Aya Hirano has made the cover of the Japanese edition of top music rag Rolling Stone, rock and roll diva that she is.
The rag promises a “long interview” with Hirano about the direction of what remains of her career, sure to be an fascinating prospect given her long-held reputation as a deep thinker.
As it is neither Twitter nor a gossip-laden tabloid, neither scandalous utterances or difficult questions seem likely, but with Hirano surely anything is possible.
The reasons behind the astonishing resilience of her career are the subject of some speculation – and admiration:
“She’s starting something else, again?”
“Aya’s an angel!”
“She doesn’t have any fans left though – who’s going to buy this?”
“What is up with those clothes and that pose…”
“I don’t think much of that outfit.”
“Go to some auditions and announce some proper work for once!”
“Supposedly she has secured some proper roles for winter.”
“She’s no good for anything but bitch characters now.”
“Well, she certainly has the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle down.”
“What ever happened to that poor bassist of hers?”
“The Japanese version is really down market though, they even had AKB on their cover. It’s just an idol magazine really.”
“So there is still a mag which will take her. I remember buying it when they had Rei on the cover.”
“This rag has no sense at all though. They’ve had Steve Jobs, Michael Jackson, 2NE, etc.”
“Given that she keeps switching jobs, she’s quite a rolling stone herself.”
“To still pull stuff like this she must have some pretty amazing connections behind her. Who is protecting her? Her parents?”
“What the hell is behind her?”
Who knew before this article that there was a Jpn rolling stone? I had no clue…
If anyone should be considered a slut for life, it should be that fat cunt fuck Ayana Taketatsu and all those other cheap ass seiyuu who think they’re the shit just for being younger than anyone else. Yui Ogura should get STD’s, Rina Hidaka should drink napalm and Haruka Tomatsu should either get a facelift or fucking kill herself. Fuck all those new seiyuus of the recent generation!
OMG YOU SO MAD RAAAAAAAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jesus christ, people are supporting rolling stone as if it sitll matters in this day and age…?
Anybody want to tell me about the latest Gasoline Alley, or their local newspaper?
Let’s see if she learned her lesson in keeping her private life quite rather than opening her mouth about it.
Just like you keeping quiet about your blowing the football team for a semester in college…
I sure wish she would grow her hair out, I don’t like the short justin beiber hair.
She’d be a lot sexier if she had a dick
Ah yes… white people and their gay tendencies.
Yeeea……. I love me some Hirano Aya, but dem clothes don’t do it for me.
lol just head aya hirano voice over one of the characters that appeared in hxh 2011 ep6
Aya Hirano on the cover of Rolling Stone? Now she’s trully back. In your face 2ch assholes.
Ditto, but I’d have to say the same to this very site. I really didn’t know anything about Aya Hirano until I dropped here but the constant flurry of articles trying to slam her as the center of the biggest Japanese scandal ever was almost… sociopathic.
they got owned, and then trying to downplay rolling stone magazine..hahahahaha
What’s wrong with these people?!
I haven’t had a single problem with Aya even with the first negative article I read about her here in SanCom was first posted, but these guys are just pathetic -_-
Its funny how people put down OTAKU or just plain ANIME lovers because if it wasn’t for them japan would be nothing but a sinking ship they would be kinda like CHINA w/o the economic boom
Oh, seems like creepy hater/s woked up, and fist thing in the morning is downvote everyone who doesn’t think as he/they.
It is very sad being you.
they should make a movie about her and i got the perfect title Perfect Blue 2
you know what would be awesome? if Artefact would leave his opinions out of every single “news” post he makes. just saying.
“She’s no good for anything but bitch characters now.”
No, 2ch. You are the bitch. You are always the bitch.
Wow.. AKB48, 2NE1, Micheal Jackson, Steve Job’s… and now Aya Hirano. I thought seiyu are small fry, but it seems like she is a super star in japan 😀
hahah seems ur right xD
Wasn’t her “absence” from the entertainment industry like one or two months? And it seems like she wasn’t struggling, going through hardships during that period. So this “comeback” is sort of exaggerating just like her so-called scandal.
The sexual harassment was actually way underplayed by all the idiot fans, because feminism somehow means her bassist was just foolishly feeling persecuted, and that she did not at all pressure any other members of the rest of her band into it too.
Love Aya’s work!! 😀
I admire her voice acting, but I dislike her singing.
“To still pull stuff like this she must have some pretty amazing connections behind her. Who is protecting her? Her parents?”
I agree with this guy. I’m surprised she’s still afloat when she has so little to offer compared to other pros who have been in similar positions.
She’s also a tv personality. I don’t understand Japanese, so I can’t really vouch for her tv-jibber-jabbering skills, but she seems pleasant enough and about on par with most tv people.
maybne … oral works
That’s a pretty lame photo for a rolling stone IMO, even if it’s just the japanese version.
They could have dressed her up sexier or something.
Are those grandma shorts?
Holy shit! Aya will do Metal?!
YESH! YESH!
You know you’d still hit that…mmmmmm Aya pie, it’s so delicious.
she has nothing behind, it’s all in the mouth .
Japan fails with 3D.. stick with 2D my friends
duh but we don’t control the article posted
Aya fail or not. Sex is sex, either it be by manipulation of a doll for quite a few here. Or actually sticking a 3D like Aya.
That’s right Aya, make haters suffer from your success.
I commend Aya for her quality voice acting, singing, tv hosting work and last but not least….
for having a normal, healthy sex life for a woman her age.
3 out of 4 bandmembers. Let’s see, how many male celebs boink all their costars, assistants, random groupies? How many of them are called on it? ZIP.
She’s not married, she’s young and she’s not a fucking Amish or Taliban chick living under Sharia Law.
Haters feel and know Aya is out of reach for them.
Too great artist, too good looks to accept for those with ugly brains.
There seem to be 2 kinds of otaku:
2ch Aya bashers are like Ishihara, utterly conservative, can`t see difference with 2D and real people.
Realistic otaku, who knows real people = girl seiyuu`s are living normal lifes, including sex life.
But they enjoy girl seiyuu`s voice work and appearances fully, without stupid & impossible demands.
Guess which side are winners?
Haha, “normal life”. Even if parts of Japanese society have decayed, they won’t accept a girl who sleeps around and has no Japanese values to speak of.
More than “realistic otakus” I’d just say “normal, sane fans”.
Success by being a whore. What a surprise.
100,000 internets for you and Aya
now, where’s that 100.000 things ?
JESUS CHRIST STOP FUCKING POSTING ABOUT HER.
JESUS CHRIST STOP GIVING A DAMN AND START IGNORING IT ALL IF IT BOTHERS YOU THAT MUCH.
You attention whore.
Can’t blame the guy. It’s not helping us 1 bit seeing this. If she gets the part for a lucky star 2, NOW THAT’S NEWS!
Come back in a couple days, and we’ll have another.
Who are you to tell Jesus what to do?
On a side note, you have your CAPS ON.
Hirano ‘Phoenix’ Aya…
I never lost fate in the woman who voiced Konata Izumi and Haruhi Suzumiya, amongst other beloved anime characters…
This blue Pyramid Head is very happy for you (and your future successes), Aya~
*two thumbs up*
Lol I love how all aya ass kissers are down voting EVERY comment with even a shred of negativity towards Aya. She may have fucked her band mates but no matter how much you defend her, shell never fuck YOU. She was a egotistical bitch before the scandal and still is, and her voice work is overrated to all hell.
i bet the only thing you can think of a female seiyuu is all about fucking them.
[i]shell never fuck YOU[/i]
I’m OK with that. As long as she do voice work in anime, I don’t give a damn even if she fuck the shit out of every male and female in Japan (except creepy otaku, because they losers, and you, because you loser too).
Maybe people actually like to see her doing work? Not everything is about getting laid.
As far as i can tell only white people who fantasize about their own women sleeping around support Hirano.
*an* egotistical bitch
I don’t know who gives more attention to her, the people that like her or the people that don’t like her…
Why do you even bother Anon?
@HouseLife: One of the most sensible comments yet.
It’s obvious Aya is a very insecure woman just as much as batshit crazy fans, the only reason people are now defending her is because they’re so sick of japans representation of idols that there using aya as a catalyst to rebel against that very image, which is all fine and dandy, but lets not forget how much of a insecure woman she was even BEFORE her scandal. The fact she used those two incidents to incite pity towards herself tells me all I need to know about her character. Anyone who has to use a brain tumor or accuse a taxi driver of kidnapping her when it was nothing more of a overreaction to create sympathy is a fucking scumbag. Dont use the ” you don’t know what’s it’s like to be a celebrity” excuse, there are plenty of celebs out there who have haters. Even Justin bieber has a shit load of haters – while he completely deserves to be hater on since he IS the exact representation of todays music industry, that you dont need actual talent to be a musician just a pop star image – even HE handles criticism in a respectable manner. Aya, however does not she instead crumbles under pressure and tries to use medical conditions as a joke to gain pity; a sympathy device. I cant overlook that. Maybe you guys love her characters so much that you can, but I can’t.
Perhaps he’s sick of the blatant faggotry going on.
I mean yeah, the bitch is being sidelined hard by otaku for seemingly unfair reasons. Why do YOU bother about that?
Did you buy the anime DVDs instead of pirating through the net? Did you buy any of her albums? The photobooks?
Have you forgotten about the sympathy-fishing stories of her tumor and the taxi driver fuss?
She’s not getting all this media attention because people want her. People who don’t care about anime, don’t care about her. She’s being thrusted into mainstream media now because her agency is affiliated with one of the two largest industry hoarders; Burning jimusho who monopolizes a lot of shit.
Outside from a few variety show appearance, she doesn’t contribute jack to mainstream scene.
Haters are the best advertisment.
@ Anon 0:57
What people seem to actually be sick of is the way the industry works, and that Aya is working within that framework even after having violated the doll-like image the industry tries to maintain for morons. People are just angry at the house of cards tumbling down, and that she is still ‘alive’ amidst the ruins, and don’t understand why.
You complain about her getting attention. If you’ve ever lived a life where you’re being scrutinized by people, you would have a clue in the world that that is not ‘attention’ that any sane human being wants. It’s thrust upon you, especially when there is nowhere that you can escape it.
You complain about her twitters being for attention… but have you had a tumor before? I have… you kind of want to talk to someone about it if there’s even a suspicion. And if a taxi driver kidnaps you? Yeah, I’d imagine that’d be an ordeal for a celebrity woman. If you believe she lied about it, that’s another issue entirely, but I have no real reason to assume she did.
If she is lonely enough that the only people she felt she could express how scared she was was to her twitter followers, she gets my sympathy. If you can say something like ‘she should get some friends’ then you know nothing about what friends can become when you gain celebrity. Your life changes, as does your relationship to them. It takes very, very strong bonds to survive that. Rock stars, actors, and various A and B-list celebrities haven’t ended up in rehab or killing themselves because it’s just the ‘way it is.’ Do you have any idea how lonely it is to be surrounded by people who love you, but know absolutely nothing about you, nor really care?
That is why people will still talk about her reasonably. They have perspective. She did roles that we love, made music we enjoyed, and we’re not liking her to spite the people who don’t like her, regardless of what those morons think.
What are you doing here mr. Bandmember?
who did she slept with this time to get the front page?
Hahaha burned……. I agreed
You know she sucked some serious cock for that front page… man women are nasty i come to notice this now.. yeah..
TRuer words could not be said.
not you
Who said she slept with anyone? She has talent….. Abd the ability of stirring huge dramas.
and the ability to suck in deep throat style….. aya deep throat style
Talent, yea, as much talent as most of the Japanese voice actors that do superb work I reckon, Slut Aya is overrated, its only haruhitards and lukcytards that believe she is the best seiyuu ever.
Wanna talk REAL talent pal, yea, the kind not super inflated by 2 or 3 overrated anime series/characters by extreme hardcore otaku or by scandals? While I am not fan of hers look at Nana Mizuki then, that is talent that surpasses the media.
No one over the age of 22 is saying she’s the “absolute” best. They just say they like her work. For those kids that do? Who gives a shit. They’re fucking kids who only just got over Naruto. Don’t get so worked up about it.
With all the troublesome exposure she’s had recently, I would have thought she’d opt for a tasteful, conservative photo for the cover.
Then again …
Yes, it is quite scandalous, partially exposed thigh and all. And what’s up with the naked neck? That little tramp….
Tbh I find this cover pretty tasteful, she’s barely showing any skin.
Hey, sex sells.
Also, is this really a surprise for anyone? She’s currently signed with a subsidiary of the all-powerful Burning jimusho. She’ll get all the publicity she can.
Can someone remind me who the hell is this ugly bitch?
No fucking clue.
Been asking that myself.
Faust, Rasputin, and now Aya. My top three heros in life 😀
I am really glad to see her defying the odds and doing well. She reminds me of a cat with 9 lives with her “never say die” attitude.
I thought it was english rolling stone magazine for a second. It would’ve been surprising to see her featured prominently on that.
I remember rolling stone magazine…………….from my parents telling me they used to love it.
That’s about it..
Yeah…………………..
Hahahahaha, LOL @ Aya ass kissers, I pity you but hey anyone is free to like love admire or whatever a stupid whore.
You think Aya has revived like a phoenix, stupid, lets talk when the bitch actually sells like before we knew the bitch she is.
Stupid woman, a total whore, arrrr, I pity her future husband if theres anyone that wants her for a wife, because sure most will fuck the slut BUT wanting her for your wife, the mother of your children is a TOTALLY DIFFERENT issue, noone wants a whore for that.
Lets see the actual supposed seiyuu roles the bitch got, any lead character, highly doubtful, well, she can always get roles of second or third importance, or she maybe voice games but a major role in anime???
Anyone speculating how she has managed to get work again, well, she is slut, she loves old farts….make your conclusions…she probably got connections fucking with many of the old farts in the industry so…
Wow. Lotta anger over some woman you know dick about.
Seriously, if you can’t recognize her voice acting as quality work which doesn’t sound like 99% of seiyuus out there…..then I’m afraid you need a fucking brain scan.
Your level of anger is like some stereotypical psycho motherfucker in a cop movie.
Get fucked or medicated….or both.
Still not getting any? Give up all hope. And suck Ishihara, you “moralist”.
so . . in the end she’ll never fuck you. what a sad virgin.
and what makes u so sure that your future wife is not the same?
Maybe he’s not attracted to women who sleep around like white men are?
Seiyuus and Idols are also a human…
What’s up with the logic of “they can’t date or have sex” ?
This is why i hate brainless otaku…
Don`t mind if virgins-and-will-forever-be type ugly brain idiots may downvote your comment. They know they are pitiful losers.
take that haters
Should be hatsune miku not that dirty skank.. 3D DISGU.. oh wait nm she is just disgusting!! lol
Take that, creepy haters!
Aya: They see me trollin’ they hatin’
Sankaku Complex: Rule number 97- Every publication is a “rag.”
Not the most flattering picture of her, but grats on the cover.
Oh, I dunno.
I think she looks rather cute in it.
*shrugs*
I’d like it is Japanese music wound up in the American Rolling Stone.
That’s a stupid cover picture compare to US Rolling Stone.
The Women version of Justin Bieber .
WRONG…. SHE HAS TALENT…..
But I thought Justin Bieber was a woman as well?
Why is she dressed like my mom on the weekends.
I wonder what the Aya haters will say now.
Actually, I don’t care.
Well, just call me a mother fucker then, because I would plow the shit out of a milf wearing that.
You appear to be culmination of years of major genetic mishap.
baggy shorts baggy tank top and grandpa’s belt turn u on eh?
ALL HAIL AYA
Meh id fuck your avatar..
Not going to bash her, but I think her appearance in the magazine is ‘wrong’ at the moment (can’t explain why)
But welcome back Aya, you’re unexpendable for the characters you voiced 🙂
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
People’d call, say, beware doll, you are bound to fall
You thought they were all kidding you
She got on the cover of Rolling Stone that is such an honor Dr Hook and the Medicine show even made a song about it.
Haters are gonna hate.
This needs a cartoon video of Aya doing the Gabe Newman walk.
and all the poor otaku haters weep at this blow to their gonads. just thinking that Aya is on rolling stones cover will make them weep and crawl under their futons and cry like the little girly wimps they are who only get pleasure from seeing other people’s misery.
Why is Sankaku obsessed with this little Asian boy?
Even after all that stuffs they said about her
There will be another creepy guy who buys her CDs and break them,then stick a knife onto her pictures…AGAIN
Problem, seiyuu otaku?
*trollface*
Niggas gonna be jelly after this.
She’s a whore, but you gotta love her. Never yielding to the whiny masses and always doing w/e the hell she feels like. Hope she gets plenty of roles to annoy the fuck out of the hater otaku. It’ll be good to show them that idols are going to sleep with people and that there’s nothing you can do about it.
Don`t know how you can call anybody you don`t really know at all as whore.
That is right wing fundamentalist christian & taleban & moslem extremist type of cruel & negative thinking, only because of she is a woman. Take care of your own life first.
If somebody sleeps around, they get called a whore/slut. Furthermore, it’s not a thought that’s limited to specific religious groups, and you saying so is also cruel and negative thinking. Don’t go becoming something which you hate now. If this wasn’t Aya we were talking about, and instead a guy, I would call him a prick/pig/asshole, so no, it’s not because she’s a woman. Get off your hypersensitive femalist trip and grow some thicker skin. Thicker skin makes the world a place that’s possible to live in.
Bullshit. If a guy sleeps around he gets called a stud…even if he has a girlfriend. Hell, sometimes if he’s married.
Aya is a single girl that slept around and she didn’t have a boyfriend. What’s the fucking problem? I’m a guy myself and I’ve known plenty of women her age that were like that. Most of them knock that off once they get into a steady relationship or they run outta steam.
Me, personally I’m not really a feminist. I think lots of them go overboard on attacking men.
But in this case, I really do agree with Erochichi.
Yes, highly anticipation all the bith/whore roles that will be perfect for her.
Filthy slut.
Virgin with a less than 1″ long, wait, impossible to say if it`s a wart or something…
On another note, Micheal Jackson is featured in the mag as well