Code Geass ★★★★★

Code Geass has a little bit of everything: action, romance, strategy, mechs, and science.

Lelouch Lamperouge

It starts off with Lelouch Lamperouge who is 17th in line for the throne of the Holy Britannian Empire. For his protection he is to be an ordinary school boy along with his sister Nunnally.

CC

After a strange accident involving "terrorists" Lelouch comes into contact with a mysterious girl by the name of C2 or CC. She gives him the power of the Geass, which manifests itself differently in each holder. His Geass gives him the power to control others with direct eye contact.

Kallen Stadtfield

With this new found power he aims to create peace. He recruits Kallen Stadtfield, an "11" aka Japanese. Lelouch directs her and the Resistance. Together they create the Black Knights.

To Lelouch the war between the Japanese and the Britannians is like a game of chess, with him being the player and the Resistance being his chess pieces.

Suzaku Kururugi

 

He creates Zero who is supposed to stand for peace and justice. Lelouch aims to bring down the empire from the outside, where as his childhood friend Suzaku Kururugi aims to take it down from the inside.

Lelouch as Zero

 
Throughout the season Lelouch figures out the truth behind his past and the emperor.

Season two starts off with a bit of confusion but is quickly explained within the first episode. Lelouch continues further with his plans to take down the empire and even partners up with Suzaku.

Zero kills Lelouch

In the end Lelouch completes his mission for peace, at the cost of his life. . . or so it would seem.

Some believe that Lelouch died, but the end of the last episode seems to say otherwise. 

 

Lelouch seen driving a wagon?

The battles are big, the strategies are complex, the characters are intense, and the anime is beautiful. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who loves science fiction or anime in general.

Sword Art Online ★★★★

Sword Art Online is every gamers dream, sort of. It takes place in the future where VRMMORPG (virtual reality massive multiplayer online role playing game) is possible using nerve gear that allows the person go into the video game and run around as if it was the real world. As a new technology everyone goes to play in the virtual world Aincrad, the players discover they cannot log out until they clear the hundredth level of the game.

Kirito

The main character, Kirito, is a quiet boy with a love of computers, and he is quite avid with his sword. Kirito runs into several other females who all seem to fall in love with him and he makes several enemies as well, such as the guild, The Laughing Coffins.

Kirito and Asuna

One of the first people he meets is Asuna who is initially a mystery but becomes Kirito's greatest ally in the end.They also become an inseparable couple, until Asuna is kidnapped in the second part of the season.

I loved how Asuna was a strong female character who could hold her own in a fight, but hate how she is later portrayed as a weak female dependent on Kirito.

The first half of the season was interesting with a good plot and a good villain, who doesn't turn out so bad. The second half however, was a bit of a disappointment.

 Asuna and 300 other players for Aincrad was transferred to Alfheim Online. The objective of Alfheim Online was to get to the top of a tower, however Kirito discovers that it was made to be an impossible objective.

Fairy King Oberon

With a little help he is able to get through to the top only to discover Fairy King Oberon. Not only were his objectives completely twisted, he turns out to be a complete and total pedophile.




Sword Art Online was an interesting story with some strong characters, love triangles, and lots of fighting and action. The downfall was that some of the villains were a disappointment and some of the characters weren't as developed as I would have liked them to be.

There is a new sequel called Gun Gale Online that is already beginning to air. I'm interested to see how Kirito does with a gun saying as his talent seemed to have been with a sword.

School Days ★

Makoto Ito

School Days follows the Makoto Ito, a high school student eager for romance.

When he develops a crush on Kotonoha Katsura, he enlists the help of his friend Sekai Saionji. As Sekai sets Makoto and Kotonaha up, she finds herself becoming jealous of them.

Makoto tries to take his relationship too far too fast which upsets Kotonoha and leads to Sekai taking advantage of Makoto's lack of knowledge on relationships.

From here the anime goes downhill even more. The entire anime consists of a bunch of love triangles (more like webs), jealous girls, sex, and a boy who thinks he can treat girls like trash.

On top of all of the romantic horror of the anime, there is way too much "fan service" that becomes uncomfortable pretty quickly.

To top the anime off,

Kotonoha

the ending is absolutely ridiculous. Makoto ends up dead, Sekai ends up dead, and Kotonoha ends up with Makoto's head. I don't mean to be harsh, but this anime was so poorly written that I wouldn't recommend this even to my worst enemies.