Hey guys, how's it going? My name is Micaela!
I'm Tatsu!
And this is our first Q & A video!
So for those of you who have been watching this channel for a while,
You've probably seen ths guy's face like, more than once.
Or more than twice.
This is Tatsu.
I'm Tatsu.
And um, he's my boyfriend.
Am I?
Sorry.
And although Tatsu has been in my videos a lot, I have never taken the time to explain, like
who Tatsu is, so I thought we would do that today.
I'm Tatsu.
Hello Everyone
I was born in Beijing, China.
My mother is Chinese.
And my father is a Japanese who was born in China.
So I am a "hafu".
When I was young I lived in China.
But I came to Japan when I was still in middle school.
I went to middle school, high school, and University in Tokyo, but I've also been
I've also been to Canada, Australia, and I studied for a year in Hong Kong as well.
As for my job, I'm a cameraman. I work in a company right now.
But in my free time, I like to take photos and make small videos for YouTube as well.
So on Twitter, I asked you guys to send in your questions--anything that you wanted to know
about Tatsu, and today we're going to look through those questions right now, and answer
as many as we can
Just for funsies~
SO, the first question is from "Enoki-San"!
"How did you two meet each other?"
Well, it's nothing really special.
I was doing my job as a cameraman, and by coincidence I ended up shooting something with her.
And then we just became friends.
And I had been to Canada before, so we talked about that.
Also we both really love food.
We love to eat. We eat a lot.
He also asks, "What do you like about her?"
To give a really basic answer, she's very honest.
I'm a little too honest.
She's very up front about her emotions and feelings.
When she's annoyed, she's annoyed.
When something's funny, she really laughs.
When something isn't funny, she won't laugh at all.
She never hides how she feels.
That's one thing I like about her.
Also I like that she's really unique.
Am I unique?
She's very unique.
The one thing that really caught my attention when I first met him, when he approached me
he spoke English so naturally that it felt like I was talking to another "Westerner"?
Like, it didn't feel like I was talking to a Japanese person.
We both really liked videos, we like travelling, we like photography, we love eating, and Tatsu was really into
movies.
And he would go to the movie theatre by himself.
Tatsu's like a walking IMDB, like he knows everything about every actor, and he'll see a
random actor on screen, and he'll be like, "oh that's the actress that also appeared in like, three other movies"
I thought that was really interesting. And it became something, so like now, I end up watching
way more movies than I ever would have before, because any time something new comes out
Tatsu has to go see it.
Yeah, there's just lots of things that we enjoy doing together, so then it kind of just made sense that we
stayed together.
How about, um, did you see this question?
"Please tell me what you two do at night."
You know what he means by that, right?
Well, recently....
Thank you for writing in. Next question!
The next question is from "April", thank you very much.
"The two of you are in an international relationship, and sometimes Tatsu has to go away for work"
"I think it can be difficult to handle the long distance sometimes."
"I'm also in an International relationship, and I'm wondering how you maintain your relationship."
Sometimes he'll get called to work in a different part of Japan, and it'll be really really sudden.
Like, one week in Tohoku, or ten days in Kumamoto, and when it happens, it's usually really sudden
and it kind of sucks, because it's like, unpredictable.
One thing that I think is important
Is to keep in touch with each other whenever possible.
When you can talk to your partner, talk to them.
If you can't talk to them, don't think too much about it.
Of course, sometimes you can't help thinking about your partner though.
I save a lot of the things that I want to do, like going shopping or eating my favorite foods
like, pancakes, or french toast, or things like that.
Like really sweet girly things? I save that for when Tatsu's not around.
So like, when he's busy, I call all my friends, my girl friends, and I'm like heeeey.
Next we have a question from "Overture".
"Where would you two like to travel to? Where are you planning to go next?"
Oh, we love travelling
I wanna go to Tibet or Turkey.
I really wanna go to Finland.
Well if you're going to say THAT, then...
Or like, ICELAND!
We can Instagram it!
Iceland is the sacred place for photographers.
Yeah we would take so many Instagram photos if we went to Iceland.
Just like all the cool instagrammers do.
What's the most vomit inducing cutesy thing you call each other, if anything?
Um, I am calling her, most of the time, "Mi-chan"
"Mi-chan" comes from "Micaela".
Normally in Japanese they call me "Mikaera"
And Tatsu would normally shorten it to "Mika", and his
parents call me "Mika-san", which is really cute.
Recently he's just like, shortened it completely and he just calls me "Mi-chan".
Which is cute, I like it.
I call him "Tacchan".
Tacchan is normal, lots of people call me Tacchan.
Yeah, lots of people call him Tacchan, not just me, but I think Tatsu's the only person in the world that calls me
"Mi-chan".
But, I don't mind it.
Alycia wants to know:
"Would you rather fight 100 tiny Micaelas or 1 giant Micaela?"
Oh man.
I love this question.
Either way, either way, I would lose.
So, I really don't want to fight. You know, I really don't want to fight her.
I'm pretty tough.
Tatsu also got a lot of questions about his work as a cameraman and photographer,
Because I think, quite a few of you guys follow him on Instagram and YouTube
If you haven't checked out Tatsu's channel or his Instagram or anything, you can look at the links down in
The description box below.
But, I think that the next couple of questions are coming from people who already follow him on those platforms.
Donia-san, thank you for you question.
She says, "How long have you been into photography & videography?"
And "Did you study in school or just on your own?"
So I started to work as a cameraman three years ago.
And did you study film before that?
I never studied you know, sort of camera things.
I never studied videography or filmmaking in my life.
And photography was kind of a hobby, right?
Yeah photography too.
It's a total hobby.
How long have you been doing it though?
Since 18 years old, so it's been 8 or 9 years.
Mr.Chu, there's a question from Mr. Chu.
He says, "How does Tatsu find inspiration when taking a picture or filming videos?"
That's a good question!
I get lots of inspiration from people.
People walking on the street, just over there, or
People sitting in a cafe drinking coffee, or people just chit-chatting.
I love using my imagination. What's going on? What kind of story they have?
So like, people, My answer would be "People".
People are your biggest inspiration? That makes sense!
So Robb wants to know, "Would you two want to actively work together or just support each other in your projects?"
So this is a good question.
And uh, we have been seeking the possibilities of working together in the future.
But also at the same time, we kinda like, want to respect our styles, which are totally different.
So basically, we are trying to figure out how we can work together without wanting to kill each other.
True, that is true.
I think it's really hard because we have very different styles.
And we have different visions, and we can, like
The thing about photographers, and it's not just me and Tatsu, but I think a lot of creatives...
Is that, you're looking at the same object, but you're seeing different things.
And for Tatsu and I to work together, it's really hard for us to look at something and agree on what
we're looking at.
We fight because of the work.
It's like fighting 100 Mini Micaelas.
And I always lose.
OR ONE GIANT MICAELA.
Basically, we dabble in doing stuff together, but we also wanna do our own thing.
And like I definitely want Tatsu to make his own stuff, because I think he has a special talent for that.
And I don't necessarily want him in all of my stuff.
I do want the freedom to keep doing the stuff that I wanna do.
We support each other and then sometimes we help each other out.
Alright guys, thank you so much for hanging out with us, and hopefully we got to answer your question
And if not--Kit! Kit! Do you have question?
What do you wanna ask?
Can we go for a walk?
Do you wanna go for a walk?
Alright, so if you guys have any other questions that you want to ask Tatsu you can check out the links
below.
I have his Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, all those things are in the description box.
If you have anything you wanna know about him, just ask
him directly.
But hopefully this was a good introduction, and lets you know a little bit more about who this guy is.
Alright so, we'll talk to you again soon!
Thanks for watching!! Bye!