The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins (Japanese: 七つの大罪 Hepburn: Nanatsu no Taizai) is a Japanese fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Nakaba Suzuki. It has been serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine since October 2012, with the chapters collected into thirty-nine tankōbon volumes as of September 17, 2019. The manga features a setting similar to the European Middle Ages, with its titular group of knights representing the seven deadly sins.

The Seven Deadly Sins are an order of knights in the Britannia (ブリタニア Buritania) region who disbanded ten years prior for supposedly plotting to overthrow the Liones Kingdom (リオネス王国 Rionesu Ōkoku), forced in hiding by the Holy Knights who later took control after staging a coup d'état. Liones's third princess Elizabeth Liones is joined by the Seven Deadly Sins' leader Melodias as they seek out other Sins so they can clear their names to take back Liones from the Holy Knights, revealed to be under the control of a demon named Fraudrin who revives the Demon King and his followers. As the Sins battle against the Ten Commandments, Melodias is revealed to be the Demon King's estranged son and has an ages-long history with Elizabeth from both being hurt.