Lake and Raleigh Ayase

So for some time now, I’ve been sharing clips from my game of “Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream” on Discord and Twitter. I imagine for anyone not interested, this has been very annoying, but I’ve really enjoyed sharing my island and its residents with everyone. I themed my island around the Near Hentai Studio, its residents being 70 of the more popular (or my personal favorite) Studio members. In the game these residents get married and have kids, all of which I’ve documented and shared online.
I don’t keep any of the kids who are born on my island, since there’s limited space, but I haven’t forgotten any of them. The narrative in-game is that these kids leave the island and go off to explore the world, presumably living rich, adventurous lives. I like the idea of those kids, at least some of them, finding their way to the Studio somehow. I don’t know how many of them I’ll draw, but I’d like to draw some of them. These kids are sort of like a weird alternate take on my NHS Fusions concept, children of an alternate reality version of familiar characters.
So all that out of the way, this is Lake Ayase and his younger sister Raleigh Ayase. They’re the children of Seiko Ayase and Make Zenin. I considered hyphenating their last names, but like Toji I just assumed Maki wouldn’t be interested in carrying on the Zenin name with her kids (even if Tomodachi Maki has no idea who the Zenin clan are). Lake was the first kid on my island, and Raleigh was the first second child, so I wanted to bring them in first. Raleigh’s hairstyle in the game is the same one I use for Seiko, and since she’s Seiko’s daughter I figured I’d interpret her hairstyle in reverse the same way. I tried to interpret them back into the art style of their parents, rather than just draw them as Miis or whatever. I had fun doing this, and if people are curious to see more I’d like to draw more little pics of the other island babies eventually, just to give them some life outside of being deleted from my save file. I get weirdly emotional over the little “growing up” cutscene these characters get, so I find an odd satisfaction in continuing their journeys in this way.

Shoko Ieiri Character Ask 1

Kinda like Serie, Leshawna and Sadako in recent Asks, this one was a good excuse to draw Shoko more properly. Unlike the others, though, Shoko did get to actually appear in her one drawing before this Ask, but it was the younger Hidden Inventory design. In the Studio it makes much more sense for her to be living as her regular modern day self, I think. This Ask also gives me a chance to touch on the Studio hospital a bit. I’ve always figured there should be some sort of place for medical characters in the Studio, but I also don’t think it makes much practical sense alongside other elements of the Studio. It feels weird for the residents to both know their fictional and also still need to worry about check-ups, illness or injury. I’ve gone back and forth on how exactly to handle a medical facility in the Studio, which is why there’s no such place in the game yet. Maybe I’ve touched on it some in a Dr. Pussycat Ask or something, but I’m still holding back on committing to much concrete detail on how it works just yet.

As for a patient for Shoko, I figured Denji is always a safe bet for a role like this. A simple handjob kinda feels appropriate for a “check up” euphamism.

Miss Martian NHML

Miss Martian, or M’gann M’orzz, or Megan Morse, is the Near Hentai Monthly Lady for September 2026. I feel like she’s been being nominated for a while, so it’s nice to see her finally win the raffle. I watched Young Justice back when it aired, but I feel like I honestly don’t remember much of its later seasons despite sticking with it to the end. I remember M’gann has some controversial moments later on, and I tend to associate her more heelish tendencies with her shorter-haired look from later on, so I went more season one with this pic. The fact that that’s the main season I remember also influenced that choice. I could’ve gone a few different ways here, and I considered doing something with Artemis since I’m fond of her, but at the end of the day a straightforward pic with her boyfriend Conner.

With this post, NHML nominations for the month of October are now open. For those who don’t know, I’ll run down the rules real quick. Nominations are limited to one per person. You can nominate any female character you want, provided I have not drawn her within the past calendar year (though I prefer characters I’ve never drawn, period). Previous NHML winners are not eligible for a second time. Nominees must also not be from the same franchise as this month’s winner, Young Justice. If you violate any of those rules, I’ll let you know, and you can nominate someone else. I know it can be hard to keep track of these things. You may nominate by either commenting in the cBox, commenting on this post, or emailing me (Nearphotison2010@yahoo.com). I’ll compile a list of the nominees in the sidebar of this site, and then on October 1st I will use a randomizer to select the winning character who I will proceed to draw sometime that month. I look forward to seeing who you all nominate this time around!

August ’26 One-Shot

Like always, the script for this One-Shot was selected from Subscriber submissions. This script is one of those One-Shots where each panel is kinda its own little scene. Aside from Urbosa and Link, I’m not really familiar with any of these characters (I barely met All For One before leaving MHA, and I’ve never seen this newscaster girl before). I know Chris and Sheva through occasionally seeing them in SFM animations, but I don’t know anything about them. The last two girls seem to be a rich girl and her maid from one of the recent Pokémon games, but this was the first time I’d seen either of them. I hope my lack of familiarity with them didn’t affect too much, though, and y’all can enjoy this collection of little scenes.

Tournament of Lust, Page Fourteen

We’re down in the trenches of this match now, with this being the penultimate page for them. I’ve been enjoying these two as a pair, and I hope y’all have been as well. I’m not sure yet exactly when I’ll be able to start the last page for this match, but I hope it won’t be too terribly long.

Subscriber Scenarios #24 – Extra Services

I’ve let the Scenarios get out of hand a few times in recent memory, and so I was hoping to find a nice and simple one for this month. This one caught my eye, since I have a soft spot for Najimi and for Tadano’s maid outfit from the culture festival. I’ve drawn Tadano with Shousuke once before, but here the roles are reversed. Of course, in the canon of the show, Shousuke did make it to the maid cafe Tadano’s class was doing, but the interaction was a bit more limited than this.