Nakaba Suzuki is a Japanese manga artist born on February 8, 1977, in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture. He has been active as a professional creator since his debut in 1994, when he received an honorable mention for his story Revenge in Shueisha's Hop Step Award. Suzuki is best known as the author of the internationally successful fantasy series The Seven Deadly Sins, which has become one of the best-selling manga series of all time with over 55 million copies in circulation.

Suzuki's career as a serialized manga artist began with Rising Impact, a golf-themed sports manga that ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1998 to 2002. This early work, his first serialized series, was later adapted into an anime streaming on Netflix beginning in 2024, approximately twenty-five years after its original publication. Following Rising Impact, he created several other series across multiple major magazines, including Ultra Red (2002-2003) in Weekly Shōnen Jump, Blizzard Axel (2005-2007) and Kongō Banchō (2007-2010) in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, and Chiguhagu Lovers (2011-2012) in Weekly Shōnen Champion. This publishing history makes Suzuki one of the few manga artists to have serialized works in all four major weekly shōnen manga magazines in Japan.

His landmark work, The Seven Deadly Sins, was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 2012 to 2020. The series earned Suzuki the 39th Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shōnen Manga in 2015, an honor he shared with Yowamushi Pedal. The success of the manga spawned an extensive media franchise, including anime television series, video games, and multiple animated film adaptations. Suzuki took an active role in these adaptations, providing original stories to serve as the basis for four animated films: Prisoners of the Sky, Cursed by Light, and the two-part Grudge of Edinburgh. In January 2021, he began serializing Four Knights of the Apocalypse, a direct sequel to The Seven Deadly Sins, which continues publication in Weekly Shōnen Magazine.

Regarding his artistic identity, Suzuki draws his manuscripts entirely by hand using pen and paper, a method he prefers despite the increasing availability of digital tools. He is known for refusing to use assistants, a decision rooted in his contrary personality and a desire to prove wrong an early editor who claimed he could not succeed without help. His drawing style is characterized by strong contrasts of light and dark, detailed depictions of muscular physiques, and dynamic action sequences. He has cited Akira Toriyama's Dr. Slump as the first manga he ever bought, and he grew up reading Kinnikuman, Fist of the North Star, and Dragon Ball, all of which influenced his artistic development.

Suzuki's work frequently draws upon Arthurian legend for character names and thematic inspiration, a tendency evident from his first serialized work Rising Impact through The Seven Deadly Sins and its sequel. Despite the epic fantasy scale of his most famous work, he has expressed a personal fondness for romance comics and the dynamic of older woman-younger boy relationships. His professional motto is no chapter that sucks, reflecting his commitment to maintaining consistent quality throughout his serializations.