Zera NHML

The first Near Hentai Monthly Lady in 2024 is Zera from Fairy Tail. I don’t know anything about this girl, but it was clear at a glance that she’s heavily tied to Mavis Vermillion, another girl I know nothing about but has been nominated for NHML a number of times. Glancing around it seemed like the only sensible pairing to do with Zera, so here they are.

With this post, NHML nominations for the month of February 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, Fairy Tail. 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 February 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!

Vegeta’s POV

This is a little sketch I did a while back when I had an itch to do something with Bulma. Like many such sketches I wasn’t really sure if I’d ever get around to inking and coloring it or not. I had a little bit of a window where I could squeeze something small in, and decided to dust this one off to fill the gap.

Clean Break, Page 5

When my Subscribers decided on the new straight ongoing comic, they voted first on the characters and then the story. After getting Eren, Armin and Mikasa, there was some back-and-forth over which portion of Attack on Titan the comic would take place in. At the time, putting it earlier in the show won out, hence the comic up to this point. This month only one script was submitted, and it called for moving the comic into sometime between seasons three and four, during a period conveyed mostly in flashbacks. I’m not thrilled about abruptly cutting off the comic’s momentum in this way, and I’m a little worried the title no longer makes sense, but hopefully people will still be able to enjoy however much of this one we have left at this point.

December ’23 One-Shot

The winning One-Shot script this month features a smattering of characters from The Legend of Korra and Attack on Titan. The script called for their late-season designs, which I hope I was able to do (especially for TLoK, aside from Korra herself I don’t really know how anyone’s designs change). It also features the debuts of Sasha and Kuvira, although in both cases I feel I’ll be using different looks for them if they show up again.

2023 Year End Awards

A new thing here, but I’m trying out a sort of “wrapped” year end celebration. The data for these awards is based on the SubscribeStar calendar year, not the public one.

First up, the category for the most One-Shot appearances in 2024 which was a four-way tie this year:

Next is the category for the most Character Ask appearances in 2023, which was also a tie:

Next is the Comeback Performer of 2023. The award goes to whomever had the longest gap between their last appearance, and their return this year:

Next is the Male Newcomer award, which goes to the male character with the most appearances who debuted this year:

And the Female Newcomer, who had the most appearances out of the women who debuted this year:

And now, finally, the Male Performer of 2023, who is the male with the most appearances overall in 2024:

And the Female Performer of 2023, the female with the most overall appearances in 2024:

Hange Zoë Character Ask 1

I don’t know if I’ve addressed it before, but there’s been a bit of a pattern of me answering this type of Ask (pairing up “science” gals with other “science” gals) with this position. I thought it’d be fun to do the same with Hange, and Thomas Edison came to mind as someone who might be closer to Hange’s level than a lot of the sci-fi mad scientist characters in the Studio.