Aya Hirano “Will Give Up Being a Seiyuu”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 22, 2010 01:48 JST
- Tags: Aya Hirano, Idol, Marketing, Mass Media, Seiyuu, Talent, TV
Speculation that Aya Hirano may be set to give up being a seiyuu in favour of becoming a TV “talent” is raging, after the seiyuu revealed an itinerary dominated by appearances on variety programmes.
The suspicion that she is in the midst of a major career change began circulating recently, but became heightened with the announcement of 3 variety programme appearances in under a week.
One show-business source describes her current circumstances:
“Her current manager differs from her last, a seiyuu specialist, and is now a specialist in variety TV programmes. It looks as though from now on she’ll be mainly a talent.”
Whether any of this was tied to her recent episodes is not clear.
Hirano’s introduction to show-business was in fact as a general TV talent, and has made a number of appearances throughout her career, though none as concentrated as now. That she also has a TV show further lessens the leap.
The demands of selling herself to a notoriously fickle and demanding otaku audience may also be a consideration – a career as TV talent and singer would place much lower demands on her image.
However, with most (if not all) of her fame as seiyuu stemming from roles in Haruhi and Lucky Star, shows which are both defunct and comparatively little known in the mainstream, she may face an uncertain future even as a talent.
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Does that in a way announce that she has been dating 1 person and is working on getting married after all? She can be dropped into multiple areas of entertainment and fill the role right away for a while. Whatever best wishes to Aya H. and I will miss hearing her voice in various shows. Don't get FAT!!!!!!!
I really need to stop clicking any links to Aya on Sancon. Arte seems to think I care.
aya i wanna fuck u ^^
I'll say No~!!! Who else would play as Konata and Katya then..
To all those who hate Aya-sama!
Get over here and let me smack that smug face of yours, fu*ker! Your all damn shit compared to her highness Aya-sama.....
I think this will be a good change for her.
I hope she does well in her new endeavors, and at the very least, returns to the Seiyuu scene to reprise old roles.
I like how there are ads for Yaoi while i read this :P
Shhh. Can you hear that? It's the sound of Otaku raging.
:[ why o why
@Sin of God
Good show mate. I don't hate her, but im not a rabid fan either. I watch anime in Japanese only if its not dubbed in English. Wendi Lee and Johnny Yong Bosch ftw.
Hopefully she won't...
As much as her role as hruhi's voice is important to me, quite frankly I'm more concerned with losing the much more idiosyncratic voice of Konata Izumi! NO OTHER VOICE WILL SUFFICE!!!! >:-O As for Melancholy, as long as Minori Chihara (who is a lot better looking as well as a better singer/performer) and Tomozaku Sugita remain on the show I'll be fine.
Damn, that bitch is way too hot to be a shitty voice actress. Future race queen/JAV starlet.
I hope she remains a seiyuu
I'll certainly miss her voice if not...
Finally.
What,no JAV?
Sounds like she was a victim of her own success.
good 'ol fat aya hirano
good riddance
she'll be missed. . .. . . . oh she's on tv.
Haruhi and Lucky Star aren't mainstream ? What shows are you talking about sirs ?
She can definitely go to showbiz and just reprise her roles that are high in demand such as Haruhi and Konata.
That will be enough for me...
she is typical alien-reptiloid
I cried a little.
well, look at it this way, after countless money exchanging hands, the Endoresu Eito crisis and news of novel 10 being delayed for (probably another year) Haruhi has reminiscence a visual novel and "Big Daddy" Kadokawa has come up with a new money-making marketing scheme to milk disappearance while surviving Shitstorm after shitstorm and still trolling the cult-following fan base.
Looks like Kado-sama is either an A-grade organization in marketing or very very brave to troll blood-thirsty otakus for 4+ years.
which one? hm i wonder....
Reminds me of Perfect Blue... And we all know how that went! >__<
A bit sad, not for Aya herself but for Haruhi, after the k-onification, the endless eight fiasco and everything this puts the last nail in the coffin.
Goodbye Haruhi thanks for the good times!
If she gives up being a seiyuu, this will be a major blow to the Japanese voice acting roster. One of the cutest voices my ears have ever heard.
And who said Haruhi is defunct? Surely they make another season after giving us the shaft with Endless Eight.
i won't miss her. she has her konata voice, her haruhi voice, and that works. every other voice she did sounded fucking annoying.
except as shinobu lol best role ever.
This, really bothers me when I hear her voice in other animes. She really outdid herself as Konota and Haruhi though. Just hope she'd be willing to come back for any future Haruhi installments. If Sugita quit though, it'd be over for Gintama and Haruhi.
That seiyuu who did Fumino in Mayoi Neko Overrun would make for a decent Haruhi, still, not the same
We'll miss you Aya
If I were a seiyuu and bid daddy Kadokawa ruined the title that made me famous as well. I'd be high-tailing it too. I'd miss her though.
I think it's a smart move though only time will tell if it's a wise one. Or those depraved stalker-otaku, whichever comes first.
XD
Haruhi and Lucky Star are mainstream. They're even going to sub the Blu-Rays of Haruhi in English because they know they have fans abroad... A Haruhi with a different voice just wont be the same.
I hope that even if she does go 3D on TV on us, she'll also go back to 2D every once in a while. I just can't see her being so cruel as to leave her "loving" fans to die. XD actually, I can see it a little.
So beautiful voice for a mindless brain :(
I will miss Aya for sure
She can quit...then marry me (:
I hope she fails as a TV Talent...
So she would have a mind to go back being a seiyuu~
Yay. If this is true, I am very happy to hear this. Seriously, I'm getting annoyed at Hirano being always in shows I like, because I hate her voice. High pitched .. really hurts my ears.
She is a Japanese girl, you know. How come you watch anime at all?
Maybe you don`t. Dubs, with female chacters with voices like men?
So because she is japanese, I am to like her ? If I watched dubs, why would I have an opinion of her at all ?
Of course I watch anime with japanese voices, but each character voice is different and I just don't happen to like Hirano's voice. It is very high pitched, and she seems to appear more and more often on animes I like .. and well, that basically annoys me.
Surely there's some VA you don't like either ? Hirano just happens to be someone I don't like .. but indeed, I shouldn't have posted that comment in here since this place is filled with fans of her.
Lazy eye. Very erotic.
Haruhi is not well known in Japan? Have you seen the l.novel sales numbers?
The BD box set was number 1 on Amazon Japan for like three weeks.
It's very close to being mainstream.
I second on the fact that she makes a better porn star than a seiyuu. Other than Haruhi and Konata, she isn't that well known.
You forgot her roles as Amane Misa.
Anyway I can foresee otaku suicides :D
and probably Kiddy Grade and Fairy Tail(Lucy~)
She can become a boke/tsukommi to her ownself. A onezai.
If this turns out to be true then there shall be a huge shitstorm from otakus.
Today's forecast: Shitstorm. We expect it to go on for several days. Have a nice day.
And exactly that could be her reason for stopping to voice anime. I guess she's just sick of the otaku rage.
Shitstorm already happened since her "ring" incident, so it's just gonna get worse...