#mostly the thing i adapted about the jubokko was its ability to make noise—that isn't mentioned as far as i'm aware

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first day of @tendaysoftenzo !! the prompt is:

Day 1, November 1st: Tenz-O-Ween (Holidays) | Supernatural 

I went with Yamato telling a (immersive) ghost story! this has been a fragment of an idea in my head for a while and this prompt gave me the shove i needed to actually put pencil to paper.

obviously as it is right now it's unfinished, the tree still needs to be drawn in a lot more detail w/ more human bones around it, and the whole thing is in pencils—when it IS done, i intend for it to be a linework-heavy black and white piece, but that won't be for a little while 'cause we've got 9 more days of tenzō to go!!!

the entity that yamato is talking about is somewhat-loosely based on the Jubokko (樹木子, "tree child") which as far as I'm aware is a fictional yōkai created by Shigeru Mizuki.

#tendaysoftenzo #naruto #my art #yamato #comics #tenzō #yamato tenzō #kakashi #naruto uzumaki #sakura haruno #sai #sai yamanaka #horror #violence mention #im absolutely not the first or the last person to connect tenzō to the jubokko fjjsjfjsj its a really really tempting connection #mostly the thing i adapted about the jubokko was its ability to make noise—that isn't mentioned as far as i'm aware #but i wanted tenzō to be doing something more to actively frighten the kids...and he has that voice altering skill u remember? #from when he pretended to be sasori's puppet? #so i thought that would be a fun way to bring that back... #i had had parts of the script for this written for at least a year but i only started drafting it like two days ago #so this was a real rush job #i decided the one thing i focused hard on was going to be trying to do speech bubbles the ''right'' way instead of phoning it in #and so far it looks pretty good i think. i made a couple dodgy choices but its ok #my favorite parts in this comic are naruto narrowly missing hitting sai. naruto gripping sakuras shoulder... weird woodclone yamato... #and sai's final nervous face on the last page