"Is everyone sitting comfortably? Good, then attend carefully."
Taliesin Axelrod Jaffe (born January 19, 1977 in Los Angeles, California) is a voice actor, voice director, script adapter and immortal chaos pyramid god, best known as Basil Hawkins in One Piece and Blanka in the newer Street Fighter entries. As a voice director, he works under New Generation Pictures, and his work on Hellsing has helped the dub become a cult classic.
Jaffe has a Twitter account.
He is one of the nerdy-ass voice actors starring weekly in the Dungeons & Dragons campaign Critical Role.
He is definitely not a pyramid.
Notable roles by Taliesin Jaffe
Anime
- Aaron Terzieff in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
- Adolf Junkers in Monster
- Arthur Conan Doyle in Black Butler: Book of Murder
- Bartlow in Tales of Zestiria the X
- Basil Hawkins in One Piece
- Bucci in GUN×SWORD
- Douman in GARO: Crimson Moon
- Sword in GARO: Vanishing Line
- England in Hetalia: The World Twinkle (The Other Darrin for Scott Freeman)
- Kagura Demuri in Aquarion Evol
- Leif in Hellsing Ultimate
- Masahiro Hatomura in Paranoia Agent
- Preta Ghoul in Black Cat
- Prosecutor in Space☆Dandy season 2
- Ryuji Kitayama in R.O.D the TV
- Shogo Asagi in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-
- Skiadrum in Fairy Tail
- Yakumo (episode 13 only) in Black God
Film
- Christopher Floyd in 2010: The Year We Make Contact
- Kenny Butler in Mr. Mom (first role)
- Ludwig Müller in Explorers
Video Games
- Azwel in Soulcalibur VI
- Game Announcer (replaced with Jamieson Price as of Super), Blanka and Adon in Street Fighter IV (reprises the former in Street Fighter X Tekken and Street Fighter V)
- The Mysterious Man aka Prince Bruno, Cain, Navarre and Gangrel in Fire Emblem Heroes (he reprises his role as Navarre for Fire Emblem Warriors)
- Massena in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
- Darion Mograine in World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
- Edge in the Nintendo DS remake of Final Fantasy IV
- Thancred in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (until Heavensward)
- Eizen in Tales of Berseria
- The Flash in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe and Injustice 2 (replacing Neal McDonough in the latter)
- Haruomi Makabe in God Eater 2: Rage Burst
- Eothas in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
- Kayaj in Stella Glow
- Kihachi Sugiyama in Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed
- Nalkul in Suikoden IV
- Zweig in Suikoden V
- Rufus in Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria
- Snake in Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
- The male voice of the Automatrons in Fallout 4: Automatron
- Count McGuire and Bishop Nikolas in Ys: The Oath in Felghana
Web Video
- Professor Chronotis and the Master in Eric's TBD RPG.
- Kayden in Sagas Of Sundry
- Leo in Candela Obscura
- Critical Role
- Campaign 1: Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III
- Campaign 2: Mollymauk Tealeaf and Caduceus Clay
- Campaign 3: Ashton Greymoore
Western Animation
- Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III in The Legend of Vox Machina
ADR staff:
ADR Director
- Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undressed
- Hellsing
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3
- Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale
- R.O.D the TV
- Sengoku Basara: End of Judgement
- Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes
- Skip Beat!
- Street Fighter IV
- Street Fighter X Tekken
Taliesin Jaffe and his works provide examples of:
- Approval of God:
- As the commentaries for the latter six episodes of Hellsing Ultimate show, Jaffe is a fan of Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, even getting K.T. Grey, the English voice of Seras, to quote "Bitches love cannons."
- He has also offered high praise to the Japanese dub cast of The Legend of Vox Machina.
- Born Lucky: In Critical Role Taliesin has a tendency to roll decently high or hit Natural 20s. For example, in episode 33 of Vox Machina, he rolled no less than 7 Natural 20s.
- Man of a Thousand Voices: From the high-pitched battle cries of Blanka to the Baritone of Strength of Percy de Rolo and everything inbetween, Jaffe has an impressive range that lets him portray a wide array of characters.
- One of Us: A huge geek of video games, comic books, anime/manga, and animation in general. He probably knows more about the various materials he voice acts in or helps to direct or produce than most others.
- Pungeon Master: Frequently seen on Critical Role—if there is a Pun to be made, Taliesin will make it.
- Queer Character, Queer Actor: He's openly bisexual. His Critical Role characters include the genderfluid bisexual Mollymauk Tealeaf, the asexual aromantic Caduceus Clay and the non-binary Ashton Greymoore.
You fool...now, your soul is forfeit!
You'll never survive in the jungle!
Ah...the sweetness of the human race...
You'll never survive in the jungle!
Ah...the sweetness of the human race...
