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Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments Gets Second Trailer & TV Spot


So.. would this be fourteen deadly sins now?

Earlier today, the official Seven Deadly Sins anime website updated with a new teaser trailer for the show’s upcoming second season, titled The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments (Nanatsu no Taizai: Imashime no Fukkatsu). The promo reveals that Anly will perform closing theme song Beautiful.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6bens9

A 30-second TV spot was also released, which introduces the core story beats that led up to the new season.

Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments will première on January 6, 2018. The show will air at 6:30AM in the “Anime Saturday 630” block.

Takeshi Furuta (The Comic Artist and His Assistants, Utano☆Princesama Legend Star) will direct the project at A-1 Pictures with Tomoya Tanaka working as assistant director. The team of Kento Toya (Nanbaka) and Keigo Sasaki (Blue Exorcist, The Seven Deadly Sins) will provide character designs, while Takao Yoshioka (High School DxD, Watamote) takes charge of series composition.

Other confirmed crew members include:

  • Prop Design: Haruo Miyagawa
  • Color Design: Takahiro Mogi
  • Color Design: Nanako Okazaki
  • Art Director: Hiromichi Itō
  • Art Setting: Iho Narita
  • Director of Photography: Shunya Kimura
  • CG Director: Suguru Karube
  • Editing: Masahiro Goto
  • Music: Hiroyuki Sawano
  • Music: Takafumi Wada
  • Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi

The show’s opening theme will be performed by groups FLOW and GRANRODEO, who care collaborating under the name FLOWxGRANRODEO.

The confirmed cast includes:

Returning Members

  • Meliodas: Yuuki Kaji
  • Elizabeth: Sora Amamiya
  • Hawk: Misaki Kuno
  • Diane: Aoi Yūki
  • Ban: Tatsuhisa Suzuki
  • King: Jun Fukuyama
  • Gowther: Yuuhei Takagi
  • Merlin: Maaya Sakamoto
  • Gilthunder: Mamoru Miyano
  • Hauser: Ryohei Kimura
  • Griamor: Takahiro Sakurai

New Cast

  • Escanor: Tomokazu Sugita
  • Matrona: Rina Satou
  • Zeldris: Yuuki Kaji
  • Estarossa: Hiroki Touchi
  • Galand: Hiroshi Iwasaki
  • Melascula: M.A.O
  • Drole: Daisuke Ono
  • Gloxinia: Yūsuke Kobayashi
  • Monspeet: Kenjiro Tsuda
  • Derieri: Ayahi Takagaki
  • Grayroad: Koji Yusa
  • Fraudrin: Katsuyuki Konishi

The first season of The Seven Deadly Sins debuted in Japan in the fall 2014 broadcast season. Tensai Okamura (Blue Exorcist, Darker than Black) directed the project at A-1 Pictures. Keigo Sasaki (Night Raid 1931, Blue Exorcist) provided character designs, while Shôtarô Suga was in charge of series composition. Netflix currently streams the show as a Netflix Original. Funimation released the series on home video.

A four-episode special, titled The Seven Deadly Sins -Signs of Holy War-, aired in August 2016.

Source: Twitter (pKjd)

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