Kaito Tōhata is a Japanese manga artist whose professional credits span multiple series published by major Japanese houses including Shueisha and Akita Shoten. The creator is listed under the name Kaito in several official publications and databases, while the more complete name Kaito Tōhata appears on works such as the josei manga Iru no wa Tsurai yo: Care to Therapy ni Tsuite no Oboegaki. The artist made a professional debut in 2004 with a work titled Hapimaji and subsequently worked as an assistant to another manga creator known as Iori. A later series from this period, Anti Love Sentai: Hayata Joe, was released in 2007 but did not achieve significant commercial success. Further titles from the first decade of the career include Cross Manage from 2012, Anti Lovers from 2013, and Buddy Strike from 2015. These earlier works were primarily serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump, the flagship boys' manga magazine published by Shueisha. The most commercially and critically successful work by Kaito Tōhata is Blue Flag, which was serialized digitally on the Shōnen Jump+ platform from February 2017 to April 2020. The series was collected in eight tankōbon volumes and received an English language release from Viz Media. Blue Flag follows a group of high school students navigating personal relationships, societal expectations, and complex romantic feelings, including heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual experiences. Critics praised the series for its character development, artwork, and treatment of LGBTQ themes, and it was named a finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize in the graphic novel category in 2020. The final chapter of Blue Flag depicts the protagonist and another male character living together as a married couple after a time skip. In 2021, the creator began work on Iru no wa Tsurai yo: Care to Therapy ni Tsuite no Oboegaki, a manga adaptation of an academic book written by a psychologist based on clinical experience at a medical facility in Okinawa. This series is serialized in the josei magazine Elegance Eve, published by Akita Shoten, with story credited to Kaito Tōhata and artwork by Inuwinoko. As of the available records, this series has produced two volumes and is classified as a psychological drama with medical themes. The creator Kaito Tōhata maintains a career that spans both mainstream shōnen manga through Blue Flag and Cross Manage as well as more niche josei and dramatic works through the 2021 title. The artist has worked with at least three major Japanese publishers across nearly two decades of active production. The creator's gender is not publicly documented in standard industry references, and professional biographies typically use only the surname Kaito without further personal details. The body of work demonstrates recurring interest in interpersonal relationships and psychological depth across different demographic categories of manga.