10 Mind-Blowing Kakashi Hatake Facts You Don’t Know

1 ⇒ The name ‘Kakashi’ means ‘scarecrow’ and his family name ‘Hatake’ means ‘farmland/field’, so his name means ‘scarecrow in the farmland’.

2 ⇒ Kakashi Hatake placed in the top three of all the Naruto Characters Popularity Polls.

3 ⇒ In the Live Spectacle Naruto, the role of Kakashi Hatake was played by Yuki Kimisawa.

4 ⇒ Studio Pierrot’s Settei sheets of Kakashi Hatake show that he was 140 cm in Naruto Shippuden the Movie The Lost Tower, 148 cm during the Kakashi Gaiden, and 168cm during the Nine Tailed Fox’s Attack.

5 ⇒ Kakashi Hatake’s hobby is reading (Icha Icha series).

6 ⇒ Kakashi Hatake wishes to fight Minato Namikaze.

7 ⇒ Kakashi Hatake’s favourite foods are salt broiled saury and miso soup with the eggplant, while his least favourites are anything fried or sweet.

8 ⇒ Kakashi Hatake has completed 1,141 official missions in total 197/D-rank, 190/C-rank, 414/B-rank, 298/A-rank, 42/S-rank.

9 ⇒ Kakashi Hatake’s favourite word is ‘Team-work’ (Chimuwaku).

10 ⇒ According to Rock Lee’s Springtime of Youth Full Power Ninja Chronicles, the reason why Kakashi Hatake wears a mask is to hide the blood coming out of his nose whenever he reads his “Icha-Icha book”. This is typically a running gag, where certain perverted characters like Master Jiraiya (when seeing beautiful women naked or in lingerie) and Sakura Haruno (upon seeing naked men) suffer a nosebleed and fall unconscious, reminiscent of an ‘old wives tale’.