Who Are You?

AN INTRODUCTION.

Hello! I'm Tyson Matsuki - video and audio producer. The former as a hobby and the latter professionally.

I have a formal preparation in radio production and marketing from a prestigious communications school in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Working in college radio and, later, a radio station, taught me that the future is digital and it was either get with the program or be irrelevant. Never one to let my skills die, I started producing shows for the internet as a means to an end, and share a little bit of myself in the process.

THE F*** YEAH CODCAST.

In early 2012, I joined a Call of Duty blog on tumblr, F*** Yeah COD. In a rivalry with COD Obsessed, a similarly themed blog, one of the things we did to stand out was livestreams, play with followers of the blog and, when I came aboard, a podcast discussing Call of Duty news and provide opinions from the staff. The first episode went live on May 19, 2012 and it ran for 2 years before the project was laid to rest. While the podcast no longer resides on iTunes, it's up on Youtube.

LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ELSE TO DO.

After the demise of the FYCODcast, I've dabbled in other podcasts, looking to where I can add my voice. After the fall of the G4 forums, a number of members spun off and created a new gathering place - Project G-Forum (now known as Pugi.tv). I've partaken in their podcast a few times: here's one episode.

Among all of this, I attempted to launch a new project with some people from the forum, but it didn't go anywhere. The following video explains, to the best of my recollection, what I wanted to achieve with it.

FROM GAMING TO ANIME.

My partner back in the FYCODcast days was looking into several projects for his own podcasting group and I was in a situation in which I wasn't producing anything. After a few meetings, we'd reached an agreement that a new podcast about anime would be created with the both of us to discuss anime at a much deeper level - Get A Life Podcast Kunai.

At first, I was dubious - I wasn't a regular anime watcher and the shows I've seen were mostly very popular shows from back in the day. I had an affinity but not a deep like nor an appreciation of the medium. These two things were taught to me by the podcast and by our butting of heads with the other hosts, plus I got to edit shows! I became enamored so much by anime that I started to come back into the fray, watching more shows, engaging in discussion for seasonal shows, what have you. This would spun the first bits of my channel, chemicalsora, which was largely used to keep a collection of what I watched since early on into a channel that I'd create content for others to watch.

And it has been sailing ever since.