AI Manga, Gemini, Nano Banana Pro, Kindle, Usami-style 5-hour course
I have turned sixty-eight.
To be honest, fifty years ago, or even ten years ago, I never imagined that I would reach this age and become someone who teaches AI.
However, reality often goes beyond what one expects, and now I find myself teaching things like Claude, Gemini, and Higgsfield to students on Street Academy, while staring at my drone and materials for my next lecture at my home in Itoshima.
I cannot help but wonder how this came to be, but perhaps that is just how things go.
I started teaching AI in earnest when I was sixty-five.
Every time people around me say, "That's amazing," I don't really understand why it's considered amazing. For someone who has taken photos, edited videos, and written eighty-four Kindle books, AI is nothing more than a "new tool." The essence is the same as when cameras switched from film to digital.
However, the tool called AI is a little different from the tools of the past.
It remembers for you. It thinks for you. And it continues to evolve at a terrifying speed.
Usa-juku—the online salon I preside over—is currently teaching Claude, Claude Code, Gemini, Higgsfield, and antigravity.
Claude is an AI created by Anthropic, and when it comes to writing, it is on par with GPT, or rather, in my experience, I have the impression that Claude has a "deeper way of thinking." When you actually use them side-by-side, the difference is clear.
Claude Code is an AI that writes programs, and this is also amazing. I am not a programmer or anything of the sort, but when I ask Claude Code, a tool is completed in thirty minutes, and I cannot help but wonder how this is possible.
Higgsfield is an AI that generates videos and images, and when you master it—well, the expression might be old-fashioned—it feels like having something like a "Hollywood SFX department" inside your own computer.
At Usa-juku, we share the latest information on these tools every week. This is because in the world of AI, the common knowledge of this week might change by next week.
Now, I must talk about the kind of people I am teaching.
The first group is those who have retired.
There are an increasing number of people who have quit their jobs at sixty or sixty-five and are seriously thinking about how to live their next chapter in life. I believe that for such people, AI can become a "second purpose in life."
I am something of a proof of that myself. I started learning AI at sixty-five, and now at sixty-eight, I have been awarded at the Cerulean Tower in Tokyo, my Street Academy students have reached two thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and my TikTok is monetized. Age really does not matter.
Rather, because you have lived a long life, your ability to judge people and your insight into what is essential have been polished, and that becomes a surprisingly strong advantage in mastering AI. Your past experience becomes the paint that creates colors on the canvas of AI that no one else can imitate.
The second group is those who are currently working actively.
Whether you are a company employee or a freelancer, I believe that whether or not you can use AI in your work will create a terrifying gap over the next few years.
For example, if someone whose job involves writing learns to use Claude or Gemini effectively, their daily workload can triple. This is not an exaggeration; it is something I have experienced myself.
AI is also an incredibly powerful weapon for those who want to become independent as freelancers. I started as a photographer, lived as a video creator, and now work as an AI instructor, and I can state with certainty that I could not have reached my current scale of activity without AI.
I teach people how to achieve their specific goals—whether it's 'starting a side hustle,' 'becoming independent,' or 'making their current work more efficient'—using AI as a tool. This includes not just how to operate it, but also the 'winning strategies' for how to earn money.
The third group is children.
This is what I am thinking about most seriously right now.
I believe AI is like a giant tsunami approaching not at the speed of sound, but at 'hypersonic' speed. No, it has already arrived. The coastline is already soaked.
I believe that in order for children not to be swallowed by this tsunami, they need to 'become friends' with AI as early as possible. They need to learn to use it not as an enemy, but as a tool and a partner.
The sound of children saying 'I did it!' when they draw pictures with AI—perhaps that is the moment I keep teaching for.
The sooner you know it, the longer you can master it. That is all there is to it.
In my courses on Street Academy, I don't teach difficult things.
No, rather, I teach 'how to make it simple.' Since I started at sixty-five and am the one teaching, 'understandable even for beginners' is an absolute requirement.
For those who want to try drawing manga, I teach the 'New Usami-style' method of AI manga. It is a method for creating characters that fuse the art styles of Akira Toriyama, Osamu Tezuka, and Hirohiko Araki using just one smartphone. When I teach this, the look in the students' eyes changes.
For those who want to create videos, I teach Premiere Pro, CapCut, and recently, AI video generation using Higgsfield. Every time I say, 'Things that would have required equipment worth hundreds of millions of yen thirty years ago can now be done on a smartphone,' I feel the atmosphere in the room stir.
For those who want to publish on Kindle, I teach everything from how to write a book and design a cover to registering on KDP. I have self-published eighty-four books and produced over one hundred and thirty. I am pouring all of that experience into my teaching without reservation.
Let me say just one thing at the end.
AI is not scary.
Change is scary. But once you know change, you cannot go back to the time when you didn't know it.
I experienced that when I was sixty-five. From the day I learned about AI, the way I saw the world changed completely. It might be close to the shock a person who had only ever seen black-and-white photos felt when they saw a color photo for the first time.
I want you to see that world of color, too.
Whether you are retired, currently working, or a child—I want everyone, in their own place, to become friends with this new tool called AI.
To help with that, I am here at my home in Itoshima today, firing up Claude, running Higgsfield, and preparing the course for the next students.
Honestly, it's not a bad life at all.
Using the Usami-style AI Manga method, even those without an artistic bone in their body can draw a one-page manga in 5 minutes. AI manga, manga, Nano Banana Pro, Gemini, I will make your dream of drawing manga come true.
Here is what you will learn:
● Even with zero artistic talent, you can draw a one-page manga in 5 minutes.
● Even with zero artistic talent, you can draw a six-page manga in 30 minutes.
● Even with zero artistic talent, you can draw and publish a whole manga book in a few days.
You might not believe it.
But this is a fact.
By using the "Usami-style AI Manga Technique No. 6," which combines AI (Gemini) and Nano Banana Pro, the ideas in your head can become high-quality manga in just 5 minutes.
If you have a smartphone, you can draw even at Starbucks.
If you have a PC, it is even more comfortable.
And it doesn't end with just drawing.
The goal of this course is the "completion of Amazon Kindle publishing."
By the time the course ends, you will be a real author.
"I want to draw manga someday." How many years have passed while you thought that?
Aren't you giving up because you think you can't draw?
Are you making excuses that you can't come up with a story?
Are you unable to take the first step because you lack the confidence to finish it?
You don't need those excuses anymore.
This course is a boot camp designed to forcibly make your dream come true in just one day (about 5 hours).
Using the "Usami-style AI Manga Technique No. 6" that I developed, it takes only 5 minutes to create a 6-panel page.
Even if you have no artistic sense or drawing skills, it is fine.
You can even include photos in your manga.
By the time the course ends in the evening, you will likely be looking at your own Amazon author page with your work in hand.
● The "3 Assets" you will gain in this course
① A lifelong skill: "Usami-style AI Manga Technique No. 6"
Normally, it takes weeks to months to complete one manga book.
With the Usami style, you can do one in as little as one day.
Prompt templating, automatic panel layout, character consistency—I will give you all the "optimal solutions" that I spent a vast amount of time verifying.
From tomorrow, you will be ready to mass-produce manga.
② The lifelong brand of being an "Author"
You will be able to write "Amazon Author" on your business card.
This is a powerful weapon in business.
If you express your thoughts and know-how through manga, readers will become fans.
Fans will become customers.
③ Meeting like-minded peers (In-person courses and online salon Usa-juku)
The people who gather at the Fukuoka venue are those with high aspirations and a drive to act.
The time spent showing each other's work and stimulating one another is an experience you can never get online.
● Differences from other courses
Have you ever had experiences like these?
・Only explanations of tool operations, and no work was completed.
・Gave up due to English or complex settings.
・The person teaching has zero track record to begin with.
・Was told I could "make money," but the quality was so low it didn't sell. "Chose based only on review count and failed." Such consultations never cease even now.
✅ The Usami style is different.
Operation explanations are kept to a minimum.
I only teach the method to create "works that sell."
People who have failed in other courses say, "I should have come here from the start."
That is the answer to my course.
● Regarding the course fee
5 hours 50,000 yen *Scheduled to increase to 100,000 yen in half a year.Now is the lowest price.
【Note】
The new Usami-style No. 6 is not a one-time purchase.
This course is not a "sell and forget" deal. Joining Usa-juku is required. We will continue to support you long after the course via Usa-juku (Discord/LINE). That is why it produces results compared to a one-off purchase.
Furthermore, in the weekly Friday study sessions, I also teach how to grow SNS like note and Claude Code.
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Normally, the market rate for outsourcing illustrations to a manga artist is 10,000 to 30,000 yen per page.
For 10 pages, that is at least 100,000 yen.
But if you acquire the skills in this course, no matter how many Kindle books you publish in the future or how many hundreds of images you post on SNS, the additional cost is zero.
50,000 yen is not a "disappearing expense."
It is an "investment in a lifelong skill."
⚠️ This course is limited to 10 people per month.
Now that you are interested is the time to apply.
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Instagram: 69,000
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● Instructor Profile: Dai Usami
Stro-Academy's highest "Pro Badge Instructor"
Winner of two Stro-Academy awards
Recognized as an AI achiever at Cerulean Tower in Shibuya, Tokyo
Kindle publishing: 84 personal books / Over 130 produced / 10 commercial publications / 5 bestsellers / Serialized in the weekly magazine "Shinsha-o"
Total students: 2,861
X (Twitter) 25,000 followers
Instagram 69,000 followers
I started studying AI at 65.
I am 68 this year.
"I'm too old," "I have no talent"—those are excuses.
I am the proof of that.
I will pass on all my know-how, which fuses my knowledge of "composition, light, and direction" as a professional photographer of over 40 years with the latest AI technology, without holding anything back.
When you stumble, I will guide you to completion, even if I have to perform the operations for you directly.
Please jump in with peace of mind.
● Dates and times are flexible.
Please consult with me via message before applying for the course.
This is a 5-hour course, but let's schedule it together, such as 1 hour today, 2 hours tomorrow, 2 hours the day after, etc.
However, please be sure to finish within one month.
Of course, 5 consecutive hours is also OK.
● In-person courses cannot be canceled as we rent the facility.
■ Participation Requirements & Items to Bring
Laptop (Required)
Win/Mac doesn't matter, but having a mouse makes work faster.
Google account
Gemini Pro
Motivation (This is the most important!)
* Please prepare the necessary AI tool contracts (Gemini Pro, etc.) and Amazon KDP account creation by the day of the course. (If you don't know how, I will support you via Stro-Academy message in advance!)
■ Student Testimonials (From past related courses)
"Even at 60, I was really able to draw manga! I was anxious about PC operations, but Mr. Usami taught me kindly right next to me, and I gained confidence." (60s female, homemaker)
"Participated because I wanted to use manga for business lead generation. Considering the outsourcing costs, this tuition is too cheap. Being able to take home all the know-how in one day is something only possible in person." (40s male, business owner)
"The teacher's enthusiasm is amazing! '1 page in 5 minutes' was not an exaggeration. On the train home, I couldn't stop being excited about the concept for my next work." (30s female, office worker)
You can also draw case-study manga like the following.
Student's note