Actual news!

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

So, it's that time when all the Japanese magazines start to leak early, and this month has a whole bunch of new stuff for Code Geass.

Firstly: A new Super Robot Wars game is coming out on PSP, and it includes Code Geass.

Rumours floating around certain forums are that Super Robot Wars Z II: Hakai-Hen is the first part of a two-game series, and as such will be including only the first parts of certain new series, like Gurren Lagann, or the first series of others - including Code Geass. This game is due out April 14th; no news on when the second game, assumedly including R2 will be coming up.

The ANN report links a Japanese post with scans, including some Lancelot pictures.

ETA: And the first trailer will apparently be online January 12th, if you're looking out for that.

And what is probably much bigger news: Newtype has character art for Boukoku no Akito




And some individual pictures with details about the two of them:



Anyone care to translate them? What I'm hearing is the girl is named Layla and the boy is Hyuga Akito, and she's his "boss", but that's completely unsubstantiated.


I've yet to see scans of the accompanying article, so I can't tell you anything about what plot details it may contain, and it seems we still haven't got confirmation as to if this is an OVA or a TV series. If anyone finds anything else out or sees some better scans, let us know!

(Also the first volume of the Renya manga is due out later this month. The article also had a small picture of it's cover, if anyone wants me to post that.)

But anyway: Discuss.

Comments

[defade.livejournal.com]

Hyuga Akito
An Eleven belonging to the EU army. During year 2017, in the hellish European battlefront, he takes up a military operation with 5% survival rate as a soldier who has lost his hometown

Leira
The heroine and Akito's superior. Wears a peculiar costume. Does not seem to be Japanese, and has a refined, almost princess-like air about her?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

has a refined, almost princess-like air about her?

So that's why 2ch is speculating she's secretly a Britannian princess.

[kiraya.livejournal.com]

The eyes got me even before the translation. Who aside from the Britannias (and Rolo, who I'm not unconvinced is a bastard son) has purple eyes in this universe, really?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

The fact her colouring is not dissimilar to another sekrit Britannian princess (http://community.livejournal.com/code_geass/1589396.html) did not escape my notice.

[otakukeith.livejournal.com]

She also looks kinda like a female Lelouch with Clovis' hair colour to me.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

It was mentioned on 4chan that she also looks something like V.V., but with a fringe (http://oreno.imouto.org/post/show/61062/code_geass-kawaguchi_rie-male-transparent_png-vect).

And, you know, not stuck as a pre-pubescent boy.

[scribblestorm.livejournal.com]

that...sounds about right, actually. though the little hair...buns? (what are those) kind of invoke visions of Euphy for me.

thanks for sharing!

[otakukeith.livejournal.com]

WITH YOUR HAIRSTYLES COMBINED, I AM CAPTAIN LEIRA BRITANNIA!

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Marianne vi Britannia, a commoner, had them (although you can kind of argue that they're blue in certain light). Which raises a lot more questions than it answers, because yeah other than Rolo everybody else with purple eyes has confirmed royal blood, and iirc the royal children and Charles ALL have purple eyes.
This is the reason that I, too, took one look at the close-up of the girl's face and said, "OK she's a Britannian princess, she's got purple eyes." She also has a similar hair color to Charles, Nunnally, and V.V. The tease in the character description is just icing on the cake.

[robotlove.livejournal.com]

Sounds great. Thanks for translating!

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the translation!

Hyuga Akito
An Eleven belonging to the EU army. During year 2017, in the hellish European battlefront, he takes up a military operation with 5% survival rate as a soldier who has lost his hometown

An Eleven belonging to the EU army
wtf how does that work I don't even

[kusaja.livejournal.com]

There were Poles in the Royal Air Force during World War II after all, so I guess Akito escaped to Europe in order to CONTINUE TO FIGHT. Or something along those lines.

i continue to fiiiiiight

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

Alright, that would make sense. Go join a powerful group of nations who can and will fight Britannia.
I guess the terminology kind of threw me too; even though he wouldn't be under Britannian rule, he's still referred to as an Eleven.