YouTubers have become a class of internet celebrities, they are those once normal videographers or just ordinary persons who have gained popularity from their videos on the infamous online video platform. They are sometimes called Youtube personalities or YouTube celebrities. Some of them have gained sponsors who pay for product placements in their clips as online ads. And these YouTubers have already developed their own fan bases.
As most of the people spend more time in YouTube instead of traditional TV, here’s the list of the top YouTubers in Japan that you may want to subscribe to.
Subscribers: 5,245,934
Watching his videos will help you know why he is hailed as the biggest YouTuber in Japan, so far. His videos will catch your attention because of being totally interesting, of high quality and maybe, being bizarre.
However, before he got to where he is right now, he got a lot of bashers, mainly due to some issues of cheating on another YouTube channel.
He usually does silly and stupid things like eating a lot of super spicy Japanese food. His videos are never boring and will keep you asking for more.
Here’s his most popular video on YouTube, which went viral into over 40 million views.
His coke bath has been really amazing too.
Hikakin
Subscribers: 4,443,911
He is considered as the second biggest Youtuber in Japan. Apart from doing silly things, Hikakin is also concerned with merchandise. He makes reviews on newly-released toys, gaming playthroughs. He also posts vlogs on food. He also makes beat-boxing covers, where he is absolutely good at. His YouTube account actually started as a beat-boxing channel, which now slowly turned into unboxing videos.
Here’s how extremely good he is at beat boxing, where he even did a collaboration with great artists such as Ariana Grande, and has performed with celebrity bands such as Aerosmith.
Here’s the intro video for the Hikakin TV channel which has more than 60 million views.
Yuka Kinoshita
Subscribers: 3,832,916 3832916
Apart from funny vlogs and skits, there are also YouTubers who make videos about music and food. And Yuka Kinoshita is the most popular female Youtuber in Japan in this genre right now. Her videos are certainly about food. Due to her health condition, she was unable to absorb nutrients from food. Because of that, she has to eat more in order to stay healthy and feel full. Because of this, she was known as the “big eater”.
Can you eat 4 buckets of KFC in just one sitting? It’s just a piece of cake for her.
Mizutamari Bond
Subscribers: 2,514,870
Some get famous by making solo videos, but others do it with a partner. Mizutamari Bond is a comedy duo created by Kanta and Tommy. They started their YouTube channel in college, where they gained experience on small shows and performances from their college comedy society club. They want to share their jokes and comedic skits to a larger audience, so they created videos and became YouTubers.
Because of their original style of comedy represented by their challenge videos, urban legend theory videos, creative experiments and pranks, they quickly became popular on YouTube Japan, even being nominated as the 10th most subscribed YouTube channel in Japan in 2017.
Fischer’s
Subscribers: 1,710,802
A group of YouTubers is now invading the internet after seven years of creating videos. Fischer’s is a group of seven members: Silk Road, Maasai, Ndajo, Petit, Derma, Zhao and Motoki. Each member possesses different talents and skills, perfectly mixed to catch the viewer’s attention, making them the most viewed YouTube channel in Japan based on monthly views.
They’ve known each other for a long time since they were classmates in middle school. From all the memories that they’ve shared together, you can feel the friendship and trust from every video that they make.
Most of the Japanese YouTubers that became famous on the internet have this one characteristic in general -- Japanese humor, which is all about making fun of yourself to make other people laugh.
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