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With the success of the first season of The Seven Deadly Sins, a we learned this summer about a second season using the subtitle of Revival of the Commandments was coming and a theatrical film as well. The new season is now scheduled for a January 6th, 2018 release with the first key visual out for it as well as a quick hit TV spot. The staffing for this one is changing with Takeshi Furuta directing it with Tomoya Tanaka as the assistant director. Takao Yoshioka is coming on to handle the series composition while Kento Toya is working on the character designs along with returning designer Keigo Sasaki. A-1 Pictures will handle animation production once again.
The first season of the series was directed by Tensai Okamura for A-1 Pictures with Shotaro Suga handling the composition while Keigo Sasaki handled the character designs for it as well as serving as chief animation director.
The Japanese cast includes Yuuki Kaji as Meliodas, Sora Amamiya as Elizabeth, Jun Fukuyama as King, Misaki Kuno as Hawk, Mamoru Miyano as Gilthunder, Rina Satou as Matrona, Tomokazu Sugita as Escanor, Yuki Kaji as Zeldris, Hiroki Touchi as Estarossa, Hiroshi Iwasaki as Galand, M.A.O as Melascula, Daisuke Ono as Drole, Yuusuke Kobayashi as Gloxinia, Kenjirou Tsuda as Monspeet, Ayahi Takagaki as Derieri, Kouji Yusa as Grayroad, and Katsuyuki Konishi as Fraudrin.
The manga is created by Nakaba Suzuki with twenty-five volumes in print so far and over three million copies in circulation total. The manga series began in 2012 and Kodansha Comics is bringing the series out for North American fans in print while Crunchyroll has the digital chapters being published on their site.
Plot Concept: When Holy Knights arrest her family, Princess Elizabeth seeks out a group of legendary warriors known as the Seven Deadly Sins. Finding them is no easy task and her journey takes her to a small tavern run by an unassuming, albeit perverted, barkeep and his talking pig. But this man reveals himself to be Meliodas-the Dragon Sin of Wrath! Agreeing to help her, the two seek out the remaining sins.