My Favorite Roles:
1. Joseph Joestar(That Nigel Voice is a MUCH Better fit for the man that Jojo is, than it does for a 9-YEAR-OLD Bald-headed Fourth Grader Child; since It fits his character AND his Age)
Shoutmon
Valorn/Toksa from Tenkai Knights
Ben's range is nothing short of incredible! I can't believe my eyes when I saw the credits for Digimon Fusion - Cutemon was voiced by Ben all along?! I was shocked, to say the least. He's amazing in a lot of stuff, including Death Gun (SAO), young Xehanort (KH), Ban (SDS), and adult Satoru (Erased).
Oh, and I definitely think Ben is one of the highlights of the Jojo Part 2 dub - he is awesome as Joseph!
Hey Arnold & Codename KND were two cartoons watched somewhat religiously. They were the two cartoons that introduced me to his voice. He's had a mix of anime, western cartoons & video games over the past 21 years of his voice over career.
@numbuh34 Scratch off Spencer from the Spiderman 2017 series cause now dont like it anymore, Dhar from Indivisible is now number 17 on my top 25 favorite Ben Disken va roles!
Happy Birthday Ben Diskin! Just Now I remembered your Birthday! From Cartoons to Anime! Thanks for your VA Expansion! My Favorite is Nigel Uno from KND!
1.) Ash Roller (Accel World)
2.) Numbuh 1/Nigel Uno (Codename: Kids Next Door)
3.) Numbuh 2/Hoagie P. Gilligan Jr. (Codename: Kids Next Door)
4.) Ban (The Seven Deadly Sins)
5.) Gurio Umino (Sailor Moon)
6.) Kaneo Takarada (Kill la Kill)
7.) Kai Miyagusuku (Blood+)
8.) Eddie Brock/Venom (The Spectacular Spider-Man)
9.) Shoutmon (Digimon Fusion)
10.) Cutemon (Digimon Fusion)
It was interesting hearing him as Lance in Pokemon Generations, while I thought he sounded maybe a bit younger than I personally imagine, the tone wasn't far off.
This guy is definitely talented and entertaining. I loved him as Satrou, Joseph, Numbuh 1, Jakob and Sazio. However my favorite non voicing acting thing he's done would be that comment he left on Max Mittelman's page... oh wait. That was NotBen. My bad!
Knew Ben was talented VA but just finished watching Erased one of his best performance very subtle and different from some of his other roles but man did he nail it
Could be wrong but I doubt it. I don't follow live streams but I'm guessing over the years there have been plenty of VAs (or people who have a VA profile on this site even if they're not actual pro VAs e.g. Adam Dahlberg) who have participated in or host these things but that doesn't always translate into a high weekly popularity ranking on this site.
I would guess it's a combination of Ben being part of 2 recently released games (Fire Emblem Heroes + Tales of Berseria); both which also have a lot of page views and JoJo also airing on Toonami (dub is a year old but there's always an audience who are slow to notice things unless it's easily accessible)
@huzaifa_ahmed The week is almost over. I'm sure it'll be back to normal again. I'm thinking the Sunday live streams I've been doing with Chris Niosi have something to do with this random spike in hits...
He sure has gain a lot more roles ever since his inception to the site. Now that he has 195 roles, I bet he will reach 200 roles in the next week or two maybe by the end of this month!!
@numbuh34 Rogue Galaxy is an incredibly awesome JRPG that everyone interested in any sort of RPG's should play. The English dub, being directed by Wendee Lee, yet also paying union game rates, has greats such as Will Friedle, alongside dub VA's like Jamieson Price.
@kb24lol You're not the only one. I have a hunch that Erica Mendez will be Eleanor in the game. That was the comment I posted, and they deleted it right away. Is it really wrong to make speculations? And this isn't the first time they erase a comment of that sort from me.
@Jared Delgado Isnt the first for me also. I said I was hyped for Justin Briner and Deku and Robbie daymond returning for Sorey but the site just went up to delete my comments smh. But its pretty much a fact that Ben is Rokorou, Id bet anything on it lol.
And Erica as Eleanor I could definetly see. Also she hasnt been in a tales game before so thats what Id bet on also.
a) Requesting credit additions in the comments has been frowned upon always
B) The credit is unconfirmed and thus there's no point in really putting it out there.
C) If it IS confirmed, then we don't need a comment telling us that when we keep track of and get around to everything as quickly as we can.
@NCZ Im not requesting anything. Im just hyped lol. Me saying "Ayy hes Rokorou in Besteria" is me being happy, not requesting or forcing you guys to put him down on the credit addition.
And Michael Johnson for Zesteria was an unconfirmed credit, yet he was listed on BTVA as Mikleo in the Tales of Zestiria the anime. A little contradicting.
We get those comments so often that they're pretty much just blocked on target at this point. So apologies if that's the case. But this is why it's important to think carefully about what you post and how it may be interpreted by others.
Also not every unconfirmed credit is the same. When you mde that comment, there was no source other than gueswork by yourself and a few others. But other credits on here that seem "unconfirmed" were probably added because we looked into them ourselves and determined that they are likely accurate. i.e. We can vouch for them. We can't vouch for a single random comment.
Happy Birthday Ben Diskin! I personally love his performances as Numbuh 1 and 2. And his Jakob, Saizo and Hayato are fantastic as well! (can you believe those three are voiced by the same man? I mean WOW.)
Happy Birthday, Ben Diskin! To say the least, I've been hearing more from him lately than I have before. His performances as Numbuh 1/Nigel Uno and Numbuh 2/Hoagie Gilligan Jr. are forever nostalgic for me, and my other favorite Diskin roles include Wolf, Ash Roller, Stuart Zurgo, Kaneo Takarada, Takaharu Fukuroda, Spider-Ham/Peter Porker, Szayel Aporro Granz, Master Xehanort (Young), and Cutemon; the latter is particularly impressive considering Diskin got to show off his range there. BTVA, battle stations!
Is it just me or does it look like that Ben is going more into the fi-core direction? I wouldn't be surprised if we see him in a FUNimation dub one of these days.
@JRPictures Darn beat me to it. But yeah, I'm very surprised to see him get his second lead role in an anime after JoJo, but the first time where he plays a serious/dramatic character, since usually he gets cast as either secondary, supporting/minor characters with Hot-blooded personalities, outside of Sai.
While we see many voice actors who started in anime switching to American animation only. This guy goes from big US animation roles to basically anime and JRPGs.
Good for him!
As a fan growing up, watching Codename: Kids Next Door, I got to say that this was the first time I got to know him thanks to his unique voice performances as both Sector V's Leader and Pilot respectively: Numbuh 1/Nigel Uno and Numbuh 2/Hoagie P. Gilligan Jr.
And since then, I admire his unique variety of voices he can do whether it be heroes, villains, monsters, cute sidekicks, etc.., with my reaction thinking to myself: "Whoa, is that him? That's quite an Incredible voice range he's got here!!" :)
In addition, he seems to be living the luxury doing voice over in not just Western Animation, but also Video Games and especially Anime.
Besides Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 2, I also enjoyed his voice performances as Venom (Spectacular Spider-Man), Sai (Naruto; Shippuden), Eugene (Hey Arnold!), WAC-47 & Morley (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Szayel Aporro Granz (Bleach), Stitch (Stitch!), Wolf (Blood Lad), Umino (Sailor Moon), Young Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts), Misaki Yata (K Project), and Kaneo Takarada (Kill la Kill).
I can't wait for his performance as Joseph Joestar in the upcoming English dub of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure once it comes out.
Happy Birthday Ben Diskins. I don't think I've heard someone with so must range in his voice. Your awesome as Jospeh Joestar, Death Gun, Cutemon, Takarada, Szayel, Stich, Venom, & Spider-Ham.
I'm amazed by his vocal range...I mean wow, I think Music Meister said it best that if someone said the name Ben Diskin was an alias for several VA'S I'd totally buy it.
I think what truly impressed me of all the works he's done thus far is his roles on Digimon Fusion. I actually really dislike the dub for the show. I dislike how the script and dialogue sounds like it's from the late 90's like the original Adventures dub. I couldn't take it seriously but despite this his performances as Shoutmon and Cutemon are excellent. Shoutmon is just a perfect fit and Cutemon....It's this character I was impressed with, it's such a cute voice. Most male VA's could never pull off a voice as convincing as this but Ben can and he is able to do this naturally as I saw in a convention video once.
Of course I also love his many other roles including Numbuh 1, Numbuh 2, Ash Roller, Gurio Umino, Kai Miyagusuku, Eddie Brock/Venom, Spider-Ham, Rhino, Wolf, Izo, Lionel Hawke, Eugene Horowitz, Takaharu Fukuroda and Kaneo Takarada.
His Joseph Joestar while not my ideal voice for the character, still works rather well even if he does sound maybe a bit more posh than I was expecting.
Seriously Ben Diskin is amazing. He started off as a child actor, got into voice acting and eventually moved on to doing anime as well as cartoons and his vocal range is insane. He's no doubt one of the best VA's in the business at the moment.
And he just continues to get better and better each year.
His Joseph Joestar was basically one of the few casting choices and performances I liked in the Jojo's Bizzare Adventure dub, he was rather fitting in the role and seemed to make the character his own rather than copying Tomokazu Sugita's epic rendition.
As for new roles, his performance as Ban in The Seven Deadly Sins was badass, he just sounds so smug and so cool in the role but it's the passion and emotion he put in to the role that really made this a stand out performance in the dub. It's not surprising he was nominated for best male vocal lead in an anime television/ova series in the BTVA anime dub awards.
Ben playing the Real Char Aznable in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin is a pretty good casting choice, it's great hearing him in a Gundam project.
I also liked his performances as Kisuke Adabashi and Fandral.
And While he didn't get to voice Saitama despite being the fan favourite casting choice most fans had in mind, it's still very cool that he got to voice in the dub. He really got to show off his range playing both Super Custom YO649Z Mk. II and Ground Dragon.
I also haven't seen Erased yet but I'm sure Ben will do a great job as Satoru in the dub, I'll definitely look forward to how he does him when the dub finally comes out.
too geeky high pitched, to monotone badass, to deeper cool guy witha crazy streak. yeah this guy can show a lot. he defiently deserve even more anime seen action.
@ArticleTheWasbi I Didn't really mean that. I Thought you said that his birthday is feb 22 and yours is feb 22 since you posted that comment on my birthday which is feb 22.
Genuine diversity. I believe he's the only VA to not do one format or one type of animation. Union US toons, non-union anime, union anime. They talk about dub VAs not being diverse? Where are all the so called "diverse" US animation VAs in anime? Just him.
Happy Birthday to voice acting all star Ben Diskin. This man exceeds anybody's expectations, from Numbah 1, to Venom, Izo, young Xehanort, Cutemon, Skaar, Sai, Rhino, and Misaki Yata.
Ben is one of those actors where you think "okay I get what he can do with his voice" then he does a voice and your like "wow, he did that"?
I swear his Cutemon, Numbuh 1, and Rhino sound nothing alike.
If someone told me that Ben Diskin was just an alias for several different actors, I'd believe it
Top 10 Ben Diskin roles:
1.Sai(Naruto Shippuden)
2.Master Xehanort(Young)(Kingdom Hearts)
3.Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 2(KND)
4.Skaar(Hulk and the Agents of Smash)
5.Toxsa Dalton(Tenkai Knights)
6.Misaki(K)
7.Harm(Young Justice)
8.Ash Roller(Accel World)
9.Cutemon and Shoutmon(Digimon Fusion)
10.Shade(Shade the Changing Man)
said at 3:38 PM on Tue Jun 19 2018