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The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part I Film Slated for December

Netflix announced during its Geeked Week livestream on Wednesday that the first part of The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh (Nanatsu no Taizai: Ensa no Edinburgh), the all-new two-part anime film project for Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins (Nanatsu no Taizai) manga franchise, will debut on Netflix in December. Netflix also unveiled the below designs:

Yūki Kaji will reprise his role from the main series as Meliodas (leftmost in image above). Mikako Komatsu will voice Meliodas' son Tristan as a boy (center), while Ayumu Murase will voice Tristan as a teenager (right).

The project will feature a new original story, and will center on Meliodas' son Tristan.

Bob Shirahata is directing the anime, with Noriyuki Abe as supervising director. Rintarou Ikeda is penning the script for the project, and Alfred Imageworks and Marvy Jack are animating.

Nakaba Suzuki launched the The Seven Deadly Sins manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2012, and ended it in March 2020. Kodansha published the manga's 41st and final volume in May 2020. Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga in English digitally and in print. Crunchyroll posted new chapters as they appeared in Japan.

The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon's Judgement (Nanatsu no Taizai: Fundo no Shinpan), the franchise's latest television anime series, premiered on TV Tokyo in Japan in January 2021. Netflix began streaming the anime in June 2021. The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed By Light (Nanatsu no Taizai: Hikari ni Norowareshi Mono-tachi), an all-new original anime film, opened in Japan in July 2021. Netflix began streaming film in October 2021.

Suzuki launched a sequel manga titled The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse (Mokushiroku no Yon-kishi) in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in January 2021. Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga simultaneously in English digitally, and will also release physical copies of the manga.

Source: Netflix Geeked Twitter account