Megumi Ogata (緒方 恵美, Ogata Megumi, born June 9, 1965) is a Japanese voice actress and singer-songwriter from the Greater Tokyo Area.[1] 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 Makoto Naegi and Nagito Komaeda in the Danganronpa series, Kurama in Yu Yu Hakusho, Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Yugi Mutou and Dark Yugi in Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue in Cardcaptor Sakura.
Biography
Ogata began working as a musical actress, attending the same classes alongside Rumi Kasahara and 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 and appeared with Ichirou Mizuki on NHK's second anime song marathon on April 30.
Singles
- Tenki Ame ga Futta Hi (January 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)
- Ouchi wo Tsukuro (2001/12/29)
- Kuchen backen und dabeinnocent Prisoner (2013/2/10)
- Kuchen backen und dabe (2013/2/10)
- Innocent prisoner (2013/2/10)
- Kodoku no Kakurenbo (September 23, 2015 On sale)