The terrorists are entirely justified in their violent resistance against the obviously evil and genocidal Britannian empire, which is something of a stand in for both the British Empire and the US.
The annoying liberal deuteragonist bumbles around for 2/3 of the show being a supersoldier for the Britannian Empire while constantly making these bizarre self righteous arguments that Lelouch's rebellion is just too darn mean and violent, we have to support the Britannian Empire's rule of law just a while longer guys! The longer this goes on, the more and more his world view crumbles around him as basically nothing goes to plan for this liberal who is just incapable of grappling with material reality. He ends up following his sense of liberal morality all the way to accidentally killing millions with a Britannian wunderwaffe nuke. This leads him on his jokerification arc wherein he realizes the error of his ways and actually supports Lelouch through the batshit last few episodes of this show.
Anyway, I can't recommend this show to anyone in year of our lord 2024 because it's obnoxiously, embarrassingly horny in a very mid 2000s anime way, because that's exactly what it is. But I'm imagining what could have been.
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The second worst part about the A-Bombs being dropped is that it let Japan eternally play the victim, glossing over what they were doing when the Bombs were dropped.
What do you mean using infants as target and bayonet practice is wrong? Japan was just liberating Asia from Europe! It's not like they were trying to overthrow foreign oppressors so they could become the oppressors themselves.
I remember the Imperial nostalgia military clique being pretty cringe in that vein
I read the summary of Code Glassc (or however it's spelled) and immediately got Japanese war crime apologia vibes from it. I have not watched it because of this. Attack on Titan is similar, though I made it to season 3 before I gave up. Cool monster designs aren't enough for me to enjoy shitty writing and cryptofascism.
An ironic recommendation given my post, but I actually suggest giving Code Geass a second chance if that's what put you off about it. I got the exact same vibe during the peak of Attack on Titan hype and was eventually vindicated, but I feel Code Geass successfully escapes the same pitfalls. Japan under Brtiannian occupation and colonization far more closely resembles modern Palestine than it does post war Japan.
But that's part of my problem with it. Japan conflating itself with colonized countries in some hypothetical when they continue to have elected leaders openly deny war crimes is not something I'm interested in. It's like if Germany made a show about Germany getting occupied by Russia and the Russians putting every German in death camps. Meanwhile, in real life, you had openly neo-nazis elected to office who deny the Holocaust.