I know they’ve been few and far between lately, but here’s the calendar page for June in our second Studio Calendar. As you can see, this one features Deku and Ash in a little one-on-one.
For those who don’t know, there’s a gag in Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out where her brother, Kiri, goes to a gym with Sakurai in it (without knowing who he is) and keeps getting incidentally aura mogged by him. This Ask is basically playing into that. I considered using Jun from Tomo-chan as Kiri’s partner, playing off the Ask he and Sakurai appeared in together, but in the end I decided to go with a completely different guy who still feels kinda comparable physically.
So this Scenario is building off of a previous one, featuring Corey’s parents and Nanami. I couldn’t really picture Yuji and Corey interacting the same way Nanami and Max did, however I could picture this. Corey and Yuji have different tastes (although I think Yuji’d be more open to Corey’s type than the inverse) but I thought it’d be cute to pair them with a couple Studio ladies who are connected but pair up well with them. I think this turned out to be a pretty cute little interaction, and I hope y’all will enjoy it.
The Near Hentai Monthly Lady for November 2025 is Homare Byobugaura from Tougen Anki. I’ve never heard of this series, but looking into it, it seems like a very generic and uninteresting type of shounen anime. The gimmick for this one is that they’re onis, beyond that it doesn’t seem like it’s doing anything special. Also, for whatever reason, all the female characters have tits twice the size of their heads. I toned that down a bit here to just a healthy bust size.
Homare seems to be the lead girl, or at least the love interest girl, and I’d describe her as if Hinata looked like Sakura, with a tragic parental abuse/sibling death backstory that feeds into how her powers manifest. Since she’s a pretty straightforward character, I did the straightforward thing and paired her with the series’ protagonist, Shiki Ichinose.
With this post, NHML nominations for the month of December 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, Tougen Anki. 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 December 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!
I was thinking about this Ask for a while. I mentioned in the First Shoot I did with Denji and Haku how I had my own relationship with Haku being an early femboy gateway to yaoi character for me, and I thought he could do the same for Denji. I thought about other characters I short of realized I could view as pretty back then, and many of them just aren’t in the Studio. A few are, though, and I thought Zarbon would be a fun partner for Denji here. I always enjoy drawing Zarbon, and Denji already has a friendship with Raditz that could work as a bridge to knowing Zarbon. I remember as a kid seeing a lot of doujins of more bishounen-looking versions of Zarbon and Raditz as a couple, even though I’ve never really drawn them together myself. Anyway, I thought these made an unexpectedly cute pairing.
So this One-Shot was based on a handful of different threesome pairings. I tried to go with a different dynamic for each one that I felt suited the characters. In the first panel, Pan gets its from both ends from her grandpa and great-uncle. In the second panel we have a reunion of the Elric brothers with Winry. I used their end-of-series designs here, rather than the default Studio looks for them. Then we have an unusual Super/GT crossover, Dr. Arinsu making her Studio debut alongside her brother Degesu and Majuub, who’s a different version of Uub I haven’t drawn before. The threesomes were all listed as two-against-one, with this one having the siblings against Majuub. I tried a couple different poses of them both bottoming to him, but ended up with something a bit vaguer I think. I hope that’ll be alright. Lastly we have Yuta making his Studio debut with the Zenin twins. I focused on him and Maki here, since there’s a stronger connection between them, but Mai’s not completely left out. I thought it’d be cute to see the sisters bonding a bit here, too.
Last year we started a new Halloween tradition of a highlight comic set in the Studio Halloween party. Like last year, our randomly-selected costume model, Space Beth, takes the center panel while we check in around the party with the rest. I know some characters who appear here may be hard to place, especially in the glory hole panel, and I imagine some will only be identifiable through the tags in the public post. I’m pretty happy with how this comic turned out, and I hope y’all will enjoy seeing some of the Studio residents enjoying the spooky season.
I thought I had my Halloween content for the year done, but rather late into the game I got the itch to make a new spooky lady. Carina here is a ghoul, and she’s adapting some old design ideas I never got around to using. I’ll eventually flesh her out more with a bio, I’m sure, but for now I hope she makes a good impression with y’all.
For a few years now it’s been tradition to do a Halloween pin-up just before the holiday. This is a parallel to the Studio Santa pin-ups I’ve been doing in December. Last year the winner was Arlene Wilcox, and I decided to instead do a little scene with her and her twin sister. This year was a similar situation, where Space Beth from Rick and Morty won. I decided to again include her other half, Earth Beth, and give them a cute couples costume I think works for them. I’m starting to think it might be better for the Halloween costume pics to be little scenes like this anyway, since not all Halloween costumes are spooky and just doing a costume is pretty normal in erotic work any time of year. We’ll see how I feel next year, and who wins the spot, but I might make this more the norm for this annual feature going forward.