A thread titled “People with facial tattoos” popped up on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. Names of celebrities and fighters with facial ink kept coming up one after another — Junji Urita, “Saikoro” (Dice), Ryusei Ashizawa, and others — with posters curious whether laser treatment can remove them and why anyone would go that far. A news article quoting Urita as saying he regrets his facial tattoo was also cited, and the thread debated whether removal is really possible and the mindset that leads teens to get inked on impulse.
What people said
1AnonymousOct 13, 2026 21:52
Sounds like a sketchy guy?
2AnonymousOct 13, 2026 21:52
Junji Urita, Maeda Tomo, and Tokotai…
that's all I know
3AnonymousOct 13, 2026 21:52
A face tattoo is basically like a totem pole
5AnonymousOct 13, 2026 21:55
The guy with the dice tattoo regretted it too
7AnonymousOct 13, 2026 21:56
He could pull off playing Darth Maul in "Great Space War 2"
8AnonymousOct 13, 2026 21:56
Didn't Yuki Goto's carp tattoo get removed cleanly?
Maybe Urita's facial tattoo could come off just as clean
10AnonymousOct 13, 2026 21:57
The only one I know is The Great Kabuki
11AnonymousOct 13, 2026 21:57
Junji Urita: "I regret the facial tattoo, but…" — shares his feelings about his own chibi mascot character; SNS reacts: "Don't you dare regret it," "One of a kind"
https://www.daily.co.jp/ring/2025/10/02/0019543239.shtml
12AnonymousOct 13, 2026 21:58
When it comes to facial tattoos in Werewolf (the online "jinro" game community), it's gotta be Saikoro
14AnonymousOct 13, 2026 21:58
It's not about tattoos being good or bad —
I'm just endlessly curious why someone would like a design so much they'd put it on permanently with no way to remove it
I've decided not to think about it, since asking would probably piss them off
It's like gluing a specific hat to your head forever — you'd wonder why they liked it that much, right?
15AnonymousOct 13, 2026 21:58
BUCK-TICK's Hisashi Imai was the original
16AnonymousOct 13, 2026 21:59
Urita getting his face tattooed — well, the circumstances were what they were
17AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:00
Personally, my all-time favorite Werewolf (jinro) regular, and the most fun to talk to, was Maeda Tomo
18AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:00
If you're gonna tattoo your face, go all out like an anatomy model
Show some humor
19AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:00
You sometimes see idiots with teardrop tattoos,
but overseas those mark how many people a gang member has killed
Going abroad with one of those on is genuinely dangerous
22AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:03
Maeda Tomo, now that's a blast from the past. Wonder what he's up to now
23AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:04
I went to a university that only had medical, pharmacy, and nursing departments, and there was a junior there with tattoos running right up to under his chin
24AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:05
I've got a full-body tattoo but it's really no inconvenience
I never go to hot springs or pools anyway
29AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:07
It's something only people who can't understand it without trying it actually go and do
31AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:09
Is there even such a thing as good and bad taste in the tattoo world?
Or is that an untouchable question to begin with, since it's uncool people getting them in the first place?
34AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:11
Some people can pull off a body tattoo, but a face tattoo is almost always better left off
35AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:11
Glad I wasn't born in this era —
I'm dumb enough that I might've gotten a facial tattoo
Since it was 20 years ago, I only ended up getting one on my thigh
39AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:28
Once you're talking British-level (slang for Brits, "burikasu"), they get tattoos on a punishment-game dare, which makes it even scarier
40AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:28
You could remove it with surgery — dissolve the facial skin with sulfuric acid and replace it all with new skin
41AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:29
The guy with the dice on his forehead and Ryusei Ashizawa probably both regret getting their faces tattooed
43AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:34
I passed Urita on the street once — recognized him and made a face at him, and he just looked back like "huh?"
44AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:37
SERIOUS!!! 20-SOMETHINGS!!! GESURIBA!!! 👹 (apparent slogan from an event flyer)
45AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:39
You'll spot at least one of these guys in just about any shopping mall these days
46AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:39
I wonder how old Saikoro (Dice) even is
57AnonymousOct 13, 2026 23:11
Re: #46
I think he's about the same age as my favorite member Kikka…
born in 1992, so 34?
48AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:40
Getting a face tattoo and still being less memorable than some good-looking guy — that'd be kind of sad
49AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:42
Facial tattoos are scary, but
people who implant foreign objects in their skull to grow "horns" or dye the whites of their eyes solid black are scarier
Aren't they afraid of going blind or something?
50AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:46
Gives off the vibe of people you'd see in some remote, "uncivilized" foreign village
51AnonymousOct 13, 2026 22:48
I want someone to get a bunch of eye tattoos done and pull the "which one's the real eye?" bit
54AnonymousOct 13, 2026 23:02
58AnonymousOct 13, 2026 23:14
Why tattoos though?
Building muscle or scars from a fight or something would earn you way more street cred
62AnonymousOct 13, 2026 23:18
Re: #58
That's exactly me — in your teens you just can't think that clearly
I was totally obsessed with the little accent tattoos overseas artists have
and got mine on a whim
Background and Points of Debate
In Japan, tattoos can still be grounds for being turned away from bathhouses and pools, and a facial tattoo is seen as an unusual choice even among fighters and some celebrities. Laser treatment can lighten tattoos, but fully erasing them is said to be difficult, and there are cases — like Junji Urita’s — where the person has publicly spoken about regretting it. The thread split over whether to accept it as a form of individuality or to chalk it up to a decision made in youthful impulsiveness, with curiosity about why people got them and skepticism toward the mindset behind choosing a design that can never be removed forming the core of the discussion. Worth noting: as some pointed out, teardrop tattoos overseas can signify the number of people someone has killed — a very different context from the purely decorative intent assumed in Japan.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “People with facial tattoos.”
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