A fact that I don’t talk about a lot on my socials is how I’m actually a really big fan of The Seven Deadly Sins, so I was really excited to see the continuation of that story here. This season takes place 16 years after the events of the Seven Deadly Sins and stars a boy named Percival. He lives with his grandfather away from everyone else until a mysterious man claiming to be Percival’s father suddenly arrives and kills the grandfather and leaves Percival to die. However, he survives and leaves home on pursuit of vengeance and soon finds he is one of a group of warriors prophesized to bring destruction to the world called the Four Knights of the Apocalypse.

Right away I want to talk about characters because to me that’s one of the biggest challenges that comes with sequels to beloved shows. The Seven Deadly Sins featured a cast of characters that bounced very well off of each other and the subsequent movie starring new characters failed to recapture that magic so I was greatly worried about this going into this season. However, thankfully my worry was for nothing as Percival makes for a great lead. He’s carefree, naive and has an innocent charm to him. He steadily meets others to join with him on his adventure before he actually meets the remainder of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse and this cast functions very well with each other.

So seeing how well this cast worked well with each other my next worry was how well the Four Knights themselves would function, especially when it includes characters that I criticized quite a bit previously. Turns out that was yet another waste of time as we’re introduced to older more mature versions of previous characters, who I’m trying to be vague about to avoid outright saying spoilers. So all in all I felt like the interactions between the characters here was just as successful as what we saw in The Seven Deadly Sins.

The cast primarily focuses on the new characters, but we get a lot of nods to the cast of The Seven Deadly Sins and a lot of the characters show up every now and then here. Some of the characters go through drastic changes and it was very interesting to see how they grew over time. Some changed for the better like Gother or Hendrickson while others seemed to have stumbled or changed for the worse like Howser and Arthur who seems to be the overall villian of this story, but it’s not explained why he changed so much at least not in this season.

The story is also rather interesting as we now have a society where everyone is trying to work together so where we previously had a holy war between Angels and Demons we now have a society that lives fairly harmoniously. So the new conflict includes the agents of chaos and the land of Camelot who seem to strive to remove all nonhuman races from the world which includes the man who killed Percival’s grandfather. Because season one is a massive 24 episodes we essentially get two seasons worth of content compared to most shows I review. The first half is all about Percival on his quest for revenge while meeting allies, understanding more about the Four Knights of the Apocalypse and finding out what his magic is and how to use it. Then the story shifts to the second half where we’re introduced to the other three of the Four Knights and we learn a little bit more about who they are and what they are like. Though in the process the story escalates because naturally when all of the heroes get together that’s when the villains strike and did they ever. The second half of the story ends in a way I didn’t expect with a cliff hanger making me excited to see how it’s resolved.

Overall because of the previous movie I went into this season worried about this show and how it could continue an already amazing series; however, those worries were not needed as The Four Knights of the Apocalypse manages to capture everything that made The Seven Deadly Sins great to create an all new story featuring an entertaining cast of characters dealing with a world that has drastically changed since the prequel series ending on a note that made me excited to see what’s to come in this story.