List of The Seven Deadly Sins characters

The Seven Deadly Sins (7DS) is a manga series written and illustrated by Nakaba Suzuki, set in a fictitious Britannia (ブリタニア, Buritania) in a time period superficially akin to the European Middle Ages. Likewise superficially, and frequently in ironic or contradictory ways, 7DS references widely varying traditions, including western Christianity (e.g., the The Seven Deadly Sins, the Ten Commandments) and the Arthurian legend (e.g., in naming Meliodas, Escanor, Merlin, Arthur Pendragon, etc.). The contradictory nature of the names given to the groups and characters is reflected in the emergence of the title 7DS group as the protagonists and the group of "Holy Knights" as the antagonists of the series.

In accord with the medieval theme, many of the 7DS characters are depicted as types of knights, broadly construed, who are clad in stylized variations of medieval armor, many of whom perform magic. The members of the four other major clans in 7DS —the Giants, , , and —possess powerful abilities and magical prowess as well. In the naming of 7DS characters, the manga offers a wide variety of further mythical, historical, geographical and cultural allusions, including in the naming of Gowther,Zaratras (Zoroaster), Dreyfus, Gustaf, , Jericho, Galand,, Albions, The Vampires, and Zhivago. Adding to other series ironies and prototypical anime fan service (in representations of female characters), 7DS presents the leader of its group of protagonists, the boyishly drawn Meliodas, with behaviour that has been referred to as "groping" and "perverted" in relation to his female leads.

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