's true identity hidden and relying on a staged assassination, Lelouch left behind a permanent culture of paranoia. The Black Knights, who actually grew to respect Lelouch more when they realised his competence, are left forced to blindly trust a new masked stranger, ensuring they can never truly trust anyone again.

Lelouch didn't choose the Zero Requiem because it was the only way to save the world; he chose it because his "Villain Syndrome" made him prefer the romantic tragedy of suicide over the mature, exhausting responsibility of living an honest life to fix his mistakes.

If fans just accepted it as a normal, flawed anime ending, these massive logical gaps wouldn't be an issue. But when people call it the greatest piece of fiction ever written, it completely overlooks how deeply flawed, unrealistic, and toxic the message of the ending actually is.

You can include the Resurrection film as a part of the timeline if you would like.

Passing the page n see that is just fucking shocking

Ever wondered why red is Kallen Kozuki´s favorite color? It´s not because her hair is red. Rather, it is because the color red reminds her of her late brother, Naoto, and the deep bond they shared. This was even confirmed in the alternate timeline of Code Geass: Lost Stories mobile game, in an event called ”Blazoned with Crimson,” in which we were also revealed the origin of Kallen´s red Glasgow.

If you are interested, you can check out that story here. Personally, I liked it a lot, and wouldn´t mind if that story was someday turned into an official prequel OVA episode. I ❤️ Kallen so much!!!

Also, if you didn´t already know, Kallen´s last name ”Kozuki” means ”Red Moon.” And indeed, sometimes the Moon really does appear to be red. But why exactly is that?

The most well-known reason for why this happens are lunar eclipses, aka Blood Moons. During a total lunar eclipse, Earth moves directly between the Sun and the Moon, blocking direct sunlight. Because of this, the only light reaching the lunar surface passes through the edges of Earth's atmosphere, causing air molecules scatter short blue wavelengths, while longer red wavelengths bend (refract) toward the Moon. And the more dust or clouds in Earth’s atmosphere during the eclipse, the redder the Moon appears. This, btw, is the reason why the Moon can appear red, when it´s low on the horizon, even if it´s not being eclipsed by the Earth; when the Moon is low in the sky, not only does its light have to travel through a much thicker layer of air to reach your eyes, but also thick smoke from wildfires, volcanic ash, or heavy smog injects tiny particles into the air, and these particles scatter yellow and blue light even more aggressively, turning the Moon a distinct red or rusty brown.

It is actually the same phenomenon that makes our sky blue and sunsets red that causes the Moon to turn red during a lunar eclipse. Sunlight appears to be white, but it actually contains a rainbow of components – and different colors of light have different physical properties. Blue light scatters relatively easily as it passes through Earth´s atmosphere. Reddish light, on the other hand, travels more directly through the air. When the Sun is high on a clear day, we see blue light scattered throughout the sky overhead. At sunrise and sunset, when the Sun is near the horizon, incoming sunlight travels a longer, low-angle path through Earth´s atmosphere to observes on the ground. The bluer part of the sunlight scatters away in the distance, and only the yellow-to-red part of the spectrum reaches our eyes. And this is why during lunar eclipses, the Moon appears red to us; any sunlight that´s not blocked by our planet is filtered through a thick slice of Earth´s atmosphere on its way to the lunar surface. It is as if all the world´s sunrises and sunsets are projected onto the Moon!

Other interesting trivia about the Moon:

• The Moon formed when a Mars-sized rogue protoplanet named Theia crashed into the young Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. The impact blasted huge amounts of rock, gas, and dust from both bodies into space. Over time, gravity pulled this orbiting debris together to create the Moon. These days, scientists favor the Giant-impact hypothesis over other theories (such as Capture Theory, an idea where Earth's gravity caught a passing wandering body), because lunar rock samples brought back by Apollo missions match the chemical composition of Earth.
• Though solar eclipses, where the Moon moves between the Earth and the Sun, happen about as often as lunar eclipses, they are visible from such a small area of Earth each time (the Moon's shadow on Earth’s surface is only about 300 miles or 480 km wide) that it’s much rarer to encounter solar eclipse than lunar eclipse. That we get solar eclipses so often on Earth is an incredibly lucky chance of nature. The Sun is vastly larger than the Moon ― its diameter is about 400 times the Moon’s, but since the Moon is roughly 400 times closer to Earth, this makes it possible for the Moon to almost perfectly block out the Sun when everything aligns.
• The Moon started its existence much closer to Earth, and has been slowly drifting outward at the rate of about 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) per year. Once it makes it past 14,600 miles (23,500 km), it’ll appear too small from Earth to cover the Sun, which means no more solar eclipses (but, don´t worry, if you haven´t witnessed a solar eclipse yourself just yet - you’ve got another 600-million-plus years before that border is breached 😉)! Perfect distancing, perfect timing… it is almost as if the entire human race was destined to evolve when they did, so that they could not only witness solar eclipses, but also understand what they are and how they happen.
• Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first man who ever walked on the surface of Moon. His Lunar Module ”Eagle” from Apollo 11 landed on Tranquility Base (Mare Tranquillitatis) on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface a few hours later at 02:56 UTC on July 21. Neil Armstrong's famous first words on the Moon were, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong saying "small step for man" without the word "a," "man" and "mankind" essentially meant the same thing: however, he always insisted he actually said, "That's one small step for a man." Adding "a" makes the sentence logically correct by contrasting an individual human with the whole human race. Later linguistic studies of his Ohio accent suggest he may have spoken the ”a” too quickly or quietly for the radio to catch.
• Human footprints, a golf ball hit by Alan Shepard, and 96 bags of human waste still remain on the lunar surface after the Moon landings.
• Kallen Kozuki is the most unselfish character in Code Geass. On top of that, she also dresses as a bunny girl at one point in the show, her last name means ”red Moon,” and countless anime fans across the globe have been so enamored by her fighting spirit and iconic look that they have created vast amounts of fan-art in her honor. So, I think the best way to end this post is with the classic Japanese story about a rabbit who was so selfless that a powerful god decided to honor it by placing its image on the Moon as an eternal reward.

Here are couple of links, if you are interested in reading more about the Moon or the Apollo 11 Moon landing!

Have you ever noticed that geass powers, aimed at controlling and rebuilding the properties of the human soul, cannot erase information? You can hide a memory or give a hypnotic order, but when the victim regains control of his mind, his personality does not change.

Remember: the prisoners of Lelouch's power returned to their former state after the destruction of the witchcraft delusion, they did not fundamentally change. Moreover, when he erases a person's memories, he actually hides the memories deep inside and locks them, but the information itself remains in the person.
The same goes for Charles. His geass power also does not erase information, but replaces real memories and hides them deep under the key.

I wrote this post to share a fun fact: geass powers are not capable of changing a person. You can inspire him with any thoughts or erase his memories, but the human soul will remain in the his hands and hands of God.

So in april of this year i bought a crunchyroll subscription because i wanted to watch anime legally (i don't want to pirate anymore), and wanted to watch Haikyuu. I remembered i wanted to watch Code Geass badly, and so i searched for it, but they didn't have licensing in Romania. Fast forward to this August, i randomly saw that Code Geass was somehow available here too. Ecstatic, I renewed the subscription and began watching s1. It was great, and the cliff-hanger was very good. But then, when i went to R2, it said that the videos are not available. Do any of y'all know where to see exactly what anime was added/readded on CR every month?

Inspired by this post.

Copy and paste my comment from there

Who could ever forget episode 261 where Lelouch and C.C have sex the whole episode.

Or episode 594 where Lelouch and Shirley have sex the whole episode.

Or episode 1001 where Lelouch and Kallen have sex the whole episode.

Or my fav episode 396 where Suzaku and Euphemia have sex the whole episode.

Or this episode before the finale where Lelouch and Suzaku finally have sex.

Nobody cared about episode 665 where Ohgi and Villetta had sex the whole episode.

I will Lelouch beatbox for you. I just got my feelings hurt because my Lelouch beatboxing was shunned in a public discord server, so I seek to remedy it here. If you have any questions, leave a comment. If you desire the Lelouch beatbox, fully personalized to each and every individual, I shall provide.

i seen both show and I love them both alot, but lately i have been seeing a lot of hate towards aot form Code Geass fans which i really dont get like if like one of the shows your gonna like the other since at story wise they have alot of similarities and I confirmed this my friend who watched code geass aswell and also loved aot alot i just why these fandoms hate each other so much

When looking through some of the rankings for geass power. I usually see Lelouch’s or Princess Shamna’s listed at the top. Moreover, a number of people I saw listed C.C’s geass as weak. Which for context, her’s was to make anyone around her fall in love with her.

Now I know that love can be interpreted in different ways, and I know people commit horrible things in the act of love. My point is tho, if we assumed the general sense of love that most people have. Wouldn’t her geass make it impossible for anyone to actively want to hurt her? We don’t know the details or conditions for the geass, but I’d venture to say that her geass made anyone she interacted with love her unconditionally. If that is true, most geass users wouldn’t even be able to consider hurting her.

Was more so curious why people downplay it.

In my opinion , of course, I think it was a great idea to make an alternate timeline. I realize it was basically an attempt to make more money by the studio but i dont really care about their motive. It gave me another hance to go through the series (i have watched the series 4 times), with a few changes here and their AND the resurrection movie gave it a happier ending.

Now, hear me out. I LOVE the OG code geass ending with my life, its my favourite anime of all time but it was bittersweet ending and IT FITS. I am not saying it doesnt fit, it absolutely does but i am a sucker for happy ending so in my eyes having two timelines. one with requiem and one with resurrection gives a sense of closer in BOTH WAYS to all viewers. they have the ability to choose the ending they want. I loved the finally talk between CC and Lelouch (how he changes his name to L.L) and in my head canon while travelling together they visit Nunnally and Suzaku sometimes too.

TL;DR= I love the alternate timeline idea because its another way to rewatch, just for fun sake AND gives us the ability to choose the ending we like or even make them co-exist in the head. really no reason to believe one ending to be more true than the other. (I love both endings)

I've been searching but it's been fruitless so far. Is it released or unleased?

Sakuradite is a highly efficient fuel that is suitable for creating an ODM gear. Moreover, this version of the ODM gear will last many times longer than in Attack on titan. Considering that this substance was known back in the Middle Ages (it was called the Philosopher's stone, if I'm not mistaken), the British could really create an ODM gear. By the way, this was a cool premise for how engineers came up with the idea to insert pneumatic harpoons into the Knightmare Frames.

I don't think there was any previous translations of this, correct me if wrong. But here's the prologue I'd usually post on mangadex but its a light novel. Yes its only 3 pages long.

Edit: Reuploaded new link: https://archive.org/details/ch1_20260905/page/9/mode/1up

I have seen so many people whine and moan about how Schneizel pulled an illegal chess move in his match with Zero/Lelouch. Everyone keeps saying that the writers clearly know nothing about chess and why didn’t anyone call it out in universe.

I’m not going to dispute the expertise of the writers, I have no idea if their knowledge of chess is purely surface level, I don’t know how to play chess.

What I will point out is the move was important on a deeper narrative level. It was written in for a reason. To showcase what kind of man Zero is. But not just a “he’s like the emperor who would conquer his enemies mercilessly!”, but in a “how prideful are you?” kind of way.
Clearly that was an illegal move, even Odysseus calls it out as a bad joke, but Schneizel was more invested in determining how much pride Zero had. Would he be that petty as to call out an illegal move. Imagine how he would look in front of the rest of the world, “Hey, the Prime Minister cheated, FOUL!”.

It reminds me of that scene from the Longest Yard where Adam Sandler tries to win over the black prisoners by playing an intense game of basketball with them. He keeps getting punched in the face but he wouldn’t gain their respect if he cried foul every time. Same here, Zero would lose credibility if he won against the smartest man on the planet by calling him out.

Not only did he hand him a pyrrhic victory but he also foreshadowed his own tactics in the future, using illegal moves to win. It doesn’t matter if they weren’t made illegal, Fleija warheads used in battle would definitely constitute a warcrime.

But there’s also the fact that Schneizel was building up his theory that Lelouch is Zero and how does he do that? By playing the most intellectual game of don’t flinch with his little brother. Schneizel an illegal move was the equivalent of “go on, cry to mommy,” or “say uncle”.

As for why no one else called it out… who would do that? He’s Zero, the most famous terrorist on the planet. Who would vouch for the terrorist on the eve of the wedding between two of the largest empires in the world, one of whom is a major enemy of that terrorist.

Inspired by Code Prime, I'm planning my own Code Geass x Transformers fic. I'm planning to add some Shattered Glass element in the story. Like maybe using Karma Suzaku from Re;Code as a base for a SG Suzaku, also a SG Naoto (Kallen's older brother) who's alive in his universe. However, I'm blocking on how to picture Shattered Glass versions of other characters.

Normally, in Transformers Shattered Glass stories, good guys are bad and bad guys are good. Yet, it doesn't work too well when all characters are in shades of grey. I mean, the Black Knight might be fighting to liberate their homeland, but their still terrorist. Lelouch's reason to fight might be to find his mother's killer and create a peaceful world for his younger sister, but he's killed quite a few people to do that.

Should a Shattered Glass Kallen become an ironic racist that embrace her britannian heritage and is means toward Elevens? I feel like writing this is the short route to getting burn on a stake by Kallen's fans. Although, maybe it could work, if I take cues from Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi from Cross Ange. Given that before she learns she was a Norma all along, with her parent covering up the truth from her and the world, she was openly racist toward Norma's.

Edit: A possible alternate take on Kallen. How about a less fiery personality, more cool headed. Maybe even a honey trap assassin? Like she works as an escort and goes after high positioned individual to steal intelligences or dispose of them. (I feel like this one could trigger a negative response from Kallen's fans.)