The Seven Deadly Sins (manga) fan book were both released on February 17, 2015, while a guidebook for the anime called was released on April 17, 2015. As of August 2014, the collected volumes of "The Seven Deadly Sins" had 5 million copies in circulation. By January 2015, this number had grown to 10 million sold. As of 2018, the series has 28 million copies in circulation. The first collected volume of the series sold 38,581 copies in its first week, ranking number 13 on the Oricon manga chart. Its second volume ranked 5 selling 106,829 in its first week, while its third debuted at
Seven deadly sins disordered love for individuals, thus possessing at least the redeeming feature of mutuality, unlike the graver sins, which constitute an increasingly agonised focusing upon the solitary self (a process begun with the more serious sin of gluttony). It is generally thought to be the least serious capital sin as it is an abuse of a faculty that humans share with animals, and sins of the flesh are less grievous than spiritual sins (love excessive, not love turning ever further awry toward hatred of man and God). In Dante's "Purgatorio", the penitents walk deliberately through the purifying flames of the uppermost