2 rock bands previously collaborated on 1st anime's 1st ending

The official website for the Seven Deadly Sins anime franchise unveiled the opening theme song artists, January 6 premiere date, first promotional video, and a new visual for the new season, The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments ( Nanatsu no Taizai: Imashime no Fukkatsu ), on Saturday.





The groups FLOW and GRANRODEO are collaborating on the new season's opening theme song, after working on the first anime series' first ending theme song. The series will premiere at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 6 (4:30 p.m. EST on Friday, January 5) on MBS, TBS, and other network affiliates throughout Japan.

The returning cast includes:

Yuuki Kaji as Meliodas

Sora Amamiya as Elizabeth

Misaki Kuno as Hawk

Aoi Yūki as Diane

Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Ban

Jun Fukuyama as King

Yuuhei Takagi as Gowther

Maaya Sakamoto as Merlin

Mamoru Miyano as Gilthunder

Ryohei Kimura as Hauser

Takahiro Sakurai as Griamor

The new cast includes:

Tomokazu Sugita as Escanor

Rina Satou as Matrona

Yuuki Kaji as Zeldris

Hiroki Touchi as Estarossa

Hiroshi Iwasaki as Galand

M.A.O as Melascula

Daisuke Ono as Drole

Yūsuke Kobayashi as Gloxinia

Kenjiro Tsuda as Monspeet

Ayahi Takagaki as Derieri

Koji Yusa as Grayroad

Katsuyuki Konishi as Fraudrin

The staff includes:

Director: Takeshi Furuta

Assistant Director: Tomoya Tanaka

Series Composition: Takao Yoshioka

Character Design: Kento Toya, Keigo Sasaki

Prop Design: Haruo Miyagawa

Color Design: Takahiro Mogi, Nanako Okazaki

Art Director: Hiromichi Itou

Art Setting: Iho Narita

Director of Photography: Shunya Kimura

CG Director: Suguru Karube

Editing: Masahiro Goto

Music: Hiroyuki Sawano, Takafumi Wada

Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi

Production: A-1 Pictures

Weekly Shonen Magazine had revealed in September 2016 that a new television anime series for the franchise was in the works. An anime film will also open next summer.

Nakaba Suzuki launched the original manga in Weekly Shonen Magazine in 2012, and Kodansha published the manga's 27th volume in Japan on July 14. Crunchyroll is posting new chapters of the manga online as they appear in Japan. Kodansha Comics published the manga's 22nd volume in English in print in September.

The manga inspired a 24-episode television anime series that aired in 2014 and 2015. Netflix later streamed the series with both English and Japanese audio, and Funimation released the series in two parts on home video.

A four-episode television anime special titled The Seven Deadly Sins -Signs of Holy War- then premiered in August 2016. Netflix began streaming the series in February.

The franchise also includes several spinoff manga, novels, original video anime episodes, and video games. Bandai Namco Entertainment is developing The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britannia ( Nanatsu no Taizai: Britannia no Tabibito ) video game for the PlayStation 4, which is getting a release in the West in early 2018.

Thanks to Dennis R for the embedded video.

Source: Comic Natalie