The production team behind Sekiro: No Defeat — the new anime adaptation of FromSoftware’s acclaimed game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice — released a theatrical trailer on Friday, alongside the announcement of several additional staff members.
Theatrical Run
The anime is set to screen in Japanese theaters for three weeks, beginning September 4. The team also issued an official statement on August 22 confirming that no AI tools were used at any stage of the production.
Japanese Voice Cast
All Japanese voice actors from the original game are reprising their roles:
- Daisuke Namikawa as Sekiro
- Miyuki Satō as Kuro
- Kenjirō Tsuda as Genichiro Ashina
- Jin Urayama as the Sculptor
- Shizuka Itō as Emma
- Akimitsu Takase as Hanbei
- Takaya Hashi as Owl
- Tetsuo Kanao as Isshin Ashina
Staff
Kenichi Kutsuna is directing the anime at studio Qzil.la. Takuya Satou is writing the screenplay, Takahiro Kishida (Durarara!!) is handling character design, and Shūta Hasunuma is composing the score.
Additional staff includes:
- Assistant Director: Shunsuke Fukui
- Chief Animation Director: Kaito Mogi
- Action Animation Director: Takashi Mukouda
- Art Director: Yūji Kaneko
- Color Key Artist: Azusa Sasaki
- Compositing Director of Photography: Keisuke Nozawa
- Editor: Yoshinori Murakami
- Sound Director: Yasushi Nagura
- Producer: ARCH
- Liquid Art: Atsushi Harada
- Color Grading: Tatsuya Fukumoto
- Sound Effects: Kiyotaka Kawata
- Pre-Production / Post Production: Studio Betta
Theme Song
The anime’s theme song is “Blu”, taken from composer Ryuichi Sakamoto‘s album The Best of ‘Playing the Orchestra 2014’.
About the Source Game
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is a third-person action-adventure game directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki and published by Activision. Set in a reimagined late-1500s Sengoku-era Japan, players take on the role of a disgraced, one-armed warrior who must rescue his young lord master and take revenge on his nemesis. The game launched on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam in March 2019, selling over 2 million copies worldwide in under 10 days.
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