Seikin

Seikin (born July 30, 1987[1]) is a Japanese male YouTuber and singer-songwriter. His own brother is Hikakin, also a YouTuber.[2]

Seikin
セイキン
Personal information
BornJuly 30, 1987
Japan
YouTube information
Channels
Subscribers
  • SeikinTV : 4.4 million
  • SeikinGames : 1.4 million
Total views
  • SeikinTV : 4 billion
  • SeikinGames : 716 million
NetworkUUUM
Associated actsHikakin
100,000 subscribers2013
1,000,000 subscribers2015

History

From birth to school days

Born on July 30, 1987, in Myoko-Kogen, Nakakubi-gun, Niigata Prefecture (now Myoko City, Niigata Prefecture) as the eldest son.[3]

As a child he longed to be a baker because of his favorite food, bread. The first video he uploaded to YouTube as "SeikinTV" was "Morning is Bread.[4]

In 2000 he entered a local junior high school, where he was a member of an a cappella group from the first year of junior high school and also joined the brass band, playing the trombone.[5]

At high school he switched from the brass band and joined the ski club,[6] where he placed fourth in the inter-high school ski jump competition. His younger brother Hikakin recalls Seikin in high school, "Unlike me, he studied for an hour every day, even before a test. In his video, he reminisced, "Unlike me, he studied for an hour every day, even before a test.[7]

After graduating from high school he moved to Tokyo and entered the Faculty of Letters at Senshu University.[8] However, he realized that it was not the path he wanted to take and dropped out.[9] After that, while searching for his own path, he found a job at an electric power company, but he resigned because he wanted to get good grades and could not stand the power harassment and sexual harassment from those around him.[9] Then, in 2012, he started his YouTube activities as a YouTuber.

As a YouTuber

In 2012—under the influence of his younger brother Hikakin, who was already expanding his activities as a YouTuber on the video website YouTube—Seikin created the "SeikinTV" channel on YouTube.

On March 2 of the same year Seikin uploaded "Morning is Bread," a song written and performed a cappella by Seikin himself, marking his start as a YouTuber. He initially called himself an "a cappella musician," and the name "SEIKIN" came from a suggestion he made to his younger brother HIKAKIN: "I'm Hikakin, so why not Seikin? He said, "I'm Hikain, so why not Seikin?[10]

On December 25, 2014 he reported in his video that he had entered into a marriage and married a civilian woman of the same age with whom he had been dating for two and a half years.[11][12] Two years later, in 2016, they had a wedding ceremony that also included a honeymoon in the state of Hawaii in the United States.[13] He commented that the secret to a happy marriage is to "think of the other person's feelings before your own." He commented.[14]

In 2015 he and his younger brother Hikakin released their first single "YouTube Theme Song" as "Hikakin & Seikin," and it was the first single to reach No. 2 on the iTunes album ranking at the time.[15] The song was originally inspired by the video "YouTube Theme Song" that Seikin uploaded in 2012.[16]

References

  1. "https://twitter.com/SeikinTV". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-06-13. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  2. 編集部. "HIKAKINとSEIKIN「兄弟だったの?」Mステでのパフォに興奮の声". MusicVoice (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  3. joetsutj (2010-09-20). "ハモネプに出たHIKAKINさんは妙高市出身". 上越タウンジャーナル (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  4. 朝はパン Morning is Bread, retrieved 2023-06-13
  5. "https://twitter.com/seikintv/status/584000523591745537". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-06-13. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  6. "https://twitter.com/SeikinTV/status/525267092694519808". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-06-13. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  7. ヒカキンとセイキンの高校時代のノートを発見!, retrieved 2023-06-13
  8. "ニュース専修ウェブ版2006年4月号(第427号)_14–15面" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  9. 【暴露】ヒカキン&セイキンは雑草です。, retrieved 2023-06-13
  10. "- YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  11. 嫁の誕生日なので超巨大10段ケーキ作ります!おめでとう!, retrieved 2023-06-13
  12. セイキン結婚いたしました。, retrieved 2023-06-13
  13. ハワイで結婚式を挙げました。【セイキン&ポンちゃん】, retrieved 2023-06-13
  14. 一日復活!!質問コーナー!, retrieved 2023-06-13
  15. "https://twitter.com/hikakin/status/632861079597531136". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-06-13. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  16. YouTubeテーマソング作ってみた。, retrieved 2023-06-13
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