Joe Is Japanese

by Carmen Van Kerckhove

This is a teaser/trailer for Joe Is Japanese, a new web-based animation series that is launching soon. It looks pretty cool. (Thanks Karen!) From his MySpace profile:

The show is based on (mostly) true events from my life. It wasn’t easy growing up a half-breed. No one culture will ever be yours to embrace. No matter how hard I tried, I could never really be Japanese, and as I got older I realized that I might have overcompensated and became too Japanese. You’d have to be Japanese to understand what I mean by that one…

…I get to tell random stories like that. Stories that made up my life… they made me into what I am today, (mostly) Japanese. So why an anime about it?

Well, I have got a friend that runs an animation studio that I’ve known for 15 some years. I’ve told him a lot of stories I believed were in strict confidence. Not the case. We’ve got into a lot of trouble and I kinda thought we’d never share some stories with anyone else. Not the case. In fact, I guess we’re telling the world all about me and everyone I’ve had an interesting experience with.