Joel McDonald

Since McDonald was 7, he had a love for acting. He acted in plays at school and church, participating in community theater, secondary school theater and in speech competitions. Later, he acquired a BFA in Acting and Directing from Sam Houston State College. From that point onwards, McDonald took up acting professionally, taking parts in a national kids' theater tour, landing different roles in a couple dozen stage shows.

In 2006, after years of stage work in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, McDonald became involved in voice acting and also got into ADR directing and adaptive scriptwriting.^[2]

McDonald has provided voices for a number of English language versions of Japanese anime films and television shows, and video games. He is best known as the voice of Takumi Fujiwara from the Initial D series, Meow from Space Dandy, and Minato Sahashi from the Sekirei series, as well as the ADR director for the Funimation dub of One Piece, in addition to Sgt Frog, Deadman Wonderland, Space Dandy and Initial D.^[3]

In the 2010s, McDonald has been cast in more lead/major roles, such as Akane from Divine Gate, Mikage from the Kamisama Kiss series, Bartholomew Kuma from One Piece, Zeref Dragneel from Fairy Tail, Brief from Panty and Stocking, Hien from Chaos Dragon, Koki Mimura from Assassination Classroom, Azusa Hanai from Big Windup!, Toshimitsu Kubo from the Baka and Test series, Hayato Ike from the second season of Shakugan no Shana onwards, Jacuzzi Splot from Baccano, Motoharu Kaido from Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero, Ikta Solok from Alderamin on the Sky, and Dilandau Albatou from the Funimation redub of The Vision of Escaflowne.

On February 15, 2018, he resigned from Funimation as a director.^[1]

In 2018, he joined Gearbox Entertainment as a voiceover producer, director, and actor working on such titles as Borderlands 3,^[4] New Tales from the Borderlands, and the upcoming Borderlands 4.

On March 18, 2016, Joel announced the birth of his son, Beck Austin McDonald, born on March 16.^[5] His second son, Finn McDonald, was born on June 15, 2018.^[6]

Anime

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List of English dubbing performances in anime

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[7]
2009	Big Windup!	Azusa Hanai		[2]
2009	Baccano!	Jacuzzi Splot		[4]
2009	Nabari no Ou	Yoite		[8]
2009	Sgt. Frog	Saburo Mutsumi		[9]
2010	One Piece	Bartholomew Kuma, Megalo, Pacifistas	Funimation dub, ADR Director	[10]
2010	Sekirei	Minato Sahashi	also season 2	[11]
2010	Initial D	Takumi Fujiwara	Funimation dub, ADR Director	[12]
2010	Linebarrels of Iron	Hideaki Yajima		[13]
2010	Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne	Mary	Ep. 3	[14]
2010	Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood	Urey Rockbell		[15]
2012	Darker Than Black	Hotel Manager	1 episode, credited under "EXTRAS"	[16][better source needed]
2012	Shakugan no Shana	Hayato Ike	season 2–3	[17]
2012	Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt	Brief		[18]
2012	Black Butler	Ronald Knox	season 2	[19]
2012	Hetalia: Axis Powers	Poland	season 2 onwards	[20]
2012	Okami-san and Her Seven Companions	Ryoshi Morino		[21]
2012	Shangri-La	Medusa		[22]
2012	Deadman Wonderland		ADR Director	[3]
2013	Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero	Motoharu Kaido		[23]
2013	Baka and Test	Toshimitsu Kubo	ADR Director, also season 2 and OVA	[24]
2013	Future Diary	Ouji Kosaka		[25]
2013	We Without Wings	Takashi Haneda		[26]
2013	Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing	Fritz		[27]
2013	Guilty Crown	Daryl Yan		[28]
2013	Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar	Alan		[29]
2013	Sankarea: Undying Love		ADR Director	[30]
2013	Good Luck Girl!	Ibuki	ADR Director	[31]
2014–2019	Fairy Tail	Zeref Dragneel, Alios	Stand-In with Justin Briner	[32]
2014	Space Dandy	Meow	ADR Director	[33]
2014	Attack on Titan	Milieus Zermusky	also Attack on Titan: Junior High	[34]
2014	Red Data Girl	Manatsu Soda		[9]
2014	Date A Live		ADR Director	[35]
2014	Robotics;Notes		ADR Director	[36]
2014	Laughing Under the Clouds	Rakuchō Takeda	ADR Director	[37]
2015	Assassination Classroom	Koki Mimura	ADR Director, also Koro-sensei Q!	[38]
2015	Kamisama Kiss	Mikage	also season 2	[39]
2015	Sky Wizards Academy	Kanata Age		[40]
2015	Ninja Slayer From Animation	Disturbed	Ep. 8	[41]
2015	Yona of the Dawn	Jaeha		[42]
2016	91 Days	Arturo Tronco	Ep. 3	[43]
2016	Alderamin on the Sky	Ikta Solok		[44]
2016	All Out!!	Sunao Ōsaka		[45]
2016	Chaos Dragon	Hien		[46]
2016	Dimension W	Blue	Eps. 4–5	[47]
2016	Divine Gate	Akane		[48]
2016	Drifters	Allister		[49]
2016	Handa-kun	Takashi Ishida	Eps. 1–2	[50]
2016	Joker Game	Jitsui	ADR Director	[51]
2016	Lord Marksman and Vanadis	Tigrevurmud Vorn		[52]
2016	Maria the Virgin Witch	Gilbert		[43]
2016	Monster Hunter Stories: Ride On	Cheval		[53]
2016	Prince of Stride: Alternative	Asuma Mayuzumi		[54]
2016	No-Rin	Kaoru Hanazono		[55]
2016	The Seven Deadly Sins		ADR Script	[56]
2016	Trickster	Kanda		[43]
2016	The Vision of Escaflowne	Dilandau Albatou	Funimation dub, also movie	[57][58]
2016	Yuri!!! on Ice	Phichit Chulanont		[59][60]
2016	The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.	Reita Toritsuka		[61]
2016–2025	My Hero Academia	Yuga Aoyama		[62]
2017	ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.	Beurre	Ep. 4	[63]
2017	Chain Chronicle: The Light of Haecceitas	Melchior		[63]
2017	Nanbaka	Daisen Rokuriki		[64]
2017	Kenka Bancho Otome: Girl Beats Boys	Takayuki Konparu		[65]
2017	The Royal Tutor	Ernst Rosenberg		[65]
2017	Code Geass: Akito the Exiled	Ashley Ashra		[66]
2017	The Ancient Magus' Bride	Oberon		[67]
2017	Black Clover	Abra	Ep. 13	[67]
2017	Garo: Vanishing Line	Alfil	Ep. 11	[68]
2018	Hakyu Hoshin Engi	Kokutenko		[69]
2019	Fire Force	Tojo	Ep. 11	[70]
2023	MF Ghost	Narrator, Takumi Fujiwara		[71]
2024	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3	Bernie		[72]

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Films

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List of English dubbing performances in films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2010	Initial D: Third Stage	Takumi Fujiwara
2012	Fafner in the Azure: Heaven and Earth	Misao Kurusu		[73]
2012	Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker	Alte
2013	Shakugan no Shana: The Movie	Hayato Ike
2017	One Piece Film: Gold	Mohkin	ADR Director	[74][75]
2017	Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic	Ronald Knox		[19]
2017	Genocidal Organ	Leland		[76]
2017	Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry	Zeref
2017	Initial D: Legend 1 - Awakening	Takumi Fujiwara
2018	Initial D: Legend 2 - Dream
2018	Initial D: Legend 3 - Racer

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Video games

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List of performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2012	Borderlands 2	Capt Flynt, Jim, Tector Hodunk		[77]
2013	The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct	Deputy Albert Lee		[78]
2014	Smite	Mercury		[79]
2014	Tales of Xillia 2	Chronos	English Dub	[79]
2018	Dragon Ball Legends	Zahha	English Dub	[80]
2019	Borderlands 3	Burger Bot, Fanatic Male 1, Bandit 3, Nilly, Bandit Walla		[78]
2020	My Hero One's Justice 2	Yuga Aoyama	English Dub	[78]

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