Aya Hirano’s Friday Debut: “She Did 3 of 4 Band Members”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Aug 5, 2011 19:01 JST
- Tags: Aya Hirano, Idol, Kodansha, Lantis, Mass Media, Music, Otaku, Seiyuu
The spectacular self-destruction of “rampant” seiyuu Aya Hirano’s career has made the pages of top Japanese gossip rag Friday, which alleges her agency killed her musical career in order to punish her for having sex with her band.
Their expose essentially confirms the authenticity of the photographs and the claim that she ruined her music career by treating her band as a personal harem; it also dispenses with “Aya Hira**” and refers to her by name:
An idol magazine editor has this to say:
“Seiyuu fans hate seiyuu love scandals even more than normal fans would. After she lost her prim and proper black-haired image, fans soon started to call her a ‘bitch.’ Perhaps deceiving her own fans by acting in accordance with this image was difficult for her.
If these leaked pictures are genuine, it’s hard to call her conduct anything but rash and irresponsible. Nobody cares if she has a boyfriend, but taking pictures of herself in bed with him is outrageous and won’t wash with fans or sponsors. Perhaps she lost sight of the fact that her image is her precious ‘product’?”
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A source close to Hirano says the photograph is genuine, and that the man pictured was her 2008 touring guitarist. And not only that – from 2008-2010 she had intimate relations with 3 of her 4 band members. And at the end of 2010 her agency replaced all her band members…
“In May last year she stopped all musical activity, saying she wanted to pursue her career as artist but couldn’t. In fact, it would seem her agency may have been punishing her for her activities with her band.”
Performers aren’t forbidden for pursuing romantic liaisons. But excessively rampant private lives will have an impact on their careers. Even if Hirano thinks “love is the fertile soil from which art springs,” this leak is only going to further quicken the alienation of her fans.
Friday has a circulation an order of magnitude greater than that of Bubka, so it would seem there is no going back now.
Although it has long since become a stretch to call this the “fan reaction,” her dissolution is still proving more of a draw than her career ever did – though by now more concern is being expressed for the future of Haruhi than for her career prospects:
“There’s no going back for her now!”
“What’ll they do about Haruhi’s voicing now…”
“She can still find work as a fallen idol.”
“Her 3 man hare finally m came out in print…”
“Why would show business sources say that stuff about her? Show business is scary stuff…”
“It was probably someone involved with the affair.”
“She was so out of control that even her agency couldn’t deal with her, that’s why.”
“She became hard to use so they liquidated her like a bad debt, and then started looking for a replacement, that’s all.”
“Scary… how long before she turns up in an AV!?”
“That skinny little body is not wanted in any AV.”
“You guys keep pressing your pathetic virginity fantasies on these girls. Keep them to 2D girls only.”
“I don’t care how many guys she did. It’s the damage to the image of the titles she voiced that bothers me.”
“Who cares. Normal people don’t care what the person who voices the characters does.”
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As I've said before Aya has her private life, I have mine. She doesn't care about mine nor I hers or the girl who cuts my hair for that matter.
She provides a voice to characters I happen to like and does it well and that's as far as our relationship will ever go and should ever go.
People and the press who are obsessed with who Aya is "doing" should try more contructive things like voting Ishihara out of office or rebuilding the Fukushima area. God!
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I wonder if there's a way since we westerners do actually generate sales to express our complete lack of giving a shit about her personal life and demand she remain as Haruhi? I mean everyone here who is against her only blames her for the actions of the tabloids and Artefact peppering every other article with it. She never did anything beyond twitter, and nobody but people who CHOSE to follow her had to listen to her.
Anyone with half a brain would recognize the disconnect between an animated character's voice and the person behind the character. I mean hell, Mel Gibson may have seemed to fly off the handle, but I sure as shit will watch Braveheart whenever it's on TV. Whether he's a jew-hating insane person or not, the man can make movies and act well. I don't have to listen to him ever, only his characters, and he is a smart enough man to know the difference as well.
The short-sighted, childish Otaku whiners on 2ch and across Japan who say she's tainted their character are mindless cretins who don't deserve to be heard at all. I won't have one of my favorite characters ruined because they are lonely failures.
The question is, do the sales of cheap dvd to westerners that don't care, outweigh the sales of expensive Japanese blurays to "short-sighted, childish" japanese that do.
As there is no western blu-ray release, I recommend that all that don't care should instantly order the japanese haruhi blu-ray box-set. It's currently on sale at japanese amazon for roughly 400 USD + shipping.
Maybe the sales generated will be sufficient to show that the "west" supports her.
lol $400 to 'show your support'. I wouldn't pay $50 for that Endless Eight shit, why would I cough up 8x that much to try to convince the Japanese not to call a spade a spade (or slut, if you prefer).
This attitude is farther from reality than the Japanese otaku, and shows you don't know ANYTHING about Japanese culture. Her career is OVER. Her agency has tossed her overboard publically without a lifejacket (or lifeline, lol) and in Japan that means you're done as a celebrity. More than likely any company offering her further work more sophisticated than chat shows will get a not-so-subtle blackballing too, and they know it.
Fuck Aya Hirano. She was a one-trick pony from the start, and never reliable, responsible or really talented at anything other than voice acting, and now because she's stupid and has poor impulse control she's burned that bridge too. As I've said before - she'll have a welcome if short career in AV as a fallen idol until the novelty wears off. Then it's back to obscurity with a real job, if she even has any skills or education to do that.
She can find work voicing ero-parodies of Haruhi.
It's sad really. If they do replace her voice in future it probably won't live up to Aya Hirano's performance and thus otaku will whine and blame it on her personal life, but the fault really lies with them for being so fucking intolerant and just plain retarded.
Spoken like a true philosopher. I sir, applaud you.
you don't get it she's an idol other aspiring idols look at her.
There's not problem with it, let the aspiring idols fuck who they want to fuck.
Her fans gave her her money and fame, and they can take it away. No justification is necessary.
I'm a M.D. I use my brains to earn a living. My source of income - my patients - couldn't care less who I fuck.
She sells her body image as product. Her source of income - her fans - apparently do care what she does with it. You and I may think they shouldn't, but they do. And it's not in our place to force them to continue spending their own money on her.
Typically, you would be right. But the problem lies in that it's public. She is not trying to be discrete in the least, if she is, well than she is fucking retarded as hell
Some patients might care who you fuck, depending on the department, the doc. carrying unnecessary diseases might have an impact on them. ^^;
@ kanbanmusume
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Very True.
All these asshole just bitching about her private life are just stupid.
Like you said, there are a helluva alot more important things that who Aya is banging.
Well said...
You've spared me the long speech regarding her awesomeness as a seiyuu and how her personal life is her own and not ours to decide and manipulate for our own selfish fapping needs~
I just want to say this to all the people who have zero love/sex life (and even one-night stands) that are hating Aya:
"CAN'T A GIRL HAVE FUN!?!"
Yes. if they have such fun in the kitchen ;)
>>"CAN'T A GIRL HAVE FUN!?!"
NO.
Because she's a CELEBRITY IDOL IN JAPAN. Maybe you missed that point somewhere. This isn't the good ol' US of A where you can be a blatant crackwhore for years and somehow still be rich and famous *coughLohancoughcough*
Although again, it's not like Lindsay Lohan actually gets any movie or TV roles anymore either..
Correction:
"Because she's a celebrity idol IN JAPAN."
If fans throw a fit because their celebrity idols have a life outside of their job then Japan is doing it wrong.
People just care about this stuff for the same reason the Enquirer and People magazine write dumb shit no one cares about.
Really the Aya thing is more interesting for how what used to be her fans and the Seyiuu Otaku crowd react to the whole thing, and how Aya winds up on some craaaaazy adventures like Taxi Cab Rush and Big Band Bang Theory.
Quality response there kanbanmusume.
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That last picture with all the dudes behind her, they're showing you what fingers they had in her earlier.
of course aya has their own privacy, and ppl have no right judging it.....
but still, she has to be careful, cause she has her own image and career, not to mention the company and his band member as well....
this world is wicked, and ppl who just keep yelling dont do this dont do that is mistaken here,
cause otaku and fans thinking is the same as terrorist, they dont think other ppl benefit, only theirs....if the idol dont give what they want, then they gonna kill her....like this aya hirano, thats why she has to be careful...not to let ppl see her private life...but too late i think
@kanbanmusume
^ THIS!! ^
Private life or not, she is a public figure, and therefore have the responsibility to keep her image clean as much as she can. However, the above photos of her clearly shows that the pictures were taken or approved by Aya, and that alone tells everyone how she's not entirely concerned about her image, about the repercussions once it gets leaked to the public. She truly deserved all these lambasting.
Whats this clean image bullshit? If she wants to have sex, let her have sex. No one cared before the images were leaked, and now all of a sudden her career is over? Nobody gives a shit that their politicians and celebrities have sex lives. Why should anyone care about Aya Hirano any more than them? This should only be a big deal if she were cheating on a boyfriend, but she hasn't wronged anybody (except the fragile virgin hearts of the Haruhi worshipers whose butthurt remarks just makes them look pitiful).
You're a fucking idiot. Nobody with a brain should give a shit about these leaked images.
It worked for Pamela Anderson.
I'm also really surprised that everyone just assumed all of this was true. She kisses one guy in a picture and there is a rumor about the band, then people are talking about her taking a bunch of dicks.
Well that's a bit narrow minded. It's one thing to have a private life but it's another to live two lives one in the public and one in private.
Like a catholic who sins 7 days a week 52 weeks a year yet every sunday for 2 hours acts like a completely different person asking for forgiveness, love, peace and blah blah; yet as they walk out the church they revert to doing the opposite.
It's one thing to have a public life and a private life. It's another thing to be forced to have 2 such lives just because people don't want to see that you're just like everyone else.
And again. My usual comment on this matter: So what? No matter how dicks she takes, her voice acting won't change.
After seeing so many of this kind of comments, I have to jump out to say this. Most Americans or non-Asians do not understand the idol value they have in most Asian countries. It's been a standard to have sex with anyone you feel like in the west, while having sex usually means something really important and of value in Asia. Virginity means nothing in the US. I wouldnt care if Justin Bieber had 3-some sex with his girlfriends, nor would I care about Brittany Spears, it is just standard, and most media promotes this kind of idea. One Family Guy episode (the sex ed one) even twisted the Christian value not to have sex before marriage, in essence, promoting that you should have sex before marriage because of your personal need. You said it right, she can have her personal life; but the editor of that idol magazine said it better: the image of her is a precious product. Focusing on her career only, this kind of scandal is unwanted for fans. Besides, what phrase would you call Brittany Spears, assuming you know whats been up to her in recent years?
Out of the entire page, this is the only one that makes sense.
So to most people here, it's obviously ok to use your own standards to make irresponsible comments regarding the Asian idol culture, but it is heinous for 2ch Japanese to make similar ignorant comments about westerners?
On second thought, your prize has been revoked.
@Achiuakuna
You deserve a prize for using your mind.
As a Christian, this comment offends me the most.
You want to bring Christian values into this? Fine, how about this: "Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast The First Stone."
*aya stoned to death by celibate otaku
From what I've seen and witnessed on this site and elsewhere, Asian idols have unrealistic standards imposed on them. And your line of argument is a bit strange in a variety of ways.
Let's make something clear: Aya Hirano's career consists mainly of singing, voice acting, and posing for the occasional sexy magazine spreads. Nowhere in that job description are virginity or celibacy required traits. If she were the poster child for the abstinence movement or flaunting her alleged virginity left and right (as Britney Spears did early in her career), then you might have a point. Might.
From my vantage point, idol fans look like a bunch of lunatics who expect the objects of their admiration to be sex-deprived, socially retarded shut-ins like they are. They're goddamn people. Celebrities have to appeal to their audience, but it's ridiculous to expect them to pander to their fans in all aspects of their lives 24/7/365. The hardcore fans seem to be utterly divorced from reality. They've built up this intricate fantasy world around where she exists just for them and react angrily and violent when anything comes in to upset their delusional viewpoint.
The reason there's so much hate for Aya Hirano is because it seems like she's intentionally pissing all over the unwritten rules of the Japanese idol industry as part of some desperate bid to get attention, and people are getting irritated by the sounds of all the shoes dropping. :P
>It's been a standard to have sex with anyone you feel like in the west, while having sex usually means something really important and of value in Asia.
Oh, please. We are talking about Japan here, not Indonesia.
U mean malaysia. Indonesia is much more open compared to malaysia imo.
"while having sex usually means something really important and of value in Asia."
BULLSHIT. Have you ever even anywhere in Asia? And if you have were you wearing a blindfold?
BULLSHIT. Have you ever even anywhere in West? And if you have were you wearing a blindfold?
'No matter how dicks she takes, her voice acting won't change.'
Yeah, but if she tried to take a dick *while* voice acting, I bet her voice acting would change.
Change into hentai series.
Perfect Blue, anyone?
On a side note, who the hell is that on the cover of that rag? That doesn't look anything like Hirano.
So, having sex automatically removes every talent one owns?
Because she should be free to fuck whomever she wants at any time she wishes?
GOD, production companies - and some of you idiots (thats all minus the smart ones.)
@arabesque Wow you're pathetic! You're blaming me for making a fake account without any reason? That's really cute. And speaking of "virginity fantasies," did you give your virginity to Ishihara? If so, I wish you and Ishihara to be a happy couple one day.
As for Aya, I really don't care much about her. I know I made some totally bad remarks about her but I'm kinda feel so sorry for her now.
look up uta-hime by bosshi
Because sex is bad.
FFS, get a grip!
How about Melancholy of Haruhi and K-On? Its more yuri.
haruhi is a bitch she deserves all possible bondage
And eventually JAV.
It's Aya fault that her stardom is going to to toilet. Why would she waste herself when she has all the talents that gave her fame and fortune?
I am horribly ashamed of her.
@arabesque2
Oh @thereallamberto, if you're going to express your feelings because a seiyuu is no longer apart of your "virginity fantasies," you should do it via your original account. :3
@thereallamberto
Don't be silly. You're one of my biggest fans, and usually the first to post flame in response to my posts
Not that I really care I cause offense to the lot of you (with the exception of a well-rounded few).
Can't really take the opinions of biased closeted pedophiles, open pedophiles, pseudo-scientists, conspiracy theorists and pseudo-Japanese sociologists seriously.
hope to hear that if haruhi ever has sex
@大和魂 【門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む】
So you're one of these sad fools that are the reason she's losing a career because she's a human woman? She didn't force any of this on you, don't blame her because of tabloids. You never had a chance with her, she didn't betray you by falling in love and/or enjoying sex for the fun it is.
If the image that is expected of Seiyuu and actors in general is a virginal, pure, childish girl, then the problem is not that she violated her image, the problem is in fact all of you. In fact I want to give her a big hug and thank her, as I'm sure many female Seiyuu would, because she's spearheading a movement to end the bullshit. Maybe all the mindless japanese Otaku who live vicariously through fantasy will start seeing the actual enjoyment of a woman with personality for once. Hirano gave personality to Haruhi, now she's doing it in real life and people are complaining about it. How ironic.
Thats a preety sad reason
a brief AV flame out fame is in store for this "actor"~~
"In fact I want to give her a big hug and thank her, as I'm sure many female Seiyuu would, because she's spearheading a movement to end the bullshit."
Of japan being a country with a very low rate of STDs.
Haruhi and Itsuki are the reason why I don't watch the anime anymore.
@07:04 I'm against Lamberto and even "myself". I don't get why @arabesque and @thereallamberto throw shits at each other. They're both dumb bitches, just like Aya.
Where's the MOFO SEX TAPE DAMNIT!? SHIT, FUCK, WANT Aya Vagina NOW!!
No true.
Bearing in mind the size of Japanese dicks and the size of Aya's cunt, I doubt she'd even notice. It wouldn't change her acting at all.
and yours is gigantic, is that how it is?
You really made that joke. Wow. What a Lame.
'You really made that joke.'
Yes, I did. I made that joke, and you got to feel superior to me.
So really you should be thankful that my depraved sense of humor gives you an opportunity to feel superior, right?
Hey, maybe now that her music career died she'll return to do voice acting...
And I couldn't care less about what she does or who she screws as long as she does her job well.
The NANA manga was surprisingly accurate on how media can act like when there's the smallest of leads for a scandal.
Sometimes I do feel sorry for celebrities. Because their life isn't really their own anymore.
The jackals in the media won't be satisfied until they're reporting her death from an apparent suicide. Then they'll move on to the next victim.
I hope she can remain strong and weather the shit storm. She's better than those sanctimonious pricks.
Like the Britney episode on South Park
unless you are a guy
Mel Gibson, Diustin Beaver, Tom Cruise, Charlie "Tiger Blood" Sheen, etc.
Being a celebrity includes being a media whore.
Actors/musicians/etc who are actually modest, don't do any scandalous shit, and tabloid media doesn't have anything on them?
They are simple artists.
Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise still get roles and get paid a pretty penny for it. I don't know who this "Diustin Beaver" kid, but Justin Bieber still sells out to middle schools girls and 30/40 year-old single wome, and Charlie Sheen, well... he is truly a wreck but once he cleans up a bit, he'll find a job in no time.
Tiger Woods said hi.
don't forget Kobe, or Jordan,
And again, your usual comments isn't going to change anything.
The fact that big name magazines are covering this suggests that this has nothing to do with Otaku outcry.
People gossip and leak rumors about celebrities all the time, why do you care so much about Hirano Aya?
Lucky Star Season 3, but now.... :(
Season 2 where?
Lol, good question :D
Why does he care?
Better question is why do the magazines and those gossiping people care?
Because scandals bring in viewers which equals money?
That's why they care. This isn't unique to Japan btw.
I just don't want this to be the last thing I hear of Aya, she's too adorable to punish, Must Forgive! D:
And if course the more ppl that comment on it (include my dumb ass) the more we'll see Aya Hirano stories on Sankaku.
Hirano fucked up pretty good....but this does at least validate her earlier claims that her label was sabotaging her (though it turns out to be a "punishment" rather than actual "sabotage" )
that's right she gets her inspiration from experience
This is Japan, your image is very important. Is a collectivist nation, not an individual nation, where everyone cares for themselves and not the group.
But but what if she gets throat damage from too many cocks shoved down it?
But seriously why the hell should we care.
All dem cocks down her throat would take away our beloved Haruhi's voice. She'll start sounding like an old woman in no time.
Don't worry, them cocks are probably not long enough cause any serious damage to her vocals.
will sound like knowing sex addict haruhi
No nonono, what if a very intense deepthroating?
Lozenges
It would probably have to be something other than a Japanese prick.
That's why she sounds so horny as Garnet in Dragonaut (which is not super bad like many said, just average)?
The problem here is not the sex, but the sex photos. >_>
"I do not have sex with that woman"
more like the lack of them
'The problem here is not the sex, but the sex photos.'
The problem here is that the sex photos don't show actual sex, just a kiss.
Now, if she took the trouble to document the exact anatomical and physiological details, *that* would be something worthy of attention.
As long as she doesn't spread the gonorrhea, syphillis and HIV shit to anyone else, I won't care.
The antibiotics are losing their effectiveness, and HIV is... well... HIV.
Who knows, maybe her balding head has something to do with it, lol.
yeah it's pretty much finished today. One thing is to marry, like Megumi Hayashibara did, and other thing is being a promiscuous bitch.
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