#Seven deadly sins anime series

The main problem with overpowered characters (for Nanatsu, it means all the cast) is that you're watching a battle and BOOM someone pulls power off their asses. The fights are beautiful and very well-animated, but quite predictable. Loved the second ed song, though the video is quite sleepy. Average visuals for a battle shonen, average music for a medieval story. Sound and animation: nothing that stands out. Are they really the evil ones, they're just doing their jobs or are being manipulated? The corruption inside the holy knights is shown in a way that makes you think before you judge. The story is a huge cliche, but has some interesting ways of don't letting it show - it is never clear if the seven deadly sins are good, bad or just a bunch of chaotic neutral egoists (much like Genei Ryodan from HxH). But let's move on and I'll flesh this out later. I'm actually surprised no one has talked about it until now. But not only shonen cliches, also medieval story cliches: unbelievably unbreakable swords, giant monsters everywhere, kingdoms and knights, games of power Nanatsu is your average shonen, with ALL the cliches you can expect to see (overpowered characters, tits, superpowers, power of friendship and shit). A lot of reviews on MAL just didn't get to these points, so I'll have to talk about them myself. There's a lot of wrong things in this piece, and to flesh out each of them is gonna take time - but I really need to. I've always wanted to review Nanatsu, but I just couldn't give myself energy to do it. It lacks any aspect that really stands out, and ultimately just falls flat, lost amidst a sea of better, more entertaining shounen anime. It's not bad, just decent, and really not worth your time. I don't hate this anime, but I don't recommend it. Meliodas and Ban are, throughout the anime, just complete male power fantasies, while the rest of the crew just gets swept under the rug. I kept watching because I expected a more even playing field eventually, with all of the sins being equally capable, but that unfortunately never happens. Only two or three fights really give any true sense of danger, and one of them was ruined for me by how easily Diane went down. We do get a couple of good battles in, but the majority only last a couple of seconds, due to the characters' (see: Meliodas and Ban's) overpoweredness. The rest of the time she's either sleeping, 40 miles away, or has a hole punched through her chest and has to act as a damsel in distress. I particularly was looking forward to Diane kicking ass, but we only ever really get one awesome moment out of her when she punches through a supposedly unbreakable barrier. This is especially frustrating after so many of them are hyped up as 'the strongest of the deadly sins', or 'the prince of fairies'. The fights only ever focus on Meliodas and Ban 99% of the time, with the rest of the sins just acting as accessories. because of his aloof yet silly attitude, and the rest have some decent humor, but this is definitely not a high point of the series. The characters don't undergo any sort of development across the series, and for the most part are bland and boring. Sure, the characters are known by their sins, but rather than be actual embodiments of said sins, they were simply granted them as derogatory titles, so they fail to stand out as shounen manga characters in that department. I went into it hoping for a nice twist on the seven deadly sins being the good guys, and some awesome fight scenes, and ended up sorely disappointed. My experience of this anime can be summed up by the word 'meh'.

With their help, she endeavors to not only take back her kingdom from the Holy Knights, but to also seek justice in an unjust world.

#Seven deadly sins anime series

Ten years later, the Holy Knights themselves staged a coup d’état, and thus became the new, tyrannical rulers of the Kingdom of Liones.īased on the best-selling manga series of the same name, Nanatsu no Taizai follows the adventures of Elizabeth, the third princess of the Kingdom of Liones, and her search for the Seven Deadly Sins. They were defeated by the Holy Knights, but rumors continued to persist that these legendary knights, called the 'Seven Deadly Sins,' were still alive. However, a small subset of the Knights supposedly betrayed their homeland and turned their blades against their comrades in an attempt to overthrow the ruler of Liones. In a world similar to the European Middle Ages, the feared yet revered Holy Knights of Britannia use immensely powerful magic to protect the region of Britannia and its kingdoms.