Code Geass: Akito the Exiled

Code Geass: Akito The Exiled (コードギアス 亡国のアキト) Code Geass Gaiden: Bōukoku no Akito (The Ruined Land of Akito) is an upcoming OVA. It was officially announced in the bonus materials of Code Geass: The Miraculous Birthday.



Overview
It will be a side story set in in the European war-front and in the same world as the original Code Geass anime, where a unit made of boys and girls from Area 11 is sent into a military operation with a 5% chance of survival to rescue an allied unit left behind. The titular character and (presumably) main protagonist is named Akito Hyuga.

Characters
He has long blue hair, which is tied in a braid, and blue eyes, and is shown in promotional art wielding a katana with a white hilt and square guard. The only other known character thus far is a girl named Layla Malkal, who has very long, blonde hair and blue eyes.

Knightmare Frame
The only other information concerning this series is concept art of an unusual-looking Knightmare Frame, whose appearance suggests Sixth-Generation or later. These Knightmare Frames are special operation units that were originally deveolped in the EU. Akira Yasuda is also returning to design the mechanical Knightmare units.

Script
Kazuki Akane, the same director of escaflowne, is directing off scripts by Shigeru Morita. As in the previous two television series, Takahiro Kimura is adapting CLAMP's original character designs for animation. 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.

Release Date
The release date of Code Geass Gaiden: Akito the Exiled was announced to be released sometime at 2012.

Trailer
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