Aya Hirano’s lingering career now sees her appearing on game shows billed as “acting intelligentsia” and “super-popular seiyuu,” neither of which escapes the wrath of her legion of detractors – although everyone agrees she looks cute as a button in her glasses and school uniform…
Her latest appearance, on game show “Q-sama!!”:
Online, there is a certain amount of scepticism towards a woman who had difficulty putting her bikini on the right way up being billed as an intellectual actress:
“Intelli… gentsia?”
“Super… popular?”
“Her uniform resembles Haruhi’s but differs slightly – odd.”
“There really are some intelligent seiyuu, so why put a weirdo like her on?”
“[listing the others appearing:]
Wasabi Suita = High school graduate
Mayumi Tanaka = Junior college graduate
Yuuji Mitsuya = Meiji University graduate
Subaru Kimura = Attending university
Aya Hirano = Art college dropout”“Mitsuya’s the best there!?”
“So basically this programme treats anyone coming out of a university as ‘intellentsia’…”
“Intelligentsia” I thought this was a case of engrish but the quotations suggest otherwise. Is this the same girl that didn’t know how to put on a bikini?
Cut n’ paste much?
Must glomp!
Who’s the handsome devil in the last picture?
Intelligence shouldn’t be measured by whether or not you have graduated university.
As much I hope Aya get some slack from the haters I have to say that everyone else is much more intellgent than her, especially since they have a better education.
Just because someone doesn’t have as much education as another doesn’t mean they don’t have raw intelligence. Her higher education was CUT SHORT by her career success which happened right around college age. She can still go back to school anytime.
And anyway, it’s her voice-acting talent and uber-cuteness that she people pay her for. Better to be really good at something then to be only marginally more educated than a high school graduate.