The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse is coming to Netflix this winter. While the series premiered in Japan in Fall 2023, fans in international territories will now be able to enjoy all the action when the sequel hits the streaming platform, starting in January 2024. The hit franchise has five successful seasons under its belt, and Four Knights of the Apocalypse marks a brand new chapter for both the manga and anime adaptation, expanding the franchise with a new set of characters and story arcs.
The upcoming sequel is based on the Four Knights of Apocalypse manga by Nakaba Suzuki, who also wrote and illustrated the original The Seven Deadly Sins, and ran in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine. Set many years after the events of the final season of The Seven Deadly Sins, Four Knights of Apocalypse centers on a boy named Percival who lives in Britannia with his grandfather. He learns of a life-changing prophecy declaring that a group of warriors, called the “Four Knights of the Apocalypse,” will destroy the world, and Percival is destined to be one of them. As doom unfolds and danger looms over the peaceful haven, the young man, oblivious to the complexities of the world, sets out on a journey of discovery and revenge.
Stars: Shou Komura, Paul Castro Jr., Aino Shimada
The sequel series has been in the works since 2022, shortly after the original manga was published, and will be produced by TMS Entertainment, with Maki Odaira as director and Shigeru Murakoshi as scriptwriter. In 2021, the Four Knights of the Apocalypse manga was nominated for the seventh Next Manga Award (Best Print Manga category). The Seven Deadly Sins was one of the first internationally licensed anime series to have a home on Netflix and quickly became the platform’s flagship anime title.
With its growing popularity, fans sought out more film adaptations of the best-selling original manga. The series ran for five seasons, from October 2014 to January 2021, including a special season, released in 2016. Upon its premiere on Netflix, The Seven Deadly Sins became "the fourth most-watched show in its first 24 hours of release on its platform." Between 2018 and 2023, the franchise released four anime films, namely The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky, The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light, and the two-part film, The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh. During its run, the anime series also spawned more properties, including four light novels, video games, illustrations, and even a stage adaptation.
And now, with the arrival of the long-awaited sequel series, you can check out all the details including the plot, trailer, cast and characters, and everything else you need to know about The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse.
On the same day, the streaming service will be dropping three more new releases, namely Alexander: The Making of a God, Baby Bandito, and WIL. But considering that The Seven Deadly Sins has been a long-standing anime franchise with fans all over the world, we can expect all eyes to be on the new sequel.
Things are starting to heat up in the sequel series to Seven Deadly Sins, Four Knights of the Apocalypse. Not only have each of the four knights been formally introduced in the story, but Meliodas has finally made his first appearance in the series since it began over a year ago. With King Arthur's evil turn and his ultimate ambitions still a mystery, the land of Britannia needs saving more than ever.
The Four Knights of the Apocalypse stars its own cast of heroes rather than the Seven Deadly Sins. Each of them is incredibly strong and might even have greater power than their predecessors, considering they are only said to be strong enough to beat Arthur and Merlin. Although most of their powers and abilities remain a mystery, now that they have all been fully revealed, enough has still been revealed to get a basic understanding of who they are and what they are capable of.
The original Japanese voice cast for the upcoming Four Knights of the Apocalypse features a large number of cast members. But as the main protagonists and second most important characters, Shou Komura stars as Percival; Aino Shimada as Nasiens; Akio Ōtsuka as Varghese; Kanna Nakamura as Anghalad; Kikunosuke Toya as Donny; Kouki Uchiyama as Shin; Rikiya Koyama as Pellegarde; Sachi Kokuryu as Arthur Pendragon; Setsuji Satoh as Sylvan; Toshiyuki Morikawa as Ironside; Yuuhei Takagi as Gowther and Yuuki Kaji as Meliodas.
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