So I’ve had this notion in my head for a while now that Kipo would make naturally good friends for both Yuji and Corey separately. I won’t get into the reasons for either, but I see them as relatively platonic pals who can hang out together (although I’d say the same for Yuji and Nobara, and they still fuck, so I’m not saying that’s off the table). Kipo’s obviously way too young for Corey, but I still think they’d make good pals. I’ve mentioned this in passing a few times, so I expect the anticipated answer was something along these lines.
I know production for this comic has slowed a bit, and I’m sorry for that. This match is one where I had a strong idea for how to start it, but for this stretch I have less of a specific idea for how things should go. Still, I’m enjoying these two together and I hope you’ll enjoy the rest of the match.
So here’s the One-Shot comic for March, which is built around Neon Genesis Evangelion. Each panel pairs one of the main pilots (and Kaworu) with a different character, all of which I assume have a connection in the eyes of the Subscriber who submitted this script. Most of them I see the connection, but I don’t really know enough about Invisigal from Dispatch to guess about what she has in common with Asuka. Maybe they’re just both tsunderes? At any rate, this comic is a debut for Shinji, Kaworu, Sephiroth and Invisigal, so I hope fans of any of them will be excited to see them in the Studio.
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.
I was pleased to see Kaito get a fairly warm reception when I first introduced him. Obviously as a harem protagonist his main role was meant to be a guy who fucks a lot of girls, but it’s not like his comic is ever going to see the light of day. None of his ladies have made it to the Studio yet, either, so he might as well experiment a little.











