The Melancholy of Aya Hirano: “My Hair is Falling Out!”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 29, 2010 03:38 JST
- Tags: Aya Hirano, Gravure, Idol, Otaku, Production Controversy, Seiyuu
Idiosyncratic idol Aya Hirano has explained her recent ill health and hospitalisation, and subsequent event cancellation, with symptoms as severe as hair loss and insomnia.
She says doctors could only blame psychological stress for her condition, but hints darkly that there is something she can’t talk about behind all this:
“From now on what I say might be censored, so perhaps this will be the last time I can tell you the truth, but please keep waiting.”
Just what she is talking about here continues to perplex fans – speculation ranges from trouble with her agency to her being a Chinese spy.
Most speculation seems to centre on a possible breakdown in relations with her agency, which could well have been overworking her.
In any case she vows “I’ll be back even better than before!”
She jokes about her new boyish cut in a later diary post, aiming to soothe worried maniacs concerned about her travails – “I cut my hair. It’s getting shorter and shorter – at this rate I’ll be a monk!”
Whether her new fringe-heavy hairstyle is related to her hair loss or the ill advised topknot she formerly sported is an interesting question.
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Liking the new haircut on her. Although this site loves to tease her I always liked Aya, so I hope she's not getting too badly overworked. Mostly I don't like how otaku get characterized in the mass media, but the way they treat idols is definitely a problem, to say nothing of her agency.
We are mostly tsundere for Deko-chan...
Hirano...Get better Soon!!! I love you ♥!!!
The baldness is most likely caused by Alopecia Areata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_areata
it's a disease that is stress-related, but is for the most part treatable, especially if you get it at later age and you can trace the cause of it to high workload and stress and whatnot. I know because I'm recovering from it myself, was practically bald a few months ago, now sprouting a practically full head of hair again.
Sucks more for a woman than for a man though =/ she should relax a bit, de-stressing helps the recovery process. Taking localised immunotherapy also helps a ton (I apply a DCP solution every week), but that stuff ITCHES like mad on your scalp.
She did indeed say she was diagnosed with this.
For some reason that new haircut of hers really turns me on ...
The price you pay for being the voice of God...
Get better soon...
as far as i know
hair losing at the forehead
was from how tight she ties her hair
the tighter you tie, the more it will go.
coz the human thought you want to keep the hair off from your face therefore it dropped it for you
it's part of "adaptation" ability the human body has
She'll be the next celebrity to die in these unusual series of deaths
Get well soon Aya :) And I love your short bobbed haircut!
Well... she may slowly disappear from the Otaku community from here on out. If she is obviously showing signs of stress the best thing for her to do is to take a break. OR stop doing drugs... one of the two.
Last pic, argg my eyes soo much uglyness in 1 picture!!!
How the hell do these homely girls become famous in the first place?
Her forehead is only going to get larger at this rate.
HEr short hair style is still alright, hope it stays there
She probably has cancer.
a chinese spy?
More likely an alien or Russian loli spy...
Emo Aya?! :D
Ya right, alopecia. More like ANOREXIA.
Face it, she's superskinny, but keeps going on and on and on about diets, and disgusting rolls of fat, and extra weight.
Insomnia, hair loss - classic signs of vitamin defficiencies resulting from NOT EATING.
Hope she gets treatment for her psychological issues, because anorexia is the nr 1 most fatal mental illness.
I'm also worried about Aya having an ED, she's been dieting for ages with no reason-- she's almost a skeleton!
And the talk about censorship...it must mean there's something to hide and not just stress.
I'm recovering from an ED and I wish with all my heart that she's going to get help if that's the case.
Show some respect o sick people.
Genki ni natte Aya!
Boyish Hirano Aya looks like she could be the lead singer of Tokyo Hotel now [or any such band really]
Probably stress? It can happen...
Still fappable.
girls with short hair: priceless!
For some women --like Aya Hirana -- makeup gotta be the greatest inventions in the history of humanity!!!
Seriously, she is not ugly but she aint cute --as many claim-- either, makeup do wonders I guess. If she would not open her mouth to speak nonsense and hurt us with her annoying voice...
Her face is weird seriously.
I knew something with her hair was wrong, she must take holidays and meet the love, she gotta lot of work last years, I admire her really much D:! I just love her work and it's kinda dissapointing if she is lossing her pretty and talent because of this.
Short hair Aya is superior
well she got a smile, my hair begin to fall at 15, for stress symptom, and i get bold , this year i recover (5 years after im 20 now) , but not all i got no hair on the back of my head :x so... Go aya! you can do it! Y_Y we need shny3 and lucky star2 :3
Her shot hair look is insanely CUTE!!!
I would still like her, even if she was bald.
PHOTOSHOP... DO IT... DO IT NOW!!!
Don't think she can afford to have a gap year, she'd get shitcanned by her agency if she did that...
Oh wow, she'll be the japanese female Devin Townsend.
http://hookinmouth.net/index/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Devin_Townsend.jpg
NOOO AYA PLEASE BE ALRIGHT ><
She looks gorgeous short hair.
Be strong, Aya :3 We love you
I feel so sorry for seiyuus who get controlled by maniacal fanatics but it can't be helped since that's the game rules...
Hope she gets better soon.
She looks better with the hair cut IMO
she's just trying to be Britney.
I hope she doesn't suffer from Boob Cancer or something.
You're fukken wrong, dude. It apparently is forehead cancer LOLOLOLOL
She stressing out because you guys always pick on her! NOW STOP
Leave Aya alone!
Can't help it, someone just love to bully cute thing.
You mean because Artefact always picks on her :p
It's just Artefact's tsundere affection.
Wut? She should be grateful that I didn't use that forehead of her to absorb solar energy.....<_<
What a slut
uh, i like her new hairstyle.
looks very cute.
Just look at what happened to Kogami Akira >.<
Anyone else thinking paipan is a good reason why she can't be talking about her hair loss?
Poor Aya-chan, hope she gets better!
I prefer long hair, but that new style looks good, too.
pic 3 forehead shooter!
Or should it be foreheado beamu
She look rather cute with that short hair.
Really, nothing like (almost) loosing something to appreciate it more.
Go Aya! Get better, we'll be waiting.
i love aya
That's a shame, although she had been ridiculed. I wouldn't wish such a illness on her. :\
She looks so cute with that fringe ^^
Indeed.
Have to agree. She looks really cute with the short hair.
I'm weak to that type of haircut. Please get well, yours truly, your new fan, rikarika!
she does indeed
Yeah, Aya looks really good with short hair like this.
deko-aya is no good. maekami-aya ftw!
That's maegami.
I also advocate short-hair Aya. Looks damn cute like that she does...
Well that sucks D:
Hope she gets better soon :<
crap... look at her forehead... at this rate she will really go bald :D
in the good news, her new hair makes her look mildly attractive, even seeing through the photoshop.
She must be stressed out...Life as an idol is filled with crazed Otaku's and their antics.Also the fact that if she has any sort of realationship her career as an idol may be over...Soo her being stressed isn't a surprise to me.It just isn't healthy.
she is single right?
And too much work and exposure to all these people could leave her depressed.
Though she is the one willfully doing it for money.
If she's in need I, and perhaps thousands of other men are single and willing.
Her new cut is much cuter than that top knot.
better have a boyfriend who backs her up.she needs some good time
Aya, it's time we told the world. For you health...
maybe the reason for her stress is trouble with her secret loverboy/girl?
2ch disagrees.
that why instead of stinky boyfriend she needs a nice girlfriend . yuri = untouchable beauty
She should take some vacations... And a change of agency as well.
If she had a boyfriend her career would be OVER and she would probably receive death threats, etc.
"If she had a boyfriend her career would be OVER and she would probably receive death threats, etc."
The unfortunate truth. Idol seiyuu can't have boyfriends (at least they can't let the public know if they did) or else their fans will flip out on them.
She probably has one secretly. Many idol-seiyuu seem to, but obviously conspire with their agencies to keep it quiet.
Agree with above two comments.
Must be one of those, "second hand" things. What a load of nonsense.
otaku rage!
Is it Japan...or its like this every where..cuz i feel so vad for aya..I love her tho.
In any case she vows “I’ll be back even better than before!”
few days later,
aya: I am better now.
:*face of the "I don't see anything different" face.*
aya: O_O!! I grew 1 strand of a hair, before I counted it 3 times and it was the same number yesterday until today. 1 more !
gotta happen sometime
She is Sooooo Cute.
Wow she is so cute. i hope she gets better. Stress is bad, she need a vacation in some warm place with massages and stuff..
Oh wow, her new hair looks even sexier.
Thats my Aya-chan
Well, the new hair cut does a great job of hiding balding spots... and forehead as well, hope she recovers soon.
Dat forehead.
is humongous
Don't worry, some people think short hair is cute.
I kinda know this would happen at some point. Aya works a lot though tv,modeling, anime, and concerts.
Is there a "save our Aya fund" that I can donate to?
I hope she'll be okay.
She still looks cute with the new haircut.
She has breast cancer.
She has BEAST cancer
I hope she doesn't have cancer then again she seem to be losing hair.
Wouldn't that be a result of chemotherapy?