Megumi Uda is a female supporting character from High School Fleet, known as the electronic warfare and radar operator of the destroyer Harekaze and affectionately nicknamed Megu-chan.
Name: Megumi Uda
Nickname: Megu-chan
Gender: Female
Affiliation: Navigation Department
Role: Radar operator
Birthday: June 1
Zodiac sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Shimoniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture
Height: 148 cm
Blood type: AB
Hobbies and skills: Cameras, amateur radio
Favorite food: Authentic Indian curry, anmitsu
Disliked food: Sweetened beans
Best subject: Physics
Weakest subject: Japanese language
Favorite saying: "Good in adversity, good in prosperity."
Favorite color: Wine red
Personality: Realist
Qualification: Class-2 Maritime Special Radio Operator
Voice actor: Akane Fujita
Megumi is a grounded realist who tends to look at things practically.
Even though she is close friends with Tsugumi Yagi, she does not believe in Tsugumi's dowsing ability.
Her trademark is a cross-shaped hair ornament.
It gives her a distinctive look that makes her easy to recognize.
She likes the saying, "Good in adversity, good in prosperity."
That phrase reflects her steady and matter-of-fact outlook.
Like Akeno Misaki and Shima Tateishi, Megumi loves curry.
However, she is especially devoted to authentic Indian curry rather than curry in general.
She is particularly fond of dishes such as chicken masala and keema curry.
She also prefers eating curry with naan.
Megumi is knowledgeable about cameras and amateur radio.
This interest came from her grandfather, who enjoyed both hobbies.
She grew to love radio equipment by tinkering with wireless devices together with him.
Her grandfather's keepsake is a film camera, which gave her a strong attachment to analog cameras.
Even so, she brought a digital single-lens reflex camera aboard Harekaze because film could not be developed on the ship.
According to Megumi herself, she likes the mechanical side of cameras.
On Harekaze, Megumi serves as the radar operator.
She is responsible for monitoring the ship's radar and reporting what she detects.
Because the radar was an additional piece of equipment installed after the ship's completion, the radar screen is not located directly on the bridge.
Instead, it is placed in a small room added behind the bridge, and reports are passed along through a voice tube.
This setup makes her work feel a little old-fashioned despite the advanced equipment.
It also highlights her technical reliability and focus.
Megumi and Tsugumi Yagi, who handles wireless communications in the next room, have been friends since middle school.
Their long friendship gives them an easy and familiar dynamic.
In an earlier story, Tsugumi called her over to help at a shrine.
At that time, Megumi remarked that the crowd was as huge as ever.
Although she knows about Tsugumi's astonishing dowsing ability, she still remains skeptical.
That skepticism fits her realist personality perfectly.
Despite her practical nature, Megumi can still get frightened.
When she saw Minami Kaburagi dissecting a rat in a dark infirmary, she screamed, "A ghost!"
In Episode 7, she brushed past Sakura Ise in a narrow corridor and accidentally buried her face in Sakura's chest.
After that incident, she was jokingly said to have awakened to an obsession with large breasts.
A fanbook even includes a memo supposedly made by Megumi ranking the bust sizes of the Harekaze crew and other High School Fleet characters.
It is one of the more comedic details attached to her character.
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