As Beerus mentions in his answer, for this type of question we often see a “Porque no los dos?” approach. In this case I did think there was a choice Beerus would make, though, but I figured he wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to indulge a little bit regardless.
So this is a follow-up to Zarbon’s last Ask, where he appeared with Trunks. I thought it’d be fun to change things up a bit for this one and use the Super Hero designs for Trunks and Goten to double-team him. I think it’s interesting that the question calls Goku Kakkarot, but I’m not actually sure if Zarbon would default to that name the way Vegeta does. When Vegeta does it I read it as a Saiya-jin pride thing, but Zarbon wouldn’t really see a difference between a Saiya-jin and Earth name, I think. We never really see those two interract, though, since Vegeta blows his back out before Goku makes it to Namek.
For the most part I enjoyed myself with Dragon Ball Daima. I have a couple nitpicks with the story, and I’m not really sure the de-aging wish was needed, but I enjoyed seeing an official/canon take on Dragon Ball’s demon realm. I wish we could’ve seen some of the older characters associated with it make appearances, but I liked many of the new characters we got. I know there’s a few who are pretty popular, but I wanted to do something with Degesu. He’s the brother of Shin, and a supporting antagonist. He’s basically the Supreme Kai but tall, and I decided to pair him with his boss and the main character he interacts with, Gomah.
I’ve been really happy to see how well-received Ember and Silas have been, but they’ve mostly just worked with each other with a couple exceptions. I thought it’d be fun to see Ember branch out a little bit, but I wanted to keep with what’s been established with her. So she brought Eren back from a previous pic for another round, along with Ginyu, who we saw (sort of) palling around with Silas at the Halloween party last year.
This is one of those Lord Tier commissions that’s been split in half, so there’ll be another one-character thing for this Subscriber eventually. For this one they just had a pose they wanted me to draw Gohan in, using the belt from his gi to highlight his ass.
And here we have another case of two submitted questions that I think work together. Since both had kind of a simple answer, I figured Mark could address them at once.
And so now we officially end the second match of the first round, and we now know what the first match of round two will be. I don’t know how long it will take me to get the next page out to kick off the third match, but I’m hoping it won’t be too terribly long.
Last year we started a new tradition that we continue here. In 2024, the most frequently-appearing male character was Goku, while the same metric among newcomers was headed by Edward Elric. So, here’s the two of them paired up! Pretty simple, right?
The most frequently appearing character and the most frequently appearing rookie on the female side were the same gal, Kanamori. I guess I went a bit crazy with her, but there’s still a good chance she’ll end up being the top female performer for 2025 (we’ll see). Since 2024 was her debut year, however, we decided to let her have that spot and give the regular top female performer spot to the runner-up, the Butt Witch. Obviously these are two ladies I’m quite fond of, personally, so it was a blast to bring them together for this pic.
This is a Master Mini Commission for one of my Subscribers, featuring Frieza getting it from best pals Goku and Krillin.
It’s honestly an insane bit of coincidence that our April One-Shot winner ended up being this April O’Neil-focused script, but I’m here for it. April has a unique presence in the Studio, showing up in a lot of roles (such as the Spotlight Interviews or hosting Chi-Chi’s Fan Appreciation Tour) while only getting the spotlight shone on her occasionally. For the script here it was said April should be showing up in locations from the game, but I ended up not going that route as I had some other ideas I thought would be fun. So I put her with A-ko and Goku in the room where she MC’d A-ko’s ToL match with Krillin, had her crash an Ask that didn’t happen last month, and also made use of the couch seen in the aforementioned Spotlight Interviews. I did use a game location for the last panel, though. Also they asked for some dialogue, so I provided a bit.
