A while ago I had a series of random crossover ideas for Akemi, just different girls in the Studio I was considering drawing her with. I didn’t, and none of those characters are in this Ask, but I thought it’d be fun to pair her with some cute tomboyish girls like her daughter. I had a few characters I thought could fit for this Ask, but I decided to settle on two I haven’t drawn for a minute. Kei’s the tough one of Dirty Pair, and a very old crush I’ve only drawn a couple times. Kagura from Azumanga Daioh is… well, also an old crush, who I haven’t drawn since the CrossOver Yuri series back in the day. Neither’s exactly like Tomo, but both probably fit into the same category as her.
I think there’s a good chance I’ll end up drawing quite a bit of content from Tomo-chan Is a Girl!, although I don’t want to make any promises. I ended up really liking the cast, and hopefully I’ll at least get to draw Tomo with all of her friends eventually. Tomo and Misuzu’s friendship in the anime is really cute, and I thought some simple foot worship between them would be fun to see. Ideally this won’t be the last time I draw these two together, either.
Of course, even within the show itself, Tomo’s presented as a pretty desirable young woman. Even with her aggressive and loud personality, her figure and charms are pretty apparent, most of her “seen as a boy” situation seems to be in her own head. So of course she wouldn’t have any trouble getting “treated like a girl”, which we can see what that might mean in the Studio here.
I was planning for the next MomSwap entry to be from Infinity Train, but I stared watching “Tomo-chan is a Girl” and got distracted. I was hesitant about this series, ’cause the premise feels pretty dated, but I liked Tomo’s design a lot and decided to try it based solely on that. I did end up liking the show, and there’s other pairings I’d like to draw from it eventually, but I decided to jump on this mother/daughter pairing ASAP.