The Seven Deadly Sins (manga) and enlist their help in taking back the kingdom from the Holy Knights. Written and illustrated by Nakaba Suzuki, "The Seven Deadly Sins" began as a one-shot pilot chapter published on November 22, 2011 in "Weekly Shōnen Magazine"'s 52 issue of the year. The manga started serialization in the magazine's 45 issue of 2012, released on October 10, 2012. The chapters have been collected into 31 "tankōbon" volumes as of April 17, 2018. The first of three planned story arcs was completed with chapter 100 and Suzuki has projected that the series will run for 20 to 30 volumes. The
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