We’ve seen Mei testing out her babies on a few characters around the Studio, but not her favorite test subject. So here’s to fixing that.
I didn’t realize this until working on this Ask, but this is actually Chi-Chi’s first Ask since the Patreon days. She’s appeared in other people’s Asks since then, but hasn’t had a question directed just at her answered in some time.
The exact ages might be a little off, if they’re even officially confirmed, but I believe the version of Chi-Chi she defaults to in the Studio is older than we ever see Gine get to be. I think that makes sense, at least, and I thought it might affect their dynamic in the Studio. I’ve alluded to Chi-Chi being more interested in her family getting to know Goku’s parents than Goku is, and I thought it’d be cute if this little quirk of their ages lead to her viewing her mother-in-law in a unique way.
Loona doesn’t show up often, since I don’t really know much about her, but I had an idea I thought would be fun and might possibly open things up for some later projects if there’s interest.
Some of you may remember a while back an Ask where Raven alluded to introducing Mikasa to goth fashion. Mikasa of course sports a goth look in an alternate universe thing attached to the movie, but that design was also her younger look from the first three seasons and I’ve been using the season four design more lately. So this is sort of an original look, basically just taking some cues from that AU and applying it to her adult look. I don’t plan for this to be her default look in the Studio going forward or anything, though she might start sporting black nail polish a bit more casually in the future.
Due to how my schedule played out, Mikasa actually ended up debuting a little bit earlier at the Halloween party this year, but originally this was the first appearance for Subscribers.
For those who don’t know, there’s a gag in Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out where her brother, Kiri, goes to a gym with Sakurai in it (without knowing who he is) and keeps getting incidentally aura mogged by him. This Ask is basically playing into that. I considered using Jun from Tomo-chan as Kiri’s partner, playing off the Ask he and Sakurai appeared in together, but in the end I decided to go with a completely different guy who still feels kinda comparable physically.
I was thinking about this Ask for a while. I mentioned in the First Shoot I did with Denji and Haku how I had my own relationship with Haku being an early femboy gateway to yaoi character for me, and I thought he could do the same for Denji. I thought about other characters I short of realized I could view as pretty back then, and many of them just aren’t in the Studio. A few are, though, and I thought Zarbon would be a fun partner for Denji here. I always enjoy drawing Zarbon, and Denji already has a friendship with Raditz that could work as a bridge to knowing Zarbon. I remember as a kid seeing a lot of doujins of more bishounen-looking versions of Zarbon and Raditz as a couple, even though I’ve never really drawn them together myself. Anyway, I thought these made an unexpectedly cute pairing.
While working on Kazuki’s limited appearance in my game, I got the itch to do something with him in his Sara outfit. This Ask obviously lends itself well to scratching that itch, and I hope y’all will enjoy it. This kinda builds off of Asks both these two have appeared in before, although I wonder if Kazuki knows that Zentitsu has his own history of crossdressing.
This might be a somewhat controversial opinion, but Mai’s one of my favorite Avatar girls. I’ve actually been itching to do something with her for a few months now, and I thought this Azula Ask sounded fun. Mai debuted alongside Azula in Ty Lee’s NHML pic, but Ty Lee was between them and naturally the focus of the pic. Here now they can interact directly a little bit, with a smidge of Azula’s old sadism coming out as she enjoys making Mai’s facade crack a bit.
A pretty straightforward one here, but something I thought some folks might like to see.
Perhaps moreso than any other “why not both” answer, I really can’t picture Gojo having a real preference here. I wanted his partners to be a guy and gal associated with each other, and while I considered a few different pairs, I think MHA and JJK crossovers are kinda fun. I realized I hadn’t really used Ashido in a bit and her working with Kirishima for a role like this sounded fun.
I always liked the West Supreme Kai’s design, so it was fun to draw her again here. I do apologize for making her so much the focus, but it’s so easy to do with Beerus stuff since you can usually recognize him no matter how little of his body is in-frame.