The Seven Deadly Sins (manga) series is licensed for English language release in North America by Kodansha USA, who published the first volume on March 11, 2014. As the series is published in Japan, it is also released simultaneously in English digitally by Crunchyroll in over 170 countries. A special issue of "Weekly Shōnen Magazine", published on October 19, 2013, featured a small crossover between "The Seven Deadly Sins" and Hiro Mashima's "Fairy Tail", where each artist drew a "yonkoma" (four-panel comic) of the other's series. An actual crossover chapter between the two ran in the magazine's combined 4/5 issue of 2014, which was released
Seven deadly sins as the father of all sins. Lust, or lechery (Latin, ""luxuria"" (carnal)), is intense longing. It is usually thought of as intense or unbridled sexual desire, which leads to fornication, adultery, rape, bestiality, un-natural sexual practices and other immoral sexual acts. However, lust could also mean simply desire in general; thus, lust for money, power, and other things are sinful. In accordance with the words of Henry Edward Manning, the impurity of lust transforms one into "a slave of the devil". Lust, if not managed properly, can subvert propriety. German philosopher Schopenhauer wrote as follows: Dante defined lust as the