{"id":59949,"date":"2025-08-05T10:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59949\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:35:07","slug":"evangelion-voice-actress-reveals-shes-been-waiting-11-years-for-free-condoms-she-was-promised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59949\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelion voice actress reveals she\u2019s been waiting 11 years for free condoms she was promised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-709060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3_2648dd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Fellow voice actress\u2019 lament at missing meat prompts Megumi Ogata to share her own story of unfulfilled promises.<\/p>\n<p>One of the stranger aspects of Japanese show business has to do with TV shows where people try to win prizes in quizzes, competitions, and other challenges. It\u2019s not the contests themselves that are strange, nor are the prizes, usually things like a night in a nice hotel or a modest-sized bundle of some sort of luxury foodstuff. What\u2019s odd is that the participants aren\u2019t regular people chosen randomly from the audience or through an application process. Instead, the people trying to win a night at a hot spring inn or a seafood dinner are themselves already celebrities, people who could presumably afford to simply pay for such relatively attainable luxuries out of their regular show business earnings without any real worry as to the cost.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, I\u2019ve always sort of wondered if celebrities really care all that much about the prizes they win, especially since the contests are usually segments of variety shows where the guests are already earning appearance fees and\/or promoting their current work projects and personal brands. But it turns out some stars really are looking forward to the prizes they\u2019ve won, as anime voice actress Satomi Akesaka is wondering why she hasn\u2019t received her\u2026<\/p>\n<p lang=\"art\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04\u3000\u3000\u3000\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04\u3000\u3000\u3000\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04<br \/>\ud83d\udc04<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u660e\u5742\u8061\u7f8e(\u3042\u3051\u3055\u304b\u3055\u3068\u307f)\u203b\u58f0\u512a\u3067\u3059 (@akekodao) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/akekodao\/status\/1950506255535186061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In September of 2024, Akesaka, whose most recent credits include A Wild Last Boss Appeared\u2019s Benetnasch and  I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability\u2019s Talia, appeared on Say You to Yoasobi, an anime voice actor\/actress-centered variety show on Japan\u2019s Abema streaming service. As part of her appearance, Akesaka won some wagyu beef, but nearly a year later, she still hasn\u2019t gotten to taste it, because the show\u2019s producers never shipped it to her, as she recounted in a Twitter post on July 30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u25bc \u201cIt\u2019s summer, so can I share a scary story? The prize of domestic-raised wagyu beef (value of about 20,000 yen [US$135]) that I won last year on Say You to Yoasobi\u2026still\u2026hasn\u2019t arrived\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u590f\u306a\u3093\u3067\u6016\u3044\u8a71\u3057\u3066\u3082\u3044\u3044\u3067\u3059\u304b\uff1f<\/p>\n<p>\u53bb\u5e74\u306e\u300e\u58f0\u512a\u3068\u591c\u3042\u305d\u3073\u300f\u306e\u512a\u52dd\u5546\u54c1\u3001\u56fd\u7523\u548c\u725b(\u7d042\u4e07\u5186\u5206)\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u307e\u3060\u2026\u2026\u2026\u5c4a\u3044\u3066\u307e\u305b\u3093\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u660e\u5742\u8061\u7f8e(\u3042\u3051\u3055\u304b\u3055\u3068\u307f)\u203b\u58f0\u512a\u3067\u3059 (@akekodao) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/akekodao\/status\/1950504401799725388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 12 full months is definitely a long time to have to have been kept waiting. Still, that\u2019s a drop in the temporal bucket compared to voice actress Megumi Ogata, most famous for voicing Evangelion\u2019s Shinji and Sailor Moon\u2019s Sailor Uranus, who chimed in with a reply revealing that she\u2019s been waiting over a decade for a shipment of condoms that she was promised.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u660e\u5742\u2026\u304b\u308f\u3044\u305d\u3046\u306b\u2026<br \/>\u30aa\u30ec\u3082\u6016\u3044\u8a71\u3057\u3066\u3044\u3044\u3067\u3059\uff1f<\/p>\n<p>\u30a2\u30cb\u30bd\u30f3AAA\u306e\u512a\u52dd\u8cde\u54c1\u3001\u30b3\u30f3\u30c9\u30fc\u30e01\u5e74\u5206\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u307e\u3060\u2026\u2026\u2026\u5c4a\u3044\u3066\u307e\u305b\u3093\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u307e\u3001\u5c4a\u3044\u3066\u3082\u30a2\u30ec\u3067\u3059\u304c\uff8e\uff9e\uff7f\uff6f<br \/>(\u7dd2\u65b9\u4f1a\u3068\u3057\u30664\u4eba\u3067\u30b0\u30eb\u30fc\u30d7\u52dd\u5229\u3057\u305f\u3084\u3064\u306d\uff01\ud83d\ude01<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E6%A9%8B%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%BF%E3%82%86%E3%81%8D?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#\u6a4b\u672c\u307f\u3086\u304d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AiRI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#AiRI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E4%BD%90%E5%92%B2%E7%B4%97%E8%8A%B1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#\u4f50\u54b2\u7d17\u82b1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WJtNai9Jj4\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/WJtNai9Jj4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u7dd2\u65b9\u6075\u7f8e (@Megumi_Ogata) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Megumi_Ogata\/status\/1950660156246942151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAkesaka\u2026I feel so sorry for you\u2026<br \/>Can I share a scary story too? I still haven\u2019t received\u2026the prize I won from Anison AAA\u2026a year\u2019s supply of condoms\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AAA in this case is an acronym for \u201cAct Against AIDS,\u201d with Anison AAA being an anime music AIDS awareness event. Ogata appeared as part of a four-person performing unit at Anison AAA\u2019s third iteration which was held at the Zepp Tokyo music club\u2026all the way back in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The very next day after Akesaka shared her story about her unfulfilled beef promise, the official Say You to Yoasobi Twitter account sent a reply saying that that they are scrambling to set things right, and are hoping to have the wagyu beef in her hands sometime this week. As for Ogata\u2019s case, though, it appears that the last Anison AAA was held in 2019 and the event is now discontinued, so she\u2019s probably on her own for procuring prophylactics.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/akekodao\/status\/1950504401799725388\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\/@akekodao<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.esuteru.com\/archives\/10409099.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hachima Kiko,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Megumi_Ogata\/status\/1950660156246942151\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\/@Megumi_Ogata<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lantis.jp\/special\/aaa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lantis<\/a><br \/>Top image \u00a9SoraNews24<br \/>\u25cf Want to hear about SoraNews24\u2019s latest articles as soon as they\u2019re published? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RocketNews24En\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow us on Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketNews24En\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fellow voice actress\u2019 lament at missing meat prompts Megumi Ogata to share her own story of unfulfilled promises.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-59949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}