Masaya is not one company. The name resolves to several people and one 1992 shooter brand across these stories. Masaya Kuninaga directed Animaroid Girl at Tokyo Game Show 2026. The Masaya shooter Gley Lancer is being remade by Nalua Studio for 2027.
The stories gathered under Masaya do not describe a single studio. They name a director, Masaya Kuninaga, several actors and writers, and one 1992 shooting game brand. Whatever unity the cluster has comes from Gley Lancer, a Masaya Mega Drive shooter from 1992, which Nalua Studio is rebuilding as Gley Lancer: Overdrive. Nalua Studio is showing the game at Tokyo Game Show 2026, with three areas playable, pixel art and animation redone, the BGM fully arranged, and a new offense and defense system called Overdrive added. Release is set for 2027. The booth build runs the original NEOGEO version and no demo footage is implemented.
At the same Tokyo Game Show, running September 17 to 21, Animaroid Girl appeared with director Masaya Kuninaga speaking about its design. The raising adventure follows a girl undergoing anima-ization into a beastfolk, with the player as both researcher and guardian over one year in Kowloonoid City, modeled on Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City. Kuninaga said the game withholds a correct answer so players choose by their own feelings and accept the result.
The remaining stories attach the name Masaya to individual people rather than to the studio. Masaya Fukunishi joined the cast of Magilumiere Co. Ltd. Season 2 as Hibiki Yamimori, and the season premiered on NTV on July 4 at 24:55 JST. Masaya Kimura is among 12 new cast members in the live-action High School Family: Kokosei Kazoku film, which opens in Japan on January 8, 2027 after a delay from fall 2026. Masaya Sakuragi stars in the live-action Chotto Mato yo, Harutora-kun. Masaya Tsunamoto is writing a new manga with artist Demo. Masaya Sano is in the live-action Osomatsu-san film cast.
Coverage does not converge on one entity. The Gley Lancer remake is the only thread that ties back to the Masaya name as a game brand. The rest are credits.
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Nalua Studio is showing Gley Lancer: Overdrive, a full remake of the 1992 Masaya Mega Drive shooter, at Tokyo Game Show 2026. The booth build runs the original NEOGEO version with three areas playable and no demo footage implemented. Pixel art and animations are redone, the BGM is fully arranged, and a new offense and defense system called Overdrive is added. Release is set for 2027.