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 such as restlessness and instability. Dante refined this definition further, describing acedia as the "failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul"; to him it was the "middle sin", the only one characterised by an absence or insufficiency of love. Some scholars have said that the ultimate form of acedia was despair which leads to suicide. Acedia is currently defined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church as spiritual sloth, which would be believing spiritual tasks to be too difficult. In the fourth century, Christian monks believed acedia was not primarily caused