Megumi Ogata (緒方 恵美 Ogata Megumi) (born June 6, 1965) is a freelance Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from the Greater Tokyo Area. As a singer, she goes by the name em:óu. She attended Tokai University, but left due to lack of interest. She is also best known for voicing Haruka Tenou, a.k.a. Sailor Uranus, in the Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon series, Makoto Naegi and Nagito Komaeda in the Danganronpa series, Kurama in Yu Yu Hakusho, Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Yugi Muto and Yami Yugi in Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue in Cardcaptor Sakura.
She has released six solo CDs and appeared on over thirty five other CDs, as well as voiced in many video games.
She voices Shizu, the male android rival/friend of the TwinBee Team and younger brother of Saryuto, along the various media that comprise the TwinBee series, having especial prominence along the TwinBee PARADISE subseries.
Career[]
Ogata began working as a musical actress, attending the same classes alongside Rumi Kasahara and the late Shiho Niiyama. She used to be affiliated with Aoni Production.
Because of her husky voice, she is often typecast as either young men and boys or tomboyish females (a famous example of this being Sailor Uranus, a popular character from Sailor Moon, known for being a charming tomboy in her civilian form). It is also because of this that she is sometimes referred as "Aniki" ("Big Brother" in Japanese, usually used in gangs) by fans.
She married for the second time on April 1, 2004.
Megumi appeared on NHK's second anime song marathon on April 30, along with fellow seiyū Ichiro Mizuki.
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Trivia[]
- In early 2000, Ogata decided to concentrate on her musical career and changed her stage name to "em:óu".
- Ogata started to learn playing music since she was only three years old and today she is skilled in various musical instruments. She plays piano very well, and also plays cello, guitar and bass.
External links[]
- M.O.bay (official website - Japanese)
- Anime News Network
- Behind the Voice Actors
- IMDb
- Wikipedia