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Animax Asia Airs New Seven Deadly Sins TV Anime on October 9
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Animax Asia announced on Wednesday that it will air The Seven Deadly Sins: Imperial Wrath of The Gods (Nanatsu no Taizai: Kamigami no Gekirin), the new television anime series based on Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins manga, beginning on October 9 at 10:30 p.m. GMT +8.
The anime will premiere in Japan on TV Tokyo and BS TV Tokyo on October 9.
The anime will head toward the story's "climax." The anime is also inspiring a mini-anime spinoff series titled "Pork no Onayami Sōdanshitsu" (Pork's Worries Discussion Room) that began streaming on the anime's official Twitter account on August 1.
The anime features a new main staff, with Studio DEEN producing the anime. (A-1 Pictures handled the previous series and film.) Susumu Nishizawa (The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments storyboards) is directing the new anime, with Rintarou Ikeda (Love and Lies, Hakyū Hōshin Engi, Love Tyrant scripts) in charge of series composition. Rie Nishino (Now and Then, Here and There, Wind: A Breath of Heart) is credited for "animation character setting." Hiroyuki Sawano, Kohta Yamamoto, Takafumi Wada are returning from previous anime installments as the composers.
Sora Amamiya is performing the anime's ending theme song. Amamiya previously performed an ending song for The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments, and also voices the character Elizabeth in the franchise. UVERworld are performing the new opening theme song "ROB THE FRONTIER."
Returning cast members include Yūki 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, and Tomokazu Sugita as Escanor.
Suzuki stated in an August 2018 interview with Kadokawa's Da Vinci magazine that he was planning on concluding The Seven Deadly Sins manga in "about a year," after about 40 volumes' worth of story. He noted that he had the ending planned since the beginning of the manga and that he plans to give it an ending worthy of a shōnen magazine.
The first 24-episode television anime series aired in 2014 and 2015. Netflix later streamed the series with both English and Japanese audio. Animax Asia premiered the first television anime in March 2015. 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 2017. Animax Asia premiered the anime in November 2017. The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments, the second television anime series, premiered in January 2018, and Netflix began streaming the series last October. Animax Asia began airing the series in April 2018.
