Nanatsu no Taizai Manga and Anime Sequel "The Four Knights of the Apocalypse" Confirmed!

22.03.2020 the super popular and long-running medieval action shounen Nanatsu no Taizai / Seven Deadly Sins manga came to a close with a classic shounen ending for it's final chapter, chapter 346 - an ending where all the main characters finally get to leave their lives peacefully after dark times as the time moves forward for about 10 years. In the final chapter we got to see our main characters', Elizabeth's and Meliodas's, son Prince Tristan in action. Tristan has inherited the bloodline of both the demon and the goddess clans and it seems to have gave him heterochromia in both of his eyes as his left eye is green and his right eye is blue.

I've been on a journey with Nanatsu no Taizai since it began so I hold a lot of memories with it - the author, Suzuki Nakaba, is incredible because he doesn't work with editors. Naturally that also shows in his art style as he doesn't give 100% perfect drafts every time, but when he puts effort into his panels, Nakaba is able to present the atmosphere of the situation fantastically. While the series has been on an up-and-down sailing since the 2nd arc of the series started, the series has always had fantastic moments and heart-warming moments in-between of all the chaos.

The ending of Nanatsu no Taizai itself is alright but fans can tell that it feels incomplete as just last chapter we got to hear that Ban and Elaine were going to have a child named Lancelot whom we never see in the final chapter. This, along with the fact that there have been rumours (started by the author Nakaba Suzuki himself) that the series could continue with an Arthur spinoff, made it very possible for the series to have a confirmed sequel - which the author confirms at the end of chapter 346! The sequel will be called the Nanatsu no Taizai: The Four Knights of the Apocalypse and I want to talk about it and theorize about it here!

As the final chapter of the original Nanatsu no Taizai manga shows us, Tristan is going to be like the Seven Deadly Sins - a hero of the Kingdom of Lioness. What the name of the sequel, The Four Knights of the Apocalypse is going to mean is most likely Arthur and Merlin being the one training the children of the main characters - Meliodas's and Elizabeth's son Tristan, Ban's, and Elaine's child Lancelot & King's and Diane's child who is unnamed so far. Those three children and Arthur make the four legendary knights of the Apocalypse.

As for the what the apocalypse is going to be, I believe Chaos power is going to play a part of this epilogue story - maybe another Chaos God or something like that arrives.
Regardless of the popular opinion on the final arcs of Nanatsu no Taizai, it was a good series and I'm intrigued for more interesting character interactions from Nakaba Suzuki.

On other news, this epilogue story is actually going to have to play a part in the future anime seasons as well. The fourth (actually 5th) season of the anime was announced just recently along with the global release of Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross mobile game which has gotten immensely popular instantly after its release. The epilogue story is going to give us new characters for the game which raises its popularity the same way as Tite Kubo's Burn the Witch and Bleach Brave Souls crossover is going to, and there are other similarities with both of these series as Burn the Witch is getting an animated movie (which looks gorgeous) and a manga in 2020. The BtW manga follows the story of the BtW one-shot that Tite Kubo released a few years back.

So, the anime, sequel manga and the mobile game will be promoting Nanatsu no Taizai well in the future! I'll be interested in seeing the new sequel characters in Grand Cross!