From Burnout to Balance: Gaming, Manga, and My Creative Reset on PS5

One great thing happened a few days ago and as a treat to myself, my husband and I went out and I happened to see this physical copy of Yakuza 0. Remembering the foolish decisions of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios, I decided to grab it because after what 7 years--almost 8--of watching this hilariously entertaining guy named NicoB play it...well why not, right? After I saw that it would be delisted after the Director's Cut edition came out, that made me want it even more. I hope to grab all physical editions of the other Yakuza games, too.

It's something else that's different from my usual Japanese RPGS. I will upload playthrough footage as I see fit and whenever I have time. I'm still playing through Code Vein, just started Gravity Rush Remastered, and am in the middle of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I play these games on my Playstation 5. The link to my Youtube Channel is below if you are interested. I have some book trailers for my written work if you haven't seen them yet.

For me, life is coming a welcome standstill, which is allowing me to catch up on things. If you don't follow me on BlueSky, you may not know that I am making a one-shot manga. I have some sketches up there in a post. I'm working on honing my drawing skills again and I want to push myself to see if I can make something that I'll be proud of. I can't reveal any details of it just yet.

I do want to create book trailers with my own art one day. I've used A.I. to see what it could come up with to help me envision things and I think I know where I want to go with future trailers. I need to advertise my older works, as I am proud of them too.

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Seraphine Vale and Rin Nocturne write emotionally driven speculative fiction, dark fantasy, and magical-girl inspired stories.

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