Sekiro: No Defeat Gets Eight-Episode Crunchyroll Release in India
The adaptation adds new content to reshape the theatrical film into a television series for January 2027.
Crunchyroll will stream Sekiro: No Defeat in India in January 2027. The eight-episode adaptation of FromSoftware's game expands and restructures the anime film.
Crunchyroll announced Friday that it will stream Sekiro: No Defeat in India in January 2027. Based on FromSoftware's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice game, the eight-episode release adds new content and reworks the film into a television series.
The anime began a three-week theatrical run in Japan on September 4. Its popularity prompted plans for additional screenings starting October 2.
The film debuted at No. 9, earning 99,842,200 yen (about US$649,000) during its first three days. It also screened outside competition at this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
The game's Japanese cast returns 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 principal production staff includes:
- Director: Kenichi Kutsuna at Qzil.la
- Screenwriter: Takuya Satou
- Character designer: Takahiro Kishida (Durarara!!)
- Music composer: Shūta Hasunuma
Additional staff members are:
- 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 The Best of 'Playing the Orchestra 2014' album.
Publisher Activision describes Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice as a single-player, third-person action-adventure game with RPG elements, directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki and published by Activision.
Players control a hardened warrior seeking to rescue his master, a young lord descended from an ancient bloodline, and take revenge on his archenemy.
The setting reimagines Japan's Sengoku era in the late 1500s, a brutal, blood-soaked time of relentless life-or-death conflict. The protagonist, called the “one-armed wolf,” is a disgraced, disfigured warrior saved from near death.
Players confront towering enemies using lethal prosthetic tools and powerful ninja abilities. Combat combines stealth, vertical movement and intense direct clashes in bloody encounters, with revenge, restored honor and ingenious killing as its stated aims.
The original game arrived on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC through Steam in March 2019. Worldwide sales exceeded 2 million copies in fewer than 10 days.
Sources: Press release via ANN
