So here’s the One-Shot comic for March, which is built around Neon Genesis Evangelion. Each panel pairs one of the main pilots (and Kaworu) with a different character, all of which I assume have a connection in the eyes of the Subscriber who submitted this script. Most of them I see the connection, but I don’t really know enough about Invisigal from Dispatch to guess about what she has in common with Asuka. Maybe they’re just both tsunderes? At any rate, this comic is a debut for Shinji, Kaworu, Sephiroth and Invisigal, so I hope fans of any of them will be excited to see them in the Studio.
Like with the female performers, we had some ties with our top male performers, but at least here there was more symmetry. Yuji and Goku both tied for our top returning males, while Al and Sero tied for our male rookies. It honestly didn’t feel to me like I drew Sero as much as I did Al, but that’s probably in part because he served a mostly-anon role in one of his appearances. Regardless, I decided to pair Al up with Goku, since last year’s version of this pic had Goku with Ed. That left Sero with Yuji, naturally.
I always figured whenever Jiji made it to the Studio, one of the first people I’d want to cross him over with would be Yuji. I’m far from the first to notice the parallels between them, to the point I wouldn’t be shocked if Dandadan’s writer some day said Jiji was directly inspired by Yuji. At any rate I thought this Ask would be a fun way to do something with them.
I was pleased to see Kaito get a fairly warm reception when I first introduced him. Obviously as a harem protagonist his main role was meant to be a guy who fucks a lot of girls, but it’s not like his comic is ever going to see the light of day. None of his ladies have made it to the Studio yet, either, so he might as well experiment a little.
I feel like the Studio Tour series has really fallen off my radar in recent times, and I’d like to hopefully change that. I think it’s a great avenue for exploring random pairings I’m interested in, or introducing new elements to the Studio lore.
This is a pic I’ve had sitting on the back burner for ages, and finally got around to it. A while back I had Loid reference in an Ask that Yuji wanted to introduce him to a friend, and this was the pic I was thinking of when I did that Ask. It’s nice to finally get it out here, and we’ll see if I can get around to other pics in this series some time.
Taking the yaoi slot in our four rotating monthly ongoing comics is “Shades of Envy.” The premise of this comic is to use Envy’s shapeshifting to give Ed and Al a bit of a wild ride, set in the Studio so they can have more of a fun dynamic (and more people Envy can turn into, as seen here). There were a few different ways people submitted for this to start, including multiple where Envy became Yuji. In the end I liked this approach as it gave me a chance to show base-form Envy a little, and I tried to give him some good angles before the transformation starts.
So the answer here feels obvious and self-explanatory to me, hence Gojo’s concise response. I did decide to use Geto’s slightly older design here. I’ve historically used his younger pre-JJK design, mostly because of how despicable he becomes by the time he has this design. I felt like aesthetically this look just better suited what I was going for here, though. Maybe if I get the chance to reform Studio Geto a bit later on he can rock this look more comfortably, idk.











