Trivia / The Seven Deadly Sins

• Acting for Two: Yuki Kaji in Japanese and Bryce Papenbrook in English voice brothers Meliodas and Zeldris.
  • In the English Dub:
    • Allegra Clark voices both Matrona and Derieri.
    • Chris Cason voices the Narrator and Fraudrin.
    • Kirk Thornton voices both Garland and Wallio.
    • Morgan Berry voices both Daymond and Zol.
    • Cherami Leigh voices both Ellate and Jenna.
• Actor Allusion:
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub, Mead, a mischievous, trouble-making boy who appears in ep. 2 of the first season, is voiced by Isabel Martiñón, who also voiced Naruto, another mischievous, trouble-making kid, at least at first.
  • In the English dub:
    • Bryce Papenbrook voices Meliodas, a short, blond, Lovable Sex Maniac who tends to grope a princess. It won't be the last time he's done that.
    • Kyle Hebert voicing a character with a moustache wielding an axe. Are we talking about Escanor or Bartre?
    • Abby Trott voicing a fluffy companion to a human character who is revealed to be Cath Palug, a mythical beast in Arthurian Mythology. Fou, what are you doing here?.
• Breakthrough Hit: For Nakaba Suzuki.
• Crossdressing Voices:
  • Hawk the male pig is voiced by females in the original Japanese, both Spanish dubs and the English dub. And of course, virtually every other language.
  • In the English Dub, Gloxinia is voiced by the non-binary Marin Miller. Averted in the Japanese version, where he's voiced by Yūsuke Kobayashi.
• The Danza: Melascula unintentionally becomes this when she's voiced by Mela Lee in the English dub.
• The Other Darrin: In the Latin American Spanish dub:
  • Due to Analiz Sánchez and Carla Castañeda's resignations from Dubbing House over a dispute with ANDA, Nallely Solís and Dulce Guerrero replaced them as Hawk and Merlin, respectively.
  • As Luis Fernando and Alejandro Orozco also left Dubbing House by the time the third season was dubbed, their roles as Simon and Gustaf were voiced by Luis Navarro and Armando Guerrero.
• The Other Marty: For some bizarre reason, the Latin American company responsible for the Portuguese dub of the series decided to change the entire cast of the series from 3rd season onwards. Thankfully, when Netflix noticed it by the trailer preview and its negative reception, they left this season undubbed for a time until it got a redub months later.
• Playing Against Type:
  • It's not everyday you hear Cristina Valenzuela voicing a talking piggy.
  • Since when does Patrick "Testosterone" Seitz voice subservient Memetic Losers who can't keep up?
  • Kyle Hebert as Escanor's night form. it's quite rare hearing him in a high-pitched voice. Averted in his Day form.
• Real-Life Relative: Elizabeth's Latin American Spanish voice actress Lupita Leal is the sister of Miguel Ángel Leal (Meliodas's LA dub actor).
• Recast as a Regular: In the English dub, Kyle Hebert voiced minor characters Dale, Weinheidt and Dana in the 1st season before assuming the role of the seventh and final sin Escanor beginning with the 2nd season.
• Refitted for Sequel: Nakaba originally wanted to bring back Dolores after her supposed death as a participant in the Vaizel fighting festival, complete with a new look and personality. He ended up scrapping the idea. A skinnier and less cowardly, but still pacifistic, Dolores returns in the sequel series Four Knights of the Apocalypse.
• Similarly Named Works: The Seven Deadly Sins is not the only work to be named after the Christian Seven Deadly Sins. There's also a painting (The Seven Deadly Sins) and an anime (Seven Mortal Sins).
• Studio Hop: The first 2 seasons were animated at A-1 Pictures. The 3rd Season was animated at Studio DEEN.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In the initial one shot of the manga, the character dynamic between Meliodas and Elizabeth was completely different from what would be presented in the manga proper. Instead of a Chivalrous Pervert as he is depicted in the manga proper, Meliodas was not one bit perverted and more of a Straight Man. In contrast, instead of a Reluctant Fanservice Girl, Elizabeth was a Shameless Fanservice Girl. Their roles were basically switched in the manga proper. Additionally, Meliodas had a BFS instead of a broken sword, and the bar he owned was actually a spider-legged fortress that resembled abit like Howl's Moving Castle with the capability of burying itself like Hawk's mom.
  • Some extra pages in Volume 11 reveal what the initial concepts of the other Sins were:
    • Ban was originally going to be a traitorous Holy Knight with a completely different personality and character. He was hard to anger, didn't talk much, and always wore a poker face. Nakaba notes that these character traits along with being a former Holy Knight made the initial Ban feel like he was more like the Gilthunder at that point in the manga if anything else. He seemed much more refined and classy than the Ban that's in the manga.
    • The character that would become King was originally a Fairy Prince by the name of Jehan and he was originally going to be the Sin of Pride. Like King, his real name was Harlequin and Jehan was merely a pseudonym. With his Sin being Pride, he was going to be "an annoying peak of prince". What makes this character most different from the King in the manga of all though is what he transformed into, not a pudgy old man, but a pudgy little baby.
    • Diane was originally going to have disheveled hair like Armando rather than her two pigtails. Her size was also going to be a little smaller than what she ended up with. She still had a crush on Meliodas but she was more of a Tsundere about it.
    • The Sin of Sloth was originally going to be a warlock by the name of Jeema and surprisingly was Gowther's prototype. He was a muscular demonic looking Horned Humanoid and was going to be one of the Sins with the role of secretly guarding Meliodas. Over development, he turned into a giant clad in armor. Nakaba figuring that this would be boring, opted for him to be a lean glasses-wearing kid instead.
    • Merlin was originally going to go by the Welsh name of the Merlin, Myrddin. She originally had elements that would ultimately be given to Gowther, notably her wearing glasses which gave her an appearance similar to Bungaku Bancho from Nakaba's previous work, Kongoh Bancho. She also wore more clothing.
    • Escanor was originally going to be the Sin of Lust. He was extremely ripped and considering he was the Sin of "Lust", he was also going to be a bit of a horn dog. While certain elements were kept, his overall look was different from the Escanor that's in the series, mainly having a younger clean shaven appearance that's almost similar to the one used for Griamore.
  • Some extra pages in Volume 25 reveal some initial concept designs of two of The Four Archangels:
    • For Tarmiel as Nakaba wanted one of the Four Archangels to be not quite human-like, he had some really eldritch looking early designs which evoked how angels were depicted in ancient texts and such. One early draft was similar to his final three-headed design except his center head was young and normal looking while his right head was that of a lion's. Another had him simply depicted as a floating disembodied head surrounded by wings. A third was him being a horned gargoyle-like creature which even Nakaba commented made him look more like a demon than a Goddess clan member. Tarmiel's final three-headed design was ultimately based on a fourth draft which was very similar except for some details such as the design of Tarmiel's left head.
    • For Sariel, unlike Tarmiel, his early designs were less eldritch-like. One early draft was an old man whose fingers had a lot of joints. This design's head in particular got used for Tarmiel's left head. Another early draft of Sariel's was an anthropomorphic cat-like angel in a robe and hat. In the end, Sariel's final design was based on a third draft which was very similar except for a few minor differences.
• Word of God: According to Nakaba Suzuki in an interview with Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy, Nakaba tries to emulate the same amount of effort and love that was taken in the creation of various characters from games such Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger (which would explain the art style, considering how close it is to Akira Toriyama's) when creating his own characters. Nakaba has also stated in the same interview that he plans to end the manga with a "satisfying" ending. What he means by this is at the moment rather ambiguous as he mentions both Tragic Endings and Happy Endings, but at the very least he states that he plans to make an ending that will leave people saying "Wow, I'm glad I read this."
• Write Who You Know: According to Nakaba Suzuki in an interview, he bases the characters of the manga people he knows. The reason he does this is so knows how a character will react in a given situation.

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