The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Vol. 5

黙示録の四騎士 [Mokushiroku no Yonkishi] #5

by Nakaba Suzuki

With the help of Captain Howzer, Percival and his friends have stopped the rampaging dragon in Cant. Now it’s time to cross the dangerous Dalflare Mountain Range to reach Liones. But before long, the party is separated! When Percival and Donny rush to investigate a village and Sin the fox follows them in concern, Anne and Nasiens are held back by a man who warns them that the place is a “den of monsters!” Will Anne and Nasiens see their friends again, or is it already too late…?

Genres: Manga, Fantasy

194 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 17, 2022

About the author

Nakaba Suzuki (鈴木央 Suzuki Nakaba, born in Sukagawa, Fukushima) is a Japanese manga artist, known for his works in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump, Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine.

Reviews

[Anna Quilter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Significant baby problems in this volume...

[Enairolf · Rating 4 out of 5]

C’est toujours un plaisir d’attendre avec impatience la sortie des tomes suivants d’une saga qu’on apprécie. Et là je suis ravie d’avoir enfin ce cinquième tome entre les mains. J’étains impatiente de pouvoir me plonger dedans. Et l’attente fur récompensée pour le coup. Ici, encore une fois, on a un tome à la hauteur de ce que l’on attendait. L’histoire continue d’avancer, on découvre de nouvelles choses, on a d’autres clin d’oeil à la série principale. En bref, un vrai plaisir!

Dans ce cinquième tome, grâce au soutien de Howzer, le général des Chevaliers sacrés, la frénésie du dragon ancien a pu être stoppée. Toute la troupe est en pleine forme et s’apprête à franchir l’obstacle principal: une haute chaîne de montagnes. En cours de route, ils tombent sur un village suspect qui dégage une forte énergie magique! Percival et Donnie s’y précipitent avec toute l’insouciance qui les caractérise, suivis par Sin qui s’inquiète de cette étrange aura. An et Nasciens, en revanche, décident de rester en dehors..

J’ai beaucoup aimé ce tome. J’ai surtout adoré le moment où ils finissent par tous se retrouver sous la forme de bébés. J’ai trouvé ce passage tellement drôle mais en même temps tellement touchant. Mais c’est d’abord principalement drôle, ça m’a fait tellement rire de les voir gazouiller et j’en passe. Ce nouvel ennemi m’a beaucoup touché de part son histoire. Ça m’a même brisé le coeur tant c’était touchant.. Par contre quel bonheur de recroiser la route d’un des Deadly Sins! Ça m’a beaucoup plu ça pour le coup! L’histoire prend un chemin qui devient de plus en plus plaisant tome après tome. Inutile de préciser que je suis désormais, et ce encore une fois, plus qu’impatiente de découvrir la suite!

Ce cinquième tome est dans la lignée des précédents et en même temps est encore mieux. Plus on avance dans l’histoire, plus elle prend une tournure que j’aime de plus en plus. J’adore chaque personnage qui constitue l’histoire, ils ont chacun ce petit truc en plus, chaque personnage est intéressant à suivre. Il me tarde vraiment de découvrir la suite de cette histoire!

[Matthew · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just read this volume at random. Standard shonen. Rather fast paced. Art is kind of sloppy. I think 7 deadly sins was better.

This volume centers around a mysterious enchanted village.

SPOILERS

With the help of a hunter, Anne and Nasiens attempt to rescue Donny and Percy from the enchantment, apparently some kind of dark fairy magic. This suspense is built up for a while.


However, it turns out the villagers, although demons, are in fact good guys, and the hunter turns out to be one of Arthur’s knights who wants to kill the demons and Percy after he is revealed as a knight of the apocalypse.

So this hunter becomes the main antagonist for the rest of the volume. He believes all demons are irredeemable. However Percy has befriended one of the demons and believes that people/demons should be judged as individuals. This is probably a theme for the book/series.

(There is also a mystery about Percy’s demonic? parentage and his ability to speak the demon tongue.)

Sin helps Percy learn a new technique which he uses to defeat the hunter’s familiar. Pretty perfunctory. The hunter then runs off to a cave where he traps the heroes by turning them into babies.

They are rescued by Gowther, who has disguised herself as the village elder (a deus ex machina/“twist”)

The hunter isn’t such a bad guy and can’t bring himself to harm the babies. Anne reminds him of his own daughter and he sacrifices his life to protect her (A classic heroic death but too abrupt to have much impact), when they are attacked by 5 powerful Arthurian knights. Gowther is able to kill one of them.

The heroes flee into an entangled wood, pursued by the remaining knights.

Anne is overcome with sadness, but sin antagonizes her (intentionally) and her resulting anger gives her the resolve to continue.

Sin seems aloof, but Anne’s words did hurt his feelings. He is encouraged when Percy calls him a friend.

[Mariana · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 ⭐️

I must say I find this manga to be very addictive. It was good to continue to explore more of the country with these characters. Poor Sin, it mustn't be easy to try to look after them, especially Percival. Trouble seems to follow him no matter what. But as always, it is a funny installment, the relationship between the group is amazing and it was good to see one of The Seven Deadly Sins, Gowther, the sin of Lust.

[Bookworm Erica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Better and better. Percy is adorable. Sin is my fave

[BLAHBLAHBLAH DEMO · Rating 5 out of 5]

Te amo Arturo, eres divino, no importa lo que digan 🫶🏻

[Rodri · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5: GOWTHERRRRRRRRR