The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins (Japanese: 七つの大罪 Hepburn: Nanatsu no Taizai?) could be a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nakaba Suzuki. it's been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine since Oct 2012, with the chapters collected into nineteen tankōbon volumes as of Feb seventeen, 2016. The manga options a setting the same as the eu Middle Ages, with its titular cluster of knights representing the seven deadly sins.

As of January 2015, The Seven Deadly Sins had sold  over ten million copies. it had been custom-made into a 24-episode tv anime by A-1 photos that ventilated from Oct 2014 to March 2015. The manga has been licenced by Kodansha Comics USA for English publication in North America, whereas the chapters square measure discharged digitally by Crunchyroll in over a hundred and seventy countries as they're revealed in Japan. Netflix nonheritable the exclusive English streaming rights for the anime series.

The Seven Deadly Sins were once a vigorous cluster of knights within the region of Britannia (ブリタニア Buritania), UN agency disbanded once they purportedly premeditated to overthrow the Liones Kingdom (リオネス王国 Rionesu Ōkoku). Their supposed defeat came at the hands of the Holy Knights, however rumors continued  to persist that they were still alive. 10 years later, the Holy Knights staged a coup d'état and captured the king, turning into the new, tyrannical rulers of the dominion. The third aristocrat, Elizabeth, then starts out on a journey to search out the Seven Deadly Sins and enlist their facilitate in taking back the dominion.