Nanatsu no Taizai: Seisen no Shirushi

The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War


To clarify, these OVAs are the transition from Season 1 to Season 2, where you can see the little events in between, including the introduction to the 10 Commandments. And to be clear, the title has no relevance. The topic of the holy war is dealt with in just 5 minutes during the 4 episodes, presented piece by piece at the end of each episode. The rest of the episodes are simply small fan service, the everyday life of the characters, and comedy.


Which honestly makes it better than the first season. In these 4 episodes, there was ... less time to ruin anything, giving the viewer just decent humor, embellished with some character development and relationship progression. It was enjoyable to watch and I had to smile several times. Less impressive as a whole, especially if you read through the season title. But they were thoroughly enjoyable transitional episodes. You won't see anything like this in the following seasons, let alone get the same quality.

Likewise, I have to note that Hawk is actually a decent comedy sidekick.

[Fazit 5]
[Enjoyment 6]

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I can only acknowledge the pointlessness of this season.

While signs of holy war are simply serving the purpose of being a filler arc, the arc is still somewhat enjoyable. Only it has no effect on progressing the story and very few characters experience any development. The animation is decent but feels awkward at times and there's nothing to comment on in terms of sound design.

The stories that take place during this season are minor considering the large scope that this world presents. Comparable to Naruto filler episodes where characters would have mini journies that don't progress the main story. While these are enjoyable, I ... feel like I'm forcing myself to watch them simply because it's another season of seven deadly sins.

The animation is great, characters don't feel like picture frames and instead, feel like proper moving and breathing people. The anatomy of the characters is consistent and realistic as well (Unlike season 4 of this show) The art style remains consistent, perfectly reflected from the manga panels onto live animation. However, in the fight between Ban and Meliodas, some of the animations felt really janky and unnatural.

There is nothing to comment about sound design, other than the voice actors did a decent job and the soundtrack also does an effective job at reflecting the world that this story takes place in.

Not many interesting things happen between the majority of the characters. That isn't to say that there weren't any points where I felt intrigued by the characters. This season solidified Gilthunder as someone who is truly human, and not the monster that he was framed to be. As well as, the interactions Meliodas and Ban go through where we must question the strength of their friendship.

While this is an enjoyable watch that serves as a breath of fresh air in the story before we move onto future seasons. I can't help but feel that the existence of this season is pointless. The lack of an impactful story, paired with passable animation and sound design. This season is only saved through the unique character interactions.

Overall, I rank this 6/10.

I went into this with mixed expectations after feeling conflicted about the first season of the show. The potential to be good is still there, and the first season of the show made a pretty decent job in making me want to know how the story continues. I was a bit confused to find that the sequel of the story is listed with only 4 episodes and was even more confused when I got through them.

This "season" basically consists of four episodes, which resemble four OVA episodes because nothing interesting or noteworthy happens. Skipping these episodes wouldn't result in missing out on much. The only ... somewhat important scenes to the plot are the ones after the credits, and that's about it.

Most of the things that happen this season are inconsequential and add practically nothing to the universe. You were looking forward to two characters finally hashing it out and having their fight to the death which has been teased for multiple episodes before that ? Well, won’t happen because they smack each other around for a bit before calling it quits and agreeing to settling it another time. You wanted development on a romance between two certain secondary characters ? Sure you got that, but one of the characters conveniently forgets what happened on the day where the important conversations and romantic moments happened because… Well.. a stone brick falls on their head, and they pass out causing them to only forget everything important. This basically renders an entire episode null and useless because the other character decides to not explain what happened. Ah right, and Meliodas still regularly sexually harasses Elizabeth, while she just sort of half heartedly tells him to stop but really does nothing to prevent him from doing as much. The show still treats this sexual harassment like a funny gag of sorts but it never was funny and got plain unbearable and annoying by the second or third episode of the first season.

As sad as it is to say, this is nothing more than a collection of filler episodes bridging to the next 24-episode season. Rather than generating excitement for what's next and maintaining investment, it has had the opposite effect, raising doubts about continuing to watch in the first place. This feels like a letdown because, once again, the potential is very much there, but not capitalized upon.