he's my favourite, so i can go on and on about him quite a lot sorry if this ends up being lengthy

• info
  • 1995-01-10
  • as you can probably guess from his name... he's japanese
  • company: star road (random company idk but they seem nice)
  • he went to some farming school he's from a small town and there he learnt how to cook
  • his korean his great according to what i found out he was still in japan in early 2016 so he was in korea for about a year before p101... his korean is so good for the time he spent there... \
  • he's the member who gets teased the most in jbj because his reactions are adorable
• produce 101
  • final ranking: 24
  • introduction (with engsub!!)
  • audition: sayonara hitori - taemin (how did he get C grade okay the verses were shaky but he deserved a B i'm still mad)
  • team performance: be mine - infinite (he was center!!!! i'm still mad he didn't get a proper vocal part and only rap.. but he did a great job he has great stage presence i will explain down below why hehe also this fancam is shaky mnet can die but half the views are still probably mine)
  • vocal team performance: spring day - bts (pretty pretty boy)
  • final performance: open up (i think i pushed the existence of this fancam at the back of my mind for too long now i'm crying ahahahasdgjfd dark concept kenta is great also...eye makeup on point dude. kinda bitter he didnt get a vocal part)
• before&after p101
  • THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING EVER OK Kenta has been a kpop fan for quite a while here i will uncover his past as an embarrassing koreaboo
    • he was in some kpop dance cover group and there are multiple video of him doing dance covers in questionable outfits like this cover of aoa's heart attack where he's wearing a skirt
    • he was quite a big teen top fan. he went to korean for fansigns and he was even called 'japanese ricky' here you can see him for a few seconds fanboying at a teen top evemt
    • he was shown at a beast fansign a few years ago you can hear him trying to speak korean hes so cute\
  • there are a ton of predebut dance covers both in korea and in japan but it'd be long and probably useless to link them