THE TRAGIC LIFE OF ZELDRIS (Seven Deadly Sins / Nanatsu no Taizai / Where is Zeldris? Is he Dead?)

[Music] what is up everybody its Anna Mack here for anime All Pro and in this video we will be talking about zelgius the younger brother of Melly Otis whose ultimate fate remains a mystery as of the making of this video a fact that underscores even further the tragic nature of the life that zelgius has led up to this point a video on zelgius has been highly requested by literally hundreds of you guys especially with the latest events in the manga turning out the way that they did so thank you all for the requests in this video I will examine the tragic life of zeldron and I will argue that although it may not seem that way at first zelgius is actually one of the more developed characters in the seven deadly sins and probably the biggest unsung hero of the entire story Before we jump into it I want to give a huge thank you to raid shadow legends for sponsoring this video rain shadow Legends is a mobile RPG that breaks the mold challenges your expectations and immerses you in its amazing 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spoilers everything related to Zell dress that has been covered in the manga is fair game with that said proceed with caution you have been warned when we first meet Zell Dru's he is serving as the piety of the ten commandments and as the demon Kings representatives so he is the facto leader of the group in the beginning zelgius is portrayed as a villain and his hatred for his own brother Mellie Otis the hero of our story instantly makes us think that Zell drous is the bad guy once he is released from the coffin of eternal darkness zelgius wants to exact revenge on Mellie Otis for betraying the demon clan 3,000 years ago and siding with the goddesses enact which ultimately led to the demons being sealed inside the coffin in the first place this is a pretty simple setup for a villain evil demon Prince is angry about his brother's betrayal and wants to get revenge zelgius has a cool character design especially since his appearance is so similar to Mellie Otis and he is a strong and determined villain which makes him a fun character to watch but it doesn't make him a particularly deep character however if there is one thing that the seven deadly sins series does extremely well it is developing characters and uncovering their individual complexities beyond just our first impressions of them growing up as the younger brother of Mellie Otis and the youngest son of the demon king zelgius would have had a very difficult family dynamic Mellie Otis always had incredible potential as a demon and the demon king calls him the source of destruction because of this meliodas was always presumed to be the heir to the demon king's throne and zelgius was always meant to simply remain in melioidosis shadow before he met elizabeth meliodas was known as the strongest and most ruthless warrior of the demon clan and zelgius was merely the younger less powerful brother but there were also some benefits to growing up as the brother of Mellie Otis including the fact that zelgius had the opportunity to train with his brother and due to his brother's immense power this meant that zelgius had the opportunity to keep getting stronger another very important aspect of zelda says difficult family situation is of course his father the demon king we don't know who the mother of Medicine's ljust was or what she was like but we know that the demon king is a ruthless ruler with serious trust issues because he was betrayed multiple times including by the original demon and then later by Mellie Otis the demon king doesn't trust anyone and he values power and control above all else the reason he values power and control is because being completely in control reduces the chances of someone betraying you or stabbing you in the back and because he is so obsessed with control the demon king considers the things that cannot be controlled such as love and compassion to be signs of weakness growing up with a father who rejects all forms of emotion including love and compassion and values only ruthless power and control would be difficult for anyone and zelgius is no exception by the way if you would like to know more about the psychology of the demon king and why he became the type of person he is today feel free to check out my video on the demon king and his psyche link in the description now just try to put yourself in zelgius shoes he grew up in the shadow of his older and stronger brother and he grew up with a father who valued power above all else so naturally the father would prefer to stronger brother and treat the younger and weaker brother less favorably the demon king makes it a point to mock the idea of love and falling for a woman and he calls anyone who falls in love weak so it is likely that zelgius would have internalized some of this contempt for love when Mele Otis betrays the demon clan because he fell in love with Elisabeth zelgius is furious and he wants revenge having been raised to think that love is weakness zelgius blames Elisabeth for corrupting his brother and he initially shares his father's disgust for what meliodas has done at first glance it might appear that zelda's grew up to become exactly what his father wanted him to be a ruthless demon prince who values only power and loyalty and who scoffs at the idea of love and emotion but there is more to sell just a story we later learned that despite of all the love bashing that the demon king must have exposed him to growing up zelgius did eventually end up falling in love with a woman named zelda who was a member of the vampire clan during the previous holy war the vampires were allied with the demons but at some point the vampire King is raff decided to rebel against the demon king and for this betrayal the demon king sentenced the entire vampire clan to death what's more the demon king sent zelgius to carry out the death sentence precisely because he wanted to remind eldress that he must be loyal to the demon king above all else and that he must never let a woman or feelings of any kind get in the way however despite all the indoctrination that he had been exposed to for his entire life by the demon king zell drous cannot bring himself to kill gelda so he decides to seal the vampires away instead of killing them by doing this zel just betrays his father and his wishes and it isn't hard to see that zelgius is apparent hatred for meliodas and Elizabeth and their betrayal is in part a manifestation of the self-hatred that zelgius feels because he knows that he also betrayed his father in the name of love just like Mellie Otis it might seem hypocritical for zelgius to be angry at meliodas when he is also guilty of a similar sin but it isn't uncommon for someone who feels guilt about their own actions to project that guilt onto others and to be angry at them because this is usually much easier than actually coming to terms with your own inner demons no pun intended nonetheless zelgius does eventually come to terms with his true feelings and he decides that his love for gelda is more important than his loyalty to a ruthless and merciless father even though we find out that he had hopes of becoming the next demon king himself so that he could free gelda and bring peace and harmony to the underworld soldiers decides to support his older brother Mellie Otis in becoming the next demon king in return for meliodas releasing gelda from the seal so that they could finally be together the demon king later mocks zelgius his ambition to become the next demon king and bring peace and harmony to the clans of the underworld including the demons and vampires but this ambition that zelgius held tells us a lot about what kind of person he actually is even though he was raised by the ruthless demon king Zell just wanted to be a different kind of ruler someone who governs through peace and harmony rather than war and terror even though he eventually gave up on his ambition to become the demon king and decided to support meliodas if he had become the demon king it is clear that zelgius would have ruled much differently from his father he would not have considered his love for gelda to be a weakness and he would have tried to reconcile the different factions of the underworld instead of simply destroying all perceived threats and rivals after meliodas agrees to release gelda if he becomes the demon king zelgius willingly sacrifices himself multiple times in order to make that happen he challenges Eskin or Merle and Ludo shell Maya and the others when they attempt to stop meliodas from absorbing the commandments and as we know as eldress takes a significant amount of punishment as a result and when it turns out that malleolus had not become the demon king but instead the demon king had possessed his body zelgius decides to sacrifice himself once again by taking the demon hedaan and he is severely injured in the process after this the ultimate fate of zelgius remains unknown for multiple manga chapters and this underscores the nature of zelgius entire life Zelda's grew up in difficult family circumstances the son of a cruel and ruthless father and the brother of meliodas a stronger demon Prince and the heir apparent to the demon king's throne after meliodas the favorite son betrays the demon clan zelgius is conflicted between his loyalty to his father in the clan and his relationship with his older brother but more than that zel gist is conflicted between the strict beliefs of his father believes that condemn all forms of emotion including love and his own powerful feelings for gelda just as meliodas bond and the other main characters of the seven deadly sins story struggle both externally and internally throughout the series zelgius also goes through this same type of struggle eventually he decides to stand up to his father he disobeys the command to kill the vampires and he plans to become a different kind of ruler when he inherits the throne and once he realizes that Mele Otis is the one who is more likely to become the next demon king zelgius decides to support him even at the risk of losing his own life in this sense zelgius really is the unsung hero of the seven deadly sins story sure the seven deadly sins and their friends are all heroes too but we know that they are because they are the main characters and we recognize them as such but zelgius is introduced later on in the story he starts out as a villain and because he sees the world from the perspective of the demons it is easy to think of him as the bad guy in reality when we think of it from zelgius perspective he wanted to bring peace and harmony to the underworld even though that went against the demon Kings wishes he spared the vampires when he was commanded to kill them all and he put his own life on the line multiple times in order to do the right thing in the end he risks his own life to take his father on directly despite the fact that his father had a lifetime to indoctrinate him into his own cruel system of belief zelgius might not be a hero from the perspective of the goddesses or the humans because he was always seen as an enemy by them but from the perspective of the demons the vampires and the other creatures of the underworld zelgius is a hero who was willing to defy the most powerful creature in the universe and even sacrifices own life for a better and more harmonious future for all of them even though the manga appears to have forgotten him for a number of chapters we should not forget zelgius or his sacrifice after all what differentiates a decent story from a great one is the ability to develop not just one or two of your main characters but also the less prominent character and zelgius is a perfect example of the ability of the seven deadly sins story to give even side characters a compelling character progression so let me know what you guys think do you agree with me that zelgius is an unsung hero who lived a tragic life but made the right choice in the end do you like cell just as a character and what do you think will ultimately become of him and gelda let me know down in the comments if you enjoyed this video and you want to see more you can leave a like to let me know and if you're new to anime uproar don't forget to subscribe and hit that notification bell also be sure to check out our sponsor raid shadow legends link in the description as always thank you guys so much for watching thank you for requesting this video and until next time see us space cowboys [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 12min 30sec (750 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 22 2019