Nanatsu no Taizai 150 Review: Escanor's Double Kill

Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 150: Master of the Sun

Well, Escanor just doesn’t know when to dial it back a notch because he just went and wiped Merascylla off too, that’s two of the Ten Commandments killed. I mean, it’s a good thing Escanor has such an absolute limiter on his powers – he is super-weak in the night – otherwise, well, all you need is for Escanor and Meliodas to march on the Ten Commandments and they would be wiped out.

Also the cover page showing the scale of Weak!Escanor and Strong!Escanor is hilarious. Weak!Escanor barely reaches Strong!Escanor’s waist! And without the butler clothes he looks a lot more goofier and pathetic.

Anyway, the chapter itself… Escanor monologues about how the Commandments’ decrees work on the demons themselves, and talks about Galan’s death. He turns to Merascylla, claiming that he is a feminist so he’s going to allow Merascylla a chance to escape. Merascylla does her Gloom Cocoon attack that rips out Escanor’s soul, the way to get past physical strength like she did to Ban before… and very, very grossly eats Escanor’s soul. Her tongue lashes out, and she gulps down Escanor’s soul and her neck expands and ewww that’s disgusting, girl. Then she just clutches her stomach in pain and oh shit that panel just captures the essence of someone trying to vomit something out. And apparently Escanor’s soul is just so fucking awesome that Merascylla is utterly incinerated. Escanor returns to his own body, giving a Bond one-liner about how sunshine is the source of his power, while Merascylla burns up, falls off the cliff and is apparently split into two by the fall.

Now it’s a classic anime way to kill someone without killing him/her, and we have seen Galan recover from being cut into two a chapter ago, so it’s not out of the question for Merascylla to return in a future chapter, but I rather doubt it.

Escanor wants to discuss things with Ban and apparently because it’s almost noon he goes off… somewhere? Is there something that he can’t do at noon or something? Maybe another power limiter of sorts to make Escanor not as OP? I do like how he’s an absolute prideful fellow in the day, giving Ban orders and whatnot, while at night he’s just apologizing for everything in his pathetic form.

We get some nice little moment of Jericho assuring Elaine that her lingering attachment to Ban will tie her to the world of the living and all that, then we skip to the night, where Escanor pulls off his weak, subservient role. Ban fills Escanor up on things… though since Ban left before Team Meliodas encountered the Commandments, it really isn’t much information. Escanor is determined to deliver liquor to a certain location, and he’s determined to keep that promise, end of the world be damned.

King and Oslo shows up, waaay too late to help out fighting off Merascylla and Galan, though we do get a giant page of him just being surprised that Elaine is alive. Woo King. And the last three pages is the peg-legged Matrona dancing and telling Diane that she will be a dancer um wait what?

I’m guessing Escanor’s delivery is probably going to coincide with the giants’ festival, and that’s how King and Diane are going to meet and we’ll have this amnesia romance memory drama play out? Dammit Gowther, this is all your fault. I do hope another Commandment does attack them in that time, though, because if we’re going to delve back to this drama gain it’s not the most interesting thing that’s going on in the story.

Also, dancing? Um, what? Unless it’s going to be something like, oh, water-dancing from Game of Thrones it seemed really random and odd for Matrona to want to force Diane to stop fighting and pursue a career as a dancer. Maybe just to protect her? I dunno. Felt weird to me.