Summary of Code Geass R1
In the year 2010 a.t.b. The Holy Empire of Britannia completed its takeover of Japan,
using its superior technology of the Knightmare Frames, a humanoid type of mecha. Britannia
renames Japan Area 11, and forces all Japanese to become known as Elevens, in an effort
to strip the Japanese of their culture and identity. Seven years later, a Britannian
high school student named Lelouch Lamperouge is going down the highway in Area 11
with his friend Rivalz when they become mixed up in a terrorist plot to steal a
bomb containing deadly gas from Britannia. Lelouch and the bomb become separated
from the terrorists only to meet with his childhood friend Suzaku Kururugi with whom
he and his sister Nunally had escaped from Britannia to live in Area 11, but has now
become an honorary Britannian soldier. The "poison gas" bomb opens and it is revealed to
instead be a container for a live girl.
Suzaku is ordered by his commanding officer to shoot Lelouch, but when Suzaku
refuses, he is shot instead. Lelouch is about to be killed when the girl suddenly gives
him the power of Geass, which allows him to give absolute commands to anyone he wishes.
Armed with this new power and his already brilliant intellect he directs the terrorists into
victory against the Britannian troops which were sent against them, so that
they can escape. Lelouch then assassinates his brother Clovis who was the Viceroy of Area 11,
before donning a mask and taking up the second identity of Zero, who is a freedom fighter and
renames the terrorists the Black Knights. Zero leads the Black Knights in a quest to bring down
Britannia, both to get revenge on the Emperor who he hates, and to create a peaceful world where
his sister Nunally can be happy.
(Developed by Sunrise and Bandai Entertainment)
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