The Seven Deadly Sins is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nakaba Suzuki. It began its serialization in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Magazine on October 10, 2012. Its individual chapters have been collected into forty-one tankōbon volumes by Kodansha, the first released on February 15, 2013. The story begins with Elizabeth, the princess of Britannia, which has been overthrown by the brutal Holy Knights, finding Meliodas, the leader of the titular Seven Deadly Sins, a group of knights which was disbanded years ago after being blamed for plotting to overthrow Britannia. Convinced that the Sins are the only group of knights powerful enough to defeat the Holy Knights, Elizabeth joins Meliodas in his similar journey of finding the other members of his now-disbanded group.
The series is licensed for English language release in North America by Kodansha USA, who published the first volume on March 11, 2014.[1] As the series is published in Japan, it is also released simultaneously in English digitally by Crunchyroll in over 170 countries.[2][3]