Sekiro: No Defeat Gets Eight-Episode TV Version for January
Crunchyroll will stream the series worldwide outside Japan, China, Korea, Russia, and Belarus.
Sekiro: No Defeat will air on television in January with eight episodes and new content reworking the film. The anime adapts FromSoftware’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice game.
The staff of Sekiro: No Defeat announced Friday that the anime film will become an eight-episode television series airing in January. The adaptation of FromSoftware’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice will include new content as part of its restructuring for TV.
Crunchyroll will stream the series worldwide, excluding Japan, China, Korea, Russia, and Belarus. The staff also released a visual.
The film began a three-week Japanese theatrical run on September 4. Its popularity prompted plans for additional screenings beginning October 2.
It debuted at No. 9, earning 99,842,200 yen (about US$649,000) during its first three days. It also screened out of competition at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
The game’s Japanese voice actors return for the anime:
- 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
The anime’s production staff includes:
- Director: Kenichi Kutsuna at Qzil.la
- Screenwriter: Takuya Satou
- Character Designer: Takahiro Kishida (Durarara!!)
- Music Composer: Shūta Hasunuma
- 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 and Post Production: Studio Betta
The theme song is composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Blu,” from his album The Best of 'Playing the Orchestra 2014'.
Publisher Activision describes Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice as a single-player, third-person action-adventure game with RPG elements. Hidetaka Miyazaki directed the game, which Activision published.
Players control a hardened warrior seeking to rescue his master, a young lord descended from an ancient bloodline, and take revenge on his archnemesis.
The setting reimagines Japan’s late-1500s Sengoku period, a brutal, bloody era of constant struggles between life and death. The protagonist, called the “one-armed wolf,” is a disgraced, disfigured warrior saved from the edge of death.
Players confront towering enemies using lethal prosthetic tools and powerful ninja abilities. Combat combines stealth, vertical movement and bloody, direct clashes. The description urges players to exact revenge, reclaim their honor and kill with ingenuity.
The original game launched in March 2019 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC through Steam. Worldwide sales exceeded 2 million copies in fewer than 10 days.
Sources: Email correspondence via ANN
