Ahead of its summer premiere, the site for Code Geass: Akito of the Exiled has been updated with an impressive new key visual for the four part side story.

The first episode hits Japan August 4th, with the other three following seasonally. A special preview screening will be held July 16th at Ikebukuro Cinema Sunshine and Shinjuku Wald 9.

The anime cast is now listed as

Miyu Irono (Sora in Kingdom Hearts, Chizuru Tachibana in You and Me, Young Kiritsugu Emiya in Fate/zero): Akito Hinata



Maaya Sakamoto (Fullmetal Alchemist: Sacred Star of Milos, Escaflowne): Leila Marukaru

Sakamoto will also be singing song from the Escaflowne partnership of Yoko Kanno and Yuho Iwasato.





Satoshi Hino (Bakuman's Akito Takagi, Familiar of Zero's Saito Hiraga, Gintama's Kamui, Naruto Shippuden's Sai): Ryou Sayama



Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Heaven's Memo Pad's Narumi Fujishima): Yukiya Naruse



Yoko Hikasa (K-on!'s Mio Akiyama, Working!!'s Izumi Takanash)i: Ayano Kosaka



Keiji Fujiwara (Gundam 00's Ali al-Saachez, Tiger and Bunny's Jake Martinez): Klaus Warwick



Yuko Kaida (Ikki Tousen's Shimei Ryomō, Princess Resurrection's Liza Wildman): Sophie Rundle



Shinji Kawada (Naruto's Shino Aburame): Lawrence



Ai Kayano (Aquarion Evol's Mikono, Bodacious Space Pirates' Ai Hoshimiya, Chihayafuru's Kanade Ōe): Anna Clement



Unshou Ishizuka (Cowboy Bebop's Jet Black): Ji~in-Sumairasu



Showtaro Morikubo (Naruto's Shikamaru Nara): Oscar Hamel



Mikako Komatsu ( Bodacious Space Pirates' Marika): Kate Novak



Asami Seto (Chihayafuru's Chihaya Ayase, Lagrange's Lan): Ferirri-Barutorou



Nao Toyama (Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere's Margot Knight, Star Driver's Tiger Sugatame_: Chloe Winkel



Hayami Saori (Bakuman's Miho Azuki, Nisemonogatari's as Yotsugi Ononoki): Hilda Fagan



Natsumi Takamori (Another's Mei Misaki): Sarah Deinzu



Mariya Ise (Panty and Stocking's Stocking, Tiger and Bunny's Dragon Kid): Olivia Lowell



Masaya Matsukaze (Jormungand's Kasper): Shin-Shaingu Hyuga



Kenta Miyake (Berserk movies' Nosferatu Zodd): Michele Manfredi



Takehito Koyasu (Gintama's Takasugi Shinsuke): Andrea Farnese





The director for the new season is Kazuki Akane who also directed The Vision of Escaflowne and Noein - to your other self. Akira Yashuda will once again design the mechanical Knightmare units with Shigeru Morita providing script support. Takahiro Kimura will also be returning to adapt CLAMP's original character designs.





Some other design illustrations have also recently been seen online.









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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.