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Originally Posted by Aquaman OS
That's Shonen series. Not mecha. No Sunrise mech anime has been produced manga first ever. Most of them don't even have manga.
And most importantly none of them have gotten above 50 eps.
Geass never was going to have more than 50 eps. That was the plan, and that is how long series in its genre usually get.
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For your information, Sunrise had already created a Code Geass: Black Rebellion recap OVA that they could have aired while allowing the production team to retain their original setup for Code Geass R2 leading to Zero's Requiem. They was no need to change to format leading to the end of the story at all when there was a pre-existing recap series that could broadcast before releasing Code Geass R2. When the creators came up with the idea for Code Geass, they should have produced it as a manga with CLAMP.
Anyway, rules can be changed with regards to mecha series by way of producing 50 episodes a season that leads to another series as part of a bigger epic. And since there is a Code Geass movie in the works, it's likely to be a retelling of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Just like Neo Genesis Evangelion movies have become:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebuild_of_Evangelion