Draw comics, read comics, Karaoke, check out cool cafes
Music
Spitz,
L'Arc~en~Ciel,
Fura Peco,
Savage Garden,
Darren Hayes
Movies
Interview with a Vampire,
Dead Poets Society,
The Castle in the Sky Laputa
Television
How do you like Wednesday?
Books
Comics:
Please Save My Earth,
Touch - This is the comic that actually made me want to be a cartoonist in Japan.
Pluto,
20th Century Boy,
Monsters,
Slam Dunk,
Patlabour,
City Hunter...
Novels:
Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles - I love the vampire series so much that I actually drew a few comics about vampires and sent them to the publishers until the editors told me to stop sending the comics of vampire's stories. (Apparently there are too many vampire comics in the market that the editors think the readers have already got sick of them.)
Heroes
Urasawa Naoki (the author of Monsters, 20th Century Boy and Pluto)
About me: Hi, I am a Chinese Canadian now trying to debut in Japan as a cartoonist. I don't know so far how many non-Japanese cartoonists have actually succeeded in Japan, but hopefully I will be one of them.
Hachimitsu House
Here's my website where you can read my comics.
(I'm sorry but it's in Japanese only.)
So far I'm not planning to make a Japanese version for my website, but if I get requests I may think about making one in the future.