I knew how I wanted to answer this one pretty quickly. A big part of Aqua’s character in KonoSuba is how, despite being a goddess, nobody sees her as one or treats her like one. Even in a city devoted to worshiping her, nobody recognizes her divinity. I don’t see any reason why that would change in the Near Hentai Studio, and I think it’d be a little weird to see her running a church to herself or something with a bunch of followers. However, I thought it’d be a good chance to illustrate a water-themed character still being innately drawn to her, the only question was who to use. I ended up settling on Nessa, someone who got to debut around the start of the year but hasn’t appeared in anything since then. Funnily enough, her one other appearance in my work also has her working alongside a KonoSuba character, though a different one.
Pairing these two characters is something that’s been brought up to me a number of times. I’ve kinda resisted doing it, since I feel like the appeal of pairing them would be doing some crazy stretching thing where they’re wrapped up like a rubber band ball or something, and I just don’t want to draw something like that. However, for this Ask this answer seemed obvious, so here we are. I actually had a different pic started with them already, but I didn’t use that sketch for this pic because it didn’t really fit physically into aspect ratio. So I still have that pic (which has even less elasticity shenanigans than this one), if people like the pairing and want to see more of them.
Due to things like Mini Commissions and Asks, Bra’s gotten involved with a few of the My Hero Academia boys in some of her crossover appearances in the past. This question looks to explore her relationship with the girls, and since we’ve already seen Bra having fun with other girls like Pan I can’t think of any reason why she wouldn’t go for some crossover yuri action. I think Bra would probably have a good relationship with Momo, with both girls being kinda spoiled rich girls, while I could also see her getting along with a more tomboyish character like Jiro in the same way as she might would with Pan. However, I picked Mina for her partner in this Ask for a couple of reasons. One is, I think their colors match up well, but more importantly I just think their energies would gel and they’d get along great. Mina’s so vibrant and outgoing, which makes her easy to pair with pretty much anyone, but I think these two might bond well over things like fashion and music. I don’t know, there’s just something about them that pairs well in my head. Maybe it’s just that they both feel a bit mischievous to me, like they’ve got some bratty tendencies (but not malicious ones). So here we are, with a cute little pic of the two of them.
So this is the One-Shot comic I did for October, submitted by one of my SubscribeStar supporters. This is another one with a variety of pairings in each panel, though this comic has the theme of superhero boys to tie them together. The script listed which pairings should appear in which panels, though the overall posing and such were left to my discretion. I hope you all like the final result.
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Here’s the fifth page of EcchiMask’s comic “Sharing My Dad”, which I provided colors for. Like the previous page we only see Gohan and Goku here, but it’s important to remember Ash is hiding under that bed this whole time.
So this Ask is referencing an older one Aunt Mito did. I don’t completely remember, but I assume my reasons for using Caulifla in that one were a bit arbitrary. She was most likely picked because 1) I knew she’d be recognizable even from behind and 2) I haven’t drawn her much and I know people like her. That second one was part of why I chose to answer this one, too. I think anyone who’s played the last update of my game will probably have had an experience a bit like what Caulifla describes. I don’t necessarily imagine these two having an especially deep relationship or anything, but casual sex friends doesn’t seem outside the realm of possibility.
I’m assuming most people are familiar with Sailor Moon and Goku as a pairing, whether it be through old works like Dragon Moon X or other similar stuff. The versions of characters I’m working with exist in their own continuity, though, so there’s no previous relationship between these two in the Studio or anything. However, it does seem like Serena/Usagi’s thinking about it, though. I guess we can consider this a tease, then, and maybe there’ll be an occasion to do something more with this pairing in the future.
So this is a crossover pairing I wanted to do as soon as I was reminded of Mako back when I got a couple commissions for her… I almost did this pairing for the Ask where she ended up with Glimmer, but I’d already decided I wanted to do them for a Studio Tour entry instead. I just see a lot of parallels in their designs, both being brown-eyed, brown-haired, thicc girls with round, curvy designs and hairstyles. There’s actually at least two other characters currently in the Studio who also fit into this category with them (two that come immediately to mind, at any rate), so maybe I’ll try some other pairings out of that foursome of characters in the future. For now, though, I wanted to get out another Studio veteran/rookie type pic while Mako’s still fresh enough to the roster to be called a rookie.
The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. is a pretty fun gag anime that I watched the first couple seasons of a year or so ago. At the time there were a number of characters I was interested in possibly drawing, both male and female, but I think I just had too much on my plate at the time or something ’cause it never happened. Recently I began rewatching the show in order to share it with my sister, and I got the urge to draw from it again. When Mrs. Kaido, the mother of supporting character Shun, first showed up, my sister gushed on and on about how pretty she was. We haven’t yet gotten to the first episode with Shun’s sister, Sora, but I remembered her from my first viewing and decided I’d rearrange my MomSwap plans to put these two up front. I’m glad to finally have a Saiki K. pic under my belt, though hopefully it won’t be the last.