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INTEREST: Former Truant Japanese Student Inspired by Akira Toriyama Publishes 1st Manga


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xchampion



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:04 pm Reply with quote
What a feel good story. Great for him. It also sounds like it would make a great movie Very Happy
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penguintruth



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:11 pm Reply with quote
Wow. Toriyama helped that guy out, that was really nice of him!
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Lemonchest



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:17 pm Reply with quote
Good for him, I guess. JT says his anxiety issues started when his teacher hit him, but other sites just seem to say they didn't get on. Seems an odd thing not to be in unison on, given how C&P the rest of the articles are.
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Chrno2



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:26 pm Reply with quote
I'm always happy to hear these types of stories. It does amaze me that some cases were we hear about Japanese students dropping out of school for various reasons and yet, they are smart and manage to create a career without finishing HS.
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Hameyadea



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:10 pm Reply with quote
Skipping school for about 9 years Shocked
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Clodus



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:22 pm Reply with quote
I can relate. 3 different elementary schools, 2 different middle schools and 3 different highschools and now 2 different colleges. all for different reasons. elementary 3 times for moving. middleschool both times for expulsion. 3 highschools, once for moving, once for expulsion and the last one resulted in me finally dropping out. Those were agonizing days.

Now that I'm older, I've graduated from one college and I'm moving on to the next. Funny how life is sometimes.
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MajinAkuma



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:21 pm Reply with quote
penguintruth wrote:
Wow. Toriyama helped that guy out, that was really nice of him!

Toriyama also encouraged Kubo to create Bleach after WSJ turned it down.
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Wandering Samurai



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:26 pm Reply with quote
This kind of thing that Toriyama did will put him in a class way above some of the stupid type celebrities that are out there. Glad to see he gave this young man a positive influence to pull through his troubles and find success.
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Nonaka Machine Gun B



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:33 pm Reply with quote
MajinAkuma wrote:
penguintruth wrote:
Wow. Toriyama helped that guy out, that was really nice of him!

Toriyama also encouraged Kubo to create Bleach after WSJ turned it down.

There's no source for this.
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Sunset In the Hood



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:40 pm Reply with quote
penguintruth wrote:
Wow. Toriyama helped that guy out, that was really nice of him!

MajinAkuma wrote:

Toriyama also encouraged Kubo to create Bleach after WSJ turned it down.

Nonaka Machine Gun B wrote:

There's no source for this.


Google search Toriyama Bleach and you'll get a hundred sources easily. Google is available for free ya know?
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MajinAkuma



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:41 pm Reply with quote
Nonaka Machine Gun B wrote:

There's no source for this.

http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Tite_Kubo#Creating_Bleach
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leafy sea dragon



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 2:24 pm Reply with quote
It's quite the story, and he's definitely worth congratulating for being a successful case of pulling himself up by the bootstraps, but I can't help but think about it also being a case of "it's who you know." What are the odds that a delinquent's mother knows a famous person helpful enough to pull her son out of the quicksand?

I don't mean to be negative here...I love hearing stories of success like this, but then the thought welled up to the top of my head when I reasd the part about his mom personally having known Akira Toriyama himself.

Chrno2 wrote:
I'm always happy to hear these types of stories. It does amaze me that some cases were we hear about Japanese students dropping out of school for various reasons and yet, they are smart and manage to create a career without finishing HS.


Yeah, the pressure is enormous in Japan, and it can and will break at least a few kids. I don't know if there's a way to prevent that from happening without resorting to the American everyone-passes, everyone's-happy approach.
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Wooga



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 5:54 pm Reply with quote
I'm jealous of this guy...

Clodus wrote:
I can relate. 3 different elementary schools, 2 different middle schools and 3 different highschools and now 2 different colleges. all for different reasons. elementary 3 times for moving. middleschool both times for expulsion. 3 highschools, once for moving, once for expulsion and the last one resulted in me finally dropping out. Those were agonizing days.

Wow, that sucks. Were your parents in the military? My mom was and we'd move all the time.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:24 pm Reply with quote
Of course it can't be turned to anime 'cause it's social activism! Laughing
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Polycell



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 9:17 pm Reply with quote
Wooga wrote:
Wow, that sucks. Were your parents in the military? My mom was and we'd move all the time.
I switched about as much as he did(I went to a fourth elementrary school, can't quite remember if I went to a third middle school or not and was homeschooled my first year of high school), but only once was for behavioral issues(and I wasn't really expelled - just transferred to another school that could handle me). The extra elementary school came from them opening a new one closer to us at the time(though we ended up going back to the old one the next year); the rest were pure moving(and the school count drastically understates it). Being poor and underprivileged sucks.
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