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My main gripe is that this wasn't long enough to actually develop half the characters. Despite that, I really did enjoy the feels trip this takes you on.

The animation is pretty standard, but very pretty. The music serves to make you feel pretty sad at the right times, and the sound creates a very immersive atmosphere.

The story itself feels incomplete as the story really has no time to build to any sort of resolution, although it does try.

I feel like all the pieces are here to have a very good 1 season long anime, or maybe just a full feature length movie, but ... as an OVA, it's mediocre. That said, it's definitely worth your time to see.

The good: More code geass! And that's about where it stops. The bad: dos equis machinia or whatever, you'll probably need a dos equis or two to enjoy the ending.

Art 8/10: same art as code geass, I really love the art style, and an hour long segment just lets them get really detailed. Unfortunately, I might be able to watch anything with this art style.

Sound 9/10: I fucking loved the fight music, and almost all the sound effects were amazing, but there were a couple of instances of lines just getting plain annoying, because of repeated words by the same groups of people over and ... over again.

Character 4/10: In Lelouch, almost everybody who had a line had character. And whenever someone died you felt something. Half the character in this series didn't have well defined or really any character beyond 'scientist #3' or 'hot soldier #2-3' (spoiler: yeah those two that just blew up? had the same character, and if they had died I still wouldn't remember their names). But those that were there, were fairly interesting. If their development didn't suck.

Story 1/10: "What the fucking fuck, who the fuck took that shit on the story? I was supposed to mail that in, today, well fuck it, send it in the way it is." Spoilers! obviously. The series had a pretty interesting story until this and the last segment. I dunno why they decided to just give Leila a geass. That was stupid. Plus "it's not a geass cause it's blue" and "geass fragment" (a.k.a. we wrote ourselves into a corner and oh god how do we finish this). But not only did they give it to her, they don't give her any powers until she can just block others' geass's AND summon the omnipotent human collective conscience (aka plot-armor re-imagined as what everyone wants)? BAH. They even had some line in there that said something about brain waves making a singularity and being able to create the universe again using a twisted understanding of the observer effect. This is honestly the most disappointing ending to an anime I've watched. There have been times when I was angry, sad, happy, and all of the above, but never so utterly let down.

Enjoyment 8/10: I really enjoyed the fight scenes, the music especially kept bringing me back, despite the ending being a complete colossal failure at almost every point, I did really enjoy it. It's more code geass! just watered down a little.

Overall 5/10: Sigh. I had such high hopes, so maybe it's just that they got crushed so ... nope, it really doesn't even deserve this high of a score. This is the score that I want to believe it is so I don't feel like I wasted my time. The only way I can really reconcile this is that all of these segments were just hallucinations of Lelouch's while he and Suzaku were in jail. Either that or as soon as they say "Akito has vanished" that it's just hallucinations of Leila who's now traumatized at the deaths of her comrades. The average of the scores I gave is 6/10, but I really can't bring myself to give this more than a 5.