User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 480: The Northern Gravestone, Review./@comment-5303512-20160404151842/@comment-4829046-20160405131359

If we are going on remakes, there are anime that need those WAAAAAAAY more than Nanatsu no Taizai.

This is A-1 we are talking here. Expecting them to do justice to a series they intended to cash-in due to similarities with their main series Fairy Tail, is ludicrous. They did enough to make it stand out as a great shounen anime and that's pretty much all they need. Still a far better result than Boku Dake ga Inai Machi which should have had similar treatment as Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso. Let's face it, if it's from a weekly manga and not going to be a long-running anime, they are gonna cut out as much as needed and put all the effort into the art and animation so as to make a 25 episode shounen adaptation that covers as many important arcs of the manga as possible in case a season 2 is not possible.(it just so happened that Nanatsu no Taizai had one big arc that spanned 100 chapters) That's what they are good at. People criticize A-1(I do too obviously) especially when it comes to Shounen adaptations(big example being Blue Exorcist which had a TERRIBLE anime-only ending) and LN adaptations(SAO) and they are mostly right. Very rarely do you get a proper adaptation. Their aim is visual quality, not storytelling. Exceptions do arise however(like Grimgar from last season to name one of quite a few) but in general they are called out for 'utterly ruining' a series.

It's not like Nanatsu no Taizai anime is terrible or anything. Just that the world-building elements and character nuances were deducted a bit, which happens in quite a few shows done by that studio.

Remember though, with Magi, they did a pretty meh season 1 since they were unsure of another season, but with S2, the quality and adaptation detail went through the roof. The only major concerns were related to censoring, not actual omission. So expect a much better season for Nanatsu no Taizai now that they don't have to rush through anything. Still, they have BUTCHERED second seasons in the past as well even when the first season was good enough to get a second....

Yeah.... A-1 is not to be trusted.