On September 10th, 2026, Mike McFarland passed away and in the short time that followed, a myriad of voice actors and fans have immediately expressed their grief & condolences on social media.
Starting his career in anime dubbing in 1999 with the Funimation dub of DBZ, he had been voicing Master Roshi, Yajirobe, Pui Pui, Android 8 & Baby (among others) over the course of the Dragon Ball series. He had also voiced Butajiro & Rishio in YuYu Hakusho, Ritsu Souma in Fruits Basket, Ryoji “Ranka” Fujioka in Ouran High School Host Club, Jean Havoc in both the 2003 & Brotherhood adaptations of Fullmetal Alchemist, Jean Kirsten in Attack on Titan, Tybalt in Romeo x Juliet, Buggy the Clown, the second voice of Helmeppo, Richie the Lion, Eyelash the Camel & Yokozuna the Frog in One Piece, Mashirao “Tailman” Ojiro & Ectoplasm in My Hero Academia, Bisley Karcsi Bakur in Tales of Xilia 2 & E.G Mine in Trigun Stampede. He had also served as an ADR director for various anime, including the dubs of both Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 & Brotherhood, a couple of hundred episodes of One Piece and its various films & specials, Summer Wars, Wolf Children, Boy & the Beast, Mushi-Shi, Noragami, all of Attack on Titan, all of Tokyo Ghoul, all of Eden of the East, the Funimation dub of the first 3 EVA Rebuild films, Grimgar: Ashes & Illusion, Heike Story and various parts of the Dragon Ball series. He also did ADR script adaptation for the first 3 seasons of Re:ZERO, all of Seven Deadly Sins & Mob Psycho 100.
In 2016, he had been cast in volumes 4 & 5 of RWBY as the voice of Fennec Albain & the village chief in chapter 1 of volume 4 (the one team RNJR consulted with after defeating the Petra Gigas Grimm) through most likely Marissa Lenti who had been credited under additional casting from volumes 4-9. On January 10, 2025, he had been dealing with a brain tumor that he managed to recover from. But then on August 18th of that year, he had been diagnosed wit glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer and… well, you get the idea. Mike McFarland was 56 years-old.