#Roze of the Recapture Reveals Trailer, Starts May 2024

The next Code Geass anime is set to hit Japanese theaters starting May 2024 with the title of Code Geass: Roze of the Recapture. The show will have four parts.

Code Geass: Roze of the Recapture, originally announced as Code Geass: Z of the Recapture in 2020, will follow the brothers Roze (Kouhei Amasaki) and Ash (Makoto Furukawa). Back then, it was announced that the staff will include Yoshimitsu Oohashi (Kokkoku, Witchblade) as director, Noboru Kimura (Persona5 the Animation, Kokkoku) as scriptwriter (now credited as series composer), manga group CLAMP (Code Geass) as original character designer, and the late Takahiro Kimura (Code Geass: Akito the Exiled, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion compilation movie trilogy) as character designer.

Additional staff credits have now been revealed with a trailer for the anime. They include:

• Character designer: Hidekazu Shimamura (Sing a Bit of Harmony)
• Knightmare frame designer: Junichi Akutsu (Code Geass co-Knightmare designer)
• Mechanical designer: Satoshi Shigeta (Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru: Shichi Kon no Ryuujinmaru co-main animator)
• Main animator: Takahiro Kimura
• Main animator: Hidekazu Shimamura
• Main animator: Seiichi Nakatani (Code Geass)
• Main animator: Satoshi Shigeta
• Main animator: Takashi Hashimoto (High Card)
• Music composer: Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell)

The opening song will be “Running In My Head” by MIYAVI.

Comic Natalie reported that the title change stems from worries about using the “Z” symbol in light of world affairs (the “Z” symbol was used by Russia during the still-ongoing invasion of Ukraine).

The original Code Geass anime series, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, had its first run from 2006 to 2007, while the second season Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 begin airing in 2008. The franchise also includes OVAs, a film series, the Code Geass: Akito the Exiled spin-off series, and various light novels, manga, and video games.

Crunchyroll describes the main series as:

The year is 2017 of the Imperial calendar and parts of the world are under the control of the Holy Britannian Empire. Lelouch Lamperouge, an exiled Britannian prince, encounters a strange girl known as C.C., who gifts him with a great and terrible power. The Geass. With this powerful ability, Lelouch can get anyone to do as he wills. But the power of Geass: is it a blessing…or a curse?