Story:
The narrative is simple enough. Nunnally and Lelouch are sitting together when Nunnally mentions missing hearing him tell stories. So, Lelouch summons the cast of the anime to tell her a variation of Alice in Wonderland with her as the protagonist.
Honestly, the biggest problem with the narrative is that it comes across as very low effort. Take a famous, public domain story, abridge the hell out of it, put in some nods to your series and boom. It doesn't help that the story they're using is as over-used as Romeo and Juliet or A Christmas Carol. If they actually had used a lesser known Carroll story, it would have at least felt a bit more unique.
For positives, its basically a passable version of the story. And it is hard to get too critical with something that's wholly bonus content. Not that that would stop me if they'd done a really bad job.
Characters:
What this special gives us in terms of characterisation is brief snippets of each character's personality. A lot of them only show up for around thirty seconds. Which means that their personalities don't really shine nor does it do anything particularly new with anyone. It relies on you already knowing what they're like. Which is a reasonable expectation given that it's bundled with the home release.
Art:
The art does generally look good. I'm not the biggest fan of the character designs. I still think they're overly thin and stretched but the backgrounds do look good and the Wonderland inspiration does shine through. My issue is that there's virtually no animation to speak of. Most of the special uses still images like it's trying to be a visual novel. This also has, quite possibly, the worst action sequence of all time when Suzaku fights Gino. I know we're not supposed to be taking this seriously but it's not even a funny sequence.
Sound:
You can't fault the actors. They deliver good performances. The music is nicely composed as well.
Ho-yay:
This special makes the odd decision of putting Cornelia & Euphemia in married roles. Out of all the possible people, you decided to present sisters as married? I know there's a portion of the fanbase that's into that, but it still seems odd.
Areas of Improvement:
Put more personality into it. I get that it's a bonus but you could have some effort.
Actually animate it.
Have fewer characters and longer scenes. I get that you wanted as many Code Geass characters as possible, but you really don't need them all.
Final Thoughts:
Ultimately, this just feels a bit pointless and lazy. If you really want to see the cast of this series in an abridged version of Wonderland, I guess this is for you. But I've honestly seen so many variations of this story done so much better. For bonus content, it's better than nothing but not very exciting. I'll give it a 5/10.
