In the interest of full disclosure, I’d discussed an idea like this with this Subscriber in the past, so I had a pretty good idea of what characters he wanted to see. It just so happens that I’m fond of these characters, too, and it’s a bit of a changeup for each of them as well. Nobara was quite proud of her Smash skills in a flashback, and I’m pretty sure Najimi’s not really on her level. However, one thing Najimi’s good at is annoying other players to throw them off their game, which allowed them to best Nobara and Anzu here. Anzu’s more of a single-player gamer, but I’m sure she could also normally best Najimi. For those interested, they were playing the Switch version of Smash here. Najimi was playing as Mario, Nobara was playing Snake and Anzu was playing Link.
As has become tradition, here is a compilation of some moments from this year’s Studio Christmas party. Hiro Hamada won the lottery to get chosen as the official Studio Santa this year, but as you can see he’s not the only one sporting the look. I had a lot of fun putting together this year’s party, and I tried to fit in an eclectic selection of characters. I hope there’s a little something for most everyone here, and I’d like to wish you all Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas.
Here’s the twelfth page of Butt Witch’s Busy Weekend! Najimi was originally going to be the eleventh page, but they got pushed back a spot to make room for Cheetara. They finally get their turn now, and it seems like they had fun. I figured it’d be in-character for them to dress up a bit for the stream, and I’m happy with how the page turned out in the end.
Also, for anyone interested, here is the Q&A video I did for Subscribers last month:
Najimi seems to take a lot of joy in teasing people about a number of things, including their gender. I thought it’d be funny if they were a bit frustrated being in a space where people would be less likely to be confused about them being non-binary, and I figured I’d include a cute pose of them while they expressed that frustration.
The February One-Shot had a very simple premise, to see Goku giving his “special training” to three characters he hadn’t yet in the Studio. It’s a pretty straightforward theme, which I think is nice for the final comic. The three characters this Subscriber chose are Inosuke, Najimi and Kai, who have all been on very different tracks in the Studio so far I think.
Continuing the new tradition I started last year, for Christmas this year I want to take a little look at the annual Near Hentai Studios Christmas Party. A couple of these panels were ideas I had last year but couldn’t do, either because I ran out of space or because the character(s) I wanted to use hadn’t publicly debuted yet. Others are just ideas off the top of my head this year, and hopefully we got a fun mix of appeals. Also we get to see our 2023 Studio Santa again, and I immediately had this idea for how Scorpia would work in this role, which I think is fun. At any rate, I hope most of you can enjoy at least one of these panels, and I’m already looking forward to trying out more ideas next year!
I sketched this alongside the original SMS pic, thinking at the time it might be, like, a two-panel comic page or something. In the end I figured it might make the pic take too long to get out, and given the pause between that image and this one I think I was onto something. Regardless, Tadano going from blowing a customer to getting dicked by one seemed like a fun idea to me. Najimi, of course, is all too happy to watch Tadano’s progression to being an ideal maid.
At first I thought this Ask would be too simple to really work with. I’m all for Najimi and Tadano fucking, but I didn’t wanna just… do that, y’know? But then when I thought about how Najimi might behave in that situation, I had a funny idea I thought might be cute, with Najimi teasing Tadano while taking his dick. Anyway, I hope fans of these two enjoy this.