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Mackenyu did 3 self-tapes for his Zoro audition:
“They’d seen my work in Rurouni Kenshin, so they knew I could handle the action. They wanted to see my acting & english pronunciation, so I sent a few tapes showing that.”
“Within a week, they got back to me. ‘We want you.’”
A staff member who worked with Mackenyu since Chihayafuru and now MASHLE said exactly what I thought about his career trajectory 😂
Expectation (2016): Omg he’s gonna be Japan’s future romantic heartthrob 🌹
Reality (2026): Japan’s go to muscle man 😶
Some of Mackenyu’s notable animanga live-action character portrayal (and that’s not even all of them)
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Minami Hamabe tells us she was excited that her character got to step further into the action in ‘GODZILLA MINUS ZERO’.
“We had established a lot of trust and rapport with ‘Minus One’ and the team that director Yamazaki put together... so I was able to really trust the process.”
I’m convinced that Mackenyu & Gouki Maeda was talking about MASHLE live-action in this interview. I wonder who Gouki is playing?
Fukuda Yuichi (MASHLE director) immediately offered Mackenyu to play Mashle as soon as he got the project. He wanted to work with Macken for a while so this was a dream collaboration for him 😆
This was his tweet in 2022 when Macken visited him after he wrapped OPLA season 1
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