The Seven Deadly Sins (manga)

The Seven Deadly Sins
	First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Elizabeth Liones (left), Meliodas (center) and Hawk (right)
七つの大罪; (Nanatsu no Taizai)
Genre	Adventure; Fantasy;
Manga
Written by	Nakaba Suzuki
Published by	Kodansha
Imprint	Shōnen Magazine Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Original run	October 10, 2012 – March 25, 2020
Volumes	41
Directed by	Tensai Okamura (S1); Tomokazu Tokoro (SP); Jōji Furuta (S2); Susumu Nishizawa (S3–4);
Further information
Anime television series
Directed by	Tensai Okamura (S1); Tomokazu Tokoro (SP); Jōji Furuta (S2); Susumu Nishizawa (S3–4);
Produced by	Kyouko Uryuu (S1, SP, S2); Kensuke Tateishi (S1, SP, S2); Kozue Kaneniwa (S1, SP); Tetsuya Endou (S1, SP); Takamitsu Inoue (S1); Ryuu Hashimoto (S1); Hiroshi Kamei (SP, S2); Naoto Kase (S2); Yoshinori Hasegawa (S2); Akiko Nabeiwa (S2); Muneyuki Kii (S2); Makoto Furukawa (S2); Yousuke Takabayashi (S3–4);
Written by	Shōtarō Suga (S1); Yuniko Ayana (SP); Takao Yoshioka (S2); Rintarou Ikeda (S3–4);
Music by	Hiroyuki Sawano; Takafumi Wada; Kohta Yamamoto (S2–4);
Studio	A-1 Pictures (S1, SP, S2); Studio Deen (S3–4);
Licensed by	Netflix (streaming); Crunchyroll LLC (S1, home video) SEA: Muse Communication; ;
Original network	JNN (MBS, TBS) (S1, SP, S2); TXN (TV Tokyo, BS TV Tokyo) (S3–4);
English network	SEA: Animax Asia;
Original run	October 5, 2014 – June 23, 2021
Episodes	100 + 3 OVA
Anime films
	Prisoners of the Sky (2018); Cursed by Light (2021); Grudge of Edinburgh (2022–2023);
Sequel
	Four Knights of the Apocalypse;
Other manga and light novels
	The Seven Deadly Sins: Seven Days; Mayoe! The Seven Deadly Sins Academy!; The Seven Deadly Sins Production; The Seven Deadly Sins: King's Road to Manga; The Vampires of Edinburgh;

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 was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 2012 to March 2020, with the chapters collected into 41 tankōbon volumes. Featuring a setting similar to the European Middle Ages, the story follows a titular group of knights representing the seven deadly sins. The manga has been licensed by Kodansha USA for English publication in North America, while the chapters were released digitally by Crunchyroll in over 170 countries as they were published in Japan.

A-1 Pictures adapted the series into a three-season anime television series that ran from October 2014 to June 2018, and one theatrical film: Prisoners of the Sky. Studio Deen produced two further seasons that ran from October 2019 to June 2021, and a second theatrical film: Cursed by Light. Alfred Imageworks and Marvy Jack then produced a two-part film for Netflix: Grudge of Edinburgh, released in 2022 and 2023. Funimation licensed the home video rights to the first season, while Netflix acquired the English streaming rights to the anime and films.

In 2015, The Seven Deadly Sins won the 39th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category. The manga has over 55 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series. In 2021, Suzuki began Four Knights of the Apocalypse as a sequel to the series.