Kotarō Daigo

Kotaro Daigo, a native of Tokyo, was born on 1 September 2000. Originally part of the junior high school soccer team, he left and started a career in acting because he had long admired the entertainment industry.

Daigo starred in the Yowamushi Pedal stage adaptations, starring as Sakamichi Onoda in the February and March 2017 production Yowamushi Pedal Shin Interhigh-hen: Start Line. He later reprised his role in the October 2017 production Yowamushi Pedal Shin Interhigh-hen: Heat Up and March 2018 productions Yowamushi Pedal Shin Interhigh-hen: Hakone Gakuen Ōja Fukukaku. He was later replaced by Taishu Nukanobu for the May 2019 stage play Yowamushi Pedal Shin Interhigh-hen: Limit Breaker.

In November 2018, Daigo was cast as Hodaka Morishima in Weathering With You. He and co-star Nana Mori had been chosen from among two thousand auditionees to play the main characters. In 2020, he won the Seiyu Awards for Best Rookie Actor at the 14th Seiyu Awards.

In 2019, he starred as Daisei Yoshida in the asadora Maiagare!. He and Hiroki Miura played Haku in the 2022 stage adaptation of Spirited Away and its August 2023 encore at the Misono-za in Nagoya. In March 2023, he was cast as Yusuke Ogino, the main character of the 2023 drama adaptation of Ciguatera.