#zango's beef

So uh.......... remember that Manato comic?

It got stuck in my head again, and I was like "what if I went back and refined the design a bit?"

Except I ended up spending 10 whole hours on this because I kept wanting to add more details and elements... OTL

Also bonus unfiltered background art for clearer view:

Hello and welcome to this hell that my brain thought well of hyperfocusing for 4 days in a row, only to lose all creative juices and making me struggle to finish it in some way.

The plot feels incredibly rushed especially in the last third of it, and I feel like I ended up going very out-of-character with them all, but I had to tell myself that this was meant to be a self-indulgent thingie just for fun so it doesn't have to be perfect. I do have to warn that I did give up on this at one point so apologies if the flow is all over the places.

Also, small context for those who are not familiar with ZZZ's story as well as one of my headcanons:

the blue manato is "Drowned Ideal - Komano Manato", he's basically an incarnation of Manato's childhood dream of what he wanted to become like as an adult, created by the miasma (which can be summarized with "Ow the Edge". I'm not joking fdkjng). in the story you end up confronting him and eventually get rid of the Ghost Town formed by the miasma (it's a bit of a story that I won't go in details here), and by neutralizing the Ether in it to free the people trapped in it, DI Manato ceases to exist, asking the real Manato to not forget about him (aka his old dream). so yeah, this goes with the idea that Manato does make sure to not forget about him, and eventually a part of DI returns and lives within Manato… if that makes sense lol

So yeah, enjoy this long-ass comic lol

Me: "I'll just do one effortless doodle before bed, nothing too crazy…"

*one hour later*

I promised a friend I would draw Manato shirtless once his Mindscape art was revealed. It took me this long to come up with a good idea with it... OTL

…so uh. Remember that time I drew Kaiju Hans for shit and giggles? I just did, and uh… what started as a "lol I'm gonna draw a proper tf sequence after 5+ years" quickly turned into actual plot…

so uh… enjoy?

A couple more doodles of the Kaiju AU from a couple days ago.

And for anyone curious, here's a bit of info on it because my brain elaborated the idea a little too deeply: