User blog comment:TonyMutu/Thoughts on Code Geass R1 and R2/@comment-5731965-20130210181024

Having seen both Code Geass and Death Note myself, I'd have to say everything about the former made it much more enjoyable. With the latter story, Kira's fate was pretty much sealed from the moment L died and his successors took the stage (at least, that's what it seemed like to me). However, the story presented in CG was absolutely genius by comparison, and was something I was able to follow enthusiastically until the very end. Even aside from that, the music was beautiful, the characters were deep and entertaining... In general, I didn't find a whole lot of downsides to it.

So yeah, the comparison between the two is something that merely exists. There is a major underlying difference in terms of quality. Aside from that, my conflict is the same as yours, though I'm having a bit of trouble deciding what anime to move onto...