Official announcements, interviews, spoilers from live events, and summary of Resurrection opening film from the recent bonus DVD. I’ll list them chronologically.

12/26/2018



⬛ Official twitter (1,2)

“Staff, as an official announcement, informs that Lelouch will appear in “Lelouch of the Resurrection”. Additionally we also confirm that Jun Fukuyama will take part in the movie.”

“Though we’ve announced that Lelouch will appear, please see “Lelouch of the Resurrection” by all means and find it out yourself as to how he will appear, in theaters starting from 2/9.”

⬛ 2nd Lelouch Birthday Event (1,2)

Koujiro: “It won’t be anything predictable like ‘In Resurrection, Lelouch will only come out for a bit at the end’. Geass has never failed to surprise you right? Please anticipate. It will betray your prediction but it won’t betray your expectation!“



Q: This may be a difficult question to answer, but on the website and at the top of official twitter page, Resurrection is written as “depicts the story after R2″, while on the news sites and the likes it’s written as “story after the theatrical trilogy”. I think the story is quite different between the TV series and the movie version, so which statement is correct?

Koujiro: This is probably the first time I talk about this. It is quite a difficult topic, but… Code Geass is a world with parallels, right? Like the previously mentioned Private Tutor manga, for example. Do you know the meaning of R in R2? It stands for ‘route’. R2 is supposed to mean ‘route 2’. Then, what about ‘route 1’?

MC: Is it the first season of TV series?

Koujiro: No it isn’t. ‘Route 1’, as some people may already know, is the phantom Stage 26* that was included in the Bluray BOX’s benefits. It was a story that was written for late-night slot, while Route 2 is the current story that was written when we moved to the evening slot. Both TV series and movie version follow the story of ‘route 2’, so Resurrection is written as continuation of R2. Both of them are Code Geass. Whether it’s continuation of TV series or movie version, please watch it if you can to find out.”

* it’s this https://rainfall.dreamwidth.org/107694.html

12/29/2018

⬛ Taniguchi interview from VOICE the movie January 2019 issue.

Q. The content of "Lelouch of the Resurrection”, can we think of it to be exactly like the title suggest?

A. People really will get angry if the content is completely different from the title (laugh). However, different people see things differently. Some will think the content is just like the title, others will think it isn’t. It depends on how you perceive it, as for me the content is just like the title.

Q. Please give everyone a message about the new work.

A. First of all, the new work was made as an extension of the theatrical trilogy. Hence compare to the TV series, there will be subtle differences in characters relationship etc, I hope everyone can understand. I hope viewers who haven’t watched the theatrical trilogy can take this opportunity to watch it. After that you can speculate and analogize to some extent about what happened to the world in the work and in what way the characters change.

01/10/2019

⬛ Cast comment.

Sakurai Takahiro (Suzaku VA) “After going through the three compilation movies, finally it’s the long awaited new work. Lelouch who enjoys resurrection, in what kind of form/fashion he will appear… We’ll be waiting for everyone at the theaters!”



Arai Satomi (Sayoko VA) “Those who’ve known Lelouch and Code Geass for a long time must be wondering "What will Lelouch do this time?”. He’s done a lot of things that go beyond our imagination. We’ve been betrayed many times, in a good way. Though there were many painful times too. And so this time as well, as you know it, Lelouch betrays us. But surely you’re looking forward to it right? Lelouch, it’s the revival you know!“



01/12/2019

⬛ Summary of Resurrection’s opening scene (1,2,3).

Opening celebration of Cafe Zero 2 owned by Tamaki.



Ougi has given up his position as Japan PM.



According to the narration it is “Year 2 of 光和 / Kouwa (Harmonious Light), one year since evil emperor Lelouch was defeated by Zero” and “it will be evaluated by future generations as ‘miraculous tomorrow’ where there was no war or terrorism for the past year”.



Lloyd, Cecile, and a survivor from Glaston Knights seem to be investigating something



Nunnally and Zerozaku were visiting a refugee camp on a desert, there’s a talk about proposing to Britannia parliament to take in the refugees, but Nunnally has no authority/right to decide on politics/government.



Britannia is now a principality country.



Zilkstan’s army corps suddenly appeared, Suzaku was about to face them with Mahoroba*, but it’s a KMF that’s used for ceremonies so it’s not armed. If the float system is also removed then it will be cut off from the mechanics, but since it’s the only thing that can be used immediately he used it anyway to buy some time.



Suzaku was putting up a good fight even with just a sword and a harken but he got caught in a trap that Shario said was staged according to “the prophecy of older sister”, and both were caught in a light flash.



The film ended with the scene where Nunnally is besieged.



* It’s the name Shinkiro’s successor as explained in my post here.

01/13/2019

⬛ Q&A session from Oudou cheering screening event at Akihabara Film Festival.

Q: I’ve seen the opening film, and there it’s said “Principality of Britannia”. What happens to Britannia’s political system after Zero Requiem?

Koujiro: Even though Lelouch destroyed Britannia once, Schneizel is sort of alive, and among Britannia’s former nobles there are also capable people, so these people gather and run the country. Because Nunnally has used FLEIJA in the past, and such people must not be involved in politics, she stays away from politics.

Koujiro: There are two Mahoroba units. One is the unit used for ceremonies which weaponry all have been removed on purpose. Because, wouldn’t it be scary for someone crazy strong like Zero to have the latest KMF with the latest weapon? That’s why the weapons are all removed. To spoil just one thing, there’s a scene that will make you think that Suzaku is indeed amazing, even though he’s caught, it’s not because his KMF has no weapons or anything like that.

From another fan account of this event:

The public have never seen Zero’s battles, they don’t know about him being good at strategy or not, good at piloting KMF or not, and only know about Zero having done a lot of righteous deeds, so they don’t realize the change from Lelouch!Zero to Suzaku!Zero.



Characters from spin-offs will appear in Resurrection.



That’s all for now. If there’s more new info in the future, I’ll probably update and reblog this post, and put some notification on my twitter page.

