Mako: Avatar the Last Airbender

 

A twelve year old boy named Aang is unfrozen by two children from the water tribe, they discover this twelve year old is the Avatar. The master of all the elements and the person that can change the world forever but he'll need a lot of help.

 

 

Mako happened to voice the character of Uncle Iroh, the wise knowing man who appears calm and lazy. I actually watched this series many years ago and I never for a million years thought that a man named Mako actually voiced this character. I was blown away that the same man that did Aku from Samurai Jack did Uncle Iroh. This showed me that Mako had some very talented acting skills that I hadn't seen from him in his live action performances. Is that due to the fact you don't see the person who is providing the voice? Whatever it is critics all say that Mako did a wonderful job with this character. Sadly Mako died before he could close the book on this character and was replaced by Greg Baldwin.

 

But Mako will live forever in the minds of his fans as his image and voice is ingrained in the history of movies and Television. 

Mako: Samurai Jack

 

Samurai Jack a tale of a samurai from feudal Japan whose empire is destroyed by the dark creature known as Aku. He manages to escape through time and now travels in order to defeat his greatest enemy.

Samurai Jack was created by Genndy Tartakovsky and aired on Cartoon Network. Jack was voiced by Phil LaMarr while Aku was voiced by Mako.

 

 

Aku is a the main antagonist on the show as you can see but by no means is he a simple villain. His whole character is very interesting to watch and serves as the direct opposite of Jack. His deep voice helps with making this character excellent, this voice belongs to Mako. Mako was wonderful, he was able to project his voice well and even could act out his character. Without Aku there would be no Samurai Jack, so lets thank him for making Cartoon network a hit show and making our viewing habits a bit better.

There would be no other actor that I could envision for this role, Mako did a wonderful job and leaves us with an everlasting character known as Aku.