Static-P

"Music Production and Networking for Anime communities."

- Static-P's channel description

Ryan Andrew Giovanni Bosco Seewald (born: August 15, 1989, aged 30), or Ryan Andrew Seewald (in short),  better known online as Static-P is an American YouTuber, and a member of the Black Static and Swerve, launched since December 2009, and he is known for making music videos and OST in anime-style for Anime communities. He is also known for creating an ongoing story song series called '''Criminal Idol. He has his own second channel named Static-P Plus''', and it's purpose was to "clean up his channel". This channel was used for making Vlogs Behind The Scenes videos, Q&A's and live streams, notably Don't Worry Wednesdays.

Seewald created his YouTube channel on May 4, 2015, and created his first video titled: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CzF4MAi7Vs Please Equip Your Weapon! (OST: Get Pumped!)] on May 10th.

As of September 14th, 2019, he has over 189,000+ subscribers and over 30M+ views.

His most recent video, published on August 23, 2019, is Your Eyes, part of Criminal Idol as Episode 10, with his most popular video named "It's Not Like I Like You", published on November 2016, reached over 20 million views.

Summary
Criminal Idol is a song series by Static-P of Black Static and Swerve that tells the story of an idol group, called Star Blush Girls, who is framed for a bombing and the unlikely story of a teenager named Cole who gets himself involved unwillingly in the investigation by the Detective.

The series first began on June 20, 2015, as Episode 1 titled "Detective Detective". On May 25, 2017, another video for the Criminal Idol titled "When The Time Comes" was published and was actually called as Episode 00.

Background
At first, Static-P wrote "Detective Detective" and "Life Might Take Us" both to be singles as stand-alone songs. Due to their popularity and demands for being a continuing series, he merged the two songs together into a single story. As he originally did not plan them to be one single story, Static-P could not create the plot in advance and make a story out of it. However, he tried what he can to create a coherent story with, and believes that it "will turn out pretty well".[2] at 42:33

Release
Initially, Criminal Idol was supposed to be released as a 16-episode song series, however, it was reduced to 12 episodes, while the second season was planned because it cannot fit in an album CD and it was deemed to be too long.

Static-P/Seewald also adds that he will make 13-12 episodes for Season 1, while 11-12 for Season 2, making Criminal Idol having over 24 episodes as planned when it was fully completed. Seewald plans to release the songs from Criminal Idol Season 1 before it's completion, on iTunes, Spotify, and other media sites.

Trivia

 * Besides English, he is known to sometimes speak in Japanese, Spanish, and Tagalog.
 * His ancestry was stated to be German, and some Polish.
 * His full name was stated on Ryan's Twitter account that he is Ryan Andrew Giovanni Bosco Seewald.