Biography

Kaito Takahashi (Japanese: 髙橋海人, Hepburn: Takahashi Kaito, born April 3, 1999) is a Japanese singer, actor, and manga artist. He is a member of boy band King & Prince and Mr. King.

Born in Kanagawa Prefecture. His agency is King & Prince K.K., and he has a group agent contract with Starto Entertainment. He started dancing when he was older in his preschool. He says he started to learn dancing because his elder sister was learning Yosakoi, and his parents encouraged him to begin dance. Takahashi's father was very rigorous in his instruction at home and Takahashi sometimes ran away from home because of his strictness. He formed a dance group in 2008 to participate in contests. He has won several competitions with his dance group and has also toured with SMAP as a backup dancer. He then left the dance group and studied dance for about two years with dancer Noppo (Shit Kingz) from the first year of junior high school.

In 2013, His parents sent Johnny's a resume, and told him to audition for Johnny & Associates, but Takahashi, who wished to live as a dancer in the future, protested and quarreled with them. But his mother convinced him, "Who do you think has paid for you to learn to dance so far?" and he decided to audition. After an audition, he joined Johnny's in July 2013. In June 2015, as an official supporter of TV Asahi's summer event TV Asahi Roppongi Hills Summer Festival Summer Station, a limited time group Mr. King vs. Prince was formed as an official supporting group, and he was chosen as a member of Mr. King. After the event, it was announced that the group would continue, and he would continue as a member of Mr. King from 2016 onward.

On May 23, 2018, he made his CD debut as King & Prince with the single Cinderella Girl.

From the May issue of the same year, he began a series in Shogakukan's Betsucomi comic magazine, Idol, Sometimes Shōjo manga artist, in which he learns how to draw manga by interviewing manga artists and aspires to become a manga artist. As the culmination of his work, he published a 14-page newly drawn girls' manga in the May 2019 issue of the same magazine, My super love story! Prince and boys are a very fine line!.

He was the first Johnny's to debut as a shōjo manga artist.

On January 1, 2022, in the Nippon Television variety show King & Prince Ru., he challenged the "longest time running on a non-Newtonian fluid" and set a new record of 1 minute 6.49 seconds, becoming the Guinness World Records holder.

On August 24, 2023, he won the 116th The Television Drama Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the TV series Passion for Punchlines.

Currently, he is also using his talent for dancing to choreograph songs for King & Prince and Travis Japan.