Back closer to Anzu’s debut, I planned to do an Ask for her appearing with Tomo. I sketched out this for it, but for a few different reasons it ended up not happening and the question wasn’t re-submitted in later months. So, when looking at this question, I thought I could repurpose the sketch for Tomo’s answer. The bubble placement ended up a little weird, since I’d originally intended for Anzu to be the main speaker, but I’m still happy to finally get to put these two together. Tomo and Anzu are two of my favorite modern anime girls, and while they have pretty different interests they’re both pretty aggressive defenders of their friends in a way that makes me think they’d get along.
When Kagura is first introduced in Azumanga Daioh, she sees herself as a friendly rival to Sakaki. Sakaki’s naturally athletic and excels in all sports-related things, but doesn’t really care about sports and just likes thinking about cats and stuff. I think even by the end of the series this dynamic dies down quite a bit, though, with Kagura becoming more just part of the group and filling a role in the Knuckleheads group as touched on in previous Asks. So they’re not being too competitive here, but I hope everyone will be okay with that.
In Interspecies Reviewers, angels are hermaphroditic by default. I’ve never played any Kid Icarus games, but to the best of my knowledge that’s not the lore for angels in those games. So, in regards to this Ask, I thought it’d be fun to focus on that distinction between the angels of these two worlds while showing off Pit’s taint a bit.
It’s been almost a decade since I first drew Near as part of a very old commission, and he’s been in the 1 Club ever since. As the follow-up to L in the anime they replaced L’s love of sweets with a love of toys, which is what’s being discussed here. I figured Near might not have a favorite toy, but he’d still want to show off a little something.
I don’t know how much I have to add to this one, other than I had a pretty good idea how to answer it right away. I’m pretty fond of Ymir, so I was happy to get to draw her again here. I have other sketches of these two I’d like to use for finished pieces eventually, but I decided not to use any of them and go with a new drawing for this Ask.










