<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zkZKHHakA14&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zkZKHHakA14&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Watch and listen to it in higher quality here. Some of you may recall how I was saying that FLOW should've been brought back to perform an opening song for CODE GEASS several months back. In addition, you may recall how I felt that their "WORD OF THE VOICE" song used in PERSONA -trinity soul- may have suited CODE GEASS just as well, as some MAD videos have shown us. Well low and behold, as I'm sure everyone's aware of by now, FLOW was brought back for the second opening with this song, "WORLD END", and ALI PROJECT was similarly brought back for the ending theme, "Waga Routashi Aku no Hana" 「わが���たし悪の華」. Given how the series is going now (i.e. with the last 40+ episodes feeling kind of hogwash in light of the recent turn of events), I'm starting to find WORLD END's lyrics a lot more befitting. The PV also does a good job portraying this too, with a barren desert being the most prominent image throughout. Personally, I wasn't a huge fan of this song much when I first heard it back in episode thirteen, but as with most anime songs, it grew on me over time thanks to the inevitable association of it to the series.
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