The Seven Deadly Sins (manga)

The Seven Deadly Sins
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Elizabeth Liones (left), Meliodas (center) and Hawk (right)
七つの大罪
(Nanatsu no Taizai)
Genre
Manga
Written byNakaba Suzuki
Published byKodansha
English publisher
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runOctober 10, 2012March 25, 2020
Volumes41 (List of volumes)
Further information
Anime television series
Directed byTensai Okamura
Produced by
  • Kozue Kaneniwa
  • Takamitsu Inoue
  • Kensuke Tateishi
  • Ryuu Hashimoto
  • Kyouko Uryuu
  • Tetsuya Endou
Written byShōtarō Suga
Music by
StudioA-1 Pictures
Licensed by
Original networkJNN (MBS, TBS)
English network
Original run October 5, 2014 March 29, 2015
Episodes24 + 2 OVA (List of episodes)
Anime television series
The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War
Directed byTomokazu Tokoro
Produced by
  • Kozue Kaneniwa
  • Kensuke Tateishi
  • Kyouko Uryuu
  • Tetsuya Endou
  • Hiroshi Kamei
Written byYuniko Ayana
Music by
  • Hiroyuki Sawano
  • Takafumi Wada
StudioA-1 Pictures
Licensed byNetflix (streaming)
Original networkJNN (MBS, TBS)
English network
Original run August 28, 2016 September 18, 2016
Episodes4 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments
Directed byJōji Furuta
Produced by
  • Kyouko Uryuu
  • Kensuke Tateishi
  • Hiroshi Kamei
  • Naoto Kase
  • Yoshinori Hasegawa
  • Akiko Nabeiwa
  • Muneyuki Kii
  • Makoto Furukawa
Written byTakao Yoshioka
Music by
StudioA-1 Pictures
Licensed byNetflix (streaming)
Original networkJNN (MBS, TBS)
English network
Original run January 13, 2018 June 30, 2018
Episodes24 + OVA (List of episodes)
Anime television series
The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods
Directed bySusumu Nishizawa
Produced byYousuke Takabayashi
Written byRintarou Ikeda
Music by
  • Hiroyuki Sawano
  • Kohta Yamamoto
  • Takafumi Wada
StudioStudio Deen
Licensed byNetflix (streaming)[2]
Original networkTV Tokyo, BS TV Tokyo
English network
Original run October 9, 2019 March 25, 2020
Episodes24 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon's Judgement
Directed bySusumu Nishizawa
Produced byYousuke Takabayashi
Written byRintarou Ikeda
Music by
  • Hiroyuki Sawano
  • Kohta Yamamoto
  • Takafumi Wada
StudioStudio Deen
Licensed byNetflix (streaming)
Original networkTV Tokyo, BS TV Tokyo
Original run January 13, 2021 June 23, 2021
Episodes24 (List of episodes)
Anime films
Sequel
Other manga & light novels
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The Seven Deadly Sins (Japanese: 七つの大罪, Hepburn: Nanatsu no Taizai) is a Japanese fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Nakaba Suzuki. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 2012 to March 2020, with the chapters collected into 41 tankōbon volumes. Featuring a setting similar to the European Middle Ages, the story follows a titular group of knights representing the seven deadly sins. The manga has been licensed by Kodansha USA for English publication in North America, while the chapters were released digitally by Crunchyroll in over 170 countries as they were published in Japan.

A-1 Pictures adapted the series into a three-season anime television series that ran from October 2014 to June 2018, and one theatrical film: Prisoners of the Sky. Studio Deen produced two further seasons that ran from October 2019 to June 2021, and a second theatrical film: Cursed by Light. Alfred Imageworks and Marvy Jack then produced a two-part film for Netflix: Grudge of Edinburgh, released in 2022 and 2023. Funimation licensed the home video rights to the first season, while Netflix acquired the English streaming rights to the anime and films.

In 2015, The Seven Deadly Sins won the 39th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category. The manga has over 55 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series. In 2021, Suzuki began Four Knights of the Apocalypse as a sequel to the series.

  1. ^ a b Davidson, Danica (April 14, 2014). "The Seven Deadly Sins #1 [Manga Review]". Otaku USA. Archived from the original on September 30, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2020. The Seven Deadly Sins starts out as a fun, light adventure fantasy.
  2. ^ @NXOnNetflix (March 11, 2020). "Meliodas and crew face their greatest challenge yet when hit fantasy anime The Seven Deadly Sins returns! The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods arrives this July" (Tweet) – via Twitter.


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