Maxwell Braden "Max" Mittelman (born September 5, 1990 in Los Angeles, California) is a Los Angeles based voice actor. Started out as a voice actor working in many western animation and video game voice work, Max became a recognized name within the anime community thanks to his debut role as Sewashi (Soby) in the Doraemon dub. He later landed into playing major characters, such as Haruto Kurosawa from Coppelion, Hikari Sakishima from Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea, Inaho Kaizuka from Aldnoah.Zero, Kousei Arima in Your Lie in April, and Saitama in One-Punch Man where the last three roles are arguably his Star Making Roles. He also took some roles under the name of Jason Baker.
He's also part of a voice actor Freudian Trio of Loud, Annoying, and Very Annoying
group with Ray Chase and Robbie Daymond.
Has a Twitter account.
Notable roles by Max Mittelman:
Anime
- Arifumi Fukuyama in Charlotte
- Atsushi Nakajima in Bungou Stray Dogs
- Ein Dalton in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
- Eishiro Yabuki in The Asterisk War
- Haruto Kurosawa in Coppelion
- Hikari Sakishima in Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea
- Hisamatsu Noto in Toradora! (credited as Jason Baker)
- Inaho Kaizuka in Aldnoah.Zero
- Io Fleming in Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt
- Jun "Yuuki" Shiratori in ERASED
- King in The Seven Deadly Sins
- Kira Yamato in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED HD Remaster (replacing Matt Hill)
- Kousei Arima in Your Lie in April
- Mereum in Hunter × Hunter (2011 version)
- Ritsu Kageyama in Mob Psycho 100
- Sabito in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
- Saitama, the titular One-Punch Man (reprises his role as a Dragoncraft leader in Shadowverse)
- Sasaki in FLCL Alternative
- Serpico in Berserk (2016)
- Sewashi/Soby in Doraemon
- Shirou Kotomine in Fate/Apocrypha
- Shun Moritsuka in Occultic;Nine
- Todomatsu Matsuno in Osomatsu-san
- Yoshida the Mimc in Blood Lad (as Jason Baker)
- Yunaan in Magi: The Kingdom of Magic
Film
- Kevin in Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors
- Tredd Furia in Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
- Additional voices in Smurfs: The Lost Village , The Emoji Movie , and Incredibles 2
Video Games:
- Albert, Levin Saber in Shadowverse
- The Assassin class in Dragon Nest (NA)
- Damon Riccitiello in No More Heroes 3
- Fidel Camuze in Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness
- Hallelujah in Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
- Lechter Arundel and McBurn in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
- Leo, Kaden, and Forrest in Fire Emblem Fates
- Gordin, Gray, and Leo in Fire Emblem Heroes
- Gray in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
- Logix Ficsario in Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky
- Louis in Code Vein
- Luxu in Kingdom Hearts (Young Luxu specifically; adult Luxu is James Patrick Stuart)
- Red XIII in Final Fantasy VII Remake (replacing Liam O'Brien)
- Rusty in Stella Glow
- Ryuji Sakamoto in Persona 5 (including Dancing in Starlight and Royal) and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Shigure Rangetsu in Tales of Berseria
- Tee in Puyo Puyo Tetris
- Troy Calypso in Borderlands 3
Western Animation
- Aquaman on DC Super Hero Girls
- Blurr in Transformers: Rescue Bots and Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)
- Bobo the spirit monkey in Elena of Avalor
- Clark Kent/Superman on DC Super Hero Girls
- Cloud Monster in Breadwinners
- Francois in Amphibia
- Harry Osborn/Hobgoblin in Marvel's Spider-Man
- Jimmy Olsen in Justice League Action, The Deathof Superman, Reign of the Supermen, and LEGO DC Super-Villains
- Lion-O and Wileykat in ThunderCats Roar
- Murphy on Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
- Overflow in Ben 10 (2016)
- Plagg and Ivan Bruel (Season 2) in Miraculous Ladybug
- Rhino in Ultimate Spider-Man
More tropes? For real?
- Alliterative Name: Max Mittelman. Subverted with his full name, however.
- Meme Acknowledgement: He seems to be aware of the jokes surrounding both Leo and tomatoes, and Gray's "Shut up, Tobin" line.
- Pigeonholed Voice Actor: Much like Sam Riegel, a large majority of his roles are either Ordinary High-School Student or Badass Normal.
- His video game repertoire seems to focus on Agent Peacocks.
- Playing Against Type: As Inaho Kaizuka from Aldnoah.Zero.
- Also as Leo in Fire Emblem Fates. He used a more mature and older sounding voice to distinguish him from the younger sounding Kaden and Forrest.
- He also voices Albert in Shadowverse, who spots a Badass Baritone Large Ham voice.
- McBurn in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is another Badass Baritone, but this time an outright Guttural Growler who's Brilliant, but Lazy to the extreme.
- As Troy Calypso in Borderlands 3, a villanous livestreamer and the Chessmaster Sidekick of the Children of the Vault.
- Relationship Voice Actor: Have worked on several titles with Brianna Knickerbocker note , the three Eric(k)as note , Robbie Daymond note , Kyle McCarley note and Zach Aguilar note .
- In the Japanese to English side of things, he shared three roles with Natsuki Hanae (Inaho, Kousei, and Hikari), two roles with Mamoru Miyano (Leo and Ryuji Sakamoto) and two roles with Kaito Ishikawa (Logy and Fidel).
- Star-Making Role: While his role as Sewashi (Soby) from Doraemon is what got him a lot of recognition and popularity within the anime fandom, he would go on a big break as an anime voice actor with his roles as Hikari Sakishima in A Lull in the Sea, Inaho Kaizuka in Aldnoah.Zero and Kousei Arima in Your Lie in April. Saitama from One Punch Man helped to solidify his stardom. And then he voiced Ryuji Sakamoto in Persona 5, with his performance there making him a (comparative) household name.
