Michael James Kovach (born June 17, 1995 in Youngstown, Ohio, United States), occasionally known as KoVox, is an American voice actor. He is often typecast as Deadpan Snarkers, Nice Guys, and rough but otherwise decent people. In anime, he works for the companies Kocha Sound, Sound Cadence Studios, NYAV Post, and Okratron 5000, and has been working in the anime industry since 2020.
While he has been doing voice acting since the early 2010's, his role as Anthony "Angel Dust" in the pilot for Hazbin Hotel is the role that made him known in the indie Web Animation scene.
His other well-known roles are Jax in The Amazing Digital Circus, Rocky Rickaby in Lackadaisy, Serial Designation N from Murder Drones, Fantoccio from Billie Bust Up, and I-LeS Nayuta from AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline. He has also had more minor roles, like Niles from Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers, Rich, the Scientist, and Doey the Doughman from Poppy Playtime, and Gramps from Highway Blossoms.
He identifies as a heteroromantic asexual, and he was in a relationship with cleanup animator Ashley Nichols, whom he met while working on Hazbin Hotel, until their break up in February of 2025. However, these two are still on good terms, doing live streams and convention panels together.
His Twitter is located here
. He also has a personal website for contacting him, located here.
Notable Roles:
Anime
- Akudama Drive: Bunny
- AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline: I-LeS Nayuta
- Dragon Goes House-Hunting: Letty
- Kingdom (2006): Zhang Yin, Jin Ren, Additional Voices
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Additional Voices
- Lovely★Complex: Additional Voices
- The Prince of Tennis: Irie Kanata, Additional Voices
- Reborn! (2004): Nosaru
Music
- "ADDICT" (Hazbin Hotel fan song turned official): Angel Dust
- The Amazing Digital Circus fan songs as Jax:
- Black Gryph0n's "Thank You And Goodnight" (Staff-Created Fan Work for Hazbin Hotel): Angel Dust
- CG5's "LET ME IN (Murder Drones fan song): Additional vocals
- John G Music's "Has He Forgotten?" as Phillip Wittebane / Belos
- Paranoid DJ's "Our World": Vocals
- The Chalkeaters's ''Trash Can Song'' (Honkai: Star Rail fan song): Aventurine, Sam
- The Living Tombstone's ''FIGHT TIL' I'M GOOD ENOUGH'' Vocals
Video Games and Visual Novels
- Billie Bust Up: Fantoccio
- Blush Blush: Eli Kawase / Ichiban
- Boutkart (a Game Mod for Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers): Rebound
- BROK the InvestiGator: Graff / R.J. / Guard
- Cris Tales: Azufra
- The Divine Speaker: Illran
- Grand Guilds: Felix
- Highway Blossoms: Gramps / Man on Megaphone
- Kings of Hell: Gremile
- Komorebi: Taylor
- Lucid9: Masato's voiced teasernote
- Poppy Playtime: The Prototype / Rich / Scientist / Doey the Doughman
- TOME: Skeight (replacing Edward Bosco)
- Zenless Zone Zero: Burton Ravenlock
Web Original
- The Amazing Digital Circus: Jax and Evil Jax
- Kovach reprises his role in "THE HIDDEN EPISODES OF THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS!!"
- Kovach reprises his role in "THE HIDDEN EPISODES OF THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS!!"
- asdfmovie16 as Guy in Club, Guy Who's Knee is Haunted, Mailbox, and Guy Who's Over the Fish Hat
- Catching Up: Clay
- CDawgVA: Gwonam, James Taylor (''I Fixed The Worst Voice Acting In Video Games'')
- Danganwrestling: Monokuma / Goldust / Paul Heyman (Ep. 5; credited as KoVox)
- DEATH BATTLE!: Shazam! (Season 6, Ep. 4: Captain Marvel VS Shazam), Goku Black (Season 8, Ep. 10: Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash), Asta (Season 9, Ep. 16: Deku VS Asta), Goku (Season 9, Ep. 17: Gogeta VS Vegito and Season 10, Ep. 15: Goku VS Superman), half of Gogeta and half of Vegito (Season 9, Ep. 17: Gogeta VS Vegito)
- Fazbear And Friends: Funtime Freddy, Bon Bon, Bendy, Boyfriend, and many more.
- The Gaslight District: Diligence
- Hazbin Hotel: Angel Dust (Pilot)
- HuniCast: Co-Host
- His History Revealed: A Dr. Robotnik Biography: Ivo Robotnik
- Indie Cross: The Series: Cuphead (Episode 2)
- Lackadaisy: Rocky Rickaby
- Lumi and the Great Big Galaxy: Davin
- Murder Drones: Serial Designation N, Reid, Braiden
- Monkey Wrench: Jax, Weevil Engineers
- The Pink City: Darly Boxman (The Darly Boxman Show)
- Ruff Ruff Danger Dogs: Hunter
- Suction Cup Man: Fired Business Employee (Suction Cup Man 5)
- Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: N, Niles, SMG0
- Zipped Up: Gadget, Levi (Only when singing, Elise Lepley is his Non-Singing Voice)
Web comics
- Spaicy: Zag
Messing with Michael Kovach's tropes is never wise:
- Acting for Two:
- In Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers, he voices both Niles and SMG0.
- Murder Drones has him voicing N, Reid, and Braiden.
- Man of a Thousand Voices:
- Marissa Lenti calls him one of the most talented voice actors she has ever seen, and it's not hard to see why. For example, in Danganwrestling, he voices Monokuma, Paul Heyman, and Goldust in the same short with very different voices.
- DEATH BATTLE! sees him pull off a dead-on impression of Sean Schemmel's iconic performance as Goku.
- Playing Against Type: He usually voices Jerkass Deadpan Snarkers. N, however, is a sweetheart who wouldn't use words to hurt others in any way. Ditto with Davin, the nicest and most soft-spoken out of the main cast.
- Production Posse:
- He, Nola Klop, and Elsie Lovelock have been involved in many of each other's works. Lizzie Freeman has also been involved in many of his works, whether it's main roles or side roles.
- Considering the amount of times their voices have been compared to each other, it's no wonder he and Sean Chiplock have voiced together.
- He and Jonah Scott tend to collaborate with each other often, especially in anime.
- Really, you could make an argument that literally any time Glitch Productions does anything ever, Michael Kovach is there for that project.
- Star-Making Role: For animation, it's Angel Dust, N, and Jax, and for anime, it's Letty, Bunny, and Kanata Irie.
- Tom Hanks Syndrome: He often voiced in very lighthearted Visual Novels and cheeky animations in his early years. After the Hazbin Hotel pilot, though, he shifted more into the horror genre. Notable examples include Murder Drones, a Cyberpunk Horror Comedy, Poppy Playtime, a Survival Horror, and many of Gooseworx's animated works, including but not limited to The Amazing Digital Circus and The Pink City.