During her live concert broadcast last June 6 in commemoration of her fifty-fifth birthday, voice actress and singer Megumi Ogata (Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion) announced the release of her first new music album in three years. Her most recent album was "real / dummy", released in February 2017.
【速報】3年ぶりのオリジナルアルバム、発売決定！— 緒方恵美@LIVE「Hang In There,Dears!」アーカイブ配信6/14迄 (@Megumi_Ogata) June 7, 2020
昨日のライブで発表になりました。今年に入ってからMTGを重ねていたのですが、コロナでスタジオ作業は中断。でも密かに水面下で制作は少しずつ進行中（全然まだまだですが！←）。
続報、少しずつTwitter等でお伝えしてゆきます。乞ご期待。#オガタ pic.twitter.com/0GfKzrADOw
As previously reported, instead of canceling the live concert for her birthday, the singer launched a fundraising campaign on April 30 to fund a non-public broadcast featuring the “Hang In There, Dears” concert. ! ”, Through YouTube for free. The goal of seven million yen (about $ 66,000) was met in just 46 minutes.
The two-hour concert was broadcast on their official YouTube channel on June 6 in Japan. Although it was initially announced that the broadcast would not be archived, the decision was finally made to publish it, but it will be deleted on June 14.
The songs Megumi Ogata performed at her online concert included, to name a few, "A Cruel Angel's Thesis" (Evangelion), "Unbalance na Kiss wo Shite" (Yuu Yuu Hakusho), "Moon Revenge" (Sailor Moon), " Bye Bye Yesterday ”(Ansatsu Kyoushitsu) and“ Saisei -Rebuild- ”(Danganronpa).
Source: Official Twitter Account
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