The TV anime series
Code Geass by
Sunrise has been novelized into various series of light novels. First serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's The Sneaker magazine, they are divided into two separate series corresponding with the series two seasons. The first series,
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, spanned five volumes with the first, labelled as volume 0, released in Japan on April 28, 2007 and the last on March 1, 2008. All five volumes in the first series of novels have been released in English by Bandai Visual as licensed in December 2007. The first volume was released on November 2008 and the last one on February 23, 2010. The series focus on how the former prince
Lelouch Lamperouge obtains a power known as
Geass and decides to use it destroy the
Holy Britannian Empire. The first novel acts as a prologue, focusing on how Lelouch befriended
Suzaku Kururugi, the son of
Japan's last prime minister, when the former and his sister
Nunnally Lamperouge were sent to Japan as a political hostages. The second novel series,
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2, covers the second season of the anime series in which Lelouch continues his battle against the Britannian Empire. It was released in four volumes from June 1, 2008 to March 1, 2009. Only the first English volume of this series was released in North America as of April 15, 2010 by Bandai. A single volume side story novel, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Red Tracks (コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ 朱の軌跡 Kōdo Giasu: Hangyaku no Rurūshu Shu no Kiseki) was released on April 1, 2008 in Japan. It focuses on the life of teenage girl
Kallen Stadtfeld who becomes a soldier from the organization the
Black Knights under Lelouch's leadership to defeat Britannia.
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