History Manga / TheSevenDeadlySins

The manga is by Suzuki Nakaba (who also created ''Manga/KongohBancho''), and it was serialized in ''Magazine/ShonenMagazine'' from 2012 to 2020. It has been released in English by Kodansha Comics. It was later [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-04-11/the-seven-deadly-sins-fantasy-manga-gets-tv-anime confirmed]] that the series would have an anime adaptation by Creator/A1Pictures. It began airing on October 5, 2014, and ran for two cours (24 episodes). The anime was licensed and dubbed by Creator/{{Netflix}} as one of their "original" shows, premiering on November 1, 2015, with Creator/FUNimation acquiring the home video license in 2017.

* AnimationEvolution: {{Inverted}} with the Anime. Season 1, 2, and {{The Movie}} was animated by the studio Creator/A1Pictures, who made the animation of the series truly pop. In scenes like where [[spoiler:Meliodas catches Gilthunder's electricity-imbued sword]] and in fights especially. However, by season 3 - due to scheduling issues - the Anime transferred studios. Now animated by Creator/StudioDeen (who were also busy, which meant they had to transfer it '''AGAIN''' - this time to the studio Marvy Jack -), the animation looks '''HORRENDOUS'''. Which made a lot of fans of the series disappointed by the long-awaited [[spoiler:Meliodas vs Escanor fight]] due to how robotic the animation was. The season as a whole is a heap of OffModel moments and the animation looks almost amateur.
** However, this is a {{Zigzagged}} case for season 4 and onward due to Creator/StudioDeen returning to work on it. While the animation is slightly better than Marvy Jack's attempt, there are a whole lot of scenes that could've been animated better than shown.

* ''The Seven Deadly Sins Production'' (七つの大罪プロダクション ''Nanatsu no Taizai Purodakushon''): Which imagines the characters as actors (who just happened to have the same names as their characters) filming a live-action tv series, some of whom have radically different personalities to their characters, which started November 2015.

** The manga is loosely based around Myth/ArthurianLegend in a fashion similar to how ''Manga/DragonBall'' was originally based around ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''. A number of characters are actually basically [[AscendedExtra ascended extras]] of minor obscure characters from the original mythos.

* TheLostWoods: A number have appeared in the series so far.
** One is the Forest of White Dreams, a foggy forest inhabited by imps called Hide and Seekers and the location where Diane hid.
** Another is the Forest of the Fairy King, the home of King and Elaine, which unfortunately was burnt down by a demon.
** A third is [[spoiler:the revived Forest of the Fairy King. Said forest was revived by Ban planting the seed given to him from Elaine in a new location. He did this at some point before allowing himself to be imprisoned in the Baste Dungeon.]]

[[YouHaveBeenWarned Beware of Unmarked Spoilers.]]

* RedLightDistrict: The Black Pleasure District, Bellford which has food stalls and prostitutes.

** Escanor is named after [[http://www.mythologydictionary.com/escanor-mythology.html Escanor]], a knight of the Round Table who kidnapped a serving maid from Arthur's court and killed by Sir Gawain for it.

** The Albion golems used by the Demon Clan are named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion the old name of Britain]] of which tends to related to King Arthur and such.

* RightOutOfMyClothes: Happens to a pair of Holy Knights who get eaten by Oslow, King's pet Black Hound. They were actually teleported to a crowded village elsewhere. However just to humiliate them, King just had them teleported without their clothes.
* RomanticSpoonfeeding: Diane feeds King like this during a flashback [[spoiler:of their time together when she was a child and she was taking care of King while he had amnesia]].

* RPGMechanicsVerse: The story has a number elements that makes it feel like a [=RPG=]. A medieval fantasy setting wherein almost everyone has a special magical skill which range from Status buffs to Healing spells. The power ranking used in the story in fact resembles something out of a [=RPG=] as PowerLevels are determined by three different stats. A lot of this makes sense as [[WordOfGod the author has stated]] that he has been influenced by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Franchise/FinalFantasy, as he tries to emulate the same amount of effort and love that was taken in the creation of various characters from games such VideoGame/FinalFantasyI and VideoGame/ChronoTrigger.

* AdultFear: Imagine if, due to the spiteful machinations of your former enemies from your checkered past, including your politically powerful and utterly demented parents, every lover and crush you ever had was ''[[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident accidentally]]'' murdered... over... and over...

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: King and Elaine are fairies with child-like bodies but are actually really old. Because of this, King opted for an older, fatter illusion of himself before the Sins split up in the past. Meliodas is also actually older than he looks. For him, it's hinted to be some sort of illusion as a disguise for probably being a demon of some sort.

The manga is by Suzuki Nakaba who also created ''Manga/KongohBancho''. It has been released in English by Kodansha Comics under the title ''The Seven Deadly Sins.'' It was later [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-04-11/the-seven-deadly-sins-fantasy-manga-gets-tv-anime confirmed]] that the series would have an anime adaptation by Creator/A1Pictures. It began airing on October 5, 2014, and ran for two cours (24 episodes). The anime was licensed and dubbed by Creator/{{Netflix}} as one of their "original" shows, premiering on November 1, 2015, with Creator/FUNimation acquiring the home video license in 2017.

After eight years of serialization, the series came to an end in March 2020, totaling 346 chapters and 41 volumes.

* JerkassGods: [[spoiler: The leaders of the Demon and Goddess clans cursed Meliodas and Elizabeth for falling in love. Meliodas never aged past the day he was cursed and Elizabeth is reincarnated, destined to meet him and fall in love. However over time her memories will resurface of their past life and three days later, she will die to begin the process anew with Meliodas having to keep watching her be killed over and over no matter what he does.]]

A second season of the anime was [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-09-27/the-seven-deadly-sins-manga-gets-new-tv-anime-in-2016/.93443 announced,]] but then [[http://www.youthhealthmag.com/articles/41471/20160312/seven-deadly-sins-season-2-release-date.htm encountered delays]], rumored to be to allow [[OvertookTheManga the manga time to finish a required arc or two]]. As of August 6th, 2020, four seasons have aired on Netflix, with a fifth and final season to be released June 28th, 2021.

** The higher members of the Goddess Clan are hardly any better, especially Rueduciel, who behind his benign façade is a genocidal maniac prejudiced against demons.

* PrizedPossessionGiveaway: In a Season 4 Episode, set 45 years before the events of the series, Nadja comforts Gowther by gifting him one of her favorite storybooks, so he can enjoy reading it when he feels sad or depressed. Funnily, Gowther gives it back to her after he reads all of it by merely flicking through the pages in less than a minute.

* {{Transgender}}: A Q&A from Chapter 252 reveals that Ibaya, a minor character who appeared in a side story after Chapter 219, is a trans woman and related to Twigo. More specifically, even though she has a mustache, in her heart she is female. She is thus not Twigo's older brother but his older sister.

* RealityEnsues: Dreyfus and Hendrickson staged a coup against the king, manipulating the Holy Knights and Princess Veronica into doing their bidding while murdering Zaratras, putting Hendrick's own nephew and his betrothed Princess Margaret [[spoiler:under a {{Geas}}]]. Later seasons reveal [[spoiler:they were brainwashed and possessed by a Ten Commandment named Fraudrin, who was using them to free the demons]]. Even though [[spoiler: a resurrected Zaratras gives his life to free his little brother and Dreyfus and they vow to atone for what they did under the demon's control, CartesianKarma is in effect. Bartra gives them ThePardon under MoralPragmatist but refuses to make either of them Grandmaster for essentially committing treason; he instead gives Howser the title since Howser was the only Holy Knight with IncorruptiblePurePureness. Not to mention that the Pleiades hate Hendrickson's guts for causing their leaders' death, and the other Holy Knights obey their orders with reluctance. Margaret herself doesn't trust them when they have to escort her on a rescue mission for Gilthunder; she ignores Hendrickson and Dreyfus's warnings to not let Ludociel posses her because at least the goddess hasn't betrayed or kidnapped her]].

* SquishyWizard: King has incredible magic skills especially when aided with his Holy Weapon. Physically however, he's ridiculously weak to a degree that he apparently [[NoodleIncident lost a fight with a mere cat who stole his snacks]]. In fact, according to a Q&A from the first Fanbook, he's actually weaker than Hawk.