Nanatsu no Taizai 136 Review: Demons and Demonpigs

Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 136: Spreading Fear

Well, there's this to wash off the rancid taste of this week's Fairy Tail chapter. We start off right where we left off, with Galan picking himself off the ground, and demanding Merascylla (named after the Greek sea monster Scylla, I would assume) but both Merascylla and Zeldoris tells Galan to calm down because he’s going to get defeated again.

Zeldoris then tells the other Ten Commandments to head off in groups of two or more to recover their magic, and Zeldoris basically tells everyone to kill everything in their pathway, consequences be damned. Fraudrin cautions the others not to underestimate Meliodas and the Seven Sins (hilariously none of the others have any idea what the Sins are). Galan, meanwhile, flies into a rage and is about to say about how if he felt like it, Meliodas would be…before getting interrupted by the six-armed, hood-headed giant demon who tells Galan not to lie – because the Ten Commandments will incur their own curses on themselves if they break their own laws.

And it’s something that a lot of people have been speculating to be the case – that the Ten Commandments might be affected by their own curses and it would be the Achilles’ Heel for a fair amount of them.

Eight of the Commandments head off (Galan visibly jumps away while the others fly in little black streaks, which is a nice attention to detail) but not Zeldoris and Esterossa. Zeldoris apparently has something that he needs to do around there, while Esterossa just seems to be lazy and want to enjoy the sights… and it involves horribly mutating a random bird that perched on his shoulder into this big tumour monster thing before exploding in a shower of blood. Damn, Esterossa, you insane.

We see a bit of the Commandments going off – Monspiet and Derrierie goes off to some black market district, CuteTentacleGirl and GiantHoodHead arrive at where Byzel used to be, where these dudes have repurposed the giant boulder left behind by the Seven Sins’ battle… well, sucks to be you, Mr. Taizoo who I don’t remember but I am pretty sure showed up before.

We get a bit of the other characters basically calling Meliodas out and calling him an idiot for provocating the Ten Commandments and starting the invasion of the demons, but Meliodas, all calm and shit, tells them that there is no way that he can take out all ten of the Commandments at once, full power or not, so they’re going to pick off the Commandments when they’re separated into smaller group. Yes, there’s going to be casualties, but that’s better than, y’know, running in all suicidal towards the Commandments .

Hawk, meanwhile, has seemed to grown a pair of cute demon horns and scales… and absolutely no one pays attention or gives a shit about his change in appearance, poor piggy. Just what happened to Hawk inside that cave? He’s clearly not just any random pig, so just what’s up with him, really?

Meanwhile, Gowther and Arthur seems to have come into possession of an odd legless cat, while Threader is carrying out a naked, crying Griamor – who’s apparently aged down to a child. What in the actual fuck? Well, at least we know Threader’s probably going to make a good father in the future. Meanwhile, Elizabeth got a new outfit and failed her training. Oh well.

Overall pretty exciting! The Ten Commandments stuff is going on strong, though I really wished more focus is placed on them actually fighting the Commandments instead of just standing around talking.