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Originally Posted by GundamFan0083
You forgot, "Unless Sunrise says otherwise."
Like it or not Sol, the fact remains that Sunrise is producing more Code Geass even after Okouchi stated in the Continue #42 interview that there wouldn't be anymore.
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If you want to go into hypotheticals and what ifs, then sure, you can claim that there's some out of the blue 'possibility' that Sunrise will come out and say Lelouch is alive after all. That doesn't change the fact that what Sunrise already
has said is, in official black and white, that Lelouch is dead. And as far as hypotheticals goes, there is no reason why Sunrise for some godforsaken pointless reason coming out and saying Lelouch is alive is any more likely than them sticking with the official line that has been in place and stayed consistent for, what? 2+ years since the ending now.
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From Continue #42:
He had no intensions of making a sequel, side-story, or anything else.
That's why he's not part of the new side-story, and probably why Taniguichi is the one doing the manga WITHOUT Okouchi.
Sunrise has plans for this franchise and they've already put a Char-style clone in the new Manga, what makes you so damn confident that they won't retcon Lelouch?
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That quote only says that Okouchi had no plans at the time, not that it was his intention for Code Geass to have no side stories. The existence of a Lelouch clone (as well as a C.C. clone and others) was already known
ages before the new manga even started, you can hardly use that as evidence for Sunrise starting to change their line on what Lelouch did with R2's ending. I don't need any 'confidence' over the future so much as to understand what is reality right now, and that reality is that Lelouch's death has been officially confirmed and reinforced/recognized ever since the end of the series, and there has been
zero reason to even begin to doubt that things will stay that way.
Hell, look at the new Code Geass series. Set
before Lelouch's death, and he isn't even a main character! Lelouch's story and part to play are well and truly over, and each of these expansions to the Code Geass universe are all about shedding light on other parts of the story.
Here's a question for you. Sunrise might not need Okouchi for more Code Geass, but don't you think they might need him for more
Lelouch as a personality? After all, who else but the author could you really say understands Lelouch as a character. Any attempt to resurrect Lelouch without Okouchi will just end up a badly written fanfic, and that kind of halfassed act of rampant commercialism is something audiences
do have the capacity to recognize. If you insist on reading that sort of motivation into any new material added to the Code Geass universe, why don't you just wait and watch for the performance of these current new sidestories then. It is clear that at least in their initial stages neither of them were started up with the intention of 'retconning' Lelouch's death in the main series. If both of them end up crashing in abject financial failure, and you think Sunrise really
is serious about turning Code Geass into the sort of gigantic multimedia franchise of the kind that is Gundam, then
that is when you can genuinely start hypothesizing about a real possibility for Lelouch's resurrection.
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Leaving cliffhangers after such a good anime can always make such an impressive after effect.
Like a star in my night
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