Non Japanese Artist?

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:26 pm

Malificus wrote:I had the same idea, but I'm just saying how you could be published on this side of the Pacific.

I know, but nobody'd answered the submitter's original question. I could maybe see a Japanese-American (who was fluent in the language and more Japanese than American, of course) doing something in Japan, but even then that's a reach.

I mean, it's cute to have a dream and all that, but I'm amused whenever I read of someone who wants to make it big as an artist in Japan, because while they've managed to get the art style they've also not learned a single thing about Japanese culture.

Malificus · Post by **Malificus** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:29 pm

dokool wrote: someone who wants to make it big as an artist.

that alone make's me laugh.

Nandez · Post by **Nandez** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:31 pm

I like drawing anime for fun,Why not just tell them to save up money and move there?In two years if I have enough money i'm moving to Japan.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:36 pm

Nandez wrote:I like drawing anime for fun,Why not just tell them to save up money and move there?In two years if I have enough money and when I've learned enough of the language to become a functioning part of society i'm moving to Japan.

I corrected your typo.

Nandez · Post by **Nandez** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:40 pm

No you didn't.

Malificus · Post by **Malificus** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:41 pm

He did (trust him, he knows what he's talking about), that would have been pretty big

Nandez · Post by **Nandez** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:43 pm

Again no he didn't.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:58 pm

Nandez wrote:Again no he didn't.

No, I did, unless you actually consider the interest of "Learning Japanese" to be more than buying a phrasebook and trying to watch anime with the subtitles off.

I'll fully admit elitism, but too many Americans come to Japan with not only no previous language experience, but no interest in learning the language. While I'm far from, say, trythil's level of fluency (and given my schedule over the next year I doubt I'll reach it for a while), I knew my kana before I landed at Narita, which is more than I can say for many of my fellow classmates here.

I think every American who has the 'OMG I want to go to Japan and be a manga-ka!' thing should be required to take at least one semester of Japanese in the US (as well as a basic Japanese Culture 101 or something similar), as well as arrange to continue taking classes while in Japan. I'm ashamed at the amount of cultural ignorance I've witnessed here, and the "I want to go to Japan b/c it's the trendy thing to do" crowd doesn't help matters.

Nandez · Post by **Nandez** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:17 pm

I don't want to go to Japan to be come famous and have a manga published,and I've been learning Japanese,I know how to speak Japanese aswell,Its not that hard the only hard part really is learning the symbols,I want to go To Japan just because I want to.

Matticans · Post by **Matticans** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:22 pm

I want to go to Japan to visit all the relatives from the asian side of my family that I have never physically met before.