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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as long as she gets payed for her, I believe she didn't really mind 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!
and that's what she said
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.
i wonder who is the genius who pushed to have endless eight like that? >.>
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?
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!
I can't imagine the higher-ups will take kindly to this.
Too bad Hirano's limits weren't one ep only. Lawl XD
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.
DVD sales will reveal all.
When are they due for release?
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.
I loved Endless Eight! the producers were so brave to pull it! i really enjoyed!
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.
She's right.
After an epic fail of the series, all rats escape form the sinking ship hahah
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...
Evangelion last 2 episodes
Haruhi Endless 8
Reading people comments about them is the real watching
seconded
So if everyone working on it hated it then why the fuck did KyoAni even go through with it?
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
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 :(
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.
That's why she's my big fore-headed waifu.
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
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
She did?.. Either way, it's not like she was the one responsible for it...
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Actually, that's a pretty good idea ;D
To Haruka Tomatsu voicing Haruhi, i meant.
I must be one of the few who has read the books, but never seen the anime. I find this all very amusing.
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.
The responsible guys should be kicked in the balls until they quit.
just give him to beatrice to be taken care of
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?
They're masochists. They'd just ask for more, MORE!
i recommend something from Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni
Not enough kicking the balls.
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.
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.
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...
get tricked in the ass?
great kadokawa get 1 more gay as his fans
How... well-timed.
more endless eight please
How about the endless eight never be remembered again for the rest of human history?
Oh Puh-leeeeease.
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.
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.
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.
No please.
@ 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.
@ x-Tremera: Google translation, pl0x.
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".
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
^ LOL SO FUCKING TRUE
Japanese with english subtitles is preferred.
At ANY rate, English r preferred.
yes. please. English only. "entienden?" or they're fucking heads will explode. "Gracias".
Ugly please.
snap, epic fail.
i want to know why some people like endless eight?
Because I absolutely love time loop stories. Endless Eight was by far my favorite part of Haruhi.
I liked it. It hasn't been done before.
They don't...?
its because they hate haruhi
Sarcasm? Have you heard about it?
wuts sarcasm?
yes i heard about it but someones are true pro endless eight
shut up