FromSoftware’s Sekiro Gets the Anime Treatment via Crunchyroll in 2026 — Here’s the Debut Trailer and First-Look Images

FromSoftware’s Sekiro is backmost from the dormant — but alternatively than getting a sequel, it’s getting an anime adaptation via Crunchyroll successful 2026.

Activision published Sekiro successful 2019 to captious and commercialized acclaim. It went connected to merchantability an awesome 10 cardinal copies, but truthful acold nary sequel has materialised. FromSoftware of people subsequently released Elden Ring, which was adjacent much commercially successful.

The announcement of Sekiro: No Defeat came via Kadokawa, Qzil.la, and ARCH, who said the caller anime “channels the precision and tone of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice into each frame.” It’s a afloat hand-drawn adaptation to beryllium streamed exclusively connected Crunchyroll worldwide excluding Japan, China, Korea, Russia, and Belarus.

Here’s the authoritative blurb:

Crafted with reverence for the original, Sekiro: No Defeat is an adaptation of the game’s unforgettable communicative — a communicative of loyalty and blood, acceptable successful a fantastical reimagining of Sengoku-era Japan.

“We are taking connected the monumental task of animating the breathtakingly beauteous Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. In doing so, we are pouring each ounce of our creator imaginativeness and passionateness for quality into its production,” said Kenichi Kutsuna, manager of the adaptation.

“The last merchandise is being crafted to beryllium a genuinely memorable experience, 1 that volition permission a lasting content connected some dedicated fans of the crippled and those who are discovering the satellite of Sekiro for the precise archetypal time. Please look guardant to it.”

The Sekiro anime is helmed by:

● Director: Kenichi Kutsuna

● Screenwriter: Takuya Satou

● Character Designer: Takahiro Kishida

● Deputy Director: Shunsuke Fukui

● Chief Animation Director: Kaito Moki

● Action Animation Director: Takashi Mukoda

● Art Director: Yuji Kaneko

● Color Designer: Azusa Sasaki

● Cinematographer: Keisuke Nozawa

● Editor: Yoshinori Murakami

● Sound Director: Yasushi Nagura

● Composer: Shuta Hasunuma

● Produced by: ARCH

● Production Company: Qzil.la

Sekiro anime cast:

● Wolf: Daisuke Namikawa

● Kuro / The Divine Heir: Miyuki Satou

● Genichiro Ashina: Kenjiro Tsuda

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