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Elex Media Licenses The Seven Deadly Sins Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced on Monday that it has licensed Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins (Nanatsu no Taizai) manga. The company will release the first volume on Wednesday.
The manga centers on a group of knights known as The Seven Deadly Sins, feared warriors who were framed in a supposed plot to overthrow the Liones Kingdom, and reportedly defeated by the Holy Knights. When the Holy Knights themselves stage their own coup, and overthrow the monarchy, the princess Elizabeth sets out to find the Sins and recruit them to back her kingdom.
Suzuki launched The Seven Deadly Sins in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2012. Kodansha published the manga's 17th compiled book volume on October 16.
The manga inspired a 24-episode television anime series that premiered in October 2014. The manga will have a new TV anime in 2016, with the staff from the first anime returning. Suzuki also drew two spinoff manga for The Seven Deadly Sins in February. The first spinoff manga, titled Naku na, Tomo yo (Don't Cry, My Friend), is about Hendrickson and Dreyfus' younger years. The second spinoff manga, titled Gilthunder no Shinjitsu (Gilthunder's Truth), is set after the Byzel Fight Festival arc, with Gilthunder as the protagonist.
