Masa Shimamoto

Masa Shimamoto is the one of the two tritagonists (alongside Sofia Porter) of the Glitch Productions web series Meta Runner.
He is the leader of the group called MD-5 and is devoted to beat Lucks and TAS Corp. He let both Tari and Theo join his group. He was motivated by the plan of Lucks murdering Lucinia Porter.
He is voiced by Brendan Barry-Cotter.
==Personality==
He's really adept at video games, with Battle Blaze being his forte, winning against Tari many times in spite of her being capable of learning very fast.
He is obstinate and has good sense however, he is willing to take some risks when it's benefits the team. He as well follows the stereotype of, as Lamar puts it, "Emo", meaning quiet and kind of introverted however angsty, a trait usually seen in adolescents.
==Biography==
He was a TAS Corp team captain before. He may have had a close relationship with Belle. Upon the loss of appearance of Lucinia Porter, he started suspecting that Lucks murdered her. Masa hacked into the files, to get caught and shut down. He set up a secret team named MD-5.
At points of time that weren't known, he made Sofia Porter join his team, and also made Lamar Williams join. Throughout the year, MD-5 have been attempting to gain evidence of Lucks' bad affairs but didn't work.
A year later on, Lamar brought Theo and Tari to the hideout. Masa behaves skeptical and obstinate, wanting to test Tari's capability through a game of Battle Blaze, during the time that Sofia and he were eager to have new members. Masa has been giving her advice, throughout the rounds.
During the next day, the group talks about Operation: Silent Demon, a idea to hack into TAS Corp servers with the help of a glitch in an competition that was coming up. The game that'll be played is named Tempest, so they decide help Tari practice. They as plan to regain his cartridge, considering Theo's glitch issues.
The team made it towards the top of the mountain in-game, only for Belle to stop, 
on that day. Belle unveils about Masa's past and beats him out of the game. Tari handles to avoid Belle and get rid of the glitch.
When attempting to run off, they are trapped by Derek Lucks and his mercenaries. Lucks ends up making a deal with Sofia: hand in her laptop or Masa get killed. When attempting to fight against the businessman and he had his Meta Runner arm shot off. Sofia brings laptop in tears, and tears up even more through the likelihood of her presumably dead sister. When the team was about to be imprisoned, Tari goes ahead on offering herself in to TAS Corp. Beneficial to her allies' freedom. Lucks made sure of this by taking Theo captive.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*"Shimamoto" which is his last name, is a Japanese last name. This along with his theme supports him being of Asian origins further.
*In the trailer he had a red jacket with a plain white under shirt, a sode, less facial hair and white cyber arm.
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