Megumi Ogata

Megumi Ogata (緒方恵美, born June 6, 1965) is a Japanese voice actress, singer, lyricist, and performer from Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Active since 1992, she first worked on stage as a musical actress before moving into voice acting and made her debut as Kurama in YuYu Hakusho. She later became widely known for roles including Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Yugi Mutou and Dark Yugi in the Toei version of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Makoto Naegi and Nagito Komaeda in the Danganronpa series, Ken Amada in Persona 3, Sailor Uranus in the Sailor Moon series, Yuta Okkotsu in Jujutsu Kaisen, Hanako and Tsukasa in Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun, and Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue in Cardcaptor Sakura. As a singer she records through Lantis and writes lyrics as Em:óu; her official website is emou.net, at http://www.emou.net/. Ogata's anime songs include the opening theme "Want to Be Winner!" for Medaka Box and the ending theme "Zettai Kibou Birthday (絶対希望バースデー)" for Danganronpa. Her live history began with the first concert tour, "multipheno.", in December 1996, followed by the second tour, "em:ou.", in November 1998 in Tokyo and Hong Kong. She then held one-woman shows at Shinjuku Theater Apple in Tokyo on July 3, 1999, Hamamatsu-chou New Pier Hall on August 10, 2000, and Shinjuku Theater Moliere in Tokyo on January 15, 2002; on February 25, 2001 she performed a live mini-concert during her fanclub members' New York City tour, and on February 2, 2002 she reprised the first one-woman show at Shinjuku Cross Tower Hall in Tokyo in memory of Kaneto Shiozawa. Her profile lists a height of 167 cm and blood type B, along with hobbies such as ceramic art, dancing, driving, swimming, and traveling, and talents including drawing portraits and sleeping anytime and anywhere. She remarried on April 1, 2004 to a first-class architect 13 years younger than her. In 2026, she also spoke publicly about the generative AI issue in voice acting and appeared in Jujutsu Kaisen-related promotional coverage around the release of the season 4 teaser PV and the "Jujutalk" program with Junya Enoki.