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 person . . . who, for a morsel of meat sold his birthright." We learn that "he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully, with tears." Greed (Latin, ), also known as avarice, cupidity, or covetousness, is, like lust and gluttony, a sin of desire. However, greed (as seen by the Church) is applied to an artificial, rapacious desire and pursuit of material possessions. Thomas Aquinas wrote, "Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things." In Dante's Purgatory, the penitents