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Code Geass: Akito the Exiled Gets U.S. Premiere Screening at Otakon
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Maryland anime convention Yoshitaka Kawaguchi will attend the screening and will hold a Q&A session.
The Code Geass: Akito the Exiled series is a spinoff of the original Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion television anime series. Set in between the two seasons of the original series during the Britannian invasion of Europe, Akito the Exiled centers around Akito Hyuga, a member of the "W-0" unit, a suicide outfit of exiled Japanese (Elevens) sent to the battlefield to perform dangerous missions against Britannia, with only a 5% survival rate.
The first episode debuted in Japan with a theatrical screening in 2012, and the fifth and final episode opened in theaters in Japan on February 6. All five Japanese home video releases of the episodes contain English subtitles. Funimation licensed the series in 2013.
Kazuki Akane (Ichirō Ōkouchi are credited with the original story.
The original television anime Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion premiered in Japan in 2006, while license of the series in 2013.
Otakon's previously announced guests include LeSean Thomas.
The Otakon Matsuri street festival will be held on August 11 at Baltimore's West Shore Park. Persona series rapper perform at Otakon Matsuri.
