The Seven Deadly Sins Manga Gets New TV Anime in 2016

Main staff, cast return for more based on Nakaba Suzuki's manga

The Heroic Legend of Arslan television anime ended on Sunday with an announcement that production on a new television anime series for The Seven Deadly Sins manga has been green-lit for next year.

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The returning staff includes:

Original creator: Nakaba Suzuki (serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine)
Director: Tensai Okamura
Series Composition: Shôtarô Suga
Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Keigo Sasaki
Music: Hiroyuki Sawano
Production: A-1 Pictures

The returning cast includes:

Yuuki Kaji as Meliodas
Sora Amamiya as Elizabeth
Misaki Kuno as Hawk
Aoi Yūki as Diane
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Ban
Jun Fukuyama as King
Mamoru Miyano as Gilthunder

Kodansha Comics, the publisher of the manga in North America, describes how the manga's 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 first television anime of the manga premiered in Japan last October, and ended with 24 episodes. The manga also bundled two original video anime projects this summer.