Masaya Matsukaze is a Japanese actor, voice actor and radio personality. He was formerly affiliated with Big Apple, Radix Mobanimation Multicye Division and Varoque Works, and is currently affiliated with Aoni Production. He was born in Fukushima Prefecture and is now living in Tokyo. He is best known for playing MegaBlue/Shun Namiki in Denji Sentai Megaranger and Ryo Hazuki in the Shenmue series.

Zoids: New Century, or Zoids: New Century Slash Zero , is an anime television series created in 2001 by Shogakukan, Inc. It is the second Zoids series created, based on the range of mecha models produced by TOMY. The series was originally released in Western nations under the title Zoids, before being later rebranded as Zoids: New Century by Viz Media. It was the first Zoids series to be dubbed in English. In August 2014, a Blu-ray box set of the series was released in Japan. It optionally came with a limited-edition Liger Zero.