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.