Rich Brown

Rich Brown’s Decade-Long Presence in the Bang Zoom! Booth

Affiliated with Bang Zoom! Entertainment in Los Angeles, Rich Brown (born November 8) has spent well over a decade operating in one of the most active dubbing pipelines in North American anime. His output spans everything from single-episode ensemble slots to multi-season anchor roles, with a credit list that reaches across anime television, Netflix film trilogies, and major video game releases. The breadth of that work – accumulated without much public visibility outside dedicated dubbing communities – reflects the workload typical of a dependable Bang Zoom! session performer who keeps getting called back.

Big Band in Skullgirls and an Early Signature Role

The role that first put Brown on the radar of English-language voice casting was Big Band in Lab Zero’s Skullgirls (2012). The character – a jazz-inflected, heavily modified police officer turned weapon – demanded a distinctive low register and a performance that balanced menace with gravitas. Brown delivered both, and the role became his most recognized video game credit. The Skullgirls community’s enthusiasm for Big Band helped cement his name with a dedicated audience years before his anime credits expanded significantly.

One Punch Man and the Weight of King

Landing the role of King in One Punch Man gave Brown a recurring fixture across the series’ entire English-language run – all three television seasons, the OVA, the video game One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows, and the Re:ZERO crossover game. King is a comedically structured character built on the gap between reputation and reality, and Brown’s measured baritone made that contrast work. Sustaining the same character through multiple production cycles is an underacknowledged achievement in dubbing, and Brown has done it across the full span of the One Punch Man property.

The Netflix Godzilla Trilogy and Rilu-Elu Belu-Be

Brown voiced Rilu-Elu Belu-Be across all three entries in Polygon Pictures’ animated Godzilla Netflix trilogy – Planet of the Monsters (2017), City on the Edge of Battle (2018), and The Planet Eater (2018). The character, a Bilusaludo engineer central to the trilogy’s second act, gave Brown a sustained dramatic role across a film run with significant production values and international distribution. It remains one of his more tonally serious credits.

Mugai, Detective Pikachu Returns, and the 2023 Game Surge

The 2023 window saw Brown appear across several notable game releases. He voiced Mugai in Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless and Frank Holiday in Detective Pikachu Returns – a Nintendo-published title with broad mainstream reach. Street Fighter 6, one of the highest-profile fighting game releases of that year, also carries his name in the ensemble cast. Jack – The Provisions Manager in Monster Hunter Wilds followed in 2025, keeping him active in major franchise releases.

Akane-Banashi, Ghost in the Shell, and the 2026 Expansion

Two 2026 productions put Brown in elevated creative company. In Akane-Banashi – the Netflix adaptation following a young rakugo performer – he voices Zensho Arakawa, a pivotal comedy-world figure whose presence the show builds significant dramatic weight around. Brown confirmed the casting publicly via social media. Separately, he appears in The Ghost in the Shell (2026), Science SARU’s reboot series produced for Amazon Prime Video with a Bang Zoom! English dub, where he voices Borma. Together, the two credits represent the most prominent his name has appeared on simultaneous releases in a single year.