Yūki Masuda

Yūki Masuda
増田 裕生
Born (1979-09-12) September 12, 1979 (age 47)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupations
Years active1990–present
Height171 cm (5 ft 7 in)

Yūki Masuda (増田 裕生, Masuda Yūki; born September 12, 1979) is a Japanese actor and voice artist from the Tokyo Metropolitan area.

Career

Voice acting

Masuda's breakthrough came with voice director Takayuki Hamana's 2004 television adaptation of The Prince of Tennis. Cast as Masaharu Niō, a doubles specialist who "reads ten moves ahead", he quickly became a fan favourite and has reprised the character in original-video animations, feature films and stage recordings.

Parallel to his anime work he joined the Sonic games, debuting in Sonic Heroes (2003). A 2024 casting survey by specialist outlet Siliconera lists Masuda among the returning Japanese leads for Sonic x Shadow Generations, underscoring Espio's importance to the current franchise canon.

Other notable roles covered in the trade press include Ferb Fletcher in the Japanese dub of Phineas and Ferb, for which he supplied promotional comments during the Disney/Marvel crossover campaign.

Live-action and stage

Masuda's highest-profile screen role remains Hiroshi Kuronaga, "Boy 9" of Class 3-B, in Kinji Fukasaku's dystopian thriller Battle Royale (2000). The Arrow Video archival booklet names him in the principal cast list for both the original theatrical cut and the director's edition.

On stage he has featured in several 2.5-dimensional musicals, among them the second Prince of Tennis live series, where reviewers singled out his chemistry with co-star Eiyū Tsuda for sustaining the franchise's comedic "trick play" routines.

Filmography

Anime

1992
  • The Little Twins (Tafuru)
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2010
2011
2012

Original video animation

Film animation

Video games

Dubbing

Live-action

References

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  3. ↑ Thomas Cunliffe (29 October 2024). "All Sonic x Shadow Generations English and Japanese Voice Actors". Siliconera. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  4. ↑ 『フィニアスとファーブ』とマーベル・ヒーローたちがコラボ！声優コメント. Animate Times (in Japanese). 5 December 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  5. ↑ Battle Royale – Deluxe Booklet (PDF). Arrow Video. 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Yuuki Masuda (visual voices guide)". behindthevoiceactors.com (A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information). Retrieved September 18, 2024.
  7. ↑ "スタッフ・キャスト". テレビ東京・あにてれ 新テニスの王子様. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
  8. ↑ "シティ･オブ･ゴッド 日本語吹替版". BuyUru. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
  9. ↑ "One Tree Hill/ワン・トゥリー・ヒル<ファースト・シーズン>". Warner Bros. Japan. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
  10. ↑ "シェイムレス10 俺たちに恥はない". Wowow. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
  11. ↑ "ブラックサイト［吹］". Star Channel. Archived from the original on June 12, 2021. Retrieved September 13, 2019.