Just going to leave this comment. I have not seen the first revision of your review but I have seen the second one with simply more or less the title Pedo Bait and little to no context. I flagged that one since clearly you changed your mind and left nothing but Flame Bait. However since you decided to change that one than make a new separate review, this one is unfortunately flagged for the wrong reasons.
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if what you did here is allowed along with reporting other things.
You should see the latest chapters. It totally changes the whole identity of Elizabeth's character and explains why she's so submissive to Meliodas and why Meliodas comes to life in this huge moment of revelation. And Elizabeth stops being seen as just some girl who fell for Meliodas and is actually a doomed romantic interest who has lived out and died many lives many times over and suffers memory loss each time she reincarnates and when her memories come back, she's got 3 days before something offs her all over again, while Meliodas slowly goes insane from reviving every time he dies, both of which are enduring a punishment from their respective parents for hooking up when their races are each others' mortal enemies. Elizabeth will always automatically fall in love with Meliodas as part of the mechanics of the curse, hence why she just fell for him rather unceremoniously as you suggest. It's a cornball Star Crossed Lovers subplot, but it's still a doozy. That review feels really premature now, but I doubt what I say here will change your mind, and you're entitled to your rather strongly-worded opinion (good Lord, dude... you savaged it) However, I do agree with you on Hawk- that sucker's gross as all get-out, but he's a pig, so hey, what can you do?
Anyway, my reply is about a year after yours; one year causes a lot to change in a manga... usually... unless you're stuck on arc stall.
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Melodias is one of the worst character\'s I\'ve ever seen. He\'s a creepy little manchild that never really gets comeuppance because his powers are so vaguely defined.
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And you bumped a five-year-old review because...?
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I personally don't think there's a problem with commenting on old reviews as long as you have something to say and aren't just bumping them for the sake of bumping them. In any case, some of those comments add more to the discussion than those chiding people for bumping old reviews do.
As for Seven Deadly Sins, I was never all that interested in it, and personally found Melodias' perverted actions to be rather disturbing, at least based on what I heard of them, so I'm definitely taking a pass on this series.
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Disgusting.
This was at first a glowing review, then a downward spiral of hate, and the last form it will go through is bitter, bitter bitterness.
For the first half of the series, we have a Mary Sue Author Avatar who is ridiculously, shonen-style overpowered to the point where the only thing challenging him is himself holding back, able to cut a mountain in half by swinging a twig, but despite this we are supposed to take him seriously. This same protagonist completely violates and molests a girl he doensn't know who comes looking for him, who not only barely fights this, but falls in love with him. Not because they have a deep relationship or things in common, but because he agreed to help her. Once. And then a few days later, she is willing to sacrifice her life for his and says her sister, who has known her much longer than said AuthorAvatar, is just a meanie who doesn't understand. And an annoying pig.
But still, things weren't terrible. We had interesting side cast, like Ban, Diane, and especially King. Although Ban's relationship with Elaine is out-and-out pedophilia, which I refuse to support even a little, and is disgusting. It was, Meliodas aside, a series that had overpowered main characters and didn't hurt for it.
After Hendrickson, who was a decent antagonist who provided legitimate threat, is beaten, things go to shit. I mean actual, literal shit. I went from loving this series to loathing it. Meliodas gets a sword after having his broken that lets him multiply himself (with no effort on his part, it's just given to him) that is never used again because right after, he gets the other 90% of his power back. And then beats two of the obscenely powerful Ten Commandments by himself. It takes the other ten showing up to trash him all at once to get close to beating him. Yeah, that danger and risk that we had in the first half? It means nothing now, Meliodas was just badly handicapped. If that's not enough for you, even when Estarossa out-and-out KILLS him, he still doesn't die, because it turns out Meliodas has a curse from the demon king that won't let him. Yeah. We're really feeling that meaningful risk and conflict. And Escanor trashes Estarossa with no effort, who was not only a cool antagonist, but the only one who actually felt like a threat. Oh, and the pedophilia returns with a vengeance
. Somehow we are supposed to think this is okay because reincarnations make everything excusable.
In short, this series started shaky, but good, and then took a nosedive into the garbage from whence it can't come back. Just another example of a shitty mangaka beating off to his own work and somehow getting good sales from it.