Ouuuuh this is fun! I like questions like that ... but be prepared with a possibly lengthy answer.
So why does nOsaka Slang exist?
I have always been a quite artsy person. When I was 5 I began to play piano, which I still do. I am a musician through and through. But when Internet became a thing for me (around 1998? Late ninties for sure. Yes I had a 56k modem... Beee boooop be be be booooop. x-D) i started to write. And with writing I mean like in RPGs which back then we wrote via e-Mail. A little bit like our tapas-café here. And even this hobby of mine I do till now.
I created so many characters, so many stories together with people who today aren't my family, but somehow like a second family. Per year I drive several times from my town (Bremen) to Kassel (in Hesse) about 300km to see them just for a weekend of good time. ^^ And that is quite the start. But not only.
The first comic I read was something from Disney. Donald Duck ... I love Donald he has always been my favourite character, because in a way he is the most realistic. Of course there are not, or should not, be any ducks in real life with PTSD but that isn't really the point. It's the story behind that figurine that matters to me: It is relateable. He doesn't have the most luck, which is what many people feel in their life. But he also has his moments in which he shines. Failure -> Failure -> Success, is something I read not too long ago and that has its parts in it.
Of course I also watched cartoons back then. DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, Looney Toons, Simpsons etc. Then a friend of mine (who also still is a friend of mine) showed me manga ...
The first manga I read was "Magicknight Rayearth" from CLAMP, who also created works like "Card Capture Sakura" or "Chobits". Even though Magickingt Rayearth was more pointed to a female audience I just LOVED it. Today I'd say it's the same as with Donald Duck: Relateable characters! Even though magical girls are an abstruse idea in reality, the characters made it work well. Then came Ranma 1/2 and it was clear to me, that I loved manga ...
Then there are also anime ... my first anime was, without knowing it, Saber Rider and The Starsherrifs. I was still in Kindergarten when I saw it the first time. And all those other series who followes, Dragonballs, Cats Eye ... Neon Genisis Evangelion and all that other stuff.
Now I will skip a bit. Neon Genisis was in the late 90's as well, maybe early 2000's which, YES, I taped on VHS back then (if someone doesn't know what a VHS is ... d'aaaw so cute! ... GOOGLE IT! ).
So around 2014/15 I found this manga "Sasameki Koto". I always liked yuri-stories but never found those that felt "right". A lot of those stories are very bubbly and scratch problems characters may have only on the facade. Sasameki Koto though was really warm. The characters weren't "Mary Sues" but had all their strenghts and weeknesses. I could rely to them. And even though almost half a decade has past since I found that manga (which btw. I bought as an import from Japan later on just so the author could get his royalities AND so I could have a hard copy ... I still am not swell at reading Kanji so it is pretty much a hassle still ... <.<) I haven't found a manga that came to that level that i could compare.
And also there was ONE sentence in that same manga that showed me how storiotypical some stories are. It was someting like "We are eating hamburger steak. It's a famous dish from Germany!"
Okay and as a German who KNOWS that we did not do such a thing (Hamburger can stay amercian for ever to me, and I bet most Americans will agree ^^) I thought. "Why not make a comic about something that you love, has a story type that you like too AND looks JAPAN in your own stereotypical way?"
So I basically just turned the story around: A girl goes to a foreign country. She knows the language (mostly), and has read a lot about it but that's basically it. And then she falls in love and things become more difficult than she thought at first. I wanted, and still want, to create story with characters who are relateable. Of course I use humour and stereotypes as well since EVERYONE is biased anyways. And since that German girl joins a band I will also take the oppportunity and make music for this band ... or I hope I will. The story it self has to go far yet.
Thus yeah: Relateableness, love for romance and "yuri" themes AND the lack of non-bubblegum-stories braught me to write this comic and eventually here...
And this is my comic:
And as this trip will end some day (I am probably talking years ... or decades haha) or as I have found much more time at my hands (yet I am still a musician first ) I will write a comic about dragons, vikings, polynesians in space fighting against orcs or something. I don't know! I am just joking! ... or am I?