Hey guys. I asked you for your questions on Twitter this morning so I'm gonna do a Q&A. It's been
a while since I've done one. I think I asked for questions like a month ago and I filmed it
and then I looked back at this footage and I wasn't happy with the camera settings so
hopefully they're good today but thanks for sending me your questions. I got lots of
really good questions today and I was really happy because usually I get lots
of questions about visas in Japan and how to learn Japanese
and it's just like really boring stuff that I don't want talk about, so thank you
for the awesome questions today. I really appreciate it. So, I'm gonna go through
my tweets and answer them.
Oh and if you don't follow me on Twitter and you have a Twitter, go do that if you want to
chat with me because that's where I respond to most of your questions and
where I talk with you guys the most. "Which side are you choosing for Sun & Moon?"
Obviously...
the cat.
"Do you agree that Team Moon is superior to Team Sun?"
Okay, I'm like the worst person to ask that because Team Sun is a lion and you guys know
I'm obsessed with cats so Team Sun, all the way. "Were earthquakes something you were afraid of
when moving to Japan and its so how did you learn to overcome that fear?" No, I've
never been afraid of earthquakes, I'm afraid of really weird things like
spiders and flying in planes but I'm not scared of actual dangerous things like
earthquakes so that was never a problem for me. "Do people go hiking, camping,
outdoorsy things often in your area?" That's a good question. I moved out to the countryside
and I'm not really sure what people do out here for fun. I hope that they go
camping because I love camping. There are some mountains around here that I would
love to go explore so I'm definitely gonna be going hiking myself. I'm not
really sure if it's a popular thing with the japanese people. Definitely not
as much as back in Canada. Everybody loves outdoorsy stuff there. Here, not so much.
"Where else would you like to live?" I've mentioned this before but I would love
to live in Korea because I'm studying Korean and I'm one of those people that
doesn't properly learn a language unless I'm fully immersed in that environment
so I hate studying from books. I've got a million Korean books on my shelf and I
never look at them cause I'm just really bad at that. So yeah, I'd love to live in Korea
for at least, you know, a year or two so that I could learn some Korean. Yeah, that
would be great. "If you were born again, you wanna be born as Japanese or Canadian?
Canadian. "How often do you get recognized from being a YouTuber, like, just out on the
streets?" It depends where I am. If I go to, like,
Harajuku or Akihabara or Nakano Broadway, probably about five or six times in a day but if I'm out on, like,
the side streets of a little small area in Tokyo or something, then no one will recognize me. "What's your
favorite cat breed?" Scottish Fold because they're the sweetest, like, most loving cats ever. I don't know if
there's any cat that's any more friendly than them but Maro and Cinnamon and all the
other Scottish Folds that I've met are just super-friendly and they follow you
around and they always want to be on your lap and
I just love cats like that so, yes. "Favorite Tadanobu Asano movie?" Zatoichi.
I've mentioned this several times. If you haven't watched it, go watch it. A really cool movie.
Several questions from Marissa. I'm gonna answer just just one of them. "What's the most challenging part
about being a YouTuber?" There's several things but probably the one thing that's
hard for me is the amount of comments and e-mails and tweets and Instagram
comments that I get and I cannot reply to all of them and it stresses me out
because I want to reply to all you guys and you're so nice and I know that you have so many
questions for me and I would love to be able to reply to all of you but I can't. I just do not have time
for it so that's the one thing that really stresses me out I constantly find
myself thinking about it, like oh my God I have so many e-mails that I need to
reply to. I have so many comments that are waiting to be replied to. I don't know if any other
YouTuber goes through this but if you have any advice for me, that would be great.
"Do you want to have kids in the future?"
I don't know. Right now I don't but, like, I'm 30, so I should probably decide soon but right now
I am completely, like, over-the-top busy with YouTube, my movie job, Maro, taking care
of this house, cooking for my fiancé and I cannot even imagine having a kid right now.
"When is the wedding?" That's a good freaking question. I have no idea. We were just
talking about yesterday actually and we're thinking maybe next summer, not this
summer, so 2017 I guess it would be, summer, and we're thinking about doing one in my
hometown first so I think the weather in Victoria's really nice in the summer.
I think we're going to aim for 2017 summer. "If you do watch anime, do watch it with
subs or no subs?" No subs. I never use subs but of course before, when I couldn't speak
Japanese I would use subs and not dubs. "I'm learning Japanese and everything is good now
except accent. How did you get such a good Japanese accent?"
My Japanese accent isn't perfect. It could use a lot of work but probably I would say doing
karaoke would be a really good way to practice. If there's any Japanese songs
that you like, practice singing along with them or repeating back what you hear. So, say
you're like, watching a movie. I wouldn't use anime because anime characters have
really weird voices. Like, people don't actually talk like that so... but if you're watching a movie, like a drama or
something, maybe try, like, copying what you hear and just kinda like mirroring what you
hear and I think that would be a good way to practice and of course making Japanese friends and
talking with them and just trying to copy their accent. That's really all you
can do is just try to copy people. You'll get better. "What did you first want to do as
far as career choices went? Did you think you'd end up here?" I never knew what I
wanted to do. Like, when I was younger, I guess I was about 18 at the time, I had already known that I
wanted to work in Japan or with something related to Japanese cause I could
already speak Japanese then and I always thought it would be really cool to be the person who
makes the subtitles for movies. I never thought that I would aim to do that because I just
thought it was way out of my league but I remember watching movies, Japanese
movies with English subtitles and thinking, like, "Wow, I feel I could do better job
of this. I wish I was that person and now I get to do that, so that's really cool.
It's pretty unbelievable to be honest.
"What is your go-to shop for clothes in Japan?" There are two shops that I really like in
in Harajuku - Spinns and Wego. They're very, like, young, casual clothing. As you've noticed, I don't dress
like a 30 year old, I dress like a 15 year old. That's because I shop in Harajuku but
I like really colorful, fun stuff so
if you're into that kind of clothing then I recommend those two shops.
"What was the first culture shock you experienced when coming to Japan?" I think I talked about
this in a couple of videos but when I arrived at my homestay and they gave me a tour
of the house and the toilet was literally just a hole in the ground. That
would be my first culture shock, cause nobody had warned me about that
and I honestly thought they were joking.
Unfortunately they weren't and I lived with the hole-in-the-ground toilet for two weeks.
"How how long have you been living in Japan now?"
I've lived here on and off for a total of 10 years I think it is now? Yep.
"What is the most memorable moment you've had so far being a translator at your new job?"
That would definitely be, like, the moment that I met Yamapi. It was just like...
I felt like I was dreaming, it was so weird. So weird. I just kept
thinking back to when I was 17 and I was, like obsessed with him and his music and I was like
"Now I'm meeting this person and he calls me sensei. This is really weird. Am I alive right now?"
That was definitely, like, the most, like, mind blowing
experience. "How long did it take for you to adjust to living in Japan after you moved?"
The first time that I moved here for a long period of time, I was 19 and I just loved
it right away. I honestly had no, like, period where I was like
"Ehh, I don't like living here, I wanna go home. This is hard." It was difficult of course but I always really
enjoyed it and I thought all the new, like,
difficult experiences were fun. I enjoyed, like, overcoming that kind of stuff.
I don't know. I'm not the kind of person where I, like, wanna go home if something gets hard, so
I really enjoyed the whole, the whole time I lived here. "How old are you again?"
30, I'm 30, yes. Stop asking! "I know you like Pokémon from all the stuffies but
do you play any other video games right now?" I'm playing absolutely zero video games because I don't
have time but if I could, I would be playing Animal Crossing because that is the best game
ever made.
"What is your favorite color?" Pink. Pastel pink or hot pink? I can't choose. All shades of pink.
"Is racism present in Japan?" Definitely. It's pretty bad and it's one of
the things I really hate about living here but what can you do?
"Apart from cats, do you have any other favorite animals?"
That's a hard one. I've never really thought about that. I really like snakes.
I like weird things like beetles and snakes. Caterpillars! How did I forget caterpillars? Caterpillars would be my
second favorite animal. "If you could only drink one flavor of tea for the rest of your life
what would it be?" That's so hard. Oh man. What do I find myself drinking the most?
Probably the caramel green tea. I'm not like 100
percent sure on that answer but I'm really liking it right now and I drink it all the time
and I don't find myself getting sick of it so, yeah, the caramel green tea or
anything, like, similar to that, like a vanilla green tea, or something like that.
I like that touch of sweetness but with, like, a light tea, not a dark.. not like a black tea. "How long do you
think you'll continue YouTube vlogging?" I don't know. It's really hard to say. I'm just gonna
wing it and see how it goes. I'm planning on moving back to Canada in a couple of years
and I don't really know if I would keep up my channel when I move back there or switch
to a completely different career. It's really, like, up in the air right now. I would
like to continue it but...
For example, if I have kids or something, I don't know how I would be able to fit it into my schedule
and it's really like, it depends on so many things but I'm really enjoying it
so I hope so. I hope I can keep it up for a while.
"Have you been to Kyushu, Shikoku and Hokkaido?
If not, do you plan to visit and what would you want to see?"
I've never been off the main island. I've never been off Honchu
so no, I've been to none of those places but I'm planning a trip to Shikoku with
my friends Norm and Cheri this summer so yeah, i just want to see all of it. I'm so excited to
be able to finally experience something other than the main island so we're
going to be going on some train adventures through the island and, yeah, I look
forward to showing that to you guys as well.
"If you ever come to the States, where would you go first and why?"
I've been to the States a couple of times. I've been to Idaho and Seattle. If I go
back, I would like to go to Texas cause I want to visit my friend Chris.
Alright, that looks like it's it.
Thanks for your questions guys. I hope that was interesting, and again, if you would like to
participate in my next Q&A, please go follow me on Twitter cause I always ask for questions
over there. Thanks for watching and I'll see you soon. Bye.