Character ages in Code Geass

[ianiceboy.livejournal.com]

Does any character's age (e.g. Lelouch, C.C., Euphemia, Tianzi) have a bearing on your enjoyment of Code Geass? Positive or negative?

Comments

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

I like stories about high school aged kids being involved in commanding positions during a war.

I agree. If Lelouch was, like, thirty the show would not have been nearly as interesting for me. It could have the potential to be really interesting - after all, Bruce Wayne is generally in his thirties AFAIK - but there's a reason that a lot of mech pilots are teens.

[snowdevil-crow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, maybe I'm a sadist or something, but I just think it's so much more interesting to see what kind of effects the responsibility of being a war commander or pilot or whatever have on younger, immature and slightly naive-er characters than it is to see it on older, potentially more jaded characters. Not that Lelouch isn't jaded, because I guess he kind of was in some ways, but... it's different to see it on a seventeen year old than when you see it on a 40 year old, you know?