BEEhind the Scenes #37 (Patreon)

The bee references are everywhere! 

In ch. 1 page 2 Mai's phone buzzes like a bee. 

Her contact icon on Nana's phone is Mai bee (ch1 page 8). 

Chapter 2 page 10 A convenience store in Japan is known as "Conbi", hence the "Conbee" store name. 

Chapter 3 page 20 the vibrator buzzes differently for Mai, for the sake of bee jokes. 

Chapter 4 page 8 This one is kind of self explanatory, Mai dreams of turning into a bee and flying back home. 

Chapter 5 the ABeeDL logo is a bee joke Hyro thought of as the new brand name for the new diapers. 

Chapter 5 page 28 photoshoot, Mai obviously dressed up to resemble a Bee. 

Another Bee reference is that Mai always wears a yellow hairbow and she has black hair, making the well known yellow/black stripes that you find on bees. 

But what is exactly Mai Bee? It was originally born as a silly meme during a livestream, I think I was listening to "Be Happy" and at the same time thinking about the Futurama episode with the bees where Bender sings Bee Happy. I was drawing the very first few pages of Nanako's Diary and mixed the two things, then decided it needed to be canon. So I made her appear in Nanako's dream.