Takeya Moritaki (1969–) is a curator and aquarist at the Toba Aquarium. After graduating from the Department of Biology at the University of Toyama, he joined the aquarium in 1992 and has worked primarily with aquatic invertebrates and fish. He helped turn the giant isopod into one of the aquarium’s best-known creatures and has participated in the scientific description of more than forty new species collected through surveys in the Kumano Sea. In 2023, the Zoological Society of Japan presented him with a letter of appreciation for his work. In “Umi no Henna Ikimono to Kurasu Boku,” he draws on decades of collecting and husbandry experience to introduce the unusual forms and little-known behavior of deep-sea invertebrates.