Learn more OR join the Wordless World Manga Contest here! bit.ly/3YoLtkN Manga Contest FAQ Page: x.com/KADOKAWAdigipub/status/1866081205290205245 Hope yall enjoyed this format!!! I went with a simple paneling style and it was still really challenging, but I had fun! Thank you to kadokawa for this fantastic opportunity and big thank you as well to my friend Carmen for letting me illustrate her high school poem!!
Oh the pain of moving😢 I had 3 big moves growing up. New friends, Unfamiliar neighbors, Relearning your neighborhood, and Figuring out where the shops are. But everytime my parents moved it was like a hard reset and you can re-explore everything again :D
Dude that poem almost made me cry. Moving states is never easy, especially when you know you don’t want to be there. Moving maybe out of obligation is the toughest learning curve of all, but all we can hope for is finding the silver lining through it all
I'm so glad she's still in touch with her!! Moving really does a number on your friendships but it can make people closer and it's clear it worked out for Emi 😭
Carmen's poem was so touching, I wasn't expecting to get a little emotional. Even as adults it can be hard to be vulnerable with ppl you care about, but I really think that 's how you keep important friendships going for a long time 🩷
9:30 That mix between Carmen talking about the connection being snipped away (both referring to your hair and relationship) and the manga sheet squares splitting RIGHT in-between the chunk of hair Carmen is holding from the rest of your head... It was a genius combination of both poetry and manga styles. You guys have a WONDERFUL natural chemistry! :D
oh my GOD carmen's poem was so beautiful 😭 I relate to the video with struggling to find friends and keep in touch with old friends back home when I moved for college,,, I was pretty successful making friends after I started sharing my art with people and even got a boyfriend in college, but I lost touch with my old friends and they got so resentful of me leaving that they cut me off without a word,,, which made things awkward when I came back for our family friend parties and they pretended nothing had happened. sometimes you grow out of the places you know and you find your own space in somewhere new.
8:40 really beautiful and touching is an understatement it almost made me cry😭 and the thing is that she was about 15 to 16 years old at the time she wrote this piece of art is even more amazing!! You should be proud to have a friend like her, my friends are probably just drooling🤤 in some corner of their house thinking about food -_-
Dear Carmen: that poem is the most beautiful poem i have ever seen and read. I was so moved that didn't even noticed I was crying. It took me back to the time where I also felt this way. This poem healed my inner younger self of those year's. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful thing Emily and Carmen 🫂🫂😭❤❤
That poem made me cry. I lost a friend I had for 8years last year, not to moving but still. And almost every time I see him, his hair is different, different color, different length..
9:41 THAT RUINED ME, CRYING SCREAMING THROWING UP RN. It's truly beautiful, your friendship. How you to kept close. Reason I teared up when carmen's poem ended cause i know that exact feeling of seeing your owce beloved friend change in the influence of something so far away from you and it turns into a big reminders of the distance between you. I have lost a friend like that over the distance so :')
I spent most of my younger years in San Diego, and I'm pretty sure we always called it "lined paper", and although I think I'd heard the term "pizza pie", I think I thought that was an old-fashioned term. Anyway, I live in Seattle now, and it seems like Boomer-age people (esp. in the northern suburbs) call soda "pop". That's the main term in most of the Midwest, right?
@@Ssslothbby I meant in the Seattle area, it seems like it's mostly used by people over about 50, implying that it may have been as common as "soda" (which is the on the west coast).
I moved from Michigan to Florida, and anytime someone said "loose-leaf" I had no idea what they were talking about. Took me a while to figure out they just meant lined paper lmao Same thing with "book-bags". Whenever someone asked me where my "book-bag" was I just said I didn't have one. Cue mutual confused staring
Oh is book bag another east coast thing or something? I spent half my childhood in Florida and till now I always thought book bag and loose leaf were common synonyms 😭
The poem was wonderful. I've ran away to so many places over time, escaping so many bad situations, and when I thought I'd found somewhere and someones that I would love to bring with me, it ended as suddenly as it started. Almost a quarter of a century now, and still so lost...
When you got to the part where you and Carmen reunited after 5 years, my eyes welled with tears. By the time Carmen finished reading her poem, I was bawling.
I feel like Carmen is a very good friend. No- A Great Friend. Even since you moved to California, It's amazing that Carmen didn't forget you Emi. It's a little sad when things change and Carmen feels distance between you. New York is very different from California. And so is USA so different from Japan. But that patience that she waited on you, staying by your side and your beauty never changed to her- Please treasure all of these with all of your heart. 🙏🏼
On an Unrelated note, it's CRAZY how much one can unintentionally horde. A few weeks ago, me and my Dad were packing away things we don't need for storage because our House was being renovated... We filled up 4 entire large rubbish-bags with un-needed clothes ALONE. Then another 5 filled with forgotten items we didn't even know we had, or don't recall getting. It was both hilarious and tiring.
Honestly for me? Moving is like growing up, you change places but still keeps what is yours, and new places can give you new places and possibilities, and you end up learning new things and people alongside that So when you move more than once, it hurts, but still, you keep learning and growing, and experiencing new sighs and people❤
Definitely. My story’s different, moving actually sort of made me regress. I became more bitter, angry, depressed, and very very alone; new experiences and possibilities are scarce here in the small-town south, if there are any at all. Coming up on 2 years here and I still hate it and wished that I never moved. After a while though, I learned to make the most of what I was given and how to keep myself occupied on the many lonelier days that came around. I picked up a lot of new interests, found some new hobbies, even took initiative to get my driver’s license so I can finally have a way to get around. I found that my motivation was to leave, and I’m taking steps to do so. That kind of ability to just…get up and do things, it was hard to do before and especially after I moved here. Now I’m a whole lot better, and the quiet time was maddening at first but getting the chance to focus on myself and hone in on what truly makes me happy (and what to do to achieve those things) was very valuable.
this hits unbelievably close to home. i left for a different city in my second to last year of highschool, and you cannot know how much i relate to this video. the unfamiliarity, the sense that you don't belong and the lingering attachments and longings for what you have left behind, be it people, places or things. although i may not have had your 'anime club' moment yet, im grateful and thankful that i have my very own 'carmen'. thank you.
That ending poem broke my heart. I know that pain all too well when I left public school to become home-schooled. Only took a few days and I was completely forgotten by my only friends. No matter how much I reached out to them...I...didn't exist to them anymore. Even now, that pain has a hold on me and I fear everytime when an online friend says, "Goodbye" for the day...that that might be the very last time I will ever talk to them. It has happened so many times from then to now...saying goodbye for the very last time and not knowing it. Still hurts no matter how many times I go through it.
as a brazillian girl that moved to Portugal at age 9, I related to your video so deeply that I actually started tearing up. My experience was the same as yours' and many others': recieving the news out of nowhere, trying everything in my power to stay where I lived, hating all the aspects of my new life until I got used to it, but the main difference was how a distance started to emmerge between my roots and my identity in here: I lost contact with ALL my friends the first 3 months living here and I didn't speak much to my family, people that I saw daily or weekly now I either stopped talking to or only see once a month. This kind of video usually doesn't affect me much because it's been almost 10 years since I moved, but the way you talked about the language barrier, moving from a big beautiful house to a small ugly appartment, and the overall fear of change you felt really resonated with me. I hope everyone going trough something like this see this video, because it shows that even if change is awfull, scary and hard to adapt to, it does get better!
As someone who had to move around about every year during my childhood. This really hit me hard. I only recently moved back to my childhood town, and even though it's so nice to meet up and hangout with old friends, it makes you feel so alienated when everyone you used to know grew together and they all have context that only they know.
Dang… that poem made me cry🥲 I can relate to the fear of losing someone when they move away. It warms my heart that you two were able to remain friends. Thank you for sharing this story. 💙
Not many people get to say that they still have a friend from grade school much less high school. I can honestly say that I have one friend from grade school and six from high school that I still am in contact with and see every so often. They are all awesome and I'm glad to have them. If your friendship can withstand distance and time and the both of you can pick up like nothing has changed, then that's a golden friendship.
The poem has me crying and helped me realize something about myself too. I had a traumatic experience happen to me a few years ago and hearing how each cut removed a connection between you and your friend made me realize that I had also removed a connection from him to me. He has not got to touch the hair I wear now. It gave me a sense of relief.
One of my closest ever friends moved like 16km away once. He didnt even leave town. But I couldnt drive, and it was too far to bike, so we resigned ourselves to having a discord-only friendship. This was just as I was entering high school, in 2020. So, you know... just all-round bad time That poem reminded me of everything i thought seeing my friend morph and change while i couldny see him. Peak writing. Sobbing and shitting as we speak
I can't fathom the fact that many people have quite the same situations as others, I could yap about my time when I shifted over 7 times in the span of 9 years and well due to that I never really made friends and always atleast a little bit felt lonely and especially when covid hit, it was a complete disaster, well I am glad I overcame it by somehow using my introvert ass to get new friends and I'm glad that you did too! And if anyone has the same problems, I really hope they overcome it too.
Honestly, this is how I felt when I moved away from home to college, especially on the friends part. I was worried moving so far away, my friendships would fade away and be forgotten. It's a sucky feeling
I'd never heard it until I went to college (San Diegan my whole life). And only when someone used the full phrase of "loose leaf paper" did I know what they meant. It meant paper not ripped from a spiral binder.
As a born and raised SoCal girl, never have I ever heard of the loose leaf term EVER in my life. Never knew people didn't use the term pie for pizza but I know it's called pizza pie. (Which is pretty fun to say sometimes.) A majority of high school did look like the ones you described. Mine definitely looked like that. Always HATED the fact every assembly was in the gym. I'd rather have an auditorium. The "Hella" part is accurate tho. Oh man, that is super accurate.
In Florida it's usually called lose leaf paper as the "Profesional" term you would find in classroom necessities lists But most people just call it paper or lined paper cause no one has non lined paper
Loose-leaf seems like more of a Northern thing? I live in Florida, but we usually say "sheet/piece of paper." We don't typically even specify the type of paper. I think I'd understand if someone asked for a "sheet of loose-leaf," though.
Carmens words are truly beautiful. As someone who has lost many friends throughout my teenage years I loved the way she talked about hair and how eventually you can outgrow the styles that once defined you. Thank you for sharing such a beatiful piece. ❤❤❤
My people never found me. I'd always sit alone in middle and high school. I dont even know if my schools had clubs like that. But I'm happy your people found you.
I’ve never moved before, but I can understand how scary it is. Leaving your old home and going somewhere new isn’t easy, especially if you grew up where you’ve lived your whole life.
As someone who has moved to four different states, changed 6-7 different schools and probably 9 or more houses and temporal guesthouses more than I can count, i really relate to you. If you can't already tell, if my life was an anime or any show of that matter, i would be the new girl in school and quiet kid every single time. I wish I had a friend like Carmen, most i made lost touch, moved to other countries or passed away with you finding out eventually. Most friends i make now are school or work based
One of my closest friends had gotten so busy with work we haven't spoken in a while. A few years later, it was like nothing had changed friendship is awesome
Man, Carmen's poem and your story hit really deep for me. When I was a small child I moved to Spain with my parents and made a lot of friends there, including two that were very close to my heart. After a few years I moved back to my home country and me and my friends gradually started to lose contact with eachother. Eventually they both started to resent eachother and parted ways aswell. I see photos of them on social media and I can tell how much they've changed during all these years. When I look at some of the gifts they've given me before I moved I get reminded of a lot of small bittersweet memories. I just wish I could have had more of them since I dont remember much of my early childhood. It's so scary to see someone who you were closest with become a stranger. And it hurts a lot too. I'm glad it didn't happen to you two. Anyways i don't know where I was going with this I just felt like I had to say something with how much this video affected my emotions.
As someone who had to move during my high school years for essentially the first time this video hit very hard and a lot of these struggles are extremely relatable
Dang ok did NOT expect to get misty eyed over this Me and my friends are going to college next year and out of all of us, I’m the only one moving out of state, half way across the country actually So yeah, I’m a little emotional because I can relate Me and my friends have known each other since 6th grade and now, come fall of 2025, I won’t be around a lot And I really do hope we stay together :)
emily do you know just HOW relatable this is to me?? just this year I moved to another country after 10 YEARS of staying somewhere else. I just want to move back more than anything else. I was so used to everything there.. but most of all my bestest friend in the world lived there. we'd see each other in school all the time, and now I cant even talk to her every week.. but recently I have made two new friends. I want to be able to see my best friend the same way you did as an adult when you went back
I totally understand the feeling that you felt when moving. When I first moved to my new school I felt so depressed and out of place but now I feel much more comfortable than I was when I first moved.
honestly i knew emirichu was originally from ny but she feels so much like a cali kid i forgot and was shocked when she said she came to ca as a sophie
I really feel this video, I've moved a lot as a kid and it always hurt to leave my friends behind and eventually make new ones, but it is a really good experience even if it doesn't seem like it :)
6:24 It’s kind of funny how even in the U.S. different regions call things by different names. In the southeast we mostly just call loose leaf or lined paper notebook paper, although those other two terms are used here and there.
Oh my gossh!!! I'm early... This channel has really inspired me in art through out my childhood, I love your story telling and I just wanted to say thank you
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Hope yall enjoyed this format!!! I went with a simple paneling style and it was still really challenging, but I had fun! Thank you to kadokawa for this fantastic opportunity and big thank you as well to my friend Carmen for letting me illustrate her high school poem!!
Dang that's crazy
love ur videos!!
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Thanks For this ❤❤❤❤
Oh the pain of moving😢 I had 3 big moves growing up. New friends, Unfamiliar neighbors, Relearning your neighborhood, and Figuring out where the shops are. But everytime my parents moved it was like a hard reset and you can re-explore everything again :D
At first I thought that Emily was moving away from Japan but I remembered that Emily cannot live without anime cafés to fuel her addiction
Same tho haha 😂
sameeeeee, lol-
Lol 😂
thought the same
Same
bro are you making my weeb-ass read manga from left to right I can't take this anymore
Just here before this blows up
Hey, Maaz 👋
LOL💔
Is that such a bad thing?
LOL-
THE WAY MY HEART ALMOST LEFT MY CHEST GANG
Yes 😂😂😂😂😂
LMAO SAME
Same
Omg yesss 😭🤦🏾♀️
Lmaooo same xDDDD
Shiz beautiful, I had no idea the connection ran that deep.
NY trip with the gang again WHEN 👀
Beautiful
@@Emirichu Pack your bags, see you tomorrow. (Just say when)
Holy shit it’s Tabbes
omg tabbes you're still alive
Dude that poem almost made me cry. Moving states is never easy, especially when you know you don’t want to be there. Moving maybe out of obligation is the toughest learning curve of all, but all we can hope for is finding the silver lining through it all
huge ups to Carmen, that was such a heartfelt poem. I feel like it really captures the transient nature of growing apart/being far away from someone.
It was nice Carmen got to read it herself for this video.
It sure did and also made me cry a river god damn :-:
This poem hit HARD. My own best friend and I have a similar story--and thankfully have managed to remain close in spite of the distance.
I'm so glad she's still in touch with her!! Moving really does a number on your friendships but it can make people closer and it's clear it worked out for Emi 😭
Bro (gender neutral term), I full on started crying during the poem. Damn it...
MY FAVORITE MANGAKA EMIRICHU SENSEI?????
likes at 127 lessgooo
oh my god its him
Your alive ?????
EAROLD??????? IN 2024???
EROLD???? IN THIS ECONOMY??? :0
This manga style of story telling is awesome
Jesse, tell my brother (skeeter) that im asking how he is doing
Id love to see this more although i love emirichu’s animation.
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Yess
Carmen's poem was so touching, I wasn't expecting to get a little emotional. Even as adults it can be hard to be vulnerable with ppl you care about, but I really think that 's how you keep important friendships going for a long time 🩷
9:39 you could have told me that’s a love poem written by Sappho and I would have believed you
LITERALLY
9:30 That mix between Carmen talking about the connection being snipped away (both referring to your hair and relationship) and the manga sheet squares splitting RIGHT in-between the chunk of hair Carmen is holding from the rest of your head... It was a genius combination of both poetry and manga styles. You guys have a WONDERFUL natural chemistry! :D
WHY DID CARMEN’S POEM MAKE ME CRY 😭😭
that was one of the prettiest and heartfelt poems I’ve heard
it made me tear up too. i’m really happy for them that their friendship survived the distance
I was bawling ;A;
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who was brought to tears by the poem
I know, I gotta find out which poetry book has Carmen's poem published in it!
I was already tearing up before the poem. I had to pause cuz i knew the poem was gonna hit me hard n it did
oh my GOD carmen's poem was so beautiful 😭 I relate to the video with struggling to find friends and keep in touch with old friends back home when I moved for college,,, I was pretty successful making friends after I started sharing my art with people and even got a boyfriend in college, but I lost touch with my old friends and they got so resentful of me leaving that they cut me off without a word,,, which made things awkward when I came back for our family friend parties and they pretended nothing had happened. sometimes you grow out of the places you know and you find your own space in somewhere new.
Jesus loves us all
8:40 really beautiful and touching is an understatement it almost made me cry😭 and the thing is that she was about 15 to 16 years old at the time she wrote this piece of art is even more amazing!! You should be proud to have a friend like her, my friends are probably just drooling🤤 in some corner of their house thinking about food -_-
Dear Carmen: that poem is the most beautiful poem i have ever seen and read. I was so moved that didn't even noticed I was crying. It took me back to the time where I also felt this way. This poem healed my inner younger self of those year's. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful thing Emily and Carmen 🫂🫂😭❤❤
That poem genuinely pulled my heartstrings for a bit.
It pulled my hair strands in which were attached to my heartstrings (sorry I couldn’t help making a bad joke)
@@Wonderhoy-er😂
It pulled strands of hair too :3
That poem made me cry. I lost a friend I had for 8years last year, not to moving but still. And almost every time I see him, his hair is different, different color, different length..
Stay strong, you’ll be at peace one day
I lost a friend too, almost around the same time, and every time I think about him, I get so emotional and regret everything
EMIRICHU YOU GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK WOMAN
9:41 THAT RUINED ME, CRYING SCREAMING THROWING UP RN. It's truly beautiful, your friendship. How you to kept close. Reason I teared up when carmen's poem ended cause i know that exact feeling of seeing your owce beloved friend change in the influence of something so far away from you and it turns into a big reminders of the distance between you. I have lost a friend like that over the distance so :')
That poem was absolutely beautiful! It shows the best friendships can survive anything! Carmen sounds like a beautiful soul!
7:09 Midwesterner here! I’ve always called “lined paper” the term “loose-leaf”. Also sometimes call pizzas the term “pie”
I spent most of my younger years in San Diego, and I'm pretty sure we always called it "lined paper", and although I think I'd heard the term "pizza pie", I think I thought that was an old-fashioned term.
Anyway, I live in Seattle now, and it seems like Boomer-age people (esp. in the northern suburbs) call soda "pop". That's the main term in most of the Midwest, right?
@@andyjay729 your experience in san diego is the same as mine living in oregon for most of my life ^_^
@@andyjay729yes pop is a midwestern term. Nothing to do with age there
@@Ssslothbby I meant in the Seattle area, it seems like it's mostly used by people over about 50, implying that it may have been as common as "soda" (which is the on the west coast).
also fom the midwest, and i heard loose leaf used a lot
As a native San Diegan, the description of the school is absolutely accurate
Yup and I wouldn't have it any other way
To add to that, I went to school in Poway, one of the neighborhoods within San Diego, so it’s even more accurate
@@nicoville20 Fellow PHS alum here! Class of 2000, no less!
@ yeah… about that (Go Sundevils)
Note: I meant the town, not the actual high school
Fellow San Diegian here - yup, it was great that you could have lunch just about anywhere on campus! It helped my loner ass less visible!
I moved from Michigan to Florida, and anytime someone said "loose-leaf" I had no idea what they were talking about. Took me a while to figure out they just meant lined paper lmao
Same thing with "book-bags". Whenever someone asked me where my "book-bag" was I just said I didn't have one. Cue mutual confused staring
We called them book sacks in Louisiana.
Oh is book bag another east coast thing or something? I spent half my childhood in Florida and till now I always thought book bag and loose leaf were common synonyms 😭
That's funny, I am a michigander too but we've always used loose leaf
Really? I've heard both terms used here in Michigan. I do live in one of the bigger cities so maybe that's why!
hey im from ohio and i moved to florida and also noticed people said loose-leaf and book-bag! i just said paper and backpack lol
7:00 I am from the Midwest and we also use the term loose leaf so its not just the east coast but it could be the east of the country thing
The poem was wonderful.
I've ran away to so many places over time, escaping so many bad situations, and when I thought I'd found somewhere and someones that I would love to bring with me, it ended as suddenly as it started.
Almost a quarter of a century now, and still so lost...
When you got to the part where you and Carmen reunited after 5 years, my eyes welled with tears.
By the time Carmen finished reading her poem, I was bawling.
Same here, that poem made me cry…🥲
I feel like Carmen is a very good friend. No- A Great Friend. Even since you moved to California, It's amazing that Carmen didn't forget you Emi. It's a little sad when things change and Carmen feels distance between you. New York is very different from California. And so is USA so different from Japan. But that patience that she waited on you, staying by your side and your beauty never changed to her- Please treasure all of these with all of your heart. 🙏🏼
9:41 I'm crying oh my god😭😭😭
Same😭😭😭😭😭
HELP- I literally have goosebumps all over my body AND I'm crying, your friendship with Carmen is SO freaking wholesome 😭
On an Unrelated note, it's CRAZY how much one can unintentionally horde. A few weeks ago, me and my Dad were packing away things we don't need for storage because our House was being renovated... We filled up 4 entire large rubbish-bags with un-needed clothes ALONE. Then another 5 filled with forgotten items we didn't even know we had, or don't recall getting. It was both hilarious and tiring.
Honestly for me? Moving is like growing up, you change places but still keeps what is yours, and new places can give you new places and possibilities, and you end up learning new things and people alongside that
So when you move more than once, it hurts, but still, you keep learning and growing, and experiencing new sighs and people❤
omg I said new places twice, I'm too tired 💀💀
Definitely. My story’s different, moving actually sort of made me regress. I became more bitter, angry, depressed, and very very alone; new experiences and possibilities are scarce here in the small-town south, if there are any at all. Coming up on 2 years here and I still hate it and wished that I never moved.
After a while though, I learned to make the most of what I was given and how to keep myself occupied on the many lonelier days that came around. I picked up a lot of new interests, found some new hobbies, even took initiative to get my driver’s license so I can finally have a way to get around. I found that my motivation was to leave, and I’m taking steps to do so. That kind of ability to just…get up and do things, it was hard to do before and especially after I moved here. Now I’m a whole lot better, and the quiet time was maddening at first but getting the chance to focus on myself and hone in on what truly makes me happy (and what to do to achieve those things) was very valuable.
emi..you scared me
Same 😢
Yeah.. me too.
Same here
Fr 😭
Same as well 😢😢😢
this hits unbelievably close to home. i left for a different city in my second to last year of highschool, and you cannot know how much i relate to this video. the unfamiliarity, the sense that you don't belong and the lingering attachments and longings for what you have left behind, be it people, places or things. although i may not have had your 'anime club' moment yet, im grateful and thankful that i have my very own 'carmen'. thank you.
That ending poem broke my heart. I know that pain all too well when I left public school to become home-schooled. Only took a few days and I was completely forgotten by my only friends. No matter how much I reached out to them...I...didn't exist to them anymore. Even now, that pain has a hold on me and I fear everytime when an online friend says, "Goodbye" for the day...that that might be the very last time I will ever talk to them. It has happened so many times from then to now...saying goodbye for the very last time and not knowing it. Still hurts no matter how many times I go through it.
Carmen's poem is beautiful and the fact that you illustrated it makes it even more beautiful. What an amazing work!
as a brazillian girl that moved to Portugal at age 9, I related to your video so deeply that I actually started tearing up. My experience was the same as yours' and many others': recieving the news out of nowhere, trying everything in my power to stay where I lived, hating all the aspects of my new life until I got used to it, but the main difference was how a distance started to emmerge between my roots and my identity in here: I lost contact with ALL my friends the first 3 months living here and I didn't speak much to my family, people that I saw daily or weekly now I either stopped talking to or only see once a month. This kind of video usually doesn't affect me much because it's been almost 10 years since I moved, but the way you talked about the language barrier, moving from a big beautiful house to a small ugly appartment, and the overall fear of change you felt really resonated with me. I hope everyone going trough something like this see this video, because it shows that even if change is awfull, scary and hard to adapt to, it does get better!
As someone who had to move around about every year during my childhood. This really hit me hard.
I only recently moved back to my childhood town, and even though it's so nice to meet up and hangout with old friends, it makes you feel so alienated when everyone you used to know grew together and they all have context that only they know.
Dang… that poem made me cry🥲 I can relate to the fear of losing someone when they move away. It warms my heart that you two were able to remain friends. Thank you for sharing this story. 💙
5:53 HELP WHY DID I THINK THIS WAS CONNOR 😭😭😭
Not many people get to say that they still have a friend from grade school much less high school. I can honestly say that I have one friend from grade school and six from high school that I still am in contact with and see every so often. They are all awesome and I'm glad to have them. If your friendship can withstand distance and time and the both of you can pick up like nothing has changed, then that's a golden friendship.
The poem has me crying and helped me realize something about myself too. I had a traumatic experience happen to me a few years ago and hearing how each cut removed a connection between you and your friend made me realize that I had also removed a connection from him to me. He has not got to touch the hair I wear now. It gave me a sense of relief.
One of my closest ever friends moved like 16km away once. He didnt even leave town. But I couldnt drive, and it was too far to bike, so we resigned ourselves to having a discord-only friendship. This was just as I was entering high school, in 2020. So, you know... just all-round bad time
That poem reminded me of everything i thought seeing my friend morph and change while i couldny see him. Peak writing. Sobbing and shitting as we speak
agh that poem is so good and emotinal, she deserved to be in that book
The poem made me cry. So beautiful 😭
I can't fathom the fact that many people have quite the same situations as others, I could yap about my time when I shifted over 7 times in the span of 9 years and well due to that I never really made friends and always atleast a little bit felt lonely and especially when covid hit, it was a complete disaster, well I am glad I overcame it by somehow using my introvert ass to get new friends and I'm glad that you did too! And if anyone has the same problems, I really hope they overcome it too.
Honestly, this is how I felt when I moved away from home to college, especially on the friends part. I was worried moving so far away, my friendships would fade away and be forgotten. It's a sucky feeling
Yea maybe an east coast thing, we used “loose leaf paper” too where I live
I'd never heard it until I went to college (San Diegan my whole life). And only when someone used the full phrase of "loose leaf paper" did I know what they meant. It meant paper not ripped from a spiral binder.
As a born and raised SoCal girl, never have I ever heard of the loose leaf term EVER in my life.
Never knew people didn't use the term pie for pizza but I know it's called pizza pie. (Which is pretty fun to say sometimes.)
A majority of high school did look like the ones you described. Mine definitely looked like that. Always HATED the fact every assembly was in the gym. I'd rather have an auditorium.
The "Hella" part is accurate tho. Oh man, that is super accurate.
maybe fewer italians as you go west so some core knowledge didn't permeate as much?
I also used hella a lot when I was younger but I’m from Seattle lol.
The poem made me CRY. Shoutout to Carmen she deserved that win. It's such an honor and privilege to have a true friend in your life.
In Florida it's usually called lose leaf paper as the "Profesional" term you would find in classroom necessities lists
But most people just call it paper or lined paper cause no one has non lined paper
When I went to school in Australia we called it "a piece of paper", if it had lines on it that was a bonus :)
I can’t believe TH-cam kept this from me for a whole 30 seconds
9:24 IM NOT CRYING, SOMEONES CHOPPING ONIONS😭😭
I GOT SCARED THEN I FINISHED THE INTRO😭😭
Oh my gosh, as soon as you said "read by Carmen" I started instantly tearing up. That poem is so sweet.
Loose-leaf seems like more of a Northern thing? I live in Florida, but we usually say "sheet/piece of paper." We don't typically even specify the type of paper. I think I'd understand if someone asked for a "sheet of loose-leaf," though.
Carmens words are truly beautiful. As someone who has lost many friends throughout my teenage years I loved the way she talked about hair and how eventually you can outgrow the styles that once defined you. Thank you for sharing such a beatiful piece. ❤❤❤
The poem part was just beautiful. I can't express it in words.
The manga style story telling is amazing.
Are you from art simple
My people never found me. I'd always sit alone in middle and high school. I dont even know if my schools had clubs like that.
But I'm happy your people found you.
that poem was beautiful! Carmen and Emi are so lucky to have such a beautiful friendship
I HOPE YOU DO WELL IN YOIR CONTEST EMILY💕
How dare you post this while I’m moving out of my childhood home!!
I’ve never moved before, but I can understand how scary it is. Leaving your old home and going somewhere new isn’t easy, especially if you grew up where you’ve lived your whole life.
As someone who has moved to four different states, changed 6-7 different schools and probably 9 or more houses and temporal guesthouses more than I can count, i really relate to you. If you can't already tell, if my life was an anime or any show of that matter, i would be the new girl in school and quiet kid every single time. I wish I had a friend like Carmen, most i made lost touch, moved to other countries or passed away with you finding out eventually. Most friends i make now are school or work based
the poem is sooo pretty!!! I honestly cried hearing it, it encapsulates that feeling so well
One of my closest friends had gotten so busy with work we haven't spoken in a while. A few years later, it was like nothing had changed friendship is awesome
Emi’s art will always be my inspiration!!
Moving can be a cruel experience for a child, but sometimes life surprises us!
She had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
Man, Carmen's poem and your story hit really deep for me.
When I was a small child I moved to Spain with my parents and made a lot of friends there, including two that were very close to my heart. After a few years I moved back to my home country and me and my friends gradually started to lose contact with eachother. Eventually they both started to resent eachother and parted ways aswell. I see photos of them on social media and I can tell how much they've changed during all these years. When I look at some of the gifts they've given me before I moved I get reminded of a lot of small bittersweet memories. I just wish I could have had more of them since I dont remember much of my early childhood.
It's so scary to see someone who you were closest with become a stranger. And it hurts a lot too. I'm glad it didn't happen to you two.
Anyways i don't know where I was going with this I just felt like I had to say something with how much this video affected my emotions.
As someone who had to move during my high school years for essentially the first time this video hit very hard and a lot of these struggles are extremely relatable
This literally just happened too me i moved very far from where i used to live to where i am now so i get this
0:13 USA CHAN!!! OHSHC MENTIONED!!!! :D
OML IS THAT HONEY’S PLUSHIE?!
I NEVER CLICKED ON A VIDEO MORE FASTER THAN THIS IN MY LIFE. WAKE UP FOLKS! EMI POSTED!
That title scared me so much
Your manga style looks INCREDIBLE! I wish you the very best!
The friendship you and Carmen have is truly remarkable!! Thank you for the amazing story-telling - it’s a genuine tear-jerker
9:18 pov: IM SOBBINGGGGGGGGGGG AHHHHHH
That poem was amazing. a tear almost came out that the end. Carmen you did amazing and Emily I hope you win the competition
That poem was beautiful! I’m not crying, you’re crying 😂
this is one of the most beautiful sentiments i’ve ever seen and fully describes the moving experience from a friend you planned your lives with. 💓
You know you got a true friend when even after 5 years of not seeing each other, you guys still can hang out just as well
1:38 Oh, "WORDLESS". I kept hearing "Worthless" and thought it was meant as a sarcastic title or something xD
Literally same!
Dang ok did NOT expect to get misty eyed over this
Me and my friends are going to college next year and out of all of us, I’m the only one moving out of state, half way across the country actually
So yeah, I’m a little emotional because I can relate
Me and my friends have known each other since 6th grade and now, come fall of 2025, I won’t be around a lot
And I really do hope we stay together :)
emily do you know just HOW relatable this is to me?? just this year I moved to another country after 10 YEARS of staying somewhere else. I just want to move back more than anything else. I was so used to everything there.. but most of all my bestest friend in the world lived there. we'd see each other in school all the time, and now I cant even talk to her every week.. but recently I have made two new friends. I want to be able to see my best friend the same way you did as an adult when you went back
"the bagels here are so bad!" I feel this lmao
Cali makes up for it with the burritos though!
Excuse you!
It's the chimichangas. The chimichangas make up for it. It's Mexican food ecstacy. Mexstacy, if you will.
and don't forget in-n-out
I totally understand the feeling that you felt when moving. When I first moved to my new school I felt so depressed and out of place but now I feel much more comfortable than I was when I first moved.
honestly i knew emirichu was originally from ny but she feels so much like a cali kid i forgot and was shocked when she said she came to ca as a sophie
8:47 OH GOD MY HEART!😭😭😭
That poem got me…why does that make me cry Emily!!!! ❤❤❤
I really feel this video, I've moved a lot as a kid and it always hurt to leave my friends behind and eventually make new ones, but it is a really good experience even if it doesn't seem like it :)
Aww Carmen's poem was beautiful. I'm so glad you guys have such a strong friendship, what a beautiful sentiment!
Her poem almost made me cry. You could feel her fear of abandonment.
6:24 It’s kind of funny how even in the U.S. different regions call things by different names. In the southeast we mostly just call loose leaf or lined paper notebook paper, although those other two terms are used here and there.
2:48 Happy new year! Your moving to California!
*"On that day humanity received a grim reminder..."*
THE TITLE ACTUALLY GAVE ME AN HEART ATTACK EMILY
9:02 SHIT SO GOOD IT MADE ME CRY WHAAATT!? 😭😭😭
I was not in any capacity ready for the absolute heart wrencher that that poem was. It deserved all the accolades it got and then some.
Oh my gossh!!! I'm early... This channel has really inspired me in art through out my childhood, I love your story telling and I just wanted to say thank you