I'm in love with your post and what you said about Lelouch and Raito. Really. Whoever thinks Lelouch is a rip off of Raito has not watched CG past the first episode. Anyway, I've never thought about connecting Raito to Dostoievski's protagonists, but that makes perfect, perfect sense. Lelouch is one of the most obviously Shakespearean characters I've ever seen in an anime, and that's really, really interesting. When I started watching the show I thought he was a huge mix of MacBeth, Hamlet and Richard III, but he doesn't limit himself to that and that is really nice.
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