Code Geass R2 Episode 21 & 22 Reaction & Discussion! 

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"I WILL NOT LET YOU CALL THAT A LIE!... Over my dead body!" That line gives me chills everytime...

Lelouch's speech about Nunally's smile in episode 21 is probably one of my favorite moments in the series, the VA did such a fantastic job. Shout out Johnny Yong Bosch.

Johnny Yong Bosch performance when Lelouch is confronting his parents is outstanding. The tone, the emotion in his voice and the overall delivery is truly amazing and JYB is one of the goats!

Bismark is at the same state as Mao, he can't turn it off. Imagine talking to someone and they answer your questions before you ask them. Sealing it allows him to function in high society.

So, basically how Nunnaly got hurt is that V2 staged another shooting to cover up Marianne's murder in which they put Nunnaly and shot her, that's why she is paralysed.

All Hail Lelouch!!!

So so hyped for the last episode!!! It's been an amazing ride watching with you guys!

Movies are set in an alternate universe.

It's time for me to implement the -Human Instramentality Project- Ragnarok Connection and combine all humans into one consciousness by destroying everyone's -A.T. Field- "masks" that they wear!

Charles, Marianne, and their Human Instrumentality Project.

“Stop Time” perhaps not time as in the actual passage of moment to moment. Maybe more like “The Times” “human progress”. If everyone merges all their memories.. everyone has the same motivations. There maybe a short time change but very soon, all progress will stop and an age of good enough stagnation will begin. A time when nothing ever changes, as if time has stopped for humanity

Lelouch and Suzaku went crazy with these matching fits cause they are so cute

Damn I'm going to miss y'alls reactions to this.

So a couple things to realize from EP 21. Lelouch’s geass evolved in response to him finally accepting who he is. (He says directly now I know who I truly am right before it develops in his other eye.) if you delve into the mythos of the word geass it is essentially a thing that can be considered a curse or a boon depending on how the user wields it. (Also some cool imagery of lelouch spreading his arms like Christ on the cross standing before god). When lelouch took over the throne he used his geass on ALL of the upper nobility and remaining royals besides nunally and schnizal. This is due to Charles consolidating power around the emperor as a system. Nobody can refuse the summons of the emperor and so ALL high level nobility was there when the command was given. This is VERY important to understand for later. After the final episode I’m going to make a long comment explaining a few things that are only found in subtext. Gonna miss watching yall react to my favorite anime of all time.

Akito the Exiled is excellent, and takes place between Seasons 1&2. It has super cool knightmares! The first 3 movies are a retelling of the story with some smaller plot changes that I won't spoil, but they're no big deal. The 4th one, LeLouche of the Resurrection, is a continuation of the story that's based off the movie continuity, and it's mostly fanservice (not the NSFW kind... mostly). I like it, since I love the series! There's a comic, OZ of the Reflection, which takes place concurrently with Akito the Exiled, and then concurrently with season 2. I don't know where to read the last half :( . There are other manga spinoffs (Nightmare of Nunnally, this one that takes place in ancient Japan, and one with power suits instead of knightmares and Suzaku as a protagonist.)... They're all, respectfully, mediocre. There're are a few gatcha games with bits of added story- not worth it. There also seems to be a new anime on the way? Maybe continuing from the Resurrection with a new set of protagonists? I honestly don't trust how this studio treats this IP.

to this day im convinced the main reason why they introduced the knights of the round as numbers is so they could make the "knight of ... zero" line

Charles represent the past,schneizel represent the present and lulu represents the future.

The red text said "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" Abandon All Hope Ye who Enter Here. It was written on the gates of Hell in Dante's inferno

i love the visible disgust on josh's face whenever nina is on screen

I liked that you guys noticed that V2 Charles Marianne situation is sort of similar to Rolo Lelouch Shirley situation

Basically Charles was Gendo Ikari. He’s doing his own Human Instrumentality Project but unlike Gendo who did this to reunite with Yui, while Charles did the Ragnarok Connection since he believed humanity was doomed ever since they started lying. Also Lelouch stopped his father’s version of Instrumentality instead of accepting it, while Shinji accepted instrumentality but later rejected after his experience.

They basically wanted to create the third impact, merge all consciousness into one. Lelouch pulled a Shinji and forcefully rejected it with Geass.

Lelouch standing up to his parents and that speech is amazing also one of the coolest things about Code Peak is the mechs/mech battles even though they're not really the focus at all but still so damn cool

I love Akito the Exiled, but its like no one seems to care 😂😢

Lelouch's speech in japanese hits harder for me that I can clearly feel his anger, madness, sorrow, tears. Dub is also good anyway

1:09 akito the exiled and the movies related to it center events between r1 and r2. It's mostly a toss up with the fandom but I recommend. The newest code geass movies are in a different timeline. The 3 first movies are setting up the last movie, code geass resurrection. The last movie is a big thank you for fanbase and I highly recommending it

The concept of Ragnarök is very similar to the Human Instrumentality Project of Neon Genesis Evangelion, both in the idea and the way it is carried out: a plan where a secret cabal of the worlds' elite and powerful work to unite all of humanity into a single entity with the purpose of evolving/saving it. The major difference is that Ragnarök united all beings, living or dead, while it's up to interpretation if the Human Instrumentality Project united only living humans or if it united all humans who ever lived. Another difference is that Ragnarök was ultimately stopped, while the Human Instrumentality Project was partially successful. Ragnarök is also the name of what is essentially the apocalypse in Norse mythology. People would supposedly lose their senses and commit all kinds of atrocities. Many of the Gods would die as well. Odin is swallowed whole by Fenrir, Fenrir has his jaw destroyed and his heart stabbed by Víðarr, Jörmungandr (the world serpent of Midgard) and Thor meet in combat and kill each other, Freyr dies fighting Surtr, Týr and the hound Garmr kill each other, and Loki and Heimdallr kill each other. Surtr then sets the world on fire, and the Earth sinks below the sea, killing all but two people. Eventually, the Earth rises from the water, beautiful and lush, and is repopulated. This somewhat mirrors Charles' plan, killing the Gods and essentially destroying humanity to remake it into what he perceives as beautiful and right.

also can we all just take a moment and ask ourselfs why lelouch (who's outfit is positively FIRE btw) has a private jet that looks like it came free with a god damn happymeal?

yall have the best reactions onjah

gosh guys y'all are great in this lmao

This is my favorite anime of all time

Bismark's Geass is the only Geass I don't really like since it feels like a total outlier. Every Geass so far has always been about the brain and about manipulating the brain - either your own or that of others. As a reminder, even Rolo's "timestop" isn't actually a timestop, it just paralyzes the people inside his radius but time still keeps moving. So they established that while Geass is a special power it can only manipulate your own and the brains of others to some degrees depending on the power. However Bismark's Geass is some absolute bullshit - he can literally see the future as it will happen. That's just straight up future prediction and has nothing to do with "just" manipulating your or another brain - he straight up sees fate or some bullshit. There would be a way to make Bismark's Geass still work if it would just "anticipate" the future based on his own brain anticipating his target's movements but the fact that he can use it on a Knightmare - and a new model whose specs he has no clue about - AND the fact that what he sees surprises himself kinda confirms that that is defnitely not how his Geass works - he actually just straight up sees the future.

You are getting closer and closer to one of the most badass speeches in anime history ... 😋 "Attention entire world Hear my proclamation..."

I believe the movies and spin offs retcon a bunch of stuff they're probably worth skipping imo.

I think the reason Lelouch didnt want to use his geass from the beginning to become the emperor is bcuz he didnt want to rob ppl of their free will for that choice. Maybe he wanted to be chosen based on his action but after what happened in C's world something changed and that was no longer necessary so he dropped his mask put all the cards on the table and just said fuck it, we ball.

Not the casual mistborn reference.

All but the last movie are recaps but the last movie follows the changes that the recaps make.

These episodes for me as I'm sure many others completely solidified Johnny Yong Bosch as without a doubt the very best Dubbed Anime Actor (I know he also does Live Action and Video Games) but specifically in Dubbed Anime there is none other that compares to him.

Basically the made everyone tell the truth for everything through the collective consciousness which was the planet. Tha sword was the collective thought of certain individual who wanted to rupture the collective consciousness to make everyone reveal themselves

Will the next one be a 3 episode special? The Resurrection movie is great in my opinion, technically a different timeline. Without getting into how, you'll notice as the movie progresses but its some details that you could easily forget about by the end. 30 outta 10 highly recommen'

Love it’s

The movies are all an alternate timeline because they didn't want to disrespect this show's ending.

Okay... Evangelion, it makes no sense. Gendo and Seele WANT humanity to merge into a single entity/hivemind, so why were they fighting the angels at all when they want them to win?

Peak anime

yeah suzaku was already geassed by him so this time he followed Lelouch willingly 39:15 yeah Lelouch you're so democratic 🤗

Episode 21 is one of the reasons I prefer the Dub to the Sub for Code Geass.

Yess watch the movies there good leluch of the resurrection

what they were trying to do is exactly what they said get rid of lies people wouldn't have the ability to lie at all basically taking away that choice

If you find it great, I strongly recommend you to watch a movie one after finishing season2.

Guys theres a new code geass😂 I don't know if I should watch it😭

ALL HAIL LELOUCH!!!

as for why bismarck has his geass covered up: firstly that looks like it would be hella annoying in every day life atleast the way it is animated, youre not only seeing quadruppel all day every day but its also time delayed secondly, fighting with it probably gets boring, if you rely on a "gimmick" like that you become weaker over time, better to keep it as a trump card for when you REALLY need it

Highly recommend the Akito the exiled series (all have a dub) and the Re;Surection movie (dubbed with most of the original cast). You will need ti read what the recap movies changed just so one characters appearance makes sense lol. Also, Friday June 21 the dub of the new Code Geass sequel (set 7 years later) Rozé of the recapture starts on Hulu. Excited to start that.

Watch leluch of the resurrection perfect way to end off after episode 25 if you want to watch the akito movies there time line is between season 1 and 2 and leluch is in the movies but not for to long

The movie doesn't really relevant, but if you don't want it to end, then watch the Akito the exiled and Lelouch resurrection

I only see one movie, it was awful, they just revive Shirley and another character whiteout explanation, like "nah, never happened"

Code Geass watch order canon timeline: R1 Season 1 of lelouch of the rebellion Akito the exiled movies ~this focuses on the war between Britannia and Eu with akito as the protagonist set in between R1 and R2, it has returning characters. R2 2nd season and the Conclusion of lelouch of the rebellion AU code Geass canon timeline: Code Geass trilogy movie (Retelling of R1 and R2 with added new scene and change of plots yet having the same ending with zero Requiem) Lelouch of the resurrection ~ The canon Sequel of the trilogy movie it will cause confusion if you did not watch the trilogies Roze of the Recapture ~Sequel series set 5 years after lelouch resurrection with the new cast and protagonist, it has returning characters such as cornelia

i dont recommend watching anything Code Geass related other than these 2 seasons. the rest just doesn't compare.

The three Lelouch Movies are an AU, and I didn't really like the retcons they made to make that AU. Akito is really fun. As it takes place between R1 and R2.

Second maybe

First! Let’s go

WATCH MOVIE #3 WATCH MOVIE #3 WATCH MOVIE #3!

the ending is the best in any show