Seven Deadly Sins 3rd season is premiering this week. To make sure you are caught up I will recap the series as best I can up to wrath of the gods. This is only for the anime as a quick recap. Please check out the season on Netflix as this will contain spoilers. AGIAN SPOILERS AHEAD.
Season1
Meliodas is the captain of the seven deadly sins and in season 1 is on the run. Labeled a criminal for a crime he didn’t commit he hides while running a bar called the boar hat. After meeting Elizabeth he joins her to gather the sins to help her. As we pick up Ban, Diana and King we learn that Meliodas is a demon.
Something that become a theme as Hendrickson is using demonic blood to make the new age of holy knights stronger. This comes to a head when they get Gowther and Merlin in Lions. As the new knight are on a rampage Ban tries to kill Meliodas as he has been promised by a member of the goddess clan that if he did they would bring back Ellien.
This didn’t happen. Instead Ban helps King take down the knights without kill them. The sins and holy knights would regroup to take down Hendrickson. The battle would end the season with a new threat looming in season 2.
Season 2
In Season 2 we have Meliodas past come to light with the release of the ten commandments. The season starts with us seeing how strong the high level demons are as they run rampant across the kingdom. Not only that but it seems Meliodas was once one of them.
But it seems they are too much for the sins so a little training is in order. The others train while Meliodas earns back his power that Merlin sealed away. During this time we learn that Meliodas had a past lover in Liz who was killed. Once Meliodas regains his true power he attacks the commandments getting even with one that attacked Camelot. Meliodas is teleported out of the way before the commandments could count attack. The sins then went looking for Escanor the sin of pride.
This search leads them to a tournament held by the commandments. The tournament brings the Sins together but as Meliodas makes his move the commandments gather. With 10 on 1 Meliodas is slowly taken apart until he is defeated by them. In this fight we learn that Meliodas is the son of the demon king.
Meliodas dies but is not dead for long thanks to a curse put on him by his father. The curse makes it so that he cannot die but everytime he is brought back he brought closer to how he was when he was commanding the ten commandments. Durign this time we see Elizabeth childhood as she looks back at meeting Meliodas. We see this as in his battle with there commander he should ruthlessness that he had not before. Something Merlin notes as she says the demon didn’t deserve a death that violently. We end the season with Elizabeth and Meliodas having a private moment as she assures that she will be with him even with him scared of the price of the curse.
Things to know in season 3
The 3rd season focuses on Meliodas past and will bring not only his family dynamic to light. But also the price of the curse as well as the reason why it was put on him. His ties to Elizabeth will also be explain.
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