It would have to be Love Live!
Neighborhood story. - What type of anime is it?
Hey guys it's Cathy Cat live from the streets of Tokyo.
Today we are gonna go and Ask Japanese people
If they ever had a manga or anime that influenced their life
and maybe changed their life.
So let's find out. Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss any future videos
where we ask Japanese people right here on the streets of Tokyo.
So let's start the movie!
Was there an anime that you watched when you were younger that influenced you?
Mine would have to be Love Live.
I saw how the young girls tried their very best.
It made me want to try my very best too.
It's an anime that gives you a lot of energy.
I am still watching it today.
So they cheer you up in a way?
Yes. They give me back so much.
During their live performances, and their songs, they give me so much power.
What scene can you recommend?
In the Love Live Diary series...
There is a tournament they are all working hard for.
The last live performance scene ....
it's a scene when the characters have to show all the things they went though to get there...
I was so moved, and they actually managed to win that tournament.
I cried though the whole scene.
What anime did influence you?
I like Kuroko no Basket.
I didn't use to watch much anime.
That show was one of the first I watched.
I first read the sports manga and then the anime.
I watched how they all try so hard to become the best...
Made me think how cool sports are and how cool the characters were.
I got a lot of courage from them.
Did you get influenced to start playing a sport through that?
I didn't start any sport but it made me want to be more sporty.
Since then I like basketball.
Sailor Moon and Pokemon inspired me.
Why so?
When I was small I watched the transformation scene and thought Usagi was cute
So I bought a swimsuit when I was small.
A swimsuit? - Yes.
One that looks like you transformed yourself? - Yes!
My mum bought me a swimsuit that looked like a sailor scout.
Sailor Moon influenced you then! - Yes.
Transformation time! How about you?
Sailor Moon and One Piece influenced me.
What changed you?
When I was still in kindergarten I used to say I want to become Sailor Moon.
I wanted to be able to use magical powers too.
That's why I wanted to become like her.
In kindergarten we did a craft where we painted plastic bags
to show what we want to become in the future.
At presentation hour, I said "I want to be Sailor Moon, that's why I made these clothes"
That's so adorable!
Sailor Moon and Precure influenced me as child.
I supported the white dressed character and always wanted to wear a dress like her.
You wanted to dress pretty? - Yes!
The Anime Neighborhood Story.
What is it about?
An aspiring apparel designer college life.
The clothes featured in it were super cute.
I admired them and so I look like this today.
So because of Anime, you like wearing kawaii fashion?
That's right.
How old were you when you watched it? - I was still in Primary School.
That must have influenced you a lot then!
I am so glad!
I like Precure!
They all have cute colorful hair and I always wanted to be like them.
And that made you dye your hair? - Yes.
Those were our questions!
Thank you!
So what anime did change your life? To be honest....
I have an anime that did change my life and it changed it drastically...
Thanks to that anime I am where I am today.
And guess what, that is Sailor Moon.
Sailor Moon was the first anime I felt passionate about
Thanks to Sailor Moon I joined a Sailor Moon musical in Germany...
Thanks to that we started touring around Anime conventions in Germany...
And I made my very first friends.
Proper friends! It was lovely!
That helped me about having to constantly having to change schools and not keeping up
being able to have any friends because I was always the new student in class
You know that from my Draw My Life video if you have seen it on my Channel.
Thanks to that I managed to make new friends, see different parts of Germany
Thanks to Sailor Moon again, I became interested in their music,
meaning I became interested in Japanese music. I started listening to
other Japanese artists and broadened my horizon that way.
And then after music I started getting interested in Japanese culture
What's the next step, what is this country all about?
I started researching about Japan,
and getting into Japanese culture more and more.
Moving more towards traditional things, than just the pop culture and then...
Now you can see me, I do Japanese fashion all kinds of things.
I like the idea of transformation that you have of Sailor Moon, of changing things
if people can't see that you're great at this point in time, they might see
it later during their life. They might realize
what is great.... ? hey....
If you guys wanna see the Ask Japanese director's face then...
That's him. He is coming into the shot to say hi.
And thanks to Sailor Moon I am doing this, I am doing Ask Japanese...
and I find out more about Japanese culture.
OmG!!!!
This makes the ending of the video really hard.
That's the anime that changed my life. Which anime changed YOUR life??
Let me know. Leave us a comment. If you are curious...
about more Sailor Moon related things. I do quite a lot on my
personal channel.
I do videos about Sailor Moon events, cafes, goodies and such
So if you are curious about that, come over
to my channel and find out more about that!
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Let's wave....