Cliche ridden, Average action series

Written by sapre4 on February 3, 2012 at 6:39 AM

When Code Geass was first described to me, I thought it might be the answer to my Death Note hangover, as I was hungry for something similar to Death Note.
What Code Geass gave me was your typical brooding teenager (Lelouch), mecha (siiigh), and women with stupidly sized breasts.
I'm not entirely disappointed though; the story both of the series and of the episodes were fairly decent, and the animation met my standards; nothing mindblowing.
But a major problem for me was the main character, Lelouch, annoys me. A lot. He tries to come off as deep, clever and ambitious, but the writers fail to walk the fine line between arrogance/pretentiousness and nobility.
Lelouch annoyed me as the arrogant, pretentious, typical teenager.

Can't recommend it, quite surprised at the reputation it's received. Undeserved.