Let’s clear the air and talk about Code Geass again. I love Code Geass so much I even stopped writing about it to think about it. Anyway, let’s get our spoilers out and hop in after the jump.
Let’s talk about Code Geass.
The story is simple, Lelouch an ex-Britannian prince gains a power from C.C. that’s mystical and unexplained and uses it to recruit an army, take over Japan, lose Japan, lose his army, regain an army, fight in a mystical new dimension involving Jupiter, take over the world, and then finally die (maybe) to the hands of his best friend after enslaving his sister he fights so hard for.
Pretty simple story. Now for a random youtube:
Random, yes. Needed? No. I made it small to annoy you.
The story might be simple, but a lot went on. Orange-kun fly through the sky for his LOYALTY, people betrayed one another left and right, and the audience didn’t have a clue what went on. The audience still has no clue what went on. The ending was rubbish, like any anime series, and it played out more like Death Note and less like a new original series. Except for one thing.
Orange-kun flew through the sky for his LOYALTY. The addition of Orange-kun led to a sense of amazement within the series. Orange-kun brought life and burning robot justice to a boring series. Sort of like how Team Rocket always made a melancholy episode of Pokemon exciting by stealing all of the pokemon. Something like that.
Orange-kun took a somber, boring, over the top in the Death Note sense anime and made it something unique. You were expecting him to come around the corner at any minute with a pizza in his hand. You never knew what he was going to do. In R2 he rolled up, half dead, and swore fealty to Lelouch. He was microwaved and even turned into a cyborg! Come on!
Looking back now I have to ask, what would Death Note had been if it had its own Orange-kun? Would Death Note even be something you could read or watch? Would it not be a template that all other anime in its newly defined genre would follow? I have no clue, but I guess, in a way, we’ll see.
That’s today retrospect. Enjoy!
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