My Take
I'll be honest, Yutabon is one of those names I can't look away from even when I want to. An Osaka kid, barely a teenager, who built a whole public persona around the "I don't go to school" pitch and then kept stepping back in front of the camera no matter how brutally the internet roasted him. I genuinely don't know what the right call was here, and I'm not going to pretend I do. But there's something almost gutsy about a kid that young taking grown strangers' lectures head-on and bouncing from YouTube into combat sports just because he felt like it. Part of me winces, part of me roots for him. Mostly I just hope he lands somewhere good, because carrying that much noise at his age can't be easy.
Overview
Yutabon (born December 12, 2008, in Osaka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese YouTuber and activist who gained widespread public attention as an elementary school student for his outspoken advocacy against compulsory school attendance. He later expanded his public activities into combat sports. He is enrolled in the correspondence course at Japan Aviation High School.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Yutabon
- Name (Japanese)
- ゆたぼん
- Reading
- ゆたぼん
- Born
- December 12, 2008 (age 17)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Rat (子)
- Origin
- Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Active years
- Unknown
- Occupation
- Activist / YouTuber / Combat sports athlete
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Japan Aviation High School (Correspondence Course)
- University
- Private
- Debut
- Unknown
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.