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Hobby Japan's The 7 Deadly Sins Multimedia Project Gets TV Anime

Hobby Japan opened a website for the anime adaptation of its The 7 Deadly Sins (Nanatsu no Taizai, not to be confused with the similarly named manga by Nakaba Suzuki) multimedia project on Friday. The site is streaming a promotional video for the anime, which reveals it will be a television anime titled sin Nanatsu no Taizai.

Kinji Yoshimoto (Queen's Blade: The Exiled Virgin, Plastic Little) is directing the anime at TNK and Artland, and he is also credited for story concept, series composition, and color design. (Eri Umemoto is credited for color design alongside Kinji.) Masashi Suzuki (The Sacred Blacksmith, Rail Wars!, Queen's Blade: Grimoire) is the main writer.

Niθ (Blassreiter, Samurai Girls) drew the project's original character designs, and Sachiko Yasuda (Prison School, To Love Ru: Darkness animation director) is adapting the character designs for animation. Yasuda is also credited as chief animation director, alongside Masaru Koseki (Happiness!, Demon King Daimao) and Junji Gotō (School Days, High School DxD, Daimidaler). Kio Edamatsu (Magi: Adventure of Sinbad) is credited with industrial design. Kenta Masuda (Motto To Love Ru, Blade & Soul) is the art director, and Sadahime Matsubara (Queen's Blade: The Exiled Virgin, Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny) is visual coordinator.

Other staff members include:

• Director of Photography: Satoshi Fujita (Motto To Love Ru, Corpse Party: Tortured Souls)
• Editing: Masaki Sakamoto (Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace, Kanon)
• Sound Director: Hiroto Morishita (Monster Musume, AOKANA: Four Rhythm Across the Blue)
• Music: Masaru Yokoyama (Your Lie in April, Queen's Blade: The Exiled Virgin), Hiroaki Tsutsumi (Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid-, Orange)

Hobby Japan first announced the project in 2012 with a planned two-episode anime that had a different staff. Orchid Seed produced figures for the project.

The cast of characters includes (in the order presented in the video above):

Lucifer - Pride

Leviathan - Envy

Satan - Wrath

Belphegor - Sloth

Mammon - Greed

Beelzebub - Gluttony

Asmodeus - Lust

Source: MoCa News