First things first, do not watch this anime if you are above the age of 16. This is one of the most childish anime I've ever watched in my life. I honestly felt as if I was watching some type of Disney cartoon. That's how fucking childish this anime was. This is one of the most generic, predictable, and childish anime I've ever watched in my life.
The story is about our main characters (Meliodas and Elizabeth) travelling together to gather the rest of the Seven Deadly Sins. Their goal is to take back the kingdom of Britania. This is one of the most cliche stories I've seen in a shounen. So right from the start this anime is already uninteresting with its generic ass story. The plot is also terrible. It's literally just the typical pokemon type of plot structure. Another reason why the story is shit, there's no worldbuilding whatsoever. We don't know shit about the world they're living in, besides a couple of towns. Without worldbuilding, I didn't give a shit about the story for this anime at all.
When it comes to characters, there isn't a single good character in this series. There's three words that best describe the characters: generic, underdeveloped, and boring. Firstly we have Meliodas, a main character that hasn't gotten an ounce of character development for 50 episodes. His laidback personality is cool and all, but there's no reason to be interested in this character. He lacks any element that makes a character great. The rest of the cast is trash aswell. Next we have Elizabeth, the cliche damsel in distress character. Once again, there's no reason to like this character.
Do I even need to bring up character development? There isn't even a single character that gets character development, so I won't even bother bringing that up anymore. They're all one dimensional characters and overall just aren't interesting. Escanor has to be one of the most overrated characters I've seen in a Shounen. I find it werid how Shounen fanboys like characters simply because of the fact that they're overpowered. Like these fanboys don't care if a character has depth/development, they literally just like characters because they're strong. That's the most stupid reason for liking a character.
The rest of the sins are complete trash aswell. When it comes to villains, there isn't even one good villain in this series. Gilthunder was cool at first until he got thrown away by the writers. After season 1, he's always in the background and is pretty much an irrelevant character. So yeah...sorry to the Gilthunder fans that recently started watching this...Hendrickson is the typical shounen villain aswell.
The best character in this series is Hawk btw
The villains for the second season are even worse than the first one! It's crazy how so many people were hyping the 10 Commandments up, yet they turned out to be complete garbage and a massive disappointment. As usual, they're the typical villains you see in shounen that are just evil for the sake of being evil. Their motivations weren't interesting in the slightest. All of them are one dimensional charactes, even Zeldris which is apparently one of the more important ones of the 10 Commandments. In conclusion, the 10 Commandments are the worst group of villains I've seen in a battle shounen.
Now lets talk about the second season. This will go down as the worst second season I've ever seen in an anime EVER. The story/plot for the second season is even worse. The second seasons story is about the Demon Clan. They finally have awakened (thanks to Hendrickson). So this whole season they're pretty much just fighting off the 10 Commandments. Here are all the problems I found in this season.
Firstly, the plot is just fucking horrible. The writer clearly had no idea what he wanted to do. The plot was just all over the place! One second everything is peaceful, next second they're fighting a Commandment that just came out of nowhere. One second they're training, next they're fighting a commandment again. It's all over the damn place. Another problem I had with this season is the other garbage ass plot points, especially the one about Diane. That has to be one of the most boring things I've ever watched. There's a bunch of stupid plot points that were introduced in this season it just became ridiculous.
There was a lot of deus ex machina being used in this season. One of the biggest examples of this is when Ban was 1v2ing two of the Commandments. He was losing the fight until he just found a random cave where Escanor just happened to be running a bar. After that he was saved by Escanor. If you cant see how stupid that shit is then I don't know what to tell you. In general there are a lot of asspull powers that just come out of nowhere. I wont make this part too long though. It's a battle shounen so it isn't that surprising that there is bad writing like this.
Lets talk about the fights now. The fights in season 1 were all pretty decent in terms of choreography. Well, the only actual good fight scenes were when Meliodas fought Hendrickson. Everything else was just average at best. The second season on the other hand, had AWFUL fights. As someone that read the manga, it was just a massive disappointment to see some of these fights animated. The animation was just straight up garbage in season 2. A-1 just dropped the ball on this one.
This anime has hands down some of the ugliest art I've seen in a shounen. All of the characters just look so goofy and ugly it's insane. Like seriously, they all have fucked up noses and shit it just looks ridiculous. The art overall just looks like childish nonsense. The mangaka was trying to be unique, but no it just looks like shit.
So here are my scores for each category
Story/Plot: 1/10
Characters: 1/10
Enjoyment: 2/10
Art: 4/10
Animation: 5/10
