Teppei Koike

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Teppei Koike endorsing Morinaga Aloe Yoghurt

Teppei Koike (小池徹平, Koike Teppei^?, born January 5th, 1986 -) is an actor, and singer from Japan. His nicknames are "Teppei-chan", "Teppei-kun," and "Te-chan". He was born in Osakayama, Osaka. Capricorn. Blood type B. Belongs to the production company Burning Productions. Is a member of the singer-songwriter duo WaT.

1 History
2 Personal Profile
- 2.1 Family
- 2.2 Wentz
3 TV Shows
4 External links

[edit] History

2001

Attended Osaka Furitsu Nagano High School.
Was the grand prix winner of the 14th Junon Super Boy Contest.

2002

Moved to Tokyo in the spring. Changed schools to Horikoshi High (also attended at the same time by NEWS' Yamashita Tomohisa, D-BOYS' Shirota Yuu, and KAT-TUN's Tanaka Koki)
Met Wentz Eiji while working and formed WaT. Started doing street lives.
Debuted as an actor in the drama "Tentai Kansoku".

2004

WaT released debut indies CD "Sotsugyou TIME" in February.

2005

Acted in the drama "Gokusen 2", which was part of the reason for his increasing popularity.
WaT signs with Universal Music in August, releases first major single "Boku no Kimochi" in November, ranking 2nd place on the Oricon chart. They are the band with the shortest time gap between debut and appearing on NHK's Kouhaku Uta Gassen.

2006

Presented with the Newcomer's 43rd Golden Arrow Award (WaT).
Presented with the 20th Gold Disc Award for "Best New Artist".
First leading role in the movie "Love★Con" as Ohtani Atsushi.
Official supporter in 2006's International Volleyball Tournament (WaT).
Nominated for the Best Supporting Actor in the 49th Drama Academy Award, for his performance in Iryu.

[edit] Personal Profile

Left-handed. (Originally right-handed, but became left-handed when he started copying his left-handed father) However, he still uses his right hand when playing guitar, bowling, and practicing writing kanji

[edit] Family

Immediate family consists of Father, Mother, Little brother.

The name "Teppei" came from his father's favourite manga, "Ore wa Teppei"

[edit] Wentz

He is really good friends with Wentz, they often visit each other's houses, watches movies together and go out to eat together. When they were doing street lives they often borrowed each other's clothes.

Teppei calls Wentz "Ei-chan".

They have spend Christmas together ever since they've met each other (The first year, they took purikura in Shinjuku; the second year, they ran the maranthon for their indies debut PV; the third year, they ate at a hamburg shop; the fourth year was a WaT event and love*con photoshoot)

For Wentz's 20th birthday, Teppei bought him a lot of underwear (Wentz has showed up on variety TV wearing just underwear a lot of times)

On his birthday in 2006, the first "happy birthday!" email he got was from Wentz who was overseas at the time. (Even with the time difference, he got the mail at exactly 12am sharp)