While the first season of The Seven Deadly Sins continues to be missing in action for streaming and home video pickups, it looks like fans of the property have more to look forward to next year as a new TV spot landed that revealed that a second season is in production. The main cast and staff are returning for the season, which isn’t a surprise as they reprised their roles for two manga bundled anime episodes this year as well, providing for some continuity. No seasonal information has been revealed about the project yet. The first season ran in the fall 2014 and winter 2015 season for twenty-four episodes.
The first season of the series was directed by Tensai Okamura for A-1 Pictures with Shotaro Suga handling the composition while Keigo Sasaki handled the character designs for it as well as serving as chief animation director.
The series cast includes Yuuki Kaji as Meliodas, Sora Amamiya as Elizabeth, Jun Fukuyama as King, Misaki Kuno as Hawk and Mamoru Miyano as Gilthunder so far.
The manga is created by Nakaba Suzuki with sixteen volumes in print so far and over three million copies in circulation total. Working in a similar vein as a few other properties of this nature, the manga has done the crossover gig with Fairy Tail before and you can imagine seeing that pop up in anime form as well as a special to promote it. The manga series began in 2012 and Kodansha Comics is bringing the series out this year for North American fans in print while Crunchyroll has the digital chapters being published on their site.
Plot concept: When they were accused of trying to overthrow the monarchy, the feared warriors the Seven Deadly Sins were sent into exile. Princess Elizabeth discovers the truth – the Sins were framed by the king’s guard, the Holy Knights – too late to prevent them from assassinating her father and seizing the throne!
This is a pleasant surprise. Wasn’t expecting a second season for another few years *if they did indeed plan on one) considering how people were saying there just wasn’t enough material for more. Hope this turns out just as great as the first season.