Bitsy Tandem presents, the iiiSekai Extended Multiverse
Bitsy Tandem presents, the iiiSekai Extended Multiverse
Hello, Earthlings! Space cadets! Curious little star wanderers!
Hello, Star Wanderers!
I’m Bitsy J. E. Tandem, the creator of Eotera and the mind behind the iiiXM (iiiSekai Extended Multiverse). If you’ve stumbled upon my little corner of the universe for the first time, welcome aboard the Mothership, the Prime Meridian!
You’ve arrived at a rather interesting time.
After years of creating comics, developing fictional worlds, running creative projects, experimenting with social media, and occasionally wondering if I have accidentally signed myself up for too many lifetimes of work, I’m making some changes.
iiiSekai is entering a new chapter.
My business structure, intellectual property management, publishing plans, and social media presence are all evolving. I’m taking a closer look at how I create, where I publish, and how I can share my stories with you in a way that is both sustainable and enjoyable.
This isn’t the end of anything I love. We still plan to make Vtuber assets, and Bitsy & Bepin related art, and all that! But now is an opportunity to build something that can actually keep growing.
So, let’s open the airlock and have a little chat!
A little update from the Mothership, and a new direction for Bitsy, Eotera, and the iiiXM.
For those who are new here, iiiSekai is my independent creative universe and production studio. It’s where me and a very small team bring together our interests in manga, anime, illustration, storytelling, character design, and worldbuilding.
At the heart of it all is the iiiXM: iiiSekai Extended Multiverse.
The Japanese word for good, ii~ and the word we all know as other worlds, isekai, come together just like you and me! Just like the iiiXM! It’s a collection of strange and wonderful realms, unfamiliar civilizations, questionable life-forms, and stories about the messy business of being alive.
I, Bitsy, have spent years dreaming up worlds, drawing characters, writing stories, and asking questions about the strange, messy, and occasionally stinky human experience.
You know, the usual hobbies of a perfectly normal alien.
But the way I run iiiSekai, now official imprint of Eotera Entertainment LLC, is changing.
Lil Bitsy needs to start taking a more deliberate approach to managing original intellectual property, developing a regular publishing catalogue, and building a home for the stories so that they can grow with me over the years.
That means some housekeeping!
Uhg… I hate housekeeping~
But I will do it for you!
I have already been reviewing and cleaning up my existing comic listings on Webtoon and GlobalComix, updating older pages, organizing my published works, and making sure readers can find the right information about each project.
Some things may move around. Some pages may be refreshed. And some projects may take a different route to publication than I originally imagined.
The goal isn’t to erase the past. It’s to give everything a more organized place in the future.
Most of my work will actually be on ReamStories.com for the sake of protecting my IP from… well you know… Nasty AI and people who use it…
But I still want to grow our little multiverse of original stories and bring in as many Star Wanderers in to our comfy community as we can. So please stick around, join us for unfamiliar planets, strange civilizations, and characters trying to figure out what it means to be alive!
This part is a little more personal.
I love making manga. I love drawing characters, developing expressions, and bringing an entire fictional world to life through sequential art. Tho this bitsy do wish it could animate… that would be way cooler!
But I’ve also learned something rather difficult about myself in my 12 years creating professionally:
I cannot sustainably produce manga entirely on my own.
I’ve tried. More than once.
Every time I started gaining momentum on Webtoon, life seemed to have other plans. I became seriously ill, lost my ability to keep up with regular updates, and eventually lost much of the audience I’d worked so hard to build.
It happened three times.
The momentum was gone, and rebuilding it was an entirely different challenge. What was once TheBitzr Publishings was now dead. The rat-race was not for me.
It was time for a change.
I stepped away from Webtoon, Twitter, and my entire social life and spent two years focusing on making a reboot of my manga. (Crazy that I used to send seasonal greetings to THE Merryweather back in the day.) But alas, by the time I was ready to return to my old hunts, much of my previous online community had moved on. Many simply ghosting me.
With the help of ComixLaunch and Assistant Bean, I did manage to bring Maiden in Disguise: NEW GAME to success via Kickstarter, with the help of a brief burst of attention on TikTok.
I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who supported!
But the reality after this small win was that I spent years treading water. The financial pressure, the production demands, and the difficulty of trying to do everything myself eventually took a toll on my health and creativity.
And I did not want to keep repeating that cycle.
So I stopped.
All of it, for a few years. But I could not stay away forever.
Bepin~chan actually was the one who got me off my sad lil buns and into the Vtuber space. The 3 of us, Bepin, Bean, and Bitsy, stared iiiSekai and it was going well! Our shop and assets were getting lots of love!
So I got up the courage and for the past year, I’ve been streaming as Bitsy_the_Alien, and becoming a VTuber has been such a blessing. I’ve found a way to connect with people, share my creative process, work with clients, and enjoy making things again.
My commissions are available on VGen, and new people discover my work every day.
It has reminded me that there are many ways to be a creative professional. I don’t have to force every idea into the same format.
So I’m making a change.
Rather than trying to produce every story as a fully illustrated manga, I’m shifting more of my original storytelling toward Japanese-style light novels and illustrated prose.
This gives a lil Bitsy a much more manageable way to share the worlds I’ve spent years developing.
I can write more frequently, explore characters in greater depth, introduce readers to different cultures, and share stories without needing to produce an entire comic book’s worth of artwork for every release.
It doesn’t mean manga is gone.
I still love comics, and I have no intention of abandoning the projects that brought me here. But I want to be able to create without having to launch a Kickstarter, assemble a production team, or spend years trying to finance every new chapter.
I want to write.
I want to draw when I can.
I want to share my worlds with you.
And most importantly, I want to enjoy creating again.
Sometimes the best way forward is to change the vehicle, not the destination.
No generative AI was used in the creation of Eotera! Its stories, artwork, and worldbuilding are the result of human imagination, craft, and collaboration.
Still with me?
Wonderful! Because I’d really love to introduce you to my most beloved fictional planet and the home of much of my hope-core storytelling.
Eotera is a world I’ve been building piece by piece, with its own history, cultures, languages, governments, and all those wonderfully unnecessary details that worldbuilders absolutely cannot stop themselves from creating.
A visual map of modern Eotera – Art by: Damien Mammoliti
There are countless stories to tell on Eotera. Fortunately, the Mothership’s Advanced Reality Monitoring Intelligence has been hard at work sifting through the planet’s history, and we’ve picked out a few particularly lovable tales for you to enjoy.
ARMIN assures us the selection process was completely unbiased. We have no way of verifying this.
From the mystical oral traditions of ancient Ninlil to the senseless violence that sparked the War of the Sands, leading directly to the distant conflicts that eventually reached the once-peaceful farmers of Tsukiame.
We’ll see the rise and fall of the Dailysh Empire, wander through forgotten ages and glittering golden eras, uncover lost histories, witness the birth of kingdoms, and eventually arrive at the dazzling gaming paradise of the modern age.
Eotera’s history is filled with extraordinary people living through extraordinary times.
Some of these tales may sound familiar to readers of my original web comics and Kickstarter projects, including:
Others will take us into corners of Eotera that have never been explored before.
And that’s the exciting part! I have so many stories tucked away in my notes, character sheets, historical documents, and suspiciously large folders of worldbuilding material.
It’s time to let some of them out.
But Eotera isn’t the only place out there.
Every now and then, we’ll venture beyond its borders to visit other planets and realms across the iiiXM. Some may be magical, some may be bizarre, and some might make you question whether the inhabitants have any idea what they’re doing.
Through these stories, I want to explore self-growth, love, individuality, relationships, and the mysterious essence of the soul.
We ALL want to tell stories that spark curiosity, make you feel something, and leave you with an idea worth carrying into your own world. So the IIIXM is here to share!
Hope-core: stories that acknowledge how messy life can be without giving up on the possibility that things can get better.
Idealistic? Absolutely.
A little alien? Naturally.
One project I’m particularly excited to share is a little something from the dusty archives of Eotera.
Every other week, we’ll be recovering a lost page from the detailed travel journal of George Albert Teckrin, one of the planet’s most influential gentlemen adventurers, and his brilliant companion, Maxwell Charlton Wrightford, father of modern technology.
The two great men traveled the world aboard a grand airship, the Daqrknaut, named after the Northern Ulhdranyan constellation that shines as a symbol of strength, perseverance, and freedom.
Their journey was originally intended to become a manga project: Steampunk Airship Adventures!
Steampunk Airship Adventures: Episode 01 — Kickstarter
~ A Kickstarter that will likely never happened ~
Unfortunately, I can no longer manage the production demands of running another manga Kickstarter. My health, family, and other creative responsibilities require more of my time than they once did. And I am no longer willing to sacrifice them for such meager returns.
But I wasn’t ready to let George and Maxwell disappear into the archives.
So, instead, their adventures are becoming a series of small worldbuilding diary entries.
And I absolutely love that I can finally share them!
Through George’s observations, we’ll meet the peoples of Eotera, explore unfamiliar regions, learn about their customs, and see the world through the eyes of two rather unusual travelers. We can dive deep into the many musings of George’s mind and see where this chaotic flight from Kaedia takes our dandy boys.
You can read the first pages for free where ever you love to read!
SubStack || Ream Stories || Pateron || Discord
Now, here’s where things are changing most noticeably!
I’m organizing my online presence so that each platform has a purpose. Rather than trying to post everything everywhere, I’d like to make it easier for readers, viewers, and fellow creators to find the kind of content they actually enjoy.
Bitsy’s Mothership The Prime Meridian Discord Chanel will now be the central home for iiiSekai and its original IP. From Cosmic Library, you can follow the stories, discover projects, and find the places where I’m sharing new work. Of course you must be an Army Captain to get the full access.
Soon I hope to get eotera.com back up in full working order and share there too but for now the simpler the better.
This is it. The Mothership’s official navigation terminal!
Yeah… Bitsy never heard of it either…
But according to Bepin, apparently Ream is becoming an important home for original fiction IPs. Due to its incredibly top notch AI scraping deterrent tools. So that got me interested!
This is where I plan to publish the, Bean approved, longer-form stories, chapters, and projects for readers who want to explore the iiiXM in greater depth.
It also gives readers a way to support independent fiction directly.
If you’re interested in following the development of Eotera and discovering more of its stories, this is one of the best places to start.
Substack will be another place for public posts, creative updates, articles, and free stories. Usually you will find things that are the shortened TLDR versions of these iiiSekai blog posts. 👀
As well as more personal thoughts about the creative process, worldbuilding, projects, and the occasional transmission from the Mothership. It’s a place to keep up with what’s happening without needing to follow every social platform I happen to land on.
I’ve recently joined Mastodon, and I’m rather excited to explore its smaller communities and decentralized approach to social networking.
I’m currently over at Sakurajima, an English-speaking community with a focus on Japanese media, anime, manga, games, and creative interests. If you enjoy chatting about anime, art, VTubers, and independent creative projects, come say hello!
And then there’s ThingsBook!
I’ll admit, I only recently wandered into this one like today, so I’m still figuring out exactly what I’m doing there.
It’s a collection-based social platform where people can organize and share the things that matter to them, from books and entertainment to personal interests and discoveries.
I rather like the idea of having a place to collect and share the things that inspire me. We’ll see what kind of little museum of whimsy I end up building.
While the publishing side of iiiSekai is evolving, Bitsy, Bean, and the teams’ creative services are still available!
I offer VTuber-related art and rigging services, alongside other creative work. VGen is where you can find my commission information and request a project.
Bean is making music!
Joy is still up and able to make your comics if ya wants!
Bepin is a bit busy and is closed for commissions for now though.
Ultimately, all of these changes are leading toward the same goal.
We all want iiiSekai to become a sustainable home for original stories, independent creative work, and a community of people who enjoy exploring unfamiliar worlds.
I want to spend more time writing, illustrating, developing characters, and building the multiverse.
I want to publish more stories without every release becoming a massive financial and logistical undertaking.
I want to protect the original IP I’ve spent years creating, and make sure that the work I share continues to be treated as something made by human imagination, craft, and collaboration.
And I want to build a community that isn’t dependent on one social media platform deciding whether or not people are allowed to see my work.
That’s why the Mothership is the place to be.
No single social platform should be the only doorway into a creative universe. Algorithms change, websites disappear and break willy-nilly, and people move on. But, I want to make room for people to discover the stories in their own way.
Maybe you’re here for the manga.
Maybe you’re interested in the history of Eotera.
Maybe you found us through VTubing, anime, or one of my little social media adventures.
Or perhaps you’re just someone who enjoys stories about strange worlds and people trying to make sense of life.
Whatever brought you aboard, there’s room for you here.
Creating Eotera and the iiiXM has always been about more than inventing places on a map.
It’s about imagining what life could look like if we were all just a little kinder, a little stronger, and a little more willing to explore who we are.
It’s about looking at the world we have and imagining the possibility that we can build something better together.
This next chapter is a little different from the one I originally planned. There are projects I’ll be approaching differently, stories that will take new forms, and plenty of things I still have to figure out along the way.
But I’m excited.
For the first time in a while, I feel like I’m making room for the kind of creative life I actually want to have.
So get comfortable, keep your curiosity handy, and don’t feed the suspicious-looking aliens without checking their dietary requirements first.
The Mothership is setting a new course. There’s plenty more universe to explore.
Stay strange out there. ♡
— Bitsy J. E. Tandem👽, your whimsically creative little alien.