I think a lot of Aki’s characterization in Chainsaw Man is informed by his motivations that I won’t spoil in case anyone reading this hasn’t seen Chainsaw Man yet. I think that drive really shapes his serious, meticulous character, and I think being in the Studio without that motivation might affect him. On the one hand, it has allowed him to loosen up and learn to be happy with Himeno, which is great for her, but here we see it maybe troubling him a little bit. Our serious boy’s become something of a playboy, and the poor slob just can’t seem to get out of the bed in the morning. I went with a hair-down look for both Aki and Choso here to help convey that morning messiness a little bit, hope it comes across.
I posted a couple commissions not long ago that I said were part of an emergency fund-raising effort I had to run. The bulk of the funds raised from that sale were through a ten-page commissioned comic. The individual who bought that comic couldn’t fully decide on which characters they wanted to use, however, so we agreed to split it into two five-pagers. This is the first of those, a little three-way featuring Yuji, Inosuke and Thorfinn.
Updates for this one might be a little spaced out initially. Both “The Eizouken’s Closer” and “Leave It All On the Court” are only a few pages from finishing, so once those wrap I’ll be able to focus on this one a bit more. Until then, though, I did want to at least get it started with this opening page, and maybe there’ll be another page or two before those other comics finish. Regardless, I hope y’all will enjoy this one!
PC – https://mega.nz/file/7xZVkRQa#-hhHtQz8mk97GzGcCGuqQllHOIMqTsEZkAOM0B2_Ev8
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r5F9nMi3XI3yMET8u7Ox7efSLolq31JJ/view?usp=sharing
Mac – https://mega.nz/file/L5RmwBIZ#XiP4pxaa0uy_jy5MWMTfkiBNc_wmRc710rkOQlPFTkI
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1smVRQyOEvN03nDfQOd38PLBNvnT7DBS5/view?usp=sharing
So this one is maybe a little odd, and I’m not sure how much I want to elaborate on it beyond what’s presented here. This Ask, specifically how I answered it, plays into a couple ideas and themes I’ve hinted at before but I don’t really know how far any of it will go. I do kinda expect to see Loid with Yuji and his friends more in the future, though. I’m not sure exactly why I think this works, but I hope some of you will agree.
In the interest of full disclosure, I’d discussed an idea like this with this Subscriber in the past, so I had a pretty good idea of what characters he wanted to see. It just so happens that I’m fond of these characters, too, and it’s a bit of a changeup for each of them as well. Nobara was quite proud of her Smash skills in a flashback, and I’m pretty sure Najimi’s not really on her level. However, one thing Najimi’s good at is annoying other players to throw them off their game, which allowed them to best Nobara and Anzu here. Anzu’s more of a single-player gamer, but I’m sure she could also normally best Najimi. For those interested, they were playing the Switch version of Smash here. Najimi was playing as Mario, Nobara was playing Snake and Anzu was playing Link.