Sakura Matou NHML

The Near Hentai Monthly Lady for July 2026 is Sakura from Fate/stay night. When it comes to this franchise, I watched the original anime adaptation and also played all the routes of the original VN, but that’s about it. I haven’t seen any of the later series, and I have no ties to the current, like, gacha game or whatever this franchise is built around these days. That being said, I do have a fondness for the earlier version of the series, and I wanted to bring in the other two main LI’s from those days for this pic. Saber and Rin both are characters I’m fond of, and while Sakura herself probably ranks near the bottom of Fate/stay night girls for me personally I do like her was well. My personal favorite girl from the original series is still yet to make it into the Studio, but it made way more sense to me to go this route for this pic instead. Of course the guy for this pic is the protagonist, Shirou, in case it wasn’t clear.

With this post, NHML nominations for the month of August 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, Fate (any of Fate). 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 August 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!

MomSwap – Mandy and Claire

This is a pairing I’ve had on my list for a while, I feel like. I drew Mandy a little bit back when I was contributing to the Camp W.O.O.D.Y. series, but haven’t really done much with the characters from Grim Adventures since. That’s a shame, as there are several characters I’m into from that cartoon. Mandy’s mom, Claire, is an underappreciated one. I always thought she looked great, and she’s already canonically pretty broken in and submissive to her daughter. Off the top of my head, others I like are (rather predictably) Billy’s mom, Eris, their teacher and Major Dr. Ghastly from Evil Con Carne.
I experimented with the art a bit here, as most people who draw this series seem to do. Mandy especially just doesn’t have much going on if you draw her 1-to-1 with her canon design, but I didn’t want to go full Bleedman or anything either. I tried to put together my own approach, and I hope it works well for you all.

June ’26 One-Shot

This One-Shot was pretty intense to work on, fitting in the most shown characters the script would allow. I tried to vary things up with three different approaches to a yaoi threesome, and I hope y’all will enjoy the results.

Near Pokédex M640 – Virizion

So my inclusion of this Pokémon in the male side of the ‘dex might be controversial. This isn’t from my era of the franchise, so I’m not super familiar with it, but I understand in the movie its portrayed a bit more female, with a female voice actress and such. Officially its gender is listed as unknown, and I kinda went with my own interpretation. I might revisit this one on the NPF side eventually, I’m not worried about committing to only one entry for legendaries or whatever.

Yuki Tsukumo Character Ask 3

So I’m not really an expert on Yuki, but looking up what her kind of guy is, it seems like those traits would translate fine to women as well. I think the idea is that Yuki’s original use of the “what’s your type” question is more about reading someone’s values and personality, but Todo kinda misuses it to instead just identify people with similar aesthetic tastes.

Regardless, I could think of a few ladies who might fit that type. I noticed a few had similar hair colors, and I thought it’d be visually interesting to use them. Since Yuki’s type isn’t dictated by appearance so much, though, I needed her to specify that she’s not just a redhead fan or anything.

Body Improvement Club: Junichiro Kubota

Like always, my Subscribers voted for a club to get a card and they voted for the “Body Improvement Club” which essentially the gym club. A random member from the list of characters I have for that club was selected, and this time it was Jun from Tomo-chan is a Girl. Jun’s already talked in an Ask about his gym time a bit, so he’s a natural fit for this club. Since I’m trying to theme the pics around the clubs a bit, here we see him working out naked (just for this pic, even in the Studio they wear clothes while using the gym equipment, I promise).

Butt Witch Character Ask 16

So in Twelve Forever, Butt Witch basically has two forms. One is her basic shape here, and then she has a full-powered monstrous form. Most of her shapeshifting in the show seems to kind of be like sliding a video game slider between these two extremes, like sometimes she’ll grow an extra set of arms or get longer and crawl on all fours or grow a tail. In the Studio I extended that into growing a cock, just ’cause it fits this porny setting, but she doesn’t appear to me like a full-blown shapeshifter like some other characters. I picked two such characters to help her demonstrate here, and it was fun trying to draw them each in a way where they still read like themselves despite all taking the same basic form.

Also, for anyone interested, here’s the Q&A video I did for Subscribers last month: