AHO, BOKE! It's Asuka's Birthday! (Patreon)

Right on the heels of Lidia's birthday, my one and only Asuka Kazama also celebrates her special day (December 5). Ever since her debut in Tekken 5, the younger Kazama Girl has been my favorite. She may have been a bit of a replacement for the MIA Jun, though she was so very different- she was the brash, streetwise brawler compared to Jun's more spiritual, mystical martial artist. But Asuka had so much more Main Character energy (at the time), ready to take on whomever or whatever was causing trouble in the world, whether it be her seemingly psychotic relative (Jin), a murderous sociopath (Feng) or even a world-destroying demon (Jinpachi).

Asuka has always been a beauty. While I still think Tekken 6 Asuka looked the most close to what she should look like and her Tekken 7 version looked pretty but blank-faced, Tekken 8 Asuka is really gorgeous and is both cute and sexy.

Yeah, since then she's kinda gotten pushed to the side in terms of story, now relegated perhaps eternally as rival to Lili Rochefort, but she'll always be our favorite tomboy waifu who's both sweet, badass and beautiful in every way. Hopefully someday the Tekken Devs will see fit to give her more stuff to do n the story, but I'll settle for just her being around kicking ass and stomping on the bad guys with her big, beautiful Kazama feet.

Oh, right- the pics were of Asuka doing MIary's poses hence her rather unhinged smile and crazy eyes... but its kinda endearing. Maybe that's how Asuka would look if she found out Lili went away for an extended vacation...