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SungWon Cho
Cho at Colorado Anime Fest 2022
Born (1990-12-09) December 9, 1990 (age 33)
Minnesota, U.S.
Other namesProZD
Occupations
  • Voice actor
  • Youtuber
Years active2015–present
Spouse
Anne Marie Salter
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(m. 2016)​
YouTube information
Also known asProZD
Channel
Years active2006–present
Genres
  • Comedy
  • parody
  • gaming
  • review
  • food
Subscribers3.8 million[1]
Total views1.62 billion[1]
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers2017[2]
Last updated: July 27, 2022

SungWon Cho (/ˈsʌŋwʌn/ SUNG-wun;[3] Korean: 조성원; RR: Jo Seong-won; born December 9, 1990), also known as ProZD, is an American voice actor and Youtuber. Cho is best known for his presence on YouTube, on which he produces short skits, unboxing videos, and reviews of board games and snack foods. He is also known for playing Detective Joe Furuya in Anime Crimes Division and for his many voice acting roles, most notably FL4K from Borderlands 3 and Holst Sigiswald Goneril from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes.

Early life

SungWon Cho[4] was born to Korean parents in Minnesota on December 9, 1990,[5][6][7] and later moved to DeWitt, Michigan.[8] He started voice acting in high school when he voiced different characters on a friend's radio plays.[9] He attended Michigan State University, where he frequently acted in live performances and graduated in 2012 with a degree in Media Information and Technology.[9][10] In 2012, after graduating, he described himself as being "in a creative rut" and taught English as a second language to Korean immigrant students.[11]

Career

In October 2012, Cho began daily posting voice content to Tumblr, building an audience and eventually going viral with a video of him singing "Let It Go" from Frozen as Goofy.[11] His first foray into professional voice acting occurred when voice director Deven Mack saw one of his YouTube videos and had him audition for Apotheon, where he ended up securing the role of the main villain Zeus.[12] He remained active on Vine until the 2016 announcement of their shutdown and was also a finalist for the 9th Shorty Awards for Vine of the Year.[13][14] Cho shifted his focus to his YouTube channel, his audience following from Vine and having his work often appear on the frontpage of Reddit.[15][16]

In 2017 Cho starred in his first live action role as the main character, Detective Joe Furuya, in Crunchyroll's Anime Crimes Division, for which he was nominated for Best Acting in a Comedy for the 8th Streamy Awards.[17][18] In mid-2018 Creative Artists Agency reached out and signed him coinciding with an already planned move to Los Angeles to continue his career as a voice actor.[19][20] Soon after he was cast in the multi-ethnic Rooster Teeth series Gen:Lock and told NewsWeek's Phillip Martinez, "Voice acting gives me a lot more freedom because I'm not limited by my physical appearance. I can voice all sorts all different sort of characters."[21]

Cho's presence on YouTube grew throughout this time with his channel exceeding 3.75 million subscribers and most of his income between voice acting work coming from sponsorships and ad revenue.[22] His videos are intentionally low-budget and often feature recurring universes with their own casts of characters, including an anime parody ("The Tomoko Chairem Anime Canon") and a role-playing game parody ("King Dragon"), through which he pokes fun at common gaming and anime cliches and tropes.[22] He continued to expand these existing storylines that had originally started on Vine, as well as creating a Let's Play channel Press Buttons n Talk with his friend Alex Mankin.[22][23] In 2019 Cho voiced the character FL4K in the popular video game Borderlands 3.[24] He has been a fan favorite in the anime community being a frequent guest at conventions and presenting for the Crunchyroll Anime Awards.[25][26]

Personal life

In October 2015, Cho became engaged to Anne Marie Salter, whom he had met through an online Super Mario fan fiction community.[11] They were married on May 28, 2016.[27] They have two cats named Effie and Sophie who are seen in Cho's videos at times.[28] He came up with the username "ProZD" in elementary school, and said that he would not disclose what it means as "it's so embarrassing that even [his] wife doesn't know."[29] However, on April 26, 2022, Cho tweeted that he had finally revealed the meaning of the username to his wife after being together for fourteen years.[30]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2018 Something Film actor Voice role; feature film
2021 Lackadaisy Mordecai Voice role; short film
2021 Belle[31]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Source
2018 Legend of the Galactic Heroes: The New Thesis Vice Admiral Legrange 1 episode
2018 Radiant Master Lord Majesty 3 episodes
2019 Gen:Lock Heng Li 'Henry' Wu 3 episodes [32]
2019 Tuca & Bertie Ultra-Sam S380 1 episode [33]
2019 OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes Johnny, Jack Whacky, Rando, Teamster, Game 2 episodes [34]
2020 Craig of the Creek Keun Sup "The Blur" 4 episodes
2020 Big City Greens Maestro / King Violin 1 episode
2020 Akudama Drive Shark
2021 Adventure Time: Distant Lands Brain Wizard Ep. "Wizard City"
2021 Ranking of Kings Kage Main character [35]
2021 One Piece Nekomamushi Supporting character
2021 86 Richard Altner Supporting character [36]
2021 The Irregular at Magic High School Kotaro Tatsumi
2022 Odd Taxi Kensuke Shibagaki
2022 Tokyo 24th Ward Hiroki Shirakaba [37]
2022 Birdgirl Additional Voices

Web series

Year Title Role Notes Source
2017–2018 Anime Crimes Division Detective Joe Furuya Main character [38]
2018 Nomad of Nowhere Toro Episode 7 [32]
2018 Camp Camp Brian Season 3, episode 3 [21]
2018 Red vs. Blue King Atlus Arcadium Rex 8 episodes
2020 Bigtop Burger Doctor 3 episodes
2020 Aggretsuko Hyodo 9 episodes
2020 Pokémon: Twilight Wings Mustard, Mienshao The Gathering of Stars [39]
2020 Onyx Equinox Xolotl 2 episodes
2021 High Guardian Spice Cal, Kemp, Demon 5 episodes [34]
2022 The Hamlet Factory Birmy 1 episode

Video games

Year Title Voice role Notes Source
2014 Ace Attorney Investigations 2 Gregory Edgeworth Fan translation [40][41]
2015 Apotheon Zeus [34][42]
2016 Move or Die Announcer
2017 Battlerite Sirius [43]
2017 Fallen Legion G'ndarark the Bloodhammer [44]
2017 A Hat in Time Express Owls / Intercom [34]
2017 2064: Read Only Memories Froyo Guy, Bouncers, and Police ROMs [45]
2018 Monster Prom Brian / Interdimensional Prince [34][23]
2018 2MD: VR Football Coach [46]
2018 Unavowed Kalash [47]
2018 BattleCON: Online King Alexian XXXVII
2018 Attack of the Earthlings Regional Manager Dennis Dickinham [48]
2018 Wonder Wickets Leo
2019 Judgment Tashiro English dub [49][50]
2019 Akash: Path of the Five Caspian [51]
2019 River City Girls Nishimura [52]
2019 Borderlands 3 FL4K [34][53]
2020 Granblue Fantasy Versus Vaseraga, Imperial Soldier English dub [34][54]
2020 Yakuza: Like a Dragon Mitsuo Yasumura English dub [55]
2020 Forgotten Waters Captain Jesbut J Vance [56]
2020 Soulcalibur VI Hwang Seong-gyeong English dub
2020 Fire Emblem Heroes Darros English dub
2021 Persona 5 Strikers Additional voices English dub [57]
2021 Genshin Impact Krosl / Uncle Dai / Bravo English dub
2021 Scarlet Nexus Additional voices English dub [58]
2021 Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny Misedor English dub
2021 Pokémon Masters EX Sidney
2021 Boyfriend Dungeon Sunder the Talwar
2021 Mary Skelter Finale Jabberwock
2021 Lost Judgment Tesso / Tashiro English dub [34]
2021 Monster Hunter Rise Hibasa English dub [59]
2022 Shadow Warrior 3 Zilla [60]
2022 Phantom Breaker: Omnia Phantom English dub [61][62]
2022 Rune Factory 5 Bandit, Oswald English dub [34]
2022 Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers Domino [63]
2022 Neon White Mikey [64]
2022 AI: The Somnium Files – Nirvana Initiative Gen Ishiyagane English dub [34]
2022 Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes Holst Sigiswald Goneril English dub [34]
2022 God of War Ragnarök Ratatoskr

Awards and nominations

Year Ceremony Category Result Refs
2017 Shorty Awards Vine of the Year Nominated [14]
2018 Streamy Awards Acting in a Comedy Nominated [65]

References

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  2. ^ Cho, SungWon [@ProZD] (December 11, 2017). "one million subscribers on youtube, this is real surreal, this is a number that if you had asked me last year, i would've dismissed as an impossibility, thank you to anyone who's enjoyed my stuff" (Tweet). Retrieved May 25, 2020 – via Twitter.
  3. ^ Cho, SungWon (October 12, 2017). "having a non-white name". YouTube. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
  4. ^ Cho, SungWon [@ProZD] (June 28, 2019). "dear anyone who contacts me for any reason ever, it's SungWon. not Sung, not Sung Won, not Sungwon, not Sung-Won, not Sung-won, not Sung won. SungWon, no fuckin space, capital-ass W thanks, SungWon" (Tweet). Retrieved May 25, 2020 – via Twitter.
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  8. ^ Cho, SungWon [@ProZD] (May 25, 2020). "i've been informed i now have a wikipedia page, now i don't want to edit it myself, but to help out as a source (being myself), i will say i specifically grew up in DeWitt, Michigan as opposed to Lansing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SungWon_Cho" (Tweet). Retrieved May 25, 2020 – via Twitter.
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