Month: December 2025

Studio Christmas Party Highlights 2025

Continuing our annual tradition, here’s another Studio Christmas party! I had a couple people I thought would look really good in Santa outfits, and a few others I just wanted to draw. I’m really happy with how this year’s party turned out, and I hope y’all will enjoy seeing a handful of Studio residents living it up!

Studio Santa #19 – Liara T’Soni

The Near Hentai Studio Santa for 2025 is Liara T’Soni from Mass Effect. Liara made her Studio debut in March of 2022 as a supporting performer for Tali’Zorah’s NHML pic. This is Liara’s first appearance since then, and I think she looks cute. I hope y’all enjoy seeing her here, and look forward to seeing her at the party.
You may notice I’ve numbered this pic as #19 when it’s more like the fifth Studio Santa pin-up I’ve done. That’s because I decided not too long ago to work out a list of who would’ve been the Studio Santa for the annual Christmas party every year there would’ve been one (keeping in mind who would’ve been available at the time), back to the start of my time posting hentai to the internet. I changed the numbering for these pics to reflect this mild retcon, and you can check out the list here if you’re curious: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kr1tsI6pOhKjSDfggP0PoVEp2hHOKzlpTyFYtqdyqpo/edit?usp=sharing
There’s been some interest in seeing these folks in their Santa gear. I’m not completely against the idea, although to fill out these older Santas I’d probably not bother with making it a seasonal thing, and just post a pic every now and then when I find the time. If that’s something you’d like to see, let me know.

The Bride Vanguard

This is a Vanguard tier reward. I watched Creature Commandos not long after it first came out, and like many who saw it I really liked The Bride. I liked most of the characters, really, but I was happy to see The Bride submitted for this reward. I went with maybe a less sensual pose than I often would, but I think it suits her. As much as I like her she is a bit annoying to work with, so I don’t know how often we’ll see her, but I’d like to at least do something with her and another girl from the show I’m fond of eventually.

Alphonse Elric Character Ask 1

Of course I knew once Alphonse got into the Studio through that One-Shot people want to see him and Ed go at it. For that OS I used their end of series designs, but for this I wanted Al to better match Ed so I think this will be more like his default behind the scenes look. Nothing too shocking here with the answer, I imagine, but more just an Ask I hope will be a crowd-pleaser.

Golden Boy Episode 6

This pic conclude my series making a pic for each episode of the Golden Boy anime. This episode is unique in that it’s not adapting the manga, but rather the animation studio showcasing what their job is like by having Kintaro work at a fictionalized anime studio. The main girl for this episode is Chie, one of the animators, but another popular character is “Producer.” Like Madame President from the first episode, she doesn’t have a proper name and is just known by her job title. Her design does seem to be based on Megumi Moriyama from the manga, but they’re different characters so I can’t use that name for her. Despite not being the main girl of her episode, Producer is highlighted frequently as even gets prominent placement on DVD box covers and the like.
So I always knew from the beginning this pic would feature Chie and Producer, but as I was working on it I was reminded of another unnamed member of the anime studio’s staff, a woman only identified as “Colourist.” Now, this series hasn’t been an exhaustive inclusion of every single girl from the show, there’s a few here and there I didn’t include, but like with episodes one and two I did try to fit in characters I especially liked. I really like this Colourist lady, I think her tired/annoyed look is really charming. So I fit her in last-minute.
This concludes my main Golden Boy series, but I do hope to do more with the franchise eventually. I might go back and do stuff with some of the ladies I missed, and I’d still like to do a one-on-one with Kintaro and Madame President eventually. I expect that won’t be for a while, though, and for now I’m just happy to finally finish this little series.