I recently took part in an amazing project with five other incredible women in the YouTube
Tokyo Space Jidaigeki set. Jidaigeki means “historical play” so as you can imagine,
the whole set was shaped to look like it was from another era!
You can probably guess from the intro, but we made a music video! It won’t be released
until the 15th, but before then we all have our own videos to share first! Most of you
probably don’t watch Japanese YouTubers, so I want to introduce you to the awesome
Japanese women I worked with today. They’re all amazing so I hope you’ll check out their
channels!
First up is Sayulee, the incredible song-writer and singer! She made this song! The name is
Chuwon Chuwon, and I’ll talk about the meaning behind it a little bit later!
This is Sasaki Asahi. Pro YouTuber, beauty guru, model, and dancer, Asahi-san is the
intimidatingly gorgeous woman who planned this project with Sayulee and YouTube!
This is Yuka Kinoshita. She’s a competitive eater.
Oh geez, Yuka will eat them all.
I want to but I'm trying to be patient.
In her most viewed video she ate 62!!!! hamburgers in a row! What is she doing with it all I
don’t understand!
This is Kumamiki, fashion school graduate, Harajuku designer, and beauty vlogger!
She's the go-to person you want to watch if you like Japanese kawaii culture!
This is HappyShoot Jacky. She’s a dancer and the owner of the artistic photography
company HappyShoot. She coordinated all of our kimono and hairstyles for the video, and
choreographed a dance for us!
Together, we all brainstormed and put our thoughts and hearts into the song Chuwon Chuwon.
We could flap. Like a bird.
As professional women in the public eye we’ve all faced similar difficulties, and this song
is about overcoming our hardships and using them to make us stronger. Each of us has our
own story in the music video, so pay attention carefully! I actually don’t know what everyone
else’s stories are, and I haven’t seen the final video yet, either, so I’m dying
to see it just as much as you guys!!
Most of the day was spent getting us all into our kimono and makeup. We had not only a regular
kimono, but also a heavy kimono coat on top of it.
It's really heavy.
You might be able to guess but it was really hot! The head pieces were also a bit weighty,
but they were so amazingly put together that I didn’t want to take it down at the end of the day!
Seriously, the creativity that went into designing the hair styles for everyone
was just insane. The whole day I couldn’t stop looking at everyone else!
We all took turns filming our individual video parts. The scene director knew exactly what
positions we needed to be in for everything so it went by pretty quickly! I still don’t
know what the shots he took looked like, so I hope he got a good angle!
After our individual pieces were filmed, we had to learn a dance, which everyone else
turned out to be AMAZING at. But I have absolutely no coordination.
Can you dance? No. Not at all.
We're gonna have a hard time.
So it took me a while to get it. I hope I look at least somewhat graceful in the final video.
There’s one move where we all had to swing our kimono sleeves up over our arms,
but my kimono coat didn’t have separate sleeves, so there was nothing for me to swing.
So when you watch the dance scene in the video, see if you can spot me awkwardly trying to
fake a sleeve swing with my little kimono arm flap.
All in all it was one of the funnest days I’ve had in Japan. I feel so honored and
blessed that I was able to be a part of it and work together with such amazing women.
I’m really grateful to everyone for inviting me and helping me throughout the day, and
I really hope I get to work with everyone again!
The full video will be released on the 15th, but until then the rest of us are all uploading
our own videos, so please look at the video schedule and subscribe to everyone’s channels!