
About this episode
Meet Kristine aka Kfel, a Filipino Canadian content creator based in Tokyo completing what she calls "magical girl sidequests." She sits down to talk to us about her interest and subsequent internship in Japan, her journey to fluency, going viral on TikTok, and becoming a magical girl
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0:00 Intro
0:45 Meet Kristine
7:07 Internship in Japan
18:47 Start in content creation
20:58 Getting her first sponsor
26:52 The struggle of bringing cats to Japan
33:09 How Kfel got so fluent
41:47 Moving to Japan
43:55 Finding a community here
48:17 How Japan changed her videos
50:34 How girl walk in Tokyo
56:28 Working with GeeXPlus
1:01:12 Advice for aspiring creators
1:04:05 Getting into cosplay
1:07:40 What's next
1:09:57 Kfel's favorite anime
1:13:07 What makes a good anime?
1:15:28 Kfel's struggle with identity
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