More info about the new project [Update 2]

[valoress.livejournal.com]

According to the official website, Producer Kawaguchi Yoshitaka said the new project involves manga adaptations, music, goods, and video works.
From MAL
Code Geass Official Site
I'm assuming "video works" = new anime

Also, from the Newtype January issue, there's going to be a new manga series serialized in Shonen Ace.


Title: Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya (from ANN)
Left: The Mysterious Man
Center: Renya
Right: Reefuu C.C
More Images: 1 / 2

Starring a NEW main character, Renya, the adventure of “Code Geass” unfolds once more. A new manga script writer, Goro Taniguchi, makes his debut with the newest “Code Geass” project serializing in the monthly magazine, Shonen Ace. A manga series with Taniguchi, the director of the anime, writing the script, and Tomomasa Takuma doing the artwork. “I show much gratitude to both the head editor of Shonen Ace and the manga artist, Mr. Tomomasa Takuma. I’d like to take on this project as a challenge, being an inexperienced manga script writer,” says Goro Taniguchi.

The long-planned project finally comes to materialize. “The new project, ‘Renya of the Dark,’ will be an episode within the ‘Code Geass History.’ There will be stories from two different eras in the same world. The anime featured the ‘Lelouch of the Rebellion’ chapter, and we see this as the ‘Renya of the Dark’ chapter.” This “Code Geass” will be expressed through manga. READ THE REST HERE
Courtesy of gg.

Thanks to dtshyk for the scans/tanslations/info

Comments

[loveheartsalone.livejournal.com]

WHAT NO THAT'S NOT LULUKO AND SUZUKA??? LIES!!!
This just got a whole lot less interesting...

...On the other hand, what it C.C. gonna do without her pizza?
And

AND

WHERE IS ORANGE-KUN D

[rolololo.livejournal.com]

...WHAT AM I LOOKING AT.

[ratsandwich.livejournal.com]

DO NOT WANT.

Holy hell. I mean, I'm as huge a Geass fan as the next guy, but this was just... abso-fucking-lutely wrong in all the worst kinds of ways. Wow. I'm so disappointed. So much forgetting my damn hopes up for something better. Ugh.

The only thing that's going to make me watch/read (this will be a manga, you said? BLEURGH.) this thing is if it's got a male Lelouch. Not a female version of him, I want the real deal (or however you can get that in an AU).

The only thing I'm interested in about this tripe is, I wonder if that chick is the one they originally planned for to be Zero in R2 before the executive meddling?

[cryingcat613.livejournal.com]

Executive meddling? Please expound.

[ratsandwich.livejournal.com]

To quote TVtropes' page (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExecutiveMeddling)

"Code Geass suffered this from Day 1; the initial series plan involved an idealistic rookie soldier and his ideological conflicts with his battle-hardened C.O.; when Sunrise rejected this concept, the creators took it back to formula and, with input from CLAMP, made it the show it is today."
-More recently, the show's director/co-creator stated in an interview that thanks to being Screwed By The Network and having the show moved from its original timeslot to an entirely different one (forcing them to try to appeal to the old fans as well as a new demographic that hadn't even seen the first season), they essentially had to throw out their original plans for the show's second half, adding in a one-year Time Skip and starting from there.

And from What Could Have Been (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WhatCouldHaveBeen/Anime)

"Before the Executive Meddling that turned the second season of Code Geass into what it is today kicked in, the writing staff had come up with two scenarios. The one that they were going to go with involved Lelouch being imprisoned in Brittania and later breaking himself out of prison and running in a political election against Schneizel. The other scenario involved a girl named Lycia imitating Zero and taking control of the Black Knights, confusing them greatly when they find out their leader's gender. Because of this, Lelouch is forced to join the Black Knights as himself, and gets picked on by Tamaki."

[cryingcat613.livejournal.com]

Ooh, do like. Thanks!

[katsura-shinju.livejournal.com]

and gets picked on by Tamaki

Pfft, I would have liked to see this. xD

[rurushuu.livejournal.com]

If this is going to be the new Code Geass then it has lost its point.

Can someone please explain, is this a manga or anime? Iam apparently too dumb to get it.

[valoress.livejournal.com]

If you're referring to Shikkoku no Renya, then yes, it's a manga.
We're not sure if this will be the manga adaptions listed within this project though.

[dr-weir-uk.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, i was hoping they would carry on from R2. :( Still it might be good.

[dr-weir-uk.livejournal.com]

Just clicked on the link and learned it is after R2. Now I'm more disappointed. :( Sounds too radical for my taste....

[snowdevil-crow.livejournal.com]

what after R2.

Damn.

DAMN.

I was getting my happy pants on for CC's past.

):

[spongefan1.livejournal.com]

W-What is this I don't even..

You know what, I am really just hoping for more of DAT ASS at this point.

[biodamper.livejournal.com]

YOUR ICON - it reflects my feelings

[stratergy-love.livejournal.com]

Looks...like fail?

[carlen01.livejournal.com]

Hm... now that I've read the updated post... not sure how to feel about this one. Is it just a new manga coming out, or is there also going to be anime?

[unforgiven46.livejournal.com]

This is only my guessing, but if you think back to the ending of R2 , to the wagon at the end.. Well that doesnt seem that it was in the same era with all the mecha that we knew... It makes me wonder if this manga and that ending are linked..?

[demyx.livejournal.com]

Ohh, so it's a new brand series?

I always liked the world of CG more than the characters, SO I WELCOME THIS. I see why it's not an anime though. LOL Oh well. I just hope people are interested enough to scanlate it. :/

[biodamper.livejournal.com]

WHAT IS THIS D:

[vanillarouge.livejournal.com]

THIS.

[sky]

Huh... I dunno.

It's not really Code Geass without Lelouch. :\

[kirayamato44.livejournal.com]

Huh? What? No Jun Jun or Sakupyon....Why Sunrise?....Come on Sunrise.....
I need my Lulu....

Edo Geass, huh?

[anaakin.livejournal.com]

"Video works" doesn't say "anime" for me, at all.

More like Gundam seed Destiny, with all the AMC, Seed destiny club clips, Epetial edition stuff and things like that.
It's Sunrise, after all. And "video works" seems really different of "anime"

[xdestiny94.livejournal.com]

when is it coming out? D:

[vanillarouge.livejournal.com]

BECAUSE LELOUCH WITH LONG HAIR AND LOOKING GENERALLY GAY IS SO MISTERIOUS.

You amaze me, Sunrise.