Background and career
Mackenyu Maeda (前田 真剣佑, Maeda Makken'yū; born November 16, 1996), also known by the mononym Mackenyu (真剣佑, Makken'yū) and formerly as Mackenyu Arata (新田 真剣佑 (Arata Makken'yū)), is a Japanese actor.
He rose to fame after portraying Arata Wataya in the Chihayafuru live-action trilogy (2016–2018), which earned him the 40th Japan Academy Newcomers of the Year Award in 2017. He has since portrayed characters in numerous adaptations of popular manga series, including Okuyasu Nijimura in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I (2017), Sōta in Tokyo Ghoul S (2019), Yukishiro Enishi in Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021), Pegasus Seiya in Knights of the Zodiac (2023), and Roronoa Zoro in the Netflix series One Piece (2023–present).
He rose to fame after portraying Arata Wataya in the Chihayafuru live-action trilogy in 2016, which earned him the 40th Japan Academy Newcomers of the Year Award in 2017.
He has since portrayed characters in many other adaptations of popular manga series, including Okuyasu Nijimura in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I (2017), Sōta in Tokyo Ghoul S (2019), Yukishiro Enishi in Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021), Pegasus Seiya in Knights of the Zodiac, and Roronoa Zoro in the Netflix series One Piece (both 2023).
