Sekiro No Defeat Officially Begins a New Era for Anime

If the 2026 anime lineup couldn't be any bigger than it already is, the new trailer for the highly anticipated anime adaptation of Sekiro: No Defeat has once again sparked a huge wave of excitement. The adaptation will be taken from the story of the popular video game, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, a tale of a lone, kidnapped Shinobi and the restoration of a fractured Japan. The 2019 video game.. Sekiro: No Defeat is the upcoming official anime adaptation of FromSoftware 's award-winning video game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which shows a retelling of the game's story during the Sengoku period in the Ashina Province. The show aims to give an entirely new perspective on the events while keeping true to the way it was told in the game.

With Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice being a FromSoftware-developed title set in the late Sengoku period and inspired by Japanese folklore, it only makes sense that the game's upcoming anime adaptation, Sekiro: No Defeat, is being made by a Japanese production company and animation studio.. The Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice anime, announced at Gamescom 2025, has found itself landing squarely in the hotseat—as it turns out, the studio brought in by Crunchyroll to produce it, named Qzil.