This has nothing to do with the Supernatural Anime. This is about throwing our favorite Supernatural characters into the worlds of our favorite anime and manga via crossovers and AUs!
How to Participate:
When you complete a prompt, tag @spn-anime-challenge in the post and list "#AnimeApril2026" in the tags so that we can see your post and reblog it!
If you're posting your works to AO3, add them to our collection: SAC: Anime April 2026 (AnimeApril2026)!
Tackle any or all of the prompts. Each week's prompts may be done individually or combined into one submission containing any/all of that week's prompts. Hell, you can do 15 submissions for the same prompt if you want. Have fun with them! (And if you complete something for a prompt after that week has passed, send them to me anyway! I'll reblog it at the end of the month!)
List relevant prompts in the tags of your submission/post.
NO AI. All works must be your own.
ALL CHARACTERS/SHIPS ARE WELCOME!
Tag appropriately and keep any nsfw visuals below a cut. Explicit/Mature depictions of minors will not be reblogged.
Here are the prompts!!
Week 1 - (April 5-11)
Character Group: Gen Fic/Art
Genre: Isekai
Trope: Shouting Attack Names
Visual Trope: The Angry Red X Popping Veins
Week 2 - (April 12-18)
Character Group: Spn Ladies
Genre: Adventure
Trope: Overpowered Main Character
Visual Trope: Nosebleeds
Week 3 - (April 19-25)
Character Group: Spn Rare Pairs
Genre: Harem
Trope: Beach Episode
Visual Trope: Transformation Sequence
Week 4 - (April 26 - May 2)
Character Group: Spn Gentlemen
Genre: Fantasy
Plot Device: Inner Monologues
Visual Trope: Bishie Sparkle/Love Bubbles
April 1-4 are Bonus Days!
Do you already have past Anime!Spn works? Send them to me! I want to share (and also enjoy!) them, and I’ll use these days to do it!
Welcome to the DeanCas Anime Bang where we thrust our favorite hunter/angel duo into the world of anime and manga!
Have you ever wondered what it would be like for your favorite pair of grumpy old men to be thrown into the world of anime? Pictured them in Naruto’s Hidden Leaf Village? Have you thought about Castiel in a Soul Reaper uniform or wondered what his bankai would be? Wondered what Dean would think of the hunters from Hunter X Hunter?
ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT IT NOW?
Sign-ups are open!!
Creators are invited to join as authors, artists, beta readers, or pinch hitters (or any combination of the above).
What happens when you're watching JJK while trying to work on Supernatural event stuff... you have a few silly thoughts, you turn to your drawing tablet, and then...
... you end up with Domain Expansion: Malevolent Chevy. 😅
(Also, don't think too hard about what it means to have Dean as Sukuna and Cas as Gojo.)
So, I actually finished this Dean/Cas Inuyasha AU piece a week ago for the fourth week of @spn-anime-challenge: Anime April. Then, I decided I'd write a little drabble to go with it since I finished so early. Then that drabble kept growing, lol.
Now this piece actually goes with chapter 2 of this Inuyasha AU Sam and Dean/Destiel fic. Chapter 2 isn't edited yet, but I wanted to go ahead and share this art before the week officially closes.
The Man Who Overcame Time and the One Who was Just...Overcome
(Sam and Dean, Destiel, Inuyasha AU, written/drawn for the last week of AnimeApril over at @spn-anime-challenge )
On AO3 here.
Piercing Through The Gales, Unafraid of Anything
“Stay inside!” Dean warns the family huddled in a corner as he bursts out of the old farmhouse, Sam on his heels. “And lock the door!” he calls back, the door slamming shut behind them.
Dean’s off the porch in three long strides, jumping over the rickety wooden steps entirely and breaking into a run, chasing the shifter who’d been posing as the middle brother into the corn field as fast as his legs would carry him.
“What the hell, Dean?” Sam yells as they run, barely even breathing heavily, the freak. He must have taken up running or something over there at Stanford.
“I know!” Dean yells back.
“I thought we were looking for some kind of ghost or poltergeist or vengeful spirit! Not a shifter!” The shifter darts right and they follow it.
“I know!” Dean grinds out and bats a corn stalk out of his way.
“A shifter shouldn’t even be out h—”
“I KNOW!” Dean cuts in and slows to a stop, looking around. “I’ve lost track of him…Damn corn’s gotta be six feet—”
“THERE!”
Sam takes off to the left, and Dean scrambles to keep up. They dodge and weave through the rows until, finally, they’re stumbling back out of the corn and into a field of barley on the other side of it. Both look around frantically, no sign of the shifter anywhere.
“Son of a bitch!” Dean bends down, bracing his hands on his knees and working to catch his breath. If they let it get away now, it could be anyone next time they see it.
“Maybe in there?”
Dean looks up to see Sam pointing out a small shed in the middle of the field. He looks back at Sam skeptically.
Sam gives an exasperated shrug. “Dean, there’s nothing else out here.”
Dean huffs. “Besides the acres upon acres of corn and barley? He could just be hiding out in the grass somewhere..” Probably just out there resting while they run their asses off looking for him.
“In which case we’re screwed.”
Dean grunts an acknowledgement. There’s no way they’re gonna comb through the fields efficiently enough to catch him before he can get away.
Sam sighs. “Even if he’s not in there, we can at least climb on top of the shed to get a better vantage point to look around, maybe spot him crawling or something.”
With no better ideas, Dean huffs and shoves himself upright, then trudges through the tall grass towards the building. It’s just a small wooden shed in the middle of the field and looks like it’s seen better days. The boards are warping and cracked and gray with age. The tin roof is rusty and probably leaks.
When they get close enough to notice that the door is nailed shut, they meet eyes and nod before splitting to slowly circle the building, looking for signs of entrance somewhere else.
There’s nothing.
The boards are beginning to rot at the bottom, leaving a few small gaps here and there, but nothing big enough to let anything in bigger than a snake or a mouse.
Sam lets out a frustrated sound. “All right. Who’s going up?”
“I’m not hoisting your tall ass up there. Come on. Gimme a lift.”
Sam scoffs. “My “tall ass” probably doesn’t actually weigh more than you. Besides, my extra height will help me see further.”
“‘See fur…’ bro, you’re like two inches taller than me. If that.”
Sam shrugs. “Taller is taller.”
“That’s not enough to matter!”
“Okay, Dean, then why did you insist that you’re not housing my ‘tall ass’ up there, then?” Dean’s little brother smirks down at him, eyes sparkling under the line of that shaggy mop of hair.
Dean scowls. “Man, why’d you even ask who’s going up if you’re just gonna argue about it?” Dean grumbles.
Sam’s smirk intensifies.
“Ugghh, fine!” Dean widens his stance and drops his hands, lacing his fingers together to give Sam a step. “Go.”
Sam puts a foot in Dean’s hands and pushes upwards, climbing onto the roof. Dean steps back and watches him turn a few circles, hand shielding his eyes from the sun.
“Anthing?” Dean calls up.
“Nothing.”
“Well, it’s not like he just disappeared. He’s gotta be somewhere.”
Sam raises an eyebrow and points down at the shed he’s standing on.
“It’s boarded up.” Dean reminds him.
“He’s gotta be somewhere,” Sam throws back.
Dean rolls his eyes and walks back around to the front. Sam drops down next to him. They both work to pull off the boards nailed over the entrance, then Sam holds up his left hand, counting down from three with his fingers.
They kick open the door and burst into the shed—a wellshed apparently—guns raised, quickly clearing the corners and again finding nothing.
Dean looks at Sam. “You sure you saw him come this way?” he asks, moving into the old wellshed and taking it in. There was seriously nothing in here but a well that had been boarded shut, same as the door.
“This way? Yes. In here? No. But I thought it was our best chance.”
Dean grunts in agreement and looks at the well. “Think he went in there?”
“It’s boarded shut…”
Dean doesn’t even have to say the words. He just glares a Really, Sam?? at his little brother to remind him that the door was the same and this whole thing was a stretch on Sam’s insistence to start with. They pull these boards off as well, and then, on Sam’s count, throw the original doors that covered it open and lean in, pointing their guns down the hole.
“Still friggin’ nothing…” Dean mutters. The well isn’t even that deep, and it’s dry at the bottom.
Sam stares at it. “Should one of us climb down and check it out?” Off Dean’s incredulous look. “I don’t know! Maybe there’s some loose stones at the bottom and he’s dug out some kind of tunnel system!”
Dean looks down into it and wrinkles his nose, thinking about trying to follow a shifter through a small tunnel full of…. “If so, it’s gonna be slimy…and gross…”
“Well, I climbed onto the rusty roof and risked tetanus, so I think it’s your turn.” Sam holds a hand out at the well in a go ahead motion and a shit-eating grin.
“Uh, hell no. I’m going back to the farmhouse to check on the family, make sure it didn’t circle back.
Sam shrugs and holsters his gun. “Fine. I’ll go.”
Dean grabs him by the shoulder. “No.”
Sam brushes him off and rolls his eyes so hard that it makes Dean hope he sprains something. “Dude, why would you say you’re not going just to argue about it when I say I’ll go?” He mimics Dean’s argument from earlier.
“I meant that neither of us should go, bitch.”
Sam huffs. “Jerk.” Sam looks down the well. “I know it’s a long shot, but I still feel like one of us should, just in case.”
Dean looks at him deadpan.
“Dean…”
“Okay, then I’m going.” Dean looks down and shoves his gun back into the waist of his jeans…stupid little brother and his stupid puppy dog eyes—he’d always win any argument with Dean, law student or not. And if the shifter was down there, he’s not sending Sammy in. He’s just gotten him back—he’d missed him so damn much off at Stanford—and then with Dad in the wind…well, he’ll be damned if he lets something happen to Sam.
“You got silver on you? Mine’s in the car.” Sam rolls his eyes and scoffs. “I’ve got plenty of salt though if you wanna season him.”
Dean huffs a laugh. “Yeah, a few silver bullets in the bottom of my clip that I keep there just in case of shit like this.” He feels his pocckets to check for his flashlight, hand bumping against the weird marble thing that Bobby had given him, saying it was some kind of good luck charm from Japan. He looks back up at Sam. “You call that family and tell them to stay holed up in the house together, in the same room, where they can see each other at all times, so no one can get swapped out. Tell them to open the door for nobody, not even us…and if they have any silverware that’s actually silver, they should grab it. He throws a leg over the wooden edge of the well and judges the distance. “And see if you can find a damn ladder or rope or something. It’s not too far to jump, but climbing out’s gonna be a bitch.”
With that, Dean swings his other leg over and straightens, falling into the well.
It's the final week of the Supernatural Anime Challenge: Anime April!!
This week's prompts:
Character Group: Spn Gentlemen
Genre: Fantasy
Plot Device: Inner Monologues
Visual Trope: Bishie Sparkle/Love Bubbles
How to participate:
Tackle any or all of the prompts! Your work doesn't have to include all of these. Each week's prompts may be done individually or combined into one submission containing any/all of that week's prompts. Hell, you can do 15 submissions for the same prompt if you want. Have fun with them! (And if you complete something for a prompt after that week has passed, send them to me anyway! I'll reblog it at the end of the month!)
List relevant prompts in the tags of your submission/post.
NO AI. All works must be your own.
ALL CHARACTERS/SHIPS ARE WELCOME!
When you complete a prompt, tag @spn-anime-challenge in the post and list "#AnimeApril2026" in the tags so that I can see your post and reblog it!
If you're posting your works to AO3, add them to the collection: SAC: Anime April 2026 (AnimeApril2026)!
Tag appropriately and keep any nsfw visuals below a cut. Make whatever you want, but Explicit/Mature depictions of minors will not be reblogged.
It's week 3 of Anime April and here are the prompts!
Supernatural Character Group: Rare Pairs
Genre: Harem Anime
Trope: Beach Episode
Visual Trope: Transformation Sequence
How to Participate:
Tackle any or all of the prompts! Your work doesn't have to include all of these. Each week's prompts may be done individually or combined into one submission containing any/all of that week's prompts. Hell, you can do 15 submissions for the same prompt if you want. Have fun with them! (And if you complete something for a prompt after that week has passed, send them to me anyway! I'll reblog it at the end of the month!)
List relevant prompts in the tags of your submission/post.
NO AI. All works must be your own.
ALL CHARACTERS/SHIPS ARE WELCOME!
When you complete a prompt, tag @spn-anime-challenge in the post and list "#AnimeApril2026" in the tags so that I can see your post and reblog it!
If you're posting your works to AO3, add them to the collection: SAC: Anime April 2026 (AnimeApril2026)!
Tag appropriately and keep any nsfw visuals below a cut. Make whatever you want, but Explicit/Mature depictions of minors will not be reblogged.
One of the prompts for week 2 of @spn-anime-challenge's Anime April was Spn Ladies so of course I had to smash my two favorite sets of tv girlfriends together and draw Donna and Jody as Sailors Neptune and Uranus
It's now week two of the Supernatural Anime Challenge!
And here are the prompts! (You can see the post with each week's prompts listed here)
Character Group: Spn Ladies
Genre: Adventure
Trope: Overpowered Main Character
Visual Trope: Nosebleeds
How to Participate:
When you complete a prompt, tag @spn-anime-challenge in the post and list "#AnimeApril2026" in the tags so that we can see your post and reblog it!
If you're posting your works to AO3, add them to our collection: SAC: Anime April 2026 (AnimeApril2026)!
Tackle any or all of the prompts. Each week's prompts may be done individually or combined into one submission containing any/all of that week's prompts. Hell, you can do 15 submissions for the same prompt if you want. Have fun with them! (And if you complete something for a prompt after that week has passed, send them to me anyway! I'll reblog it at the end of the month!)
List relevant prompts in the tags of your submission/post.
NO AI. All works must be your own.
ALL CHARACTERS/SHIPS ARE WELCOME!
Tag appropriately and keep any nsfw visuals below a cut. Explicit/Mature depictions of minors will not be reblogged.
(Check out the pinned post for all weekly prompt lists)
How to participate:
When you complete a prompt, tag @spn-anime-challenge in the post and list "#AnimeApril2026" in the tags so that I can see your post and reblog it! If you're posting your works to A03, add them to our collection: SAC: Anime April 2026 (AnimeApril2026)!
Tackle any or all of the prompts. Each week's prompts may be done individually or combined into one submission containing any/all of that week's prompts. Hell, you can do 15 submisions for the same prompt if you want. Have fun with them! (And if you complete something for a prompt after that week has passed, tag the blog/send it to me anyway! I'll reblog it at the end of the month!)
List the relevant prompt/s in the tags of your post.
NO AI. All works must be your own.
ALL CHARACTERS/SHIPS ARE WELCOME!
Tag appropriately and keep any nsfw visuals below a cut. Explicit/Mature depictions of minors will not be reblogged.
I am a very simple single brain celled-organism: I see pokemon, I click. this time for the @deancasanimebang whoo
due to having way more artists than authors, this bang had kind of a weird system where two artists were paired to each fic. for this one, @keikakudom did the banner and some bonus character designs (and also had the idea to do pixel art to reference the game which was definitely a fun change) and I did some silly art pieces for it
here's Dean and Cas meeting in the fic. I'm not too great at pixel art really since my style in general is pretty two dimensional and I don't do much as far as shading or color blending goes but idk I think it turned out okay. I especially like how Cas' Cubone turned out here since it actually kinda looks like a Cubone. Chansey too really though most of it is off-screen. tried to do a simple Pokemon Center-y background that keeps the colored line art thing I had going on originally before swapping it to black outlines (which is a lot more eye-catching)
I did another little piece for this fic with Dean and Cas walking out of Raphael's gym and off into a new life together (with Chansey and Cubone ofc). I kinda based the background off of Pokemon Platinum's Veilstone fighting type gym with the tires and punching bags and...boxing rings? idk fighting types man who knows
but yeah it was fun collaborating on this. never worked on a team before this bang so it was fun to try that out
the fic this is made for is called "Catch" by @nickelkeep for the deancas anime bang
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
I'm back with some cover art for @deancasanimebang!
Had so much fun working with a larger team than normal!! It was a pleasure to draw for @ayaainanutshell and share art with @ephemerastardust and banter a little with our beta Whitney!
You can look at their art here, its amazing!!
I will update the post with the link to the story soon!
Hey! So I got to participate twice in this round of the DCAB. I had already agreed to beta @bleuzombie's amazing fic 1,2,3, Let's Jam, an amazing story based on the world of Cowboy Bebop, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I ended up doing a piece of art for it as well! It also means I got to work alongside the amazing @sketcheun, and like, holy shit, if that isn't intimidating.
But truly, this was a great team to work with, and you really need to go drop everything and read 1,2,3, Let's Jam!
