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illustration by Kimura Takahiro

★4 マリーベル [お菓子の数だけ微笑みを] ★4 オルドリン [お菓子の数だけ凜々しさを]

What In The Bisexual?

Huh.

I Guess Bisexuality Must Run In The Britannian Imperial Family.

4★ Oldrin Card (illustrated by がおう [gao-u])

🏝 Illustrations from the most recent Genesic Re;CODE event, Cute! Summer Venus 🐬

Apparently there's a Code Geass gacha game out now, wild how that works lol. Oh yeah and there's also still like a thousand and one different spin off manga.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Side Story “BLACK ALBION”

Short story written by Koujirou (Sunrise) about Zerozaku sets in one year some time after Zero Requiem to accompany the introduction of Lancelot Albion Zero. Source: https://p-bandai.jp/tamashiiwebshouten/blackalbion/. Please inform me if you notice some mistake.

First year of Light Sum*. Some time have passed since the extraordinary hero, Zero, killed the last emperor of Holy Britannian Empire, Lelouch vi Britannia.  The world that joined hands to defeat Emperor Lelouch who took hostage of the countries' leaders in his plan to conquer the world, continue to wish for peace and choose cooperation route even after Lelouch's death. With more than 80% of the world joins United Federation of Nations in the form of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Japan and China that became the center of UFN’s formation during wartime, politics were practiced with global perspective. In addition to that, as the military power is transferred to and is operated by Black Knights as delegated by UFN, no large-scale conflict ever occurred, and the world peace was preserved.  However... "We need a machine that acts as Zero's symbol." The one who suggested that was Schneizel el Britannia who serves as the Chief of Staff in UFN Supreme Council. The words of the man who's practically the world's No. 2, were not directed toward the President Sumeragi Kaguya, but to the masked man in black clothing, Zero. "....We don't." Zero asserts. Under the mask that exposed not even one part of his real face, his expression can't be read. Zero, who's present at the UFN Supreme Council meeting as CEO of Black Knights, shook his head in disagreement towards Schneizel's proposal. "However, no matter how the world as a whole is advancing toward peace, buds of conflicts will always arise. As a precaution, as Zero who slain Emperor Lelouch, you need to demonstrate your strength." Schneizel's words are reasonable. It's also clear that his words are for the sake of keeping peace. But, that's not it. The world must be peaceful. Otherwise, what did "he" bet his life for? Of course there are small seeds of conflicts. In this world that had been in war for a long time, it's natural that flames of conflicts can't be completely erased. It's natural because this world is inhabited by people who preserved their own self. Therefore, in order to prevent the conflicts from rising, it's probably a correct thing to do to assign the power to subdue conflicts to Zero the symbol. But for Zero, for Kururugi Suzaku who has now became Zero, it's not an idea he could accept that easily. "You're wrong. If Black Knights holds too much military power it would frighten the people and give birth to new conflicts instead. To the very end, we exists to maintain world peace. To that end, we're requesting the Glinda Knights to audit Black Knights." Oldrin Zevon, the head of Glinda Knights who is present at the meeting, nods in agreement.  "...." Schneizel gives an "I give up" look. As Zero has said so, Schneizel can't go against his words.

"Welcome back, Zero." After finishing the UFN Supreme Council and returning to his room in Black Knights' headquarter, Zero was welcomed by Nunnally vi Britannia who came to meet him. "I'm back, Nunnally." Suzaku takes off his mask for the first time since awhile, and shows a smile. "Today you came to talk about the schedule for humanitarian visit to Spain next month, right?" "Yes, Suzaku-sa--, I mean, Zero, sorry I always ended up troubling you..." "Ha ha, now I'm just Suzaku, Nunnally." Among the few people who knows about Zero's identity, Nunnally especially can interact with Suzaku's true self. For Suzaku who has always carried the burden of being Zero, the time spent with Nunnally was extremely important. Nunnally who became the Honorary Consultant of World Humanitarian Organization, an auxiliary organization of UFN, visited the areas where scars of war still remained, and carried out humanitarian support activities. Suzaku as Zero has a lot of opportunity to be with Nunnally. Nunnally's coming to meet to Suzaku today too was to make arrangement for their next visit. But, with a sudden emergency call calling for Zero, that purpose was never realized. "Report from UFN Supreme Council! We’ve been informed that an armed group who declared themselves as Japan Revolutionary Army has occupied Shinagawa Seaside Airport." The smile that was on Suzaku's face till just now is gone, and his expression becomes dim. "Suzaku-san..." "It'll be okay, so don't worry. I'll be back soon." To the worried Nunnally, Suzaku shows her a smile. However, his heart is not calm. ...Zero doesn't need to have power. And yet.... Suzaku picks up his mask again and walks out from the room leaving Nunnally behind.  

In Black Knights commander office, the main monitor shows the presumed state of Shinagawa Seaside Airport that was taken with a long distance camera. Other information such as the Knighmares that are used in the armed uprising and the list of people suspected to be responsible for the incident, were displayed on the sub monitors. "How's the situation?" The one who answers Zero's brief question as he entered the room is General Commander Toudou Kyoushiro. "Not very good. Konishina, report the present status to Zero." Prompted by Toudou, Konishina Ryou, the captain of Squadron 3 that was selected for duty, reports to Zero through the submonitor. The armed group called Japan Revolutionary Army, with about 30 Knightmares from sky, land, and water, swiftly gained total control of Shinagawa Seaside Airport that was built on a reclamation area in Tokyo Bay. It's reported that about 4000 passengers and staffs were held hostage. "It happened an hour ago. They seem to target the blind spot of UFN Supreme Council." "How about the perpetrators’ identity?" "It's Major Bandou... no, it's Bandou Shin. A survivor from the former Japan Liberation Front." "!?" Toudou's words agitate Zero slightly. Bandou is Suzaku’s acquaintance who once taught him martial arts together with Toudou and the others back when he was still a kid before the war with Britannia started. "Why, Bandou-san... right when everyone is about to compromise and head towards peace..." Konishina grinds his teeth. "Konishina was a new recruit assigned to Bandou's troop back during Britannia's invasion 9 years ago," Toudou fills up Suzaku's conjecture. He understood that it's because Japan Revolutionary Army turned out to be the remnant of Japan Liberation Front, that Toudou assigned Konishina to be in charge of the matter.   "Japan Revolutionary Army led by Bandou, in regard to Zero eliminating Kusakabe Josui's group, raises a banner of rebellion. Zero, now it’s..." "I know, Toudou-san." From inside Suzaku's chest, an emotion that can't be expressed in words rises its head. However, his top priority is to secure the safety of the 4000 captured people as soon as possible. "I’d like to join UFN Supreme Council. This case will be handled by Black Knights." "I knew you would say so~" At the corner of Black Knights' headquarters hangar that's in preparation for sortie, a familiar machine was brought in by Rakshata. Lying on top of the equipment container, with the tobacco pipe in her hand, she points to Zero's line of sight. It's unthinkable that she's a person with many titles. "A black... Lancelot Albion." Zero shows a little bewilderment. "It's part of Joint Strike Armored Cavalry Program that had been worked on since the time of Emperor Lelouch's rule. Because we also needed to develop and conduct research on Knightmares made by Britannia, our Pearl Party was created." The one who answers his confusion is a dark skin woman with prosthetic legs, Neha Shankar. She's a researcher apprentice who participated in the decisive battle of Madrid in the past and is studying under Rakshata. "Based on the data left by Dr Lloyd, with little improvements, we managed to complete it. In term of performance it's equal to Guren Seiten Eight Elements." Explains Kagari Savitri who's transferred from Black Knights' engineering department to the Pearl Party. Good handiness, almost as if they had been preparing for this. Suzaku thinks that perhaps Schneizel had asked Rakshata in advance in anticipation for situations like this. Otherwise, the unit that bears the name Albion which means white, wouldn't be dyed in black. "I got it. Let me use this." He can't believe it, he never thought that he would ride this unit again now that he became Zero. "Please take good care of our cute Z-01Z0." "Zero... Zero, huh." As he hears the model number of the black Albion, Zero mutters to himself. "Understood. From here, I'll sortie with this Albion Zero!"

*the new calendar system I’m still not sure I got this right.

Real talk: Code Geass never lived up to it’s potential to be a good anime property following it’s debut season. There was never enough planning put into the series to carry up it’s lofty aspirations to be this anime mangnum opus, but Lelouch of the Rebellion at least followed a solidly structured road map for it’s narrative and there was a sense of people actually trying to service the plot and characters with just enough weight to keep the show afloat rather than let it drown in it’s most shallow and hackneyed qualities like everything afterwards did. R2 lacked even the basic road map for it’s story in addition to having no solid plan for it’s progression, explaining the constant bungling, abusing, and discarding of several plot points and character arcs. Sunrise only had a vision for the final outcome - Lelouch dethrones his father as Emperor of Britannia and then orchestrates his own demise in a bid to unite the world in peace for it’s own reconstruction - but were clearly at a loss on how to reach it for the longest time.

My favored fix for this, where I think they should have gone with Code Geass? Make it an anthology series. End the Lelouch of the Rebellion story exactly where it did in the initial season and then go on to tell different stories from the POV of different characters all set in the same world against the backdrop of the same larger conflict with Britannia, with the biggest constants in all the seasons being C.C and the larger Myth Arc about C’s World and the Geass itself. 

(For the continuation of the story post-Lelouch of the Rebellion, I did like the idea R2 went with in not showing us the how the outcome of that final stand-off between Lelouch and Suzaku went down right off, but otherwise they should have stuck to their initial ideas - Lelouch being the one to “win” and first walk away from that showdown, Suzaku’s “live” Geass activating to save his life there, the Emperor revealing his own Geass, Suzaku possibly gaining a Geass of his own, omitted backstory details for Suzaku and C.C, Kallen’s brother becoming more of a thing, whatever was being originally considered for characters like Schniezel, Cornelia, V.V and possibly even Euphemia, and perspective shifting away from Lelouch, who’d already completed his transformation into a full-blown supervillain.)

With this direction I can imagine Code Geass spanning for at least four series’ total, and my ideas for what they could have been draw influence from what the franchise has given us elsewhere. (As I’ve stated, Code Geass fared better in all avenues that aren’t anime.)

Oz the Reflection - A story told from two perspectives, one centering around Orpheus Zevon, a young terrorist in pursuit of his lover's killer, and the other around Oldrin Zevon, a girl in the Holy Britannian Empire's anti-terrorist unit, the Glinda Knights, who answer to Prince Schniezel, this story’s chief antagonist. The large-scale revolt against Britannia caused by Zero, known now as the “Black Rebellion”, ended in failure, but it’s influence as a sign of opposition against the increasingly powerful superpower was strong enough to endure. In addition to the major powers opposing Britannia like the Chinese Federation and E.U, acts of anti-Britannia terrorism began to occur with greater frequency in the other countries under Britannia’s rule and a new period of resistance arose. The Britannian homeland begins to nip the buds of resistance with its overwhelming military strength. Within that military is the Glinda Knights, who are given the search-and-destroy mission of suppressing acts of terrorism and rebellion. On the other hand, the terrorist-deployment organization “Peace Mark”, which possesses a worldwide network, is connected to terrorists in every country and terrorist-supporting organizations like Kyoto, inducing them to cause terrorism everywhere. In the midst of such a chaotic situation, the boy and girl with the same face and the same name "Oz" encounter each other by chance in a small country in the Middle East. And you can fill in the blanks from there. C.C would play a prominent role and we’d get some other familiar characters too, but Lelouch plays a more minor part this time around.

Akito the Exiled - The setting is in Europe, where the Europia United (E.U.) allied nations are being invaded by the overwhelming forces of the Holy Britannian Empire. On the verge of defeat, the E.U. army forms a special unit known as “W-0″, of which a young pilot named Akito Hyuga is a member. Leila Malcal ,a former Britannian Aristocrat, comes to the E.U for aid, commanding the Wyvern Knightmare corps comprised of Japanese teenagers. They plunge into a battlefield, where the survival rate is extremely low, at about 5% only, to fight for their freedom and for a home to which they can return. The story splinters into a second narrative set further in the past which details the backstory of Geass’ influence in the world and the origins of the Holy Britannian Empire. C.C plays an extra pivotal part in these proceedings, and Lelouch makes a surprise comeback in the present day, operating under the guise of Julius Kingsley as he schemes to regain his lost Geass power. The finale is a massive event that opens the way to C’s World and pits all main protagonists in the series against the evil Emperor Charles zi Britannia himself as he seeks to remake reality and subjugate the free will and consciousness of all living beings to his tyrannical rule.

Suzaku of the Counterattack - Following the end of Emperor Charles, the throne of the Holy Britannian Empire has been seized by Lelouch, who imposes his own reign of despotism and terror upon the world. But other contenders for the throne refuse to let who they see as a treasonous and illegitimate heir have his way, so they plot to undermine his rule and ultimately depose him. When Britannia goes on the offensive, alliances and counterattack forces are forged, with Lelouch’s old friend Suzaku determining to use his newly awakened powers to topple the regime and atone for his own service to the empire. When a broken world stands united even after Emperor Lelouch is no more, it faces a threat unlike any other as the Geass Directorate, the secret society led by the late Emperor Charles’ twisted elder brother V.V, activates the true Ragnarok Connection that dismantles Thought Elevators around the globe and breaks C’s World apart so that it bleeds into the outside world, risking a total collapse of time, space, matter and reality itself should the power of Geass not be renounced entirely and the cosmic balance restored, so Suzaku and his allies must take a last stand to save the future!

See? See what we could have had here!?

Historia original:

Shigeru Morita

, artista: Takahiro Kimura (Diseño de personajes), Eiji Nakata (Diseño de Knightmares), Kenji Teraoka (Diseño Mecánico).

Es un spin-off multimedia presentando a 2 diferentes protagonistas: el proyecto incluye una serie de mangas publicada en la revista Newtype Ace. La trama toma lugar en el arco argumental intermedio entre las series televisivas de Code Geass: Lelouch Of The Rebelion y R2. El manga introduce a Oldrin Zevon, una piloto de Knightmares quien forma parte de la unidad anti-terrorista de Britannia, Los Caballeros de Glinda (Glinda Knights).

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