Sawada has waist-length black hair with bangs in the middle of her forehead and chin-length hair strands hanging on either side of her face. She has blue eyes, a mole under her left eye, and she is noted to look very much like Kyouko Hori.
She is somewhat introverted, as she has difficulty connecting with her classmates. She appears to have mild androphobia, often freezing up, running away, or hiding when approached by men but for some reason she's okay with you