![]() Today’s youth are more curious and are able to push themselves outside of their comfort zones. “We’ve transitioned into a generation that has been born and bred on the internet, giving them limitless access to content, information, and entertainment. In 2021, Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train became Madman Anime Group’s best performing theatrical release across Australia and New Zealand exceeding $AU4,000,000 gross box office and $NZ700,000 gross box office respectively. For one, it is now accessible in the most mainstream sense possible, with big films like Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie being available on the silver screen at your local Event Cinemas or Hoyts this year. When it came to my identity, I ended up realising that I could embrace both.”Īustralian high schoolers these days aren’t too much younger than Joey, but there’s already a stark difference in how the youth of today are watching anime. I started sharing anime and video games with my friends and they turned out to be very open and interested. But after a while I thought fuck it, I’ll just be myself. “I definitely had a lot of identity issues and wondered whether I had to abandon my Asian side to assimilate into Australian culture. But as he entered late primary school and eventually St Paul’s Catholic College Manly, he found himself being bullied as ‘the only Asian kid’ in his year. Joey’s anime and manga reviews, Twitch gaming streams, and video logs of his life in Japan are just some of the things that make him a key voice in what was once categorised as ‘nerd’ culture.ĭuring his adolescence, Joey grew up around other hafus (the Japanese word for people who are multiethnic) who also straddled that Japanese-Australian line. ![]() Joey is also 1/3 of the world’s biggest anime-not-anime podcast, Trash Taste, hosted alongside Connor Colquhoun (CDawgVA) and Garnt Maneetapho (GiggukAZ). Nurtured over the course of the last nine years, The Anime Man currently holds close to 6 million subscribers across YouTube, Twitch, and other social channels. On the internet, Joey is better known by a different middle and last name: Joey The Anime Man. The duality of Joey’s Japanese-Australian upbringing is a large part of what he channels into his career as a content creator. He considers both Japanese and English as his first languages. He was raised on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon just as much as he was on VHS tapes of Doraemon and Sazaesan. He was born in Sydney, but he learned to walk in Japan. Like many who have been raised in biracial households, Joey Tetsuro Bizinger grew up feeling like his life was split into two.
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