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七つの大罪 [Nanatsu no Taizai] #4

The Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 4

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Reunions and Farewells

The Grizzly Sin, King, is alive! Unfortunately, King not only refuses to help Meliodas, he declares Ban as his mortal enemy for having attained eternal life at the cost of the life of his sister Elaine. During a gripping confrontation between King and Ban, the fearsomely skilled Holy Knight Gila comes bearing startling disaster and devastation!

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 16, 2013

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Nakaba Suzuki

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Nakaba Suzuki (鈴木央 Suzuki Nakaba, born in Sukagawa, Fukushima) is a Japanese manga artist, known for his works in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump, Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine.

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247 reviews
March 21, 2017
Oh my, this is getting addicting. I love the Ban story and am not sure what to think about King besides that his character is so cute. At this point, I recommend this series for anyone over the age of 13 who love adventure comics.
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1,261 reviews178 followers
May 27, 2019
While I enjoyed this volume, and while our heroes are finally faced with a foe who requires a bit of effort to defeat, I've realized what bothers me about series like "The Seven Deadly Sins" and "Fairy Tail".

They don't take a lot of time to build the world and the characters, so you're basically just encountering random characters whom you are *told* are of a certain level of strength. There isn't much emotion behind the fights, because you barely know who the people involved are.

I wonder if the same was true about "Naruto" and "Rurouni Kenshin" before them - I have my nostalgia glasses on when thinking of those, so I can't accurately recall how they handled their large casts of characters.
40 reviews
October 11, 2018
Che bel volume! Quante cose si scoprono! E l'apparizione di Elaine prima e Veronica (accompagnata da Griamore) dopo... Ed i cavalieri sacri... 😍 Al momento è il volume che mi è piaciuto di più
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1,442 reviews206 followers
April 24, 2019
The action keeps escalating and I'm loving it! King kicks so much ass, it's not even funny, and watching the other sins cheer him on is so cute. Going off of that, I'm not much of a shota fan but I adore King and his design. It's so simple yet cute and unassuming, perfect for masking his immense powers. I also love how he turns to mush around Diane, so cute! I feel like he's going to get some great development later on and I am so looking forward to it.

If there's one thing that I loved about this volume and the previous one, however, it's Ban and Elaine's relationship. Shounen action series, or just shounen series in general, either have no set in stone relationships (purposefully left vague so fans can freely ship characters, I guess?) or have tenuous relationships (two people who probably shouldn't be together but are because reasons). What I already love about Seven Deadly Sins is that Ban and Elaine are in an established relationship (I get the feeling she's going to come back) and it's based off of mutual love and respect for each other. To put it mildly, this is super rare and I'm thrilled Suzuki had the courage to take an important character and establish early on that he's in a relationship. Love it, love it so much, thank you Suzuki, you are amazing!

Rant over, loved the volume, can't wait for the rest of the series!
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182 reviews75 followers
August 11, 2021
The story of Ban and Elaine in the past blew my mind. I see Ban in a completely different light now.
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972 reviews89 followers
March 1, 2023
3.5/5

Week 4

Meh, I wasn't a fan of this one, I found it very flat and super repetitive, honestly the bonus story added was millions ways better than the main volume.
That's the spirit I found in V1 and that I adored.

I had a feeling this was a volume only fights based, not many characters in here, and definitely not much world building, yes there's still an encounter with new people but very little space was given to them. It was more of a longer introduction.. Hopefully V5 gets more exciting?

V3 and V4 are a little too stretched in my opinion, a single volume would have worked out better.
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804 reviews1 follower
September 2, 2022
Ban, Elaine ve King. Bu ciltte çoğunlukla bahsettiğim üçlü aralarındaki karışık ilişkiyi çözmeye çalışıyor. Bu sırada diğerleri de kutsal şövalye Guila ile dövüşmekle meşgul tabi. Full Counter bile çare olmayan bu rakip günahkarlarımızı epey zorluyor. Günün sonunda savaşın çehresini değiştiren King güçlerini sergilerken biz okurlara da büyük bir seyir keyfi sunuyor.

Tam hikaye bitti derken yan hikaye başlıyor ki belki de bu cildi en özel kılan kısım orası. Haydut Ban'ın açgözlülük namını nereden aldığını anlatan hikayeyi okuyup da Ban'a karşı fikirleri değişmeyecek pek azdır zannediyorum.
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150 reviews26 followers
March 31, 2020
King has joined the gang finally ..! He is lazy ( more like me >_> )
Thought at the beginning he and Ban were fighting while Gila the holy knight ( very strong one actually) is starting a war against the other sins .
The end of this volume reveal the reason behind the strength in the new generation of holy knights .
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123 reviews24 followers
December 7, 2016
The action continues from the previous volume as our heroes fight the newest Holy Knight to enter the scene, Guila. The action in the beginning of volume four is rather…explosive, sorry I couldn’t help myself! And while Diane and Meliodas fight Gila, the conflict between Ban and King wraps up and some shocking new developments in their characters are revealed. A softer side to Ban is exposed, adding more depth to the Sin of Greed, especially with the bonus chapter at the end. Readers also get to see King in action, learning where the bulk of his strength comes from and the relationship he has to everyone.

After their adventure in the Capital of the Dead, more characters are introduced, adding more diversity to our lie-up and creating conflict for our main heroine. It was really interesting to see a little bit more into the relationship between Meliodas and Elizabeth. Before this volume, their relationship was a little flat. You could see that Elizabeth really respects Meliodas and that she may be developing feelings for him. However, it’s harder to read Meliodas because his personality is usually so calm except for his bouts of perverted activity, which appears to be more joking than anything. In this volume, though, you start to see how much Elizabeth means to Meliodas, but you don’t quite realize why yet, and I find that to be an interesting development for his character.

This volume was a lot of fun! The action was different and fun to follow. I loved seeing more into Ban’s character and how he got his ‘sin’. King is a lovely addition to the team and I can’t wait to see more of his and Diane’s relationship! And the story is unfolding at a rather nice pace as well, though I could do without some of these cliffhangers and have more back story for our Sins!
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Author 13 books82 followers
May 4, 2021
4/5 Stars (%75/100)

It was better than the previous but still, nothing extraordinary happened yet. The conflict between King and Ban is solved thanks to Elaine's ghost (King's sister and Ban's lover). King seems to be the strongest among the Sins thanks to his Sacred Treasure. I also like his design and magical power. We learn more about the coup d'etat that happened before and also the Holy Knights. The ending was actually good and it made me curious for the next one.
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254 reviews1 follower
September 16, 2018
King a pietrificato Ban e a compiuto la sua vendetta, ma nella città dei morti lo spirito di Elaine si manifesta davanti a Ban e gli toglie la maledizione che teneva pietrificato Ban. King però non riesce a vederlo e scopriamo che lui non si è comportato molto bene con la sorella lasciandola sola per settecento anni facendo il lavoro che era di consueto al re delle fate, che è proprio King. Anche Ban si unisce alla battaglia con Guila, mentre King è a rimuginare sui suoi sensi di colpa, allora la richiesta di Elaine di proteggere Ban e la forza d'animo di Elizabeth, King si unisce alla battaglia e in poco tempo sconfigge Guila. Dopo ciò lasciano la città della morte e si scopre che le armi che i Seven Deadly Sins avevano prima del colpo di stato, sono in grado di far emergere il potere immenso dei protagonisti, quindi oltre ai peccatori bisogna cercarem anche le armi . Durante un giro in città Elizabeth vede il suo manifesto, viene rapita da Veronica la usa sorella maggiore che tenta di farla ragionare sui seven deadly sins definendoli manipolatori e salta fuori che Meliodas abbia qualcosa di oscuro, nel suo animo. Veronica lascia ad Elizabeth una collana con un grosso cristallo. Meliodas libera Elizabeth, intanto i cavalieri sacri per i allieva decidono che devono bere il sangue di demone che a distrutto l'albero sacro raccontato nella storia Extra per accrescere il loro potere magico. Un plauso va alla storia extra che in cui vediamo la nascita dell'amore tra Ban e Elaine che ho trovato a dir poco spettacolare. Vedo che l'autore a momenti a momenti normali dove la storia scorre lineare, momenti in cui si va giù in picchiata, poi si rialza, un po' come le montagne russe.
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74 reviews1 follower
August 17, 2024
The art once again steals the show, and it's nice to see the lore built out more. King's explanation regarding how weapons influence the abilities of a magic user was very clear and concise. The manga doesn't overcomplicate things that could be simple and I find that refreshing. Seeing the true power of the Sins with Kings fight was also really cool.

Some of the exposition is very forced here and there though. Some of the power scaling is also quite whacky but the manga has found ways to explain it that makes sense.

Finally, the Ban and Elaine thing is incredibly weird and is the biggest example of a trend of this manga handling relationships very weirdly and playing very loose and fast with ages and age-appropriate appearance. It's quite unnerving that someone thinks it's okay to depict a grown man falling in love with someone he admits looks like a child (so much so that he mistakes a different child for her), just because she's supposedly 700 years old. Pair that with the really unnecessary groping scenes of Meliodas and Elizabeth and you really get a sense that either the author, the culture he hails from or both are seriously warped (it's the culture, this isn't something new in manga and generally is a problem with Japanese culture promoting childlike features in their female beauty standards).

I think the story is starting to go in a positive direction though. Finally, we are starting to have the main antagonists revealed to us. It feels more now that the story has an objective, an end point they're trying to reach, rather than the more monster of the week original structure.
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Author 2 books3 followers
January 15, 2022
Volume 4 of the manga that was turned into the anime of the same name.

This volume covered the bits from episodes 7 and 8 that the previous volume had not covered. Including Ban and Elain's story. It continued through almost all of episode 9. But stops before Vaizel.

It added in some additional side stories about them looking for information about their sacred treasures and a story of Elizabeth getting captured by Griamore and Veronica and how Meliodas rescues her from that. I enjoy the little bits of them just living and working in the Boar Hat. It's fun nonsense and I enjoy it. The overarching story is pretty dark when you think about it, so the little light-hearted side bits are nice.

This one gets my highest rating so far because the Ban and Elain story is my favorite part of Season 1 and probably my favorite part of the entire run.

They managed not to kill anyone other than a red Demon who you are not supposed to identify as a 'person'. Also not much property damage was caused by our intrepid heroes, a change from previous volumes. The power these Holy Knights and the 7 Deadly Sins wield leaves towns absolutely destroyed.

So that was nice. Will probably take a little time before I read the next book as I really blew through my entertainment fund buying these 4 books.
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196 reviews1 follower
February 16, 2023
The Seven Deadly Sins é um bom manga de fantasia e ação, mas se tem uma coisa que me deixa incomodada são as poucas (nesse volume) cenas de apelo sexual das personagens femininas. Principalmente por ser na maioria das vezes cenas do Meliodas assediando a Elizabeth sexualmente e ela parece nem notar?! O volume anterior não teve nenhuma cena dessa e o início desse volume estava focado nos conflitos que acontecem na Cidade dos Mortos, mas assim que eles saem de lá essas cenas voltam e me incomodam muito!
Adoro a história do Ban e da Elaine e esse volume também da um gostinho do que vem por aí ao mostrar o que está acontecendo no núcleo dos paladinos em um capítulo muito bom que tira o foco do núcleo dos Pecados um pouco. Esses capítulos são o motivo de eu dar uma nota tão alta pra esse volume mesmo com os capítulos de ligação e começo do novo arco sendo meio fracos (e incômodos pelas razões já apresentadas).
Se você consegue ignorar os claros momentos de assédio sexual esse manga é muito bom e vale a pena, mas se não, então vai ser uma péssima experiência.
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410 reviews6 followers
July 1, 2022
Un tome sympathique ou l’action est vraiment présente et certaines révélations faites.

Alors que King et Ban sont en train de régler leur différent, Meliodas et ses acolytes n’arrivent pas à se dépêtrer du chevalier sacré qui l’on suivi dans la Capitale des Défunts.
Arriveront-ils à s’en sortir malgré les différences et leurs combats ?

Nakuba Suzuki réussi à nous mettre dans le bain dès le début et je dois dire que j’adore ça. Hâte de découvrir ce qu’il nous réserve.

Depuis qu’ils font face à l’un des chevaliers sacrés, ils n’arrivent pas à s’en dépêtrer. Puis, Ban et King continuent leurs disputes au sujet de la sœur de King qui est morte.
Entre les deux bagarres, les découvertes se font un peu plus et je comprends le mal-être de King qui pense que Ban a tué sa sœur pour être immortel. Sauf que ce n’est pas le cas et la sœur de King tient Ban en haute estime et est prête à tout pour le sauver.
Du côté de Meliodas et ses amis, il n’y a rien qui tient sachant qu’ils n’arrivent pas à bout du chevalier sacré.
La suite est rempli de péripéties qui emmènent les amis sur de nouveaux horizons qui risquent de leur porté préjudice. Puis, la fin annonce quelque chose de bien terrible pour la suite.
La petite histoire qui met en avant la rencontre de Ban et la sœur de King a été intéressante et surtout on découvre qui a vraiment tué la sœur de King. Donc, hâte de voir ce que réserve la suite …

Un quatrième tome bien ficelé même si ça ne rapproche pas les seven mais en tout cas tout est mouvementé même avec Elizabeth.
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1,944 reviews20 followers
August 31, 2017
*I was reading this series because of inertia; but finally I loved this volume.

The good:
-The mix between third character narration/fight scene is very dynamic and well done.
-Ban story.
-The becoming of King.
-All the teases to the Seven deadly sin's sacred teasures.
-Nakaba rises the right questions in this volume, many mysteries for this series to explore.
-Very emotional.
-The "One day" chapter is heartbreaking.
-Mixing Elaine to the Ban/King rivalry was a great idea.
-All the teases to the real identity of Meliodas and his might.
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146 reviews
September 19, 2025
J’ai adoré ce tome, je suis toujours aussi fan de cette histoire et de ses personnages hauts en couleur, tous plus rocambolesques les uns que les autres. On retrouve notamment King et Ban, avec leur relation pleine de piques et de tension qui me fait sourire à chaque page. Ce tome apporte aussi plus de profondeur au passé de King et révèle une facette touchante de Ban à travers son histoire d’amour avec Elaine, la sœur de King. Entre humour, action et émotions, ce tome est un régal qui donne envie d’enchaîner directement avec la suite !
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Author 8 books154 followers
October 17, 2020
Gosh storming dang it. I was right the first time. Ban, King, their whole dynamic, backstory stuff, they are interesting. And now I have to keep reading. (I mean, Ban is still more or less a jerk, but . . . he's interesting again, mostly for backstory and motivation reasons.)

Also, I'm predicting right here and now that the Seven Deadly Sins end up uniting with the OG Holy Knights against the New Generation. I could be wrong, though.
169 reviews1 follower
May 22, 2019
Poniendome al corriente con este manga que ya se me estaban acumulando.
Muy buen volumen. Nos empezamos a enterar de varias cosas que explican el comportamiento de los caballeros. También nos deja duda el objeto con el que dan poderes a los caballeros de la nueva generación.
Hay algo muy sospechoso....

Seguiré con el siguiente volumen
130 reviews1 follower
February 25, 2020
Un inizio un po’ lento, ma non posso negare che la fine mi abbia gasato PROPRIO TANTO! Amo come piano piano stiamo scoprendo di più sul lato oscuro di Meliodas ( e non potete capire quanto mi affascina !!! ). Il plot twist finale e la presenza di un sacco di scene di Ban mi hanno fatto apprezzare proprio un sacco questo volume. EEE che dire: NECESSITO. IL. PROSSIMO.
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37 reviews
February 4, 2022
Selectively ignoring the casual sexual assault on 16-year-old Elizabeth (Which will forever lower my rating a star.5)
We finally meet Elaine! Ban and Elaine are super sweet and I love their story. The dynamics between King and Ban, King and Diane, Ban and Meliodas, etc. etc. are so damn entertaining to read!
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752 reviews2 followers
February 15, 2023
Le tavole sono dettagliate e con una grafica magnifica. La parte in cui Ban ed Elaine si incontrano è molto dolce e mi è piaciuto molto vedere come è nato il loro amore. La storia è divertente, avvincente e in certi momenti molto romantica. La parte che ho preferito è stata quella in cui Ban ed Elaine si baciano e lei spezza la pietrificazione fatta da King su Ban.
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