I know KimonoTime is not the kind of person who's calculating it, but just thought it's a good idea to introduce it as a clever Tweet you can use sometimes.
My Twitter friend Yamatora has written this article about Yukapon.
There he reports about Yukapon these days. That she's so busy with her boutique shop that she doesn't have the time to resume her loli chara or Nico Nama. He also proposes "Who should take over her loli chara, if ever?"
He states the reason being that it'd be too regrettable if she wouldn't resume her Nico Nama community she'd built up. He also says it's not good for her fans as it is. He says let's save them!
He then presents one of Abbie's video. Quite honestly, I myself thought it was Yukapon when she was younger at first.
He then reports that she's being mentioned a lot and being criticized for looking like Yukapon.
He ascribes her denying mimicking Yukapon to being a Westerner, who thinks it bad to mimic someone.
He thinks it'd be interesting if Abbie came to Nico Nama and introduced herself as Yukapon style. He says people will go "yeeehoooo, here comes a rejuvenated Yukapon!"
As soon as I've read this article by Yamatora, I sent the foll owing message to Abbie.
Hi Abbie chi, I've subscribed to your channel and known you for a while now.
I see that you are being mentioned a lot these days as Yukapon wannabe. Sorry for putting it that way, that's what some people tend to see you as, not your fault.
I know how you feel. It's alright to talk back and claim that it is not your intention to look like Yukapon.
As Yukapon said herself she quit being a loli character, here I have a suggestion.
Why don't you "take over" the fanbase Yukapon has built up over this past year, and build your own base in Japan?
That would be much easier and faster to build up your fanbase in Japan, than beginning your own from scratch.
I don't know if you've read my articles (http://jrcach.tumblr.com/tagged/yukapon), Yukapon had a massive Nico Nama community of about 11,000 members. That's a huge, compared to Keekihime with 25,000 members (She recently became a member of an aidoru unit Tone Jewel).
Akira, who had helped her with Nico Nama, deleted her Nico Nama community, so Yuka has to start from scratch if she has the will to resume her Nico Nama.
As far as I know, Yukapon doesn't seem to want to resume her loli chara.
Why don't you take over her role?
Here's a suggestion. Don't be afraid of being labled "Yukapon wannabe". Instead of caring too much about it and allowing it to affect you, let's make use of what people tend to lable you as, and make it your weapon?
How to "take over" her fanbase? Just simply, introduce yourself as post Yukapon or ユカぽん二世 or ユカぽんの妹 (sister of Yukapon) or whatever.
Since Yukapon is already known on Nico Nama, you'll gather up your fans a lot easier! Since her fans in Japan have no idea what has become of Yukapon, they will easily become fans of you!
I don't know how serious you are about becoming famous in Japan, but if you have a slightest desire, this is my suggestion. You are no less cuter than Yukapon.
Let's not let your self-esteem get in the way of taking up Yukapon route. Once you've become famous enough, you can take off your Yukapon character and develop your own.
It's more important to build up your fanbase... and how fast you can pull it off!
Since people say you remind them of Yukapon, that's a huge advantage, not disadvantage!
Let's not take their labling as slander, but complement!
If you have any interest about my suggestions, please consider starting your broadcast on Nico Nama in the near future.
xSlushPuppi3x and KimonoTime have started Nico Nama this year. I helped them both to start their own by providing information.
I suggest you visit their broadcast to see what Nico Nama is like.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me!
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Someone asked a question
How can I garner Japanese fans without using niconama live?
(1) If you are a dancer, let's find some memes and dance to them?
This isn't a meme, but I guess it was an extremely popular club music.
If you look out for Oricon Charts (オリコンチャート） you'll easily catch what music are popular in Japan now. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is all the rage now, so let's dance to her music.
AKB48
AKB48 is a social phenomenon in Japan. If you dance to it, you can count on viewcounts. Let's take precautions against copyright violation. They are tougher than H!P.
Compare these videos with their videos from the same periods. They got significantly more viewcounts.
(3) Learn Japanese
Learn Japanese and be fluent enough to make conversation without difficulty. Then,
(4) actively participate in chats with JP speaking people on Twitter. For that, you should
(5) follow a lot of people who speak Japanese. For that, try to find your potential fans and follow them. Find the same kind of persons as you are. Check out for their followers and the ones they are following. "Relevancy" is the key.
If you know how to use a bot/ or make a Twitter bot/ you could follow someone automatically. That's for advanced people. If you don't follow relevant people, it doesn't serve your purpose well.
(6) Make vlogs constantly, in which you speak to Japanese people in Japanese. That makes a huge difference.
My evaluation of Nina Seron skyrocketed because of this video:
It moved me to almost tears. It's not only her Japanese skills but also her emotions she put into her speech, and her facial expression that didn't look fake at all.
She even sent it to UPFRONT. You need this activeness when you want to become famous in Japan.
If I were Nina, I'd find the most appropriate and popular video regarding Tanaka Reina, and send her video as "Video Response".
Haristarchan made a dance video with a little speech in Japanese.
It's important! If you have a person you respect/ you got a lot of influence from, and announces she's retiring, let's make a vlog addressing to her. It's more important than making a cheap "Happy birthday" video.
This is Nina's vlog sending Happy Birthday to Reina Tanaka.
It was picked up by a user on 2ch category dedicated to H!P, and given a thread for this video. Isn't that why she has lots of JP fans?
If you care about your subs, why don't you take a little of bit of your time longer for your editting, and try to get a better thumbnail?
As of now, it's completely random which 3 thumbnail pics Youtube will choose for your video, unless you are partnered
(If you are, you can attach a pic for your video).
Let's make 3 videos. One video, as you'll usually make. Second, crop a milliseconds from the first video. Third, crop another milliseconds from the second.
Then upload the first video. If you didn't get a nice thumbnail, upload the second.
(8) Write your profiles in Japanese
It's important! Nina has her profiles in Japanese, like this.
Konnichipa!
Please to see my infos and trivia in english ,click on the **more** button
こんにちぱ !!!!!
私はニーナ （NINA） /// ニーナこ（NINAKO）♥ です☆
アイドル になりたい（ '▽ `）
歌と踊りが大好き！☆ミ
私はモロッコから来たんだ！
アフリカからの最初のダンサー
ハロープロジェクトのアイドルになるために私を応援してください！
日本語を学ぶことは難しいです！
デモがんばります
シュワシュワり～
Haristarchan removed her Japanese text from her profile. Why? She's going to lose her potential fans who speak Japanese.
The treasure of the internet. The best J-POP dances on Youtube. [Not necessarily their dances are great, but they are all attractive whether their dance is great or not]
