Screamer (2026)
Milestone’s Screamer launched on March 26, 2026, as a bold reboot of the 1995 arcade racer, reimagined as an anime-drenched, combat-racing fever dream set in a dystopian city called Neo-Rey. It’s the kind of game where a J-rock band hides a dark secret, a crime family races for dominance, and ex-mercenaries hunt down the man who killed their friend. With cutscenes animated by Polygon Pictures (the studio behind Star Wars: Visions and Love, Death & Robots), the Screamer voice cast carries enormous emotional weight. Here’s who gives life to this wild, neon-lit cast.
Who Voices Hiroshi Jackson in Screamer?
Hiroshi is the beating heart of Screamer. An intense ex-mercenary with a cybernetic arm and a score to settle, he leads the Green Reapers, a team undercover at the tournament to avenge the death of Quinn Connolly, their founder. He’s not a clean hero, not a simple one, and that’s exactly what makes him work.
Hiroshi is voiced by Aleks Le, best known for Wanderer/Scaramouche in Genshin Impact and Yuta Okkotsu in the Jujutsu Kaisen dub. Principal Narrative Designer Kerry Kazmierowicztrimm described Hiroshi as “a new perspective of the hero archetype,” and Le was personally sought out for the role. His performance is what keeps the revenge storyline from tipping into melodrama.
Who Voices Mr. A in Screamer?
Mr. A is the tournament’s host and its hidden hand, the person who pulled soldiers, scientists, pop stars, and criminals onto the same deadly track. He doesn’t race. He engineers outcomes. In a career built almost entirely on heroes, this marks Troy Baker‘s first video game villain role.
Baker is one of gaming’s most recognizable voices: Joel in The Last of Us, Sam Drake in Uncharted 4, Bruce Wayne in the Batman: Arkham series. His casting was announced at The Game Awards 2024 alongside the reveal trailer. Playing the antagonist suits him in ways the industry probably should’ve explored sooner.
Who Voices Gabriel Mertens in Screamer?
Gabriel is the man Hiroshi has come to destroy. Son of corporate titan Abigail Mertens and driver for the silver-clad Anaconda Corp team, he’s the kind of villain who’s convinced he’s the reasonable one in every room.
Gabriel is voiced by Jonathan Demoor, alongside Hope Kaminsky (Emma Gariépy) and Dirk van Wyk (Ash K-B). Anaconda Corp drives restored classic sports cars with gold accents and zero sponsor stickers, which fits Gabriel’s cold, polished menace down to the paint job.
Who Voices Ritsuko Imai in Screamer?
Strike Force Romanda are the tournament’s wildcard: three Japanese idol pop stars who split up three years before the game’s events, now officially reunited to promote a new album. Ritsuko’s reasons for being here go deeper than chart positions. She’s carrying grief she hasn’t let herself show yet.
Ritsuko is voiced by Shoko Arai, with teammates Akane Hyuga voiced by Matsuri Mizuguchi and Hina Yamado voiced by Hana Kuga. The team speaks Japanese throughout, which the game’s world-building covers through a universal translator implanted in all humans. Their cars (a Honda NSX, a Nissan Skyline R33, a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo) read as a love letter to ’90s Japanese car culture, and their storyline ends up delivering the game’s biggest emotional gut-punch.
Who Voices Aisha Waghmare in Screamer?
The Jupiter Stormers are the scientists of the group: aerospace engineers with afterburners on their exhausts and serious questions about the ECHO technology powering every car in the tournament. Aisha was personally invited by Gage Veloc, and whatever history they share, it’s clearly unresolved.
Aisha is voiced by Pragati Kothari, alongside Gregor Falkenstein (Malte Meibauer, performing in German) and Lavinia Ricci Antinori (Giulia Bersani, in Italian). Having actors perform in their native languages was the right call, and it shows in every line.
Who Voices Noburu Satō in Screamer?
The Kagawa-kai are a crime syndicate turned racing team. Noburu was once considered one of Neo-Rey’s greatest Screamers, walked away from the criminal world, and got pulled back in by his brother Keiji. Classic.
Noburu is voiced by Shūhei Habu, with Akemi Nomura voiced by Yūri Sakamoto and Keiji Satō by Keiji Kandori. The Kagawa-kai storyline gets its own dedicated comic, Screamer: Loss, a Panini collaboration that digs into Noburu’s backstory before the events of the game. Their pearl-finish ’90s sports cars look exactly right for a crime family that still has taste.
Supporting Cast
Gage Veloc : Adam Diggle; the tournament mechanic who bridges all five factions
Quinn Connolly : Lori Alan (Pearl in SpongeBob SquarePants); the fallen founder whose death drives the Green Reapers’ entire arc
The Announcer : Mara Junot, the voice of the tournament broadcast
Abigail Mertens : Vera Mann; Gabriel’s mother and the corporate power behind the curtain
Masato Kagawa : Takeshi Nishimura; founder of the Kagawa-kai
Why the Voice Acting Holds the Game Together
Most racing games don’t ask much from their voice casts. Screamer asks a lot, and the cast delivers. Having every character speak their native language (Japanese, French, German, Italian) could easily have made the story feel scattered, but it does the opposite. It makes the world feel like a real place where five very different groups of people have been dragged into the same dangerous situation for entirely different reasons.
The Green Reapers carry grief. Strike Force Romanda hide it behind pop-star stagecraft. The Kagawa-kai are caught between loyalty and self-preservation. Each team has a distinct emotional register, and the Polygon Pictures cutscenes give the actors room to actually use it. This isn’t throwaway dialogue between loading screens.
Troy Baker playing a villain is something worth paying attention to. Aleks Le makes Hiroshi feel real in a way that sneaks up on you. The multilingual supporting cast gives Screamer a sense of cultural specificity that story-driven games with much bigger budgets often fail to pull off. Milestone built an arcade racer that makes you care what happens after the finish line, which nobody asked for and everyone needed.
THE SCREAMER (2026) CAST
Shoko Arai voices:
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