Funimation Unveils the English Voice Cast for Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection
Code Geass (TV Series –) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb
The film opened on February 9 in theaters in Japan. The movie debuted at 5 at the Japanese box office, and earned Funimation will screen the film in North America on May 5 subtitled , and on May dubbed , after screening the film at Seattle's Sakura-Con convention this weekend. The film will also screen in Canada: screenings on May 5 will be in Japanese with English subtitles, while screenings on May 9 and 10 will be English dubbed. Director Goro Taniguchi and many of the key staff members returned for the movie.
The series focus around a former prince of the Holy Britannian Empire, Lelouch Vi Britannia , who obtains a mysterious power known as Geass and uses said power to destroy the Holy Britannian Empire, a superpower that controls one third of the world and has recently conquered Japan , and to discover the truth behind his mother's death, as well as the various people that he encounters as he heads toward those goals. The fictional characters in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion were designed by the manga studio Clamp. Clamp's finalized original character design art, illustrated by its lead artist Mokona , was subsequently converted into animation character designs for the series by Sunrise's character designer Takahiro Kimura , who had previously spent "every day" analyzing Clamp's art and style from their artbooks and manga series.
Set in an alternate timeline , the series follows the exiled prince Lelouch vi Britannia , who obtains the "power of absolute obedience" from a mysterious woman named C. Using this supernatural power, known as Geass, he leads a rebellion against the rule of the Holy Britannian Empire , commanding a series of mecha battles. The series has also been adapted into various manga and light novels with the former showing various alternate scenarios from the TV series. A compilation film trilogy that recapped the events from both seasons of the anime series, with altered storylines for various characters, was released in and A new film, titled Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection , taking place after the Zero Requiem of the recap films' universe, was released in theaters in February