Creators
Animated by Qzil.la, produced by ARCH, led by Kadokawa. Drawn by hand from start to finish.
Hand-drawn, start to finish
When the series was announced at Gamescom in August 2025, the staff stated that the whole adaptation is fully hand-drawn 2D animation. Qzil.la animates it, ARCH produces, and Kadokawa leads, with Crunchyroll streaming the series.
- Director
- Kenichi Kutsuna
- Deputy director
- Shunsuke Fukui
- Screenplay
- Takuya Sato
- Character design
- Takahiro Kishida
- Chief animation director
- Kaito Moki
- Action animation director
- Takashi Mukoda
- Art director
- Yuji Kaneko
- Colour design
- Azusa Sasaki
- Director of photography
- Keisuke Nozawa
- Editor
- Yoshinori Murakami
- Sound director
- Yasushi Nagura
- Music
- Shuta Hasunuma
- Theme song
- "Blu" by Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Animation
- Qzil.la
- Production
- ARCH
- Streaming
- Crunchyroll
The game it comes from
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was released by FromSoftware in 2019, directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki and published by Activision. Its one-armed wolf, the Divine Heir and the Ashina clan are the anime's starting point.
Bound to protect a young lord who is the descendant of an ancient bloodline, you become the target of many vicious enemies, including the dangerous Ashina clan.
Watch it
The theatrical edition opened in Japan on 4 September 2026. The eight-episode series streams on Crunchyroll from January 2027.