Japanese with anime voice: episode97
Hello, I’m Sachi.
July 16 is Rainbow Day. This is a play on words. Yasuhiro Yamauchi, a Japanese designer, established this day to commemorate the day in the hope that people and people, people and nature, etc., will be united like a rainbow of seven colors.
I tried to find out what kind of designer this Mr. Yamauchi is and who he is, but unfortunately, I could not find out much about him. But it seems that he is the founder of a design company that handles planning and design for music, government, and general companies. The term “designer” covers a very wide range, and there are a lot of people out there who do it for a living. However, I like his wish for this rainbow day. One person’s power may be small, but when many of them gather together, they become a big thing, shining like a rainbow and bridging the gap to the 次代 (jidai). The word 次代 (jidai) that I just mentioned is 次代 (jidai), which is a combination of the kanji character 次 (tsugi) and the kanji character 代 (dai) from 世代 (sedai). It means the next era, the next generation.
It’s really complicated to say verbally that words have different kanji characters. As I have said before, the Japanese language needs a speech balloon.
Speaking of design, my older brother is also working hard in the field of design. In my brother’s case, it’s character design. Digital ones, you know. He is making a tearful effort every day, day in and day out, to make a living at it. He made a rule for himself that he would draw five pictures every month so that he could improve his drawing, and he has been following the rule to the letter. Well, he is a stoic by nature and will continue to do whatever he decides to do, no matter what. He is always on the computer, so much so that I wonder when he sleeps. Of course, he is working as usual. He often works overtime and comes home late, around 9:00 p.m., but from then on he concentrates on his drawings. The same is true in the morning before work. Even when I wake up at 6:00 a.m., he is already awake. It’s a mystery to me when he sleeps. It’s such a mystery that sometimes I worry if he’s physically okay. The jacket design for this podcast is like that. I asked my brother to draw it for me. What do you think? It’s a really nice design, isn’t it?
I sometimes write an English blog, and I have asked my brother to draw some eye-catching illustrations for my articles. For both the podcast jackets and the eye-catching illustrations, I asked him to draw a random picture and make it look like this, and he did it exactly as I had imagined. He is really good at what he does. My brother started to take digital illustration seriously the year before last, and he has been completing five illustrations a month for two years now, and even to the untrained eye, his progress is obvious. I don’t know what the difference is between him and a professional.
My brother has set goals for himself and has been carrying them out. As with anything, it is not enough just to do a lot of things. The same can be said for my language skills. If you practice conversation without any input in terms of vocabulary and grammar, and only focus on output, there is no way you will improve your language skills. My brother is the kind of person who thinks things through so as not to make such mistakes. He is especially careful not to draw the same pose. When I heard that, I was impressed that he thought of such details. At the same time, I was about to say, “How about a heel drop for the next character’s pose,” when the character he was drawing happened to be in a kick-up pose. I realized in a strange way that we are siblings.
He watches videos of illustration corrections every day and analyzes what the professionals say in his own way. Oh, he is not having his work corrected, but he is watching videos of other people having their work corrected and learning from them in his own way. It is true that if he spent more money, he might be able to improve faster, but I think his way is good. It’s not that I think it’s good or bad to have someone correct your work. You don’t just passively listen to someone tell you what to do, but you first try to think about it in your own way as much as you can.
I would like to follow my brother’s example and improve my language skills as well. Conversations with my brother these days are a good opportunity for me to make new discoveries and to reevaluate my own ways. Please take a look at my brother’s works, which I’ve posted a link to in the overview section. There are some of his old works, and you can clearly see how much he has improved over the past two years. And there is still a lot of room for improvement. If you find something you like, please leave a comment and I’d be happy to share it with others!
