Megumi Nakajima

Megumi Nakajima (中島 愛) is a seiyū and singer under the Stardust Promotion talent agency. Born of a Japanese father and a Filipina mother, she was brought up in a "house filled with music" and grew up with the desire to sing. In 2003, she participated in the "Self Stardust Promotion" contest and passed, thereby affiliating her to the agency. In 2007, she auditioned to the Victor Entertainment sanctioned "Victor Vocal & Voice Audition" and won the role to voice Ranka Lee in Macross Frontier.

Career
She made her debut performance as a professional artist at the "Macross 25th Anniversary Concert" on April 18, 2007. Her first vocal recordings appeared in the compilation album Macross Frontier O.S.T.1 Nyan FRO. on June 4, 2008. Her first solo live performance was a mini-concert entitled "Ranka Lee = Megumi Nakajima Mini Live @ Formo… Not! Venus Fort☆" (ランカ・リー＝中島愛 ミニライブ＠フォルモ…ぢゃないよ！ヴィーナスフォート☆ Ranka Rī = Nakajima Megumi Mini Raibu @ Forumo... Janai yo! Vīnasu Fōto☆) which was done on June 14, 2008. She made her single debut in June 25, 2008 with the single Seikan Hikou. Her first major concert was the "Super Dimension Super Live" (超時空スーパーライブ) concert held on July 27, 2008.

She won the award for Best Musical Performance in the 3rd Seiyu Awards held on March 7, 2009 for her performance as Ranka Lee in the song Seikan Hikō of Macross F.

Tenshi ni Naritai was her first single in 2009 and the first single to be released outside of her role from Macross F. It was followed up by the single Nostalgia two months later. The Third of June began the series Akikan!, where she was the voice of Miku (The Strongest Akikan) and the role of bad girl of the series. Megumi after that, participated in the series Basquash!, giving life to the character of Citron that along with Rouge (Tomatsu Haruka) and Violette (Saori Hayami) formed the pop group Eclipse, this was dissolved at the end of the series; after it, began work on the series, Kämpfer, as Sakura Kaede (who unlike her previous roles, she fight for the person who love, but still retains its characteristic tenderness), while representing Chiho and Chise Mihara in Kobato. The end of 2009 reappeared as Ranka Lee in the movie of Macross Frontier. In 2010 played a Lyra a celestial spirit that belongs to Lucy Heartfilia of the Fairy Tail series.

Albums

 * [2010.06.09] I Love You
 * [2010.11.24] Cosmic Cuune

Seikan Hikou
Seikan Hikou was the first single from Megumi Nakajima as Ranka Lee's character, and the debut song of Ranka in the series; contains two cover of Lynn Minmay (Mari Iijima); Ai Oboete Imasu ka (reproduced in deculture edition chapter and 12 of the series as ending teme and 18 as insert song) and Watashi no Kare wa Pilot (insert song chapter 4 Miss Macross),also contains own songs of Megumi=Ranka  as Neko Nikki (insert song in chapters 9 and 12, and fifth ending theme in chapter 11), this CD had good  reception, in particular by the song Seikan Hikou (second opening theme in chapter 17 and insert son in chapters 12,17 and 18). This single debuted at # 5 on Oricon Dailies

Track listing

Lion
Lion was the second single from Megumi as Ranka Lee also possesses the songs: Lion who plays with May'n (third opening of the series, chapters 18 to 24) and Northern Cross was the seventh song to appear as the ending theme and the second most predominant(Chapters 16, 17, 18, 22, 23 and 24)

Track listing

Ranka to Bobby no SMS Shōtai no Uta Nado.
Ranka to Bobby no SMS Shōtai no Uta Nado., is the third single from Megumi as Ranka, was released after the conclusion of the Macross Frontier TV series, and features the participation of Kenta Miyake = Bobby Margot, and performs a cover of the songs SMS Shōtai no Uta in duet (sung by several seiyuus in the anime), and a cover of Watashi no Kare wa Pilot performed by Bobby (originally performed by Mari Iijima). Arrangements: track1=Yoko Kanno, track2=Yoko Kanno, Hisaaki Hokari

Tenshi ni Naritai
Tenshi ni Naritai (天使 に なりたい) is their fourth single, but was the first launched by Nakajima Megumi who was not represented by an anime character; prior to its release, released as digital download songs Tenshi ni Naritai, Pine and Be Myself in Japan mora stores. Tenshi ni Naritai as was the most "requested", this was chosen as the A-side of the CD, the others spent the B-side. When it published the single also included a new song "(Kari) Dajaren no Outa". This single debuted at # 12 on Oricon Dailies .The controversy of Be Myself, was that in December 2008; Megumi launched a promotional video with the choreography of this song on page Nico Nico Douga, where she received severe criticism from users, causing them to remove the video.

Nostalgia
Nostalgia was her second single as Nakajima Megumi and the fifth of her career, this included two original songs of Mamegu (Nostalgia and Shining on), and a Mari Iijima's cover of the song Tenshi no Enogu, who was chosen by the fans (with 1058 votes) in February 2009, in a special site showed up on Macross Frontier official website which featured a poll for Macross, which song do you want covered by Ranka Lee? , which had other songs, such as My Friends (second with 721 votes), Totsugeki Love Heart (突撃ラブハート) (in third place with 508 votes), Voices (in fourth place with 431 votes) and Shao Pai Long (小白竜) [Little White Dragon] in last place with 355 votes. Nostalgia and Tenshi ni Naritai singles was used as the theme song for the 2008 adaption of the drama Daisuki! Itsutsugo. Following the launch of the single, this was accompanied by a DVD containing two tracks, 1.Making and 2.Tenshi ni Naritai (天使 に なりたい) [I Wanna Be an Angel] (PV). This single debuted at # 10 on Oricon Dailies.

nO limiT
nO limiT was the first single from the group Eclipse of the Basquash! series integrating by: Rouge (Haruka Tomatsu), Violette (Saori Hayami) and Citron (Nakajima Megumi) as the leader. And the sixth single from Megumi; nO limiT was used as the opening theme (episodes 2 to 13 and 22 as the insert song), and moon pasport was used as insert song in the same anime. Arrangements: track1=Yoshihiro Kusano, track2=Funta7

Running on
Running on is the seventh single from Megumi and second of the group Eclipse of the Basquash! series, it contains the songs Running on (which was used as insert song), and also features solo versions of their debut single nO limiT. This solo versions sparked many disputes between the followers of the seiyuus, by reason of who was the best singer, but not step over. Arrangements: track1= Okumoto Akira, track2=Yoshihiro Kusano

Futari no Yakusoku
Futari no Yakusoku (二人の約束) (Our Promise) was the last single released by Eclipse, and the eighth of Nakajima, presents the songs Futari no Yakusoku that was used as the ending theme (chapters 13 to 23 and 25-26), and the song Hoshi Watari performed only by  Mamegu (Citron), and this was used as ending theme in chapter 24, when Dan and his friends travel to the moon by the power of the ruins of the legend with this song. Arrangements: track1=Yoshihiro Kusano, track2=Conisch

One Way Ryou Omoi
One Way Ryou Omoi (ワン ウェイ 両 想い) (One Way Love) is the second single of the series Kämpfer, but the ninth of Megumi, involved in this CD Inoue Marina (as Seno Natsuru) and Nakajima Megumi (as Sakura Kaede), the song One Ryou Omoi Way is used as the ending theme of the series, the second track is Tatakae ☆ Mora Rhythm and the third track track One Way Ryou Omoi -unstoppable delusion ≒ impulse-, is a remix arranged by Yoshihisa xxyoshixx Fujita. Arrangements: track1=Takahiro Ando, track2=Akira Takada

Jellyfish no Kokuhaku
Jellyfish no Kokuhaku (ジェリーフィッシュ の 告白) (Confession of a Jellyfish) is the third single from Megumi Nakajima who is not represented by an anime character ,and tenth in her career; presents the songs Jellyfish no Kokuhaku used as ending theme in the Kobato series and Hi no Ataru Heya. This single debuted at # 12 on Oricon Dailies.

CM Ranka
CM Ranka (CM ランカ) is the fourth single from Megumi as Ranka Lee, but eleven of her career, this single contains songs sung by Megumi in the movie Gekijouban Macross Frontier ~Itsuwari no Utahime~, the song Sou Da Yo was used as ending theme of the movie, from second to seventh track are songs of commercials sung by Ranka in the movie, except Ninjin loves you yeah!. The eighth track on the CD was confirmed on the official website of Flying Dog. This CD contains two songs written by Shōji Kawamori himself, under the alias of Eiji Kurokawa (黒河影次). The song Family Mart Cosmos is use in the Family Mart stores in addition to the film. This single debuted at # 5 on Oricon Dailies

Track listing

Melody
Melody (メロディ) is the fourth single from Megumi Nakajima who is not represented by an anime character ,and the twelfth in her career; presents the song Melody used as ending theme to first volume of OVA Tamayura series, and the songs Natsudori used as second ending theme and Naisho no Hanashi used as insert song.

Houkago Overflow
Houkago Overflow (放課後オーバーフロウ) Second single release from Ranka Lee of anime series "Macross Frontier." Includes B-side "Get it on-flying rock" sung with Sheryl, Houkago Overflow is the second official single of Ranka after Seikan Hikou , this song has been used for promotion the new film Gekijouban Macross F ~Sayonara no Tsubasa~.

Track listing

Macross Frontier O.S.T.1 Nyan FRO.

 * What 'bout my star?@Formo (duet with May'n)
 * Aimo (アイモ)
 * Ninjiin Loves you yeah! (ニンジーン Loves you yeah!) [Carrots Loves you yeah!]
 * "Chou Jikuu Hanten Nyan Nyan" CM Song (Ranka Version) (「超時空飯店　娘々」CMソング(Ranka Version)) ["Super Dimension Restaurant Nyan Nyan" CM Song (Ranka Version)]
 * Aimo ~Tori no Hito (アイモ～鳥のひと) [Aimo ~ Bird Human]

Macross Frontier O.S.T.2 Nyan TRA☆

 * Triangler (fight on stage) (トライアングラー (fight on stage)) (duet with May'n)
 * Anata no Oto (アナタノオト) [Your Sound]
 * Seikan Hikō (星間飛行) [Interstellar Flight]
 * Ai Oboete Imasu ka ~ bless the little queen (愛・おぼえていますか～bless the little queen) [Do You Remember Love? ~ bless the little queen]
 * Ao no Ether (蒼のエーテル) [Azure Ether]
 * Aimo O.C. (アイモ　O.C.)
 * Nyan Nyan Service Medley (娘々サービスメドレー) (with May'n and Maaya Sakamoto)

Macross Frontier VOCAL COLLECTION Nyan Tama♀

 * Disc 1
 * What 'bout my star?@Formo (duet with May'n)
 * Aimo (アイモ)
 * Diamond Crevasse ~ Tenbou Kouen Nite (ダイアモンド クレバス～展望公園にて) [Diamond Crevasse ~ In the Park View]  (duet with May'n)
 * Infinity #7 (インフィニティ ＃７) (duet with May'n)
 * "Chou Jikuu Hanten Nyan Nyan" CM Song (Ranka Version) (「超時空飯店　娘々」CMソング(Ranka Version)) ["Super Dimension Restaurant Nyan Nyan" CM Song (Ranka Version)]
 * Seikan Hikou (星間飛行) [Interstellar Flight]
 * Watashi no Kare wa Pilot (私の彼はパイロット) [My Boyfriend is a Pilot]
 * Neko Nikki (ねこ日記) [Cat Diary]
 * Ninjiin Loves you yeah! (ニンジーン Loves you yeah!) [Carrots Loves you yeah!]
 * Aimo O.C (アイモ O.C.)
 * Aimo ~ Tori no Hito (アイモ～鳥のひと) [Aimo ~ Bird Human]
 * Ai Oboete Imasu ka (愛・おぼえていますか) [Do You Remember Love?]
 * Disc 2
 * Lion (ライオン) (duet with May'n)
 * Diamond Crevasse 50/50 (ダイアモンド クレバス 50/50) (duet with May'n)
 * Brera to Ko-Ranka no Aimo (ブレラと子ランカのアイモ) [Brera and Little Ranka's Aimo]
 * Anata no Oto (アナタノオト) [Your Sound]
 * Ao no Ether (蒼のエーテル) [Azure Ether]
 * Ai Oboete Imasu ka ~ bless the little queen (愛・おぼえていますか ～bless the little queen) [Do You Remember Love? ~ bless the little queen]
 * Nyan Nyan Special Service Medley (Tokumori) (娘々スペシャルサービスメドレー (特盛り)) [Nyan Nyan Special Service Medley (Special Serving)]  (with May'n and Maaya Sakamoto)
 * Triangler (fight on stage) (トライアングラー (fight on stage)) (duet with May'n)
 * Haha to Ko-Ranka no Aimo (母と子ランカのアイモ) [Mother and Little Ranka's Aimo]  (duet with Maaya Sakamoto)

Idol Attack!

 * Niji no BRACE (虹のBRACE) [Rainbow's BRACE] (with Haruka Tomatsu / Saori Hayami)
 * COSMOS
 * After The Heart Rain
 * nO limiT (album-mix) (with Haruka Tomatsu / Saori Hayami)
 * nO limiT (sadness x Rouge edit) (with Haruka Tomatsu / Saori Hayami)

Iki wo Shiteru Kanjiteiru

 * Iki wo Shiteru Kanjiteiru (息をしてる　感じている) [I'm Breathing, I'm Feeling] (with Mari Iijima, Fire Bomber and May'n)
 * Iki wo Shiteru Kanjiteiru (TV Mix)

Kämpfer Character Song Album

 * Sugao de Fall in Love (素顔でフォーリンラブ) [A Make-up Fall in Love]
 * Sugao de Fall in Love (Instrumental)

Digital Downloads

 * (2008.11.08) Be MYSELF
 * (2008.11.08) Pine (パイン)
 * (2008.11.08) Tenshi ni Naritai (天使になりたい) [I Wanna Be an Angel]
 * (2009.07.01) Tenshi ni Naritai Live ver. (天使になりたい) [I Wanna Be an Angel]
 * (2009.07.01) Shining on Live ver.
 * (2009.07.08) Raspberry Kiss

DVDs & Blu-ray

 * [2009.07.15] Nakajima Megumi Spring Festival 2009 ~Mamegu Wasshoi! Haru Matsuri in Akasaka Blitz~ (中島愛 スプリングイベント2009～まめぐだワッショイ! 春祭in赤坂ブリッツ～)
 * [2009.10.30 (DVD);2009.11.27 (Blu-ray)] Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour FINAL in Budokan (マクロスF(フロンティア)ギャラクシーツアーFINAL in ブドーカン) with Kanno Yoko and May'n

Anime

 * (2007–2008) Macross Frontier as Ranka Lee
 * (2009) Akikan! as Miku
 * (2009) Basquash! as Citron
 * (2009) Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles as Kotone (Lyra)
 * (2009) Kampfer as Kaede Sakura
 * (2009) Kobato as Chiho Mihara and Chise Mihara
 * (2010) Fairy Tail as Lyra

Ova

 * (2009) Akikan! as Miku
 * (2010) Tamayura as Hoshi Manami

Movies

 * (2009) Gekijouban Macross Frontier ~Itsuwari no Utahime~ as Ranka Lee

Games

 * (2009) Hayate no Gotoku!! Nightmare Paradise as Watarase Mikage
 * (2009) Kuroshitsuji Phantom & Ghost as Stellar Rhodes
 * (2009) Macross Ultimate Frontier as Ranka Lee
 * (2010) Another Century's Episode: as Ranka Lee
 * (2010) Busou Shinki BATTLE MASTERS: as Round young girl type MMS Arutorene
 * (2010) Busou Shinki BATTLE RONDO: as Round young girl type MMS  Arutorene
 * (2010) Portable MAPLUS 3 as Ranka Lee
 * (2010) Yue The Lovely Idol! as Okusu Rosa

Vocaloid

 * (2009) Gumi/Megpoid