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I'm alive...?! ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ... Anyway here's some Ludociel art! messing around with ms paint is fun (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ~✨

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A collab with @TomatoWenn on Twitter :D

Holy war Mael and opposite side Mael

I'm really happy with the result!

Link to her post :

#nanatsu no taizai #mael #nice also reblog here

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A Look Back in Nakaba POV - #3 Sun May Rest but Shall Rise Again

No more procrastination, I’m gonna finish the promised piece this time!

(I cannot come up with a better title this time so I “steal” the caption once I used for my fanart lol)

Really long time ago I posted this because this is a thing back in the day when people are trying to guess the true identity of Estarossa, and unlike Nakaba thought, there is some people notice this and use this as a critical clue to conclude that Mael=Estarossa theory (or I’d call it a theorem since this is the truth now lol), and I’m glad to see Nakaba give more details in his interview book about how he came up with THE CONSPIRACY:

 Translation:

- Did you decide from the very beginning that Estarossa is actually Mael?

Nakaba: No, at first, I only thought Mael as the Ludociel’s younger brother who had been passed away, but it then start to be worth wondering that if Mael is the strongest among Four Archangle, why the strongest one died in the first place?

So after this when I started to come up the setting of The Grace, I thought Ludociel would be “Light”, Sariel would be “Sea”, and Tarmiel would be “Wind”*… Then when I came to the part that the strongest one should be “Sun”, I was like “Huh? Does that overlap with Escanor’s Sunshine?” If I took one more step further from here this would be totally make sense to me. So in this case, the reason behind Escanor’s unusual predominant power should be The Grace owned by Four Archangle, and it’s reasonable that it’s much stronger than a usual magic.

Then there also should be a scenario that Mael without The grace. In the end, I was pretty satisfied with the result to write Mael=Estarossa.

*p.s. Either Nakaba mixed up Sariel and Tarmiel here or there is a typo in the original text or the wielder of Ocean and Tornado changed afterwards

*p.p.s The name of The Grace is different from the actual name in the manga here, as Light -> Flash, Sea -> Ocean, Wind -> Tornado

It’s obvious here that there is a kinda “technique” thing Nakaba used to write a story in a fast-paced weekly manga magazine: to form a frame first and add details into it. In the interview book there is also other examples, such as Matrona’s story is decided when Nakaba wrote Diane’s spinoff, though Matrona was mentioned once back from tons of chapters ago, and the similar situation happened to Jivago (It’s Ban’s fox father but I don’t remember how to spell it correctly lol) that the detailed backstory was written when Ban meet him again, but the name itself was mentioned back in Ban’s spinoff.

Back to the topic, I assume that whole Elizabeth’s flashback stuff (when she was Blackouted by Gowther and stood on the meadow and saw Meliodas or Estarossa it really depends your opinion) also serves a similar role here, that Nakaba used as a frame at that point and try to fill in details afterwards. It’s hard to say, to be honest, that Nakaba was trying to imply Estarossa is a goddess at the beginning as some people state in their theory.

(One of the interesting point I’m so fascinating with is that back in the day when Escanor’s magic proved to be one of The Grace, some fanboys were super mad towards Nakaba because they believe to make Sunshine as Sun is a downgrade to the mighty Escanor since the power itself not mysterious anymore and has its limitation, lol.)

It’s interesting to see Nakaba also share some additional foreshadowing on the whole Mael=Estarossa stuff (besides the goddess statue), including the one most people already know:

(Gowther looks like “I know everything” when Sariel and Tarmiel says they are going to take revenge on Estarossa)

And of course here is a more interesting one that I never saw people mentioned!

Translation:

- In Chapter 266, Estarossa used the skill “Killing Saucer” that is also used by Mael after he turn back.

Nakaba: At this time I’m 100% sure Estarossa would be Mael, so here I depict a skill Mael would use. That’s why this skill looks like the sun.

It does look like the sun after Nakaba points out!

Some part, however, is not the foreshadowing as expected (oops). People sometimes think Ludociel is referring to Mael when he held Elizabeth’s chin and says there are better people for you than Meliodas, and this usually connects with the fact that Estarossa does love Elizabeth, but at that time since Nakaba still thought Mael as a dead dead archangel, so this is not the case:

Translation:

- In Chapter 203, Ludociel says to Elizabeth that “There are better person who is suitable for you…”, does he mean Mael here?

Nakaba: Here it may or may not. At this time Ludociel thought Mael is dead, so he means as long as the person is not a demon, there are better people like Mael for Elizabeth.

It’s possible that Nakaba messed up again here as Ludociel tried to contact Nerobasta to call Mael over later in the story, but it’s more likely that as Nakaba stated, he once only thought Mael as a passed away archangel so here Ludociel is not referring to his sibling. Another Nakaba inconsistency wow.

One last thing, is there anyone who wants to see Mael using Rebellion?

Translation:

- In Chapter 177 Estarossa used Rebellion. Is that a skill that Mael know how to use, or is this specific for Estarossa?

Nakaba: I haven’t decided this yet, but it makes sense that he know how to use this from the very beginning if you think in this way that the seven swords are used to destroy the seven hearts a demon had.

But here rather than came up with some skill setting, what I want to focus on is the impact of the drawing. Instead of using one sword to stab and blood-splash seven times, I thought seven swords stabbing at a time would be more interesting. By the way, the name itself is a cultural reference to the movie Rebellion*.

*p.s. “Rebellion” is the Japanese title for the movie Equilibrium.

Hmm, maybe next time!

All pictures are from Nakaba’s interview book and if you are interested in you can get it here.

~ A Look Back in Nakaba POV series : 1 2

#The Seven Deadly Sins #nanatsu no taizai #Mael #Estarossa #Nakaba POV series #Rebellion #because I LOVE Rebellion!

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I did a really great job on just using my phone to color it

#nnt #mael

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✨ Happy Birthday Ludociel! ✨

#ludociel #nnt

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A Look Back in Nakaba POV - #2 That’s How Kids Remember Names

This is a short one but I find it extreme interesting, yet it involves some Japanese so I will try my best to explain.

One of the most important things for the author to remember is that never confuse your reader and definitely Nakaba is trying to avoid confusion sometimes (but to be honest he is not good at it, that’s just my personal feeling). 

We all know Four Archangels’ name are Mael, Sariel, Tarmiel and Ludociel, and their names in Japanese are designed to be in different lengths! If you spell the names in Japanese:

マエル

サリエル

タルミエル

リュドシエル

and appreciate the fact that they are all differences by one character length lol

Translation:

Names [of character] for Goddess clan is how I did differentiation. The length  of the name for Ludociel, Tarmiel, Sariel and Mael are different. If everyone get the names with same length then it will be a chaos. When I draw I usually take an elementary school kid POV and avoid the situation like “I totally don’t get it”.

Again this is from Nakaba’s interview and if you are interested in you can get it here  

~ A Look Back in Nakaba POV series : 1

#The Seven Deadly Sins #nanatsu no taizai #Nakaba POV series

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Happy Birthday Mael / Estarossa!!

#mael #estarossa #cuties together #nnt

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A Look Back in Nakaba POV - #1 Mom paradox

I’m gonna make this series basically translate things like Nakaba’s interview book (get it from here! p.s. in Japanese) or other sources that seems interesting and update on tumblr when I’m free (which usually I don’t)

It’s reeeeeally looooong time ago that NNT’s editor Y-hon(or I think Yoshimoto is his real name) plus in Nakaba Q&A mentioned both Meliodas and Zeldris have mom (source for reference) but seems Nakaba changed his mind:

Translation:

- In chapter 329 Demon King says “How can I yield to the wimp who pours the heart out to a woman!?”, Does this mean Meliodas and Zeldris don’t have a mother?

Nakaba: No, they don’t. Someone has asked me question like “Do Demon King and Supreme Diety get married?”. It’s unlikely as they do not have child like the normal human beings.

We all know Nakaba is not always consistent with himself lol

#nanatsu no taizai #the seven deadly sins #Demon King #Nakaba POV series

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lol I get it and this is funny

So it is confirmed that Nakaba intentionally drew statue of goddess at back of rossa…

(In case anyone who don’t understand Japanese, those Japanese stuff just says almost the same thing I wrote above 🤔)

#personal

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“I have my flaws, I make mistakes, But I’m myself, I’m not ashamed.”

The Score - Who I Am

🌑Happy Birthday, Hexxe! @solynacea🌑 

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I realized that I never posted the colored version.. I was struggling a lot with shading back then, and looking back at the drawing, the shading looks like poop xD but oh well^^'

I want to practice drawing characters more in my own style instead of a style that is inspired from the show that the character I'm drawing is from, so I was wondering if you guys wanna give me some characters that I could draw in my style?^^

Let's rather say that I was thinking about opening requests for a while since I don't have school the next two weeks anyway. So yeah, give me a character and I'll draw them^^ (btw the picture will be drawn as traditional art)

Nnt belongs to nakaba Suzuki

#nnt #Mael #Estarossa #cuties together #cute as always

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I was looking at some of the Q&A made by editor a few years ago and find these two interesting lol

Q: In SDS Meliodas is not good at cooking, then what about Zeldris and Estarossa?

A: They are skillful at dealing with enemy (conclude after meeting)

Apparently the editor is trying to make a pun here, since in Japanese the word “cook” also refers to “deal”... Anyway “cooking enemy” sounds so cracked haha

And another one here:

This one is trying to ask where is Zeldris’ commandment mark since other members of the ten commandment either has their mark on their face or chest, and Nakaba answered that it is somewhere covered by clothes and we know that Dolor’s mark is on his butt lol

#nnt #Zeldris #Estarossa

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I’m planning to translate some other part of this interview related to Mael and Estarossa (not for the whole interview book obviously cuz that’s way too long) The workload is not that tremendous I thought there are actually only 4 or 5 questions but I’m afraid my Japanese is not that great (and potentially made some mistakes) and I’m too lazy to skim through the book again to find every related question 🥺

I know that traditional Chinese version of this interview will be available some day (I don’t know the exact date but hopefully it’ll come out soon) so maybe not do this until that day (or maybe I will no longer procrastinate)

So it is confirmed that Nakaba intentionally drew statue of goddess at back of rossa…

(In case anyone who don’t understand Japanese, those Japanese stuff just says almost the same thing I wrote above 🤔)

#personal

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I don't have anything else to post so have this drawing I made for an request on instergram

Nnt belongs to nakaba suzuki

#nnt #mael #estarossa #cuties together

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Mood: crave for some Mael/Estarossa scene or art but nowhere to find

... just wanna post something random (or maybe not that random) to say I am not being inactive

#personal

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- George R. R. Martin

#nnt

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マエルくんとエスタロッサ

#nnt #estarossa #mael #cuties together