Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch I – Koudou

Synopsis:

Trailer:

Streaming Platforms:

• Netflix

Characters:

• C.C. (Main) - Voice Actors: Yukana, von der Ahe, Antje, López, Mireia
• Kururugi, Suzaku (Main) - Voice Actors: Sakurai, Takahiro, Watanabe, Akeno, Aranda, Rubén
• Lamperouge, Lelouch (Main) - Voice Actors: Fukuyama, Jun, Rathod, Nicolas, Ohara, Sayaka, Esteve, Álvaro, Romero, Nina
• Stadtfeld, Kallen (Main) - Voice Actors: Koshimizu, Ami, Bautz, Julia, Tarín, Sílvia
• Asahina, Shougo (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kisaichi, Atsushi, Torrent, Darío
• Ashford, Milly (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ohara, Sayaka, Carbonell, Lidia
• Asplund, Lloyd (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Shiratori, Tetsu, Sendín, Ernest
• Asprius, Bartley (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Houki, Katsuhisa
• Cardemonde, Rivalz (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sugiyama, Noriaki, Rodríguez Pérez, David
• Chawla, Rakshata (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kurata, Masayo
• Chiba, Nagisa (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Chiba, Saeko
• Croomy, Cécile (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Inoue, Kikuko, Aránega, Lucía
• Darlton, Andreas (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yanada, Kiyoyuki
• Einstein, Nina (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Chiba, Saeko
• el Britannia, Schneizel (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Inoue, Norihiro
• Fenette, Shirley (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Orikasa, Fumiko, Ferrer, Aitana
• Gottwald, Jeremiah (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Narita, Ken, Oliva, José Manuel
• Guilford, Gilbert G.P (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kono, Yoshiyuki
• Inoue, Naomi (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kojima, Sachiko
• Kirihara, Taizou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tsuji, Shinpachi
• la Britannia, Clovis (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tobita, Nobuo, Teruel, Carles
• Lamperouge, Nunnally (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nazuka, Kaori, Campos, Mónica
• li Britannia, Euphemia (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Minami, Omi
• li Britannia, Cornelia (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Minagawa, Junko
• Maldini, Kanon (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Mito, Kouzou, Rosenberg, Marco
• Minami, Yoshitaka (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kase, Yasuyuki
• Nagata (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Toriumi, Katsumi
• Nu, Villetta (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Watanabe, Akeno, Navalón, Paola
• Ougi, Kaname (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Madono, Mitsuaki, de la Torre, Fran
• Ried, Diethard (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nakata, Jouji
• Senba, Ryouga (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Shimaka, Yuu
• Shinozaki, Sayoko (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Arai, Satomi
• Sugiyama, Kento (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sugiyama, Noriaki
• Sumeragi, Kaguya (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kanai, Mika, Montesinos Guzmán, Majo
• Tamaki, Shinichirou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hiyama, Nobuyuki
• Toudou, Kyoushirou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Takada, Yuji
• Urabe, Kousetsu (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Futamata, Issei
• Yoshida, Tooru (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hasuike, Ryuuzou, Rosenberg, Marco
• zi Britannia, Charles (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Wakamoto, Norio, Ordóñez Arrieta, Rafael

Staff:

• Izawa, Motoi (Sound Director)
• Mochizuki, Tomomi (Storyboard)
• Sunaga, Tsukasa (Storyboard)
• FLOW (Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Arrangement, Theme Song Performance, Theme Song Lyrics)
• Inoue, Akio (Theme Song Lyrics)
• Tsutaya, Kouichi (Theme Song Arrangement)
• Akutsu, Junichi (Mechanical Design)
• CLAMP (Original Character Design)
• Chiba, Hiroyuki (Director of Photography)
• Fukunaga, Gen (Executive Producer)
• Hishinuma, Yoshinori (Art Director)
• Kawai, Momoko (Key Animation)
• Nakada, Eiji (Key Animation, Animation Director)
• Saitou, Eiko (Key Animation)
• Sakamoto, Shuuji (2nd Key Animation)
• Shibata, Akiko (Color Design)
• Yasuda, Akira (Mechanical Design)

Reviews:

• User CodeBlazeFate (Score: 9/10):
  Legendary tales are passed down from generation to generation. The tales of yore were often retold with minor alterations over time for one reason or another. Sometimes it was simply to update it for current times, other times it was merely for not remembering everything. Such stories were enduring for ages despite the very real possibility of being lost to time. Works such as Grendel owe their survival to the acts of translation and retelling. However, this idea is not exclusive to literature and family tales that remained unwritten; films and television series got this treatment as well. Almost a decade after the saga of Lelouchcame to an end, the magnificent bastards over at Studio Sunrise brought the old writing and directing team of Garou Taniguchi, Ichiro Okouchi, and others altogether for a project of retelling and resurrection. A retelling of the original 50 episode series was made as a film trilogy, with this being the first. Admittedly, some may pause at the word “retelling”, asking why not refer to it as recap. Simply put, it is far more, as they made alterations to the script for a new age and for the condensed format. The story of Code Geass has been passed down to a new generation, with the old masters learning from the year since the original’s conclusion, analyzing the original for what best to keep for a trilogy, and adding to it to strengthen the parts they kept and improve on characters in interesting ways with their new take on things. It's a wonder the pacing is as decent as it is.nnWhen it came to lifting visuals from the show, they did nothing to alter it, which sadly means no improvements on the CGI or any of the momentary dips on quality. However, the new scenes were wonderful, recapturing the look and feel of the show with a slightly sleeker look that hardly looks out of place. While the visuals of the show itself could have been polished up for the big screen in places, the plethora of new scenes makes up for it in a way due to how faithful and wonderful they look. The mech battles are as fun, well-planned and executed, and acrobatic as ever, and any new clothing featured looks as great as the rest.nnAnother area the film adds new love to is the music. Code Geass already has a wondrous OST, and this film nor only shuffled around tracks from the episodes being retold and added some fantastic tracks from R2, but the new tracks (whose names cannot be discerned at the moment due to lack of release) not only fit in perfectly but work as wonderful as the rest. They even added new songs from Hitomi Kuroishi, who sang the more melodic songs of the original such as “Continued Story”, “Stories”, and “Precious Time”. They kept the iconic opening to the TV series and added a new ED theme that surpasses both of the first season’s EDs, especially the first one.…
• User Wolfiesmal (Score: 8/10):
  This is not a substitute for watching the original series so you can experience all of Code Geass seasons 1&2 in just 3 movies but if you watched the show years ago and want to relive the experience but don't have time to marathon 2 seasons of anime then this does a far better job than most condensed to movie adaptations. The stuff it leaves out/covers in less detail is generally very well done so the movie has a nice flow and still covers all the important developments. However they made one glaring mistake when it came to deciding what material to cut. This movie cutsout almost every interaction anyone has with the characters Shirley and Euphemia which is a massive problem. The relationships formed between Lelouch and Suzaku and them are incredibly important to the development of the plot and if someone were to only watch the movie version they would have almost no idea who they are or why they are so important and beloved. The sad thing is it would have been such an easy problem to fix by just extending the movie's run time 5-10 minutes.nnFor reference I gave the original show a 10/10 because even though it isn't perfect it was just so much fun to watch and I gave the movie an 8/10 because they left out the heart of the show by cutting out any emotional developments.
• User deathabarbar (Score: 1/10):
  It's less, than the original, a lot less. I don't understand the reason for making three newish movies to change a single plot important thing, about Shirley while throwing a lots of things into chaos, it barely even matters anyway. She gets like a minute of new scenes, but at the same time almost all school interactions are cut, the only ones that are not, are those which are plot heavy, like the declaration, which is done differently too, almost all character backgrounds are also cut, the student council members barely have any screen time, let alone interactions with Lelouch, old and new scenes mixedtogether ofter changing animation quality and voice acting from one scene to the other, not to mention they ofted contradict the old story, it is ridiculous when people change from one scene to the other, and a lots of things left unexplained, I guess it's assumed the viewer would fill the holes from the OG, but with how the new plot is changed causality often cannot be estabilished because the action that started the chain in the OG is not present here, but OG event still happened for whatever reason.
• ... and 3 more reviews

News:

• North American Anime & Manga Releases for December (12/28/2023)
• Interview: 'Code Geass' Production Team Discuss Latest Movie (04/27/2019)
• North American Anime & Manga Releases for March (03/04/2019)
• Q2 2018 Anime & Manga Licenses [Update 5/26] (03/26/2018)
• 'Code Geass' Reveals Compilation Film Trilogy Details (07/27/2017)

Forum Topics:

• Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch I - Koudou Episode 1 Discussion
• Average Score kind of low compared to the main series: Why?
• Code Geass Compilation Movies worth watching at all?
• In Theaters Australia feb 15th!
• Subtitles?
• PV 1
• Picture Drama

External Links:

• Official Site
• AniDB
• ANN

Related Anime/Manga:

• Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch II - Handou (anime - Sequel)
• Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch Picture Drama - Kamen Kokuhaku Taikai (anime - Side Story)
• Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch (anime - Alternative Version)