Nanacu no taizai

Take Fairy Tail, trim a bit of its level of goofiness and sunniness off, add a banal story, and ta-da! – The Seven Deadly Sins is born. Like the aforementioned Fairy Tail, The Seven Deadly Sins is a mixture of dazzling bright colors, flat boring characters, pointless and overkill power-ups, the rape of a largely worn-out story without even a shred of invention (though it must be sarcastically noted that there is at least some narrative progression compared to FT) and of course you cannot miss the lighter form of ecchi going on here. While watching a lot of shonen anime I often somewhat masochistically revel in how idiotic they are, but The Seven Deadly Sins was such a dull and boring show in every respect that I had to force myself to watch every episode in a way that I have not had to force myself with anime for a long while now. The producers may have been aiming for humor that works on a basic level, but when instead of laughter there is only a sense of awkwardness, there is something wrong. Devastated and bored, I demand that Meliodas and his crew stop this nerve-wracking ride already and let me get off at episode 15. (22.10.2018)

I really wasn't amused by this Alabama family tragedy. I like overpowered characters a lot (that's why I liked the captain at first, he and Mr. Puppet are the only characters I didn't end up loathing), but I don't need every other character to be like that. The fights were basically just them throwing one super duper attack after another at each other. Nobody dies, what if they might be useful later, and when it's clear they won't be useful, they get killed so no one will say “don't worry, it won't be anyone you care even a drop about." The animation in the first season isn't great, it gets better with time. The music is ok. Maybe it's worth two stars, but it's so overrated here that I just won't give it a weak two. I'm not even sorry, this anime didn't sit terribly well with me and I'll gladly forget I saw it. And I'm in exactly the mood for shōnen... maybe I'll just rewatch something this anime is stealing from. (If anyone wonders why I watched all three seasons and the annoying OVA when I wasn't that into it, it's Netflix's fault. Because it annoys me terribly when I've had something in Continue Watching for too long and Netflix takes even longer to remove it... so there :-D) (12.08.2020)