15 Gaijin Goombah

Gaijin Goombah is the guest today on this episode of the Japan Station podcast.

Gaijin Goombah is a YouTuber who has made a successful career out of teaching people about the real world culture and history that is present in many of today's most popular video games and anime. Gaijin Goombah's interest in Japan is one that goes quite far back and led him to both study abroad and work in Japan. Aside from running his own very popular YouTube channel he also streams on Twitch.

In this episode we discuss:

  • How Gaijin Goombah became interested in Japan
  • The interesting role the film Kill Bill played in Gaijin Goombah's life
  • How Gaijin Goombah went from wanting to be an actor to working with Matthew Patrick (MatPat) of The Game Theorists YouTube channel
  • Gaijin Goombah's time living in Japan
  • Gaijin Goombah's experience teaching English as part of the JET Program
  • The stresses of being a YouTuber
  • How monetization works on YouTube vs. streaming and which is more profitable
  • What Gaijin Goombah finds rewarding about his creating videos
  • The research process Gaijin Goombah undertakes when creating a video
  • Popular misconceptions surrounding ninja
  • Why the recent reboot of GeGeGe no Kitaro is a must-watch anime
  • Gaijin Goombah's views on moe
  • Why anime is an amazing medium
  • And much more!

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