Age: 29
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Mackenyu (新田 真剣佑, born November 16, 1996) is a Japanese actor born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of actor and martial artist Sonny Chiba. He attended Beverly Hills High School in their Advanced Placement Program and appeared in a few films and TV shows while growing up. As a young child, Mackenyu had many interests including horseback riding, Yabusame, Kyokushin Karate (he was placed third at the US Kyokushin Karate Nationals), gymnastics, water polo, and wrestling (for which he became the school representative). He was also into music, playing piano since he was 10 years old, and later participated in the brass band of his high school in Beverly Hills, playing saxophone, and flute. At the age of 15, Mackenyu watched a movie of Haruma Miura and got inspired to pursue acting professionally in Japan. He held on to the dream of co-starring with the actor once he established his career, which then came true in the movie adaptation of Gunjō Senki (2021). Mackenyu landed his first feature film lead role in Take a Chance (2015) and was featured in the acclaimed short movie Tadaima (2015) for which he won a best supporting actor award at the Asians of Films festival. He moved to Japan later in the same year. His fame grew in Japan after landing the role of Eiji Tomari in Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future (2015). In 2016, he made his stage debut in the Japanese musical Boys Over Flower (Hana Yori Dango: The Musical), which prepared him for his future major roles in the stage-musicals ZEROTOPIA (2018) and Hoshi no Daichi ni Furu Namida (2020). He had a prominent role in the two part feature film Chihayafuru Part I & II (2016) which made him a big name in Japan. Mackenyu started to expand his acting opportunities in Hollywood with a supporting role in the film Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018). In 2021, he starred as the final villain, Yukishiro Enishi, in the Rurouni Kenshin series. He portrayed Scar in the live-action sequel of Fullmetal Alchemist (2022). He gained global popularity when he landed the role of Roronoa Zoro in the live-action series adaptation of One Piece (2023). Drawing on his martial arts background, Mackenyu performs his own stunts and is highly skilled in sword fighting.
Mackenyu
Knock Out
for Knock Out in Transformers Robots In Disguise 2 (Japanese Dub)
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On nailing home, after a school day. Kyle unexpectedly finds an unknown device that contained a hidden message in an incomprehensible language. Kyle didn't understand at first. But he soon translated this letter. The letter mentioned the following text: "Human, your life is in danger. Megatron and other Decepticons have officially declared an invasion of your city, and they are trying to destroy all life, including you. They managed to break a powerful cube from Cybertron and scatter everything in different places in Neo Acropolo City. On top of that, they also want to build a powerful laser cannon that destroys everything. You must immediately find all the pieces of the cube and save the entire planet and Cybertron. If you do not do this, then there will be a big disaster, and there will be no way to fix it. Please, you should save the Planet & Cybertron, no matter what!" -Optimus Prime. After all this. Kyle will have to stay in this city forever to save everything from this catastrophe. Kyle also needs to find true friends (Carlos, Leah, Dylan, Maya, Kai, Talon, Jack, Ivy, & Joshua) as well as the Autobots. Only in this way can he collect all the parts of the cube, defeat the Decepticons. And save Planet & Cybertron.
