Aya Hirano: “Endless Eight was Awful for Viewers!”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Aug 18, 2009 05:21 JST
- Tags: Aya Hirano, Haruhi, Kadokawa, Kyoto Animation, Production Controversy, Seiyuu
Haruhi seiyuu Aya Hirano has made comments apologising for the Endless Eight debacle and thanking viewers for putting up with it all, as well as lamenting the hardships the seiyuu had to endure in recording it all.
The comments were made on one of her radio appearances:
For us seiyuu the pressure was intense.
When we first met to receive the plans for it and learn which books we would be doing, like we did for the first season, we heard we would be doing Bamboo Rhapsody and thought it was very appropriate.
Then we learnt the second till ninth would all be Endless Eight, we were like what? Eh? Eh? Eh?
We didn’t really get it when we were told we were doing the same story eight times with just differences in delivery.
…
I think this was more awful for the people watching than the ones performing it, I’m really grateful to everyone for watching it all for two months!
Thank goodness we finally got away from it.
…
It doesn’t matter how many times I’m told to do it, I don’t want to do it anymore, enough already, enough! I can’t do it more than 8 times, that’s the limit!
Yamakan, the low-level production staff, and now even the seiyuu have expressed disgust with Endless Eight, to say nothing of the fan response.
It seems astonishing that the staff responsible ever managed to force it through, but the tenacity with which they are sticking to their guns even as their ship sinks probably explains much…
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more endless eight please
Oh Puh-leeeeease.
No please.
Ugly please.
snap, epic fail.
a huevo ... hirano aya ya les dio en el culo por andar de mamones con el agosto irritante
x-tremera, shut the hell up, what are you even saying? just type in freaking english
He said something like:
"Fuck yeah, about time they get it in the ass for dicking around with..." (He then sais something I can only assume is a translation of "Endless Eight"). He then said, next poster is a giant fag, and I did his mom.
This is all true, might have lost something in translation though...
He said "irritating August".
@ x-Tremera: Google translation, pl0x.
@ x-Tremera:
Bien dicho. Parase que a nadie le gusto esa mierda... Endless Eight? Ta loco jajaja
Ojala que a Kyo-Ani no se ocura hacer algo como esto otra vez.
To People who can't read Spanish:
Stop being all butthurt, here's the translation:
"Hell yeah, Aya just kicked them in the ass for being such dicks with the annoying August."
Here's what I said:
"Well said. Seems like nobody even liked that shit. Endless Eight? C'mon. LOL
Hopefully Kyo-Ani doesn't think of doing something like this ever again."
@ Tsundere Works, domo arigato gozaimass.
At ANY rate, English r preferred.
Japanese with english subtitles is preferred.
^ LOL SO FUCKING TRUE
yes. please. English only. "entienden?" or they're fucking heads will explode. "Gracias".
Maybe Obama was behind "Endless Eight"?- How do you screw up "Haruhi"? - the guy can't even sell cash for clunkers without it going bankrupt in less than a week.
are you retarded? Cash for clunkers is a fucking giant success thus it has gone bankrupt. Because noone expected so many people to get in on it is why the funding had been so low. Please stop being a stupid fuck k thx.
So a success is gauge by how many people sign up, even though of course the plan completely fail due to that circumstance of having too many hillbillies trading in their pick up?
Well that's just plain genius.
all I can honestly say is holy fuck all of you are retarded. This isn't even a political subject nor is it an American one and you inject politics into it for absolutely no reason?
America: where people live and breathe partisan rage.
i want to know why some people like endless eight?
They don't...?
its because they hate haruhi
Sarcasm? Have you heard about it?
yes i heard about it but someones are true pro endless eight
wuts sarcasm?
shut up
I liked it. It hasn't been done before.
Because I absolutely love time loop stories. Endless Eight was by far my favorite part of Haruhi.
How about the endless eight never be remembered again for the rest of human history?
Endless Eight, the most tragic eight episodes in the history of anime.
au contraire, mon ami
it was the most liberating eight episodes in the history of anime
it was avant-garde
If the Smashing Pumpkins made anime, it would be Endless 8.
laugh my fucking ass off good show sport
I was kinda concerned that she might be get fired because of that statement...
Yeah...
Endless Eight and the Infinite Sadness.
NICE IDEA
FIRED HIRANO AYA
THEN IT WILL BECOME ENDLESS TROLL!!!!!
Fire Aya Hirano and lose more of the fan base. KyoAni is stupid enough to do that.
They wont fire her. not even KyoAni is THAT idiotic
Grats, Wookie. You just start a new war...
I'm fairly certain seiyuu don't work for one specific company. From what I understand, it's a free-lance job, depending on what company needs you for a certain voice.
But even if they were, I'm sure Aya Hirano is expendable. While it would be hard to imagine a different voice for Haruhi than hers, it's not impossible either, especially if they find a seiyuu with a similar vocal range and sound. In fact, if she kept on acting like a spoiled child like she does here, I wouldn't hesitate to get rid of her if I had the chance.
Side-note: Endless Eight was a stroke of pure genius. Too bad very few people can appreciate it as such.
The saddest thing about the Endless Eight, is the fact that some people actually liked it. How was that pure genius? What was there to like? The fan-exploitation? Quite a few people gave up on the series due to the Endless Eight.
So just because you and many others hated it means I should hate it too? Since when is everyone the same?
I could name various reasons why I liked it (differences in each episode, low expectations altogether, stuff like that), but the fact remains I liked them and find the whole public outcry funny as hell, especially since this is giving KyoAni the publicity it needed. Face it, people are talking about this for weeks now, while any other show would get little to no attention anymore and if you can get that sort of publicity for free, you're a genius.
attention != buying
Agreed. After watching one episode of endless eight for the last two months if I feel unsecure whithout my weekly dose. Hence, I've started looping the endless8 from the first episode again. It's relaxing.
You have either no idea of tragedy or anime. Possibly both.
Naruto's 75 filters was alot worse, and I watched ALL of those...
Endless eight was nothing compared to that hellish fire storm of fillers
and that's the reason whoever see that fucking filler shall be called narutard
nyoron~~~~
i'm guessing you haven't watch school days before.
wtf...
Do you think Makoto can raep your ass as much as endless eight looping for 15521????
The legend continues to grow
More like INFAMY I would state...
A turd that stewed in the summer Sun that still to this day emits brain eating bile.
How... well-timed.
We finally (and obviously) get to learn that the whole move - which would have been suicidal to anything less than KyoAni, and shall prove harmful even to them - is the result of a few trolls in charge, and not from the whole staff having gone collectively bonkers.
Let's see where the collective finger-pointing leads to. I for one among many others would like names.
I really think you're still being tricked by Kadokawa.
get tricked in the ass?
great kadokawa get 1 more gay as his fans
I thought the minds behind this were Itoshiki-sensei, Lelouch Lamperouge and/or Light Yagami.
Now I'm more inclined to think Vladimir Harkonnen is the Evil MasterTroll Mind behind all this.
"Trolls inside trolls inside trolls... MWAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
Yo dawg we hur'd you like trolls so we put trolls in your trolls so you can troll your trolls while you troll your trolls....
HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
OWND, bro. Ownd...
The responsible guys should be kicked in the balls until they quit.
While I have no particular need for them, I would like to see a token offering of severed fingers from the responsible parties.
Why should the Yakuza get to have all the fun?
Not enough kicking the balls.
They're masochists. They'd just ask for more, MORE!
i recommend something from Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni
Those asinine morons who were responsible for this should be fired for incompetence.
And not just fired, but beaten up, too... and pretty badly.
In fact, most of them should die from their injuries.
And then they should be grounded up into a fine pink powder.
just give him to beatrice to be taken care of
The truth of the matter is that Kyoani is trying to suicide bomb the Haruhi viewers in order to drive up K-On sales.
Note how well recieved K-on was, the merchandising potential, and the relatively low licensing fees (note how popular haruhi is.)
Just capitalism.
Lol, but if they continued to support Hahuri legendary status, wouldnt they get even more profit?
Right...because Haruhi doesn't make then enough money.
Good girl, Aya.. :3
Some chairman dont like otakus, and he's loling hard at this.
the prospect of DVD prices alone is enough to warrant public torture at the hands of disgruntled 2ch lurkers.
Sad, that even that people who give their voice are not happy with their work.
atlease give us the names of this retard choice ??
I lol'd
I she a professional or what?
I never really did like Aya Hirano... She's a good VA, but beyond that, she's just some cheap overly-hyped bikini-model. I don't really see her charm.
I must be one of the few who has read the books, but never seen the anime. I find this all very amusing.
And the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children, yea even unto the 8th fucking generation of rehashes.
(But I still loved every minute of it, think Minimalism)
I bet thy had the easiest days of their lives recording these. But I can't seriously expect her to be honest about this.
Except, they have to re-record for each episode. How would you like to say the same thing over, and over, and over? These things rarely take one 'take', and each look had different inflections. Though, I admit, Haruhi's attitude was rarely different. Kyon however had reactions from cynical to panic when he was told how many times they had repeated.
The voice artists had to be bored stiff.
I wonder how (for example) the VA's for Pokemon's Team Rocket (both Japanese or otherwise) feel for having to say the same shitty lines in all those hundreds of episodes (assuming the cast for that is still the same as it was since day 1). You'd think that they'd be dreaming their lines by now or become equally bored of it.
Now Aya Hirano complains about having to say her lines with small differences 8 times? Why isn't anyone but me thinking this makes her a spoiled brat who I shouldn't feel any sympathy for? And what about the other 4 seiyuu? Will we be hearing 'apologies' from them as well or has she suddenly been branded their spokesperson with this fan pleaser?
At least she apologized.
+1
She did?.. Either way, it's not like she was the one responsible for it...
Artefact, the loyal haruhi fan misled you, nowhere in Aya's interview did she ever apologized.
What's funny is that she can't do it more than eight episodes after the fact that she was told to do the same thing from the 2nd to 9th episode. So she basically says that's ok
That's why she's my big fore-headed waifu.
Heh. I find it quite amusing how the higher-ups are trying to make out they are masterminds and that the arc will forever be remembered for positive reasons, when infact it was the death of the Haruhi franchaise. How these people are still in a job is beyond me.
I bet right about now they're sitting nehind a round table with puzzeled faces, and discuss on where their plans has gone awry.
Death? Not hardly. Kicked in the shin maybe, but the franchise will survive.
I'll bet she'd do another episode if they asked her to. :)
Here's hoping! *crosses fingers*
"It doesn’t matter how many times I’m told to do it, I don’t want to do it anymore, enough already, enough! I can’t do it more than 8 times, that’s the limit!"
mommmmmmmmmmm...these words are making me feel funny...
Fine, whatever, does it really matter anymore, Aya should've said these comments long time ago, it seems that this is probably to appease the idiots out there that don't get that this was all to make money, and at the end of the day Kadokawa doesn't give a shit about anyone but themselves.
I still believe that everyone in Japan should boycott the DVDs, however knowing how stupid every otaku is, the DVDs will probably break record sales :(
My question then becomes, if the former director, voice actors, and artists all thought this was a horrible idea why did they think the fans would think it was great?
Because the oness who decide are the guys at kadokawa. And without them they got no paycheck
Because they make more money and that makes them smarter. Besides, the fans are all fat losers who will buy anything thrown at them anyways.
Probably what they told themselves.
Maybe because in the contract they sign for Kadokawa, the fee they would have to pay IF they don't work was too much. Or something like that, I don't really know how the seyuu/animation world works.
Oh shit, she's gonna get canned.
Now we're either going to see it get canceled, or we'll have to sit through Haruka Tomatsu playing Haruhi.
Actually, that's a pretty good idea ;D
To Haruka Tomatsu voicing Haruhi, i meant.
Yeah, I expected someone else to predict that she's gonna get in trouble with either Kadokawa and/or her agency for her comments...
Some seiyuu have been banned by studios for far less...
As infuriating as Endless Eight was, I have to on some level admire the wit and cynicism that informed it. Assuming that wit and cynicism was involved, ofcourse.
My only real regret now that it has passed and we can stand back survey the damage, is they didn't show what happened during, say, the 11,054th reset, when they DIDN'T go to the Bon Festival. What DID they do instead, and so on. Or...it would have been nice to have thrown in one of the resets where they worked the cash registers instead of handing out balloons while wearing frog suits.
But I suppose that will have to wait for the OVA's.
I'm just gonna overtly say what everyone suspects anyway- the 11,054th reset was a total fuckfest. Kyon got everyone pregnant, and Koizumi felt him up after he passed out.
The 2391st reset, not so much.
"It doesn’t matter how many times I’m told to do it, I don’t want to do it anymore, enough already, enough! I can’t do it more than 8 times, that’s the limit!"
Heh, "don't want to" yet will do it if she's told so...
She needs money to put food on her table, too.
I won't blame her for doing her job, so long as it's not her idea to make it eight episodes.
I'm not blaming her either, it's just that I find it rather ironic...
Well, now that Haruhi herself is denouncing endless eight, mebbe they'll finally come to their senses and stop whatever is still to come of this bull-shit?
PFFFT LIKE THAT'LL HAPPEN
Poor Aya-chan, I'm sure she felt bad after all otaku's complaints, but work is a work she did what she had to.
I love Aya's voice and I hope she will find more jobs in series as big as this one (or at last how apparently at beginning it was) or in better ones.
However I'm glad that she really worries for fan opinions which means she's serious in her job :D
Aya please don't get depressed by otakus and don't stop your wonderful job, we love you <3
you sound like a right otaku loser
feeling sorry for some big foreheaded ho who makes a fortune with her annoying, shitty voice
please jump off a cliff
Can't resist from trolling and show your hate just because someone mentioned that they like something popular,eh?
you suck.
This anime is dead
it has ceased to be
it is an ex anime
move along folks, nothing more to see
If you think Haruhi is dead, You can forget it.
Too big of an asset.
It will endure for a long time yet.
Assuming kadokawa can get their head out of their ass and start treating it like the asset it is.
KyoAni is scum. Making the fans and the seiyuu suffer through such a useless story arc...
Lies.
She may be everyone's huge headed waifu, but the truth is that she did those 8 episodes, along with all the haruhi cast.
They didn't oppose it.
I'm pretty sure that if Aya decided to complain, or object to makign the 2nd season, KyoAni/Kodokawa would have bent.
She is just apologizing in order to get more public prestige or something like that.
But I Aint fallign for that cheap shot.
Cheers;
Nick
It's just a job to her and you're overestimating her worth. Higher-ups aren't going to bend their will to some seiyuu.
Only AAA-List Hollywood actors can affect the decision making process.
In this case, she basically is. I was thinking the same thing; you can't just fire the actor that made this show famous.
Hey, it works for Robert Pattinson...
She probably had a contract to voice the entire second season or something. Making shitty episodes isn't a breach of contract on Kadokawa's part, so she isn't justified in not fulfilling her terms. If she didn't do 'em, they could probably sue and they could most certainly do their best to blackball her to the best of their abilities.
No one would throw away their livelihood like that. Expecting someone to is moronic, especially over something as trivial as some anime.
Even if she couldn't have bend them, she could have talked out as soon as the E8 had finished, not wait until the new chapter has gone out.
Cheers;
Nick
The comments here are so naive.
Come on, her apology is as fake as a 2 dollar bill. For all of you who think she gives a crap about Haruhi's fans, well I'm sorry, but she doesn't. She just cares about her career.
She wants to retain her fans, so she apologizes in order to put some distance between herself and "the bad guys".
Truth is she (nor any other seiyuu) complained during production, and they recorded their parts obediently.
To me, her apology -just like the comments of the KyoAni employees who attacked their own work after all was said and done - is just disgusting.
Two-dollar bills are real.
+1
+2
You are probably right that she doesn't give a crap about haruhi fans. But I didn't think there was any reasons for her to apologize. Unlike actors who can improvise on the fly, VAs can't really deviate from the story board. And she can't just walk away from the production because she has a contractual obligation to fulfill. It's really hard to speculate the motivations between her apology. But it may not be as sinister as you think.
So what did you want her to do? Was she suppose to give up her job because a few people whined about 5 episodes of a show? What a selfish opinion. If she just cared about her career, than why would she apologize knowing "the bad guys" might catch her? Regardless of how long the Endless Eight felt to you, the season itself isn't finished yet.
I guess you could say that her favourite TV show is "Eight is Enough".
YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHH
The show ended get over it!
you get over it!
I wish the endless eight was infinite to see otakus suffer.
Too bad Hirano's limits weren't one ep only. Lawl XD
I can't imagine the higher-ups will take kindly to this.
Well I can say though that I'm not wanting to watch anymore episodes of this series until the aftershock is gone....
-_-
Come on guys. She has no control over what the production team does with the show. She simply voices the lines she's told to voice.
Also this is kind of the Japanese way of apologizing without actually apologizing.
So I doubt she's just saying this for 'attention' or whatever. Christ...
way to suck her dick.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~~!!!
ALL SCRIPTED!!! THAT INTERVIEW IS A SHAM!!! BAH!
Endlesss eight Ka?.....At least respect the fans of the show you dumbasss kyotoAnimation....I like the show but the e.e arc was too much for me.....
"we were like what? Eh? Eh? Eh?"
hmm... I'd really want to hear that "eh? eh? eh?" probably cute to hear
it should have been:" eh? eehhhh???? EEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?????????????????
oh, ok then..."
Wow, pathetic.She's just saying that so people won't hate her giant foreheaded , crosseyed,jap radiated self.I bet she didn't give a rat's that she's saying same lines 8 fucking times; all she care was she's getting paid for doing a shitty job like all jap voice actors.
Troll harder, anti-masspopularity fag.
I think the troll is Aya Hirano,jesus,she's so fucking ugly.and anti-masspopularity?Are you retarded it's obvious that's what she's aiming for,sympathy.Why should I show sympathy to a freak with a Micheal Jackson complex?Seriously she dresses like a fucking 10 year old or maybe her mother still chooses her clothes for her cause something wrong with her mind cause she gots down syndrome.
Just waitin for Nice Boat-esque meme, here.
Oh, wait that's right, CATCH AND RELEASE.
anybody else's stomach just turn after reading that?
The part that kills me is that worthless weeaboos and otaku will buy the bullshit dvd's and bullshit merchandise anyway because they're fucking weak.
It doesn’t matter how many times I’m told to do it, I don’t want to do it anymore, enough already, enough! I can’t do it more than 8 times, that’s the limit!
and that's what she said
as long as she gets payed for her, I believe she didn't really mind it
i wonder who is the genius who pushed to have endless eight like that? >.>
DVD sales will reveal all.
When are they due for release?
The thing Im confused about is what they saw in doing the same stuff eight times over. Seriously, none could possible like to watch a rerun of the same episode of any tv show straight in a row.
Hopefully it wasn't greed or laziness that struck them and all of this was a unintentially error from dope or similar. However, not to offend the staff at Kyoto or anything.But, with all that happened right before the second season it's not a complete surprise, that they screwded up even more.
Hopefully someday they can plug open their ears and listen to the fans so they don't make the same horrible misstake eight times in a row again...
After an epic fail of the series, all rats escape form the sinking ship hahah
Evangelion last 2 episodes
Haruhi Endless 8
Reading people comments about them is the real watching
seconded
Hm, I liked the EE-Arc... but mor than 8 would start to be annoying.
You could really hear their relief in Endless Eight 8 when it ended. I didn't think that it was all acting. lol
Otaku these day is too pussy for time-loop episode like Higurashi does.
nowadays Otaku is pretty sissy and likes to sucks 2D pussy and became pussy itself.
Thank you, Hirano San, for working so hard.
Maybe some day a company that lacks FUCK FACED FAGGOT BARBARIAN executives will come along and give you work that doesn't drain your soul.
So if everyone working on it hated it then why the fuck did KyoAni even go through with it?
She's right.
I'm actually quite glad they ran the Endless Eight arc. Now, every time a boneheaded Haruhi fan likens the series to the second coming of Christ, I've got two handy little words to shoot right back at them.
I liked that Haruhi had like eight different Bikinis!- lol. I'd love to see Aya Hirano model in each one of the "E.E." Bikini's - My Fav was the red one towards then. This Arc would've been so much more 'watchable' if they changed the list of things they had to do every episode. Like: Go to the Beach, Have a picnic, Ball game, Paint ball, water park, Crab hunting (on a boat), life guarding, paint a house, pass out free samples of something, volunteer at a Old Age home, Perform in play, work the phones at a the suicide hotline- lol.
It would've been cool to see different versions of the same events. Like Mikuru gets more Cicadas or Koisomi has to wear the Frog costume...it would keep fans guessing as to what the 'changes' meant.
But no. The Image Below is what I will always remember about "Endless Eight"- The End (lol). that and Haruhi's excellent Butt shot.
it's designed that way to identify the true believers, the rest of you won't get a ticket when the ark arrives.