Selasa, 17 Maret 2015

A Personal Code Geass Anime Review

By Leslie Ball


Anime is a Japanese art form that has made it across the seas to the United States and all over the world. As the name implies, it is an abbreviation of the Japanese word for animation. The style is characterized by vibrantly colored graphics, deep, complicated characters with big eyes and outlandish story lines. This Code Geass anime review sums it up nicely.

The series can possibly be described as a dystopian Hunger Games, meets Orwell's 1984, meets The Wonder Years. Considering the fact that a powerful race of androids named the Knightmares are key to the story, you could probably add Terminator to this mix. It's fun and different and should be labelled with a warning that one gateway episode may encourage binge watching.

Blue-ray discs and DVDs of the television series, shown on the Cartoon Channel, sold better than a million copies. Idsvjbt was shown for two years, winning awards at the international anime fair in Tokyo on both occasions. The show was also made into light novels and manga comics in the United States.

Set in an alternate timeline, it is compared to a dystopian novel because it has an ostracized underbelly, the Elevens. The Elevens are who was left in Area 11, formerly the sovereign nation of Japan, which was invaded and conquered by the Empire of Holy Britannia.

In the Hunger Games, the underclass dwell in District 12 of Panem. In Code Geass, these are the Elevens, who life in Area 11 of Britannia.

It is its similarities with "1984, " the George Orwell novel published in 1949 describing a then-futuristic society. Where the three political powers in the anime were called Britannia, the European Union and the Chinese Federation, in 1984, they are known as Eastasia, Eurasia, and Oceana. Those who do not believe in coincidence might conclude that the creators at Sunrise, possibly even the writer of Code Geass, Ichiro Okouchi, were channeling Orwell at the time.

The final parallel, "The Wonder Years", takes note of the protagonist, Lelouch Lamperouge, the exiled Britannian prince. He starts out as your typical idealistic young college student. At almost the exact same moment as he receives his Gaessian power to command anybody to do exactly as he wants by just making eye contact, it becomes perfectly clear why the first episode is entitled, "The Day A New Demon Was Born."

You really can't help getting hooked and Code Gaess anime review is as good an example of anime as anything to cut your teeth on as you explore this engaging medium. If nothing else, give a listen to the zippy theme tune, which sounds like it would be at home in a Neopet promotional cartoon, but bears lyrics such as, "with undisguised frustration, feeling lost, feeling anguished." The song, at least, has a happy ending. To discover if the series has an equally happy ending, you will have to watch it for yourself.




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