Engineer by day in the Web2 world, collector and creator by night in the Web3 realm. Proudly nurturing a family in the garden⛩️ 💌DM for commission/collab
I’m not someone who’s usually active in chat groups, discord servers, or social media. Most of the time, I just observe quietly while continue my daily busy life.
But one day, I stumbled into the Azuki CN group… and something felt..different. Like I had finally found a place that feels like home in this chaotic Web3 world.
A space where I don’t feel pressured to speak up daily—yet I know I’m never forgotten.
A community I want to return to, not out of obligation, but because I miss the people in it.
Ever since then, I’ve always had this thought in the back of my mind:
“One day, I need to draw a manga for this group… or at least a family portrait.”
And now, I’ve finally had the chance to gather most of our CN fam for this commission.
After nearly two months of sketching, this piece is finally complete.
I’ll be taking a short break and return next month to work on the colored version.
To the Azuki CN fam:
Thank you for being the kind of community that makes someone like me feel at home.
In this space full of noise, it means more than you think.
@arriettyweb3@Azuki no joke…my spine..or i shd say my neck is really ruined due to drawing in all the weird pose that one can possible do 🤧 im kinda regret now..
i actually completed this around 2 months ago for @0xR8Chnxxi ! We started as a single character comm and ended as a pair with both his old and current pfp.
hope u like it buddy!
me and @0xR8Chnxxi talk about this before @AzukiTCG alpha deck was launched..but due to my busy schedule i was only able to complete half of it...tbh i was so surprise when i saw Mo and Wucha cards
and now finally im on my way to complete the other half...IKZ!
No drop mechanic is ever going to be perfect for everyone. There will always be a “but what if…”
most TCG/merch drops in this era, bots and scalpers aren't just tolerated, they're actually “useful” to the companies. Sellouts in seconds, secondary price spikes, endless timeline chatter. Free hype generator with guaranteed sales, why not?
So when a team gives up that easy narrative to make sure actual players get first access, and then still covers early supporters who miss out, that's a very thoughtful and deliberate choice against their own short-term hype.
No system will please everyone. But the thought behind this one is 👏🏻.
We’re trying something different with tomorrow’s Azuki TCG Special Collection drop.
Players should have a real shot at limited products from the TCGs they actually play. I see this all the time where bots and scalpers get in first and players get left out.
So for tomorrow, players who have shown up to play Azuki TCG and earned participation points in the Azuki TCG app get first access from 6 AM to 12 PM PT. The public sale opens at 1 PM PT.
It’s an experiment, but the principle is simple: showing up to play matters.
If you’re an Azuki holder and miss the sale, we’ll share a form in Discord afterward and take care of you.
Haaa!!! IKZ
Going live on ANIME MONDAY with @IRA_therabbit for the weekly Azuki roundtable
The plan? Have fun in the Garden⛩️
Let's dive into topics such as anime conventions, tcgs and manga of course
it will also be the opportunity to show some bts processing live 🖤🧬🤍
For that, I have the chance to be animating a great art piece from @achew39 that we can look at. It is featuring several characters and community members.
Join to laugh and get spoiled with more than this little gif teaser. 🫡
In this era, everyone watches anime. But before the color, before the sound, before the motion… there was a hand, a pen, and silence. And in that silence, the lines and details carry your imagination to places no screen can ever reach. That’s manga, my friend.