Megumi Hayashibara is the voice actress for many Pocket Monsters characters but she is best known for her role as Musashi of Rocket Gang. After graduating from high school, the aspiring voice actor attended nursing school and is now a registered nurse. Her first love was for voice actoring and her debut role was in the TV anime Maison Ikkoku in 1986. Since then, she has continued to play a number of animated characters on many different series. In addition she has a wide range of talents as she also a DJ, singer, songwriter and does essay writing.
She was married on her birthday, March 30, 1998, to her co-worker Masaharu Amiya. On June 28, 2004, they had their first child, a girl and Megumi went on maturity leave. During her maturity leave,
Akiko Hiramatsu (平松晶子) took over the role of Musashi for a few episodes during Advanced Generation.