So I kinda saw this Ask as a way to tie together a few different threads, mostly revolving around Yuji. Yuji has more friends in the Studio than these four, but I think this makes a good group and any more would’ve been too much for me to manage. Corey’s sitting this one out since it’s not his speed, but I decided to let Kipo join him on the couch since this Ask is taking up a “yaoi” slot in my production schedule. Anyway, I like this odd little Studio friend group and they seem to be having fun together.
I mentioned wanting to pair Jiji and Yuji up back when I did that Ask with the two of them, but one other character I felt would pair well with him was Kirishima. Kirishuma doesn’t have quite as many obvious parallels to Jiji as Yuji does, but I just kinda feel like they make a good crossover pairing. This Ask seemed like as good an opportunity as any to test my theory.
Also, for those of you who’re interested, here’s the Q&A video I did for Subscribers last month:
Like with the female performers, we had some ties with our top male performers, but at least here there was more symmetry. Yuji and Goku both tied for our top returning males, while Al and Sero tied for our male rookies. It honestly didn’t feel to me like I drew Sero as much as I did Al, but that’s probably in part because he served a mostly-anon role in one of his appearances. Regardless, I decided to pair Al up with Goku, since last year’s version of this pic had Goku with Ed. That left Sero with Yuji, naturally.
I always figured whenever Jiji made it to the Studio, one of the first people I’d want to cross him over with would be Yuji. I’m far from the first to notice the parallels between them, to the point I wouldn’t be shocked if Dandadan’s writer some day said Jiji was directly inspired by Yuji. At any rate I thought this Ask would be a fun way to do something with them.
While I think they’re very different in some key ways, there’s a lot of comparisons one could make between Okarun and Deku as protagonists. For this Ask I thought maybe those similarities could be played into, not to pair him up with Deku, but to make him a target for someone who’s got plenty of experience fucking him.
So I believe I’ve mentioned before that Seiko’s Special Training was originally a batch of sketches I didn’t know what I was going to do with. This was one of them, but one that didn’t fit into the plot I ended up using for that comic. I liked the pic, though, and thought it’d be fun to see finalized, so here it is as a standalone piece. I retooled it a bit, giving Momo a different hairstyle to differentiate the pic a bit more from the comic. Unlike the Busy Weekend comic, the chatters here aren’t really meant to be anyone specific so don’t bother reading into them or anything.
The winning One-Shot comic that’ll close out 2025 featured Dandadan, which I think is quite appropriate. Dandadan was a newer anime that I really took to, but I’ve only done a handful of pics with it so far (aside from one side project comic). This comic brings in most of the main cast that I hadn’t drawn yet, with a focus on Okarun and Jiji. The script made no mention of Turbo Granny, but I threw her in purely of my own volition.
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!











