I was naturally a little apprehensive about the prospect of bringing back Code Geass, of potentially ruining what I consider the best most satisfying ending in all of Anime and perhaps all of Speculative fiction. And when it was made clear only a year had passed I got worried.
But in the end the movie was very good.
I watched the Dub of course. Early on a couple VAs were sounding like maybe they were having trouble getting back into these characters. Of course in my most recent re-watching of Code Geass material Kallen kind of doesn't feel the same to me anymore as I've gotten used to that voice in other Anime usually playing older characters.
Mostly though once any character was fully back in action it felt like a old friend returning, but still changed by their development.
I recommend it to all Code Geass fans. Now for the Spoilers.
Spoilers ahead.
One of the trends in Anime of the last decade (more then that really) is a protagonist who is in someway able to just "do over" when they fail like a Video Game. This is the first time I've seen one go "how about we give the Antagonist that ablity?" And indeed that proved the most effective way to give Lelouch a new challenge like none he faced before.
What's most important however is that unlike the Disney Star Wars Sequel trilogy it did not completely undo the ending of R2. It's a new crisis that has the potential to threaten that happy ending but in the end things are basically restored to the status quo of how R2 ended. It was a fight to maintain that happy ending, not clean up the mess of it being already ruined.
This is how you should make new over a decade later sequels to stories that already ended well.
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