The BEST episodes of The Seven Deadly Sins
Every episode of The Seven Deadly Sins ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Seven Deadly Sins!
When a kingdom falls into the hands of tyrants, the deposed princess sets out on a quest to find a group of ancient evil knights to help her take back the kingdom.
#1 - The Heroes
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/29/2015
The group combines forces to defeat Hendriksen while Meliodas uses his ultimate technique. Following Hendriksen’s defeat, the citizens of Liones saw a strange bird-like creature flying north. The sins and Elizabeth leave for their next adventure!
#2 - That Is Our Way of Life
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/2019
On their way to liberate Camelot, Meliodas tells his comrades about the curse that two deities put upon him and Elizabeth 3,000 years ago.
#3 - Overwhelming Violence
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/10/2018
Merlin notices that Galand’s magical abilities are still sealed away, giving hope they can defeat him. Ban uses his blood to restore the Sacred Tree and to heal King. Ban threatens to kill Gerheade if she ever tries to harm Elaine’s body again and then departs with Jericho, refusing King’s request to re-join the Sins. Galand easily overpowers both Meliodas and Diane. Merlin attempts to trick him with a lie, but Galand, who is the Commandment of Truth, cannot be lied to and Merlin is turned to stone. Meliodas is forced to unleash his demonic power. The other nine commandments realise that the magical energy once abundant in the earth has been absorbed into the souls of living beings, and by absorbing human souls; they can recover their magic. Despite his increase in power, Meliodas is killed by Galand, Slader is impaled, Diane is wounded and Merlin’s statue is smashed. Galand departs, sparing Arthur, Elizabeth and Hawke. Gowther arrives in his human form. Gilthunder comes across a village where a Red Demon is harvesting souls for the Commandments. He destroys the demon, returning the souls to their humans. Before they can celebrate the village is attacked by a Grey Demon. Hendrickson suddenly appears to help Gilthunder defeat the Grey Demon.
#4 - Master of the Sun
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/21/2018
Jericho carries severely injured Ban and Elaine on her back while escaping from Galand and Melascula before stumbling into a bar deep inside a cave.
#5 - Return of the Sins
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/16/2018
With Ban and the Holy Knights paralyzed by Estarossa’s powers, Escanor shows up to thwart the fall of Liones at the hands of the Ten Commandments.
#6 - Despair Descends
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/22/2015
Hendriksen turns into an incredibly powerful monster. As Hendriksen overpowers both the sins and the holy knights only Meliodas is still standing...
#7 - Father and Son
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/24/2018
Meliodas and King continue to fight each other. Ban talks to Zhivago and Jericho about his immortality and Elaine who he is determined to resurrect. Elsewhere in a cemetery a dead body digs its way out of its grave. Ban admits to his greatest regret, that he once tried to kill Meliodas in exchange for Elaine’s resurrection, and he hates himself even though Meliodas forgave him. Zhivago urges Ban to reconcile with Meliodas and tell him his real feelings. Zhivago then dies peacefully. King accuses Meliodas of being the Commandments secret ally. Meliodas questions whether King is a king at all, as the previous fairy kings had prominent wings, whereas King has none. The fairy twins stop them fighting before they can hurt each other. Meliodas promises to reveal the truth, eventually, so King decides to continue watching him. As they leave King senses sudden pain on his back. Meliodas regains his old power and has Merlin teleport him to the Commandments. He is challenged by Galand but with his power returned Meliodas easily beats him. He then gives the Commandments a warning, if they restart the war they lost 3000 years ago, Meliodas and the Sins will crush them.
#8 - The Courage Charm
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/1/2015
Gilthunder arrives to support Hendriksen against Meliodas, Arthur tries to keep Hendriksen busy while Meliodas fights Gilthunder, but has to withdraw leading to a three way fight...
#9 - What I Can Do For You
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/15/2015
Ban attempts to kill Meliodas, but is stopped by Hawk. Meliodas and the sins corner Hendriksen and prepare to take him down.
#10 - The Hero Rises!
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/23/2018
As the situation inside Liones Castle becomes even more dire, Merlin, freed from Galand's Commandment of Truth, reappears in her former form.
#11 - Certain Warmth
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/9/2018
While caring for Meliodas, Elizabeth encounters a former Great Holy Knight thought to have perished long ago by the hands of Dreyfus and Hendrickson.
#12 - As Long As You Are Here
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/30/2018
Determined to kill his former leader for betraying their clan 3,000 years ago, Fraudrin takes on a newly resurrected darker, more powerful Meliodas.
#13 - For Whom Does That Light Shine
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/19/2018
King and Diane continue their battle against opponents summoned by Gloxinia and Drole. Escanor refuses to fight against his fellow ally Gowther.
#14 - Meliodas vs. The Ten Commandments
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/26/2018
As Escanor's battle with Gowther comes to a dramatic end, Meliodas must now face the remaining Ten Commandments in an all-out battle.
#15 - The Fearsome Pursuer
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/2014
King has a final confrontation with Ban, finishing him off with Ban being frozen, with Elaine making an appearance, never showing herself to King. A holy knight Guila battles it out against Meliodas, Diane and Elizabeth. Ban continues his flashbacks with Elaine and the Fairy forest, at the foutain of youth.
#16 - Sin of the Sleeping Forest
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/2014
Meliodas, Hawk and Elizabeth travel to the Forest of White Dreams that even Holy Knights avoid. There, the Prankster Imps that inhabit the Forest of White Dreams attempt to confuse them by impersonating Hawk and Elizabeth in order to lead them away. After defeating them, they follow them and find the Serpent's Sin of Envy, Diane sleeping in the forest. Gilthunder suddenly arrives and binds all of them with his lightning magic. Meliodas battles Gilthunder, purposely allows the Holy Knight to slash him, and under the pretense of dying due to the grave wound, acquires information about the whereabouts of two members of the Seven Deadly Sins, King and Ban, as his apparent last wish.
#17 - Pent-up Feelings
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/2014
It's Meriodas vs. Ban in a a fight that shakes the ground beneath their feet. The semifinal rounds end up with the sins gaining one new friend and remembering an old one. Everything is ready for the final match while a storm starts brewing in the horizon.
#18 - Revival of the Demon Clan
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/2018
After the defeat of demonized Hendrickson, The Seven Deadly Sins are commended for their bravery and courage by King Bartra. However, just before the ceremony, Ban and King leave. Earlier, Ban had told Meliodas that he is quitting the Seven Deadly Sins. As Ban leaves the Boar Hat Bar, King sees him and asks where he is going. Ban tells King that he wants to go to the Fairy King Forest. King then accompanies Ban on his journey. Meanwhile, it is reveals that Hendrickson has survived the assault from the Sins and he is shocked upon seeing Dreyfus alive. Dreyfus then summons the Commandments, ten demonized warriors who intend to destroy the Sins.
#19 - The Promise with the Loved One
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/10/2018
Ban and Jericho are searching for methods to revive the dead and are pointed to Ravens, the city of thieves, where a dead body was supposedly revived. As Meliodas undergoes his trial Elizabeth is given a trial to make a flower grow from a dead seed with healing magic. Meliodas is forced to relive happy memories of Liz and of the day she died, hundreds of thousands of times in the hope he learns to control his emotions. If he does not, the emotional strain on his heart will kill him. King and the others realize Hendrickson has been nearby the whole time, training with Gilthunder and his knights, and is human again. Rather than control his emotions Meliodas instead resolves to never again let a friend die like Liz and passes the trial. In Ravens Ban encounters a were-fox accused of raising the dead, though the fox insists itis untrue before collapsing. Ban recalls that as a child he was imprisoned for theft and met a man named Zhivago who offered to help him escape.
#20 - Death Trap Labyrinth
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/5/2018
An elaborate trap-laded deadly maze constructed by Drole begins to weed out the weaker challengers that have gathered for the Great Fight Festival.
#21 - Fated Brothers
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/21/2021
Merlin rescues Elizabeth, who barely evades a falling boulder on her way to the Demon Realm with Meliodas. The Sins realise the Demon King is alive.
#22 - Farewell, My Beloved Thief
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/14/2018
A revived but possessed Elaine attacks her lover, Ban, as Melascula and Galand of the Ten Commandments emerge to destroy those in their path.
#23 - The Great Holy Knight Atones For His Sins
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/17/2018
Hendrickson reveals that Dreyfus is still alive. Hendrickson defeats the grey demon using a druid spell previously used by Gilthunder’s father, Zaratras. Hendrickson reveals that 10 years ago he and Dreyfus investigated the destroyed country of Danafor. They encountered a demon named Flaudrin who possessed Hendrickson. Unwilling to kill Hendrickson’s body, Dreyfus was forced to allow Flaudrin to live inside Hendrickson and eventually to murder Zaratras and frame the Sins as revenge against Meliodas who had defeated him 16 years ago when Flaudrin destroyed Danafor and murdered Meliodas’ lover, Liz. Meliodas awakens in Camelot with everyone healed except for Merlin. Gowther had tampered with Galand’s memory so he believed he killed everybody. Merlin, who had transferred her soul into her sacred treasure, the magical crystal Aldan, explains that all the Sins combined have a combat level of 22,000, while Galand by himself had a level of 26,000. This means if the Commandments succeed in regaining their magic their combined combat level will be over 300,000. Meliodas decides to locate the final Sin, Escanor, the Lion’s Sin of Pride. King arrives wanting to see Diane, only to find Diane has amnesia and no longer remembers who anybody is, including King.
#24 - The Looming Threat
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/8/2015
Ban explores the catacombs under the city. Merlin and the other sins go to the chamber where the king Baltra and Elizabeth are being held captive. Dreyfus has a confession.
#25 - A Reader of Books
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/2015
News of an armored giant walking around the mountains reach the holy knights and they quickly send an assassination squad to deal with it. In the meantime, Meliodas's group also finds out about the mysterious giant. The holy knight team, the sins, and the giant clash in three-way battle with a very interesting outcome…