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UVERworld Perform New Seven Deadly Sins TV Anime's Opening Theme Song

The official website for Nanatsu no Taizai: Kamigami no Gekirin (The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods), the new television anime series based on Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins manga, revealed on Friday that UVERworld are performing the new opening theme song "ROB THE FRONTIER." VAP began streaming a trailer that previews the song.

The anime will premiere this fall, and will head toward the story's "climax" with 40 episodes. The anime is also inspiring a mini-anime spinoff series titled "Pork no Onayami Sōdanshitsu" (Pork's Worries Discussion Room) that began streaming on the anime's official Twitter account on August 1.

The anime features a new main staff, with Studio DEEN producing the anime. (A-1 Pictures handled the previous series and film.) Susumu Nishizawa (The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments storyboards) is directing the new anime, with Rintarou Ikeda (Love and Lies, Hakyū Hōshin Engi, Love Tyrant scripts) in charge of series composition. Rie Nishino (Now and Then, Here and There, Wind: A Breath of Heart) is credited for "animation character setting." Hiroyuki Sawano, Kohta Yamamoto, Takafumi Wada are returning from previous anime installments as the composers.

Sora Amamiya is performing the anime's ending theme song. Amamiya previously performed an ending song for The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments, and also voices the character Elizabeth in the franchise.

Returning cast members include Yūki 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, and Tomokazu Sugita as Escanor.

Suzuki stated in an August 2018 interview with Kadokawa's Da Vinci magazine that he was planning on concluding The Seven Deadly Sins manga in "about a year," after about 40 volumes' worth of story. He noted that he had the ending planned since the beginning of the manga and that he plans to give it an ending worthy of a shōnen magazine.

The first 24-episode television anime series 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 2017. The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments, the second television anime series, premiered in January 2018, and Netflix began streaming the series last October.

Sources: Nanatsu no Taizai: Kamigami no Gekirin anime's website, VAP's YouTube channel, Comic Natalie