The Seven Deadly Sins (manga) 2014 edition of "Kono Manga ga Sugoi!", which surveys people in the manga and publishing industry, named "The Seven Deadly Sins" the fifth best manga series for male readers. The title was named Best Shōnen Manga at the 39th Kodansha Manga Awards alongside "Yowamushi Pedal". It was also nominated for the 2014 Manga Taishō award and as Best Youth Comic at the 42nd Angoulême International Comics Festival in France. The North American releases of volumes two and four charted on "The New York Times Manga Best Seller" list at number seven and nine respectively. Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network
Seven deadly sins sins. Also known as hubris (from ancient Greek ), or futility, it is identified as dangerously corrupt selfishness, the putting of one's own desires, urges, wants, and whims before the welfare of other people. In even more destructive cases, it is irrationally believing that one is essentially and necessarily better, superior, or more important than others, failing to acknowledge the accomplishments of others, and excessive admiration of the personal image or self (especially forgetting one's own lack of divinity, and refusing to acknowledge one's own limits, faults, or wrongs as a human being). As pride has been labelled the father