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Bandai Ent. Adds Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya Manga
posted on by Egan Loo
Robert Napton, marketing director of the North American anime and manga distributor Bandai Entertainment, has announced after Otakon on Sunday evening that his company licensed Goro Taniguchi and Tomomasa Takuma's Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya (Code Geass: Jet-Black Renya or Code Geass: Renya of the Blackness) manga series. This spinoff from the Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion anime series is part of the launched in Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Shonen Ace magazine this past May. Takuma had previously drawn the Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally and Kurogane Communication manga. This is the first manga that Taniguchi, the director and story co-creator of the original Code Geass television anime series, is directly scripting himself.
The story takes place in the same official Code Geass history as the anime, but in Japan's Edo period over 150 years before our present day. The title character, Renya, is a 17-year-old boy with a mechanical left arm and shuriken throwing stars as his weapons of choice. The story begins when Renya encounters a mysterious, perpetually young witch named "Reifū C.C." C.C. has appeared in historical Japan to seek a new partner for a covenant. Meanwhile, a mysterious man, with a striking resemblance to the character Lelouch of the original anime, also appears with unknown intentions.
Napton announced the license at "Baltiport 2010" — the tongue-in-cheek nickname for the gathering of Otakon industry attendees who have been delayed at the Baltimore Airport for about four hours.
Update: Napton corrected himself and said that Bandai Entertainment has A Record of the Strange Tales of the Bakumatsu Era: Code Geass, not Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya.
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