$3000 TARGET ACHIEVED | Natsuki: The Movie (Patreon)

It happened. We've genuinely exceeded the sky of time.

The $3,000 target has been reached in just under two months!

A spectacular super huge thanks to everyone for your support and a big hello and welcome to the several hundred awesome people who have joined in the last 24 hours.

First off, I’d like to think supporting Abroad in Japan is a worthy investment; you’re not only helping to fund the regular videos on the two channels, but the Patreon exclusive videos, articles and live hangouts, will contain information useful to all of you working towards your own personal quest - whether that's in learning Japanese, travelling to Japan, or for those looking at moving here to work. I want Abroad in Japan to become the ultimate resource for anyone interested in Japan and thanks to you all, it's going to happen.

Now it’s a well known fact that one of the main aims  in the past few years has been to give Natsuki the fame and fortune he desperately deserves. Whether he’s being poisoned eating marmite or carefully analysing and reviewing chocolate from around the world, or even discovering how to swear in English, Natsuki's been a huge part of Abroad in Japan over the last 3 years, featuring in mainstream media such as the Daily Mail and the BBC and with his videos being viewed over 10 million times.

But my real motivation for wanting to make Natsuki famous is simply because he's one of the nicest guys I've ever met. He's hilarious, down to earth and a lot of fun and I often think it's a tragedy that he's hidden away in the Japanese countryside running his upmarket beauty salon. It's terrifying to think had him and I not bumped into each other in the street 3 years ago.

The concept of "Natsuki: The Movie" is still in it's early stages but in short we're going to produce either a documentary or a mockumentary, of which Natsuki will be the main subject, with the quality of the finished film being at a professional broadcast quality.

I don't care if we have to fly him to Paris to film up the Eiffel tower, or send him to a temple in the mountains of Nepal, or perhaps he'll undertake a series of bucket list style challenges. Quite honestly, no expense will be spared on this, with the ultimate goal being to produce something worthy of potentially submitting to a film festival/documentary festival. 

Currently I have a few ideas swimming around as to what it could be about, but I'm still at the stage where I'm open to ideas about what you guys would like to see. There are now over 800 awesome people on here and it'd be foolish of me not to consider your ideas and views and in many ways I see it almost like a giant group project. And of course if you have an idea that is used to produce the film/documentary, you'll be credited for it accordingly. 

Help kick things off by throwing in your ideas below!

As you can probably tell I'm taking this project quite seriously - it's going to be epic, it's going to be hilarious, and most of all it's going to be a lot of fun. 

You only live once - so you might as well make Natsuki the movie.

Chris