KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World!

Yunyun NHML

Yunyun’s a character who didn’t leave much of an impression on me during my original watch through of KonoSuba. Later on, though, when watching the spin-off series “An Explosion on This Wonderful World!” she really grew on me. That series focuses on Megumin, and Yunyun is basically the main supporting character, or even the second main character, so she got to shine through a lot more. I considered doing a pic with the two of them back then, but nothing ever came of it. When she won the NHML raffle for December I figured I’d go back and try to do something like what I wanted to do then, so here that is.

Funnily enough, Megumin herself was the NHML for December of 2018, so I think it’s fun she gets to come back and help with her best friend’s debut now in December of 2025. It’s a heck of a coincidence, but a nice full circle for her.

With this post, NHML nominations for the month of January are now open. For those who don’t know, I’ll run down the rules real quick. Nominations are limited to one per person. You can nominate any female character you want, provided I have not drawn her within the past calendar year (though I prefer characters I’ve never drawn, period). Previous NHML winners are not eligible for a second time. Nominees must also not be from the same franchise as this month’s winner, KonoSuba. If you violate any of those rules, I’ll let you know, and you can nominate someone else. I know it can be hard to keep track of these things. You may nominate by either commenting in the cBox, commenting on this post, or emailing me (Nearphotison2010@yahoo.com). I’ll compile a list of the nominees in the sidebar of this site, and then on January 1st I will use a randomizer to select the winning character who I will proceed to draw sometime that month. I look forward to seeing who you all nominate this time around!

Studio Halloween Party Highlights 2025

Last year we started a new Halloween tradition of a highlight comic set in the Studio Halloween party. Like last year, our randomly-selected costume model, Space Beth, takes the center panel while we check in around the party with the rest. I know some characters who appear here may be hard to place, especially in the glory hole panel, and I imagine some will only be identifiable through the tags in the public post. I’m pretty happy with how this comic turned out, and I hope y’all will enjoy seeing some of the Studio residents enjoying the spooky season.

Bathe As a Princess

So, one type of joke KonoSuba likes to do often is to set its protagonist, Kazuma, up in a stereotypical hentai/fantasy scenario, and then crash it in some way right before it gets good. This scene is one of those, where Kazuma ended up swapping bodies with the young princess of the land, Iris. While in her body, he managed to get into a scenario where he had both Darkness and Iris’s bodyguard, Claire, in a bath with him. Obviously they swapped back before anything happened, but the scenario ticked a lot of niche boxes for me that I won’t get into here. However, I wanted to do a little something with the scene, so I sketched it real quick the day I saw the episode and just not got around to wrapping it up. I hope some of y’all will enjoy it.

Utena Hiiragi Character Ask 1

Utena seems pretty particular about her BDSM tastes, to me. Within the show we even see her actively not enjoy a situation when the person on the other end didn’t fit her type. Darkness might be a bit too… into it for her? But I think they could find a good balance since Darkness is so resistant to admitting how much she likes being violated. Utena also would probably prefer playing with magical girls, while Darkness is more of a noble knight, but I wanted to pair these two at least once.

Darkness Character Ask 3

When I first read this question, I immediately pictured Darkness failing at being a Domme and getting berated for it, which would turn her on. I considered illustrating that scene for the answer, but I wasn’t really sure of the best way to convey it. The more I thought about it, though, the more in-character it felt to just have Darkness getting worked up over the idea of it, instead of actually trying to dominate another character herself.

Darkness Character Ask 2

How much you wanna bet Midnight busts out some variation of that line every time she fucks Darkness? At any rate, this seems like kind of an obvious crossover ship to me, but it’s one I hadn’t done. I decided to go lighter with it, since I had Darkness all tied up in her last Ask, but I could see doing some heavier BDSM with these two at some point, potentially.

Darkness Character Ask 1

A big part of Darkness’ character is that she harbors fantasies of being defeated, captured and taken by force by some evil entity or monster. Her strong masochist streak is heavily suppressed, so she’d never admit it, but she longs to be violated and gets aroused at just the thought or suggestion of it. I decided to show her in such a state, but didn’t feel like showing anyone with her would really fit her answer. Since the only other time I drew her you couldn’t see much of her body, I figured this would be a good chance to rectify that and put her in a prone, on-display position.

Also, if you’d like to see the Q&A video I did for subscribers last month, you can watch it here:

Megumin Character Ask 1

So, I admit, I’m not really sure what the expected outcome of this Ask was. Hopefully the supporter who submitted this question wasn’t hoping to actually see the explosion, because I didn’t feel like drawing one. I thought it might be kinda funny to see the aftermath, though. Megumin loses all her mobility when she casts her spells, so Vegeta’s just kinda ragdolling her here. If you’re worried that this might be too dark, or you feel bad for Megumin, fret not. She knew full well what would happen when she exploded Vegeta’s face, and she chose to do it anyway. Her distress here is just an act.

Aqua Character Ask 1

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.