Jean

ジャン海渡（じゃんかいと）
Last Name: (unpublished)
First Name: Jean Kayto
Date of Birth: 2000.05.04
Position: Vocal, Rap, Dance
Unit: Fire Dragon
Height: 181cm
Weight: 61kg
MBTI: ISTP-A (2024), ENFP (2022)
Blood Type: O
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Hobbies: Making music, Basketball, Skateboarding, Fashion
Representative Color (Unofficial): Purple
Representative Animal (Unofficial): Rabbit 🐰

FACTS:

• He was scouted in 6th grade
• His Identity song in 3rd Identity is ‘New Game’
• His character at Ryuuzaki High is an exchange student from Turkey
• His self-introduction at concerts includes the call-and-repeat phrase ‘Ja ja ja Jean!’ which is repeated several times while becoming more and more complex
• He lives with his mother and father
• He is half Turkish, with a Turkish father and Japanese mother
• Jean has not published his last name and Jean Kayto is a combination of his given name, Jean, and given Japanese name, Kaito, spelled with Turkish letter assignment. Jean permantently adopted the Turkish spelling of Kayto in 2022
• Jean started learning English in 2019 and is conversationally proficient. His father helps him with some Turkish phrases and lyrics, but he cannot speak Turkish fluently himself
• Jean originally trained to be a dancer, but debuted in SUPER★DRAGON as the main rapper. However, Jean has increasingly filled a vocalist role since TRIANGLE and is now considered to hold both positions
• Jean used to upload his own music to Soundcloud from 2019 until May 4, 2024
• Jean launched his solo project under the name ‘jjean’ on May 4th, 2024.
• A nickname of his Jya-iko, it comes from people yelling ‘Jean let’s go!’ (Jean ikou!)
• Participated in a modelling side project with member Tsuyoshi, known as Tsuyojean Official
• He hates vegetables
• He can play guitar
• He used to have a pet turtle in his childhood
• He can beatbox and did several beatbox parts in earlier SUPER★DRAGON songs
• He has formed several informal units of himself and the other members, particularly in the early years of SUPER★DRAGON, based on shared qualities. Examples include the Gari boys (Gari means excessively skinny) consisting of Tsuyoshi, himself, and Raku, and Beatboxing Brothers consisting of himself, Koki, Hyoma (joined later after improving beatboxing skills), and Tomoya
• He used to end his LINE blog entries with ‘we should train MDRHA’ where the last word is an acronym for MC, Dance, Rap, Human Beatbox (as beatboxing is called in Japanese), and Acting
• His favorite Hunter x Hunter character is Feitan, but he also collects Chrollo and Hisoka merchandise
• He has had several members stay at his house overnight to create music together and participate in songwriting sessions. Members known to have spent at least one night at Jean’s house are Tsuyoshi, Tomoya, and Koki. Koki stayed at Jean’s house for one week while writing his verse in ‘2U,’ while Jean and Tomoya wrote ‘SAWAGE!!!’ at Jean’s house

APPEARANCES:

FILM:

• 2015 神話の国の子供たち (Children from the land of myth)

TV:

• 2016 わたしのウチには、なんにもない。(In my home, there’s nothing)
• 2016 オトナへノベル (Adult Novel)
• 2017 スカッとジャパン (Sukatto Japan) Grandma edition (11.06)
• 2020 FAKE MOTION ―卓球の王将― (FAKE MOTION -King of Ping Pong-) – Tetsu

STAGE:

• 2015 十五少年漂流記 (Two Years’ Vacation)
• 2018 BOX in BOX THEATER
• 2018 CRAZY×BOTTOM ～僕たちのyell日記～ (~The story of our voice~)
• 2021 FAKE MOTION THE SUPER STAGE – Tetsu
• 2022 FAKE MOTION 2022 SMR LIVE SHOW – Tetsu

OTHER:

• 2018 Rakuten Girls Award 2018 SPRING/SUMMER – Model
• 2018 「超」ボーカリストオーディション (Mega Vocalist Audition) – MC
• 2019 TOKYO GIRLS COLLECTION 2019 AUTUMN/WINTER – Model
• 2019 Rakuten Girls Award 2019 SPRING/SUMMER – Model
• 2019 Rakuten Girls Award 2019 SPRING/SUMMER – Model
• 2019 TOKYO GIRLS COLLECTION 2019 SPRING/SUMMER – Model
• 2020 TOKYO GIRLS COLLECTION 2020 AUTUMN/WINTER ONLINE – Model
• 2020 TGC Shizuoka – Model