Genres: Drama, Mecha, Military, Science Fiction, Supernatural
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)

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Plot Summary: The Empire of Britannia has invaded Japan using giant robot weapons called Knightmare Frames. Japan is now referred to as Area 11, and its people the 11's. A Britannian who was living in Japan at the time, Lelouch, vowed to his Japanese friend Suzaku that he'd destroy Britannia. Years later, Lelouch is in high school, but regularly skips out of school to go play chess and gamble on himself. One day, he stumbles on terrorists 11's who've stolen a military secret and is caught by a member of the Britannian task force sent after them, who is Suzaku. As the rest of the squad arrives, Suzaku is shot for disobeying orders, while the military secret, a young girl, gives Lelouch the power of Geass, which makes anyone obey any order. While Suzaku is secretly made the pilot of Britannia's brand new prototype Knightmare, Lancelot, Lelouch becomes the masked Zero to lead the rebellion to destroy Britannia once and for all.

Japanese staff

Japanese cast

Director: Goro Taniguchi

Series Composition:
Hiroyuki Yoshino (Assistant)
Ichiro Okouchi

Screenplay:
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Ichiro Okouchi
Yuuichi Nomura (ep 17, 20, 23)

Storyboard:
Go Sakamoto (ep 12)
Goro Taniguchi (OP1, OP2, ep 1)
Kazuya Murata (ep 3, 6, 9, 17)
Kunihisa Sugishima (ep 14, 18, 21, 23)
Tsukasa Sunaga (Every other episode)
Yoh Shinkai (ep 13)

Episode Director:
Hiroaki Kudou (ep 6, 12, 20)
Kazuo Miyake (ep 4, 10, 16, 24)
Kazuya Murata (ep 3, 9, 17, 19ast, 23ast)
Makoto Baba (ep 8, 14, 22)
Masato Miyoshi (ep 2)
Noriaki Akitaya (ep 1, 7, 13, 21)
Satoshi Toba (ep 5, 11, 18, 25)
Shin-ichi Masaki (ep 19, 23)
Toru Yamada (ep 15)

Music:
Hitomi Kuroishi
Kotaro Nakagawa

Original Character Design: CLAMP

Character Design: Takahiro Kimura

Art director: Yoshinori Hishinuma

Animation director:
Akira Takahashi (ep 4, 6, 12)
Atsushi Itagaki (ep 23)
Eiji Nakata (OP2, ep 11, 25)
Hisayuki Tabata (ep23)
Kana Ishida (ep 2 ast, 18, 23)
Ken Sakuma (ep 15, 19)
Kenichi Takase (ep 3, 9, 13, 20, 24)
Kiyoaki Maeda (ep 5)
Kohei Yoneyama (ep 10, 17, 22)
Kyota Washikita (ep 21)
Manamu Amazaki (ep 16)
Masahiro Yamane (ep 2, cool
Seiichi Nakatani (ep 1, 7, 1 cool
Shuuji Sakamoto (ep 5, 21, 23ast)
Takahiro Kimura (OP2)
Takuro Shinbo (ep 3, 9, 13, 20, 24)
Tamotsu Ikeda (ep 10, 17, 22)
Yuji Mukoyama (ep 15, 19)
Yukie Sako (ep 2, cool
Yuriko Chiba (ep 1, 11, 15ast, 23ast, 25)
Yuusuke Kamada (ep 1 cool

Mecha design:
Akira Yasuda
Eiji Nakata
Junichi Akutsu
Kenji Teraoka

Cgi director: Masato Miyoshi

Director of Photography: Souta Ooya

Producer:
Atsushi YUKAWA
Hiroshi Morotomi
Takao Minegishi
Yoshitaka Kawaguchi

2D Effect: Makoto Takakura

2D Effects Chief: Hiroshi Furuhashi

2nd Key Animation:
Aya Maeda
Eizo Kawada
Hidekazu Yamana
Katsuyuki Sakairu
Kazuhiro Miwa
Ken Takahashi
Mariko Sasaki
Saho Saito
Satoshi Mori
Satoshi Takahashi
Shuji Morimoto
Tomoko Kanno
Tomoko Sugano
Yukie Sako

3-D Director: Tetsuya Watanabe

Assistant producer: Hirofumi Inagaki

Associate Director: Kazuya Murata

CG Desk: Masanori Ohara

Chief animator:
Eiji Nakata
Seiichi Nakatani
Takahiro Kimura
Yuriko Chiba

Clean-Up Animation:
Arisa Chiba
Atsuko Ito
Ayumi Andou
Chiharu Abe
Emiko Okui
Maki Yamada
Mami Nomaguchi
Mizue Ueda
Naoko Sunahara
Rie Katoh
Seiko Hara
Tohru Kawamura
Tomoko Takahashi
Yoshiki Ito
Yuki Morikawa
Yumi Shibata

Clean-up Inspection: Akiko Inoue

Color design: Reiko Iwasawa

Color setting:
Akiko Inoue
Chizue Saitou

Editing: Seiji Morita

Ending Animation: Takahiro Kimura

In-Between Animation:
Chie Tanaka
Daisuke Sakurada
Kazuhiro Takamura
Naoko Tanaka
Toshiyuki Hirai
Yu Saito
Yuuka Tanaka

In-between Inspection: Reiko Saito

Key Animation:
Akira Matsunaga
Akira Takahashi
Atsushi Itagaki
Atsushi Itou
Ayako Suzuki
Daisuke Mataga
Daisuke Saito
Eiji Nakata (ep 11, 25)
Eiko Saito
Eizo Kawada
Eizou Kawata
Eri Yunoki
Hiroko Shigekuni
Hiroshi Kamogawa
Hiroyuki Hashimoto
Hiroyuki Mori
Hisao Muramatsu
Kana Ishida
Kanta Suzuki
Kaori Saito
Kaoru Horigane
Katsunori Shibata
Kazuyuki Matsubara
Kenichi Takase
Kenji Ishida
Kensuke Ishikawa
Kenta Suzuki
Kentaro Tokiwa
Kiyoaki Maeda
Kouichi Shimoda
Makiko Fujiwara
Masami Nagata
Misao Abe
Miyuki Matsumoto
Ryota Honma
Satoshi Mori
Satoshi Sakai
Seiichi Hashimoto
Shinichi Takahashi
Shinobu Nishiyama
Shinya Kameyama
Shinya Yamamoto
Shuuji Sakamoto
Takahiro Kimura
Takayuki Uchida
Takayuki Uragami
Takeshi Morita
Tetsurou Yamada
Tetsuya Wakano
Tomohiko Abe
Tomoko Nitta
Toru Yoshida
Toshiyuki Anzai
Yoshiaki Wada
Yoshiyuki Tabata
Yuuki Sasaki

Music producer:
Keiichi Tomura (Sony Music)
Noboru Mano (Sunrise Music)
Yoshimoto Ishikawa (Victor Entertainment)

Opening Animation:
Goro Taniguchi
Rie Kawaguchi
Rion Kujo
Shuuji Sakamoto

Original story:
Goro Taniguchi
Ichiro Okouchi

Overall Animation Director:
Eiji Nakata (1-7, 9-13, 15-17, 19-23)
Seiichi Nakatani (8, 14, 18, 23, 24)
Takahiro Kimura (1, 12, 15, 16, 19, 23)
Yuriko Chiba (2-11, 13, 17, 20-22)

Photography:
Hikaru Sato
Kaori Izawa
Nobumasa Hanai
Shuichi Ito
Yoshio Sugizawa

Planning:
Kazumi Kawashiro
Kenji Uchida
Seiji Takeda

Production manager: Yumi Kimura

Publicity:
Hiroyuki Shimizu
Hitomi Ando
Kenichi Yamaguchi

Sound director:
Motoi Izawa
Yasuo Uragami

Theme Song Arrangement:
Flow (OP)
Kouichi Tsutaya (OP)
Mikiya Katakura (ED)

Theme Song Composition:
Daisuke Asakura (OP)
Daisuke Asakura
Mikiya Katakura (ED)
Takeshi Asakawa (OP)

Theme Song Lyrics:
Arika Takarano (ED)
Keigo Hayashi (OP)
Kohshi Asakawa (OP)

Theme Song Performance:
Access
Ali Project (ED1)
Flow (OP)
Jinn (OP2)
SunSet Swish (ED2)


Jun Fukuyama as Lelouch Lamperouge

Takahiro Sakurai as Suzaku Kururugi

Yukana as C.C.

Akeno Watanabe as Viletta Nu

Ami Koshimizu as Kallen Stadtfeld

Fumiko Orikasa as Shirley Fenette

Jouji Nakata as Diethard Ried

Junko Minagawa as Cornelia Li Britannia

Kaori Nazuka as Nunnally Lamperouge

Kazato Tomizawa as V.V. (ep 23 on)

Kazunari Tanaka as Shinichiro Tamaki

Ken Narita as Jeremiah Gottwald

Kikuko Inoue as Cecile Croomy

Masayo Kurata as Rakshata Chawla

Mitsuaki Madono as Kaname Ougi

Noriaki Sugiyama as Rivalz Cardemonde

Norihiro Inoue as Schneizel El Britannia

Omi Minami as Euphemia Li Britannia

Saeko Chiba as Nina Einstein

Sayaka Ohara as Milly Ashford

Tetsu Shiratori as Lloyd Asplund

Yuuji Takada as Kyoshiro Todo

Akeno Watanabe as
Girl (ep 6)
Suzaku (young)

Ami Koshimizu as Inoue (ep 15)

Asami Sanada as
Female student (ep 3)
Girl (ep 6)

Atsushi Kisaichi as
Nagata (ep 1)
Shougo Asahina
Terrorist (ep 2)

Eiji Yanagisawa as Otaku (ep 5)

Issei Futamata as Kousetsu Urabe

Junichi Sugawara as
Communication soldier (ep 4)
Otaku (ep 5)
Subordinate (ep 7)

Kan Tokumaru as Noble (ep 1)

Katsuhisa Houki as Buttrey

Katsumi Toriumi as
Chinpira (ep 15)
Eleven (ep 9)
Guard (ep 10)

Kazunari Tanaka as Assistant official (ep 7)

Kazuo Oka as Superintendent (ep 17)

Ken Narita as Joseph Fenette (Shirley's father)

Kiyoyuki Yanada as Andreas Darlton

Kouzou Mito as
Pilot (ep cool
Staff (ep 7)

Makiko Ohmoto as SP (ep 21)

Mariko Kouda as Teacher (ep 21)

Masafumi Kimura as Headmaster (ep 4)

Masako Katsuki as Legal wife (ep 9)

Masuo Amada as Kusakabe

Mika Kanai as Kaguya Sumeragi

Miki Hayashi as Sophie Wood

Minoru Inaba as Atsushi Sawazaki

Misato Fukuen as Female student (ep 3)

Naoki Bandou as Izumi

Naoki Imamura as Youth (ep 9)

Naoki Makishima as Shopkeeper (ep 1,4)

Nobuo Tobita as Clovis La Britannia

Noriaki Sugiyama as Sugiyama

Norio Wakamoto as Emperor of Britannia

Ryuuzo Hasuike as
Pilot (ep 7)
Shopkeeper (ep 15)
Soldier (ep 1)
Teacher (ep 3,6)
Yoshida

Saeko Chiba as Nagisa Chiba

Satomi Arai as
Announcer (ep 1,4,7)
Reporter (ep cool
Sayoko Shinozaki

Sayaka Ohara as
Lelouch (young)
Mother (ep 2)

Shigeru Shibuya as Middle-aged man (ep 21)

Shinpachi Tsuji as Taizou Kirihara

Takashi Taguchi as
General (ep 20)
Rear vassal (ep 6)

Takehiro Koyama as Major General Takase

Takeshi Kusao as Mao

Yasuhiko Kawazu as Commander (ep 2,10)

Yasuyuki Kase as
Boy (ep 6)
Kewell Soresi
Minami
Soldier (ep 3)
TV voice (ep 20)

Yoshiyuki Kouno as Gilbert G.P. Guilford

Youko Honda as Usherette (ep 4)

Yousuke Akimoto as Bowden

Yukana as Narration

Yukitoshi Hori as Commanding Officer (ep 1)

Yuri Amano as Kallen's mother (ep 9)

Yutaka Shimaka as Ryouga Senba

Japanese companies



2nd Key Animation:
AZETA PICTURES
Digicraft
IMOVE
Mouse
Nakamura Production
Studio Gash
Tama Production

Animation Production: Sunrise

Background Art: Green

Broadcaster:
Animax (2006-11-07)
CBC (2006-10-05)
Mainichi Broadcasting (2006-10-05)
TBS (2006-10-06)

Character Design: CLAMP

Clean-Up Animation:
Ark Creation
Saigon
Wish

In-Between Animation:
Ark Creation
Cube Emotion
Frontline
Nakamura Production
RIC
Saigon
Studio Dab
Studio Eru
Tama Production
Triple A

Key Animation:
Anime Aru
Eagle Entertainment
Nakamura Production
NARA Animation Studio
Studio Dab
Studio Wonbat

Music Production:
Sony Music Entertainment
Victor Entertainment

Production:
Mainichi Broadcasting
Sunrise

Recording Studio: Apu Meguro Studio

Sound Production: Audio Planning U


English cast
English staff

Executive producer: Ken Iyadomi


Johnny Yong Bosch as Lelouch Lamperouge

Kate Higgins as C.C.

Yuri Lowenthal as Suzaku Kurugi

Amy Kincaid as Shirley Fenette

Julie Ann Taylor as Milly Ashford

Karen Strassman as Kallen Stadtfeld

Kim Mai Guest as Nina Einstein

Liam O'Brien as Lloyd Asplund

Steven Blum as Kyoshiro Todo

Dave Wittenberg as Clovis La Britannia

Grant George as Sugiyama

Keith Silverstein as Kewell Soresi

Kim Mai Guest as Sayoko Shinozaki

Michael McConnohie as Emperor of Britannia

Peter Spellos as Bartley Asprius
English companies



ADR Production:
Animaze
ZRO Limit Productions

Broadcaster:
Adult Swim
Cartoon Network (Adult Swim)

Licensed by: Bandai Entertainment