Jason Anthony Griffith

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Jason A. Griffith is an American voice actor who has worked on several animated TV series, and is currently the official voice of Sonic the Hedgehog and Shadow the Hedgehog in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series. Outside the Sonic series, his voice is well-known as that of Usopp and his father Yasopp, in the English version of the animated TV series One Piece. He is also know as J. Griff in the credits of One Piece, Pokémon and later episodes of other media from 4Kids Entertainment. In the credits of Sonic and the Secret Rings and Chaotic, he is credited as Adam Caroleson.

Jason Griffith has also recently starred in a commercial^{[citation needed]} that screened on MTV.

1 Sonic the Hedgehog controversy
2 Voice acting
3 Guest starred in
4 External links

[edit] Sonic the Hedgehog controversy

He started doing the voice of Sonic and Shadow in the Sonic X television series. He was later hired by Sega to be the official voice of Sonic and Shadow in the Sonic game series. He began his work in the games in Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Rush. In Sonic Riders, Griffith provided the voice for Jet. Griffith's character voices have been negatively viewed by some fans of the old (also low budget) voice cast of the Sonic series, as his voice for Sonic has been criticized by critics for lacking the enthusiasm that Sonic's last voice actor Ryan Drummond put into the role while to others it's the voice itself that is inappropriate for the character. He is also criticized for not being able to fit Shadow's personality as well as David Humphrey did as to fans, he sounds more depressed and monotone. Some fans even took things overboard, sending Sega letters, phone calls, e-mails, and petitions demanding to give the role of Sonic back to Ryan Drummond and the role of Shadow back to David Humphrey. Sega hasn't commented on the fans' demands so far. Critics generally rate both the new and old voice casts as low quality.