Code Geass R2 Episode 25 Re;

ALL HAIL LELOUCH!!!

Is he or isn’t he?! That is the biggest question that has hit the forums since the release of Episode 25.
Major spoilers for the end of the series

Something is up...

I am in the he isn’t camp. Lelouch can’t be dead. The major reason he can’t be dead is because I don’t want him to be dead. But there are other reasons that have been listed at length by other people.

-Lelouch is a mastermind and has things planned out WAY in advance. Him telling Schneizel to obey ZERO and not Lelouch was a sign that Lelouch had everything mapped out. If he had everything mapped out that far in advance, why is it out of the realm of possibilities that he planned a way to “die” and still be alive?
-Jeremiah is in on the plot. Now call me crazy, but someone who has devoted that much to a man would not go along with a plan to allow his master to die. He smirked twice, once after Zero jumped on him and once AFTER Lelouch died. That is not really a time to be smiling.
-Nunnally saw his memories. We all know she has the magical power to tell if people are lying when she touches them and some people assume THAT is what happened. I tend to believe Lelouch now has the ability to pass on his memory like C.C. does. To show how Nunnally’s power works now would only be too convenient and kind of lame fall back to explain the situation.
-C.C was happy at the end. She and Lelouch made a promise and I am sure that promise was for him to live. She had been trying to keep him alive for the past 50 episodes, why would she be so happy at the end. Some people assume she is happy because Lelouch “took” her code and gave it to Suzaku, thus granting her wish to be able to die.
-The wagon driver face was covered up. If this was just a normal person, why not show his face? There was a shot panning up the side of the wagon, focusing on the side of his head. If he is a plain old nobody, who cares about him? Of course, the idea of Lelouch driving a wagon is pretty amusing…
-C.C talking to Lelouch at the end of the episode. She says “Geass is the power of kings, it will isolate you… well, I guess that’s a little wrong… eh, Lelouch” She is stating that the power of the geass always ends with the person being miserable and alone..but corrects herself and says that is a little wrong. That has to mean Lelouch is alive or it makes no sense. If he is really dead, he would be isolated and so would she, so what is the little wrong part of that statement? She tipped her head to refer to the driver, not to the sky. The “little wrong” is that yes, Lelouch and C.C. are isolate, but they have each other to be with.
-Some people think the crane means Lelouch is alive due to Nunnally showing Lelouch how to make them. I see the crane as the promise of a peaceful work coming together.
- There are some who think Charles punishes Lelouch by giving him his Code/immortality to live in a world Schneizel creates. To me that only makes sense as Charles had to pass on his code to someone and he was only near Lelouch when that happened.

Is that Lelouch?!

Some people can’t get passed the fact the Code Geass is NOT THE NEXT DEATH NOTE! (It is also annoying since Death Note is not the first anime series to have the main character to die; stop acting like this is a new concept people). People assume that to make a great anime ending, the hero turned villain but really a hero HAS TO DIE. Um, no. It does not make Lelouch’s sacrifices less meaningful if he is really dead or not. To 99.99999999 percent of the world, he is dead. At most, three people know he is alive. His name is going down in history as the Demon Emperor. He really has to be dead in the sense he will never be with all his loved ones ever again and he will have to remain in hiding the rest of his days. That is a death in a different sense, but still a death. People who say that his act is cheapen by actually being alive are can’t think outside the box.

Besides, does Death Note has awesome chase scenes like this?!

So, do I think the anime ended well? Yes and no.
-Nunnally was annoying until the very end. She thinks she is being the container of evil by having control of the Damocles, but she only is messing things up. She tries to play the sympathy card and says that Lelouch cannot Geass her. Her chasing after him in her wheelchair was comical. Nunnally also had the weirdest reaction when Lelouch is stabbed and falls off the platform. She sort of seems okay with it until she touches him, she was way too calm. She almost talks to him in a casual way, leaning over him. Then she cries extremely loud while everyone else is having a party. I almost felt bad for her, but then I felt bad for the people she was “ruling” over. How stupid is that, considering Cornelia is still alive. Whoever left her in charge took a heavy hit from the idiot branch.

UNGRATEFUL TWIT!!!

:( i just want to hurt her a little...


Doesn't that look too calm?!


Dear Lord who left these two people in charge...

-Nina LIVED!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! What have I done to deserve this fate?! She was responsible for so many deaths. :( Nina is not allowed to be happy.
-Suzaku lived and I am quite happy with that. Despite the fact he STARTED this whole entire problem, he tried to fix it in his own special stupid way. I am sure the only reason he agreed to aid Lelouch was the promising of killing him at the end, for Euphemia. I think after time went on and he saw that Lelouch was not a bad guy, he felt bad about the promise he made. Oh and I did not believe for one minute that Suzaku actually died (YAY FOR AUTHUR THOUGH). Now I guess he can be happy serving as a symbol of peace, something he wanted from day one. Serving to push Nunnally around in her wheelchair is a bit much of a punishment though.

:( This makes me so sad...

-Diethard didn’t die?! WTF!!! See, no one can die in this anime who is truly important, more proof that Lelouch is alive. Perhaps his fate worse than death is he has to marry Nina.
-None of Black Knights were punished for their deeds. In fact, besides Kallen, they now are free to believe they were tricked by a false Zero all along and that they did the right thing. Kallen got what was going on AT THE LAST MINUTE! She really should have had more faith in her friend’s Lelouch and Suzaku. I also am not keen on Kallen living a carefree school girl life, given all that she has been through. It seems to me she should have joined a protective force or something…although I suppose they went that route so we could see the pictures on the wall (HOW IS DIETHARD NOT DEAD!!) In the end, the Black Knights get to live with the fact they were heroes and Zero really did not betray them.
-I enjoyed how Cornelia led the resistances…after Lelouch was killed. It was an anticlimactic thing for her to do. Cornelia is also a reason I think Lelouch is still alive, look how many times she was maimed and she came back fighting. While I am amused at the fact Schneizel is still a slave to Zero, I think Cornelia should have stepped up and served the people.

You better think about what you did!

Part of the show that was annoying was the massive amount of scene changes/connecting dialogue part. Yes, it has been done before, but it was annoying. We already know you are fighting and we all known you have something you must do. I rather it had focused on one battle/scene at a time rather than trying to give me a seizure.

To the bitter end...

While I think Lelouch had other options, I respect his way of thinking. He truly wanted to make the world a better place by uniting the world under one threat of evil. One could argue that Charles did the exact same thing, but Lelouch ended that family’s hold on the world. Lelouch wanted to take over the world and give it to the people. Not too many “villains” can say they did that. While it is a shame Lelouch could not expose what his father’s plan was and saved his own legacy, he did manage to get everyone to stop blowing each other out of the sky and work together to solve real problems in the world. So NO death note tards, Light and Lelouch are NOTHING alike. Light wanted to judge all of the people and decide what is right and wrong while Lelouch was fighting for people to have a tomorrow. Lelouch’s plan ACTUALLY WORKED unlike Light. And Lelouch went into this final plan willing to be painted the villain whereas Light wanted to be a god.

Poor Suzaku!

I actually do feel very bad for Suzaku. While I think that Lelouch is alive, I do not think Suzaku was in on the plan. Now he has to live with the fact he has killed his father and his best friend. He also has to pretend to be the person who killed Euphemia. He has to be Zero, he can never be himself. He has to pretend he died a hero and live in Lelouch’s footsteps for the rest of his life. His happy ending will probably not include a romantic interest (Kallen is always an option as she knows what really did happen and of course Nunnally, but I am mad at them both so they can rot in hell as virgins for all I care). He had devoted his life to Britannia to make up for his father’s death and now he is still repaying that debt.

An epic death on the battle field would have been better..

I found the death count rather low for this episode. Li Xingke should have died in a blaze of glory so he could be remembered as a war hero. Gino also should have died to save Kallen, which sent her in a rage against Suzaku. But since there were SO MANY other character death’s (and resurrection) throughout the show, perhaps the last episode was meant to focus on Lelouch’s sacrifice instead of other people’s. But I did enjoy the orange irony at the end (but why did Anya hook up with him anyway?!)

MMMM oranges...

With the ending of an anime series, you usually feel sad that it is over. With this series, it ended well. I say it ended well because people are going to talk about it for a long time, whether or not Lelouch is still alive. They left enough clues to prove he is alive, but there are also reasons why he has to be dead. A good show keeps people guessing and talking about it long after it is over. A good show leaves the audience hoping for a movie or an OVA to prove THEIR side is right and to prolong the show they love. For me, Code Geass was a very enjoyable show. It had a mix of every genre. I even enjoyed the mecha part of the show. I felt bad for some characters who died (poor rolo!!!) and laughed when others got their just desserts (yeah, you sucked Shirley). I felt frustrated when Lelouch decided to take on all the hatred into himself and I was pissed off at how people would turn on each other. I waited by the computer waiting for the latest subs. I wouldn’t go as far as SOME fans and say that with the end of this show, there are no decent animes out there. But this show was very good, reaching a large audience. I am sad it ended and will hope for a movie…just to prove that Lelouch is alive hehehe. But it ended on a good note, no unnecessary fillers and major plot holes. They managed to make Lelouch a real hero and not some evil dictator. They kept the action going at a good pace and the plot was fresh and unique. Code Geass is on the must watch list when I refer people to anime now. Thanks for the great ride Code Geass, it was fun.

Everyone and their happy endings...

thanks for reading!