Sekiro: No Defeat Anime Airs in January as 8-Episode TV Series (Updated)
The staff of Sekiro: No Defeat, the new anime based on FromSoftware's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice game, announced on Friday that the anime film will air on television in January in an episodic format. The anime will have eight episodes, and will feature new content reconstructing the film into a television series. The staff unveiled a visual:
Crunchyroll will exclusively stream the anime in 2026 worldwide excluding Japan, China, Korea, Russia, and Belarus. The anime screened out of competition at this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
The Japanese cast members from the game are reprising their roles, including:
- Daisuke Namikawa as Sekiro
- Miyuki Satō as Kuro
- Kenjirō Tsuda as Genichiro Ashina
- Jin Urayama as Sculptor
- Shizuka Itō as Emma
- Akimitsu Takase as Hanbei
- Takaya Hashi as Owl
- Tetsuo Kanao as Isshin Ashina
Kenichi Kutsuna directed the anime at Qzil.la. Takuya Satou was the screenwriter. Takahiro Kishida (Durarara!!) designed the characters. Shūta Hasunuma composed the music.
Additional staff members include:
- 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 Harata
- Color Grading: Tatsuya Fukumoto
- Sound Effects: Kiyotaka Kawata
- Pre-Production, Post Production: Studio Betta
The anime's theme song is "Blu" from composer Ryuichi Sakamoto's The Best of 'Playing the Orchestra 2014' album.
Publisher Activision describes Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice:
Directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, and published by Activision, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is a third-person, action-adventure game with RPG elements. The single-player game puts players in the protagonist role of a hard-hearted warrior whose mission is to rescue his master, a young lord who is the descendant of an ancient bloodline, and exact revenge on his arch nemesis. Set in the re-imagined world of late 1500s Sengoku Japan; a brutal, bloody period of constant life-and-death conflict, in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice you are the “one-armed wolf,” a disgraced and disfigured warrior rescued from the brink of death.In the game, players come face-to-face with larger than life foes; unleash an arsenal of deadly prosthetic tools and powerful ninja abilities to blend stealth, vertical traversal, and visceral head-to-head combat in a bloody confrontation.
Take revenge. Restore your honor. Kill Ingeniously.
The original game launched for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam in March 2019, and it sold more than 2 million copies worldwide in less than 10 days.
Source: Press release
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