Code Geass Reihenfolge -

“It’s not a ‘thing,’” Kaito muttered, not looking away from the screen. “It’s a responsibility. New fans are lost, Miki. They watch Akito the Exiled first and think Suzaku is a villain. They watch the recap movies and then wonder why Shirley is alive in Lelouch of the Re;surrection . The Reihenfolge —the order—must be preserved.”

“Watch Season 1. Then Season 2. Then, if you still hunger for more, watch everything else. But don’t let the order steal your joy. That’s not Geass. That’s just obsession.” code geass reihenfolge

“You worry too much about the order, Kaito,” Lelouch said, smirking. “I once commanded an entire empire with nothing but a borrowed power and a lie. And yet here you are, paralyzed by a question of which episode comes first.” “It’s not a ‘thing,’” Kaito muttered, not looking

“Release order?” Kaito whispered, as if she had uttered a heresy. “Release order puts Akito between the recap films and Re;surrection . That’s three years of real-world gap, but narratively, Akito happens before Lelouch even meets Rolo. Do you know what that does to a new viewer’s sense of time? They’ll think Lelouch aged backwards!” They watch Akito the Exiled first and think

Later that night, Kaito fell asleep at his desk. In his dream, Lelouch vi Britannia stood before him, dressed in the Zero costume, but his mask was off. His Geass eye blazed crimson.

And somewhere in the void between timelines, Lelouch smiled.

Kaito’s eye twitched. “ Rozé takes place in the recap movie timeline. But it also references events from Akito . And it expects you to know who the Black Knights are, but also introduces new Geass rules that contradict the original anime. So the Reihenfolge is not just chronological. It’s multiversal .”