Mokushiroku no Yonkishi
The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse

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137 chapters in, almost caught up, felt it was the right time to think a cool review for this manga.

I'll start by saying that I'm a huge fan on The Seven Deadly Sins, it's one of the first anime I've watched when I started watching anime "seriously", and it still holds a special place in my heart, even with the awful last season and, especially, the last arc about Chaos.

With this premise I shouldn't like this new manga either, since the central point of Four Knights of the Apocalypse is literally the continuation of the Chaos arc, showing how Arthur and New Camelot evolve in ... a threat to the entire Britannia but, surprisingly, I'm enjoying it a lot. I watched up Four Knights of the Apocalypse anime on Netflix when the two batches of episodes dropped, and maybe because the last few pieces of anime of the series were so laughably bad (even tho I didn't hate the second part of The Grudge of Edinburgh) I was enjoying a lot, and the finale was crazy hype!

So I decided to pick up the manga and I'm so glad I did it, cause the aftermath of season 1 is so cool, and it's been a really fun ride so far. Of course it's not something incredible, but it's enjoyable, and that's what matters after all, in these type of series, right?

Art is pretty cool, even tho in some pages there is a slight lack of details, maybe due to strict deadlines that the author found difficult to meet, but anyway no complaints here, the action is always fully understable and the character designs are lovely.

Dunno how long it's gonna be, but I hope it's not gonna be longer than 300 chapters, gonna make another review when it finishes of course. I hope that thanks to the anime more people can read it, cause it's worth sparing some time for it.

Score so far: 7.4/10

When I discovered this, I was already mocking the poor writing thanks to 7DS. But as a degenerate who somehow prefers to read and watch bad stuff over good stuff, I read it. And honestly, it didn't disappoint me as much as i was thinking...yet

This story is still a typical shounen with the happy-go-lucky protagonist and his crew with epic fights with overpowered enemies. The story is just like 7DS, main character is wanted but is a good guy (also looks like an 6 year old but is older), bad guy wanting to make a genocide, THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP !
When I was reading, ... it made me think about some other animes. Like at the beginning, main guy lives a happy life, gets Tanjiro'd and voila, the story started. He quickly meets friends whose personality resemble the 7DS crew's imo and bad guys coming after them endlessly. With some emotional moments that didn't faze me, this is indeed a masterpiece when it comes to writing.

The characters are quite nice but the fact that I can't even remember their names proves that they're not very memorable. Ok, i remember Sin but that's only because his name has 3 letters. When I finished 7DS, I thought that this story would be about the Meliodas and Elisabeth fusio- sorry I meant, Tristan. But no, it's about some guy with weird hair. We don't know the main crew's background because everyone was abandoned by their parents and have some kind of tragic backstory. Their personality aren't very creative, there's the tsundere-ish guy, the annoying girl, the guy who likes to run away (i can't think of anything else) and the super smart animal who also has a secret he can't tell the main cast. Also, damn Percival, didn't think he would be bathing with a woman and squeezing her soft and voluptuous breeeaaaad, yes, bread.

My enjoyment ? Well it certainly was more enjoyable than homework. But as i was reading this, I was just bored because nothing interesting was happening. Of course there was explosions everywhere, MC discovering a new power and all the usual shonen stuff. The thing that made me interested was the different types of magic a bit like nen in HxH. But they just threw those word around and didn't explain, maybe they will in the future though. At least it makes this world a tiny bit more structured than in 7DS, because in there, there is absolute chaos (get it ? because Arthur lol). There will always be someone stronger than the protagonists ans they will somehow become even stronger than them. I felt like there was no rules. So at least here, we have some sort of rules I guess.

Overall, it was a good surprise since it's so much better than what I imagined but it's still trash. I mean, it's good if you just started watching anime and/or reading manga but I'm not gonna continue, feel free to tell me if it somehow becomes a masterpiece

So, this is my first review. What's got me to write it is the latest chapter (ch72). I will be very short.
This manga was so far surprisingly good. I say surprisingly, because it's original manga, Seven Deadly Sins was dreadful at the end. The power levels were all over the place, there were no weight behind the characters anymore, the plotwists felt random, etc.
Well, so far this manga had not had this problems. The characters were okay, some of them a bit cliché but some of them truly interesting, the action was fine, but more importantly, the story was written interestingly, with Arthur ... as the main villain, the old characters as supporting characters, the power levels are still in check more or less, so the side characters can have actual roles, and not just be background art.
BUT. The latest chapter had a character development involving one of the best side character in the story, Jericho, which was truly horrendous. The mangaka made this grown woman fall in love with a 10-12 year old boy. Don't get me wrong the manga (and the original too) had some sketchy (or more then sketchy sometimes...) moments too involving loli-s, but this has truly crossed a line for me. And the love aspect is not described as particularly bad in my opinion. Sure, the grown woman said that it's morally disgusting but the confession is written like a usual cozy-dozy love confession. Not to mention how shallow and silly and cheap character development it is for the character itself, who has choosen an evil path because she wants to be with this boy in a dream, if she can't be with him in the real world.
Absolutely despicable in my opinion.

So: the manga itself is good, not great, but it is genuinely interesting so far. I would give it a 7/10. But because of the questionable aspects and the latest absolutely horrendous infobomb i must give a 4 at best, and sadly I can't recommend it honestly anymore.
Which is dissappointing, because the manga itself (so far at least) was not bad, in fact, I would say it was good.
Sad.