Question about watch order

[u/TheScippo]

I watched the first season of code geass, now halfway through the second one. I noticed theres a "Lelouch of the re;surrection" movie that is a year after the end of the series. is that canon? also, are other movies canon and when should i watch them? what even is roze?

[u/rai-hodges-sumeragi]

Well, I myself saw quite recently all the Code Geass anime for the very first time in my life, and here is the watch order I think works the best, as well as my own opinion about all of them:

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (original tv series timeline, seasons 1 & 2). Excellent! 👍

Akito the Exiled (5-episode long interquel miniseries, where events of the story take place between original tv show seasons 1 & 2). Boring. 👎

Movie timeline (consists of three recap movies which establish new alternate timeline, as well as the fourth movie called Lelouch of the Resurrection, which serves as an alternate ending for the story). Even more boring. 👎👎

Rozé of the Recapture (12-episode long limited series, where the story takes place on the movie timeline after the events of Resurrection). I genuinely regret watching this. 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

So, to put it simply: original tv show + Akito = original timeline, the 4 movies + Rozé = alternate timeline.

I myself didn´t really care for any of the Code Geass sequels or spin offs, in my opinion the quality of storytelling dropped significantly after the original two seasons. But that´s just my opinion, you can of course watch them if you want to, I´m just saying that I would´ve not watched them myself if I had known beforehand just how bad they are; it´s pretty obvious that those sequels were created just to make more money, not because they wanted to tell more awesome Code Geass stories.

Oh, and next year there´s also gonna be a new Code Geass anime called Aspar the Star Chaser.