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Crunchyroll announced at gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 that an anime adaptation of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is in development. It is called Sekiro: No Defeat. We’ll see it streaming on the service in 2026. While voice actors haven’t been shared yet, we do know other staff members working on it thanks to the company’s reveal.
Here’s the first trailer. It begins with Sekiro protecting his charge, Kuro. We see Genichiro find the two and attack, kidnapping the boy. From there, we see him head on his mission to find his master and defeat Genichiro.
There’s also initial key art for the Sekiro anime adaptation, which you can see below.
Here’s the full list of the Studio Qzil.la members and other staff working on Sekiro: No Defeat. The announcement also confirmed ARCH will produce it.
- Action Animation Director: Takashi Mukoda
- Art Director: Yuji Kaneko
- Character Designer: Takahiro Kishida
- Chief Animation Director: Kaito Moki
- Cinematographer: Keisuke Nozawa
- Color Designer: Azusa Sasaki
- Composer: Shuta Hasunuma
- Deputy Director: Shunsuke Fukui
- Director: Kenichi Kutsuna
- Editor: Yoshinori Murakami
- Screenwriter: Takuya Satou
- Sound Director: Yasushi Nagura
Sekiro: No Defeat will be streaming on Crunchyroll in 2026, and the game the anime is based on is available on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
