Joshua Seth
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Joshua Seth Freedman is an American entertainer and voice actor. He was born in Kent, Ohio
and attended the New York University
film school. He has voiced dozens of well known anime
characters and is sometimes credited as "Jeremiah Freedman", but has retired from voice acting in 2005. In 2005, he became the announcer of "Kids WB's Aftertoons Show" block and "Saturdays: Unleashed" block. He also performs as a comedy hypnotist
and mentalist and formerly as a magician
. He is the author of a book on the use of hypnosis for weight loss. He currently resides in Santa Barbara, California
He is known for his extremely distinct voice and usually plays very carefree, happy-go-lucky characters. He retired from voice acting and focused on his touring career as a hypnotist and mentalist due to overworking.
Kent, Ohio
Kent is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the largest city in Portage County. It is located along the Cuyahoga River in Northeastern Ohio on the western edge of the county. The population was 27,906 at the 2000 United States Census and 28,904 in the 2010 Census...
and attended the New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
film school. He has voiced dozens of well known anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
characters and is sometimes credited as "Jeremiah Freedman", but has retired from voice acting in 2005. In 2005, he became the announcer of "Kids WB's Aftertoons Show" block and "Saturdays: Unleashed" block. He also performs as a comedy hypnotist
Hypnosis
Hypnosis is "a trance state characterized by extreme suggestibility, relaxation and heightened imagination."It is a mental state or imaginative role-enactment . It is usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is commonly composed of a long series of preliminary...
and mentalist and formerly as a magician
Magic (illusion)
Magic is a performing art that entertains audiences by staging tricks or creating illusions of seemingly impossible or supernatural feats using natural means...
. He is the author of a book on the use of hypnosis for weight loss. He currently resides in Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
He is known for his extremely distinct voice and usually plays very carefree, happy-go-lucky characters. He retired from voice acting and focused on his touring career as a hypnotist and mentalist due to overworking.
Notable roles
- Akira (film)Akira (film)is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, and starring the voices of Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama and Taro Ishida. The screenplay is based on Otomo's manga Akira....
(Pioneer Dub) - Tetsuo Shima - All Grown Up - Yu-Got
- Arc the LadArc the Ladis a series of console role-playing games that were released for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. Several of the games were published by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan. The games were never released outside of Japan until Arc the Lad Collection was released by Working Designs in 2002. An...
- Elk - Bakuto Sengen Daigunder - Ryugu
- The BatmanThe Batman (TV series)The Batman is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. It ran from 2004 to 2008, on the Saturday morning television block Kids' WB...
- Kids WB Announcer - The Big OThe Big Ois a Japanese animated television series created by director Kazuyoshi Katayama and designer Keiichi Sato for Sunrise Studios. The writing staff was assembled by the series' head writer, Chiaki J. Konaka....
- Cop - The Black AngelKuro no TenshiKuro no tenshi aka 黒の天使 may refer to two films:*Kuro no tenshi Vol. 1 *Kuro no tenshi Vol. 2...
- Kosugi's Guard - Cardcaptor SakuraCardcaptor Sakura, abbreviated as CCS and also known as Cardcaptors, is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by the manga artist group Clamp. The manga was originally serialized monthly in Nakayoshi from the May 1996 until the June 2000 issue, and later published in 12 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha...
: The Sealed Card (2nd Movie) - Takashi Yamazaki - Cowboy BebopCowboy Bebopis a critically acclaimed and award-winning 1998 Japanese anime series directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, written by Keiko Nobumoto, and produced by Sunrise. Its 26 episodes comprise a complete storyline: set in 2071, the series follows the adventures, misadventures and tragedies of five bounty...
- McIntyre - Cyborg 009Cyborg 009is a manga created by Shotaro Ishinomori. It was serialized in many different magazines, including Monthly Shōnen King, Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Shōnen Big Comic, COM, Shōjo Comic, Weekly Shōnen Sunday, Monthly Shōnen Jump and Monthly Comic Nora in Japan...
: The Cyborg Soldier- Joe Shimamura/Cyborg 009 - DaigunderDaigunderis an anime series about humans using robots in tournaments. Created by Aeon and Takara and animated by Animation Studio Brains Base, the series aired in TV Tokyo from April 2002 to December 2002.-Plot:...
- Ryugu - Digimon AdventureDigimon Adventureis a Japanese animated television series created in 1999 by Toei Animation based on the Digimon virtual pet made by Bandai. It is the first series of the Digimon anime "metaseries"...
/Digimon Adventure 02Digimon Adventure 02, also commonly referred as Digimon Zero Two, is the direct sequel to the previous series and takes place three years after the original series. With most of the original characters now in junior high school, the Digital World was supposedly secure and peaceful. However, a new evil has appeared in...
- Taichi KamiyaTaichi KamiyaTaichi "Tai" Kamiya, known as in Japan, is a fictional character in the anime and manga, Digimon Adventure, and Digimon Adventure 02. Although his first name is "Taichi", in the English version, he primarily goes by his dub-given nickname, Tai....
, Additional Voices - Digimon FrontierDigimon Frontieris the 4th Digimon TV series first broadcast in 2002. After prompted to do so by unusual phone messages, the five main characters go to a subway station and take a train to the Digital World. Once there, they meet two secondary characters, Bokomon and Neemon, who act as guides, and tell the...
- Sorcermon, Teppei, and Yutaka Himi - Digimon TamersDigimon Tamersis the third animated series based on the Japanese Digimon franchise, first broadcast in 2001 on Fuji TV in Japan and on Fox Kids in the United States. The story takes place initially in a "alternative" universe, on a world much like Earth where Digimon is just a franchise, composed of video games,...
- Kumbhiramon - Digimon: The MovieDigimon: The MovieDigimon: The Movie is a 2000 American film adaptation of the first three Japanese Digimon films distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film used footage from the films Digimon Adventure , Our War Game!! , and Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Supreme Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals .In comparison to...
- Taichi KamiyaTaichi KamiyaTaichi "Tai" Kamiya, known as in Japan, is a fictional character in the anime and manga, Digimon Adventure, and Digimon Adventure 02. Although his first name is "Taichi", in the English version, he primarily goes by his dub-given nickname, Tai.... - DNA Sights 999.9 - Tetsuro Daiba
- Dual! Parallel Trouble AdventureDual! Parallel Trouble Adventureis a fourteen episode series created in 1999 by Masaki Kajishima and produced by AIC, both well-known for the Tenchi Muyo! franchise. It is licensed in the US by Pioneer LDC, later known as Geneon...
- Kazuki Yotsuga - Duel MastersDuel Mastersis a franchise based on a manga, anime and a trading card game. There is also a video game.-Trading Card Game:The card game originated in Japan, marketed by Takara Tomy. It was produced in English by Wizards of the Coast, who purchased the rights to the name Duel Masters from , which ran a...
- Shobu Kirifuda, Hakuoh (Season One) - Dynasty Warriors 5Dynasty Warriors 5is a Hack and slash video game set in China and the fifth installment in the Dynasty Warriors series, developed by Omega Force and published by Koei. The game was released on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It is based on the Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong.-Gameplay:The...
- Jiang Wei (uncredited) - Eagle Riders - Additional Voices
- éX-DriverÉX-Driveris a manga series by Kōsuke Fujishima, which was adapted into an anime series, produced by Bandai Visual and XEBEC. The anime series spanned 6 episodes, as well as a feature movie, entitled éX-Driver: The Movie...
- Souichi Sugano - Flint the Time DetectiveFlint the Time DetectiveFlint the Time Detective, known in Japan as , is an animated Japanese television series directed by Hiroshi Fukutomi. It was based on a manga by Hideki Sonoda and Akira Yamauchi and was published by Kodansha in Japan...
- Additional Voices - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone ComplexGhost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complexis an anime television series produced by Production I.G and based on Masamune Shirow's manga Ghost in the Shell. It was written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, with original character design by Hajime Shimomura and a soundtrack by Yoko Kanno...
- Omba (Ep. 9 & 11) - Giant RoboGiant Robois an original video animation series written and directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa , and inspired by Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga series of the same name....
- Daisaku Kusama - Gorgeous (film) - Additional Voices
- Honeybee Hutch - Hutch
- IGPX - Takeshi Noa (micro-series only)
- Jin Jin and the Panda PatrolJin Jin and the Panda PatrolJin Jin and the Panda Patrol is a 1992 animated TV series created by Saban Entertainment.-Plot:Jin Jin is a panda living in Pandaland. His home ends up destroyed by Grimster, a henchman of the evil Dr. Mania. Dr. Mania plans to regress the Earth back to it's primitive times before humans had...
- Additional Voices - Last ExileLast Exileis a Japanese animated television series created by Gonzo. It featured a production team led by director Koichi Chigira, character designer Range Murata, and production designer Mahiro Maeda. The three had previously worked together in Blue Submarine No. 6, one of the first CG anime series...
- Dio Eraclea - Leave It to Kero! - Takashi Yamazaki
- The Little Polar BearThe Little Polar BearThe Little Polar Bear is a franchise about a Polar Bear cub named Lars who first starred in a number of books written by Dutch author, Hans de Beer. It later became an animated TV series, Lars, der Kleine Eisbär, in the early 1990s. The show proved to be popular in Germany, but its English-dubbed...
- Lemming #1 - Macross PlusMacross Plusis a four-episode anime OVA and theatrical movie in the Macross series. It was the first sequel to the original Macross television series that took place in the official timeline...
- Additional Voices - Mobile Suit Gundam F91Mobile Suit Gundam F91is a 1991 anime film, which was Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino's attempt to launch a new Gundam saga, set thirty years after Char's Counterattack and twenty seven years after Gundam Unicorn. He re-teamed with character designer Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and mecha designer Kunio Okawara for the occasion....
- Arthur Jung - MoldiverMoldiveris a 6-episode 1993 OVA anime series. It is a parody of magical girl and superhero anime series.-Plot:The plot focuses on a young girl by the name of Mirai Ozora, living in Tokyo in the year 2045...
- Nozumo Ozora - NightwalkerNightwalkeris a late night anime TV series created by Ayana Itsuki that is adapted from a PC game titled '.Nightwalker incorporates elements of the horror, detective story and vampire genres, and is critically noted as a vampire story "with a bit of a twist". The main character is Shido, a vampire who...
- Schoolboy - Oliver TwistSaban's Adventures of Oliver TwistSaban's Adventures of Oliver Twist is an Animated series created by Saban Entertainment. It was aired from February 1, 1990 to February 12, 1991, totaling up to 54 episodes....
- Additional Voices - Orguss - Additional Voices
- Pilot CandidateThe Candidate for Goddessis a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yukiru Sugisaki. The series takes place in the distant future, where human beings live among space colonies and a single, inhabitable planet called Zion. The plot follows Zero Enna and his fellow candidates as they try to prove themselves worthy of...
- Zero Enna - Racing StripesRacing StripesRacing Stripes is a 2005 comedy film directed by Frederik Du Chau, the director of Quest for Camelot. Although set in Kentucky, the movie was filmed in Pietermaritzburg and Nottingham Road, South Africa.-Plot:...
- Additional Voices - The Return of Dogtanian - Philippe
- Rurouni KenshinRurouni Kenshin, also known as Rurouni Kenshin and Samurai X, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The fictional setting takes place during the early Meiji period in Japan. The story is about a fictional assassin named Himura Kenshin, from the Bakumatsu who becomes a wanderer to...
- Eiji Mishima - Saint TailSaint Tail, is a magical girl manga and anime series. Originally a twenty-four part manga by Megumi Tachikawa, the story was brought to television anime by producer Tokyo Movie Shinsha, with forty-three episodes and one short, broadcast by ABC...
- Asuka Jr. - Samurai Girl Real Bout High School - Daisaku Kamiya
- Speed Racer XSpeed Racer XSpeed Racer X, known in Japan as , is a remake of the original 1967 series produced by Tatsunoko Productions, the same studio that did the original...
- Sparky - The SpongeBob SquarePants MovieThe SpongeBob SquarePants MovieThe SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 American animated film based on the popular Nickelodeon television series SpongeBob SquarePants. The film stars the voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Doug Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, Alec Baldwin, Jeffrey Tambor, and...
- Prisoner - Tenchi in TokyoTenchi in Tokyo, is a 26-episode Japanese cartoon series produced by AIC in 1997. It is the third series from the Tenchi Muyo! series.-Overview:...
- Additional Voices - Tokyo PigTokyo PigTokyo Pig, known in Japan as , is a Japanese anime television series. The anime was based on a book titled Fair, then Partly Piggy , written by Shiro Yadama and translated into English by Keith Holeman .Tokyo Pig is about a young boy and the adventures he...
- Spencer Weinberg-Takahama - Totally Spies! - Arnold
- Transformers: Robots in DisguiseTransformers: Robots in DisguiseTransformers: Robots in Disguise, known in Japan as , is a Japanese anime television series and serves as a self-contained universe separate from any of the other existing Transformers universes...
- Carl - TrigunTrigunis a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhiro Nightow, published from 1996 to 2008 and spanning 17 collected volumes....
- Millions Knives (young) - The Twelve KingdomsThe Twelve Kingdomsis a series of light novels by Fuyumi Ono. The first entry in the series was published in Japan in 1991; the last volume was released in 2001. The series was published by Kodansha and contains illustrations by Akihiro Yamada.The Chinese mythology-influenced books were adapted into an animated...
- Ikuya Asano - UrdaUrda: The Third Reichis an original net animation written and directed by Romanov Higa. The story takes place circa 1943, during World War II.Facing a losing war, the Nazi Party discovers a marooned spaceship capable of time travel, thus enabling them to alter the outcome of their fate. Enter Erna Kurtz, a newly hired...
- Alan - Vampire Princess MiyuVampire Princess Miyuis a Japanese horror manga series by Narumi Kakinouchi and Toshiki Hirano, as well as an anime adaptation by the same creators. The anime was originally presented in a 4-episode OVA licenced by AnimEigo in 1988, and was later adapted into a 26-episode television series licensed by Tokyopop and...
- Helmsman, Young Maki, Yang - Wolf's RainWolf's Rainis an anime series created by writer and story editor Keiko Nobumoto and produced by Bones Studio. The series was directed by Tensai Okamura and featured character designs by Toshihiro Kawamoto with a soundtrack produced and arranged by Yoko Kanno. It focuses on the journey of four lone wolves...
- Hige - X - Additional Voices
- Yukikaze - Ito
- Zatch Bell!Zatch Bell!Zatch Bell!, known in Japan as is a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Makoto Raiku. It was published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday...
- Maruss - ZenkiZenkiis a Japanese manga series written by Kikuhide Tani and illustrated by Yoshihiro Kuroiwa. It was serealized in the Shueisha publication, Monthly Shōnen Jump from 1992 to 1996. Zenki was adapted into a fifty-one episode anime television series in 1995 by Studio Deen and also spawned five video games...
- Akira, Goki
Video games
- Hugo Cabret: The Video GameHugo CabretHugo is a 2011 3D adventure drama film based on Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, about a boy who lives alone in a Paris train station, and the enigmatic owner of a toy shop there. It is directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan. It is a co-production of Graham King's...
- Hugo Cabret - Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan WarAce Combat Zero: The Belkan Waris a semi-realistic flight simulator developed by Namco for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It is part of the Ace Combat series of games...
- Rainier Altman - Ape Escape: On the Loose - Jake
- Dynasty Warriors 5Dynasty Warriors 5is a Hack and slash video game set in China and the fifth installment in the Dynasty Warriors series, developed by Omega Force and published by Koei. The game was released on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It is based on the Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong.-Gameplay:The...
- Jiang Wei - StonekeepStonekeepStonekeep is a 1995 computer role-playing game for DOS by Interplay Entertainment. It is a first-person dungeon adventure with pre-rendered environments and live-action cinematic sequences. Five years in production, Stonekeep was ranked #6 in Gamespot's top ten vaporware hall of shame...
- Grug, Ice Sharga Guard, Tiny Sharga - Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und BoseXenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böseis an RPG for the PlayStation 2 and the second title in the Xenosaga series. Jenseits von Gut und Böse, literally "Beyond Good and Evil", is taken from a philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche of the same name...
- chaos, Hermann - Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach ZarathustraXenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustrais an RPG for the PlayStation 2, and the third game in the primary Xenosaga trilogy. Also sprach Zarathustra, literally "Thus spoke Zarathustra", is also the title of Friedrich Nietzsche's most famous work, which introduced the concept of the Übermensch...
- chaos