Releasing control art restrictions level 3. Level 2. Level 1. The Cromwell approval is now in effect. Hold release until target is silenced. Now... I WILL SHOW YOU HOW THE REAL JOJI NAKATA DOES BATTLE!
Rejoice, troper. Joji Nakata will be described here.
The other (and newer) go-to guy for deep voiced villains. Joji Nakata (born April 22, 1954), often called George Nakata, is a man gifted with a deep, astringent voice, which lands him veteran roles. And, as we mentioned, villains. In fact, he has become so known for it that it is often easy to identify a person as evil just because Joji Nakata is voicing him. If he is playing heroes, you can be sure that the hero is either old, or at least an Anti-Hero. Either way, he also tends to hold mentor roles for other characters because his voice also lends itself well to exposition, explanations and Breaking Speeches.
He first made himself known in the English language fandom as Alucard, but wasn't quite prominent as the character's English language actor, Crispin Freeman. It wasn't until later when he became quite prominent on his own.
He can also be compared to the likes of Norio Wakamoto in some circles, since the two of them are the biggest names in Japanese voice acting that have a notable forte for voicing villains. And starting with the aforementioned Hellsing, they've worked on number of roles together as well.
He's quite well-known to fans of the Super Sentai series, having voiced many major villains going from 1986's Choushinsei Flashman to the present day.
Here's his Twitter account
. Interestingly enough, he may reply some of the tweets in English as well.
Roles by Joji Nakata:
- Abyss Lectors in Genshin Impact
- Ahlforz Rohm Halharris in Super Robot Wars V (Villain)
- Albert Wesker in the Resident Evil remasters and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. (Villain.)
- Albert von Stargazer in Lost Universe (Villain, ends up a Big Bad Wannabe)
- Algol in Soulcalibur IV (Antagonistic. More Blood Knight than villain, and funny enough, Norio Wakamoto is instead a heroic samurai in the form of Yoshimitsu. Also a role shared with Jamieson Price.)
- Alucard in Hellsing (Nominal Hero/outright Villain Protagonist/Byronic Hero/
whatever you want to view in him. Also has the very Norio Wakamoto as Father Anderson for good measure, which arguably kick-started a few of their roles shared together.) - Ashen Eye in The Ancient Magus' Bride
- Baki in Naruto. (Antagonistic. He gets better, as a Team Dad to the former resident Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds.)
- Bandou in Elfen Lied. (Villain/Nominal Hero.)
- Baofu in Persona 2 (Anti-Hero)
- Baul in Devil May Cry: The Animated Series (Antagonistic)
- Benkei in Kurozuka. (Villain.)
- Black Dragon in Chaos Dragon. (Villain.)
- Brave Seijin in Brave Command Dagwon.
- Boris The Animal (Jemaine Clement) in the Japanese dub of Men in Black 3 (Villain)
- Chaser John Doe in Dream Eater Merry (Mysterious, but definitely antagonistic.)
- Chaugnar in the Japanese version of Arena of Valor (Chaotic Eldritch Abomination attuned with madness. Villain, of course)
- Professor Claude Majima in Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter (Mentor to the heroes.)
- Clyde Harlown in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's (dead hero)
- Crushfang in Sdorica. (Hero)
- ...except he's also Theodore Carlos who's very much a (Villain).
- Cusack in The Seven Deadly Sins
- Date Shigezane in Nioh (Villain)
- Doomfist in the Japanese dub of Overwatch (Villain)
- Diethard Reid in Code Geass (Villainous.)
- Dracula in Castlevania: Judgment (One of the only cases where Norio Wakamoto did not voice Dracula. Also, Villain.)
- Dufarge in Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry (Reasonable Authority Figure. Not a villain.)
- Edmond "The Count of Monte Cristo" Dantes in Gankutsuou (Byronic Hero par excellence.)
- Edmond Du Clos in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED CE.73: Stargazer. (Neutral.)
- Enrico Pucci in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven, replacing Show Hayami (Villain.), succeeded by Tomokazu Seki in the anime
- Federico Czariano in Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO. (Depends on whose side you're on.)
- Fiore de Rosa in Bravely Default (Villain.)
- Folken Fanel in The Vision of Escaflowne. (Villain, or better said, borderline Byronic Hero. He gets better... and then he dies.)
- And in The Movie, where he's just a villain period.
- Gallon in Odin Sphere. (Villain, albeit unwillingly.)
- Gamettsu in Maho Girls Pretty Cure! (Villain)
- Gene Simmons in the Japanese dub of Gene Simmons' Rock School.
- General in the Japanese dub of Big Hero 6
- Genji Kimata in Texhnolyze
- Corporal Giroro in Sgt. Frog (Only Sane Man.)
- Notably ad-libbed a ''300'' reference into one episode, regarding which see below.
- Gideon Starling in Lollipop Chainsaw (Hero)
- Giliath Osborne in Trails Series (Implied villain in the Liberl and Crossbell arcs, Well-Intentioned Extremist in the Erebonia arc.)
- Goha 66 in Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS
- Goodman in NeoGeo Battle Coliseum (Villain)
- Thanatos in Secret of Mana (Villain)
- Gouto-Douji in the Raidou Kuzunoha Drama CD (Non-villain mentor.)
- Gouto-Douji and Goto-Doji in the 3DS remake of Soul Hackers (Goto is also a non-villain mentor)
- Gouto-Douji in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster
- Grande in Tweeny Witches (Villain)
- Great King Boccowaus in Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger (Villain.)
- Gustav in Fire Emblem Heroes
- Hemo Levin in Brave Police J-Decker
- Hody Jones in One Piece (Villain.)
- Hyougo Otoo in Wagnaria!! (A really nice restaurant manager, gets threatened a lot by a girl...)
- Jack Cayman in Anarchy Reigns
- Jazz (Jiruba in Japan) in Eternal Sonata
- James "Jack" Bukhar in Sentou Yousei Yukikaze (A complete anomaly in Nakata's resumé, as he's not only a thoroughly positive character, but at 34-36 he's quite young as well.)
- Jin the Taxi driver in Canaan. (Heroic Bystander.)
- That was a Nasuverse work where he wasn't a villain! note
- Jinkuro in Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Villain Protagonist.)
- The Ace Pilot Joshua O'Brien in Armored Core 4. (Heroic example except in the end, when he becomes a Tragic Villain.)
- Reprises this role for Armored Core: Verdict Day as 'J', leader of Reaper Squad and Joshua O'Brien's clone.
- Kageyama in Black Lagoon (Villain.)
- Kanda in the A Man and His Cat commercials (very, very nice old man)
- Kazuya Tagane in Jack Jeanne
- King Kashew in the Record of Lodoss War TV series, replacing Shūichi Ikeda. (Not only he's a good guy, but a Supporting Leader and The King!)
- Kazuya Mishima in Tekken 1, 2 and Tag Tournament. (Villain Protagonist.), suceedeed by Masanori Shinohara since 4
- Keithgriff Hazeldine in Atelier Ayesha
- Keyes in Fairy Tail (Villain.)
- Kongo-sensei in Land of the Lustrous (Ambiguous at best. His real motives are unclear, but generally benevolent.)
- Kouzou Minashiro in Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor (Father of the Deuteragonist. Commander of the protagonist's organization. Killed in Episode 2.)
- Kron in the Japanese dub of Dinosaur
- Kuma in Sketchbook ~full color'S~ (A cat. A very hammy cat.)
- Kunugi in RahXephon. (Antagonistic. He gets better. Not a villain. In-universe Memetic Badass [see: cherry trees].)
- Leonidas (Gerard Butler) in the Japanese dub of 300 (THIS IS! SPARTA'S STYLE!!, he then corrected it later in Sgt. Frog)
- He also voiced the same historical character in the Japanese dub of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
- Liver in Akame ga Kill!! (Anti-Villain)
- Reverend Lovejoy in the Japanese-dubbed version of The Simpsons Movie (Only in the theatrical release of this movie.)
- Luxord in Kingdom Hearts II (Villain, alongside Norio Wakamoto as the Big Bad.)
- Margulis in Xenosaga (The Heavy)
- Maxie in Pokémon Masters (Villain)
- Gaav in Slayers Next (Villain.)
- Masakado in Shin Megami Tensei IV. (Unambiguously heroic. The reason mankind stands a fighting chance against the angels and the demons poised to overwhelm them.)
- Master Megatron/Master Galvatron in Transformers: Cybertron (Villain)
- Momoko in Shangri-La (Trans Woman Protagonist, turned Well-Intentioned Extremist, turned protagonist again.)
- MPU in Cowboy Bebop. (Renegade AI. Episode antagonist. Completely non-malicious, and surprisingly chipper on top of it.)
- Mr. Kakuta in Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto
- "Mr. Smith" in Darker than Black's second season (Villain.)
- Mukade in Wonder Egg Priority (Villain)
- Naobito Zen'in in Jujutsu Kaisen
- The Narrator in Amagami SS's Nakata arc (Narrating a love story. Very smarmy towards the protagonist. The other arcs don't even have a narrator.)
- The Narrator in My Mental Choices Are Completely Interfering with My School Romantic Comedy (Well he's the narrator and he also reads out whatever Sadistic Choices the protagonist has to do.)
- The narrator/voice of the Birth Driver of Kamen Rider OOO (Disembodied voice with no affiliation beyond episode recaps.)
- The Narrator of the Arpeggio of Blue Steel anime, and Shozo Chihaya in the second movie.
- Nasus in the Japanese dub of League of Legends (Actually a good guy! Even if he looks menacing. But there's always Infernal Nasus.)
- Has voiced a prominent villain in all adaptations of Nasuverse works, including:
- Kirei Kotomine in Fate/stay night and Fate/Zero (Villain in the former, had his Start of Darkness in the latter. The former version also is another role dubbed by Price.), as well as the Alter Ego servant Grigori Rasputin in Fate/Grand Order which uses Kirei as the base.
- Nrvnsqr "Nero" Chaos in Melty Blood (Villain. Only Price voiced him in the anime where Kenta Miyake voiced Chaos.)
- Souren Araya in The Garden of Sinners (Villain.)
- Neko-Arc Chaos in Melty Blood (Parody of Nrvnsqr Chaos, Lethal Joke Character)
- The crossover manga All Around Type-Moon makes Nakata the manager of the cafe the crossover is set in. "George" is apparently able to channel the spirits of all three villains, and everybody is terrified of him.
- The original Hassan i-Sabbah ("King Hassan") in Fate/Grand Order (Not a villain for once, and very much a case of Dark Is Not Evil and Reasonable Authority Figure.)
- Nyanta in Log Horizon. (Purrfectly good guy, meow.)
- Ophion in Tokyo Afterschool Summoners (Villain who pulls a Heel–Face Turn)
- Duke Oslo El Gustave in High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World
- Osvald V. Varnstein in Octopath Traveler II
- Ouma Yamisaka in A Certain Magical Index (Anti-Hero)
- Pantalone in Karakuri Circus (Villain)
- Paya-tan in Magical Witch Punie-chan (The villainous side at least.)
- Specifically, he plays the deep-voiced Paya-tan.
- Peterhausen in Demon King Daimao (Draconic Mentor and servant of the demon king. Villain by the standards of the world, if not the protagonist).
- The Prime Minister of Japan in Code:Breaker (Villain)
- Professor Bamba in Vlad Love
- Pubic Hair in Uchuu Senkan Tiramisu
- Roshuo in Kamen Rider Gaim (Neutral)
- Roy Revant in SoltyRei (Protagonist... WHA? Still an Anti-Hero, though.)
- Ruby Dragon in Amagi Brilliant Park (Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain)
- Rudolf and the Narrator in Senyuu.
- Serizawa Kamo in Hakuouki Reimeiroku.
- Shamon in Amatsuki (All-around pleasant fellow. Crazy, innit?)
- Shawn Conecone in D-Frag! (All-around Cool Old Guy and mentor figure to Kenji, the main character.)
- Shigaraki in Gugure! Kokkuri-san
- Shiyu Kusanagi in X/1999 (Played him in The Movie and in the CD Dramas. Derailed into a Card-Carrying Villain in the first one, retained his Minion with an F in Evil original nature in the second)
- Shouzou Chihaya in Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova Cadenza
- Sig in the Japanese version of Jak and Daxter (Token Black Guy and one of the hero's allies.)
- Sigmund in Unbreakable Machine-Doll (A Mechanical Puppet in the form of a Dragon)
- Soichiro Takagi in Highschool of the Dead (Extremely scary Japanese right-winger, though this is mostly glossed over in the anime. Non-villain.)
- Sojiro Sakura in Persona 5 (Caretaker and ally of the protagonist.)
- Sol Badguy in Guilty Gear since Guilty Gear 2: Overture replacing Daisuke Ishiwatari (including Holy Order-Sol. Anti-Hero. Also has Wakamoto as Johnny.)
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- E-102 Gamma from Sonic Adventure (Sympathetic villain who becomes a good guy)
- Dark Oak from Sonic X (Villain)
- Zavok in Sonic Lost World. (Another Sonic The Hedgehog franchise role that's also a role dubbed by Travis Willingham along with Kenshin, and of course, Villain.)
- Sorean in Xenoblade Chronicles 1 (a Reasonable Authority Figure, with Wakamoto as one of the main villains.)
- Several villain roles in Super Sentai. To wit:
- Sir Cowler in Choushinsei Flashman
- Guron Doggler in Hikari Sentai Maskman
- Great Professor Bias in Choujuu Sentai Liveman
- Zaien in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
- Azald in Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger
- Tankjoh in Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger
- Great King Boccowaus in Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger
- Terminal α and Terminal β in NieR: Automata
- Tokino's singing voice in Kujibiki♡Unbalance (Shattered windows, killed birds, downed a plane. Scored 120 percent.)
- Toshizo Hijikata in Golden Kamuy
- Uesugi Kenshin (kinda of an Anti-Hero) & Tokugawa Ieyasu (actually good but conflicted, but used to be a Smug Snake) in Samurai Warriors. The former is on the opposing side of the force that has the poster boy (Yukimura), while the latter is the poster boy's final archenemy and many others want a piece of him (especially in the second installment).
- Ushio Todo in Macross 30: The Voice that Connects the Galaxy (quickly shown to be a villain)
- Valgeass in Super Robot Wars BX (Leader of the villainous faction; doesn't stop being a villain even if he tries and fails to kill an even bigger one)
- Van Grants in Tales of the Abyss (Mentor. Also, villain. Also has Wakamoto voicing Barbatos Goetia in Tales of Destiny 2)
- Ganabelt Valkyris in Tales of Arise
- Varis zos Galvus in Final Fantasy XIV. (Villain.)
- Relic Eater Vlad in Anti Magic Academy The 35th Test Platoon
- Vladimir Putin in The Legend of Koizumi (Villain turned The Lancer.)
- Weiss in Dirge of Cerberus and Final Fantasy VII Remake: Episode INTERmission. (Villain.)
- William "B.J." Blazkowicz in the Japanese dub of Wolfenstein: The New Order (Hero, though one that scares the shit out of Those Wacky Nazis.)
- William Shakespeare and Justin Gunimar in Grimms Notes
- Wolfgang Regendorf in Dance in the Vampire Bund
- Xibalba in the Japanese dub of The Book of Life (Anti-villain)
- Zalieri in The Epic of Zektbach: Blind Justice (Drama CD)
Tropes Associate with Him
- Actor Allusion: At one time, Giroro shouts THIS! IS! SPARTA!. Considering Giroro's Japanese VA dubbed Gerard Butler's Leonidas in Japanese Dub.
- Evil Is Cool: Before fans recognized him as the voice of Kirei Kotomine, he did portrayed Great Professor Bias & Sir Cowler, both are the Sentai villains of the Showa era.
- Evil Sounds Deep: His Super Sentai resume says it all.
This is a blasphemous description! This is madness!
