Code Geass Expanded Universe discussion thread

I think Akito the exiled proved that Sunrise could make more CG without focusing on Lelouch or the ayylmaos.
So which part do you think is worth visiting?
For me;
Odysseus failed EU campaign
Schneizel's eu campaign
Rakshata Chawla origin story
The white rebellion

>I think Akito the exiled proved that Sunrise could make more CG without focusing on Lelouch or the ayylmaos.

This is the worst part about r3 for me. With akito they proved you can do a shit series in a great universe. And since akito is the newer series it is also means there are high chances the same people also are working on r3

Yeah, that show that people only remember for Julius Kingsley definitely proved that you don't need Lelouch

Why do you think Akito is shit?

>shit fights
>Muh friendship conquers all
>breaking the rules of geass
>the mary sue protag
>edgelord villain with stupid motivations
>shoehorning in Lelouch and Suzaku

it's not terrible though alot of the characters are
fun especially Ashley he's Gino tier cool

and using Lelouch as a traction post geassing was a good idea conceptually, but it didn't work out at all here partly because it has to line up with r2

shit mc
shit villain
shit story
shit fights
stupid mech designs
The way EU is presented shows they could never pose any threat to Brittania.
almost nothing new on the geass world

etc

>traction
tactician
how'd i fuck that up?

You must be kind of nuts. Akito was bland but okay. Also, the people working on that OVA aren't involved in any "S3" so you don't need to create phantoms.

People already resisted or subverted Geass commands during the first two seasons, so what happened in Akito was just an extension of that.

The protagonist was boring, but I didn't think it was a Mary Sue situation.

Lelouch and Suzaku getting a cameo was fine by me.

I liked the fights and most of the mecha designs.

All the EU needed to do was defend themselves. Nothing else.

They did give us one or two new pieces of geass information for the record.

So yeah, kinda exaggerated.

Nunnally broke her fathers,who was also long dead by then, and resisting the geass failed immediately for anyone else

So was the water Lelouch was flipping shit about laced with Refrain or what?

It's fan-fiction level story-telling.

The author managed to insert Japanese characters in the most relevant spots of the story even though this is the Code Geass that isn't set in Japan. (Because I'm Japanese I want to write about Japanese characters).

He couldn't even come up with an original Geass for the villain.

Leila's Geass makes absolutely no sense.

F.L.E.I.J.A. is an absolutely important element in the Code Geass world as its development is a breakthrough that is capable of forever changing the war scenario. However in Akito a literal hobo somehow managed to pull out of literally nowhere a bomb of equal destructive power that wiped out 2/3 of an entire enemy army.

Lelouch and Suzaku are shoved into the story for absolutely no purpose but to look absolutely helpless in front of the villain (my characters are better than the original characters)

Lelouch displays withdrawal symptoms for no reasons and remembers stuff that were supposed to be sealed, even though in R2 he had none of those problems.

Akito for reasons never explained instead of killing himself after being ordered to die becomes a killing machine.


Pointless technobabble being thrown in the story for zero reasons. Like Akito and Shin disappearing in another dimension for like 3 minutes, with the scientist spouting the trite drivel about the universe being defined by intelligent observers.


With Europe being thrown in a state of anarchy and about to get conquered by Britannia the 5 main characters who ostensibly possess skills to stop by themselves entire armies decides to fuck it all and live the gypsy life instead.

Anything with Orange-kun as a MC.

The author managed to insert Japanese characters in the most relevant spots of the story even though this is the Code Geass that isn't set in Japan. (Because I'm Japanese I want to write about Japanese characters).
Sunrise's decision. Not his.

>He couldn't even come up with an original Geass for the villain.
Make people you love, and only those that you love, kill themselves is pretty original.

>Leila's Geass makes absolutely no sense.
Wat happened in the comand center wasn't the result of Leila's Geass, but the intervention of the Caretaker of Spacetime.

>F.L.E.I.J.A. is an absolutely important element in the Code Geass world as its development is a breakthrough that is capable of forever changing the war scenario. However in Akito a literal hobo somehow managed to pull out of literally nowhere a bomb of equal destructive power that wiped out 2/3 of an entire enemy army.
All that was was a Sakuradite bomb, which existed since the first season since Sakuradite is extremely volatile. FLEIJA is far more devastating since its not just an explosion.

>Lelouch and Suzaku are shoved into the story for absolutely no purpose but to look absolutely helpless in front of the villain (my characters are better than the original characters)
Their involvement in the story was the only reason that Shin was able to usurp control since Lelouch had thrown the Grand Duke in prison. Not to mention his plan threw the EU into chaos, and what not.
Meanwhile, Lelouch was shown to be superior to Shin, while only "losing" because of the Geass holding him back as he resisted it.

>Lelouch displays withdrawal symptoms for no reasons and remembers stuff that were supposed to be sealed, even though in R2 he had none of those problems.
Charles's Geass has limitations, just like all Geass. Even at the start of R2, Charles's Geass wasn't perfect, as Lelouch still felt something was off. In all likelihood, and this is just my own speculation, but the further away from the original identity the memories are, the weaker the Geass's hold is. This is why it lasted for years on Nunnally and Marrybell since it only changed a single memory, while it was imperfect on Lelouch since it changed his identity.

>Akito for reasons never explained instead of killing himself after being ordered to die becomes a killing machine.
Wrongo. It was explained.
Because Akito was a child, he didn't understand the concept of death. So Shin's Geass didn't have the intended effect on him.

>The author managed to insert Japanese characters in the most relevant spots of the story even though this is the Code Geass that isn't set in Japan. (Because I'm Japanese I want to write about Japanese characters).
This is also one of my beefs to Akito.

Japanese refugees being discriminated in Europe isn't that hard to believe, honestly, because of current events. Nothing wrong with that in this fictional world either.

I thought the originality of the villain's Geass had to do with his limitations. He can only order certain people to die. Unlike Lelouch, nothing else can be done with his power.

Leila's Geass made sense to me. It's like being a Newtype, Gundam-style.

That bomb from Akito was nothing like the FLEIJA though. In fact, the scale was much smaller. and the explosion was also not as big. It blew up two squads of KMF. Which isn't really that big of a deal at all. Not the entire center of a city as big as Tokyo.

I don't think the show was saying that the new characters were better than Lelouch and Suzaku either. They simply couldn't do much because it wouldn't match the rest of the story.

Charles was forcing him to act totally against his will and personality, so Lelouch resisting makes sense. He simply briefly remembered something and immediately passed out. He didn't have those problems in R2 because just being a school student again didn't really change Lelouch's personality.

I thought Akito's situation was obvious. He simply was too young to understand Shin's order and therefore grew up with it in his brain, using it as a berserker rage to kill others rather than himself.

Oh please. Code Geass has already had people being teleported from one place to another or going to another realm. That's not unprecedented here. It seems you didn't understand what they were talking about, at least not for the most part.

Why should they stay after everything they've been through? They don't like military or politics by this point. They're not necessarily skilled enough to stop a full-scale invasion either.

Eh, the director of Akito did say he was the one who wanted to address Japan-related topics in the OVA. Not Sunrise.

>I think Akito the exiled proved that Sunrise could make more CG without focusing on Lelouch or the ayylmaos
They can, that doesn't mean they should.
The only good parts of Akito were the SoL and Julius Kingsely. That should tell you something.

Yeah, but Akane created Leila as the main character.

>Make people you love, and only those that you love, kill themselves is pretty original.
much worse than copying a pre-existing geass

>Their involvement in the story was the only reason that Shin was able to usurp control since Lelouch had thrown the Grand Duke in prison. Not to mention his plan threw the EU into chaos, and what not.
Meanwhile, Lelouch was shown to be superior to Shin, while only "losing" because of the Geass holding him back as he resisted it.
They could've change his rank entirely and it would't have affected the story in any major way, the could've even used an entirely new character to fulfill Lelouch's role in this, it could've even bee one of the shit ton of kids Charles spurted out of his cock it's contrived at best

>Charles's Geass has limitations, just like all Geass. Even at the start of R2, Charles's Geass wasn't perfect, as Lelouch still felt something was off. In all likelihood, and this is just my own speculation, but the further away from the original identity the memories are, the weaker the Geass's hold is. This is why it lasted for years on Nunnally and Marrybell since it only changed a single memory, while it was imperfect on Lelouch since it changed his identity.
Conjecture, Lelouch also mentions to C.C. that he basically hated his pre-geass life early on, and "feeling off" is a far cry from "durru ugghh sunflowers Suzaku"

>Because Akito was a child, he didn't understand the concept of death. So Shin's Geass didn't have the intended effect on him.
as soon as he understood what death was, he should've offed himself then

>Leila's Geass made sense to me. It's like being a Newtype, Gundam-style.
this isn't gundamnot a UC gundam anyway

>Just started watching Akito
So, judging by the posts in this thread I am in for a bumpy ride, huh?

It's different

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>not a UC gundam anyway
The BRS is essentially the Psycoframe.
Its pretty fucking UC at this point.

He was high on Refrain. Thirst is a common side effect of using drugs

Just don't expect to get attached to any of the main characters.
The only memorable characters are the britannian redheads and the gypsy grandmas.

Oh shit, thank you user. I never understood that part.

I'm joking saying the CG is basically an AU gundam show
Ashley got some votes in that recent poll, he was unexpectantly likable

Did Akito even sold well?

Typical whiny bitch mc that amounts to nothing so
No cunning plans fuckery.
Story with foregone conclusion which amounts to nothing too.
Do i need other reasons to not even pick it up?

The last OVAs made me like him a lot. I loved that he was introduced as a psycho bitch but turned out to be a bro. Also his crush on his uptown twink subordinate was cute.

Glad Akito cut that braid of his that made him look like a huge faggot.

Only Gino is alpha enough to have hair braids..

Yes

when he first appeared I thought he's end up killing that very subordinate, when he was waving the gun around, in episode 4 though i realized why he never pulled the trigger

Well that sucks,we might see the Akito cast in R3.

On the contrary, I think that's a better Geass because it ties into the theme of the character.

Thing is, they knew people wanted to see Lelouch at least in a cameo.

It's a different director's interpretation of what uneasiness means in that context.

Not really, because Akito's brain had already adapted to living in spite of the command. It also wasn't "you must die" but simply "die" and that's far more open to interpretation, especially in Japanese since the language structure is different.

It's OK. Just not the same as the main TV series, so those expecting Akito to be the same will not find that.

I barely remember that scene, guess I'll take the time to rewatch it.

>I think that's a better Geass because it ties into the theme of the character.
every Geass is born form the users personality, that isn't new, but "they must also love me' is dumb why not eye contact + death, his geass is nearly useless


>Thing is, they knew people wanted to see Lelouch at least in a cameo.
Fair enough, but I still don't like it, if only because it contradicts r2 without a good reason


>It's a different director's interpretation of what uneasiness means in that context
are you referring to Lelouch's outbursts? because if he's breaking out of the geass he should just be Lelouch in that moment, maybe you could say Suzaku hit him with refrain to prevent that, but that would be a weak excuse

>Akito's brain had already adapted to living in spite of the command
Geass overwrites everything it should't be possible to adapt to

>It also wasn't "you must die" but simply "die" and that's far more open to interpretation
everyone else killed themselves right away though, there's no reason for Akito not to

That's probably because his Geass was not obtained through normal means, I suppose.

I think it doesn't really contradict R2. Just adds a footnote to the period between seasons.

I'd say Lelouch was trying to resist the Geass because he just couldn't handle being a lackey who loves/worships Charles, his most hated enemy at this point. But obviously he didn't succeed, other than making Julius unstable.

The effects of Geass depend on what the person knows or is capable of doing. The command itself is not being disobeyed at all. Just re-oriented and re-interpreted. Even Suzaku could eventually activate his LIVE geass at will without permanently losing his mind, so there's some margin for errors and subjectivity.

Again, Akito didn't know the concept of death or dying at the time. Everyone else was already an adult.

>Oh please. Code Geass has already had people being teleported from one place to another or going to another realm. That's not unprecedented here. It seems you didn't understand what they were talking about, at least not for the most part.
But they never just fucking teleported to another dimension in the originals. They went to C's world through the elevatorz, and they could only go through the elevators. They didn't just walk into a science experiment while some dude just jerked off about intelligent observers

I'll say fair enough, but someone should say something to make Lelouch's struggle here clearer

and with Akito, he remembers the indecent and how everyone killed themselves, so he should follow

>R3 is going to be set years after R2 with lelouch as protag

guess all the conspiracy theories about lelouch being alive were real after all...

that wasn't a FLEIJA, you mong. Do note that Kingsley's fake video showed him nuking the EU powerplant with a WMD which looked exactly like a FLEIJA but wasn't.

>fights are shit

You guys are crazy. Akito has the best CGI fight scenes I've ever seen

>Akito has the best CGI fight scenes I've ever seen
same here

the fights are shit btw

Akito was fucking awful, that last episode was one of the most poorly directed things I've ever seen. I hope no one involved in it's development has anything to do with R3.

I am not that negative about Akito but it has nothing to do with the sequel in terms of staff.

The first ova was ok but they did nothing with the premise and everything amounted to nothing. The mecha CGI was awful and sometimes I had to rewind scenes because it was difficult to see what was going on.

Watched it only for pic related.

Got that backward

>shit fights
Delusional

Oh shit, really?