Nanatsu no Taizai Movie 2: Hikari ni Norowareshi Mono-tachi

"Goodbye, Seven Deadly Sins"
(Spoilers ahead btw)

Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light is the final instalment into the NNT series. I was hesitant at first because it was completed during the production of the final season of SDS(I'm looking at you MHA and your mediocre Season 5), but after watching the film. I am proud to say it was pretty good. Though the final season did have to suffer for the second half. The story starts six months after the Demon King's battle. We get to see many things shown, like Diane, King, Meliodas and Elizabeth's Marriage. What happens to Arthur and Merlin(Not a lot though), ... Zeldris and Gelda's relationship, basically most of the cast from the previous seasons had some updates on their whereabouts(Mostly because this movie really "shocked" the world).

Let's begin with the story of the anime.
Story: 5/10
It had a pretty generic storyline if I were, to be honest, big baddies show up and heroes go serious. As a set-up for a sequel, it did do a pretty good job. This is just starting to the age of chaos after all(hehe sequel time). It had barely anything special but maybe simple is the best, after all this movie was a culmination of all the previous season's. I'm not defending it because it's a set-up, I'm defending it because I liked how simple it was. Although I gave it a pretty low rating, I still liked the story(Still barely anything as a story)

Art/Animation: 7/10
I loved the animation for the movie, it was a middle ground between Season 2 and Season 3. Some part's had very nice animation, while some parts were wonky(Looking at you CGI Supreme Deity). Overall nice animation, not too many wonky faces and some nice backgrounds. Though, I'm sure it could be better if it was handled by a better studio(No offence Deen)

Sound: 8/10
I loved the soundtrack for this movie(Series as a whole). Hiroyuki never disappoints with their soundtrack, it fits perfectly with each moment (I love this man no cap). The final rendition of perfect time made me pretty hyped, I love the soundtrack :D. "Sono Saki no Hikari e" by Akihito Okano was a bop, a fitting song for a final movie.

Character: 6/10
The development between Meliodas and Zeldris is the main focus here. Although I wished for some development between Supreme and Elizabeth, I'm happy that we got to see Meliodas and Zeldris's brotherly bond grow even more. I can't say for the rest sadly. King, Diane, Gowther and Ban already had theirs done long ago. I loved that they showed us Hawk and Mild's bond grow as well as they live in Purgatory. Meliodas and Elizabeth's only development was killing mommy goddess sadly. Seeing Gelda and Zeldris's relationship does put a smile on my face.(P.S The villains in the movie kinda sucks doe(what happened to them lmao), The Supreme Deity also had small screentime too sus)
Enjoyment: 9/10
Can't say I didn't enjoy the bonds between brothers grow. I enjoyed it full-heartfully has a fan of SDS. I'm not being biased just because I am a fan it's just that I did have fun watching this finale and riding to the end with the sins. I loved the comedy, the teasing and all of it till the end(I can't say the same for the animation for Season 3). I'm happy that the final movie was good.

Overall: 7/10
I can say many good things about SDS but I can't neglect that this movie still lacked many things. The overall pacing was haywire, the stiffness of the animation(Sometimes), that horrible CGI Supreme Deity. Still, the overall product was pretty good I wished I could have seen this type of animation for Season 3 and 4(No CGI Supreme doe).

Thank's for reading my review!

Normally don't write reviews but for what I've just watched I think I can spare a few minutes of my time. Firstly the pace of the story was too fast within 20 minutes the final enemy was defeated which is just shocking as it took a whole season to defeat the demon king. Meliodas and Zeldris were just cringe, I get they were trying to mend their relationship however it came off just sh.t. It was a real shame Escanor couldn't be there because at least he could of made it exciting to watch, he was literally the only reason I watched the final season. ... They also just messed up the theme song( perfect time) which was so disturbing to hear, one of the biggest disappoints in the movie. 7ds never fails to surprise me. However the visuals were good during the fights which perplexes me because where was that the last two seasons. I've always liked 7ds however I must side with critics when one of my favourite anime has been slayed.

A total disaster, to be honest Studio Deen don't understand the theme of the show, they have butchered it to the point that they themselves don't care, the story was so casually made, it made no point at all, I don't know what they wanted to prove. But I think it's time for producers and studio to realise that they can't take viewers for granted, the amateurish production or greedy production led a serious dent on the series and viewers mindset, the unfortunate part is that they are still not done, which is absolute shame.

For the review -
I thought that at least the movie should ... be fine, but of course you should never expect anything from this production committee and studio Deen. The story was absolutely shit, Supreme Diety was killed off in 10 minutes, and that cheap ass SD CGI lmao. Meliodas and Zeldris relationship was cringe. I don't know what author wants to do, he is shitting on his creation, milking in every way possible with producers and creating a game content. Looks like that Nakaba forgot there used be good story in the series.

Some people were saying Art and Animation is really good, some idiots even compares to A1. I was hopeful for animation at least, but as expected of studio deen it was 2/10 tbh, better than season 3 and season 4? Yes, but I don't consider season 3 and 4 an anime, that shit is 0/10 for me. People got fooled by moving images and consider it as animation/action lol. That means studio got succeeded into people thinking that was good animation lmao, I saw no choreography in any fight scene, some here and there were some good elements but overall animation was not that good, nothing in comparison to season 1 and 2 and the first movie.

Art was so-so, I still don't like meliodas expression they tried. Overall 1/10 for me.

I don't know about sequel series, but looks like story and anime is never going to be good for this. I commend A1 Pictures for what they did for this series. The future of this series is only in game, author and producers just want to make money from game and some shitty movies. It's a shame that a series like nanatsu no taizai ending like this.