So obviously there’s a lot of food-loving characters in the Studio, but I decided to focus on someone who cooks since I figure Laios might be missing that dynamic a bit. Yukihira’s a lot different from Senshi, of course, but it seems like he’s still giving Laios something good here.
Here is the second of three characters who tied in the most recent First Shoot poll. Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon has quite a few cute characters, and I’d like to do more with the series eventually. Namari’s easily the character I’m most attracted to in the series, though, as she caught my eye in the credits from the beginning. She doesn’t become relevant until a bit later, and only for a bit, but I hope to see more of her in future seasons. Her random partner here is Delilah, a character from Gate I don’t know super well as I never watched that show. She was one of the earliest NHML winners, actually being the first Near Hentai Monthly Lady in July 2016, following our test-run of the concept.
Dungeon Meshi, or Delicious in Dungeon, is one of those shows where there’s too many characters I’m interested in. Sometimes shows like that end up in something like Three Stooges Syndrome, and I end up barely drawing them at all. Hopefully that won’t be the case here, though. I drew Chilcuck on commission for a Subscriber a little bit ago, but prior to that my plan was to debut him and Laios together in this pic. Neither of them are at the top of my priority list for this series, however I knew for some folks they would be and I thought it might help grease the wheels to two characters I knew would be in high demand out of the way.