towa // enmity

welcome!

This page is dedicated to my absolute favorite and most beloved character of all time — Towa from Slow Damage.

warning!

If you are already familiar with the game, then you know what themes will be covered.
If not, I am warning you in advance: this page may contain themes such as

violence and gore, self-harm, strong language,
sex, smoking, alcohol, drugs, abuse.

best viewed at pc

I did put some work into mobile optimization for this page, but I still recommend viewing it (as well as all my other pages) on a PC with a resolution of 1080 x 1920.

who ?

Towa is the main protagonist of Slow Damage, a hedonistic artist living in the yakuza-controlled city of Shinkoumi. He is known for painting people's darkest desires and is characterized by his apathetic demeanor, heavy drinking, and a troubled past marked by trauma and scars.

random fact

personal stuff and rambling

I didn't plan on loving Slow Damage (and Towa specifically).
The first time, I played it almost off-handedly — skipping dialogue, just watching the CGs go by. Came back months later with a little more attention. Started to love the mc. Then again, this May (2026), and this time I didn't skip a single word.

Towa happened slowly, and then all at once. Don't even mind the weird wording.

My first impression was something like — well, he probably drinks and smokes to forget something. Turns out I was right, just not in the way I expected. The more I paid attention, the more something shifted. By the third playthrough I couldn't get enough. I still can't.

Most of the time I understand him completely. The way he moves through life with no plans and no thought of a future. The way dying doesn't scare him, even as his own lifestyle quietly walks him toward it — not suicidal but indifferent to whether he makes it. The way he shut everything off after childhood and never really turned it back on. The way he barely cares, and how that barely-caring has its own specific shape and texture if you look closely enough.

I recognize something in all of that. It's not comfortable recognition. Just feels more real to the actual awful reality we're living in.

Fujieda's good ending hit differently than anything else in the game. Everything that had been building just clicked in place. Yup, that's the only wording for it, sue me.

He's real to me in a way very few characters ever are. I don't know how it happened. It just did.