Megumi Hayashibara

Personal context

Summary

Megumi Hayashibara is a Japanese voice actor and singer known for roles including Rei Ayanami in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ranma in Ranma ½, and Ai Haibara in Detective Conan. Her career spans anime, games, music, and radio, with roles ranging from youthful heroines to comic and gender-swapping characters. In a 2025 blog post, she urged readers to vote and criticized some foreign visitors and student-subsidy policies; she later removed a comparison of foreigners to invasive species and apologized for hurt caused by the wording. No public record of advocacy for identity politics, DEI, feminism, or LGBTQ causes is on record.