The Seven Deadly Sins new season is a fact and the staff of the series has finally revealed new information. During the "Nanatsu no Taizai FES" event held today in Tokyo, the premiere, the title and the cast of the series were announced, while the first teaser video has aired. The new anime series will be titled The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of the Commandments and will premiere in January 2018.

The teaser video: 

 

The staff and cast will return to their original roles with:

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 anime will be directed by Takeshi Furuta with Tomoya Tanaka as the assistant director at A-1 Pictures. Takao Yoshioka will return to the series composition, while Kento Toya and Keigo Sasaki are responsible for the character design. The composition of the music will be held by Hiroyuki Sawano and Takafumi Wada.

During the event, the new visual was also revealed: 

In addition, it was announced that a new anime film will be released in summer 2018. More information will be revealed at a later date. You can watch the teaser video here.

Nakaba Suzuki launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2012. The first 24-episode television series was released in 2014 and completed in 2015. In August 2016, a special four-episode television anime titled The Seven Deadly Sins - Signs of Holy War- premiered. Several spinoff manga, novels, OVAs and games have been based on its story, the latest of which is titled The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britannia (Nanatsu no Taizai: Britannia no Tabibito) and is getting a release in the West in early 2018 by Bandai Namco Entertainment.

 

Source: animenewsnetwork.com