Joel McDonald

Joel McDonald is an American voice actor, voice director, and scriptwriter who worked on English versions of anime series at Funimation. He is currently a voiceover producer and director with Gearbox Entertainment and author of Getting In: An Actor's Guide to the Greatest Gig There Is.

Career McDonald has provided voices for a number of English language versions of Japanese anime films and television shows, and video games. He is best known as the voice of Takumi Fujiwara from the Initial D series, Meow from Space Dandy, and Minato Sahashi from the Sekirei series, as well as the ADR director for the Funimation dub of One Piece, in addition to Sgt Frog, Deadman Wonderland, Space Dandy and Initial D.

In the 2010s, McDonald has been cast in more lead/major roles, such as Akane from Divine Gate, Mikage from the Kamisama Kiss series, Bartholomew Kuma from One Piece, Zeref Dragneel from Fairy Tail, Brief from Panty and Stocking, Hien from Chaos Dragon, Koki Mimura from Assassination Classroom, Azusa Hanai from Big Windup!, Toshimitsu Kubo from the Baka and Test series, Hayato Ike from the second season of Shakugan no Shana onwards, Jacuzzi Splot from Baccano, Motoharu Kaido from Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero, Ikta Solok from Alderamin on the Sky, and Dilandau Albatou from the Funimation redub of The Vision of Escaflowne.

On February 15, 2018, he resigned from Funimation as a director.

In 2018, he joined Gearbox Entertainment as a voiceover producer, director, and actor working on such titles as Borderlands 3, His second son, Finn McDonald, was born on June 15, 2018.

Filmography Anime

Films

Video games