Nanatsu no Taizai 103 Review: In which nothing of particular note happens

Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 103: A New Journey

You know how last chapter was a good cooldown chapter with a lot of foreshadowings? Well this is an unnecessary cooldown chapter chock-full of unnecessary stuff going on. It's still funny at times but it's paced so slowly and unlike the the last one, where two chapters came at once, there's really not enough content to really grab my attention.

We waste a couple of pages just showing Meliodas and Gowther's new clothes, and Gowther seems to be fawning over an adorable 'lover', presumably Guila. King hangs on to Hellbram's helmet, Diane gets a new clothes made by Merlin and there's some two-options-one-option joke that seemed to indicate a bit of perverted thing going on by King or whatever, Ban looks the same... all that takes up 6 out of the 18 pages.

The next few pages is just the festival, shown by a series of images jumping from one character which isn't horribly bad, I guess? Veronica is back alive which makes no goddamn sense; Griamor is mourning and later gets cheered up by her; Gilthunder and Margaret kiss; apparently Hauser is alive but not the rest of Dawn Roar; Guila's brother is eating alone... all this with your generic 'oh what a meaningful journey' talk by Elizabeth. That takes up pages 6-12.

Then there's a pair of unnecessary splash pages because this chapter is not hollow enough, and the rest of the chapter is just Ban getting ready to leave and King going up to ask him where. Ban's going to the Great Fairy Forest or whatever... or what's left of it.

This chapter was horribly unnecessary. As much as I praise Nanatsu no Taizai most of the time, this is just one chapter that didn't need to happen. All the important stuff that happens here -- confirmation of Hauser's status, Ban and King's conversation, maybe Veronica and Guila's brother, all could've been easily moved into either one of the chapters directly before this.