| Jouji Nakata | |
| Native Name: | 中田 譲治 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Birth Name: | Hitoshi Nakata |
| Birth Date: | 22 April 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Years Active: | 1978 - present |
| Agent: | Office Osawa |
| Height: | 175 cm |
, sometimes anglicized to George Nakata, is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator who is affiliated with the Office Osawa agency.[1] His major voice roles include Alucard in Hellsing, Hijikata Toshizo in Golden Kamuy, Roy Revant in Solty Rei, Giroro in Sgt. Frog, Kirei Kotomine in Fate/stay night, and the title character in . In video game franchises, he voices Ieyasu Tokugawa and Kenshin Uesugi in Samurai Warriors and Warriors Orochi series, Albert Wesker in the Resident Evil franchise, Sol Badguy in the Guilty Gear series since , Naobito Zen'in in Jujutsu Kaisen and Kazuya Mishima in the first, second and first Tag installments of the Tekken series.
Nakata studied at the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music. His first roles were for live-action works where his major characters portrayed included Sir Cowler in Choushinsei Flashman and Great Professor Bias in Choujuu Sentai Liveman of the Super Sentai series. He was doing theater work as well as live-action drama and voice dubbing when Michiko Nomura, who had worked on Sazae-san, suggested him to become a voice actor. Nakata said in an interview with Sutoraiku that he compared the pay for the roles and was very astonished by the difference, so he then switched to full-time voice acting.[2]
He narrated Mobile Suit Victory Gundam which aired in 1993. In 1994, he voiced Murakumo Yagami, the series' main antagonist in Blue Seed. In the 1994 anime film he voiced Balrog (Street Fighter) when the character was named M. Bison. Nakata said that his role in the 1996 anime Escaflowne helped advance his career; there he played Folken.[2] He would continue to voice major antagonists including Gaav in Slayers Next, Stargazer in Lost Universe, and Brian J. Mason in Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040.
In 2001, he voiced the antihero Alucard in the Hellsing TV series. Looking back at his career, Nakata said that Alucard was the one character he most enjoyed voicing and the easiest one to portray. He said that villain characters and ones with distinct personalities were easier than ones with not much personality as they can be shaped and changed up.[2] He later reprised his role as Alucard in the Hellsing Ultimate OVAs.
The year 2004 saw Nakata in some breakout roles. He voiced the title character in which was popular among the late night adult audience, but he also joined Sgt. Frog in voicing Corporal Giroro, which was popular with kids and adults as it aired during prime time.[2] In 2005, he picked up voice roles as villains Megatron in Transformers Cybertron and Amshel Goldsmith in Blood+.[2] He voiced Roy Revant, the protagonist of SoltyRei.; the director for SoltyRei would later cast him as the narrator in the Amagami SS visual novel anime adaptation.[2]
He joined the Fate/stay night visual novel franchise, voicing Kirei Kotomine in the 2004 release, its anime adaptation in 2006, its feature film in 2010, and the prequel series Fate/zero. In his interview, Nakata said that co-creator Kinoko Nasu had known him since his Tokusatsu days, and that he had been involved in many of Type-Moon's titles,[2] having voiced Nrvnqsr Chaos in Melty Blood and going on to voice Souren Araya in the anime adaptation of Kara no Kyoukai. In 2014, he reprised his role of Kirei for the Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works television series.
In 2013 he was the narrator for Noucome, voiced lead character Sigmund in Unbreakable Machine-Doll, and voiced Nyanta in Log Horizon.
In video games, he voiced in the Samurai Warriors (Sengoku Musou) series as Uesugi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. In overseas dubbing, he has voiced various characters in shows and films such as 300, Sex and the City, and The Little Mermaid. Nakata said that because of his live-action background, he felt comfortable with portraying the overseas dubbing roles, although he still enjoyed the creativity coming from the two-dimensional anime characters.[2]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legend of Galactic Heroes | Leopold Schumach | ||||
| Record of Lodoss War | Jester | OAV | |||
| –94 | Mobile Suit Victory Gundam | Narrator, Godward Hain, Leonid Armodoval | |||
| Dirty Pair Flash | Waldes | ||||
| Blue Seed | |||||
| 1994–95 | Shippu Iron Leaguer | Fighter Spirits/Silver Jasutisu | |||
| Armitage III: Dual Matrix | Strings | ||||
| 1996– | Case Closed | Various characters | |||
| Power Dolls | Stan Finkle | OAV ep 2 | |||
| The Vision of Escaflowne | |||||
| Slayers Next | |||||
| X the Movie | |||||
| 1996–98 | Rurouni Kenshin | Lentz | |||
| 1996–97 | Brave Command Dagwon | Brave Seijin | |||
| Ehrgeiz | Camel | ||||
| Macross Dynamite 7 | Graham | ||||
| Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 | |||||
| –2000 | |||||
| Cowboy Bebop | MPU | Ep. 9 | |||
| Lost Universe | |||||
| Caravan Master | Ep. 1 | [3] | |||
| Serial Experiments Lain | Man in Black | ||||
| Sorcerous Stabber Orphen | Childman | ||||
| UFO Baby | Wannya's Father | ||||
| Boogiepop Phantom | Spooky Electric | ||||
| Argento Soma | Michael Heartland | ||||
| 2001 | Hellsing | TV series | |||
| 2001 | Samurai Girl Real Bout High School | Giroro | |||
| Condor Hero | Kakusei | ||||
| RahXephon | Jin Kunugi | ||||
| Shaman King | Ados | Ep. 49, 63 | [4] | ||
| Macross Zero | Sara's father, Bird Human | ||||
| Texhnolyze | Motoharu Kimata | ||||
| 2003 | Fullmetal Alchemist | Halling | |||
| 2003 | Ninja Scroll | Rouga | TV | ||
| 2003– | Peacemaker Kurogane | ||||
| 2003 | E's Otherwise | Branded | |||
| 2003 | Gungrave | Lad Carabell | |||
| Gad Guard | Bart | ||||
| –07 | Naruto | Baki | |||
| Requiem from the Darkness | Kitabayashi Danjou | ||||
| 2004–05 | The Count of Monte Cristo | ||||
| 2004 | Elfen Lied | Bandou | [5] | ||
| 2004 | Bleach | Ayon | not in doi2--> | ||
| Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor | Kōzō Minashiro (Soushi's father) | ||||
| Galaxy Angel X | Bartender | Ep. 8 | [6] | ||
| 2004 | Ragnarok The Animation | Herman | |||
| 2004–05 | Samurai Champloo | Momochi Ginsa | |||
| 2004–2011 and 2014 | Sgt. Frog series | [7] | |||
| Doraemon | Lying Mirror | --> | |||
| The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom | King | ||||
| 2005 | Megatron (Japanese:Master Megatron) | ||||
| 2005 | Sonic X | ||||
| 2005–06 | Blood+ | ||||
| 2005–06 | SoltyRei | ||||
| Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's | Clyde Harlaown | Ep. 10 | [8] | ||
| Kishin Houkou Demonbane | Titus | ||||
| 2006 | Fate/stay night | [9] | |||
| 2006 | Black Lagoon | Kageyama | |||
| Hellsing Ultimate | Alucard | [10] | |||
| 2006–07 | Code Geass series | ||||
| 2006–07 | Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi | Shōgo Kitsukawa (Berserker) | |||
| Lucky Star | Shop Assistant 1 | Ep. 13 | [11] | ||
| Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners | Souren Araya | ||||
| 2008 | Amatsuki | Shamon | |||
| 2008 | To Love Ru | Guinguld | Ep.19 | ||
| 2008 | Nabari no Ou | Tojuro Hattori | |||
| 2008 | Kurozuka | Benkei | |||
| 2008–09 | Tales of the Abyss | Van Grants | |||
| –09 | Linebarrels of Iron | ||||
| Steiner | [12] | ||||
| Saki | Haramura Nodoka's father, Narration | ||||
| 2009 | Shangri-La | Momoko | |||
| 2009 | Canaan | Taxi Driver | [13] | ||
| Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works | Kirei Kotomine | Feature film | [14] | ||
| Tegami Bachi | Reverend Weller | Ep. 17 | [15] | ||
| 2010 | Angel Beats! | Naoi's father | Ep. 6 | [16] | |
| Amagami SS | Narrator (Sae Nakata Chapter) | Ep. 9-12 | |||
| 2010 | Strike Witches 2 | General B | Ep. 10 | ||
| 2010 | Demon King Daimao | ||||
| Amagami SS+ plus | Narrator (Sae Nakata Chapter) | Ep. 9-10 | |||
| 2010–11 | Also Demon Capital | [17] | |||
| Kaibutsu Ōjo OVA | [18] | ||||
| One Piece | |||||
| 2011 | Working!! | Hyōgo Otoo | |||
| 2011 | Crayon Shin Chan | Komachi's Husband (Ep. 617) | |||
| 2011–12 | Fate/Zero | Kirei Kotomine | [19] | ||
| 2011 | Dream Eater Merry | John Doe | |||
| 2011-2012 | Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere | Innocentius, Narrator | |||
| 2011 | A Certain Magical Index II | Yamisaka Ouma | Ep.1 | ||
| 2011 | Doraemon | Lying Mirror | 3rd Series | ||
| 2011 | C3 | Abyss | |||
| Enigma | 3rd series | ||||
| Saki Achiga-hen episode of Side-A | Narration | ||||
| Lloigor | Ep. 11-12 | ||||
| 2011–12 | Sket Dance | ||||
| 2011–12 | Carnival Phantasm | Neco-arc Chaos / Kirei Kotomine / Nrvnqsr Chaos | [20] [21] | ||
| Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter | Hakase Kurudo (Dr. Claude?) | ||||
| Prime Minister Fujiwara | [22] | ||||
| Hakuōki Reimeiroku | Kamo Serizawa | [23] | |||
| 2013 | Noucome | Narrator | [24] | ||
| Unbreakable Machine-Doll | [25] | ||||
| –21 | Log Horizon | Also second & third season | [26] [27] | ||
| Tamayura: More Aggressive | Maestro | [28] | |||
| Saki: The Nationals | Narration | ||||
| D-Frag! | Sean Konekone | TV series and OAD | [29] | ||
| –15 | Samurai Warriors (Sengoku Musou) | Tokugawa Ieyasu | TV series | [30] [31] | |
| 2014 | Fairy Tail | Keyes | |||
| Date A Live II | Elliot Baldwin Woodman | Ep.4 | [32] | ||
| Akame ga Kill! | River | [33] | |||
| Kirei Kotomine | TV series | [34] | |||
| Gugure! Kokkuri-san | Shigaraki | [35] | |||
| Amagi Brilliant Park | Rubrum the Red Dragon | [36] | |||
| Terra Formars | Alexander Gustav Newton | OVA | [37] | ||
| Tokyo ESP | Committee Head Edoyama | [38] | |||
| Horse | |||||
| Aquarion Logos | Sōgon Kenzaki | [39] | |||
| Vlad | [40] | ||||
| 2015 | Million Arthur | Lion | [41] | ||
| Arpeggio of Blue Steel -Ars Nova Cadenza- | Shōzō Chihaya | 2nd feature film in Arpeggio of Blue Steel series | [42] | ||
| Maho Girls PreCure! | Gamets | Eps. 1-18, 43-44 | |||
| Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song | Carolco Wilder | Ep. 7 | [43] | ||
| Blood Blockade Battlefront | Head Waiter | OAV | [44] | ||
| Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 3rei!! | Ramen Shop Owner | Eps. 2, 4 | |||
| Seiren | Vermilion | [45] | |||
| 2017 | Land of the Lustrous | Kongo | [46] | ||
| In Another World With My Smartphone | Tristwin Ernes Belfast | ||||
| –20 | Kirei Kotomine | Film trilogy | [47] | ||
| The Ancient Magus' Bride | Ashen Eye | [48] | |||
| –present | Golden Kamuy | Also second, third, & fourth season | [49] | ||
| Date A Live III | Elliot Baldwin Woodman | Ep.3 | |||
| Kengan Ashura | Hideki Nogi | [50] | |||
| High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World | Oslo El Gustav | [51] | |||
| Blade of the Immortal -Immortal- | Kagimura Habaki | [52] | |||
| Cusack | |||||
| Ziusudra / King Hassan | |||||
| Assault Lily Bouquet | Takamatsu Kogetsu | ||||
| Jujutsu Kaisen | Naobito Zen'in | ||||
| Vlad Love | Mitsugu's pops | [53] | |||
| Dragon Goes House-Hunting | Lord Samuel | ||||
| Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens | Goha 66 | ||||
| The Detective Is Already Dead | Cerberus | ||||
| Date A Live IV | Elliot Baldwin Woodman | Eps. 4 and 6 | |||
| My Daemon | Genjiro Houjou | [54] | |||
| Shangri-La Frontier | Professor | Ep.25 | |||
| 365 Days to the Wedding | Jouji-san | [55] | |||
| Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers | Sol Badguy | [56] |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| King Rakuga | [57] | |||
| 2022 | Howling Gab | [58] | ||
| Year | Series | Role | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tekken | Arcade, PS1 | |||
| Tekken 2 | Kazuya Mishima | Arcade, PS1 | ||
| Sonic Adventure | Dreamcast | |||
| Saint of Braves Baan Gaan | Baan | PlayStation | ||
| Ehrgeiz | Ken Mishima / Godhand | Arcade, PS1 | ||
| Tekken Tag Tournament | Kazuya Mishima, Lee Chaolan (laughs) | PS2 | ||
| Baofu | PS1, PSP | |||
| Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht | Margulis | PS2 | ||
| Melty Blood | Nrvnqsr Chaos, Neko-Arc Chaos | PC | ||
| Ganz | PS2 | |||
| Uesugi | PS2 | |||
| Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse | Margulis | PS2 | ||
| Kishin Houkou Demonbane | Titus | PS2 | ||
| Dragon Quest VIII | Morrie | PS2, 3DS | ||
| Tales of the Abyss | Van Grants | PS2 | ||
| Kingdom Hearts II | Luxord | PS2 | ||
| Enchanted Arms | Kou | PS3, 360 | ||
| Grimoire Valentine, Weiss the Immaculate | PS2 | |||
| Samurai Warriors 2 | PS2, also Xtreme Legends | |||
| Kishin Hishou Demonbane | Titus | PC | ||
| Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra | Margulis | PS2 | ||
| Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+ | Luxord | PS2 | ||
| Eternal Sonata | Jazz | 360, PS4 | ||
| Bamyganant | DS | |||
| Giliath Osborne | PC, PSP, PS3, PS Vita | |||
| 2007 | Sol Badguy | Xbox 360, PC | ||
| Soulcalibur IV | [59] | |||
| Castlevania Judgment | Dracula | Wii | ||
| Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days | Luxord | NDS | ||
| Samurai Warriors 3 | PS2 | |||
| Xenoblade Chronicles | Sorean | Wii, 3DS | ||
| PS3, Xbox 360 | [60] | |||
| Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 | Albert Wesker | PS3, Xbox 360 | ||
| Giliath Osborne | PC, PSP, PS Vita, PS4 | |||
| Soulcalibur V | Algol | PS3, 360 | ||
| Bravely Default | Fiore de Rosa | 3DS | ||
| Sonic Lost World | Zavok | Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, PC | [61] | |
| Giliath Osborne | PC, PS4 | |||
| Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- | Sol Badguy | Arcade, PC, PS3, PS4, also -REVELATOR- | ||
| William "B.J." Blazkowicz | --> | |||
| Samurai Warriors 4 | [62] | |||
| Resident Evil HD Remaster | Albert Wesker | Windows, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One | [63] | |
| Giliath Osborne | PC, PS4, PS3, PS Vita | |||
| Varis | PC, PS3, PS4 | |||
| Enrico Pucci | PS3, PS4 | |||
| Dead or Alive 5 Last Round | [64] | |||
| –2016 | Fate/Grand Order | Old Man of the Mountain / King Hassan, Grigori Rasputin | Mobile game | |
| Seiyu's Life! | Western Detective sound director | Ep. 11 | [65] | |
| Resident Evil Zero HD Remaster | Albert Wesker | Windows, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One | [66] | |
| Persona 5 | PS4 | |||
| World of Final Fantasy | Tonberry | PS4, PS Vita, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One | ||
| Terminal Alpha, Terminal Beta | PS4, PC | |||
| Nioh | Date Shigezane | PS4; DLC-only | ||
| Overwatch | PC, PS4 | |||
| Sonic Forces | Zavok | PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC | ||
| Giliath Osborne | PC, PS4, Nintendo Switch | |||
| 2018 | Sdorica | Crushfang, Theodore Carlos | Android, iOS | |
| Crystar | Heraclitus | PS4, PC | ||
| Giliath Osborne | PS4 | |||
| Kingdom Hearts III | Luxord | PS4 | ||
| Teppen | Albert Wesker | Android, iOS | [67] |
| Series | Role | Notes | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bakuretsu Hunter | Saiba Isui | |||
| Gyuki | ||||
| Lodoss Tou Senki Kaze to Honoo no Majin | Jin | |||
| Planet Ladder | Ido | |||
| Unbreakable Machine-Doll | Sigmund |
| Year | Series | Role | Notes | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kusa Moeru | Nitta Tadatsune | Taiga drama | |||
| Onna Taikōki | Taiga drama | ||||
| Tokugawa Ieyasu | Ōkubo Tadakazu | Taiga drama | |||
| Sanga Moyu | Taiga drama | ||||
| Choushinsei Flashman | Sir Cowler | Actor, Eps. 15 - 48 | |||
| Hikari Sentai Maskman | Guron Doguler | Ep. 34 | |||
| Choujuu Sentai Liveman | Great Professor Bias | Actor | [73] | ||
| Super Rescue Solbrain | David Kosugi | Actor - Ep. 20 | |||
| Kamen Rider OOO | Narration, Birth Driver Voice, Birth Buster Voice | Main Eps (Narration), Eps. 16 - 48 (Birth Driver Voice, Birth Buster Voice) | |||
| Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger | Great Scientist Zaien | Ep. 30 | [74] | ||
| Kamen Rider Gaim | Roshuo | Eps. 27 - 41 | [75] | ||
| Chalk | Roshuo | Movie | |||
| Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger | Azald | Eps. 1 - 45 (Azald), 28, 45 - 46 (Azald Legacy) | [76] | ||
| Azald | Movie | ||||
| Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger | Tankjo | Eps. 1 - 6, 21 - 22 | [77] | ||
| Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger the Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic | Tankjo | Movie | |||
| 2021 | Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger | Great King Bokkowaus | [78] | ||
| Year | Series | Role | Voice dub for | Notes | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Thunderbolt | Warner "Cougar" Krugman | Thorsten Nickel | |||
| 2000 | American Beauty | Buddy Kane | Home video edition | |||
| 2001 | Exit Wounds | Sergeant Lewis Strutt | Home video edition | |||
| 2004 | Crusader | Brechner | [79] | |||
| 2005 | Ronin | Vincent | TV Asahi edition | |||
| 2007 | 300 | [80] | ||||
| 2007 | Transporter 2 | Gianni Chellini | TV Asahi edition | |||
| 2008 | Glenstorm the Centaur | |||||
| 2009 | The Strangers | Man in the Mask | Kip Weeks | [81] | ||
| 2012 | Machine Gun Preacher | Sam Childers | [82] | |||
| 2012 | Men in Black 3 | Boris the Animal | [83] | |||
| 2014 | Enough Said | Albert | ||||
| 2018 | Benjamin Lockwood | |||||
| 2019 | [84] |
| Year | Series | Role | Voice dub for | Notes | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998–2004 | Sex and the City | Mister Big | ||||
| 2010–19 | The Good Wife | Peter Florrick | [85] | |||
| 2016–17 | Outcast | Byron Giles | [86] | |||
| 2021 | And Just Like That... | Mister Big | [87] | |||
| 2022 | The Lost Symbol | Peter Solomon | [88] |
| Year | Series | Role | Voice dub for | Notes | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Dinosaur | Kron | [89] | |||
| 2004 | Watership Down | Bigwig | [90] | |||
| 2014 | Big Hero 6 | General | ||||
| 2015 | The Book of Life | Xibalba | [91] | |||
| 2018 | The Emoji Movie | Mel Meh | [92] |