2 rock bands previously collaborated on 1st anime's 1st ending

The official website for The Seven Deadly Sins anime franchise unveiled the opening theme song artists, January 6 premiere date, first promotional video, and a new visual for the new season, The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments (Nanatsu no Taizai: Imashime no Fukkatsu), on Saturday.

The groups FLOW and GRANRODEO are collaborating on the new season's opening theme song, after working on the first anime series' first ending theme song. The series will premiere at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 6 (4:30 p.m. EST on Friday, January 5) on MBS, TBS, and other network affiliates throughout Japan.

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 Yuuhei Takagi as Gowther Maaya Sakamoto as Merlin Mamoru Miyano as Gilthunder Ryohei Kimura as Hauser Takahiro Sakurai as Griamor

The new cast includes:

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

The staff includes:

Director: Takeshi Furuta Assistant Director: Tomoya Tanaka Series Composition: Takao Yoshioka Character Design: Kento Toya, Keigo Sasaki Prop Design: Haruo Miyagawa Color Design: Takahiro Mogi, Nanako Okazaki Art Director: Hiromichi Itou Art Setting: Iho Narita Director of Photography: Shunya Kimura CG Director: Suguru Karube Editing: Masahiro Goto Music: Hiroyuki Sawano, Takafumi Wada Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi Production: A-1 Pictures

Weekly Shōnen Magazine had revealed in September 2016 that a new television anime series for the franchise was in the works. An anime film will also open next summer.

Nakaba Suzuki launched the original manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2012, and Kodansha published the manga's 27th volume in Japan on July 14. Crunchyroll is posting new chapters of the manga online as they appear in Japan. Kodansha Comics published the manga's 22nd volume in English in print in September.

The manga inspired a 24-episode television anime series that aired in 2014 and 2015. Netflix later streamed the series with both English and Japanese audio, and Funimation released the series in two parts on home video.

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.

The franchise also includes several spinoff manga, novels, original video anime episodes, and video games. Bandai Namco Entertainment is developing The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britannia (Nanatsu no Taizai: Britannia no Tabibito) video game for the PlayStation 4, which is getting a release in the West in early 2018.

Thanks to Dennis R for the embedded video.

Source: Comic Natalie