Zawa

SEEEKAAAAAAAIII DEEEEE ICHIIIIBANNN OHIMEEEE SAAAMAAAAA

(today's warmup scribbling!)

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Happy Birthday my dear sweet meowmeow Goldenglow!!!!!🐈💕 #Arknights

2026 new year illustration of 46cm's horse character

Happy year of the horse! 🐎✨ #oc #art

Happy New Year! 🎊

新年あけましておめでとう！🎉

I would love a new Persona fighting game.

Or, you know, anything with Persona 1 or 2.

I have 3 goals for 2026:

1. Get a job in J-E localization (freelance or in-house)
2. Consume more JP media in JP (JRPGs, manga, anime, etc.)
3. Attend more fighting game tournaments (locals and majors)

Here's to a new year and I hope I accomplish these goals! 🎉

Thank you for an amazing 2025!!
This year I was given so many wonderful opportunities that helped me realize what I really wanted to draw, and I truly felt that the struggles I have faced over the years have become essential experiences that led me to who I am today!!
Thank you always!!!

Looks like the two major tournaments I'm going to next year are gonna be Combo Breaker and CEO.

I wanna try and squeeze in a third one but I don't think I have the funds for that.

YouTube video by COMBO BREAKER CB2026 Trailer

Live from the Midwest!

Join us for CB2026 on May 22-24 at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Illinois!

Visit combobreaker.org for more info.

Visit start.gg/cb2026 to register.

youtu.be/4LxvsjJ-qJs?...

So is the rollback netcode for Daemon Bride: ADDITIONAL GAIN any good? Cause I really can't be playing a fighting game with bad netcode in the big 2025-2026.

Just got to the Phantom Train part in FFVI and suplexed the train.

Yeah, this game is peak.

It sucks for all the dedicated players who's spent years with their accounts.

But as someone who has only played Granblue Versus and Relink, this is a great opportunity for me to experience the main game and to actually get to know the story and characters.

Finished Tales of Rebirth! Such a beautiful game. The gameplay, the art, the story, it was all fantastic!

Being able to play this game, which never released in the west, made all those hours of learning JP worth it!

Also, Veigue best boy.

Thinking of playing Final Fantasy VI next!

A screenshot of Percival wearing his Knight of Passion costume in GBVSR (he's also wielding a baseball bat).

Finally finished the battle pass and got the costume for Percival!

He's perfect 😭

#GBVSR

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Two trails, one destiny. Continue your Trails journey with Estelle and Joshua in Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter, coming Fall 2026! 🎉

Wishlist on Steam and PS5, with Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 coming soon! 🌠

Wishlist now: https://loom.ly/fEbumEk

#Trails2ndChapter

A spider graph of the kinds of games I spent the most time in 2025: -Hunting -2D Fighter -Card Battler -3D Fighter -Fighting -Rhythm

I need to pick up MonHun Wilds again especially after the latest update. I also wanna get back into rhythm games but I don't know which one to focus on.

Unfortunately, I kind of gave up on 3D fighters but I'll definitely give the new VF a spin when it comes out.

Zawa's Steam Replay for 2025. 20 games played. 129 achievements. 1,399 play sessions. 9 new games. Most played games (by % of playtime): 1. Umamusume: Pretty Derby 2. Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising 3. Monster Hunter Wilds 4. Under Night In-Birth II: Sys-Celes 5. Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.

A lot of those sessions were me booting up and labbing something out in training mode. Also, Umamusume.

I've been picking up Percival again cause I want to play him with his new costume and I can't help but wonder how I got to Master with him in the first place.

He's so hard to play for me 😭

#GBVSR

The Game Awards was pretty nice this year! A lot of game announcements I was excited for with a few unexpected ones.

I know people bag on the show for being a 4-hour long series of ads but I enjoy learning about games even in genres I don't play.

#thegameawards

LETS GO UMAH MAH SOO MEH

Supportive parents are the best! ❤️

Hope you feel better soon!

2013 - Started studying JP in my senior year of hs
2015 - Took JP classes at uni (considered taking N3 and working up from there but said screw it and just aimed for N1)
2023 - Failed N1
2024 - Passed N1

Took me like 10 years but I did it lmao

Just beat Dragon Quest I HD-2D Remake! That's another game finished! I'm finally making some progress with my neverending backlog lol

I'll get to DQ II eventually but I'm thinking of playing Tales of Rebirth next!

YT Recap for 2025. Top Interests: Playing video games, Streaming gameplay, Exploring Japanese culture. Top Channels: IRyS, Nimi Nightmare, Gigi Murin.

My top YouTube channels for 2025: IRyS, Nimi Nightmare, Gigi Murin, The Library of Letourneau, Cecilia Immergreen.

My top games: Monster Hunter Wilds, Minecraft, Elden Ring, Elden Ring Nightreign, Umamusume: Pretty Derby.

Here's my YT Recap for 2025! Really more of the same. Although this year, I became a fan of Umamusume and NL(mostly through Librarian).

Still don't know how Minecraft is number two. I barely remember watching Minecraft at all this year!