the success story of this YouTuber from Dieppe

Since 2012, Hervé, originally from Dieppe (Seine-Maritime) has launched on the online video platform YouTube. Initially, it was in Canada that he shared his passion for arts books, these documents bringing together images and various contents around a work.

He participates in a convention around One Piece in 2015, in Quebec, where he revealed the behind-the-scenes of animation. However, in North America, mayonnaise is struggling to take hold. So in 2015, he decided to open a second YouTube channel, One Piece Passion, where Hervé began to review episodes and chapters of One Pieceon video. “There were three of us doing it at that time,” he confides.

Introduce manga to school

Very quickly, he saw the enthusiasm of Internet users for this type of content and very quickly reached 20,000 subscribers. During an invitation to a convention in Belgium, the YouTuber had a revelation:

“That’s when I saw the importance I had. I took something to show the documents and then I realized: it doesn’t work in Canada but it’s a hit in Europe,” he recalls.

So in 2016, with his partner, he returned to France, to the Dieppe region. And there, he dedicated himself entirely to his YouTube channel and made it his profession, while increasing the number of exhibitions around geek culture.

Today, Hervé is followed by nearly 150,000 subscribers. In addition to reviews, he now also produces package openings or more in-depth analysis videos. Today he is a bit like “the geek or uncle geek”, he smiles.

Seinomarin would like to exhibit more often in Dieppe, as was the case during the Bulles and Caux festival in June 2024.

But what he would especially like is to be able to speak in schools to explain how manga and anime are created. And also explain how to become a YouTuber. Nevertheless, he wants to raise awareness: “It’s a work of writing, research, editing. Ok, being on YouTube is good, but you have to study, you can make a living from it, but it’s a crazy job, you can’t make a living from it if you don’t work 80 hours. »

Regarding manga, he wants to inform younger people that it can create vocations “and that there are not only harmful sides. Manga was a gateway to reading,” recalls Hervé.

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