ISSEI
ISSEI is a Japanese YouTube and TikTok creator making nonverbal comedy with expressive faces, physical jokes and playful stories that cross language barriers.
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Known for
YouTube
YouTube
SpotifyOverview
- From
- Tokyo, Japan
- Born
- August 6, 1999
- Started
- TikTok in 2019, after pursuing acting
- Breakout
- Nonverbal comedy that found viewers beyond Japan
- YouTube milestone
- 50 million subscribers on January 8, 2025
Mini bio
How it started.
ISSEI grew up wanting to perform, inspired in part by an actor father. After joining an agency and struggling to find acting work, they looked for a way to build an audience themselves. They started posting to TikTok in 2019 while balancing university, acting lessons and part-time work, as they recalled in Student Newspaper Online.
Finding the funny.
Early experiments included talking videos, silent jokes, tests and comedy. In a 2025 interview, ISSEI said viewers responded to their facial expressions and reactions. That approach became a way to reach people across languages. By January 2025, their YouTube channel had reached 50 million subscribers, a first for a Japanese creator according to Yutura.
Making room for others.
In September 2025, ISSEI launched AGBOGBLOSHIE STARS with artist Mago Nagasaka to help people in Ghana earn through video creation. The project combines nonverbal entertainment with local training and a pledge to return half its revenue to the community. In 2026, ISSEI returned after flooding and helped create a painting offered for recovery funding.
Creditschronological, newest first
Music
- 2026CHOCOLATTE (feat. ISSEI)Featured collaborator with SEO EVE
Video and community projects
- 2025AGBOGBLOSHIE STARSFounder and operator; launch-video performer
- 2025JFE Steel collaborationCreator and performer; filmed at Fukuyama steelworks
Art
- 2026FREEDOM and JUSTICECo-creator with Mago Nagasaka and BONBO STARS
Awards
Quotes
Live your life as you please.ISSEI, Student Newspaper Online interview
Advice to university students, as rendered in the publication’s English translation. See the linked interview in Sources.
Trivia
- As a child, ISSEI volunteered for school-play leads, sports-festival cheerleading and committee leadership.
- They told Student Newspaper Online that seeing creators reuse a sound from one of their videos made them want to produce their own music.
- The first AGBOGBLOSHIE STARS story uses yellow and blue turning green as a picture of people working together.
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