Behind the Scenes #43 (Patreon)

I really love Kill la Kill and Imaishi Hiroyuki's works in general. I thought about this comic back in 2015 but I wanted my art to be better, so I put the script aside and kept drawing other things. Originally PADn'PAD was something else entirely and was also the major inspiration for DAMP! I'll get to this in a later post. 

Here are some PADnPAD fun facts for you: Mako referring to "clogging the toilet all the time" (page 4) is actual canon in the show. 

Ryuko's signature striped panties can be seen only a few times. Sorry about that, the padding stole the spotlight. 

They do make a comeback as pullups, though!

I also inserted a couple of Mako hallelujah moments for good measure. It was very challenging to do in a comic fashion, considering how animated and wacky they are in the series but I had a lot of fun with them.

I also used plenty of screens from the show as a reference to draw all the background details, trying to be as accurate as possible. 

Same goes for the series' general tone and even the transformation sequences for Satsuki and Ryuko. 

A fun little detail: on page 34 Mako is swiped away and loses her shoes and nurse hat. She gets them back a couple pages later. It's a tiny thing but I thought I'd point out the small consistencies.

I also included a tiny detail you can only see for a brief second in the anime: Nonon's music book is filled with childish doodles and decided to include even that. It's very hard to see but it's there (page 21 bottom panel).