back on my bs pic.twitter.com/IPMjm7b0Lv— Kiana Mai (@kianamaiart) April 16, 2020
We're going over one of our favorite artists, Kiana Mai, recent work, who loves to ship Ash's Mom and Jessie as a couple. Ms. Mai is a story artist over at Disney TV Animation, so, you've probably seen her work on a number of cartoons.
I did another but with stufful this time (also slightly more realistic) #toonme pic.twitter.com/glvllwd3rs— Kiana Mai (@kianamaiart) February 26, 2020
Yeah, we know everyone thinks it should be Prof. Oak, but it's not happening. What is happening is the Pokémon cartoon's Ash Ketchum's Mom and Jessie from Team Rocket our together and in for some crazy family antics. We have no idea why, but it works so well as a sitcom, who cares how it happened. It's just instantly relatable to fans of the cartoon, kind of like Maré Odomo's wonderfully touching Letters to an Absent Father, where Ash's writes to his deadbeat Dad. We even interviewed him about it ages ago. But Maré hasn't done any new Pokémon comics in a while...get back to work you lazy cartoonist. On the other hand it left a void for something even more touching to come into play, this funny shipping.
Mr. Mime leaves invisible barriers around the house for Jessie to bump in to (1/3) pic.twitter.com/NPiYiusQKv— Kiana Mai (@kianamaiart) April 18, 2020
— Kiana Mai (@kianamaiart) April 18, 2020
— Kiana Mai (@kianamaiart) April 18, 2020
watching the house with uncle james and meowth! (1/2) pic.twitter.com/pphKekr0vg— Kiana Mai (@kianamaiart) April 19, 2020
— Kiana Mai (@kianamaiart) April 19, 2020
— Kiana Mai (@kianamaiart) April 19, 2020
It's not the only shipping she does.
Jules found a friend during the family trip to Galar pic.twitter.com/ymjmKrrJfS— Kiana Mai (@kianamaiart) November 30, 2019