Megumi Ogata

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Megumi Ogata (緒方 恵美 Ogata Megumi, born June 6, 1965, making her a Gemini. Her first name (Megumi) is sometimes mistranslated as Emi) is a well known seiyū and J-pop singer. Ogata was born in Tokyo. Her height is 168cm and her blood type is B.

When Megumi Ogata was in primary school, she loved acting but stopped in junior high school with interests of sports such as basketball. In high school, she acted as a boy in a school play. She was not interested in university, but her father wanted her to study. She stopped studying at university after only 1 year.

After disagreements and arguments with her father, she moved away from her family and began a new life following her seiyū path.

Before she had been a voice actor, she was an actress of 'Neverland Musical Community', but it was closed down when Ogata was 24. Soon after, she started working in a seiyū/voice acting company named 'Aoni Production', which became the height of her seiyū career. Her debut came from the character of Yu Yu Hakusho, Kurama.

In 2000, she also started working as an indie musician, using "em;ou" as her alias in order to distinguish from Megumi Ogata the seiyū.

She is married and has a son.

Contents

[edit] Notable Anime Voice Roles

[edit] Internet Radio Show

  • Ogata vs Domon MOEMOEWoo!toko-gumi!

[edit] Personal Show

  • Love Letter
  • Ogata Megumi no Tsuki no Yoru ni Ai ma Show

[edit] Full CDs

  • Half Moon (March 16, 1994)
  • Marine Legend (April 21, 1995)
  • Winter Bird (December 13, 1995)
  • Multipheno (October 28, 1996)
  • Santa Claus ni Naritai (November 11, 1996)
  • Megumi Ogata Live: Multipheno Concert Tour 1996 Winter Concert (March 5, 1997)
  • MO [em:óu](March 11, 1998)
  • Megumi Ogata Live: [em:óu] Concert Tour 1998 ((in Tokio to Hong Kong)) (March 13, 1999)
  • Best "Runner" (June 30, 1999)
  • Rain (2001/01/10)
  • Ouchi wo Tsukuro (2001/12/29)
  • STOP,AND GO (2003/07/02)
  • Eye tie (Aitai). ~passed and next 1992-2002~ (2002/12/04)
  • Kagami no kuni no alice (2004/10/22)
  • Yoake no Jikan (2006/07/05)

[edit] Singles

  • Tenki Ame ga Futta Hi (Jan 21, 1996)
  • Kaze no Bohyou (May 25, 1996)
  • Kizutsukanai ai wa iranai (July 10, 1996)
  • Wine Red no Kokoro (October 7, 1996)
  • Time Leap (May 25, 1997)
  • Jealousy no aza (December 17, 1997)
  • Vacation map (February 11, 1998)
  • Rasen (November 18, 1998)
  • Hikari Wo Sagashite
  • Run
  • Silver Rain (July 1, 1999)
  • Animal Eyes (August 22, 1999)


[edit] Trivia

  • Ogata has a deep voice that stands out from the higher voices of many female seiyū. Although Ms. Ogata has played some feminine characters, such as Esmeraude in Magic Knight Rayearth, she is best known for playing young men and boys (i.e. Shinji Ikari of Evangelion) and tomboyish women (most famously Haruka Tenoh (Amara Tenoh in the English anime), a.k.a. Sailor Uranus of Sailor Moon).
  • It is also because of her deep voice, she is sometimes referred as "Aniki" (Big brother in Japanese, usually used in gangs) by fans.
  • In Samurai Deeper Kyo, she provided the voice for Sanada Yukimura, who is a 35 years old male in the story. This is a unique case of a female voice actress provide the voice for a male adult character. However, a close contender will be Paku Romi (tipped by many to be Megumi's successor) voicing Uesugi Kenshin in the game Sengoku Basara. Coincidently, both characters are from the Sengoku period of Japan's history.
  • Here are some interesting cases of other actors she had worked with and interesting relation of the characters they worked for:
  • She shares several links with seiyū Hoshi Soichiro.
    • Both have voiced the main character in hit mecha anime series. (Soichiro in GS/GSD, Megumi in Evangelion) Also, their female guardians were voiced by Mitsuishi Kotono. The two would work together in the game Super Robot Wars Alpha 3, where Kira (Soichiro) is told off by Shinji (Megumi) for his comments.
    • Both have voiced Sanada Yukimura, a famous general from the Sengoku period. (Soichiro in the Sengoku Basara series, Megumi in Samurai Deeper Kyo).
    • Both have also voiced characters who have strong interactions with characters voiced by fellow seiyū Ishida Akira.

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