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Bandai Ent. Adds Bakumatsu Era: Code Geass Manga (Update 2)

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.

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 Gun Zi (Ganjii)'s A Record of the Strange Tales of the Bakumatsu Era: Code Geass (Bakumatsu Ibun-roku Code Geass - Hangyaku no Lelouch), not Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya. This alternate telling re-imagines the characters of the Code Geass anime as historical players during Japan's Bakumatsu era. The manga ran in Kadokawa Shoten's Kerokero Ace magazine in 2008, and one compiled book volume was published.

Update 2: Napton and Funimation representative Lance Heiskell are entertaining questions in this article's forum thread for the duration of their flight as part of Baltiport 2010.