Want Extra Credit? Want your own animated series and/or anime? There is a way, but you may not believe it...

A whole hella lotta kids online be poppin off at they jaws asking questions "How do I get my own Japanese anime show?" "How do I sell a series to Japan?" "How do I create my own (Japanese) anime?"

Now that I have some experience putting my stuff out there, I've had time to  gauge the industry, and its system, and how it really works.

If that is what you REALLY want, you need to familiarize yourself with Moebius of Paris, France. (RIP).

Young? You're a teenager you say? You don't have any life experience, you say? You don't know who the heck Moebius is, you say? That's cool, but you should really read up.

Moebius is so influential he's compared to artists such as Osamu Tezuka, Hayao Miyazaki, and Katsuhiro Otomo. But is he Japanese? No. He's French, but he's influenced MANY artists in Japan, France, and America indirectly, often while never being credited or noted for it. He wasn't in it for the fame. And neither should you be.

That's what you want to go for. You're "proper and appropriate" series name or pseudonym credit on some American or Japanese "paid" TV Show, Movie, or Book/Comic credit may as well be your epitaph. That would mean you're FINISHED working. Not STARTED! You don't NEED fame or credit. You need influence. It will help you make contacts in ways you cannot foresee yet. Especially if you're young and don't know how the industry works.

Did Moebius influence Blade Runner and Akira? Yes. Were Ridley Scott and Katsuhiro Otomo studying nearly EVERY PAGE of his books verbatim when they filmed their classic, hyper-detailed science fiction cinema that's now a part of history? Of course. They borrowed a LOT of elements from Moebius! 

Was Moebius ever credited on the DVD. Nope! 

Only Moebius and those influenced by him know Moebius influenced those influenced by him.

This may sound weird,  but if you want to influence Japanese anime, stop trying to pitch ideas to Japan. 

Start a website. Build your OWN buzz. The internet allows your artwork to be seen  by artists and directors and producers and animations studios around the world. If Moebius was of this generation, I'm sure he'd be going that route the same way young artists do. But older artists don't use the web to promote themselves. People already know who THEY are. But they sure as hell don't know who you or I are. And that's where you (the promising young new artists of animation and comics theory and execution come in.

Honestly, you should WANT to get your costume or background design or character designed "ripped off" and borrowed by Japan.

How shall I describe this process, and how amazing it feels. Hmmm. How to do that.

It feels like seeing a photo on the internet of a Japanese Statue Monument, built in your likeness.....

Only it doesn't and will probably never have your full or whole name on the plaque in front of it.

Well, until posthumously of course.

Don't expect people to write articles about you and you're achievement either. Many of the best artists NEVER appear in the press. LIKE MEEEE!!!

Know what I'm saying?