Four Knights of the Apocalypse

, also known as The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nakaba Suzuki. It is a sequel to Suzuki's previous series, The Seven Deadly Sins. The manga has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine since January 2021, with its chapters collected into thirteen tankōbon volumes as of August 2023. The manga is licensed in North America by Kodansha USA. An anime television series adaptation by Telecom Animation Film premiered in October 2023. Premise Set years after the disbanding of the Seven Deadly Sins, Britannia's most infamous Holy Knights, the series focuses on the young boy Percival, who discovers that he is destined to be part of a group of four knights prophesied to destroy the world. Targeted by the forces of Camelot as a result, Percival travels to find the other three members of the Four Knights alongside Lancelot, a Liones knight who is the son of the Seven Sins member Ban. Production Development Following the conclusion of The Seven Deadly Sins manga with the release of its 346th chapter, the final chapter of the series, in the 17th issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine on March 25, 2020, it was announced by the manga's author, Nakaba Suzuki, that his next series would serve as a sequel to The Seven Deadly Sins. The manga artist also revealed that the new series was tentatively titled The Four Knights of the Apocalypse, which he later changed by removing the word The at the beginning, giving the manga its current title.