>decided to finally watch this so-called “masterpiece">expected a deep, political, tactical anime with morally gray characters and philosophical depth>got a generic high school slice of life with jarring fanservice and Pizza Hut adsIs this really one of the best shows the anime genre has to offer? Am I missing something?
Keep watching it get worse, but in a good way, sometimes.
You went into it for the wrong reasons.If you can't have a good time watching Code Geass you simply take yourself way too seriously
>>215039974Death Note is better. Hell, even the Higurashi and Umineko visual novels are better.
>>215039974code gayass will always be peak
>jarring fanserviceAnime is not for you, tourist
>>215039974>expected a deep, political, tactical anime with morally gray characters and philosophical depthNo one EVER watched Code Geass for this.You watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes for that.Code Geass is about over the top fun
>>215039974There’s no good anime besides Death Note. Even the better ones devolve intoJapanese “humor” every episode which is just a silly face and loud screaming noises.EHHHH?!!!!!!!????!>*character falls down with crying emoji face*I tried to rewatch Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, one of the better anime stories, and it’s littered with this unnecessary trash.
isn't code gayass written by the same chicks who did cardcaptor sakura? why wasn't that show full of fanservice
>>215040247Sounds like you need to see monster. Best ending theme in a series.
>>215040247Pleb take. Death Note is mid and easily surpassed by true gems like MoNoKe( not Mononoke Hime. MoNoNoKe ) or even Baccano!.You sound like one of those cringe dudes who "can't take anime seriously!1!11" despite watching MCU shit just fine
>>215040306>baccano!The spacing was weird afk. I dropped it after the 1st episode
Cumnelia best girl
>>215039974What you were looking for is LOGHhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q9hkti1Xbg
>>215040274Other than the constant dress up in various complex/slutty costumes, the “fanservice” was all the innuendo about how every character was fucking adult men or eachother, which is why there’s more CCS porn than any anime.
>>215040306>>215040375Baccano! is great
>>215039974this is the peak my dude
So what was the point of the chess scene?
>>215040306Anon you’re watching children’s entertainment. Own it. You’re watching cartoons made for Japanese children. At least capeshit fans won’t try to try to seriously claim comic book movies are high art. Baccano is terrible.
>>215040692>capeshit fans won’t try to try to seriously claim comic book movies are high art>
code gayass
>>215040656cheeky cunt
Reminder for every FAGGOT in this GAY THREAD
>>215039974Go back to /a/
>>215039974>deep >political>tactical >morally gray characters >philosophical depthStick to live action American television for that, specifically the bad shows.
>>215039974>Is this really one of the best shows the anime genre has to offer?That would be Ping Pong: The Animation.It also comes out to like 3 hours total, so it's no great loss if you somehow dislike it.
>>215040799Anime website
>>215040915When will election tourists stop spreading this lie?
>>215040957>doesn't get the pantsu joke
Code Geass is just an infinitely worse Attack on Titan
>>215041035Attack on Titan is infinitely worse MuvLuv
>>215041035the post-reveal part of SnK is ass
>>215041118I've heard that many times before, but I disagree. AoT is ass after the Rumbling begins, the marleyan arc is kino. The time travel bullshit is also kino, even though it's very dumb and ruins the enjoyment f the story.
>>215041230Time Travel is a cancer to kino my dear redditor. It ruins everything it touches.
No fucking way people fall for the Code Geass meme in 2025. That's honestly so sad. It was only ever popular because it was baby's first time watching anime online.
>>215041230I never cared for the politics, Marley, all the new characters etc. the humanity survival story was much better than the code geass ripoff
>>215039974>Pizza Hut adsi wished Valvave and that other hot mess /m/ had more pizza. and giant Tolberones.
still the best anime original out there. the school setting is there because they didn't know what the fuck they were doing at first. the semi-reset end of season 1 also sucked too. but everything else was beyond kino, still my favorite of all time.
>>215040874
>>215041360>this plebberyI kneel
>>215041035low bar but....>>215041268i love Time Cop.
>>215041360based
>>215040905>Ping Pong: The Animation.absolute kino
Time to watch some real anime OP
>>215041407This is why Texas wants to ban anime.
>>215039974>expected a deep, political, tactical anime with morally gray characters and philosophical depthTourists were deceived. Don't expect that from Mecha.Code Geass is best viewed as a silly melodrama like Breaking Bad.
>>215041663They have already done so. That picture is already illegal in Texas.
>>215041407Don't blame them for making this. Japan has finally turned its wartime madness and perversion into something good.
>>215040283>monsterNTA but its fucking shit
>>215040905>Ping Pong: The Animationthats the only anime ITT that is worth watching
>>215039974>expected something deep>anime>its literally called ‘code gay-ass: le lunch’You have nobody to blame but yourself, retard.
>>215041789>its wartime madness and perversionis anime just thinly veiled psychopathy
>>215040006death note is awful, with no real redeeming qualities. code geass may be full of bullshit, but theres a lot of fun, and good progression, with arguably the best ending to an anime ever.
>>215040247you've clearly never really watched much of anything. death note is utter garbage. only absolute pseuds think highly of it.
>>215041943And pedophilia. Never forget the pedophilia.
>>215039974>Is this really one of the best shows the anime genre has to offer?No, that's AOT. In fact, it's so good that it has the most episodes with an over 9 rating. No other TV series even comes close.
>>215042581Death Note is far superior to Code Geass and for the first 25 episodes its the kind of show you could advertise to a normie audience that doesn;t really like anime. Make no mistake, Death Note is very flawed and peaks very early on (and the adaptation of the latter half was awful,) but the concept of the Death Note and the consistency of the rules absolutely blows the entire show of Code Geass out of the water.
I didn't understand anything that happened in season 2.
>>215042880You dumb, boy. Dumb as hell.
for some reason the real good shit is rarely discussed on /a/ at least, while some very mediocre manga like demonslayer is successful beyond all expectation
>>215039974>I expected something very complex and deep from a cartoon made for 14 year olds and instead it has things that would be interesting for 14 year olds, I'm disappointed Well
>>215039974>got a generic high school slice of life with jarring fanservice and Pizza Hut adsYou're a faggot zoomer who got filtered by absolute kino.>>215040006Death Note is for retards. The writer of Higurashi and Umineko is a fucking faggot retard hack proven by Silent Hill f.
>Had weeb gf>she loved Daren Aronofskys Black Swan>Kept referring to it as an “inferior perfect blue” to piss her off. >Finally watched the two back to back>She refused to talk to me about black swan again since I “ruined” it for her. >We broke up 3 months later. I rarely applaud anime, but GiTS, Berserk, and Perfect Blue are kino.
>>215042870>for the first 25 episodes its the kind of show you could advertise to a normie audience that doesn;t really like anime"GUYS, GUYS! NORMALFAGGOTS LIKE MY SHOW! I SHOWED THEM DEATH NOTE AND 8/10 OF THEM DIDN'T CALL ME GAY WITHIN THE FIRST 5 MINUTES!!! I GOT THEIR APPROVAL GUYS! THE REACTORS FROM THE GAME OF THRONES BAR LIKED MY ANIME!!! IT'S GOOD! IT'S ACTUALLY GOOD! THEY APPROVED!"this is what you sound like using this as some sort of measure of qualityyou're a fucking gay faggot seeking validation from 90 IQ retards
>tfw just ordered a sexy Kallen figgie todayfuck off /tv/
>>215043266>Kallenbased
>>215042870>the concept of the Death Noteall you need is a name and a face. so the only important thing is a face, because names are made up things that other people give you. "true identity" is fake and meaningless, doubly so when the majority of people that know you, know you as something else. whats more true, the name first given to you? your government id? or what most people know you as? so what, somebody born and named by their mother, but then sent to an orphanage where they gave them a new name is now immune because nobody but the dead mother would know their "true" name? thats beyond fucking retarded. absolute pseud shit.additionally, you could make the details of death as convoluted or delayed as you want. theres no reason he couldnt set up an elaborate situation that would dispose of his enemies without tying to him. the "game of cat and mouse" is all contrived smoke and mirrors. literally the only positive thing most people can actually say about it is that its an actual serious show, and doesnt have typical japanese cringe humor parts. thats it. there are actually plenty of shows like that, but clowns like you wouldnt know because they didnt air on toonami/adult swim.
>>215043114>The writer of Higurashi and Umineko is a fucking faggot retard hack proven by Gou/Sotsuftfy. but yes, silent hill f was also dumb.its like he was only accidentally successful before.
>>215043178This kino is being shown in theaters this weekend and at my showing everyone but me walked out. Fucking scum had probably just watched demon slayer and thought this was the same thing. Man those rape scenes looked great on the big screen!
>>215043181its true tho, anons be simultanously seething at the normies, while also coveting the things that normies have
>>215041360Based, fellow geass-enjoyer Chad
>>215042766>AOTah yes the ultimate cuck humiliation ritual fantasy
>>215041360idk about "best" but people who hate on Geass just can't recognize excellence.
>>215042766>>215043605The ending arc of AOT was the result of censorship.>Japan's central bank is completely unregulated since the late 90s and deeply tied and indebted to Wall Street which is disproportionately Jewish>Towards the end of the final arc, news articles in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times discuss how AoT is being "idolised by Nazis for glorifying ethnonationalism". These papers are read by Wall Street bigwigs, even elderly ones.>Wall Street calls the Bank of Japan, tells them one of the corporations they are a creditor of is promoting a manga with Andy Semitic neo nadzee propaganda that is being read internationally >The bank of Japan then tells Kodansha, "do something about that manga or we will cut your loan access">Kodansha then tells the magazine AoT is published in to do something immediately >The editors come in and tell Isayama that he has to change the story to Eren being a cuck with yellow fever and have Eldia be destroyed
>>215040168Would you kill all the Japanese for her?
>>215043683yes nunners is precious
>>215043683That's the wrong character, you're thinking of Euphemia.
You’d be hard pressed to find a more compelling anime protagonist than LelouchI would even put him only a tier below the characters that the best of American TV has to offer like Dr House or Don Draper
>>215043771>a tier below the characters that the best of American TV has to offerNot a tier below, even with, at least.>Dr Housethis but unironi->or Don Draperget the fuck outta here...
>>215043771why was lil bro constantly aura farming tho
JEREMIAH GOTTWALD
>>215043988Checked loyalty
>>215043962His noble bloodline drives him towards the theatrical.
Code Geass premiered October 6th, 2006Happy Geass Day!
>>215039974>Is this really one of the best shows the anime genre has to offer?No that would be pic. Code Geass is a cringe joke in comparison.
>>215044064I know it's technically today because of Japan but tomorrow is Geass day for me. I hope to be drunk next year for Geass day 20th anniversary.p.s. C.C. is best girl now and forever.
Haven't seen this since I was a teenager. I remember the giant robots were cool. I remember the plot being over the top "exactly as planned." I remember thinking the women were hot and loving those fan service shots they had.
>>215044472>exactly as plannedexcept when it doesn't go as planned
>>215044536when life gives you lemons you make lemonade>THIS WAS A COWARDLY EVIL TRAP BY THE BRITANNIANS, TOTAL BRITANNIAN DEATH NOW! EUPHEMIA "GENOCIDE PRINCESS" IS NO ALLY OF OURS AND IS A MONSTER, ALSO KYOTO GROUP YOU ANSWER DIRECTLY TO ME NOW.>So long Euphie-chan, the first woman I ever romantically loved and sexually desired, my half sister *shoots her through the heart*
>>215040168KEK code geass is soo wildly hilarious when you remove the context from stuff like this.
>>215044536>what if I told you to kill all elevens wouldn't that be funnykino moment
>>215044686lots of people HATE that scene for some reason. It's fairly schlocky but also completely in character for Lelouch to be an edgy smartass
Code Geass is everything anime all at once, it's dumb, deep, pseudo deep, 2deep4u, etc. It's great because...it just is ok?! (but unironically)
>>215041094>>215041035both of these shows are worse than Code Geass and its not even a competition.Althought AoT did have a banger of an opening song.
>>215044536It was just a prank, bro
>>215044728the few people i know who watched it where all blown away by that scene, i don't want to say 'traumatised' because its a fucking cartoon but it was a jarring and brutal scene, and it really setup the rest of the show and Lelouch's motivations well.
>>215044118>>215041569These are the real kino anime.
>>215044728they're retarded it's one of moments when lelouche gets fucked over by his pride and there should have been more of that.
>>215044536>>215044686>>215044728I absolutely hate that part and for me it just feels like a stupid cheap excuse from the writers to make Euphy flip out. But I admit, at the same time it feels like a ballsy move from the writers and a huge "we don't give a fuck" moment. Memorable as fuck even if I don't like it.
>>215044686>>215044728>>215044810>>215044815>>215044825>In Celtic folklore, a geas is a magical and binding obligation or prohibition placed on a person. Breaking a geas can result in dishonor, catastrophe, or death, while following one can bring power. The character C.C., who is a powerful and immortal woman, gives Lelouch his Geass power, paralleling how a geas is often placed on a man by a goddess or sovereignty figure.>The legendary Irish hero Cú Chulainn was bound by several geasa. A famous example is his geas to never eat dog meat conflicting with another geas to never refuse food from a woman. When an enemy tricked him into accepting dog meat from an old hag, he was forced to break one of his vows, leading to his eventual demise.Most importantly:>Lelouch creates a conflict that forces him to violate a deep-seated intention. His desire to destroy Britannia and his pledge to C.C. conflict with his momentary desire for peace with Euphemia.and yes this summary is written by AI but this is the prevailing fan theory of the intent, I just didn't want to have to write it out myself in my own words. All of this is fact checked by real Code Geass scholars.
>>215044825it's executed so well, with Euphy sauntering happily back on stage and asking everyone to die, then pulling out a gun and clipping a poor sod in the chest. Kino.
>>215044854kys
>>215044854>Lelouch creates a conflict that forces him to violate a deep-seated intention. His desire to destroy Britannia and his pledge to C.C. conflict with his momentary desire for peace with Euphemia.if i were to put on my big think cap. It was clear that his accidental command, was actually a Freudian slip, he half-wanted it to work, he half-wasn't paying attention and deep down, didn't care. Once it actually happened and he realised the ramifications he clearly deeply regretted it, but it was the perfect way to use his geass to continue pursuing his scheme and goals.
>>215042681Of course! We can't forget the best part.
>>215040915Yep
>>215044982kill YOURSELF you stupid faggot subhuman>>215044986It was a "course correction" for him. Like 6 episodes ago he boasted to Kirihara he would do anything to destroy Britannia, even "walk the path of carnage". The Emperor laughs his ass off and claims he may yet be worthy of him. C.C. even muses she didn't think he'd have the balls to do something like that before he reveals it wasn't his (conscious) choice.He pledged to destroy everything and recreate the world and he started pussying out and literally capitulating with an effective emissary of his sworn enemy because he had feelings for her and wanted the easy way out.
>>215043716>Euphemia.>Euphemiazes the japanesebravo vince
>>215039974It was never really that great, it just came out at a good time. It was a major production with a fairly serious story line (lol) at a time when internet video was still novel. The first season literally came out the same year Youtube did. It benefitted greatly from early internet video hype, with Suzaku's kick being a pretty big meme at the time. It was sort of the biggest show out there at a time when anime was really booming thanks to the internet and fansubs were get released quicker and quicker every season. It was never successful based on merit or story or characters. It was right time right place sort of deal, though it did have some hype moments.
>>215045360>Euphemia (Greek: Εὐφημία; 'well-spoken [of]')>well-spoken [of]>remembered by everyone as a schizo murdering war criminalBRAVORAVO
>>215045272NO you KILL yourself you semen devouring pseud
>>215045424>It was never successful based on merit or story or charactersshut the fuck up retard, were you older than 5 years old in 2006-08?
It's funny that anime discussion is more fun and engaging on /tv/ than /a/, maybe it's because /tv/ lacks the usual coomers spamming shit all the time
>>215045896>/tv/ lacks the usual coomers just not that kind, not in general
>>215042940First season ended and then second season started and it was like nothing had happened. Wtf. and that guy talking about oranges that became a cyborg
>>215046038/tv/ is just people in their mid 30s, depressed and alcoholics, who just watch movies to numb their pain. Not a bad board. People are chill
>>215040247So you watch the inferior version of FMA - which is considered as such because they interrupt every serious moment with a manlet joke and everyone turning chibi - just to complain about manlet jokes and everyone turning chibi
>>215046661>and that guy talking about oranges that became a cyborgthe GOAT
>>215046661It's called a time skip. They even explained it all in the first episode of season 2.
>>215040247I watched FMA as a young teenager and loved it. I remember even crying with the Nina chimera thing. I thought to myself a year ago, why not watch it again, and had that same reaction. it was simply insufferable. The constant gags, the constant screaming about Edward being tiny... Jesus Christ, it was horrible
>>215046756I bet you saw FMA 2003 (kino) and then just rewatched brotherhood (cringe), that said, FMA was never had that amazing story but it was a well written and well developed hero's journey, with no useless filler and good pacing, still a great anime.
>>215039974You absolutely are missing something. As much as I e "matured" or whatever, Ive always loved Code Gayass and always come back to it. It's just so fun and exciting. I've watched it all multiple times. Truly a great series>>215043665I am schizophrenic enough to believe this. The story that began with Eren, Armin, and Mikasa should have ended as a story about Eren, Floch, and Historia. Eren impregnated Historia and was meant to genocide the world then return home and hold his and her newly born child
>>215046756>The constant gags, the constant screaming about Edward being tiny... Jesus Christ, it was horribleThat's Brotherhood which is raw sewage but gets jacked off by MAL normalfags for some reason.
>>215039974No, and nobody thinks that. You´ve been bamboozled. Code Geass is fun if you are into over the top drama and mecha action but by no means it is a masterpiece, even on it´s own genre. If you want politics and tactics you are better off watching legend of the galactic heroes while if you want mecha stuff you just watch Macross do you remember love, it´s never been topped.
Does anyone hate that all this shit is just meta conversations about how audiences overhype things and how people tricked into watching something overhyped just end up labelling it as overrated? I feel like we are trapped by these cycles. Expectations is the thief of joy and if you had gone into it with more realistic expecations, you may have enjoyed it, but as it stands you will stumble into one thing after another declaring it as overrated because you listened to a hype bubble. (The opposite problem also exists where people appeal to the authority of the hype bubble, regardless of whether or not they liked something, which perpetuates the hype.)
>>215041035i like the world building concept of code geass alot more than aot and code geass never outwears its welcome unlike aot wich is kind of a slog to get through sometimes
>>215047192>into over the top drama and mecha action>but by no means it is a masterpiece, even on it´s own genreIt is literally a masterpiece in its genre, which is over the top drama and mecha action.
>>215047266Alot of it is just time poisoning of the environment around something when you watched it first. Millennials are particularly bad at this imo, but I think it's a universal thing. Take Spiderman 3 for example, people still say it's utter garbage today with no redeemable qualities and not even worth watching or thinking about. It's actually a decent movie, not as good as 2 by any means, but still solid. It's easily better than any of the marvel slop of the 2010s, yet people still hate on it. The problem is that there was just a lot of hype at the time for it being shit, and people don't rewatch stuff and just go with the hype at the time it was relevant in their life. Anime is much the same way. I watched Code Gayass years after it came out and the hype had certainly gone away, I only watched it because I heard people just say it was a solid mecha series. With my expectations being set at "this is at least worth seeing I guess" I thoroughly enjoyed it and it's one of my all time greats. I almost never overhype myself for anything and it always pays off...except for ghost in the shell. You faggots told me for years it was this amazing movie and it was so amazingly mid. I genuinely think less of y'all for shilling it for years, you guys are actually room temp IQ if you think it was deep lmao
>>215047968nigger you just referred to us with "ya'll"
>>215047968you're gay
>ctrl+f>jibun>0 results4chan is dead
>>215048082I was going to respond to >>215044777>"Althought AoT did have a banger of an opening song."with JIBUN WOOOOO but didn't bother
>>215048061I am from the south so I come by it honest, sorry
>>215043988Every time I get someone into Code Geass I always anticipate their reaction the Orange character arc.
>>215048224I can hardly imagine someone getting into Code Geass these days and not whining about muh ebil characters muh politics
>>215039974More like Kino Geass
>>215048264The emperor preaches that equality (he's actually talking about equity) is evil and a sin, that no two men are created equal nor should they be made to be equal by the system. Some are born smarter and some are born more fleet of foot. He's characterized as irredeemably evil for this mainly and especially because of Nunnally being a cripple.
>>215039974First season had it in my top 3 all timeSecond season put into the far-too-common-with-anime territory where I try not to think about the series at all because it actually makes me mad how far it fell off and turned to shitNow that I think about it it might be the last anime I actually watched weekly as it was airing.
>>215048362>fucking watched it weekly as it was airing (I assume he means fansubbed when it was ACTUALLY airing and not on adult swim like a retard)>he couldn't just enjoy the glorious chaos of an entirely unpredictable anime original as insane as Code Geass R2
Why is /tv/'s taste in anime (almost) as bad as MAL?Have I underestimated how many 12 year olds browse this board?
>>215048567>glorious chaosit was retarded shit you fucking faggot
>>215048892Everyone who was actually there for it week to week basically agreed it was incredible.
>>215044536>>215044686>>215044728>>215044825>>215044780When did the general audience make the default assumption that characters are perfect with no flaws and the only bad actions that can occur are natural and out of the characters' control? A character acting on their pride or hubris is a valid trait of a fleshed out character. Your supposed high IQ for how YOU wouldn't make that same decision doesn't mean it's a plot hole.>ummm why is this character being so mean to character B? He would get more things by being nice>I wouldn't be mean like that therefore the writer is shit
>>215047192>legend of the galactic heroesIt's too bad this series doesn't embrace the medium at all or present itself to the full potential of its medium.
>>215048061>faggoty ass bitch that is still hung up on his antiquated lingo usageTry leaving your trailer park, trash.
>>215039974there's not a single anime that has any sort of real emotional or philosophical depth.and no, evangelion, death note and lain aren't 'deep', they are cartoons for kids.
>expected [list of pseud words]lmao retard
>>215039974congratulations, you've learned that 99% of weebs have appalling taste
>>215039974>Is this really one of the best shows the anime genre has to offer?I thought it was awful, personally.t. 45 year old who's been watching anime since the 1980s.
>>215048861What do you expect to get from a post like this? Directed at no one, not containing any actual point, not mentioning anything concrete, just bitching at the void. There are multiple series mentioned with multiple opinions on them. How is anyone supposed to know what the fuck you mean? Useless shitposting cancer.
>>215039974Most anime is only good the first few times you see one because the majority of them are the same story with different characters. This leads to them being popular with children who will be drawn to their generation's shonen such as DBZ, One Piece or Demon Slayer.A lot of anime takes itself far too seriously and ends up being preachy and boring with characters giving droning monologues where you feel like you've wandered into a Ted Talk.
>>215049437Don't reply to my posts ever again gaylord.
>>215045896/a/ is like 90% pedo shit is why
>>215039974>but hey, at least it has some dope ass mechs
>>215044756https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41xtdSwAZNcbut yeah they went to the wrong soup store
>>215041035I don't often reply to bait but I'm replying to this so I hope you're happy.
>>215048861because alot of people unironically just hate on stuff that is good in an accessible way to seem more sophisticated than they are. It's super easy for them to seem super deep by shitting on stuff that is clearly good and saying that their special show about 12 year old little girls getting naked with magical powers and visiting onsens is actually the real quality series that you will never be smart enough to understand (because it's boring as shit and we don't care about Loli stuff) but Code Gayass is shit because you average person can keep track of the drama because it's not completely schizophrenically written and the action all flows well and it's easily digestible. Im other words, it's well made and executed. But they hate that, because they need to sit in their chair all day and feel like they are at least smarter than you
>>215043988>Stayed loyal and got pardoned for his war crimes.>Settled down as an orange farmer with his loli daughter wife and ninja maid wife. Loyaltychad, I kneel.
>>215039974Hey OP, watch this anime that came before Code Geass by the same guys. It's a kino mecha western.
>The last character Takahiro Kimura created before passing away
>>215039974garbage ass show, death note blows this piece of shit out the water. this anime is basically the sonic x tier to a tee.
>>215044118steins gate is another absolute trash show. everyone goes on and on about how "good" it is. meanwhile, 9 episodes in and not only has nothing happened, but they've cemented the main character as an insufferable piece of shit and theres absolutely no reason for the other characters to put up with him. also, their "business" has no customers and makes no sense. even suspending disbelief in discovering time travel shit, gluing a cell phone to a microwave is fucking retarded.
