Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Infernal Wonders as “Δ 011 Jenny The Bat.” Here is what Bacchus found.

This image is of a frequently-depicted character known as Jenny Burtory (aka Jenny The Bat), who is a vampire (or perhaps a werebat), model, and spy as a character in the Japanese videogame franchise of fighting games known collectively as Bloody Roar.

The image has both a 3-character logo in Japanese script (perhaps 青天壱) and a Roman-alphabet watermark identifying the artist as Aozoraichi. This page identifies five additional names used by Aozoraichi, to include aozoraya, seiten, 青天屋, 青天, and aitayuu. A bewildering variety of web presences are listed, but the one listed as “homepage” ultimately redirects to a page featuring at least two of those aliases in the URL and logo.

This artist is incredibly prolific; one image board includes almost 500 images under the Aozoraichi artist tag. The Jenny The Bat image above is part of a larger series, to include at least five closely-related images (1 2 3 4 5) plus this one:

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Infernal Wonders as “Δ 010 – Nāga Woman.” Here is what Bacchus found.

This image of a female Nāga has proved difficult to source. Two different reverse search engines attribute it to a particular artist on Pixiv (see this link at SauceNao and this link at ascii2d.net) but the associated Pixiv links for the image (Pixiv illust_id 19829481) and possibly for the artist, said to be named あなろぐ＠ステータス異常好き。, Pixiv member ID 2088369) do not work. (They lead to an unrelated image and an artist whose work does not appear particularly similar to this naga image, although the Japanese name matches the one given at SauceNao; nor does the Pixiv portfolio contain the Nāga image.) The reason for the non-working Pixiv links may be a recent incompletely-described and poorly-understood (at least by me) recent change in Pixiv’s link structure.

Unfortunately, no other/better attribution for this image could be discovered.

Both of the reverse image searches linked above also point to a related image with Japanese text superimposed over the lower half of the image, but only the thumbnail of the related image can now be found. It is included here at 300% zoom, about as large as the underlying image information can reasonably support:

Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Infernal Wonders as “Δ 009 – Centaur Love.” Here is what Bacchus found.

This manga image has appeared on hundreds of sites since at least 2009, and many references and comments suggest it was floating around on the internet for many years before that. An ironclad provenance is tricky, because the image has many conflicting tags and references to specific manga works, often with (as here) associated comments disputing the very same tag references often seen on other boards. Nothwithstanding, I was able to identify three different popular image boards with tags in agreement that the image is by a manga artist sometimes called Okayado. ( reference reference reference ).

I find the attribution plausible because if you look at an assortment of Okayado manga art like this one, you will see significant stylistic similarities. The most significant feature in common is a signature ruddiness or blush on the cheeks of the female characters, such as in this artwork or this rather-differently-drawn centaur-girl sex comic. There is also a frequent theme of lusty centaur girls or other half-animal, half-human women.

This page of Okayado information further identifies the artist as Inui Takemaru (乾武丸), sometimes also going by オカヤド. The same page identifies a Pixiv account for this artist (using the オカヤド name), although the Pixiv account does not appear to include this particular centaur-sex image. Again, the artwork on display frequently features female characters with a blushing ruddiness on their cheeks just below their eyes.