Code Geass Gaiden: Bōkoku no Akito - New Anime Series Announced

Thursday, September 02nd

The Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Kiseki no Birthday event video release is announcing a new anime project called Code Geass Gaiden Bōkoku no Akito on Friday. The side story is set in the European warfront, where a unit made of boys and girls from Zone Eleven is sent into a military operation with a 5% chance of survival.

The BIGLOBE website began streaming the event video at midnight on Friday. The event video is also available in Japan on Blu-ray, DVD, and UMD.

Kazuki Akane (Escaflowne, Noein - to your other self, Birdy the Mighty Decode) is directing off scripts by Shigeru Morita (Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, Toward the Terra, Blood+). As in the previous two television series, Takahiro Kimura is adapting CLAMP's original character designs for animation. Akira Yasuda is also returning to design the mechanical Nightmare units. The anime studio Sunrise, the previous Code Geass director Goro Taniguchi, and the previous series script supervisor Ichiro Okouchi are credited with the original story.

The new side story is set in a.t.b.2017. A Knightmare unit made of boys and girls from Zone Eleven are thrown into a military operation with a 5% chance of survival. They must rescue an allied unit left behind on the European warfront.

We at Refrain are extremely excited about this new announcement. We plan on updating with new information as soon as it comes to our attention. In the meantime, hang out around our forums and talk about Code Geass, or just anime in general.

What is Code Geass?

In the year 2010 a.t.b. The Holy Empire of Britannia completed its takeover of Japan, using its superior technology of the Knightmare Frames, a humanoid type of mecha. Britannia renames Japan Area 11, and forces all Japanese to become known as Elevens, in an effort to strip the Japanese of their culture and identity. Seven years later, a Britannian high school student named Lelouch Lamperouge is going down the highway in Area 11 with his friend Rivalz when they become mixed up in a terrorist plot to steal a bomb containing deadly gas from Britannia. Lelouch and the bomb become separated from the terrorists only to meet with his childhood friend Suzaku Kururugi with whom he and his sister Nunally had escaped from Britannia to live in Area 11, but has now become an honorary Britannian soldier. The "poison gas" bomb opens and it is revealed to instead be a container for a live girl...


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