Shotaro

Shotaro (쇼타로), born Osaki Shotaro (大﨑将太郎) on November 25, 2000 in Kanagawa, is one of the movement engines inside RIIZE. Dance made him visible long before debut did. He trained seriously from childhood, built a reputation through precision and control, and arrived in SM's system with the kind of body awareness that immediately translates on camera.

His first idol chapter came through NCT in 2020, but the real long-form identity landed when he re-emerged as part of RIIZE in 2023. That shift gave him a group built around youthful momentum instead of rotational ambiguity. Songs like Get A Guitar, Love 119, and Impossible made his strengths obvious: clean lines, high-speed footwork, and a performer's instinct for turning dance breaks into narrative moments rather than decoration.

Within RIIZE, Shotaro helps sell the group's core promise of growth in real time. He is not just there to execute choreography. He gives the music its snap, its athletic confidence, and a lot of its replay value on stage. As SM Entertainment continued building RIIZE into a front-line boy group, Shotaro became one of the clearest reasons the team's live performance identity feels so locked in.