Hobby Japan opened a website for the anime adaptation of its The 7 Deadly Sins ( Nanatsu no Taizai , not to be confused with the similarly named manga by Nakaba Suzuki ) multimedia project on Friday. The site is streaming a promotional video for the anime, which reveals it will be a television anime titled sin Nanatsu no Taizai .



Kinji Yoshimoto ( Queen's Blade: The Exiled Virgin , Plastic Little ) is directing the anime at TNK and Artland , and he is also credited for story concept, series composition, and color design. ( Eri Umemoto is credited for color design alongside Kinji.) Masashi Suzuki ( The Sacred Blacksmith , Rail Wars! , Queen's Blade: Grimoire ) is the main writer.

Niθ ( Blassreiter , Samurai Girls ) drew the project's original character designs, and Sachiko Yasuda ( Prison School , To Love Ru: Darkness animation director) is adapting the character designs for animation. Yasuda is also credited as chief animation director, alongside Masaru Koseki ( Happiness! , Demon King Daimao ) and Junji Gotō ( School Days , High School DxD , Daimidaler ). Kio Edamatsu ( Magi: Adventure of Sinbad ) is credited with industrial design. Kenta Masuda ( Motto To Love Ru , Blade & Soul ) is the art director, and Sadahime Matsubara ( Queen's Blade: The Exiled Virgin , Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny ) is visual coordinator.

Other staff members include:

Hobby Japan first announced the project in 2012 with a planned two-episode anime that had a different staff. Orchid Seed produced figures for the project.

The cast of characters includes (in the order presented in the video above):



Lucifer - Pride Lucifer - Pride



Leviathan - Envy Leviathan - Envy



Satan - Wrath Satan - Wrath



Belphegor - Sloth Belphegor - Sloth



Mammon - Greed Mammon - Greed



Beelzebub - Gluttony Beelzebub - Gluttony



Asmodeus - Lust Asmodeus - Lust

Source: MoCa News