Code Geass: Dakkan no Rozé

After the supposed death of its 99th emperor, the Holy Britannian Empire broke up, and the areas it controlled finally regained their independence. While most joined the United Federation of Nations, a group aiming to create everlasting peace, remnants of the oppressive empire continue to exist. One such faction, Neo-Britannia, has taken over Japan's Hokkaido island after killing its governor, Juugo Sumeragi.

The Seven Shining Stars, a resistance group in Hokkaido, finds itself at an impasse as it struggles to find a way to defeat the Neo-Britannian Empire. As a last resort, it enlists the aid of the Nameless Mercenaries: brothers Rozé, a genius strategist; and Ash, an exceptional Knightmare pilot. Though Rozé and Ash are Britannian, they have made a name for themselves by protecting the Japanese and killing the empire's officials. With their help, the resistance may finally be able to recapture its territory and prevent another reign of terror.

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Ash Main

Furukawa, Makoto Japanese

Rozé Main

Amasaki, Kouhei Japanese

Sumeragi, Sakuya Main

Ueda, Reina Japanese

Lamperouge, Lelouch Supporting

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

C.C. Supporting

Yukana Japanese

Stadtfeld, Kallen Supporting

Koshimizu, Ami Japanese

Kururugi, Suzaku Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

li Britannia, Cornelia Supporting

Minagawa, Junko Japanese

Lamperouge, Nunnally Supporting

Hyuuga, Akito Supporting

Irino, Miyu Japanese

Oobayashi, Yuri Producer

Tsuchiya, Yoshimasa Producer

Ogisu, Hirotsugu Producer

Taniguchi, Koujirou Producer

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Oct 11, 2024

Surox

Recommended

Despite the online consensus and general discourse revolving around this show, I found it to be quite enjoyable, and that's coming from a long-time fan of the original series.

Where Dakkan no Rozé shines is in Ash & Rozé's character dynamics. Previous entries had a similar premise to this one, and the knightmare fights are as good as always (I would daresay this entry has the best in terms of animation & choreography), but none of them had this level of intrigue in how character relations would play out over the course of the series. This alone was enough to have me invested in how ... the conclusion would be handled.

Many critiscize Rozé's character for not being as smart or as cunning as Lelouch's, but I find that to be a strong point of this series. Instead of serving us with a Lelouch copycat, we get an interesting character who possess the same power, but with different motivation and far less ability. As such, it is also interesting to see how the character handles different situations given the same power, as well as the big mistakes she makes that Lelouch wouldn't have.

The show obviously isn't perfect. The biggest problem is clearly the villains' lack of depth. The enemy generals have unique traits, but we don't learn much about them outside of their "visual" quirks and presentation. The worst offender is clearly Norland, as he ends up being nothing more than a template for big bad guy, with no motivation even given for his goals.

I would also agree that the series clearly needed more than 12 episodes, as many of these issues could've been addressed by simply giving more time to develop these aforementioned characters. The finale could've also been better handled, as it was a tiny bit rushed, but I still really liked the ending.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Sep 12, 2024

Kewgle

Mixed Feelings

This show is basically like if blueballs was an anime. Enjoyable at times, but ultimately unsatisfying. A lot of things happen in this show where it seems like they're building up to something, but with little to no payoff. The story itself was okay, not amazing but not terrible. There were a lot of interesting ideas in this show, but the pacing was so rushed that those ideas didn't get to be explored in as much detail as they could have. In the end, it kinda just felt like they made this show as an excuse to include cameos of characters from the spin-offs.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Nov 2, 2024

BaldiDerEchte

Not Recommended

TL;DR
The series isn't very good, basically a bad copy of the original. If you are a fan of code geass you are better off not watching this :P

At first i was optimistic about this series and hoped it could bring something new to the code geass franchise, sadly that was not the case:

**Plot**
Looking back on it the first episode already showcases everything that is wrong about the series. The plot is a like giving the original code geass plot to a really old version of chat gpt and letting it rewrite a copy. There are close to no plot points not copied from some ... part of the original anime. Almost none of the characters have any depth or motivation or something. The villains are evil for the sake of being evil, they are doing terrible things just for fun i guess?
There are so many plot holes. At some times it's just plain incoherent. The reason for that being that it just feels like important background information and information about the characters relationships to each other is missing.

**Fan service**
Fan service is present in way to many scenes and also done in a tasteless manner. It has no relevance to the story, happens in otherwise serious moments, where it doesn't fit, or worst actively is hurtful to the tone or realism of the series. If you happen to not be a fan of fan service in general, this series will probably annoy you at multiple points.

**Antagonist**
Noland, the main villain, probably is one of the worst antagonists, ever, and totally shits on the code geass "tradition" of having good characters and therefor very well written antagonists. His motivation or ideals are never explained and he is portrayed as just truly evil.

**Main Characters**
There are also some good ideas in this series. For example the way Sakuya uses her geass in the beginning. But the ideas either quickly get dropped or are buried under a pile of nonsense. Sakuya in general does not seem to be that bad of a character to me, but she still has very little depth.
Ash is probably my favorite original character in this series, he has some depth and backstory and is in general likeable.

**Cameos**
It comes as no surprise that there are cameos of known characters from the code geass universe. It made me happy seeing some characters on the screen again. Although it feels like the appearances were just used to squeeze more nostalgia and watch time out of fans of the original.

**Animation / Production**
The animation is done well enough and the use of CGI is also of good quality.

Hope the review was useful! :)

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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