Music of Code Geass

Code Geass is a show that has every single theme in it. To match that it has equally diverse soundtrack that has epic songs, heavy songs, eerie songs and even quiet and private songs.

Code Geass OST has a number of really touching songs like Stories, Innocent Days, Love is Justice, I wish I was a Bird and Eternal Separation, there are some other good like Siegfried, Avalon or Master. This post ended up much longer than other music posts. However, that is because Code Geass has so many great songs, it is hard to pick just a few.

Stories - This one is my personal favorite. You can even call it a true theme song for this anime. It has it all. A vague hope for a dream of happiness, but also sadness and reflection. You can remember some good things that happened in the past, but you cannot get back there. You can only build a better future.

In the show this song somewhat surprisingly plays before the major battle for the fate of the world. However, if you think of it, it makes sense. They fight for their dreams and better future. This song reflects it. Various stereotypes like to present war as nothing more than wanton destruction. However, that overlooks the reasons people fight wars and that it to achieve their dreams, when nothing else works. This song reminds you of that, as it shows how members of the Black Knights think of their future lives as they preparing to face their adversaries. Not all of them will return alive, but they all have their dreams they are fighting for.

Innocent Days - It plays as a conclusion of the first season of the show as CC talks about hope and search for happiness. The season ends on a cliffhanger, so the song and narrative give you a reflection on what has happened in the past. Not as a recap of the season but as a reflection on whole of their lives, including times not covered by the show at all.

What is Justice - This a question show asks of you. It does not give you clear good and bad guys and prompts to choose for yourself if you think Lelouch is a hero or villain. That is also a very fine song, with good violin tune.

The Prodigy - Now to the epicenes. This song is both elegant and epic at the same time, just as the show itself. This song has airiness and fluid flow to it.

The Master - This one is much heavier than the previous one. It mixes elegance of the previous one with heavy bombastic tone, more suitable for battle.

Devil Created - This song plays in the very beginning of the show, when Lelouch receives geass from CC. It reflects on heavy experiences, Lelouch had. That set him down his path to change the world. I think it plays again at the beginning of the second season. 'That is not I, who is wrong, the world it.'

 

No Extended - This is a very hard-hitting song. Not in a way of metal riffs and loudness. Just a calm, collected, sober determination to carry through your will.

Avalon - This song has a feel of an unstoppable force to it. The overwhelming power of the flying ship it is named after. Schneizel will not stop and so is Lelouch, the confrontation is inevitable.

Final Catastrophe - This song sound more like an escalation than a culmination. This is no longer a demonstration of force. Things are going critical...

Last Evening - This song reflects on the other, more peaceful side of Code Geass. It plays during ball in school and has peaceful and relaxed feel to it. However, as the name suggest, this will not last. 

Love is Justice - This one actually has epic sound to it, similar to the What is Justice, however it also has a sense of urgency as well. This song plays in the episode when Shirley chooses her love for Lelouch over anything else.

Eternal Separation - This song plays at the moment when Nunnally and most of Tokyo settlement is consumed in a Fleija explosion. You can see characters looking at this unstoppable and inevitable force, that is about to take all they fought for.

I wish I was a Bird - When things are bad, you want to escape from it all. Become a bird and fly away into the sky. This song is about that. It is soft and gentle song. That is also a Rolo's theme song.

Strange Girl - That is somewhat of a CC's theme. It is nice and mysterious song, just as she is. I think this song reflects well on the whole mystery surrounding CC's life and fate. She was just a little girl who came to be involved in many important events simply by chance. 

Lullaby of M - This is a very soft and gentle song. It reflects care, concern and love. Something desperately lacking in my life and in life in general. CC wished to find that kind of love. I guess I wished someone cared for me, when even my parents only saw me as means to some sort of end.

Madder Sky - This one plays at the very end, at somewhat surprising conclusion of the series. However, it does not sound like a culmination at all. This one is more of a beginning of something new. Of the world, Lelouch has created.

With You - There is one quiet and relaxed song. Suitable for a private moment for Lelouch and CC. Or for your own. Just for two of them. Sure, there are epic battles going on in this show, but it is ultimately about one's quest of finding happiness. This song is about it.

There are of course more than just the songs I listed here, for example Siegfried or First Signature. This is truly a great soundtrack, and you should listen to the whole thing. Just as in other music posts, a link to the whole soundtrack is below.