The Background

A difficult reception was not the end of the story.

Dan’s Dandy Asobi Club proposal faced tough criticism on Reiwa no Tora. Rather than leave the idea at the pitch stage, he began creating spaces where people could actually engage with one another. VS Dan Mitchel is one of those projects.

He later appeared as the first applicant on Reiwa no Ryu, presenting a project to turn entrepreneurs’ life stories into short films. The original appearances and his subsequent livestreams offer different perspectives on these ongoing efforts.

The Conversations

The conversations so far.

The Vision

For everyone to be happy.

At the heart of Dan’s work is a wish for people to discover what they genuinely want to do and believe they can do it. He connects that aspiration with the cultivation of intellect, sensitivity and spirituality—and with what he calls “the evolution of humanity.”

Dandy Asobi Club is built around “Serious Play”: a shared endeavour involving performers, production staff, business teams and audiences. Dan calls this a “Cognitive Team”—a community whose members believe in their own and one another’s ability to contribute.

The vision is to create projects across all 47 prefectures of Japan and share them with the world through film. VS Dan Mitchel is one practical step toward that vision.