Code Geass: Star Chaser Aspal Reveals Main Visual, Synopsis

Following September’s teaser trailer, a main visual for Code Geass: Star Chaser Aspal has now been released, along with lead cast details, additional staff reveals, a look at the Agalmata Chronos, and the upcoming anime’s synopsis.

Ivan Shibata is playing Aspal (stylized in the synopsis as “ASPAL”), a slave living in the capital of the Roman Empire during the year 606 of the Divine Era. The story will see Aspal crossing paths with Hibiku Yamamura‘s “mysterious” character Zoe (similarly stylized as “ZOE”), or at least, Zoe’s head, as the empire suffers under the rule of its emperor Phokas.

For the newly revealed staff credits they are:

• Original story: Ichiro Okouchi (Code Geass)
• Original story: Goro Taniguchi (Code Geass)
• Concept designer: Lin Junbun (Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX co-design works artist)
• Sub-character designer: Yumiko Nakamura
• Sub-character designer: Madoka Hirayama
• Sub-character designer: Kumi Horii
• Sub-character designer: Hiroki Nagao
• Sub-character designer: Moaang (Goodbye, Lara ending storyboard artist and unit director, Akebi’s Sailor Uniform Episode 7 storyboard artist)
• Seated-Soul designer: Isasa
• Cockpit designer: Kijima Hisayoshi
• Design works: Ichinogi
• XENEX designer: Entei Ryu
• Effect designer: Kanta Suzuki
• Setting researcher: Seiichi Shirato
• Assistant director: Shinnosuke Ito
• Background art director: Yoshio Tanioka
• Color designer: Naomi Nakano
• 3DCG director: Takayuki Shigekawa
• Compositing director: Kenji Fujita
• Music composer: Taro Iwashiro
• Sound director: Kisuke Koizumi

Code Geass: Star Chaser Aspal‘s (Code Geass: Hoshioi no Aspal) release date continues to be an unspecified point in 2027, but it has been announced that early test screenings will begin in January. There will also be a screening event (or events) for the anime.

Here’s the synopsis in full:

In 606 D.E. (Divine Era).

Citizens of the Roman Empire are suffering from Emperor Phokas’s oppressive policies and endless wars against neighboring countries.

One day, “ASPAL,” a slave boy living in Neapolis the empire’s capital, meets a mysterious lady named “ZOÉ,” who lives only as a severed head.

The encounter between Aspal and Zoé raises the curtain on a new story.

Code Geass: Star Chaser Aspal is the latest anime title in the Code Geass franchise. The original Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion anime, which ran from 2006 to 2008 with two seasons, saw the titular exiled Britannian prince attaining a special power called Geass and entering the conflict between the Holy Britannian Empire and those rebelling against it.

Other anime entries include OVAs, a recap film series with continuity differences, a sequel to the recaps titled Code Geass Lelouch of the Re;surrection, and the Code Geass: Akito the Exiled spin-off series. 2024 saw the release of the sequel Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, which was released on Disney+ and had theatrical screenings in Japan.

Production credits

• Director: Kazuya Nomura (Moriarty the Patriot)
• Series composer: novelist Mado Nozaki (Hello World scriptwriter)
• Character designer: illustrator Rolua
• Agarumata designer: modeler Yoshi.
• Original work, planning, animation production: Sunrise

Source: Code Geass: Star Chaser Aspal website