Code Geass: Fukkatsu no Lelouch Review

Overall Rating 7.0 out of 10 - Flawed, but still likable standalone sequel for Code Geass

I recommend watching. 

I particularly did not want to see any sequels to Code Geass. The way it ended in Zero Requiem was a perfect conclusion. Anything further would just ruin this very close to my heart story. A perfectly complete story with nothing more to add.

However curiosity eventually got the upper hand I watched it. So that is what I think about it:

It is flawed in many ways, yet there is something that gives the same feel as the is original. May be because CC is just as good as I remembered her. She is as wonderful as ever. She always cares for him regardless, she is the best. 

May be with exception of that scene inside 2 seat knightmare, that was supposed to be a homage to the similar scene at the end of 1st season of the original. 

Because of CC this standalone sequel does somewhat warms my heart, kind of like leftover hot coals when fire got extinguished, but still: warm, 'with warmth and tenderness from the bottom of your heart'.

As for bad:

Lelouch should have lost his Geass during Zero Requiem, considering CC lost hers after nun killed her in that flashback and activated her Code of Immortality, Charles also probably lost his Geass when his code got activated. Here Lelouch has Geass just as before. He has Code of Immortality as well, they did not forgot that.

Overall Lelouch seemed more guilt ridden than he should have been. He was not the type to feel much guilt, especially by the end of R2. Nor is he as willing to enslave people as he did at the end of R2.

Also Shirley is alive, a clear retcon here. I did liked how she died in R2, kind of made her character much more likable in my eyes. Not sure what to think of that retcon.

Overall this whole new world that Lelouch created, seemed somewhat off as well. Well, they did not made any major mistakes: Suzaku is Zero, Nunnaly is Empress, UFN is world government. However it feels slightly off, as in that glass metaphor from the original.

Kind of like someone with a different vision end up building it from the ground zero that Lelouch had left at the end of Zero Requiem. 

The fact that this future world did not turned out a utopia is also kind of underwhelming.

Well overall it is not too bad of a show. It has some good moments here and there and overall fun to watch. However you can't call it a proper sequel or even an epilogue to the original. It is more of a what if kind of story.

And CC saves even this one.