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On the side: The Seven Deadly Sins movie showing special essay.
Box: Characters
Nakaba
A pig who draws the manga each week while in rags. Err, I mean a mangaka. But the potato shochu supports him physically and mentally.
Toshi
A young editor feared by Y-Moto as being the Demon King for his attitude for asking impossible things with a composed look on him. Suzuki Nakaba's chief editor. A beer lover.
Y-Moto
A good and unsophisticated young editor with a bottle of potato shochu. He hasn't received any dark influence from the chief yet. At least for now. He's Suzuki Nakaba's subeditor.
Let's wind back two years from now. That happened right after a meeting.
Well now, since our meeting's finished, let's go get some drink!
Ah… Nakaba-san, before that, I've got good news for you…
Eh? You're giving me some time off?
No, nothing like that.
Then what's it?
The movie adaptation has been green-lit…!!
A movie adaptation…!! That's great, isn't it…!!
We've still got a long ways before it'll show, so we have a request of you: We want you to make rough drafts of the original plan. Amount-wise, 200 pages or so…
And what's the good news?
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But a long ways until the showing means I've got quite the margin for the deadline, correct?
A bit less than a month.
On sign: Drink store Mother of Chaos
A bit less then… a month? While drawing weekly? While releasing a volume every two months? Without any break? …are you for real?
We are.
Whoaaa.
(On top papers)
Stomach
Offal
Tongue
(On bottom papers)
Pig salad
White liver
French fries
Plum crystal
(Bottom right, only the ending text is shown)
today.
(Bottom left)
Shochu menu
Well, if it's you, you can do that!!
Your glance looks like a kid's!!
On Nakaba: My heart's gonna hurt!
If you manage to survive the month, it'll be downhill from there.
That line… I've been telling that myself since the serialization started. Damn you, I swear I'll Purge you away someday!!
And so, I drew my manga and 50 to 60 pages of the movie rough drafts weekly, and it was rinse and repeat for five weeks…
You know I'll go to the hospital for an operation at the end of the year!?*
*It was at the end of 2016. Thankfully I recovered from it!!
Somehow I finished the original manga plan with over 290 pages.
Y-Moto-kun…
Po… potato shochu!!
Roger!!
I thought I did my part for the movie with this but…
Apparently they want you to draw the original picture of the mural that'll come up in the movie.
M… mural? D… does it have to be me and not someone else…?
Yep!!
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And after quite a while…
Good job on the double chapter release.
With this… next month, things'll g…
I've got some news for you… The special manga that'll be distributed at the theaters-
Gowah!!
Is that the sad news?
Hahaha.
But I'm sure it'll delight the readers and children that come to watch the movie.
Y-Moto-kun, you're slowly starting to look like the evil Toshi-kun… I'll do it… U-ugh… I'll gladly do it even.
By the way, with the material I thought up for the movie, I brought the Induras and made a little drop of the name "Six Black Knights" in the main story, I brought the characters from the original work into the movie and conversely. I was hard-pressed trying to bring enjoyment to everyone.
Outside: But the rough draft's fun as expected.
Heh, when I see it this way, I can kinda see the relation between Galan, the Induras and the Six Black KNights.
Outside: There's even Galan's nephew in the Six Black Knights.
Right in the middle of my busiest time, I was told to go observe people dubbing the TV anime and movie.
The voice actors are really great, they've got voices no one would think they come straight out of the humans like them.
Arrow: My wife.
Outside: A blessing for ears, not for eyes?
Nakaba-san, you can observe them while you do your manuscripts* each time but you'll like it.
It isn't like I want to do it because I like it.
*I draw even in the studio. Because I wouldn't make it in time.
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Now, the thing that gave me most trouble was precisely the scene Mael of the Four Archangels appears!!
At the moment of drawing the rough draft for this manga, his face wasn't revealed yet and his eyes were cast in shadow until the last moment.
Outside: Something like this.
However the timing was perfect for his face to be revealed in the main story, and so I could draw it properly.
Now all we have to do is wait until the movie showing! Well done.
I thought I'd die but the dubbing went great and there were nice stuff.
One of my impressive memories was when I was working and unable to go watch the dubbing.
The manuscript still isn't…
Oh… hello, Nakaba-san?
It's the voice of Fox's Sin of Greed!!!
It was Suzuki Tatsuhiko who voices Ban, and he phoned me to invite me to drink after the recording!!
…he had to focus on moving the dubbing along in the end on that day so we didn't go out drinking.
Outside: Oh yeah, I believe I gave him my business card.
The mangakas do live in a closed society, so an opportunity to talk and drink with people from different worlds like voice actors may prove to be a good motivation.
Actually, Nakaba-san, you'll never be able to talk with people out of shyness if you don't drink.
On that note(?), please do enjoy the Seven Dadly Sins movie!! I want to watch it as a viewer!!
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