Coming Clean About Relationships on Youtube and Facebook pt2

When we left off I was talking about having professional relationships with three young ladies Yuka, Sage and Anime Voice Kiddo. I remember those times. I remember talking to Sage all night in Facebook chat she was always a fun person and I believe she probably is. I hope the best for her and any man who falls in love her will be a lucky man as long as she stays grounded. I wish the best for Yuka and Anime Voice Kiddo I am just not that close to them emotionally. They are more private with their emotions and I think that it is a good thing and that is how I am sometimes. I know people can use your emotions against you. I wonder if there is enough material for a book on my relationships with social media regarding the Torus Takanaru Youtube channel. I think of my persona as Toru Takanaru on youtube as a different person. I always gave the advice to dancers to divide their dance persona from their real life Persona. You know divide the Schoolgirl from the Dancer.

 It is a good way to make your life more reasonable and know when to take breaks. Please Take a break from your dancer persona if it overwhelms you. I admit I have taken breaks from being Toru Takanaru the Youtube user when things were just crazy hectic. There were times I posted videos I edited I would put out fires online regarding relationships with other dancers with comments and virus problems and deal with comforting one of the many dancers because she was bullied and had meeting with dancers, Email Conventions about Performances and apply for panels and send out footage to groups and forums. There were weeks where stress could put you in a bad mood and one troll comment  could set you off. You who think this all fun in games it might seem fun but to a young girl whose goal to get to Seattle, or New York to do an Audition for maybe K-pop or those who are going to a contest in Japan, this is their life and you better take it serious if you want to help them. There are ways to make money in this and I have mentioned earlier and cannot figure out a good dancer working at piggly wiggly during the summer when she could teach girls J-pop dances or something J-pop related. That is a topic for another day now for the good stuff. I present for your enjoyment and for one time only or for whenever you want to look this blog up again

The people I Encountered as a youtube user.

1. The mother who thinks every man is out to get their daughter

 When I first got on facebook as a youtube user I of course sent out every friend request to every dancer I knew on youtube. It was not because I was a Fan. I really wanted to get more views and do not lie as a dancer you sent me a friend request to me as well because you wanted the views. I never looked at age when I first started out I do now, I remember the cutest little girl I think she was twelve she would say the cutest things on my channel and on my facebook. I do not know how you guys can keep from crying or feeling so wonderful when a kids draws you a picture? I do not know it is tough I had some memories of teens saying Toru Takanaru or drawing me pictures. I try my best to be understanding of parents. The toughest Job any one person is going to do is be a parent. People who think a Full Time Mom Job is not hard need to be slapped silly until their brains fall out. I have no Idea how my Mom and Dad reared me but they did and I am thankful for it.  When I had my channel out there for over a year I kind of stopped sending out friend request and if they sent me some I would accept if I can be friends with parents as well I will I have nothing to hide. When we had actual real dancers for the channel the friend request slowed down the best thing to do was to keep contact with the dancers I was working with not with new ones coming up every minute.There were dancers who could not wait to get on board we had one dancer who would let me know about every day that she was going to do a dance for us we knew the date and time and place and everything. The thing we didn't know is that her Mom had no idea. Again I did not look at age like I do now. Her mom went off on me on facebook like you would not believe and of Course I respect her decision it is her daughter. I let it go at the time. I did not let it go the second time another mother jumped all over me and I jumped at her back I explained first your daughter friended me, second do you even know what your daughter likes? I asked. Do you know That we are basically a Youtube Channel. You know what she respected me and I was friends with her daughter and the daughter became another dancer waiting in the bull pen to be filmed and become another dancer for the Toru Takanaru Channel. I think parents need to know what their kids are watching and doing and I feel comfortable when the Parents are more involved than not. The biggest thing is the Hypocrisy I see that is what makes me mad. I will give you an example there was an Amateaur porn star who was one of biggest supporters of Dancers on youtube now let me explain. She worked in The porn  Industry and she was a model for porn I read one of her blogs it was about porn. Now many of youtube Dancers are friends with Her, Now if your Mom and Dad knew that she was in Porn do you think they would be happy about it? The Mother goes through her daughters Facebook and sees this cute girl and thinks how cute and then sees me around the same age and sees that I am a male and has an Outright hissy! I do not care if you think Porn is good or Bad but I think A woman needs to graduate first and look at other options before she decides to start a life career of porn because one of the reasons you did not want me to friend your daughter was about something sexual wasn't? It was not that you were afraid I might reveal to your daughter about the origins of Elm Street. We live in the age where there are older women just as bad as the Male, a good example would be the excerpt from the Vagina Monologues which were based on actual events, in one part of the Vagina Monologues there is an older woman who seduces a Minor. It happens We had a youtuber come out how her teacher a female seduced her and made unwanted advances after she made the video others came out as well. Another Hypocrisy that I remember  is how the Twenty Something Dancer who was female and a mother of  a 15 year old dancer severed ties with the dancer who was twenty something and her daughter who was 15 because of age difference.  Everyone came to the older Dancer's defense now how many would come to the defense if she was male? I am going to take the Mothers side. Why? You might ask. Who do you think the older Dancer is dating 15 Year old Boys or Boys closer her age?. You see what I am talking about. We all think all Older Women are Innocent when we know they are capable of doing corrupt things. Drugs and Sexual perversions are not a great path to take and they can be introduced through males and females.

2. The Dancer who I like and Then disappears.

 Sometimes I wish I had a heart of stone but there is a literally beating and true heart inside of me to say that I do not get sad when a dancer stops talking to me for no apparent reason would be a lie. I have to be tough and go on I mean people are going to come and go in your life. I cannot stop death and I cannot stop people from growing up either it is natural. I feel the pain but I have to press on. I try my best not to present myself as an aggressive person because aggressive people seem desperate and overbearing. That is why I worked with so many Dancers that way if one was motivated I would go to them to help. Of course there was always that one who made me laugh or we seemed to have a connection. She would brighten your day when you received a Pm and then one day out of no where she vanishes without a reason or note or anything. I had a couple of dancers who gave me reasons to leave or depart and I respect Them for doing that. It is harder to lose somebody that you liked and then not know what happened to them but it happens then there are those who leaves after they get you excited that you are bringing another dancer in the group. There are so many questions I guess go through their minds. Who am I? or What am I ? Or Why am I really doing this? A true performer Performs they do not ask why, they just do and that is who I want be with professionally not someone who is seeking their origins. The best thing  is to leave the emotions out of it as long as I am creating something wonderful I will forget about the feelings I know this now and I think I have grown enough to know to forget what anyone thinks and just do . It is easier said than done. If the situations were different I would be back doing this whole  J-pop and K-pop Thing but they ar not so I do not worry but can you imagine the education I can bring this time I would be a force that has to be noticed?

3. Pervert.

 It does not matter what you do someone is going to think it is sexual in nature. There are people who get sexually turned on by people eating and people's smelly feet and I could go on but I really do not have the stomach for it. Everything you or even I do someone will find something dirty and for goodness sake do not blame yourself. There are people who got up this morning and thought a dirty thought . They constantly think about filthy and disgusting things. I love to create and if I constantly thought lewd and filthy thoughts there would be no way I could write this blog. I do not do things because of my sexual nature, I do things like most artist and I think it is a bit of a search for control, you create a world that you can control. I add more bass or add more keyboard or more vocals because I can and the technology is truly amazing and still impresses me today. I see a cute girl dancing I see beauty and I see God has created a beautiful creation and a way to express a great emotion is through dancing. I do not understand how in any man's mind that he would think a young girl is luring him in a sexual way that he feels the need to be sexually excited.There is so many porn fetish sites out there. Can you take a break? Let the girls and boys who dance to the music have this thing to themselves let them dance their fears and anxieties away and seriously you can go to your stupid porn sites. These people are so lame that they need to be hit over the head with a hammer. How can you look at lets say someone being cute like a young girl in a fluffy dress dancing to Te -Ye- Te as sexual in nature?  When I see someone Dancing to that song. I see Teddy Bears. I know about K-pop and Miley Cyrus using sex to sell that is not what I am talking about they think that is how you make money but if you look At  Avril Lavigne and Orange Caramel and even Crayon Pop going the way of girls just having fun and going this sort of goofy way makes me happy and when I want to be happy I can watch them I do not feel I need a shower afterwards. If your whole life is about sex and you are not making money off of it you are a sick individual. Life is not about sex. It is more about growth and you people that are a 40 years of age or older with the mentality of Beavis and Butthead need to check yourself or get help.

Okay that is three I have touched on. Who are the ones on social media that tick you off or make you laugh. Why don't you comment below!?

4 years and coming clean about relationships on youtube and facebook pt1

 I have said it that it is hard to close down the Toru Takanaru channel and it is. I am still conflicted with Ideas and they are great ones and whether or not I will act upon them I will see. I am waiting for a certain situation in my life to grow and then I can really make a decision whether or not I want to continue. I know now what I must do to get to that decision making part of my life. I still make videos for other other channels. Last week I made four videos in one day and did not feel the same like I used to making videos for youtube channels. A lot of people ask me how this all got started and I am sure the rumors are tremendously bad but the truth is I like music and I just do not like music. I love music. When an opening came to be part of any music no matter how bad it is or good it is . I want to be a part of it. When I get up in the morning I sing. I sing about friends I sing about Family. I make fun songs in my head. I really do not like sad songs because they make me sad if I want to cry I will listen to sad songs. I want to dance and I want to feel alive that is why I love music so much. I have said it before I did not get into J-pop or K-pop dance community I was invited into it. Although I am not as active as I was before I could come back anytime. I have enjoyed my break on so many levels but I am sad I am not in it as well. At one time I tried to delete my facebook to keep from thinking about the memories I had with some of you which brings me to the point about relationships in the J-pop and K-op community.

 There is so many stories I would love to tell and eventually I will but I feel I gained a trust with some of you. A person told me if you are worried about trust just do not mention the names. The problem is many people are already assuming I am talking about someone else. I would say that if I talk about a dancer and experience they Immediately think about probably three. I would say Sage, YUka, and Anime voice Kiddo. The Truth they are in a different age group then I am the Dancers that have affected me the most emotionally are not them. It was easier for me to connect emotionally to others as far as the humor and the determination to succeed. There is an audience that is harder to impress. I would say there has been hurt in my life when I have had to disconnect from any dancer. It does make me hurt on the inside but it seemed there was another dancer to take that dancer's place. It is like what my friend dancer said to me once when a dancer did not show up to one of our meets she said" if she does not want to do it there are about 200 who will." She is right you know.

 When I started the Midwest Asian Music Dancers. My Relationship with each dancer had to be professional. I could not and still do not have favorites. I however was put in a position when we actually had real talent and that scared the you know what out of me. She was good,experienced and graceful. If I had stayed with it my goal would have been to get her every Audition I could because she was that good. I would of done it for her because I was so grateful. I understood what it was like to be a college basketball coach who had great talent and the fear of losing that talent. That is what it was like. Midwest Asian Music Dancers was a  college and these athletes were not getting paid so the only way I could help was by sending emails to everyone I know to get them noticed. I would of done anything for them to see them on stage where they needed to be. Why did I close it? I could not get any help. I actually went one day to talk to a cameraman and it turned out he had problems. No one wanted to help. I could of continued but there was lack of volunteering a lack of understanding that you have to do things for free sometimes to finally to get where you want to be. I really need people who could donate time in the winter times just as much time during the summertime. That is in the past though I cannot dwell on that now.

 Okay lets talk about the juicy stuff okay you want to hear about relationships. I will talk about relationships. There are different types of people there always will be. Okay I want to come clean with three that meant a lot to me in the past and that will be Anime Voice Kiddo, Sage and Yukapon and how they have effected me and they do define different characteristics of people.

   Awe Sage how I love thee you are the most emotional person I have ever worked with and had the honor to work with. You want to talk about bad timing. I previously talked about why I wanted to work with Sage and It would have worked out. Sage is very emotional and she will go with passing fads and I really see J-pop as a passing fad in her life. I would never date anyone like Sage because she becomes bored too easily and that is not a bad thing it just you have to be creative in a relationship to overcome that. You have to make their schedule filled and you have to surprise them every time you can.. She is ADHD on crack. I have had people say she is crazy. She is not crazy her life must be totally consumed with something going on or she will die LOl. That is what it is like with an Emotional or sanguine  person. Sage had some personal Problems to work with so we went elsewhere for a while. I want to say thanks to Sage's Mom she has been cool about all this we had ups and downs but Sage owes us absolutely nothing. I feel like we owe her more. I wanted and always wanted to pay her back but it is like when we did not have Sage there it seemed someone would always step in the lime light. I feel like there were dancers who said "seriously Forget about her and donate your time with me". The problem with those dancers they were not connected social media to me where I thrived and I think dancers do get notice on Social media so imagine good dancers without Social media desire and that is what you get when talk about the Kaci's and The Alyssa's in the world. Good Dancers without Contacts. You have to balance them both out to get notice. If you have to pay your little brother to be the social and Public Relations Guy do it.

 I have to come clean about Yuka-pon. No one person has effected me in my life social media wise then her. I have met and worked with famous people and they come and go . I met mostly country people working in and around the Nashville area. I am not too impressed with Country. I hate music celebrity worship . They do not impress me. I would have probably kiss the artist butt just like everyone else did in the seventies to get artists like Led Zeppelin, Van Halen and The Who and the reason you do that is you want their business. I have said this before it would be probably five years ago my company that I worked for talked to Fujimoto and we lost our chance to work with Rebekah from Bekluvsdiru so I came up with a plan for an artist to tour Anime Conventions. These were the Stipulations for the show. 1. They had to dance or Sing J-pop. 2. They had to sing or dance K-pop and 3. They had to have a sense of humor they had to have the ability to laugh and laugh at themselves as well. We had the money to invest in a business at the time we had the recording business doors opens. I was interested in management as a side business. I looked at Yuka-pon and really liked her and showed her to other people. I could not believe the reactions of positivity she got. Everyone liked her. I knew she was the closest dancer to our present company. I had a problem I felt she would not be willing to do the sense of humor and I had my eye on somebody who I felt was funny and really was what I wanted. She was the approachable next door girl quality that everyone wanted in the social network. Yuka-pon and Venus Angelic were starting to get this separation from everyone as though they were distancing themselves from the community. Yuka is not like Venus at all in fact she is a performer. The problem Venus is going to have to work out is what are you going to have her do for two hours? You cannot have a show and get people to pay to watch someone eat and put on make up. I like Venus I love her I like her Mother but they are going to have to develop a show if they want to perform and get new fans. Yuka can perform I have seen it. They both have proven themselves to be better than Mega bon though. Her fans are nothing but freaks . People who sit and watch a girl staring at a camera and eating . Screw that!!!  We could of worked something out with Yuka-pon but we didn't. Do I regret? Sure I do but It let me learn about the business another year that I knew nothing about . The money went to a taco business which did well better than I thought. The girl I wanted turn my offer down. I thought maybe that this management thing is not to be. Tacos I understand. J-pop not so much. I love music but it is a big risk.  Once Yuka and the joint venture happened. I really saw the ugliness of the Community. Everything from a creepy for editing videos comment to some dancers had stop talking to me you have heard that story. I really saw the green eyed jealous monster come out it was a disgusting world that I really did not want to be a part of. I saw Yuka perform and entertain and that's what I saw but stupid people tried to analyze her songs . It scared me. I make videos to entertain and should be entertained by them and there are few dummies who will sit there and ask some of the dumbest questions like why did you do this?  I would respond because it is fun and it brings joy to my life and I wanted to share and some people got joy out of it. There are those who think entertainment should always have meaning. That it should always be a message inside the song or video.Yuka and I both were raised in Church and I think we understand that Church or if you are Jewish Temple or Buddhist Temple or even a Mosque. These are places you seek for truth and Enlightenment and School and Work these are Places where we should develop our minds and sometimes a social support group. If you are looking for God in my videos you need help. You really do. You are looking for some hidden agenda in Yuka videos? You are warped. She developed a Character and a Dang good character far better than Venus far better than Any other magical girl rip offs. She created a world of enchantment for young girls to lose themselves in. In a world where Americans shove Sexuality through music for young girls. Where rappers think that every girl is a Prostitute and they are pimps and the Girl Pop stars act like Prostitutes. Yuka became a Likeness of the Magical Girl that little girls could like. You know what? She did it on her own no help from no one. The problems became too real for me. I was afraid that my association with her would ruin her career and we all know what she wanted and I could not give her that. I could not have a relationship with her professionally I had nothing to offer her. If she wanted to stay in America it might be different. I hated to tell her mom that we had plans for her but she was working other plans elsewhere. I was glad for her. I was working with other dancers at the time but seriously they could not hold a candle to Yuka's Determination. I did not know of one at the time.

If you took two minds  that could read each other. You would have the team that was Sean and Anime Voice Kiddo. Kiddo and Sean both had thoughts that collaborate well with each other. She was ripe for the entertainment business and she wanted to do the entertainment business. Again bad timing put her in a place where we could not work together. Kiddo is not afraid to work she was always up to get where she wanted to get. I remember Sean talking to a recording Industry guy in Nashville if things were going to work out that in the summer he wanted to manage Anime Voice Kiddo and get Yuka a real Manger.Emails were sent some people actually refuse to look at Yuka's stuff. It was frustrating. The biggest blow was however was at the time was actual local Japanese acts like Star Marie or even Japanese Idols Flying to perform at Anime conventions. I love Yuka but can you imagine actually her competing with a Real  Akihabara Idol for concert time at Anime Blues. The sanity came when Sean said" What music do you Hate?" " I hate country!" I would say" What if Someone hates Country and you keep trying to sell them Country? We have to accept these people do not want to buy what we are selling" . I remember when Sean let everyone know that he wanted to make videos for political gain. At the time of  The Sandy Hook Massacre happened it was scary. People thought they were coming to take your weapons away. Whether you agree with the Second Amendment or not videos about the second Amendment get views and Sean was getting more views than any video with the luscious Cole or the Cute Jasmine.  We moved on and I remember Mark Levin talking on the radio about doing what you love and doing something fulfilling." Sean feels he loves the J-pop Idols and Kpop Dancers but he is fulfilled when he helps people understand Gun rights and things like that. His plans for Kiddo changed then in February 2013 and hoped she understood that he was moving on to other things the Anime conventions are tiring and the excitement of a girl  about Asian Music from up to down is an emotional roller coaster. This blog will continue with the Strange relationships in the J-pop  and K-Pop Community

Five Don'ts For Youtube Dance Cover Artist

 If anyone who has sent me dances to look at know that I will give my positives first then my negatives of the dance you sent me. You know the game of youtube Dance cover artist is political it is about song selection, picking out outfits knowing the right people, that kind of thing and then there is practice and practice and perform but there is a lot of things that are outside of that realm. There are so many dancers and models that I refuse to be around and will not follow because they have ruined my desire of wanting to talk to them or even working with them for that matter because of their lets say etiquette. If you are a good dancer and you want to start to perform more on youtube here are some don'ts for you. If you are a good dancer then you are really doing the dos this is just don'ts I have seen Dancers become Guilty of.

1. Male Bashing

  When I was younger we had the coolest Korean Dance Game at our local movie theater the dancers were mostly young skinny teens and all male. I danced many times with female dancers with the Japanese influenced more DDR games but here this competition at the movie theater was mostly males. I will tell many females about my experience with male dancers and here in the United States the females will act all shocked. It is common to see Japanese and Australian Male dancers but here in the United States it is mostly female dominated and you have to sometime weed through the ones who are legitimate dancers and the ones who want to be pole dancers for a strip club. It is hard to determine if there are female dancers who refuse to work with male dancers or the other way around but I can tell you there are dancers I am afraid to even comment on their videos or talk to because I have seen them rip a hole in a Man just for giving them a compliment. It seems they will then go off on a tangient sometimes on tumblr or facebook on how men are bad or all men just want to fall in love with them. Now that I am older stuff like that kind of slides off of me but the guy her age does not see it that way you might have insulted what could be your biggest fan. There is a time to comment and there is time to be quiet. I am not perfect but I may not be in that position to build a bigger fan base either. Men Fans are just important as the female ones. Just read what men say if it is good say thank you if it is bad just delete it do not respond with how all men are evil because you might end up secluding your fan base.

2. Revealing The Mystery too soon.

 It is only number two and I am already on an important one. If you have only recorded two dances. I do not think it is time to show everyone your interest,your room, your little brother your Mom and Dad and the place you work. Remember why people loved Jaws the Movie was because they did not show the shark at the beginning. You had to stay and finally see the shark. You need to do the same thing. I know many of you are right now going to your fish tank but that is not what I am talking about. People might be liking you because they have a perception of you. The point is you got their attention do not ruin the surprise until you feel you need to for instance when you are losing viewers. A great gimmick would be a dancer who keeps a mask on and dance and tells no one about her Identity. I would love a popular dancer to develop two different Identities and see which one gets more views the Dancer who is open or the dark and mysterious one. The point is if you tell everyone everything there is no need for them to tune in next week. Tell them a little bit by little bit then slowly reveal who you are. I always say leave them wanting More and More.

3. Talking too Much

Oh I know why this is number three now because of number two. I notice my favorite dancers did not talk that much or they will shoot a dance video then maybe after 10 vidoes or so they would talk. When I first started watching Dancers like Danielle,Sarah, Rebekah, or even Julia It was dancing then eventually they started talking. Why? Because people asked them to. I do not remember this hate fest that we had started a couple years ago. I think you young ones need to take a lesson. Dance and eventually talk when you are asked to talk. I think the biggest weakness of dancers is more gossip and less dancing. You are a dancer Dance for goodness sake. Now some of you have become more bloggers and Vloggers good for you but I think we need to get back to the basic of just dancing.

4. Acting Unapproachable

When you reach the level of more subscribers. Your inbox and your Private Messages are going to be full it is not that important to answer them one by one. Eventually you might need help but until then your job has become the job of entertaining. Take a deep breath and look at all them the best you can and remember youtube is very seasonal. In the Summer you might film but you might not get the views right then and there. In the winter the views will mount up and so do the comments so you need to be prepared. The best advice is not to complain in public online. This just adds insult to injury .It might make people who like to comment or ask for help not to comment at all.It makes you sound like the drama queen who complains about having three people who asked her out to the prom while the girl next to you has no one to ask her out is sad and maybe she was looking forward to sending you a comment and making her day would be your reply, now the shy girl is afraid to comment because you told everyone you were too busy. Oh you poor baby you have more comments then you can handle in your life it must be horrible.The best thing is to answer as many as you can and keep your mouth shut on how many you get. The most impressive thing is getting a comment reply from a dancer who has over 1000 comments in one day and even though it might be later when you get that reply. That impresses me. One girl I will not embarrass her would get that. I saw her get 1,000 comments and she would go through and answer them all like a trooper she was maybe that is why she just got back from competing in Japan again

5.Preaching Politics

 Finally we get to the biggest problem with today's modern entertainment. We have secluded different fans and it is a shame. You are new in this business whether you like it or not you are an Entertainer and you are a young one and last thing anyone wants to see is your political or religious views as a 14 year old or even a 12 year old. Do a little growing first.There is nothing wrong with being funny or cynical you want to entertain but think about this, you have a fan base and access to the world that could be of all different colors or religions and spouting out something they do not want to hear is not what they came here for. They came to watch you dance or maybe sing.  I have said if someone ask maybe tell them but if they do not ask do not be so bold that you would tell a diverse group that you wish them to die. That is silly. I have seen this time and time again. Make a few videos get a little taller and when the time comes maybe in an interview in Rolling Stones then maybe say something. In other words develop a large fan base before losing one.

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Should J-pop Dancers and Lolita Fashion Enthusiast boycott Conventions that do not want them?

 I am of course talking about conventions as in Anime and science fiction you know that kind of thing. I remember a young lady telling me she was trying to start a Lolita fashion panel and she was sent the most awful reply as though the conventions did not want anything regarding Lolita fashion at a convention when she arrived she found out they had already a panel they told her that is why they refused the panel which is a better explanation than being rude . I am used to young girls creating drama but this is an older young lady who I would consider a woman in all aspects. I have been there many times having fun filming dancers in the hallways and watching little girls with big curious eyes enjoying the show we were not purposely putting on. I looked at almost 30 or 40 kids surround our girls dancing and thinking why don't they get it? Why cannot they see these kids want this the kids get excited when Anime voice Kiddo puts on a show at Kawa Kon.

                                                                                 It seems like the conventions are selling a Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber to a crowd who like Hatsune Miku and kyary pamyu pamyu. Why is it hard for some cons to get this? These science fiction convention are coming around to be 30 years old which means some of these adults were kids when they went to a Science fiction convention and now they have kids of their own who they liked to share this experience with. I can say that there is no greater experience for a young girl child than to have a mock J-pop idol on stage or a nice J-pop dance panel to teach them a new dance. It is like having a living doll perform or teach you a dance I used to think males were the problems but that is not the case I have actually seen the males more receptive than the older females. I think maybe it could be the competition because the older ones who are looking for boys are jealous of the cute girls it could be I do not know I am not a Psychologist. Now you conventions that have learned this good for you but you conventions that seem to hate the thought that children attend your conventions need to learn that children are numbers just as much as adults. First I am going to talk to Anime and Science Fiction conventions on why cater to the J-pop crowd and Lolita fashion crowd and then I am going to talk J-pop dance cover artist and Lolita fashion enthusiast about what you can do.

Why should we let the J-pop Idol and Lolita fashion people have a place at a convention?

 First of all we know that is hard to put an event like an anime convention and science fiction convention together. If you are one of the ones that was there from the beginning of the popularity of science fiction and Anime conventions you have seen  your numbers when they have grown in the past but have you noticed maybe a decline last year ? It might be that every time you get on the net you see another convention opening in your area you are thinking at the time what the heck can I do to get more people in? I have to recomend J-pop dancers or looking  into the most popular youtube ones and find out how you can get them there or even might try to get a local J-pop group or put on a Lolita Fashion show. Stay ahead of that competition. You bring in the young ladies you bring in the young boys simple as that. They better bring their wallets is what you are thinking. If you have to resort in getting a bigger name start charging a small fee and you might be surprised on who will pay or give that Music Artist a free table to sell stuff. The truth is you are dealing with a new generation of girls who have gone from Hetalia to Attack of the Titans to Elsa in Frozen,. These are young ladies who have never experienced what it was like to wear cute and fluffy dresses and this kind of fascinates them a bit.

 I hear some of you saying but kids cause problems look adults cause problems as well how many drunk men have you kicked out or perverted guys creeping on the sexy bikini clad anime character? You are always going to have problems with any group. You have rules enforce them. If it is an age problem then why not be more acceptive of Lolita fashion enthusiast most of them range over 18 well the ones I know. I know the name is bad but if people knew what Yaoi is they would have a hissy fit I actually seen that get more acceptance than the Lolita Fashion Enthusiast do . If the name is a problem change the name or find alternative ways to have an event either way be creative you will find it might work and you might like it. I know a lot of J-pop dance cover artist would gladly put on shows for young people. You have to remember what might be silly to you might be special to a young person. We do not live in a time of Star Wars, Robot Wars and Sailor Moon , we live in a time of Avatar,Attack Of The Titans and Frozen. The love you shared for Star Wars may be just as important to the Avatar fan. When you went to the convention and they had a local Heavy Metal band do a KISS cover and it was special that is how a young girl might feel watching  J-pop girls do a cover of PON Pon Pon, it is their anthem and they like it.

What could J-pop cover Artist do and lolita Fashion Enthusiast do?

 The first thing is be Thankful every time you open an event schedule at a local con and you see that there is something Lolita or J-pop related or even K-pop for that matter thank them for being acceptive write on their forum write on their facebook page say thank you tell them how some conventions are not so acceptive. When you go to the convention tell the staff there you are thankful they are having an event or panel or even concert. You might be surprised they love the feedback. Remember these are Anime conventions and Science fiction conventions not the J-pop Summit I know don't you wish it was? Then maybe start calling your local parks and recreation and see if maybe you can put on an event outside of the conventions I have seen venue rentals as low as 100$ a day that were big enough to hold concerts and even fashion shows the picture above is a public place you can rent for a day. You might have to be creative and call it a party but do what you have to. Imagine if you could get ten to twenty dancers you could film all day at a public place and maybe grow into bigger events find a local Dancer or Lolita Model and see if they will come as a guest or speaker. It really is not that hard but there are ways of getting things done outside conventions. Of course call local daycare centers and retirement homes and see if you could put on fashions shows or dancing shows. The old people might love the cute and fluffy dresses I know it is not the usual crowd you are used to but you will be surprised how many old ladies love the pictures of Lolita fashion Models. Do not be mad if they turn you down just explain you are an amateur model or dancer and you want to practice your art for free this will help you train better in the future. It is just an idea. It might work and it might not. Day care centers might get a kick of you dressing like a vocaloid and entertaining the kids a bit make cards up and do private parties invest in portable singing equipment.

Peavey has some decent PA speakers at good prices. Next you need to spread the message make DVDs of you performing in your garage or Bedroom or wherever give them to people at Anime conventions and everyone you know. You can get Recordable DVDS for as little as nothing now a days. You must Write your contact Info on The DVD. Finally if you feel that you have been looked over and the conventions are not interested at all in changing do not go to certain conventions that do not accept J-pop dance cover artist or Lolita Fashion Enthusiast and blog about it start marking cons that find what you do as not acceptable and move on blacklist them on your Dance forum blacklist them on your tumbler make it known that this is not a J-pop dance friendly or lolita fashion friendly convention. I have little spurts with some dancers in the past but on this I will join with anyone who is willing to make conventions know that are not willing to change that we are not going to their convention we respect them but this is not a place for us. It is that simple have fun.       

オタククリスマスの12日間 12 days Of an Otaku Christmas

Help Me My Daughter listens To Asian Music

by Sean Bartlett

I Guess you have noticed your daughter or someone's else's daughter listening to the grooves of Girl’s Generation or maybe you have danced the Gangham Style. Then are those who know the words to the chorus of Pon Pon Pon By Kyary. That’s right your daughter has been infected by the Asian Music bug. Oh no its not a bad thing and I will show you by debunking some of the arguments against Asian music.

1.  J-pop is Creepy !

First of all I have to ask why do you think J-pop is creepy. They will point to groups like AKB48 and say look at all those girls pandering to Asian men. Akb48 was started for the Gaming community which I guess is around 12 year old to 30 year old boys and men But get this if One of those girls actually have relations with a man they are fired can you imagine the Drunk pop star who sleeps with a Under wear Model have the same rule they would not last too long in Akb48. Being an Idol is hard work it takes training and it takes Discipline something most American women know nothing about before the Idol Graduates from the Group they have to stay Sober, Clean and Virgins and people think this is creepy. If a Manager said to me well we want your daughter in our group but she must be sober clean and a virgin I would be like sign her up! It would be like sending my daughter to catholic school and do not tell me men do not fantasize about the Catholic School girl but No one says I am not sending my girl To Catholic School Because its creepy. Don’t tell me That men are not thinking about giving Miley a sledgehammer. When did girls in a fluffy dress become creepy and Girls Naked swinging on a wrecking ball and Twerking with 30 plus man not creepy?

2. J-pop Idols are so young

yes they are but some range from 12 year old 40 years old. We live in an exciting time in the J-pop world we have now have the J-pop star which have broke the old Idol barriers down into a star one where creativity can be pursued like Kyary came mocking the ways of the old Idol now imagine a cute Lady Gaga and you have Kyary.

Now lets go back in time and realize where the whole Idol persona came from. Well it came from the USA. When producers could make money off of Short Playing disk Called 45’s . So in the early days of Motown Young girls could sing different songs with one band. These girls would be as young as 13 years old! I do not know much about the Motown era at the time but I do know little more about the Nashville early Opry Idols lets call them that. They were not going to be outdone so many like Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn who by the way  was married at age 15 were geared to sell music to Older men. let me explain. Coal Miners Daughter was played in -`Honky Tonks across the nation filled with drunk men. They were obviously enticed by the voices of the young girls and would go out by the records. Now lets skip to the 70’s when Japan has a booming economy and Businessmen are stressed so they get drunk and playing at the Local Karaoke bar is a tune to relieve that stress. Do you understand where I am going with this?

3.Asian Music is not creative.

This is totally Bogus. Lady Gaga has been accused of Plagiarizing and one of the groups she has been accused of Plagiarizing was Girl’s Generation. Girl’s Generation have almost become one of the Most famous Girls’ Groups of Asian Music they have Crossed over to Japan and probably have become the Most Americanized group as well and Don’t forget who won Video of THe year on Youtube Not Taylor Swift not Beyonce Kanye but Girl’s Generation. So stick that in your Microphone and smoke it.  One group 2ne1 should have been the crossed over group if you listen to their song “Fire” the recording of the drums is spectacular you can actually hear and feel the air being pushed and this is from someone who has been recording music for about 20 years. On the J-pop side you have such creative little videos  from the cute little Idol groups like Momoiro clover z who videos are so unique in the way they tell a story they totally capture the Anime culture and sci fi that is today and if I was a young girl I can see me being captivated by the hypnotic look. Which makes us come to why your Daughter likes J-pop and K-pop.

4. It’s cute

I do not know how else to describe this but when your daughter was say three or four she probably picked the cutest doll in the world not the ugly one. If your Daughter had the choice between the Kyary doll or the Miley tattoo wearing doll she will pick the Kyary doll almost every time. We live in a cynical and ugly time so when they see the cute and kind Idol it is rare and it is special. I can go down the street  and find ugly and mean girls but it is hard find someone who is pretty ,cute and respectful to others which just impresses a young lady who does not see that anymore!

5. Its a new culture

We tell our kids to expand their mind some of these young ladies learn Japanese and Korean through this music so it is not just fun for many its educational it is a way to experience another culture while most American Pop destroys the English language.

6. The modern American Pop has become Stagnant there has not been anything in our Music to really get excited about since Nirvana and I am not a Nirvana fan but you could see the Music start changing . You could see kids getting excited. The Hip Hop has not changed for 20 years it still the same crap where you see a Boisterous egotistical maniac rapping to a Eighties sample. If girls today want to listen to men acting like teenage boys they would just go out with the boys in school. You can only sample Hall and Oates for so long before people really get tired and on the other side the female pop stars just want to see how fast before they are singing completely naked on stage I cannot name or sing one of the songs except Lady gaga and I know that from Watching South park. The J-pop has girl groups Like Baby Metal They Combine the heavy Metal of the Past and The Fluffy J-pop Idol No sampling here to Led Zepplin here just plain ole metal matched with cuteness and in their latest tour they will be paying tribute to one of the best Metal Bands of All Time Metallica.

7. too many Fan Girls act Like Asians

This one of the most racist statements I have ever heard but lets play to your Stereotype Imagery for one moment. Here is a Stereotype Asian are good at Math well how is that a Bad thing. They are Respect to the elders yes many in the Asian Culture where taught this. So lets say this is your Stereotype of the Asian Culture. I want to know how this is the Bad thing? For my daughter to be good at Math or Respectful to their elders of Be a punching bag for Chris Brown. I will take acting like The StereoTypical Asian for 1000$ Alex so think about it for the Moment and turn on the radio then you can tell me why your Daughter listens to Asian Music. You know What I love it. I think I will call my Friend in Korea And see if he Needs some help.

Thanks Guys Peace and play it safe