| Takashi Nikaido | |||||||
| Native Name: | 二階堂高嗣 | ||||||
| Native Name Lang: | ja | ||||||
| Nickname: | Nika, Nika-chan | ||||||
| Birth Date: | 6 August 1990 | ||||||
| Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan | ||||||
| Occupation: | Actor, singer, Idol | ||||||
| Years Active: | 2001 - present | ||||||
| Agent: | Starto Entertainment (Johnny & Associates 2001 - 2023, Starto Entertainment 2024 - present) | ||||||
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| Website: | Kis-My-Ft2(Starto Entertainment) Kis-My-Ft2(MENT Recording) | ||||||
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| Channel Url: | UCixcUvP_AeCuGlGcKJiNv5w |
| Channel Display Name: | NIKAchanNEL |
| Years Active: | 2023 – |
| Genre: | Camping |
| Subscribers: | 62,200 |
| Views: | 1,827,937 |
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is a Japanese actor and singer who is a member of boy band Kis-My-Ft2 and its derivative group Busaiku (舞祭組) under Starto Entertainment. His nickname is Nika and Nika-chan.[1]
Nikaido's older sister was a fan of the Kinki Kids and sent Nikaido's resume to the Johnny & Associates when he was 10 years old. He said his sister told him that he was going to a Kinki Kids concert today and took him to the audition site.[2] After auditioning, he joined Johnny & Associates in February 2001. At the same audition venue were Toshiya Miyata and Wataru Yokoo, who later became members of Kis-My-Ft2.[3]
He was only 10 years old when he entered show business, and it is said that he had a rebellious period due to the frustration of not being able to CD debut quickly.[4] At the Johnny's, which had a strict hierarchical relationship, he surprised everyone by calling his seniors without an honorific title.[5] When he met Shingo Katori of SMAP, the most successful group in Johnny's at the time, he scared everyone by saying, "Who are you?." But he is said to have had a strange charm that did not make people hate him for it.[6]
After joining several groups as a trainee (Johnny's Jr.),[7] he was selected as a member of Kis-My-Ft2 in 2005, and he made his CD debut with Everybody Go on August 10, 2011, seven years after their formation.[8]
In 2001, he made his first drama appearance in Fuji TV's "NO KISS".[9]
In 2011, he made his first film appearance in the movie "Ogawa no be"小川の辺.
On December 13, 2013, Busaiku was formed from Kis-My-Ft2 with Kento Senga, Toshiya Miyata and Wataru Yokoo produced by Masahiro Nakai who was a member of SMAP.[10]
He is physically strong and a good acrobat, often performing somersaults and backflips at live shows.[11] He is also a good rapper and often raps in Kis-My-Ft2's songs. In Kis-My-Ft2, he is in charge of live direction.
He loves solo camping and opened his personal official YouTube channel on the theme of camping in December 2023.[12]
On September 15, 2024, he announced that he would take a temporary hiatus due to health problems.[13] He had been absent from the final day performance of Kis-My-Ft2's concert tour Kis-My-Ft2 Dome Tour 2024 Synopsis on September 8 due to health problems.[14]
Masahiro Nakai is known for taking care of his junior members of Johnny's, and Kis-My-Ft2 members are said to be especially fond of him as his direct juniors.[15] In 2016, four members of Busaiku had dinner with Nakai, who had produced busaiku, Nikaido was given a luxury watch by Nakai.[16] The watch was a Franck Muller wristwatch that Nakai bought it for himself on his 30th birthday, Nikaido jokingly asked, "It's a nice watch. I want it," and Nakai removed the watch on the spot and gave it to Nikaido as a real gift.[16] Since then, Nikaido always wore this watch, appeared on TV and at concerts, and at every occasion mentioned that it was a watch given to him by Nakai. Nakai had told him, "When you turn 30, buy your own watch,"[17] so in 2021, the 10th anniversary of Kis-My-Ft2's debut, Nikaido bought a limited edition watch at Franck Muller.[18] Nikaido is said to have great respect for Nakai, and often appears at Kis-My-Ft2 concerts wearing a hat, as Nakai did when he was in SMAP.[19]
| Title | Lylics | Composer | Name | Recorded by | Note | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solo songs | |||||||
| "Jossy Matsumura's Scream" | Jossy Matsumura | Erik Smaaland | Kis-My-Ft2 Takashi Nikaido | Album I Scream (4cups) | |||
| "Hagusta" | Diggy-MO' | Christofer Erixon Josef Melin | Kis-My-Ft2 Takashi Nikaido | Album Free Hugs! (Normal Edition) | |||
| "Brave Tuning" | Super Bears | Super Bears | Takashi Nikaido Kis-My-Ft2 | LiveDVD/Blu-ray Live Tour 2021 Home (Normal Edition BonusCD)Single Fear/So Blue (First Edition A, MV) | |||
| Small group songs | |||||||
| "Catch & Go! | " | ENA | Chokkaku SYB・Iggy | Kis-My-Ft2 | Album Kis-My-1st – Wataru Yokoo, Toshiya Miyata, Takashi Nikaido and Kento Senga | ||
| "Forza!" | Hikari | Hikari Stephan Elfgren | Kis-My-Ft2 | Album Good Ikuze! – Yuta Tamamori with Wataru Yokoo, Toshiya Miyata, Takashi Nikaido and Kento Senga | |||
| "Chance Chance Baybee" | Takuya Harada | Takuya Harada Samuel Wearmo | Kis-My-Ft2 | Album Good Ikuze! – Wataru Yokoo, Toshiya Miyata, Takashi Nikaido and Kento Senga | |||
| "Double Up" | Komei Kobayashi | Kei Kwangwook Lim Ryan Kim CR Chase | Takashi Nikaido Kento Senga Kis-My-Ft2 | Album Kis-My-World – Takashi Nikaido and Kento Senga | |||
| "2 in 7 billion" | SHIKATA | SHIKATA KAY | Kis-My-Ft2 Takashi Nikaido Kento Senga | Single Sha la la Summer Time (First edition B) – Takashi Nikaido and Kento Senga | |||
| "Happy Birthday" | Rena Komatsu | Takuya Harada Christofer Erixon Josef melin | Hiromitsu Kitayama and Takashi Nikaido Kis-My-Ft2 | Single Love | |||
| "#No!No | " | Shingo Asari | Shingo Asari | Yuta Tamamori and Takashi Nikaido Kis-My-Ft2 | Album To-y2 (Normal edition) – Yuta Tamamori and Takashi Nikaido | ||
For activities as a member of Kis-My-Ft2, see Kis-My-Ft2#Group activities.