Masaya Fukunishi

Masaya Fukunishi (福西 勝也) is a Japanese voice actor from Nara Prefecture, affiliated with Ken Production. He won the 2012 Best Anime Scenario Award at Seiyu Koshien and was part of the 3rd Seiyū Damashī 2014. He starred as Ken Ryūgūji in Tokyo Revengers and Gege in Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger, succeeding Tatsuhisa Suzuki in these roles following the latter's career hiatus. In 2023, he was cast as Kafka Hibino, the titular protagonist of Kaiju No. 8.

Biography
Masaya Fukunishi, a native of Nara Prefecture, was born on 24 February 1995. While in elementary school, he decided to be a voice actor, and he as a teenager did some stage work. In 2012, he won the Best Anime Scenario Award at Seiyu Koshien. In 2014, he was selected in the Voice Actor Category at the 3rd Seiyū Damashī.

He was educated at School Duo. After voicing a reporter in the 2015 ONA Isobe Isobē Monogatari, he began voicing anime characters in 2017, including in Case Closed, Made in Abyss, Banana Fish, Cells at Work!, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan, King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars, Psycho-Pass 3, Haikyu!!, and Jujutsu Kaisen.

After Tatsuhisa Suzuki went into a career hiatus following an extramarital affair scandal, Fukunishi replaced him as the voice of Gege in Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger starting with the 25th episode in August 2021. In 2022, he later replaced Suzuki as the voice of Ken Ryūgūji in Tokyo Revengers. In August 2023, it was announced that he would star as Kafka Hibino, the titular protagonist of Kaiju No. 8. He was a guest at Anime Expo 2024.

Fukunishi speaks the Kansai dialect.