The official website for the television anime of Nakaba Suzuki 's The Seven Deadly Sins manga began streaming a second promotional video on Friday for Nanatsu no Taizai -Seisen no Shirushi- ( The Seven Deadly Sins -Signs of Holy War- ), the four-episode television anime special. The video previews the special's all-new original story, which Suzuki himself wrote. (Note: The original linked video is region-locked to Japan.)





The site's homepage also posted a special image to celebrate the character Gilthunder's birthday on Friday. The site previously streamed two ads for the anime earlier this month.

The television special will premiere on August 28, and will air on MBS and TBS on Sundays at 5:00 p.m for four weeks.

Tomokazu Tokoro ( Hellsing Ultimate , Haibane Renmei ) is directing the anime at A-1 Pictures . Yuniko Ayana ( Girls Beyond the Wasteland , Hello!! KINMOZA ) writing and overseeing the scripts, and Yuichiro Kido ( Gatchaman Crowds insight ) is also writing the scripts. Keigo Sasaki is returning to design the characters, Tomoko Sudo (animation director for Oreshura , Silver Spoon ) is the chief animation director, and Hiroyuki Sawano and Takafumi Wada are composing the music. MUCC is performing the opening theme song "CLASSIC." Alisa Takigawa is performing the ending theme song "Iroasenai Hitomi."

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

Mamoru Miyano as Gilthunder

Takahiro Sakurai as Griamor

Ryohei Kimura as Hauser

Maaya Sakamoto as Merlin

Yuuhei Takagi as Gowther

The first television anime of the manga premiered in Japan last October, and ended with 24 episodes. The manga also bundled two original video anime projects last summer.

Thanks to Dennis R. for the embedded video.

[Via Ota-Suke]