“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.”
Kaito’s younger sister, Miki, poked her head through the door. “You’re doing the order thing again, aren’t you?”
Kaito didn’t answer. He was already adding a new branch: “ Code Geass: Lost Stories – mobile game – canon-adjacent? Where does it fit? Does the new protagonist, Orpheus, matter?” code geass reihenfolge
Kaito spun around, eyes wild. “And miss Akito the Exiled ? The five-episode OVA series that takes place between R1 and R2 ? It explains the Euro Britannian front, the Geass Order’s European branch, and introduces the best combat choreography in the entire franchise! You can’t just skip it. But if you watch it after R2 , you lose the dramatic irony of knowing what Lelouch is doing off-screen while Akito fights in Paris.”
Kaito sighed, erased the red string, and opened his laptop. He typed a new message into a forum where a lost fan had asked: “What is the Code Geass Reihenfolge?” “You worry too much about the order, Kaito,”
His reply was simple:
He hit send, closed the laptop, and went to eat breakfast. “You’re doing the order thing again, aren’t you
Miki sighed and sat on the edge of his bed. “Just tell them to watch Season 1, then Season 2. Done.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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!”