The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie 2: Cursed By Light

劇場版七つの大罪光に呪われし者たち (Nanatsu no Taizai Movie 2: Hikari ni Norowareshi Mono-tachi)

7.1(40,195)

MAL Score

Ranked #4138

Popularity #2488

Action
Adventure
Fantasy

Episodes: 1
Duration: 1 hr 19 min
Aired: Jul 2, 2021
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Meliodas and his companions are pulled back into battle when a hard-won age of peace is suddenly put at risk. A formidable magical alliance emerges, bringing a threat powerful enough to endanger everyone.

With the stakes rising once again, the group sets out to confront this new danger in a fantasy adventure packed with action.

Otaku Consensus

Cursed by Light lands as a fan-focused victory lap: Studio Deen’s feature-format action, punchy magical combat, and its placement around the final-season endpoint give longtime viewers the closure-minded spectacle many wanted. Its weakness is equally consistent across reception: the movie compresses too much into one theatrical burst, leaving several fights feeling rushed and the narrative thinner than the franchise’s best arcs.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Cursed by Light if you want a compact Seven Deadly Sins payoff built around movie-scale clashes, demon-and-angel fantasy iconography, and the full shounen “final party” energy without committing to another cour. It is best approached after the final season, with fan watch-order chatter specifically placing it after episode 23 and before episode 24 for the smoothest continuity feel. The appeal is closer to a Bleach or Fairy Tail theatrical side chapter than a self-contained fantasy film: familiar powers, heightened matchups, and franchise catharsis matter more than onboarding new viewers. If your favorite part of Nanatsu no Taizai is seeing its magic system explode across the screen, this is the leanest way to get that hit.

Key Characters

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Meliodas
Meliodas remains the franchise’s defining male protagonist, and the film uses him less as an introduction point than as a payoff figure for viewers already invested in his history and power set.
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Escanor
Escanor’s presence looms over fan discussion so strongly that viewers singled out trailer expectations around whether he would fight, a sign of how much his battle reputation shaped hype for the movie.

What Makes It Stand Out

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Studio Deen produced this second Seven Deadly Sins film as a single theatrical-length entry rather than a serialized arc, which helps explain both its concentrated action appeal and the common complaint that confrontations move too quickly.
2
The movie’s AniList tag profile is unusually mythic even for shounen fantasy: Demons is marked at 100%, Magic at 72%, with Angels, Fairy, Vampire, War, Super Power, and Medieval all present as secondary signals.
3
Its reception is stable but not glowing across databases: 7.13/10 on MyAnimeList from 40,195 votes, a #4138 rank and #2488 popularity placement, alongside AniList’s 70/100 score and 450 favourites.
4
Fan commentary repeatedly treats watch order as important, with one widely echoed recommendation placing it after episode 23 and before episode 24 of the final season rather than as a casual standalone movie.
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The film’s best-liked elements in viewer discussion are its animation and fight scenes, while the recurring criticism is that the spectacle-forward structure leaves little room for depth or narrative coherence.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The Japanese subtitle is Hikari ni Norowareshi Mono-tachi, and the film aired in Japan on July 2, 2021 as a finished single-episode theatrical release.
Fun fact 2: Nakaba Suzuki is credited as the original creator, tying the movie directly to the authorial source of The Seven Deadly Sins rather than presenting it as an unrelated franchise spin-off.
Fun fact 3: The key animation credits listed for the film include Satoshi Sakai, Jason Yao, Kanna Hirayama, Yuu Yoshiyama, Shuu Sugita, and Kazunori Ozawa, reflecting a broad animation staff behind its action-heavy set pieces.
Fun fact 4: The film’s localization footprint includes Maciej Błahuszewski on the Polish ADR script, Stefan Gawłowski on Polish ADR mixing, and Leonardo Santhos as Brazilian Portuguese ADR director.
Fun fact 5: Critical and fan reactions split sharply: one review praised how the movie blended with the larger story and highlighted the soundtrack, while other viewer commentary called it hollow, confusing, or too rushed despite liking the action.