Sadao Maou (Hataraku Maou-sama!) built papercraft

Sadao Maou (Hataraku Maou-sama!) built papercraft

Since the new season will come out this week, time to post this finished assembly of the Demon lord made out of paper XD Sadao Maou, that is probably one of the leading anime characters promoting MC'D disgusting »food«, if you ca even call it as that in any case XD but yeah, Japanese tend to idolize a lot of crappy stuff without thinking twice about it, so I hope at least the animation studio is getting paid a LOT of ad-money for this one so they can continue the anime.

Regardless of the in-ad-placements, the anime is super funny and engaging, so I’ll definitely watch it and if you don’t know it yet, give it a try as well. Definitely one of the better anime seasons of 2022!

       

As for the papercraft itself, you can see how it looks assembled and built in the preview pictures. The template itself and the info of it can be found here:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Sadao-Maou-Hataraku-Maou-sama-papercraft-877885639

***This is a premium papercraft that you need to purchase in order to receive the PDF and blank PDO files for assembly. – You can find all information about the PayPal purchase in the provided upper outgoing link.***

 

Best way to start this assembly is by either making the separate cape or the head really. For the cape you make the shoulder pads first (by following the PDO file btw; it’s all in there when you purchase the files, so no worries). When you have the pads, start making either the inner out outer side of the cape and glue the upper parts on the shoulder pads and then glue the remaining either inner or outer parts of the cape on there, so the flaps are hidden at the pads part. Be sure to also bend the cape at the left-hand part a bit, since that part goes around the arm, and if you bend it a little bit and pre-shape it, it fits better on the body at the end.

Next, make the head (with the neck part) by starting at the face and make your way to the back of the hair part. At the bottom head part where the hair end is a small hole that helps you getting those last parts on, so use that to make and close the head (the hole is not visible at the end, since it’s covered with the hair). When that is done, you can make the separate visor and you can glue that one on the hair.

When you have the head, you can make the separate hands and arms. When those are also done, make the upper part of the torso aka shirt and when you have the sleeves done, glue the arms in at the right angle by just putting glue on the remaining folds of the arms and putting it in there. That way it’s super simple to make. Do the same with the pre-made head and glue it inside the collar and glue the remaining part of the shirt together – upper torso part, done.

Next you can make the shoes and the feet separate. When you have the 2 shoes, glue them inside the pre-build feet and let it dry. At this point, you can now fill the leg part with weights so it holds better. *Super-pro-tip: I always use small pebbles to fill any kind of humanoid leg parts, since they are heavy enough to make the craft stand how it needs to, they do not rip the paper open, and they are small enough to fit in those smaller holes on the inside, so they really fill out the whole inside as they should, to make the counterweight count.

When the legs are done, put glue on the remaining flaps and glue it on the pre-made upper torso part at the right angle, so it stands. After that, all that you have to do it place the optional cape on the shoulders (that should fit perfectly if you pre-bend the coat to the shape of the body) and glue it in its place with the small 2D chains so it doesn’t fall off. You can also leave out the cape and just have Sadao like that, looks also fine without it in any case :)

           

And it’s finished and done. Hope you like the preview and that it animates you to make a papercraft or 2 of your own, and that you’ll also enjoy the anime when it airs.

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Sadao Maou (Hataraku Maou-sama!) papercraft

Sadao Maou (Hataraku Maou-sama!) papercraft

Don’t know if you people know this about my pages and sites, but I always preach for people on any of my social media sites to send/share/write suggestions or things you would like to see me make or change or whatever to make my pages more user-friendly and to create content that people want to actually see. And it so happens that I got a suggestion of this next character I made, since actually 2 different persons suggested this and were really, really hyped about the release of a new season of the anime XD I can’t always do 100% things people suggest because of work-related issues and no time, but I try me best in any case! So your critique is always heard and I try to integrate constructive feedback and changes all the time, one post at a time.

In any case, if you don’t know, the beloved hyped anime “Hataraku Maou-sama!” or in English “The devil is a part-timer!” is getting a new season! Don’t know yet when, but it’s definitely happening. And since I also loved the anime and people are really excited about this, I wanted to make a papercraft of the main character of the anime, the devil himself, “Sadao Maou” in his typical “MgRonald” (copyright issues XDDD) clothes and with his Maou devil-cape.

The papercraft is unfolded to 22 cm and has 6 pages to print. It consists of a whole 3D model of Maou, a separate cape with the pointy shoulders that is just glued on his shoulders (and can be optional) and his MgRonald visor, which is also separate (and optional). The hair also has 2 layers, so it’s more hair-looking and has the shape of his head and is just glued in between the parts. Also, the back layer part of the hair, or the head, has a hole at the back, to make the head part really simple to make, and the hole is of course not visible when assembled at all.

Along with that, I have updated the template itself to be easier to use, marking the parts that need to go together on the PDF parts themselves and commenting on parts of the template. So the bought templates come not only with the edge ID PDF files to see how to assemble them, but also with written notes and tips on what parts go together, written besides the relevant parts in the templates. Even simpler assembly, and a simple 3D chibi pattern for easy gluing together.

ALL THAT meaning that the papercraft is actually pretty easy to make. Apart from the fiddly 5 fingers on each hand, it should be pretty straightforward to make, and it can be built in separate parts and glued together at the end. I would say it’s a 5/10.

***This is a premium papercraft that you need to purchase in order to receive the PDF and blank PDO files for assembly. – You can find all information about the PayPal purchase in the provided upper outgoing link.***

I hope you are also hyped for the new anime season as my 2 fans that wrote me about making this XD Enjoy and happy crafting~