Ken Kato is a salesman who lost his job, got swindled out of his house, and was left by his wife and daughter without notice. He hires the members of the Yorozuya to get 30 million yen in order to buy his house back from the loan sharks. He is the first client of the anime series.

~!After receiving a letter from his daughter a week prior, he is encouraged to become stronger in order to get his house back. With the help of [Gintoki](https://anilist.co/character/672) and the others, Ken is able to defeat [Kariya](https://anilist.co/character/32194) and stop the loan sharks, albeit his house getting destroyed in the process. Ken ends up buying a new house and reunites with his family, as he gains popularity as a dancing enka singer.!~

Life isn't easy in feudal Japan... especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult decision to make concerning their future career paths! This is especially true if, as in the case of Gintoki Sakata, they're not particularly inclined towards holding a day job, which is why Gintoki's opted for the freelance route, taking any job that's offered to him as long as the financial remuneration sounds right. Unfortunately, in a brave new world filled with stray bug-eyed monsters, upwardly mobile Yakuza and overly ambitious E.T. entrepreneurs, those jobs usually don't pay as well as they should for the pain, suffering and indignities endured!<br><br>
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

**Date of Birth:** April 8, 1967
**Hometown:** Osaka, Japan

Ken Katou