Masaaki Mizunaka

Mizunaka, a native of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, was born on 20 January 1990.^[2][3] He was captain of the basketball team in junior high school despite being only 138cm.^[4] He considered working at a zoo during his youth, but after seeing Hōchū Ōtsuka's performance of Danny Tanner in the Japanese dub of the American sitcom Full House, he became interested in a voice acting career.^[4][5] He then graduated from Yoyogi Animation Academy [ja]'s Hiroshima campus.^[6]

In 2014, Mizunaka starred as Choreo in Brave Beats.^[1] He later starred as Kakeru Ryūen in Classroom of the Elite, Diablo in How Not to Summon a Demon Lord, Taishakuten in Namu Amida Butsu! Rendai Utena  [ja], and Kazami in Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise.^{[7][8][9][10]} In 2021, he played Keisuke Baji in Tokyo Revengers and Poncho Panacotta in How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom,^[11][12] and in 2022, he was cast as Kōshun Ka, a main character in Raven of the Inner Palace.^[13] In 2023, he starred as Shalle Fen Shalle in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale and Hayato Kasubake in The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses,^[14][15] and in 2024, he was cast as Zion Alster in Wistoria: Wand and Sword and Divock in Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture.^[16][17]

Mizunaka speaks the Yamaguchi dialect [ja].^[1] He is a friend of Brave Beats co-star Kōdai Sakai.^[18]