Photo: 環境省 / CC BY 4.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Sakana-kun's list of occupations reads like a punchline: illustrator, television personality, ichthyologist, author. Any one of them is a full career, yet all four grow from the same root — an obsession with fish that nobody ever managed to talk him out of. Born in Tokyo in 1975, he turns fifty-one this year, and the boxfish hat and the delighted shouting can make him look like pure children's entertainment. Then you learn he was part of the story behind the rediscovery of the kunimasu, a trout long declared extinct. "Follow your passion" is far too small a phrase. He pushed a childhood fixation all the way into science.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Sakana-kun
- Name (Japanese)
- さかなクン
- Reading
- さかなくん
- Born
- August 6, 1975 (age 50)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Rabbit
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan
- Occupation
- illustrator / tarento / ichthyologist / author
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%95%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AA%E3%82%AF%E3%83%B3
Frequently asked questions
When was Sakana-kun born?
Born August 6, 1975 (age 50).
Where is Sakana-kun from?
Sakana-kun is from Tokyo, Japan.
What does Sakana-kun do?
Sakana-kun works as illustrator, tarento, ichthyologist, author.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-07-26
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.