Michael James Kovach (born June 17, 1995 in Youngstown, Ohio, United States), occasionally known as KoVox, is an American voice actor. He is often typecast as Deadpan Snarkers, Nice Guys, and rough but otherwise decent people. In anime, he works for the companies Kocha Sound, Sound Cadence Studios, NYAV Post, and Okratron 5000, and has been working in the anime industry since 2020.
While he has been doing voice acting since the early 2010's, his role as Anthony "Angel Dust" in the pilot for Hazbin Hotel is the role that made him known in the indie Web Animation scene.
His other well-known roles are Jax in The Amazing Digital Circus, Rocky Rickaby in Lackadaisy, Serial Designation N from Murder Drones, Fantoccio from Billie Bust Up!, and I-LeS Nayuta from AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline. He has also had more minor roles, like Niles and SMG0 from Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers, Rich and the Scientist from Poppy Playtime, and Gramps from Highway Blossoms.
He identifies as a heteroromantic asexual, and is currently in a relationship with cleanup animator Ashley Nichols, whom he met while working on Hazbin Hotel.
His Twitter/X is located here
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Notable Roles:
Anime
- Akudama Drive: Bunny
- AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline: I-LeS Nayuta
- Dragon Goes House-Hunting: Letty
- Kingdom: Zhang Yin, Jin Ren, Additional Voices
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Additional Voices
- Lovely★Complex: Additional Voices
- The Prince of Tennis: Irie Kanata, Additional Voices
- Reborn! (2004): Nosaru
Music
- "ADDICT" (Hazbin Hotel fan song turned official): Angel Dust
- Or3o's "Digital Hallucination" (The Amazing Digital Circus fan song): Jax
- Black Gryph0n's "Thank You And Goodnight" (Staff-Created Fan Work for Hazbin Hotel): Angel Dust
Video Games and Visual Novels
- Billie Bust Up!: Fantoccio
- Blush Blush: Eli Kawase / Ichiban
- BROK the InvestiGator: Graff / R.J. / Guard
- Cris Tales: Azufra
- The Divine Speaker: Illran
- Grand Guilds: Felix
- Highway Blossoms: Gramps / Man on Megaphone
- Komorebi: Taylor
- Lucid9: Masato's voiced teasernote
- Poppy Playtime: The Prototype / Rich / Scientist
Web Original
- The Amazing Digital Circus: Jax
- Kovach reprises his role in "THE HIDDEN EPISODES OF THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS!!" and Monkey Wrench
- Kovach reprises his role in "THE HIDDEN EPISODES OF THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS!!"
- CDawgVA: Gwonam, James Taylor (''I Fixed The Worst Voice Acting In Video Games'')
- Danganwrestling: Monokuma / Goldust / Paul Heyman (Ep. 5; credited as KoVox)
- DEATH BATTLE!: Shazam! (Season 6, Ep. 4: Captain Marvel VS Shazam), Goku Black (Season 8, Ep. 10: Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash), Asta (Season 9, Ep. 16: Deku VS Asta), Goku (Season 9, Ep. 17: Gogeta VS Vegito and Season 10, Ep. 15: Goku VS Superman), half of Gogeta and half of Vegito (Season 9, Ep. 17: Gogeta VS Vegito)
- Fazbear And Friends: Funtime Freddy, Bon Bon, Bendy, Boyfriend, and many more.
- Hazbin Hotel: Angel Dust (Pilot)
- HuniCast: Co-Host
- His History Revealed: A Dr. Robotnik Biography: Ivo Robotnik
- Lackadaisy: Rocky Rickaby
- Murder Drones: N, Reid, Braiden
- The Pink City: Darly Boxman (The Darly Boxman Show)
- Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: N, Niles, SMG0
Western Animation
- Spaicy: Zag
Messing with Michael Kovach's tropes is never wise:
- Acting for Two:
- In Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers, he voices both Niles and SMG0
- Murder Drones has him voicing N, Reid, and Braiden.
- Man of a Thousand Voices: Marissa Lenti calls him one of the most talented voice actors they have ever seen, and it is not hard to see why. For example, in Danganwrestling, he voices Monokuma, Paul Heyman, and Goldust in the same short with very different voices.
- Playing Against Type: He usually voices jerkass Deadpan Snarkers. N, however, is a sweetheart who would not use words to hurt others in any way.
- Production Posse:
- He and Elsie Lovelock have been involved in many of each other's works.
- Lizzie Freeman would also be involved in many of his works whether it's main roles or side roles.
- Considering the amount of times their voices have been compared to each other, it is no shocker Sean Chiplock and he have voiced together.
- Star-Making Role: For animation, it's Angel Dust, and for anime, it's Bunny.
- Tom Hanks Syndrome: He often voiced in very lighthearted Visual Novels and cheeky animations in his early years. After the Hazbin Hotel pilot, though, he shifted more into the horror genre. Notable examples include Murder Drones a Dystopian cyberpunk horror, Poppy Playtime, a Survival Horror, and Gooseworx created animations The Amazing Digital Circus and The Darly Boxman Show.
