I know I’ve been spamming quite a bit here! For those curious, let me give you a bit of a low down on what’ll happen next!
April:
Send in all of the necessary paperwork
May:
Start moving out, throwing out things I don’t need, selling others
Get my placement information in mid May
Graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in History
Move out
June:
Get my placement information in early June if it hasn’t come in May
Hopefully get in contact with my predecessor, if applicable (most participants have a predecessor but some don’t, like Tokyo ALTs)
Attend an optional orientation
July:
Start getting ready for the big move
Turn in my proof of graduation
Say my final goodbyes to everyone
Depart for Tokyo on July 23rd and arrive on the 24th for a 3 day orientation
Be taken to my placement by representatives of my prefecture
Likely introduce myself to the staff I’ll be working with
Probably work, depends on the situation. Even though Japanese summer break starts in July, teachers are still expected to show up for clerical duties at the school and stuff which might also apply to me
August:
Prefecture orientation
Then in late August, actually start interacting with my students!
When I get to Japan, I can be one of 3 types of ALTs (Assistant Language Teacher)
Prefecture ALT- An ALT who teaches in various schools around their assigned prefecture
Municipal ALT- An ALT who teaches in 2 or 3 (sometimes more) schools within their town/city
Base ALT- Increasingly rare ALTs who work at one specific school. Most Tokyo ALTs, from my understanding, fall under this category. Even though they’ve been increasing Tokyo ALTsin time for the 2020 Olympics, getting Tokyo is still a crapshoot. I don’t really want any of the major cities as I asked for a rural placement. Of course, I’ll make the best of it and I’d still love a Tokyo placement.
Now, this is just a rough outline. After all, the once official but now unofficial yet De Facto motto of the JET program is ESID- Every Situation Is Different and all.
For those curious where I requested to be placed, I asked for rural placements in Gifu, Aomori and Okinawa. Requests are just that- requests and are not guaranteed. In fact, more often than not you’ll get somewhere completely opposite of where you asked for according to what I read. But hey, I’m up for anything!
As a side note, yes I will still continue doing art and working on Werewolf Hostclub in Japan. That was the plan from the very start. I kind of want to try debuting it at Kemoket sometime in the future. Now that I’ll have a steady job, once I get into the swing of things, it’ll be easier for me to focus on Werewolf Hostclub knowing I have a good paying job to take care of the bills!
Anyway if anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask me!
I still can’t believe that in 4 months I’ll be moving to Japan. It feels so unreal but there it is. All that’s keeping me between this and Japan is a bunch of paperwork I gotta do. Luckily it’s way less paperwork than the initial application!
THANK YOU EVERYONE for the congratulations! I really appreciate them!!!! I’m so excited!!!
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the rough version of that renamon doodle actually had bigger boobs but i hated how it broke the flow of the drawing and had to make them smaller
lol artist problems
I’m glad you like it!
Welp. I’m here. The last stretch before the JET Program interview results come in. I’ve been a nervous wreck waiting for them. Last year, they started rolling in as early as March 30th, though the general window is April 1st-11th from what I hear.
Regardless, it’s very nerve wracking waiting for an email that’ll tell me one of three things: Shortlisted (accepted), Alternate listed (wait list), or rejected. If I get short listed, I’ll be on my way to work in and live in Japan. If I get alternate listed, it’ll suck waiting longer, but I won’t lost hope because a lot of alternate listers do get upgraded. And if I get rejected, well, I don’t really wanna think about that right now…
Here’s hoping for the best.
Good luck! I wish I’d been brave enough to try for it when I was younger. 30′s probably a bit too late to try ..
Thanks, but no, it isn’t too late. The cut off age for JET is 45. You can do it if you’re 40, but points are deducted from your score for that age. Those who are up to the age of 39 will not have points deducted from their score.
All you need is at least a bachelor’s degree and an interest in Japanese culture. The highest point value is assigned to your statement of purpose and letters of recommendation, in that order. Teaching experience or experience taking care of kids is also worth a good amount of points. Japanese language knowledge is bonus points, but not required unless you’re applying to be a CIR, which is a minority of JETs.
I was interested in trying this when i was younger, I may give it another go.
I don’t know if I’ve been accepted or not yet, but if I do get in feel free to send me your questions and Statement of Purpose essay for feedback when you apply!
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Zeny and Lee are so incredibly gay. I typically like to let the audience decide whether or not they’re dating but at minimum they’re at least very close, affectionate friends with benefits. They have no qualms with how gay they are or having casual sex. Ultimately, they still care super deeply about each other which makes them have a very strong bond.
Welp. I’m here. The last stretch before the JET Program interview results come in. I’ve been a nervous wreck waiting for them. Last year, they started rolling in as early as March 30th, though the general window is April 1st-11th from what I hear.
Regardless, it’s very nerve wracking waiting for an email that’ll tell me one of three things: Shortlisted (accepted), Alternate listed (wait list), or rejected. If I get short listed, I’ll be on my way to work in and live in Japan. If I get alternate listed, it’ll suck waiting longer, but I won’t lost hope because a lot of alternate listers do get upgraded. And if I get rejected, well, I don’t really wanna think about that right now…
Here’s hoping for the best.
Good luck! I wish I’d been brave enough to try for it when I was younger. 30′s probably a bit too late to try ..
Thanks, but no, it isn’t too late. The cut off age for JET is 45. You can do it if you’re 40, but points are deducted from your score for that age. Those who are up to the age of 39 will not have points deducted from their score.
All you need is at least a bachelor’s degree and an interest in Japanese culture. The highest point value is assigned to your statement of purpose and letters of recommendation, in that order. Teaching experience or experience taking care of kids is also worth a good amount of points. Japanese language knowledge is bonus points, but not required unless you’re applying to be a CIR, which is a minority of JETs.
Welp. I’m here. The last stretch before the JET Program interview results come in. I’ve been a nervous wreck waiting for them. Last year, they started rolling in as early as March 30th, though the general window is April 1st-11th from what I hear.
Regardless, it’s very nerve wracking waiting for an email that’ll tell me one of three things: Shortlisted (accepted), Alternate listed (wait list), or rejected. If I get short listed, I’ll be on my way to work in and live in Japan. If I get alternate listed, it’ll suck waiting longer, but I won’t lost hope because a lot of alternate listers do get upgraded. And if I get rejected, well, I don’t really wanna think about that right now…
Here’s hoping for the best.
A lot of things, but mostly, a desire to keep improving and make a good living for myself
all i want is to cuddle up with a big round guy
Thank you!
I’m not sure. CSP and MS5 are the exact same program, so even if you have to get rid of one, it won’t hurt you.
Yep! It’s all accounted for on my end. I downloaded CSP, and then punched in the MS EX key and it worked.
So I was told by the Clip Studio twitter people that while you can transfer a Manga Studio licence to a CSP one, you couldn’t do it with a MS EX licence to transfer to a CSP EX one. However, I tried it and it worked!!
So yeah, if you have a Manga Studio EX key, what you do is, you download Clip Studio Paint and then when you open the program, go to Help > Register Licence and punch in your MS EX code. It worked for me and I’m really glad I didn’t have to buy another licence.
I don’t, unfortunately. All I have are his beta sprites . To be honest the only thing that changes between renditions of him is the roundness of his tum and cheeks because I’m inconsistent. There’s also the Valentine’s pic of him from last month.
Hope that helps!
I’ve been busy with school and applying for a ton of jobs, so I haven’t worked on anything other than core concepts and notes. I also drafted a logo today.

That said, I can’t really give an ETA on when I’ll start the meat of the project seeing as I don’t even know if I’ll be moving to Japan this summer or not, but rest assured once everything settles down, I’ll be working on it in regular increments.
CAN’T WAIT FOR MY SHINHAN MARKERS TO GET HERE ON FRIDAY OHBOYOHBOYOHBOY

Dunno! I’ll have to play around with it sometime.
If you have Clip Studio Paint or Manga Studio 5, you should update because they added animation features. You can make up to 24 frames with the normal version and unlimited with the EX. If you have Manga Studio, you can use the serial for it to get Clip Studio.
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Ordered a 48 set of ShinHan markers among other supplies and it’s all thanks to your support! Thanks to everyone who commissioned me and reblogged my commission post! I’ll let everyone know my impressions once I use them. I hear they’re on par with Copics (which includes being refillable and having replaceable tips) but cheaper.