Black-Owned Anime Studio Makes History in Japan

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Episode 87: In 2016, Arthell Isom and his twin brother, Darnell Isom, founded D'ART Shtajio Inc. - the first foreign-owned anime studio in Japan. Arthell and his studio has worked on projects for Netflix, Grammy Award-winning music artist, The Weeknd, and was recently featured in Pharrell and Jay-Z's "Entrepreneur" music video. In this episode we discuss the following topics: Arthell's love for illustration and background painting for anime Studying at the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco Black culture & anime Working on projects for The Weeknd Being featured in Pharrell and Jay-Z's music video Working for Ghost in the Shell Art Director, Hiromasa Ogura Founding in his own anime studio in Japan This episode is sponsored by Code Chrysalis.    [Follow D'ART Shtajio] https://dartshtajio.com/   [Guest host: Danté Carver]  @dantecarverofficial   [Guest host: Mega Robinson] @megadesu_   [Social Links & RSS] RSS Feed: https://www.tokyospeaks.com/feed.xml Instagram: @tokyospeaks_ Twitter: @tokyospeaks_   [Support via Ko-fi] https://ko-fi.com/tokyospeaks