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This is off-topic but....

@anon Indeed. But you'd be surprised how cours are handled sometimes. Nanatsu no Taizai is a weekly manga series and anime adaptations of such vary like crazy. It all depends on the studios involved. Take World Trigger, which is about the same age as NnT(give or take a season) but is getting 50 episodes for itself. Sure, World Trigger doesn't have the same story structure, but plenty of series before have ended at a 2-cour without completing the greater arc and then just continued on the second season. Tokyo Ghoul anime however, is an example of that tactic failing cause something went wrong while they were rushing a second season to compensate the mother-of-all-cliffhangers ending of season 1(I mean seriously, it didn't even feel like a final episode, it just... stopped dead). In that regard, it is smart move to fit in the whole first part into a decent 2-cour with a proper plot resolution. Still, if you have the time, reading the manga first is a good idea considering that it is after all, a manga that releases consistently every week.

Not that the NnT anime is shit, don't get me wrong, I enjoy it, but while I don't miss all the omissions, there are some that I think were necessary. Overall I'm not too comfortable with the idea of adapting 100 chapters of a weekly series into just 2-cours, especially not with intricate stories like NnT. I think the only way for a weekly manga to see justice is to get an ongoing anime, but then problems of budget and filler come in as well so really there can be no winner nor loser. Really depends on circumstances. I think Kuroko no Basuke is a representation of good handling.

P.S. All of these are examples from this season's run just so as to highlight the sheer difference.