Netflix started streaming an English-subtitled trailer on Friday for the second part of The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh (Nanatsu no Taizai: Ensa no Edinburgh), the new two-part anime film series based on Nakaba Suzuki’s The Seven Deadly Sins manga.
The trailer unveils and offers a glimpse of the film’s theme song “odd:I” by SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Akihito Okano, while also announcing the film’s global debut on Netflix on August 8.
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The first part of The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh premiered worldwide on Netflix in December 2022. Yuuki Kaji reprises his role as Meliodas from the main series, with Mikako Komatsu voicing Meliodas’ son Tristan as a child, and Ayumu Murase as Tristan as a teenager.
Other cast members include:
- Shino Shimoji as Kurumiru
- Aoi Yūki as Diane
- Jun Fukuyama as King
- Sora Amamiya as Elizabeth
- Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Ban
- Kouki Uchiyama as a fairy
- Yōhei Azakami as Deathpierce
- Yuuhei Takagi as Gowther
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Priest
- Shinnosuke Tokudome as Tyrone
- Makoto Koichi as Minika
The project features a fresh original story crafted by the manga’s author Nakaba Suzuki, centered around Meliodas’ son Tristan. Netflix describes the tale:
Fourteen years after the Kingdom of Liones defeated the Demon Clan and brought peace to the realm, Prince Tristan grapples with his struggle to control two immense powers: the Demon Clan power of his father, Meliodas, the Dragon Sin of Wrath and former captain of the Seven Deadly Sins, and the Goddess Clan power of his mother, Elizabeth. When Elizabeth’s life is threatened, Tristan flees to the kingdom of Edinburgh, where Deathpierce, a former member of the Holy Knights group Pleiades of the Azure Sky, resides in his castle. But what are Deathpierce’s true intentions?
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The wheel of destiny starts turning, entangling even The Seven Deadly Sins…
Bob Shirahata directs the films, with Noriyuki Abe serving as the supervising director. Rintarou Ikeda pens the scripts, while Alfred Imageworks and Marvy Jack handle the animation. Kohta Yamamoto and Hiroyuki Sawano compose the music. SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:XAI performs the theme song “Lemonade” for the first film.
Sources | Netflix’s anime YouTube channel, Comic Natalie
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