Code Geass: Star Chaser Aspal Reveals Main Visual, Cast and 2027 Event Screenings

I have been waiting to see what a new Code Geass series would look like once it stepped away from Britannia, and the official site answered that on November 5. Code Geass: Star Chaser Aspal dropped its main visual, named its leads, and confirmed how the show will reach an audience: event screenings begin in 2027, with advance preview screenings starting that January.

The visual is a lot to take in, in the best way. A woman's severed head, with flowing purple hair and a sharp blue eye, shares the frame with a dark-haired boy mid-shout, pale knights, and a sleek machine that looks ready for war. It is unmistakably Code Geass, and it is also something new.

Ivan Shibata, who voices Hiroto in Kaiju No. 8, plays Aspal, a slave boy living in Neapolis, capital of the Roman Empire in the year 606 of the Divine Era. Hibiku Yamamura, Agott in Witch Hat Atelier, plays Zoé, a mysterious lady who, the official synopsis says, lives only as a severed head. Their meeting is the spark. Citizens are suffering under Emperor Phokas's oppressive policies and endless wars against neighboring countries, and that encounter raises the curtain on a new story.

Kazuya Nomura, the director of Run with the Wind and Moriarty the Patriot, helms the series at Sunrise, with series composition by Mado Nozaki and character designs by Rolua. Yoshi. designs the Agalmata. The original story comes from Ichiro Okouchi and Goro Taniguchi, the pairing behind the franchise. Comments from Nomura, Nozaki, Shibata and Yamamura also went up on the official site the same day.

I still want a regular broadcast window, but a 2027 event-screening plan with January previews is a real date, not a vague “coming soon.” I will be watching for the next update.

Read the official announcement. The series also has a page on anime.day.