<P> The music for the series was composed by Kōtarō Nakagawa and Hitomi Kuroishi, who had earlier worked with the series' core staff in Planetes and Taniguchi's earlier work Gun X Sword . In addition to the incidental music featured in each episode, Kuroishi also composed numerous insert songs for the series, including "Stories", "Masquerade", "Alone", and "Innocent Days", which were each performed by Kuroishi herself, while "Picaresque" and "Callin"' were performed by the singer - songwriter Mikio Sakai, who had also earlier worked with Nakagawa and Kuroishi in Planetes . The bands FLOW, Ali Project, Jinn, SunSet Swish, Access, and Orange Range have provided songs for the opening and ending themes . </P> <P> When the series was being developed for broadcast on Mainichi Broadcasting System, it had been given the network's Saturday evening prime time slot, which was later changed to a Thursday late night time slot . Due to this change, the overall outlook and some elements of the series were changed and further developed to suit the more mature, late night audience . The supernatural "Geass" ability finally came into the show at this point and was first conceived as a special power granted by an "angel" to the main characters, though this last part was also modified . </P> <P> Code Geass officially premiered on the Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) television station at 25: 25 on October 5, 2006 (01: 25 JST on October 6, 2006). Its satellite television premiere across Japan on Animax was on November 7, 2006 . Upon the airing of the first 23 episodes, the series went on hiatus on March 29, 2007, and completed broadcast of the first series with a contiguous one - hour broadcast of episodes 24 and 25 at 26: 25 on Saturday, July 28, 2007 . </P> <P> The immense popularity of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion followed with the development of its sequel, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2, which was first announced on the March 2007 issue of Newtype and later confirmed by Sunrise producer Yoshitaka Kawaguchi on the series' official staff blog on March 9, 2007 . </P>

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