ID: A photograph of Megumi Ogata in a suit with corsage accepting the 16th Seiyu Award for Best Voice Actress.

ID: A series of Twitter links pasted into Discord, followed by their previews, of tweets now no longer available. An English translation of Megumi Ogata's speech is split across six tweets. They are as follows. Last night, Megumi Ogata (VA for Shinji/Evangelion, etc) won Best Voice Actress at the 16th Seiyu Award In the speech, Ogata said, "Are you sure I should be getting Best Voice Actress? 70% of the roles I've done are boys and I don't really consider myself an actress." (1/x) "There is so much talk about being "genderless" nowadays and there are voice actors in the industry who have come out [as queer]. And like myself, there are people out there who go on about their daily lives mostly not thinking of themselves as women." (2/x) "Compared to actors who must show their faces on media, I think it's the voice actors who can advocate to go beyond the genders and put aside labels of 'male actors' and 'actresses.'" (3/x) "I don't care about "male" or "female," and for the next award show, maybe you can just make it 2 awards without the labels. I think that could lead to more possibilities." (4/x) "At first I somewhat thought about declining this award, but I decided to accept this for people who have created the titles with me..." (5/x) "In the JP anime industry, actresses of my age don't get to play the protagonists. To be in such an industry, I thought that my award acceptance can be a positive influence, so I've decided to accept it. I'm sorry for sounding arrogant. I truly am happy for this." (6/6)

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