Yesterday I told you about a new Code Geass having been green-lit with more info to come in 2010; however it seems the gun has been jumped as a new manga series was announced in the latest issue of Newtype (which is actually the January issue of 2010 so I guess there was no real gun-jumping). This new manga series is called Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya (Shikkoku no Renya can be translated as either Renya of Jet-black or Jet-black Renya) and takes place in during the Edo period which spanned 1603 through 1868; however, if it is actually in Japan I am not sure, although it seems most likely.
Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya will be drawn by Tomomasa Takuma who also did the spin-off manga Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnaly. The storywriter (or “scripter”) of Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya will be the original story co-creator (together with Ichirou Oukouchi) and director of the Code Geass anime (including Code Geass R2), Gorou Taniguchi which suggests that unlike other Code Geass manga spin-offs, this new manga may actually be a canon prequel to the anime series.
The story is about a 17 year old boy called Renya with a mechanical arm, C.C. (of course), and a man that looks just like Lelouch from the original anime who was some sort of spooky power. Exciting!
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