Kozakura Mary and Ene Snow Day YCH Commission by Hika (@/onigiwi2namayo)

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Intro

MaryEne on a Winter Date building a bunny snowman together 🐰☃️❄️

I asked for the bunny snowman to have a blue, pink, and white scarf. Trans flag colours. I love my trans femme Mary HC 💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️

Ene with a determined, focused, locked in >:P expression while Mary looks at Ene lovingly with a soft smile :)

After my KuroEne Snow Day YCH comm from Hika, I decided to ask for MaryEne this time ^v^

MaryEne is one of my fave KagePro ships and rare pair 💗

Energetic x Shy, Snake x Bunny, Seemingly Opposites - Deep Down So Similar, Sweet x Sweet

Let's go yuri win!!! 💗🌈🏳️‍🌈

They look SO cute!! I love Ene's determined locked in >:P expression and Mary's soft smile while looking at Ene :)

I'm so happy! I always wanted MaryEne to bond too 😭💗 I'm thankful to see the two of them together wahhh!!! They're so soft and wholesome together.

They look so pretty and petite! Mary's hair looks so fluffy too. My cuties!!!

Feila said that in MaryEne, it'd be Mary -> Ene, with Mary being the one quietly crushing on Ene. It's mutual imo but in my head, Mary is the deeper piner in their relationship

As Feila said, MaryEne is technically also Snake/Bunny, since Mary is 1/4 Medusa, but it's the complete opposite of KuroEne since it's a really soft ship with hints of tragedy.

KuroEne is also much more aggressive, intense, thrilling, and dangerous, as a ship. It's filled to the brim with conflict and tension.

I love the cute pastel colours. Blue pink and white is such a dreamy colour combo. Bubblegum pastel candy flavoured~

I think it's really neat how Hika uses more coloured lines with the MaryEne comm, so it gives it a softer look compared to the KuroEne comm.

I find it interesting how Hika coloured more of the inner lines this time for the MaryEne art to give it a softer look.

Meanwhile, the KuroEne art has dark blue~ish black outlines to fit Kuroha/Saeru better.

I think Ene would be able to withstand the cold better. Since Mary is more strongly affected by the cold, she's wearing a warm winter jacket here ^^

I'm always pleasantly surprised by how fast Hika's turnaround time is. I got the sketch and colour WIPs much faster than expected.

I asked Hika for minor colour adjustments to give the art a more pink~ish hue, so Ene and Mary's colours look so good with a pink hue~ The bright blue fits Ene a lot.

Misc Rambles

Takane/Ene, Mary, and Ayano are my top fave KagePro femme charas, so I thought MaryEne/MaryTaka would be really dreamy.

I started shipping them because of their relationship dynamic and interaction potential and began making MaryEne AU ideas of them. Their design aesthetics are so dreamy together.

Mary seems like the type that'd follow Ene's lead and get dragged into her shenanigans (and bad advice)

They can go clothes shopping for cute outfits, and Mary can introduce Ene to making flower bouquets, tea parties, and journaling/scrapbooking.

Ene can introduce Mary to her video games and electronics and all the shenanigans she can do inside Mary's phone. Imagining Mary playing around with electronics and playing video games is cute too.

I think it'd be cute to imagine the energetic Ene helping the shy, reserved Mary to come out of her shell more and be more comfortable.

Mary and Takane/Ene also have a character parallel with dealing with social isolation and loneliness. I think they can find some deep resonance with each other over that.

I feel like if Mary tried to confront Ene about her real feelings/how she really feels (just in general), then Ene would try to hide it beneath a cheery, upbeat, bubbly exterior due to her avoidance tendency (especially with more honest feelings)

My Message

Thank you very much for the wonderful commission! 💙🩷🤍

You always perfectly capture my requests. It looks amazing!

They look SO cute! I love Ene's determined focused >:P expression and Mary's soft smile while looking at Ene :)

I love how you drew their expressions! Mary's hair looks so fluffy 💗💞💖

The colours you chose harmonize so well! Thank you for being so patient and accommodating with minor adjustments. I really appreciate it.

The soft pastel colours look great! It fits them very well~

I hope you have a nice day! 💗

VGen Review

Great communication and feedback!

I love the soft pastel colours you chose~ Gives the art such a nice bubblegum candy aesthetic~ 💙🩷🤍

They're so cute and pretty! I love how you drew their expressions!

Hika has a wonderful chibi style and has great range with the characters she can draw.

Hika always delivers such amazing work! My commission turned out so cute 🥺💗💘

Thank you very much!

Commission Rambles

These were the refs I sent.

I asked Hika to draw MaryEne in the Winter outfits used for the MekaDan chibi keychains by Highspeed Fujimori.

Trying to decide between KuroEne or MaryEne at first was so hard, because I think they're both cute. And I was seriously tempted with AyaEne too

I would LOVE to commission MaryEne and AyaEne in casual outfits too. These fits are SO cute

MaryEne's outfits go so well together. Ene's buns and Mary's twintails and blue dress and ribbons...

Feila said Ene's definitely the energetic playful type (>v<) while both Mary and Kuroha would be more calm, so Ene would be the one standing and the other two would be on their knees

Winter Anthology is feeding us with the lowkey MaryEne and KuroEne illusts

Snow Day KuroEne and MaryEne... Snow Day HebiEne 🐍🐇

I'll be out of town for the next few days, and I have a few assignments to finish up.

Plans:

I can scan the rest of Sidu's .dsd/V artbook soon. I'll be scanning it slowly and at my own pace, since I want to look into removing/editing the grain line texture from my scans first. Editing the colours is simpler to do.

I plan to translate a recent short MaryEne fan doujinshi from 2021.

I've archived most (~90%) of KuroEne's fanarts, comics, and doujinshi (since I saved them from back when I was a kid), so I've also been translating KuroEne's old fanarts and doujinshi (SFW and NSFW) in my free time. These mostly come from 2013 - 2016.

I've archived a bit of KonoEne and HaruTaka's fan works too.

If you need them, you can ask me privately 🙏

I can put it into a private Google Drive folder or something.

I will translate anything related to Takane/Ene's multiships as long as I'm interested in it (9/6 ships - KuroEne, KonoEne, HaruTaka, AyaTaka/AyaEne, MaryEne, ShinEne)

Considering most are fanarts and comics that have been deleted from the internet, and the moral gray area of translating old deleted fanarts, comics, and doujinshi, I think my solution will be to host my TLs on my personal Notion site, cuz I feel like Notion works better than Google Docs for that.

It'll host all the KagePro fan ship comic TLs I do.

Because I also feel that it's sad for these fan works to lose all digital traces on the internet... And I would like to share them so other people can enjoy them. Tumblr is niche enough that I think this should be ok.

thanks so much yo!! i’m so glad u like them (´ヮ`)ノ

yes, just as planned… maryene is too cute i mean how can u not ship them