Nanatsu no Taizai Movie 2: Hikari ni Norowareshi Mono-tachi

This review has Spoilers.

Let me start by saying that the story was poor but the animations and fight scenes were really great. Watched it on Netflix on 1st October 2021 and seriously the story was crap

Story (3/10)
Just like season 5 this movie too didn't had any story. I just watched it for sake of the name and since it was the last for this anime and now it has finally completed.
The things that troubled me most was that Merlin and Arthur didn't had much of scenes in movie and in last it feels like the story isn't completed

Art, Animation, Sounds (10/10)
The best thing this movie ... had to offer were the cool animations and real good sounds.
I am a little disappointed since the movie didn't had a great OST and Perfect Time Ost was used.

Characters (10/10)
Really wanted to see Merlin the traitor but sadly she wasn't there and the time she had a scene the curiosity piqued and the movie ended. But it was good and all the previous characters were there.

Enjoyment (10/10)
The story was crap but the animations and sounds were awesome so I enjoyed it. One can also say that I enjoyed it because it was the last nail of coffin for seven deadly sins anime.

I suppose one can mainly view this as fanservice.

I welcome that, as I am a fan of the Seven Deadly Sins.

(There will be spoilers in this review.)

So indeed, the movie started way too slowly to give the viewers a scene with each of the main characters from the anime (minus Escanor :( ). They were cute moments but nothing more than that. It took about 20 minutes before anything really happened. And even then, not really something happens. Besides, we get to see an Attack on Titan scene - giants (titans) destroy tall wall, enter and cause destruction.

The power levels of the characters are ... completely distorted for convenience. For example, there is no way that Meliodas and Zeldris should have lost the first fight. And how in the world is Mael struggling versus common goddess clan members?!

I wish Elizabeth would have done more, at least a little bit. This was the fight against the Supreme Deity after all. But that was not to be.

Also, where did the second fairy king and the giant craftsman dude come from? Admittingly, I don't remember all details from the anime but the world-building also seems changed. I don't think there were these demons in the demon realm before and where the hell do the goddesses come from?

The animation - while undoubtedly better than the last few anime seasons (that's not so difficult though...) - seems off. I mean the attack from Zeldris binding the Supreme Deity and turning the tide of the battle was a powerpoint slide.

Family is one theme in the story. It's mostly about the relationship of Meliodas and Zeldris and their brotherhood but it's also about the abymal relationship of Meliodas and Elizabeth with the Demon King and the Supreme Deity. All this is quite sweet.

It was a short movie and didn't really feel like a movie. But it was a fanservice nonetheless and again: I welcome that.

Cursed By Light is trash. Having been written by Nabaka Suzuki, the author of the manga, it is confirmed to be canon content that happens somewhere in the middle of the last episode of Dragon's Judgement, but you can safely watch it after the show.

To be completely honest, you might as well skip it. In terms of its production quality, it looks absolutely no better than the TV show. Oh, how I miss the time when theatrical productions looked dramatically better than their TV series counterparts. Sometime in the 2010s, anime movies lowered the bar for themselves into the absolute ground. Compare the difference between ... the original series Naruto movies and their afferent TV show versus the Shippuuden movies and their afferent TV show. It's beyond pathetic.

Aside from looking completely boring and unappealing, the plot adds absolutely nothing meaningful to the narrative that you don’t already know from the show and merely ties up a loose end you almost certainly didn't give a shit about in the first place, so the story is boring and unappealing, as well. It's more of the same rushed, anachronistic-feeling bullshit from the last half of season 5.

As if to add insult to injury, this movie comes up with an almost entirely original OST, which, how best to describe this... just fucking sucks. It only lets you hear one of Hiroyuki-sensei's creations at the very end.