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Looking back, one of the biggest shifts in my life didn’t come from school, work, or a specific opportunity. It came from having the right mentor. His name is Eric Collins, or some call him – @chicknfeet. Seeing Something I Didn’t At the time, I didn’t have things figured out. I was young. Emotional. Sometimes
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123123 ViewsYear: 2010 Day Two: Akihabara Otaku Time Day two was my first real test of Japan.It was also my first time riding the Japanese train system. I could not read most of the signs. I had no Google Maps. Smartphones were not reliable yet, and data was expensive. All I had was a paper train
Read More2626 ViewsYear: 2010 My first trip to Japan was in the spring of 2010. I planned it as a 12-day trip, arriving on April 25 and leaving on May 8. It took me much longer than I expected to finally make that journey, but once I did, it changed everything. At the time, smartphones were not
Read More3131 ViewsThere was a time when Crunchyroll didn’t look like the giant media company people know today. Long before acquisitions, corporate offices, and global strategy decks, it felt like a scrappy startup run by people who genuinely loved anime. I still have some old photos from those early days. Small office. Folding tables. Random cables everywhere.
Read More6464 ViewsWhen people look at my career today, they usually see what’s on the surface. Media and Entertainment. Gaming. Cloud Architecture. Creative technology. A long list of projects over the years. The question I get most often is simple: How did you get started? The honest answer is not what most people expect. It started with
Read More231231 ViewsAnime is bigger today than it has ever been. It’s global now. Streaming platforms, collaborations with major brands, conventions around the world, and panels at events like SXSW talking about how anime became a worldwide cultural force. Seeing those conversations happening on stages like that is interesting. It shows how far the medium has come.
Read More6969 ViewsIt has been ten years since I last went to Wonder Festival Winter. The last time I attended, it snowed. This time, it was snowing even harder. For those who don’t know, Wonder Festival, or WonFes, is one of Japan’s biggest events for figures and garage kits. Major companies showcase upcoming releases, and independent artists
Read More9999 ViewsI’ve been thinking a lot lately about the space between loving anime and working in it. For many people, anime is passion first, the stories, the art, the worlds, the community. For others, it’s a profession, production schedules, pipelines, localization, delivery, and operations. And for a small number of us, it’s both. That in-between space
Read More103103 ViewsBefore I ever set foot in Japan, it was already part of my life. Growing up, Japanese culture was always present in my household. My dad was the biggest influence. He lived and worked in Japan during the 60s and 70s and often told stories about how amazing the country was. He was fluent in
Read More101101 ViewsTofu Productions began from pure passion, but eventually the reality behind keeping it alive became harder to manage. What started as something fun slowly turned into something I couldn’t sustain. The biggest challenge was the workload after each shoot. I became the entire post-production team. I handled everything: digitizing, editing, creating graphics, designing DVD menus,
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