Misanthropic teenager Lelouch Lamperouge is secretly an exiled prince of the Britannian Royal family living in the conquered nation of Japan. Living with his blind and wheelchair bound sister Nunnally, Lelouch expresses his contempt for the status quo through truancy and by conning dimwitted noblemen out of their money. During a terrorist attack by a Japanese resistance group Lelouch’s chance encounter with a mysterious woman grants him the power of Geass – the ability to force anyone he makes eye contact with to obey his orders – shakes him out of his apathy. Forced to seize the opportunity to wage war on his homeland he will use everything and everyone at his disposal in his quest to change the world. Ingratiating himself into the terrorist group as its mysterious tactical support and de facto leader in the hopes of building a better life for his sister and answers around their mother’s murder. Meanwhile a Japanese boy enlisted in the Britannian military named Suzaku Kururugi finds himself offered power normally reserved for the elite when he becomes the test pilot for the highly advanced Knightmare Frame. The Lancelot – mechanical knight of the empire – is the weapon Suzaku he hopes will allow him to save lives and change the system from within. Having known each other from childhood Suzaku and Lelouch have been unknowingly become archenemies as their paths cross and the scars of the past threaten to consume them.
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