For years, King & Prince member Kaito Takahashi has been drawing a mysterious creature called Celeru. Now, Celeru has stepped beyond the page and into a world visitors can walk through—searching for the creature while glimpsing its everyday life and curious ecology.

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Takahashi’s first solo exhibition, The Mysterious Celeru Exhibition created by Kaito Takahashi, opened on September 11, 2026, at PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO on the fourth floor of Shibuya PARCO in Tokyo.

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Celeru has gradually become familiar to followers through Takahashi’s Instagram and other platforms. This exhibition expands the creature beyond works displayed on gallery walls. Beginning with an original animation, it unfolds through a room offering glimpses into Celeru’s daily life and ecology, as well as an interactive area where visitors can create a Celeru of their own. What began as an imagined creature has grown into an entire spatial experience.

Stepping Into the World of Celeru

Enter the exhibition and signs of Celeru seem to emerge from all around.

Parts that might be enormous ears—or perhaps arms. A blue-green body. Large eyes that seem slightly anxious. And a face that is always in tears. There is something elusive about Takahashi’s creation, a creature that resists any single, definitive explanation.

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Here, visitors encounter Celeru beyond two-dimensional works, moving through the space while imagining where the creature might be found and how it might live.

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An original animation serves as one of the entry points into this world. As visitors move deeper into the exhibition, the Celeru that Takahashi has portrayed in fragments over the years gradually takes shape as a three-dimensional universe.

Observing Celeru’s Everyday Life and Ecology

The exhibition includes a room where visitors can peer into Celeru’s everyday life and ecology. What makes the experience intriguing is that it never presents a complete set of answers about the creature.

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At a press conference held on September 10, the day before the opening, Takahashi reflected on his journey with Celeru, which began on Instagram. Through creating the exhibition, he said he realized, “I actually didn’t know Celeru very well at all.”

“I can’t talk to Celeru, but I wonder if Celerus talk to each other,” he mused, adding, “I’ll keep researching Celeru from here.”

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Even Takahashi, its creator, does not know everything about Celeru. Each new drawing reveals another facet of the creature, and every act of imagination seems to expand its ecology further. The exhibition looks back at what Takahashi has created while also becoming a place for the artist himself to observe Celeru anew.

Creating a Celeru of Your Own

The Mysterious Celeru Exhibition also invites visitors to participate. One area allows each person to create a Celeru of their own.

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A character born from one creator’s imagination can take on new forms through the imaginations of those who encounter it. Instead of defining Celeru as a fixed character, the exhibition invites visitors to become part of the process of imagining its world.

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Speaking about what visitors can look forward to, Takahashi said, “There are all kinds of Celerus watching everyone throughout the venue, so I think it will be fun to look for them.”

For fans in particular, who have watched Celeru grow alongside him, Takahashi hopes they will look on “from the same kind of parental perspective” that he does, adding that he would like them to visit “as if they were coming to observe their child’s class at school.”

Celeru STORE Appears at Shibuya PARCO

Beyond the exhibition space is Celeru STORE, an original merchandise shop. The store itself has been carefully designed around the world of Celeru, making the space another part of the exhibition experience.

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Alongside T-shirts, sweatshirts, accessories, and other items, a new life-size Celeru plush and an official exhibition catalogue have also been announced.

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The plush recreates Celeru at life size, while the forthcoming official catalogue is set to feature works from the exhibition, newly photographed images of Takahashi at the venue, a long-form interview, and behind-the-scenes material. Together, they trace the process through which Takahashi’s ideas developed into the exhibition itself.

“It Feels Like a Dream”: Holding His First Solo Exhibition at Shibuya PARCO

The exhibition marks a first for Takahashi. Seeing the completed venue, he shared his immediate reaction at the press conference the day before opening: “It feels like a dream. I feel like I’m still asleep.”

He was equally enthusiastic about beginning the exhibition at Shibuya PARCO.

“Shibuya PARCO has created so much culture and has been at the center of culture,” he said. “It’s an honor to become a page in that history.”

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Celeru began as a single mysterious creature drawn on Instagram, before gradually multiplying into different forms. In this exhibition, that presence expands into animation, physical space, and an experience shaped by visitor participation. Yet the question of exactly what Celeru is remains open.

There are still things even its creator has yet to discover, leaving space for the imagination to continue.

The Mysterious Celeru Exhibition is a place to encounter the Celeru that Kaito Takahashi has nurtured over the years—and to imagine alongside him where this mysterious creature might go next.