"Forbes JAPAN 30 UNDER 30 2024" Award Ceremony

I have continued to pursue the path I believe in and take on various challenges with the support of those around me. In particular, I feel that this award is not the result of my own efforts alone, but is due to the support of many people. As we launch new projects with our colleagues and move forward with initiatives for the future, receiving this recognition is a great encouragement.
I have always valued taking on new challenges. I will continue to uphold my beliefs and aim for even greater heights with my team, creating new value. In particular, by working on projects that contribute to society, I will continue to work hard, thinking about the impact we can have on the next generation. I will continue to work hard to meet your expectations, so I appreciate your continued support.

Up until now, I have always cherished the connections and encounters I have had with friends and the people around me. Even though we are not related by blood, there are people who think of me like family, and they have supported me. My motivation for my activities is cats and miso soup. When I come home and see my cats, I feel motivated to do my best, and when I drink miso soup, I feel healthy and refreshed.
I don't live my life with a strong sense of purpose, trying to change the world or break new ground. I tend to just go with the flow. However, I hope that the world will become a place where each and every person can live their own life, without being bound by social trends. I believe that receiving this award is a moment when my laid-back way of life has been recognized, so I think it is very meaningful. I would like to use this as encouragement to work hard in my future life and activities.

Ever since I was a child, I have loved imagining and creating things. For me, special effects makeup was like magic, allowing me to give shape to the world of my imagination. Special effects makeup involves many complicated steps, making it difficult to create on your own. That's why I consider the presence of my atelier members to be indispensable to me. I'm also very grateful to my parents for always supporting me and allowing me to do what I love.

I have always pursued the things I love and the things I want to do. What has driven me in this is the desire to "create mysterious worlds that are unimaginable." Creating works that no one has ever seen before is very interesting to me. I would like to continue to bring excitement to people all over the world through "special effects makeup."

I was already familiar with Forbes JAPAN 30 UNDER 30, so I'm very happy to receive this award. While I was a student at Waseda University, I founded FinT, a company that handles marketing using social media. We have 100 employees, and our average age is young, at 26, as we wanted to expand opportunities for young people to thrive. It's been eight years since we started the company, but our strength remains our ability to adapt to the changes that young people face, and we get to see new horizons every year. This is all thanks to the support of our colleagues. We aim to become Japan's first global company, leveraging each of our strengths and driven by the desire to "make Japan more positive."
Recently, I feel like young people have lost hope for the future. My goal is to spread the word about the good things about Japan overseas by helping Japanese companies expand globally. I would encourage all students to find what they like and what they want to do, and to try as many things as possible.

I believe that it was the support of my fans that led to this award. Because of my job, I spend more time with my fans than with my family and friends, so perhaps my fans know the real me better than my family and friends. My job as a comedian is only possible with the support of my fans, so I am always supported by them.
My driving force is Shohei Ohtani. We're the same age. No matter how successful I feel at work, when I see him hit a home run the next day, I think, "I still have a lot more to work on." I haven't given up on surpassing him yet. And now I'm thinking about distributing baseballs to elementary schools all over the country. He's been distributing gloves to elementary schools all over the country, right? But because he's so naive, he hasn't realized yet that you can't play baseball with just a glove (laughs).