English Dub Review: Seven Mortal Sins “Guiltless Gluttony”

Who’s truly a glutton for punishment and boob filled silliness?

Right at the top of this review, I have to make it very much clear. This is my favorite episode of Seven Mortal Sins thus far. If you have kept tabs on my reviews though you know this isn’t because I feel this is the episode that exhibits flawless writing and animation, seamlessly working together to convey a beautifully told story. Seven Mortal Sins has never tried to be more than what it shows on the surface. Busty demon girls of all varieties getting into the most scantily clad clothing and posing positions to show off as much skin as possible. Guiltless Gluttony does what the other episodes accomplished, namely being as shamelessly sexual as it wants, but adds in that extra layer of pathetic comedy coming from our main heroine to make it just almost bust gustingly hilarious to watch.

The story is that Lucifer is on her war path to continue kicking the butts of all the Mortal Sins with this week’s Sin being Gluttony or better known as Beelzebub. Now we have Lucifer challenge her to an eating contest but there is a recurring pattern in the show where Lucifer has to lose pathetically to the Mortal Sins before she can win. It’s just the rule in this show I guess. But in previous episodes she got tortured, coerced to commit suicide, stripped naked in a video game, this episode brings about her most pathetic loss yet despite her getting in a draw with Gluttony. Due to eating so much Lucifer ends up getting food poisoning and has to go to the hospital and stay there then entire episode.

Yeah, the badass Lucifer, the fallen angel and mortal sin of pride, is hospitalized over eating too much meat too quickly. That be like if Darth Vader got a Charlie horse and had to sit out of the rebel attack of the Death Star in Star Wars. It’s really the quickest turn around in how pathetically inept the writers made Lucifer and it gets even more pathetic as then the rest of the episode is just her moaning and complaining about hating being in the hospital. A stay which is bookended by her getting a suppository shoved right up in her. For a show that’s all about dressing their girls in as little strips of fabric as possible for sex appeal they put in a scene that is so hilariously not sexy it’s hilarious.

What compounds this series of pathetically hilarious events is without a doubt this is Lucifer’s lowest point that any of the sins over brought her to and the sin that managed to bring Lucifer to a bed ridden state was the one that gives the least amount of a f**k about being a mortal sin. Gluttony comes off as the sweetest and most genuine of the mortal sins and there’s really no malevolence in her, even me stating she brought Lucifer to her knees is not accurate as from how she acts it’s safe to assume Lucifer just made herself sick. And that thought just makes her hospitalization even more pathetic and laughable.

But regardless, the portrayal of Gluttony has honestly been hands down Seven Mortals Sins best visualization of the sin with Lust as a close second. Unlike the other sins who went about their business pulling in people with malicious intent to make them subjected to them, Gluttony’s actions mirror the true meaning of the deadly sin. Gluttony is the sin of over consumption, the over indulgence of outside forces in what makes one happy. Money, relationships or in this case food, over indulging in that base want is the sin this cute little loli girl represents and her design fits great with that. Even the show iterates how Gluttony starts off as just a little happy feeling and at first that little sweet feeling is all one needs, but Gluttony’s friendly nature exhibits the major draw of the sin, that nice warm feeling one gets when over indulging. Gluttony isn’t a malicious sin like the others, it’s one that pulls you in with good feelings and strangely enough, a little loli girl with a unicorn horn perfectly captures that.

But Gluttony isn’t the only surprising bit of smart writing in this episode there is actual character development here. Shocking, I know. But here we finally get to see Levi confront Lucifer about what she really thinks of her. We see the growing friendship of Maria and Lucifer and get hints that Lucifer plans to use her to destroy the order of the sins. Finally, we see Vanity, sporting her ridiculous oversized football pads, take Maria’s heart raising intrigue and stakes for next episode. That may not sound like too much, maybe even, completely standard story telling plot points but for Seven Mortal Sins where the majority is just Lucifer getting her ass whooped and Maria showing her innocent panty covered butt standard storytelling seems like a major accomplishment.

If you are enjoying Seven Mortal Sins as I am, laughing at its absurdity and waiting patiently for its hidden intelligence in visualization, then I think Guiltless Gluttony will be a blast to watch for yah for all the wrong reasons. But to be fair for some good reasons as well, it’s a strong mix of positive and negative elements that makes a show that could be mocked like The Room or Trolls 2. I know I should feel guilty about more recommending the show as a means to make fun of it but I guess after a while I’m just a glutton for stupidity like this.