Nanatsu no Taizai 163 Review: Girl Power

Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 163: The Princess and the Guardian Saint

Very standard and uneventful chapter for Nanatsu no Taizai this week as well. We get the rules of the game, and it's not a deathmatch -- rendering the opponents incapable of fighting works. We get the obligatory moment where Ban and Meliodas try to attack and save their women, but a bunch of rock scorpion-tail-things stop them and fence them into their platform. You'd think that it wouldn't stop them, but hey.

We get a painfully, painfully long and absolutely dull conversation between Elizabeth and Elaine that's like all 'ufufu our boyfriends are so alike' 'ohoho aw you'. It's painful to read. The two clown assassin people try to get this fight to go on, and despite the manga giving them a couple of cool-looking panels they really fail to make an impression. Elaine just utterly overpowers them by launching fairy wind magic and she clearly does not give a shit. Elizabeth seemed hurt by a snake whip, but druid magic heals her no problem.

Elaine's fairy skills are so powerful that one of the clown assassins actually nearly fucking died, but, y'know, druid healing magic! It would've really been more impactful if we learned of their country's little war with Liones before this, really, because that would give us some reason to care about them beyond them being those weird clown people. But eh. It's serviceable. Nothing to really write home about, but nothing really offensive. Elaine's a badass and that's cool.