Because people have been asking, I’ll start with this first.

After the movie trilogy, it’s “Lelouch of the Resurrection”. How did you prepare your feelings for this movie?

Koshimizu: In this story that happens after the movie trilogy, the age of the characters haven’t gone up that much, so I thought there wasn’t much difficulties. It was an “after” where only Lelouch and C.C. had a blank period of time, so there’s a little change in relationships between the characters. Because the story starts from the all-familiar interaction between Kallen and Tamaki, I thought “It’s now peaceful, huh”, but “Code Geass” is not that peace-loving (laugh). When war started right after, I thought “ah, as I thought”. Nonetheless, the mood was “If it’s with these people who’ve been fighting alongside me since forever, it’ll be okay, so let’s do it”.

A new enemy country named Zilkhstan appears, and Kallen fights against the new characters Kujapat and Bitul.

Koshimizu: Because Tsuda Kenjiro-san who played Kujapat kindly stirred me up with just the right feeling, I was able to get angry from the bottom of my heart (laugh). Around the line “Should we decide the answer with one-on-one battle”, I received an instruction “Please let out Kallen’s inner yankee from the bottom of your heart”. The yankee-ish-ness in Kallen’s heart rather than a figure of speech. Kallen is originally someone who hates to lose after all (laugh).

On the other hand, how was the fight with Bitul?

Koshimizu: Takagi Wataru-san voice acting is amazing. It’s a performance that included both composure and madness without him raising his voice. When he tells Kallen “My armor is unbreakable!” and she replies “It seems so, that’s why I stopped getting out of your way”, I can feel the strength of Kallen’s unyielding spirit and her fighting style that’s so like her coming out.

In the midpoint, Kallen and Suzaku who had been antagonistic to each other up until then, fight together for the first time.

Koshimizu: As Kallen had been fighting against Suzaku for so long, she knows his combat ability more than anyone. If someone like him is to be her ally, there won’t be much to worry about. Though of course, there are moments when complicated feelings pass by. When we re-recorded the dubbing for movie trilogy, I realized that Suzaku is such a big presence for Kallen. Of course back in the day he was a hateful enemy, but I think it’s because she had this “I just need to defeat this guy” as a goal, that she could forget the terror of the battle. And now Suzaku is not an enemy but someone who fights next to her. I think for Kallen, Suzaku is an existence that’s necessary for her mentally.

The scene where Kallen was crying and being comforted by Lelouch left an impression. How did she feel towards Lelouch?

Koshimizu: Before the dubbing, Okouchi-san and Taniguchi-san told me that “Kallen was in love with Lelouch for a period of time, but it is in this “Resurrection” that she can clear all those feelings neatly”. She had been fighting alongside Lelouch for a long time, and many things happened. The feeling of gratitude “The time that we spent in peace was also brought by you” is Kallen’s feeling in this movie.

It’s also Kallen who sees off Lelouch and C.C. for the last time as they’re leaving.

Koshimizu: Both aren’t being honest to each other, but I think Kallen does like C.C. They’re not bosom buddy or anything, they don’t feel like sticking close to each other all the time either. But the things that they acknowledge of each other are strongly conveyed. When Kallen stopped C.C. in the last scene, even I felt a bit lonely. They know that they probably will never see each other again, but they don’t want say things like “It’ll be lonely”. I like this last scene very much.

Please tell your feelings towards Kallen, the character that you’ve been playing for the last 10 years.



Koshimizu: If the feelings that I felt when I looked back on the past when we finished the TV series was “Ah, maybe I should’ve done this or this”, now I feel really clear after finishing “Resurrection”. From now on Kallen will continue to create memories with her mother, I’m filled with thoughts like "Be happy always”. When this work started, I was still in my teens, and I was inexperienced in a lot of ways. By being thrown into this battlefield at such time, I was able to receive “nutrition” as a voice actor to my heart’s content. From now on I’ll use this experience and continue to work hard on the new future. I think the feelings that I feel now are the same with Kallen’s in the last.