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
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