Eiji Akaso

Eiji Akaso is a Japanese actor and former model. He is best known for playing Ryuga Banjou in Kamen Rider Build and Adachi Kiyoshi in the 2020 drama Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, the role that carried his name to an international streaming audience.

His 2026 slate has moved him further into cross-border territory. He co-leads the Japanese-Korean Netflix romance Gimbap and Onigiri with Kang Hye-won, which premiered in January 2026, and stars opposite Ko Shibasaki in the romantic film One Year to Live, Buy a Man, set for a November 2026 release. He remains signed to Tristone Entertainment. [edit]

Akaso was born on March 1, 1994. The record on exactly where is not settled: Wikipedia and its linked knowledge-base entry give Osaka Prefecture, while IMDb and AsianWiki list Aichi Prefecture. Neither claim can be checked against a primary source in the material available, and the discrepancy has followed him through fan wikis for years.

What is consistently reported is that he entered the industry as a model, not as a trained actor. Tristone Entertainment, the agency that still represents him, built its roster around fashion and commercial talent in the 2010s, and Akaso's early work sat in that lane. His first screen credits arrived in the mid-2010s, small parts that did not yet signal a specialty.

The turn toward tokusatsu came with Kamen Rider Amazons Season 2, where he played Hiroki Nagase. Amazons was a darker, web-first offshoot of the franchise, and it gave him his first sustained character work in front of a dedicated audience. That performance led, in 2017, to the casting that changed his trajectory: Ryuga Banjou in Kamen Rider Build, the 28th entry in the main franchise. He was 23. [edit]

The Kamen Rider Build run (2017–2018) made Akaso a known quantity to tokusatsu viewers, and he stayed with the character through the spin-off films, including Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Final: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders (2017) and Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever.

The broader breakthrough came in 2020 with Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, in which he played Adachi Kiyoshi. The series became one of the defining titles of the boys' love drama wave and gave him a global audience well beyond the tokusatsu fanbase. From roughly 2015 through 2025 he built a steady run of television dramas and films.

In 2026 he shifted into Netflix territory with two prominent projects. Gimbap and Onigiri, marketed in some territories as Love at First Bite, paired him with Korean actress Kang Hye-won and premiered in January 2026 with a weekly episode rollout. Later in the year came One Year to Live, Buy a Man opposite Ko Shibasaki, announced as part of Netflix Japan's 2026 slate, with a November 2026 release window and an official trailer in September 2026. [edit]

Media framing in 2026 centers on Akaso as a romantic lead in cross-cultural streaming productions. Korean press covering Gimbap and Onigiri emphasized his warmth and easy chemistry with co-star Kang Hye-won, a characterization that has followed him since the Cherry Magic! era.

His Instagram presence (@akasoeiji, roughly 1 million followers across 727 posts) is official and promotional rather than personality-driven. He posts project announcements and press materials, not personal commentary, which keeps his public image tightly managed and largely professional. [edit]

iFANN has not yet collected fame data for Eiji Akaso, so no ranking placement is available. He is not on the September 2026 iFAMOUS Rankings flagship list.

His fanbase has no formal name documented in any source. Activity concentrates in two communities: tokusatsu viewers who followed him from Kamen Rider Amazons into Build, and the international boys' love audience that arrived with Cherry Magic! in 2020. The latter group is the larger and more vocal, and it has driven much of the fan-made content around him, including YouTube and TikTok compilations of his filmography.

There is no evidence of organized campaigns, birthday billboards, or charity drives in the available material. His engagement with fans runs through official Instagram and X accounts, which he uses for project promotion rather than direct conversation. [edit]

He is a veteran of two separate Kamen Rider productions, Amazons Season 2 and Build, a double that few actors in the franchise's history have managed.

His 2026 schedule made him one of the more visible Japanese actors in Netflix's cross-market romance strategy, with a Japanese-Korean series and a Japanese romantic film in the same year.

He stands 178 cm, and his blood type is listed by AsianWiki, though the value is cut off in the available snippet.

Fan-compiled filmographies trace a steady run of dramas and films from roughly 2015 through 2025, a decade of near-continuous work that the English-language record has never fully catalogued. [edit]

Akaso has not discussed his family publicly in the sources available. No parents, siblings, spouse, or children are documented, and he has not shared details of his household or where he lives. What is known is that he remains based in Japan and represented by Tristone Entertainment. [edit]

Akaso's most visible recent collaborators are Kang Hye-won, his co-lead in the 2026 Netflix series Gimbap and Onigiri, and Ko Shibasaki, his co-star in One Year to Live, Buy a Man. He is represented by Tristone Entertainment, the agency that has handled his career since his modeling days. [edit]

No public romantic relationship, engagement, or marriage involving Akaso is documented in any of the sources available. Search data shows that "Is Akaso Eiji married?", "Is Eiji Akaso in a relationship?", "Eiji Akaso wife," and "Eiji Akaso girlfriend" are among the most common queries about him, but the results themselves contain no credible reporting of a partner.

There is therefore no chronological relationship history to report: no confirmed early relationships, no long-term public partners, no marriage or divorce. Outlets covering his 2026 projects describe only his professional chemistry with co-stars, which should not be read as romantic confirmation. Any tabloid pairing claims should be treated as unverified absent multiple credible outlets.

As of 2026, he is not known to be married, engaged, or publicly dating anyone, and no children are reported. [edit]

The only net-worth-adjacent item is a fan-produced YouTube video titled "Akaso Eiji Lifestyle | Drama and Net Worth | Family and Girlfriend," which offers no verifiable number and is not a reliable financial source. The iFANN Editorial Team's own analysis, working from the scale of his television, film, and streaming work rather than from any published estimate, puts his fortune at roughly $1 million as of 2026.

His income comes from acting fees across film, television, and streaming projects, including the 2026 Netflix titles, plus modeling and endorsement work typical of Tristone talent. The Kamen Rider and Cherry Magic! years would have built the base; the Netflix slate is the likeliest driver of any recent growth. Any specific dollar amount circulating online should be treated as unsourced. [edit]