The Seven Deadly Sins “TV Anime”
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This year's 20th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen
Magazine announced that Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly
Sins (Nanatsu no Taizai) manga is being adapted into a TV Anime. During the combined 36th/37th issue of the
same magazine the cast and staff for the upcoming anime was revealed. The cast includes: Yuuki Kaji (Attack on Titan), Sora Amamiya (Tokyo Ghoul), and Misaki Kuno (Oreimo). The anime will be
created by A-1 Pictures (Fairy Tail, Magi, Sword Art Online) and
will be directed by Tensai
Okamura (Darker
than Black, Blue
Exorcist), will be written by Shōtarō Suga (Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne),
with Keigo Sasaki (Blue Exorcist) providing character designs and Hiroyuki
Sawano composing the music.
Kodansha
Comics, the publisher of the manga in North America, describes
how the story begins:
When they were accused
of trying to overthrow the monarchy, the feared warriors the Seven Deadly
Sins were sent into exile. Princess Elizabeth discovers the truth - the Sins
were framed by the king's guard, the Holy Knights - too late to prevent them
from assassinating her father and seizing the throne!
Now the princess is on
the run, seeking the Sins to help her reclaim the kingdom. But the first Sin
she meets, Meliodas, is a little innkeeper with a talking pig. He doesn't even
have a real sword! Have the legends of the Sins' strength been exaggerated?
The manga already has a crossover chapter with Fairy Tail, another Weekly
Shōnen Magazine fantasy adventure manga that inspired an anime. Nakaba Suzuki
launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2012, and Kodansha
Comics published the third English volume this month. Crunchyroll is posting the
new chapters as they appear in Japan.
Check out the Promotional Video for the TV Anime below.
