Takashi Nikaido

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.{{cite web|title=10000字ロングインタビュー|url=https://myojo.shueisha.co.jp/interview10000/kmf_nikaido.html|date=2011|website=myojo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220917123419/https://myojo.shueisha.co.jp/interview10000/kmf_nikaido.html |access-date=April 21, 2024|archive-date=September 17, 2022 }} 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.{{cite web|title=宮田俊哉＆横尾渉、ジャニーズ入所20周年を迎え「不思議な縁」としみじみ|url=

https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20210313-1800470/|date=March 13, 2021|website=mynavi|access-date=April 20, 2024}}

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.{{cite web |title=キスマイ北山、二階堂高嗣と本気の殴り合いをした過去 |url=https://www.rbbtoday.com/article/2021/09/04/191761.html |website=rbbtoday |access-date=2024-06-13 |language=Japanese |date=September 4, 2021}} At the Johnny's, which had a strict hierarchical relationship, he surprised everyone by calling his seniors without an honorific title.{{cite web |title=キスマイ藤ヶ谷、二階堂のJr.時代の"やんちゃぶり"明かす「タメ語は当たり前」 |url=https://mdpr.jp/news/2012394 |website=modelpress |access-date=2024-06-13 |language=Japanese |date=March 25, 2020}} 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.{{cite web |title=キスマイ二階堂高嗣が憎めない理由は？ 人懐っこい"少年性"の魅力に迫る |url=https://realsound.jp/2014/06/post-709.html |website=Realsound |access-date=2024-06-13 |language=Japanese |date=June 15, 2014}}

After joining several groups as a trainee (Johnny's Jr.),{{Cite journal|title = 20の元気|pages = 116–117|journal = Duet|issue = August 2005|publisher = Home| date =2005}} 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.{{cite web|title=キスマイ結成から７年ド派手デビュー|url=https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/p-et-tp0-20110811-818610.html#goog_rewarded|date=August 11, 2011|website=nikkansports|access-date=April 20, 2024}}

In 2001, he made his first drama appearance in Fuji TV's "NO KISS".{{Cite web|url=https://tower.jp/artist/1464703/%E4%BA%8C%E9%9A%8E%E5%A0%82%E9%AB%98%E5%97%A3 |title=二階堂高嗣 |date=December 16, 2013 |website=tower record |publisher=tower |accessdate=2014-04-21}}

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.{{cite web|title=Kis-My-Ft2からの派生ユニット『舞祭組』が12月にデビュー！|url=https://okmusic.jp/news/26031|date=

November 11, 2013|website=okmusic|access-date=April 20, 2024}}

He is physically strong and a good acrobat, often performing somersaults and backflips at live shows.{{cite web|title=Kis-My-Ft2メンバー分析 第7回：二階堂高嗣、ライブ演出も担うひたむきな姿勢 内に秘めたグループへの熱い想い|url=https://realsound.jp/2022/04/post-1008755.html|date=April 15, 2022|website=Realsound|access-date=April 21, 2024}} 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.{{cite web|title=Kis-My-Ft2の二階堂高嗣、YouTube個人チャンネル開設を発表|url=https://hochi.news/articles/20240101-OHT1T51005.html?page=1|date=January 1, 2024|website=hochi|access-date=April 21, 2024}}

On September 15, 2024, he announced that he would take a temporary hiatus due to health problems.{{cite web |title=Kis-My-Ft2・二階堂高嗣、体調不良で活動休止「医師より治療に専念すべきと…」【報告全文】 |url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2343896/full/ |website=oricon |access-date=2024-09-15 |language=Japanese |date=September 15, 2024}} 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.{{cite web |title=キスマイ二階堂高嗣が体調不良で一時活動休止「医師より治療に専念すべきとの指導」 |url=https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/202409150001031.html |website=nikkan |access-date=2024-09-15 |language=Japanese |date=September 15, 2024}}

On January 10, 2025, it was reported that Nikaido would return from hiatus and resume his activities.{{cite web |title=キスマイ二階堂高嗣　活動再開を発表「メンバーの支えで心身ともに回復」昨年9月から体調不良で療養 |url=https://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2025/01/10/kiji/20250110s00041000225000c.html |website=sponichi |access-date=2025-01-12 |language=Japanese |date=2025-01-10}} On January 18, 2025, Nikaido held a return press conference via live streaming on Kis-My-Ft2's YouTube page. In it, he revealed that the cause of his hiatus was that he had problem with his liver and that he had fully recovered.{{cite web |title=Kis-My-Ft2、二階堂高嗣が活動再開を生配信で報告 メンバーが復帰を笑顔で出迎え |url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2364254/full/ |website=oricon |access-date=2025-02-09 |language=Japanese |date=2025-01-18}}

Starting in April 2025, Nikaido's first solo variety show, Nika Game, which was spun off from the segment of Kis-My-Ft2's variety show Can we do it for 100,000 yen? (100,000 Yen de Dekirukana), aired for a total of four episodes.{{cite web |title=キスマイ二階堂高嗣、地上波初冠番組で英語力試される timelesz猪俣周杜が単独バラエティー初出演 |url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2376403/ |website=oricon |access-date=2025-04-10 |language=Japanese |date=2025-03-28}}

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.{{cite web |title=キスマイ、"兄貴"中居正広に感謝 千賀健永「舞祭組を掘り出し物にしてくれた」 |url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2156039/full/ |website=oricon |access-date=2024-06-28 |language=Japanese |date=February 22, 2020}} In 2016, four members of Busaiku had dinner with Nakai, who had produced busaiku, Nikaido was given a luxury watch by Nakai.{{cite web |title=キスマイ二階堂がSMAP中居にもらった時計、値段も価値もスゴかった!? |url=http://jnews1.com/archives/52726924.html |website=jnews1 |access-date=2024-06-28 |language=Japanese |date=March 14, 2016}} 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. 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,"{{cite web |title=二階堂高嗣、中居からの時計を譲るとしたら?「Sexy Zoneの松島聡くん」 |url=https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20200827-1252587/ |website=mynavi |access-date=2024-06-28 |language=Japanese |date=August 27, 2020}} so in 2021, the 10th anniversary of Kis-My-Ft2's debut, Nikaido bought a limited edition watch at Franck Muller.{{cite web |title=キスマイ二階堂が１０周年の記念句で才能アリ１位！夏井先生「良く頑張った！」 |url=https://www.mbs.jp/mbs-column/p-battle/archive/2022/02/22/023627.shtml |website=mbs column |access-date=2024-06-28 |language=Japanese |date=February 22, 2022}} 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.{{cite web |title=SMAPライブにベッキーが参戦。中居正広にダメ出し「帽子深すぎ！」 |url=https://www.excite.co.jp/news/article/Techinsight_20141123_99420/ |website=exite |access-date=2024-06-29 |language=Japanese |date=November 23, 2014}}

{{Main|Kis-My-Ft2#Discography}}

• Jossy Matsumura=Takashi Nikaido{{Cite web| url = https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20170419-a017/ | title = Kis-My-Ft2、7人の勇者として対決!? 3カ月かけた斬新設定のSPムービー| date = April 19, 2017| website = mynavi| accessdate = February 23, 2022}}

• Digital photo drama "NO KISS" (September 25, 2001, Fuji TV) – played the role of Yoshihiko in his elementary school days (reminiscent scene)
• BAD BOYS J (April 7, 2013 – June 23, 2013, Nippon TV) – Danno Hidenori role
• Woman Contractor – The Trap of a Trapped Woman (September 12, 2014, Fuji TV) – Shunsaku Kogure as Shunsaku
• Heisei Maisakigumi Otoko (October 18, 2014 – January 4, 2015, Nippon TV) – as Takatsugu Nikaido, the group lead
• Why was my family erased? Psychopath of Fear Who Manipulates the Mind – Narumi Saku's Challenge II (July 1, 2015, Nippon TV) – as Takasugi Sota
• Tokucho no Onna – National Tax Bureau Special Investigation Department (March 4, 2017, Fuji TV) – as Koichiro Zaizen
• "OO" People's Lives (April 24 – June 26, 2018, Nippon TV) – as Toshiki Hagiwara, the group's lead actor (the four members of Maisakigumi, including Kento Senga, Toshiya Miyata, and Wataru Yokoo)
• Midsummer Boy – 19452020 Final Episode (September 18, 2020, TV Asahi)

• Nika Game (From April 2025, TV Asahi){{cite web |title=キスマイ二階堂高嗣の冠番組「ニカゲーム」放送、timelesz猪俣周杜の天然キャラが炸裂 |url=https://natalie.mu/music/news/617617 |website=natalie |access-date=2025-04-10 |language=Japanese |date=2025-03-28}}

• Ogawa no be (2011, Toei) – as Samon Ota
• BAD BOYS J THE MOVIE -The Last Guardian- (November 9, 2013) – Playing the role of Hidenori Danno
• Adult Friendship (May 12, 2023) – Playing the role of an apartment resident

• Pleasure Installation ( December 4–25, 2020, dTV (Lemino)) – Taka Toyama as Taka

• The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: The Ginga Eiyu Densetsu: Gekkou Ouhen ( August 3–12, 2012, Tennozu Ginga Gekijo Theatre) – Playing the role of Caldwell
• The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Shining Star, Breaking Through the Darkness ( November 15–18, 2012, Tokyo International Forum) – as Darfit von Reuss (opposite Wataru Yokoo)
• The Legend of the Galactic Heroes Chapter 3: Civil War (March 31 – April 13, 2013, Aoyama Theatre) – as Wolfgang Mittermeier
• The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Chapter 4, The Second Part, Clash (February 12 – March 2, 2014, Aoyama Theatre) – as Wolfgang Mittermeier

• Moshi Mo Juku ( April 5 and 7, 2019, Tokyo Globe Theatre)
• Moshi Mo Juku Hagi Performance ( May 25 and 26, 2019, Hagi Civic Center, Main Hall)
• Moshi Mo Juku ( March 22 and 23, 2023, Tokyo Globeza)
• Moshi Mo Juku Fukuoka Performance ( April 19–20, 2023, Canal City Theater)

For activities as a member of Kis-My-Ft2, see Kis-My-Ft2#Group activities.

• Appare yatteremasu! (October 11, 2021 – , MBS Radio (Japan)) Regular on Mondays

• Sapporo Breweries "Sapporo WATER SOUR" (August 24, 2021)

• [https://www.youtube.com/@NIKAchanNEL_official NIKAchanNEL] – (December 2023– ) Weekly updates

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• [https://mentrecording.jp/kismyft2/profile/ Kis-My-Ft2 profile] — MENT Recording
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