Anime of the Week: Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch)

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Anime: Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch)

Director: Goro Taniguchi

Studio: Sunrise

Year: 2006 - 2007

Episodes: 25 TV

MAL Link and Synopsis:

On August 10th of the year 2010 the Holy Empire of Britannia began a campaign of conquest, its sights set on Japan. Operations were completed in one month thanks to Britannia's deployment of new mobile humanoid armor vehicles dubbed Knightmare Frames. Japan's rights and identity were stripped away, the once proud nation now referred to as Area 11. Its citizens, Elevens, are forced to scratch out a living while the Britannian aristocracy lives comfortably within their settlements. Pockets of resistance appear throughout Area 11, working towards independence for Japan.

Lelouch, an exiled Imperial Prince of Britannia posing as a student, finds himself in the heart of the ongoing conflict for the island nation. Through a chance meeting with a mysterious girl named C.C., Lelouch gains his Geass, the power of the king. Now endowed with absolute dominance over any person, Lelouch may finally realize his goal of bringing down Britannia from within!

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Anime: Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2)

Director: Goro Taniguchi

Studio: Sunrise

Year: 2008

Episodes: 25 TV

MAL Link and Synopsis:

A year has passed since "The Black Rebellion" and the remaining Black Knights have vanished into the shadows, their leader and figurehead, Zero, executed by the Britannian Empire. Area 11 is once more squirming under the Emperor's oppressive heel as the Britannian armies concentrate their attacks on the European front. But for the Britannians living in Area 11, life is back to normal. On one such normal day, a Britannian student, skipping his classes in the Ashford Academy, sneaks out to gamble on his chess play. But unknown to this young man, several forces are eying him from the shadows, for soon, he will experience a shocking encounter with his own obscured past, and the masked rebel mastermind Zero will return.

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