The Seven Deadly Sins (manga)
A 2012 manga written and illustrated by Nakaba Suzuki, the same author of Kongoh Bancho. Published on Kodansha's Weekly Shounen Magazine. The anime version, released in 2014, is currently[when?] being made available worldwide in Netflix.
The kingdom of Brittania has fallen under the rule of the Holy Knights, a group of warriors that before served loyally to the king but now for some unknown reason had revolted against him, and is forcing the population to help them in a war against some unknown enemy. Princess Elizabeth, a young teenage girl who knows nothing about fighting, decides then to search for the Seven Deadly Sins, renegade knights who were supposedly killed ten years ago. She ends up finding one of them: Meliodas, the sin of Wrath. However, Meliodas is amnesiac and don't remembers exactly what happened when the Sins supposedly betrayed the kingdom, but was searching for his companions together.
Together with Meliodas's talking pig Hawk and his Mama(a giant pig who carries Meliodas' bar on her back), Elizabeth and Meliodas search for the other Seven Deadly Sins while fighting the Holy Knights all over the Kingdom.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Brittania is filled with magical warriors and creatures, but a lot of characters can't believe a pig is talking when they meet Hawk.
- Anti Hero: Chapter 16. Ban isn't above beating up a random person to take his clothes.
- Bare Your Midriff: Elizabeth in her waitress's outfit. Suzuki doesn't bother to actually draw the belly button a lot of times though.
- Chaos Entity: Chaos is a primordial entity that created the world and the five races from nothing. Chaos uses King Arthur as their physical vessel and awakens as the King of Chaos; this causes him to unconsciously alter reality due to lacking control over his power. He grows in proficiency while fighting Cath Palug, which leads him to accept his new power. After devouring King Arthur's arm, Cath Palug gains a fragment of Chaos, which gives him similar control over reality.
- Complete Immortality : Ban don't ages and any wound done to him quickly regenerates.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Meliodas's bar "Boar Hat" is on top of Hawk's mom head; therefore, is a hat.
- Fanservice: Women wearing skimpy outfits, plus extremely perverted male protagonist, equals a lot of this. And Ban is there to fill the female(and gay) niche.
- Formerly Fat: In flashbacks as a knight, King is shown to be very fat, but looks thin in the present. The change is so radical that Ban does not recognize him at first at the end of Chapter 18. King later reveals that this fat, older form is just a transformation he does at will to look more formal, though with much effort, despite nobody being bothered by his child form.
- Girlish Pigtails: Diane is very girly acting and wears twin pigtails.
- The Guards Must Be Crazy: Chapter 17. Meliodas advertising his bar like normal allows the heroes to bypass a bunch of Holy Knight apprentices despite those same apprentices knowing they fit the criminals they're searching for to a T.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: The Seven Deadly Sins have a bad reputation at the start of the manga, being known as criminals.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Gaiden 1 reveals how Elaine's death happenned: she fed Ban the water of the fontain of youth to save him from certain death from a demon.
- Impaled With Extreme Prejudice: Ban is impaled by King with a spear at the end of chapter 18.
- Leotard of Power: Diane's primary outfit. Considering her giant size and her fighting style demanding agility, it's justified, since a skirt would inevitably expose her underwear.
- Major Injury Underreaction: Justified. Ban is immortal and therefore knows major injuries will not have major consequences or kill him.
- Miss Fanservice: With Meliodas perving all around her and making her wear a revealing costume, Elizabeth qualifies.
- Missing Mom: Elizabeth's mom died when she was very young.
- Non-Malicious Monster: Chapter 17. The Black Hound untimely is just a territorial animal protecting his territory.
- Older Than He Looks:
- Meliodas is thousand years old; he looks like a child.
- Same for the fairies King and Elaine, which look prepubescent at best. King's fat form looks adult though.
- Peek A Bangs: Elizabeth's hair covers her right eye.
- Power Parasite: Ban's primary powers allow him to steal the abilities of his enemies and add to his own.
- Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Diane is 750 years old, but only looks and acts like she is in her later teens a best. She isn't really immortal; giants just age slowly than humans.
- Sinister Silhouettes: Chapter 29 ends with Meliodas's shadow projecting what is clearly a demon, ressonating Veronica's warnings he is not to be trusted.
- Size Shifting: Chapter 17. The Black Hound becomes bigger in reaction to being threatened by Ban.
- Super Speed: In chapter 17, The Black Hounds are introduced as a species of wolf monster which moves at such speed which they look invisible.
- Talking Animal: Hawk, and it seems unique to him; other characters get surprised at hear him talk and his Mama doesn't talk human language either.
- Tomboy: Veronica's short hair, attitude, and Elizabeth's remarks she liked to play with swords as a child puts her firmly in this territory.
- Zettai Ryouiki: Elizabeth is an unique case, because she only wears stockings on one leg on her waitress uniform. Class S.