The Seven Deadly Sins: Imperial Wrath of the Gods
七つの大罪 神々の逆鱗 (Nanatsu no Taizai: Kamigami no Gekirin)
- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Episodes
- 24
- Duration
- 24 min per ep
- Aired
- Oct 9, 2019 to Mar 25, 2020
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
After driving back the Ten Commandments and rescuing the Kingdom of Liones, Meliodas and the Seven Deadly Sins finally get a brief chance to catch their breath. The calm doesn’t last: new ordeals force the group to confront lingering wounds from their past while pushing their strength further, knowing the Commandments remain a looming threat.
Guided by figures tied to earlier eras, the Sins set their sights on stopping the Ten Commandments and the long-running scheme rooted in events from ten thousand years ago. As their journey continues, hidden truths about one another—and about those who came before—begin to surface, revealing that the choices they’ve made carry heavier consequences for the present than they ever anticipated.
Otaku Consensus
Imperial Wrath of the Gods is a bruised but consequential Studio Deen entry: its best currency is oversized shounen warfare, Sawano-scored escalation, and a run of lore-heavy revelations that longtime fans singled out as some of the franchise’s strongest story material. The verdict is dragged down by the season’s most persistent complaints, especially the visible animation change, uneven character handling, and plot logic that critics felt could buckle under the weight of its own mythology.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Imperial Wrath of the Gods if you want a high-stakes shounen season built around demon-war mythology, factional powers, and ensemble clashes rather than a clean on-ramp for newcomers. It scratches the same itch as Bleach’s large-scale supernatural battles and Fairy Tail’s found-family combat energy, but with a darker tragedy streak and more emphasis on sins, curses, gods, demons, and inherited consequences. This is the season for viewers who value revelations, transformations, and power-system spectacle over pristine visual consistency. If your favorite part of The Seven Deadly Sins has always been the collision between pub-comedy camaraderie and apocalyptic fantasy, this 24-episode run pushes hardest toward the latter.
Key Characters
- MMeliodas
Meliodas remains the franchise’s most polarizing anchor here, with his demonic power escalation and identity baggage turning a familiar shounen lead into the season’s main source of tension.
- DDiane
Diane’s role gains extra weight through the season’s early focus on her bond with Harlequin, giving the ensemble’s fairy-tale side a more serious dramatic function.
- HHarlequin
Harlequin stands out because this season places him inside one of its most discussed opening movements, where character history and magical trial structure take priority over straightforward brawling.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
This is the Studio Deen-produced 24-episode season that aired from October 9, 2019 to March 25, 2020, a production identity frequently brought up in fan discussion because of the noticeable animation shift from earlier expectations.
- 2
Hiroyuki Sawano is credited for the music, giving the season a blockbuster battle-score backbone that fits its emphasis on war, gods, demons, and large-scale magical confrontations.
- 3
The season’s reception profile is unusually stark: it holds a modest 6.47 MAL score and a low rank of #8141, yet remains highly visible with MAL popularity at #291 and more than 458,000 votes.
- 4
AniList’s strongest tags point to the season’s actual texture rather than its genre labels: Shounen at 92%, Demons at 84%, War at 84%, Magic at 80%, Fairy at 79%, and Tragedy at 72%.
- 5
The opening material spotlighting Harlequin and Diane was called out in review coverage, reflecting how the season leans into character-history trials and mythology drops before returning to broader conflict.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Nakaba Suzuki is credited as the original creator, while Susumu Nishizawa directed this season and Rintarou Ikeda handled series composition for the Studio Deen production.
- Fun fact 2
- Although the TV broadcast ran from October 2019 to March 2020, review coverage discussed its Netflix release in August 2020, which shaped much of the English-language fan reaction.
- Fun fact 3
- The staff list includes Rie Nishino on character design, Kei Anjiki on prop design, Yasutoshi Kawai as art director, Haruko Nobori on color design, Megumi Uchida on editing, and Chikako Yokota as sound director.
- Fun fact 4
- AniList users rated it 63/100 with 2,532 favourites, closely mirroring MAL’s 6.47/10 average and reinforcing how divisive the season became despite its large audience.
- Fun fact 5
- AniList tags such as Dissociative Identities at 57% and Nudity at 50% show how community labeling captures elements of the season that standard Action, Adventure, and Fantasy genre listings flatten.
Studios
- Studio Deen
