Hello everyone!
This is Mar, three years after I said "I will be moving to Japan so I will stop uploading
videos".
So I thought it would be nice to just try to film this video and let you know what happened
actually.
And tell you why the videos in my Youtube Channel that were mostly ASMR are disappearing:
they are going private!
I am not erasing them.
I am keeping your comments and all your support.
Which is like...
I am so grateful!
So many nice people!
It is just that those videos don't fit in my channel anymore.
One of the (other) things that happened is that even if I wanted to do ASMR videos is
that I live in this super noisy street so...
That would have been very difficult!
The reason I moved to Japan was because my dream is to enter to an animation company.
But the first step, the very first step that you need when you move to Japan is learning
Japanese.
You cannot have a really integrated life in Japan if you don't learn the language.
So, I spend 1 year and 9 months learning the language.
Which means that I would be half of the day (3-4 hours) in a language school.
A school for foreigners here in Japan.
And then, because I had to get the cash, I was also working part time.
I found a really nice place where people is very very nice.
And I could do the work.
I got awesome experience learning there.
But the thing is...
I WAS NOT DRAWING!
I mean, I would wake up, I would (maybe) do some exercise depending on the season, I would
study... study study study, go school, study study study, do some sketch next to my book
because I cannot hold it anymore.
And then go work, have kind of fun, and well, do the work (at the office).
And go back at home, be very tired, and... that's it!
So, after some months since I came I started drawing again but I was like really really
really stressed like: I have to do my portfolio!
I have to do that fanart!
I have to do a comic series!
And then I looked at my portfolio and and it was like all these different styles of
things!
What is this??
I was just very stressed about that.
Until I found something very good.
It was very good advice in a podcast which told me to focus.
Just focus on one things.
I have this time in a week and every time I can have for drawing I will use it for 1
single project.
All the same thing!
I thought: "Well, If I can just do 1 thing (1 single project) I want to make an animation
movie!"
But...
I don't have the knowledge.
And think I can't do that.
So I thought...Why not a comic?
"You can do a comic that looks like a movie (in format) and... well, that would be it!"
I had an idea that I wanted to help people with a comic.
Like a comic idea (strips).
So it was like "OK!
Let's follow this idea of that feeling I had when I wanted to help my cousin and my best
friend (one of my best friends)".
So it was like "OK!
Let's start thinking..."
And then every time, even still studying Japanese, every time I had an idea or every time I could
draw, it was about that.
At least 80% of the (free) time was that.
When I was walking to the train, I was thinking about the story.
When I was home, when I was even at class,...
I would be drawing the characters.
And this is how I created Believe in Fake Magic.
It is a story with magic, action and love.
And some mystery!
And I started doing it, doing it, doing it.
And it kept going bigger, bigger and bigger until I realized that this is not a comic.
This is a full saga!
So that is how I divided it.
Believe in Fake Magic has 5 stories.
And the first one is Windy Lightning.
The story that you can actually start reading online.
Because it is a comic but it is also a webcomic so it is free online so far.
And,... yeah!
So that is what I did for one year and nine months in Japan: I just focused in my comic,
my studies and work.
Until I went to the next level!
I entered to an animation school in Tokyo.
And there I learned... well, I am learning because I am in the second year now.
I am learning how to make an animation.
From zero to the final steps.
How the industry works, etc.
I am doing the thing.
Of course I can't learn every thing in two years but they focus on making you learn what
you need to enter the company.
And then the company will train you in whatever is needed.
And the thing is: I am ready!
I am kind of ready to enter to the animation company.
I mean, I am literally the student with the best grades at class.
For the whole department of animation.
And, we have already started the job hunting thing.
So we started searching for companies and stuff.
And the thing is...
I don't want this anymore!
So you see: there is actually like 400 or more animation companies in Japan.
But I can't go to all of them.
Some of them don't even want foreigners.
But even when they want them the salary is so low that the Immigration Department will
not give me a visa because they know I will not be able to live with that salary!
So I have a small range of options actually.
And after all this work I have done with Believe in Fake Magic (and Windy Lightning) I am trusting
so much that this is a good story, that this is going to a good place that I rather, instead
of working all days of the week in animation doing things I don't believe in, I rather
work in a full time position like with a way more normal work schedule and then do my thing
(the comic!).
I you will say: "Oh my God!
You worked so hard to go to the place, you have good grades and whatever and now you
want to do something different?"
"YES" "Absolutely YES!"
I have discovered what I want and I know it is not the same (as before).
I believe stories have power.
They can impact you.
You learn through stories.
All the time!
Every video that is in Youtube is influencing you.
Every story you listen from your friends is putting ideas in your head.
Like, it is crafting your values and your beliefs about the world.
There's so many stories that teach you the wrong thing.
They just harm you!
They teach you things that tell you that you will not be happy.
Things like "If you are not thin, you cannot be happy" "If you don't smoke, you are not
cool".
Well, smoking harms you.
It harms people around you.
The people you love.
You are just making them less healthy.
I want to make sure I work in stories that teach people how to be happy.
That teach them things that will lead them to search happiness from themselves.
I am not a psychologist.
I don't have the answers of all questions in the world.
But i really want to try to make a story that will teach you something that is helpful.
And that is what believe in Fake Magic and the stories I want to create are.
This is the thing: All stories I create have 5 values.
First of them: they have messages.
Life changing messages.
I am trying to put something inside that will make you learn from them.
And that is something good.
For example Believe in Fake Magic is about being different.
And being OK with being different.
Have you ever felt that you are not exactly the same as your friends?
That is is difficult to be yourself?
People is trying to tell you how you should be but you just don't feel it?
And then you make some friends but you don't know how to keep them!
You are different and your friends accept you... when I say you are different it could
be not just physically but also... for example you like something they don't like or understand.
Let's say you like manga and they don't understand that.
But at some point you make good friends and they say "OK, that person likes manga, so
what?
It is still an awesome person".
But then you like another thing and it is like "OMG!
Do I have to search for friends again?"
I am talking about this things( how to be different and accept it) in Believe in
Fake Magic.
Life changing messages is one of the strongest values that all stories have inside what I
am creating.
The second value is that I respect your time!
Because all the stories have no filler content.
That means that each single scene leads to somewhere.
It has a purpose.
And each single special chapter has a message.
Do you want to spend time watching stories that you know they go to somewhere?
That they are going to an end?
Or do you want something that is endlessly going and hopefully you will like the end?
Hopefully!
Because (the story) changed so much just to keep people attracted that then it just makes
no sense anymore.
There are lots of stories like that.
And there are good stories that are long.
But it is not all of them.
I have the end in my mind of Believe in Fake Magic and Windy Lightning and for the whole
saga just to make sure that each single scene goes there (to the end).
And (the story) makes sense.
And it is beautiful.
The third value is about the things that we, as a studio, are not supporting.
The stories may have some part of it but we are clearly not in favor.
We don't support war, we don't support racism, drugs, gambling or homophobia.
The fourth value is about deadlines.
If I am telling you that in 2018 you will have an animation, and I mean it literally,
in 2018 an animation is coming about Windy Lightning, then you will have it.
I will do whatever I can to just deliver it.
Because I promised.
If I am telling you that when you join our newsletter each single week you will have
an email, it is just going to happen.
If I am creating for you some expectations I will do whatever it takes to deliver in
them.
And if they are not happening I will communicate it to you as soon as possible and as clearly
as possible on why this is not happening.
It is the same I did with Youtube actually.
Before going to Japan I told you "Hey I am going to Japan, I don't know if I will continue
doing videos.
So far just don't expect them."
And that is what happened.
I went to Japan and couldn't film them.
But it was not a surprise.
And the last value, the fifth one, is that I am trying to be as environmentally friendly
as possible.
Which means that when I am creating the comic, I will try to use paper side by side, or when
I am buying notebook they are crafted with recycled paper, or I am buying like,... do
you know the... um... like this things inside here?
The boxes where they sell them from are made of plastic but there are some options that
are done from a material that will just blend with the earth later.
So I am trying to be careful on those things and I am still learning.
So if you have tips on that, on how to create a super environmentally friendly material products
or even digital products I am all ears, just let me know.
And that's it!
Do I want to just work lots of hours for a company I don't believe in?
Or do I work in a full time job with people I like and a position that is really nice.
And then spend all the rest of the time creating something that really fulfills me and it is
creating a great impact for people enjoying that product?
I think it is just obvious.
So that is how my three years went.
I started in a Japanese language school, then I started my comic, and during all the time
I have been working part time.
I first started in one role which was like...
"OK, I can do it.
I am liking the company."
and then I continued in another role marketing related.
I love it and it is really good.
It is not my passion, I like drawing and making stories, but there are parts of it I really
enjoy.
And the people is great!
I am learning a lot of useful stuff.
So it is good.
So that it is what I am doing now.
I am working hard with my project, the animation project which is related to Windy Lightning's
story (the first story of Believe in Fake Magic saga).
And, well, I will keep just working in Japan hopefully and doing the story for you to enjoy
which goes with all the values I just explained to you and I don't even know why are you still
watching this video.
You should just rush there and read the comic because you will like it.
I really trust you will like it.
I hope we see each other if you read the comic and join the newsletter for the comic.
Or if you are just on Youtube leave a comic, uh... leave a comic,...
If you leave a comment I will read it.
I am reading them all even if maybe I don't answer to them all.
Thank you for checking my video if you are a subscriber from before this video appeared.
And be welcome if you are new!
Have an awesome week, month, year, whatever.
Bye!
It is just so noisy filming this video as you can see... well, listen,... ah...
I normally wear glasses but I think you see this thing.
it is beautiful, right?
It is the window there.
but if I close it the light is bad so...
I just keep it (open).
Do you recognize this picture?
This drawing?
Or this one?
No?Ah huh!
You should comment that.
And!
I hope I had more time for videos but I just need to draw A LOT!
Bye~
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