Yoko Taro has been posting New Years greetings for over 15 years on his personal blog on Ameba and Twitter, but there’s always someone he thinks that these illustrations are actually a teaser for some new game or something…

Here’s a brief look at his illustrations in his New Year’s greetings.

The square with four katakana letters is his old signature that reads “Yokota” (ヨコオタ). He also uses this as part of his blog URL. He hasn’t used this signature ever since he switched over to merely writing his whole name in katakana (ie. ヨコオタロウ). Please also note that the official romanization of his name is “Yoko” rather than the phonetic “Yokoo”.

• All illustrations are by Yoko Taro except for the 2016 illustration of Pre/Zen, which was likely illustrated by his wife, Yukiko Yokoo, Taiko no Tatsujin character designer and illustrator of all the cute SD characters from Yoko Taro’s works.