Tobi (host)

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Unpacking Japan · Tattoo artist explains traditional Japanese apprenticeships · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Or what were the requirements for you to establish yourself?

When I asked you earlier what was important or what made a good tattoo, you said that, well, you've got the technique, but then it's about developing your personal style and kind of creating something unique.

So you've got Invasion Club and you kind of developed this kind of otaku tattoo kind of style that you're also known for.

How did that really come to be and how did you kind of develop this as part of now being independent and being able to do things the way you wanted to do?

For someone who, I imagine a lot of listeners or viewers might have seen some of your work, but for someone who has not, how would you describe it?

What would you say is the essence of some of the imagery that you're tattooing?

Yeah, to someone who's never seen it.

You mentioned art a lot and how important it is and how it influences your work.

Once you establish an innovation club, you're also a business owner.

That's right.

You've got to tattoo people to make art, but you also have to pay the bills.

You mentioned how important it was to pay the taxes system.

How does that pressure and responsibility then affect your work or perhaps not at all?

And you kind of had a plan in mind.

Yeah, difficult to switch focus from one moment to the other.

You started Invasion Club, you mentioned jokingly as a club of one at the beginning.

Did you have a vision for what you wanted this to become at the time already?

What was your ethos and to what did it evolve over the years?

Where is it at today?

When you establish yourself after having worked at another studio in the same town and you start building your own reputation, what's the community like among tattoo artists and tattooers?

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