Meliodas quickly defeats Twigo before he and Elizabeth escape on Hawk's Mother. The unit's leader Twigo confirms Elizabeth to be Liones' third princess, while the tavern owner introduces himself as Meliodas, the Deadly Sins' captain and bearer of the Sin of Wrath. The tavern helps Elizabeth evade the Holy Knight unit known as Beard of the Mountain Cat, and learns that the Holy Knights staged a coup d'état and took control of Liones. The knight is revealed to be a young woman named Elizabeth, who is seeking the Seven Deadly Sins, the strongest of the Liones Kingdom's Holy Knight orders that have been branded as wanted criminals for supposedly betraying the kingdom ten years before. Transcription: " Nanatsu no Taizai" ( Japanese: 七つの大罪)Ī seemingly youthful owner of the Boar Hat tavern and his talking pig Hawk encounter a rust-covered knight that drives away their customers, who assume the figure to be one of the Seven Deadly Sins. A second OVA composed of nine humorous shorts was shipped with the limited edition of the sixteenth volume of the manga, released on August 12, 2015. Īn original video animation (OVA) titled "Ban's Additional Chapter" ( バンの番外編, Ban no Bangai-hen) was included with the limited edition of volume 15 of the manga, released on June 17, 2015. Madman Entertainment is importing Funimation's release into Australia and New Zealand, with a release scheduled for January 2019. The complete entirety of the first season was released on August 14, 2018. Part One of the first season was released on Blu-Ray on with Part Two being released June 20 the same year.
On February 14, 2017, Funimation announced that they acquired the first anime for home video distribution for US and Canada and released the series on Blu-ray and DVD later in the year.
All 24 episodes were released on Novemin both subtitled or English dub formats.
The first Seven Deadly Sins anime series was licensed for English release by Netflix as its second exclusive anime, following their acquisition of Knights of Sidonia. The show's first opening theme song is "Netsujō no Spectrum" ( 熱情のスペクトラム, Netsujō no Supekutoramu, "Spectrum of Passion") performed by Ikimono-gakari for the first twelve episodes and the second opening theme is "Seven Deadly Sins" performed by Man with a Mission, while the first ending theme titled "7-Seven" is a collaboration between Flow and Granrodeo, the second ending theme from episode thirteen onwards is "Season" the major label debut of Alisa Takigawa. The staff was revealed in the combined 36/37 issue of the year: created by A-1 Pictures, directed by Tensai Okamura, written by Shōtarō Suga ( Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne), with Keigo Sasaki ( Blue Exorcist) providing character designs and Hiroyuki Sawano composing the music. The series debuted on MBS, TBS and other JNN stations on October 5, 2014. The Seven Deadly Sins ( Japanese: 七つの大罪, Hepburn: Nanatsu no Taizai) is an anime television series based on a Japanese fantasy manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Nakaba Suzuki.