Suki Desu
Kevin Henrique
Founder of Suki Desu and editor since 2014. He writes about Japan, the Japanese language and otaku culture drawing on years of study and a personal visit to the country in 2016.
My name is Kevin Henrique. I was born in 1995 and grew up surrounded by computers and the internet, but Japan shifted everything in my teens. Anime, video games and Japanese music were the way in. What looked like a hobby turned into serious study, and the blog came out of that.
In 2014 I decided to study Japanese seriously. The method I chose was to learn in public: writing about what I was learning forced me to organize my thinking, verify sources and actually follow through. The site grew out of that discipline.
In October 2016 I traveled to Japan. That trip did not pause the content — it became content. Seeing written Japanese on every sign, listening to station announcements, navigating trains without relying on English: all of it changed how I write about the language and the country.
Over more than a decade, Suki Desu grew from a study diary into a reference portal about Japan. The topics I cover — hiragana, katakana, kanji, grammar, otaku culture, manga, anime and travel — are the same ones that drew me in at the start, now backed by years of practice, corrections and revisions along the way.
The company was formally established in 2015. In 2020 the site expanded into multiple languages, reaching readers outside Brazil. Today Suki Desu also includes a Japanese language course, a multilingual dictionary and reference catalogs — all built with the same editorial care as the original blog.
I use AI tools to support research and content structuring at scale, but editorial curation is human. Every topic, angle and editorial decision goes through me.
The site is supported by advertising (Google AdSense) and the editorial line is fully independent: no advertiser or partner determines what is published or how it is assessed.
