Scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano “hates otaku” and is in the final stages of abandoning what remains of her seiyuu career, with even industry sources apparently not having much nice to say about her.
An anime industry source is scathing about her attitude to the creepy otaku who sustained her rise and fall:
She says she doesn’t mind being a seiyuu, but she dislikes having to be treated as an idol.
And frankly, she seems to hate otaku.
It seems pretty reprehensible for her to be saying this when it’s those otaku who support her.
According to an agency source, she is dead set on abandoning her tainted seiyuu career in favour of a glittering career as an actress:
She’s totally serious about transforming herself into an actress. She’s told her agency to refuse as much seiyuu work as possible.
The obligatory sampling of the online opinions which have done so much to determine the direction of her career reveals she is for once receiving some sympathetic treatment:
“Those otaku don’t want anything to do with her any more either though.”
“As an actress she is going to be lucky to land even minor roles with that anime voice of hers.”
“If she dumps otaku, who else exactly does she expect to want her?”
“It’s hard to see anyone but otaku accepting her.”
“I hope they replace Prishe’s voice actress now she doesn’t want to do it!”
“I must admit, seiyuu otaku are creepy. I can sympathise.”
“I agree with her but she should really be keeping this quiet.”
“Will her fans stick with her?”
“She still has fans?”
“I thought she fancied herself an artist.”
“I have trouble believing she still gets any offers of seiyuu work to refuse.”
“Of course she hates otaku. Everyone just puts up with them and hides it.”
“What’s up with these ‘agency sources’ they keep trotting out now? Can’t they manage a more credible source?”
“It’s no different to anonymous ravings on 2ch.”
“I really sympathise. Being viewed as an idol leads to demands she present herself as virginal, and that in turn leads to her haters becoming active.”
“Blame her agency for allowing her to be presented as an idol.”
“Listening to her fake anime voice and cutesy antics in the Haruhi DVD extras really made me think she was laying it on thick – I can imagine her saying this sort of stuff in her normal voice though.”
“Seeing her fake tears of gratitude to her fans in that omake, and the roar of her fans that ‘It’s OK! You’re cute, you’re cute!’ just made me think how unbearably creepy both sides are.”
“In the Haruhi days she was so modest and diligent – it’s a shame it all came to this.”
Update:
In response to the quotes, Hirano has twitted denials of both hating otaku and planning to abandon her seiyuu career, and lamented the fact that nobody believes her these days for some strange reason.
It’s pretty messed up when fans go ballistic when they find out their idol had sexual relations with her band members, but it’s equally messed up when fans make light of the scandal as “no big deal,” asserting “it’s her personal life.”
I don’t care how many people she had sex with, but if she’s foolish enough to allow someone to get pictures catching her in the act out to the public, it is now no longer her personal life but also her business life that’s being affected. It’s not exactly professional for coworkers to have their sexual relations exposed; it’s already frowned upon as creating a conflict of interest.
Sure, she should be allowed to be as promiscuous as she wants in her personal life, but now that it’s public, it interferes with her public, marketed image as an innocent seiyuu idol. Just as what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, what happens in your personal life should stay in your personal life. If she was marketed as someone like Ke$ha, who is basically portrayed as someone who sleeps around, then this “scandal” wouldn’t clash with her image.
For those who believe that men can get away with having multiple sexual relations with coworkers and obtain more respect, that’s not exactly true. Men might get cheered on by their friends for “getting some,” this doesn’t apply to women because of how society works: men usually ask women out, not the other way around, so overcoming the fear of rejection and successfully nabbing a partner is commendable and impressive. At least where I’m from, women are expected to be less sex-crazed and not objectify men as sex objects, so when a woman has sexual relations with 3 workers, possibly all at once, of course she’s going to be labelled a slut, and rightfully so. Personally, I believe sex is degrading to both men and women when it isn’t done out of love, like in a porno. That’s the difference between “making love” and “fucking.”
Haruhi was overrated anyway. Go for anime w/ a little… COMPLEXITY. not overrated and generic sh8t, eh?
Remember the other ten times Sankaku reported that Aya Hirano was totally gonna quit doing seiyuu work forever?
Yeah, I’m not buying it.
This comment section appears to be literally full of bandwagon jumping, hypocritical douchebags. *sigh*
People always move on to flavour of the month. Maybe that’s why she seems to be having so much shit going on (I don’t follow this stuff).
oh give us a break! This lady gets paids thousands of dollars just to voice these characters. She’s well off and the very otaku she “hates” are the ones who have boosted her career to began with THEIR money.
The one thing NOT to do as a star is to like, diss your fans lady. The characters were cute and the voice fit the roles but obsession over the actor is just retarded.
Well this sucks, I really liked her voice. Ah well, everything changes, she did a good job with the roles she was given.
She’s a good actor. I’m not a seiyuu otaku and I’ve been thinking of no longer calling myself an anime otaku but an anime connoisseur. I appreciate seiyuu for their work and diligence to creating a character so hearing her say that she is quitting is a shame.
I will say that I was disgusted with her sorta lofty attitude though. She says too much, not knowing when to keep her mouth shut. And by getting all upity, it seems like her voice acting performances have lost their feeling that it had in the past when she voices for a 30 minute episode. She’s not bothering to try to re-invent herself and create new voices, techniques or character images. I feel sorry that she had to go through all the shit, but she really just mouths off about everything her career. If she considers herself an artist, I don’t see it. I feel like she has no pride in her work. The real reason why I think her fans left her is that she ended up losing pride in her work and didn’t put a serious effort into it. People will support you as long as you take your job seriously. She mouthed off too much about her agency which of course would turn any non seiyuu otaku supporters away.
Well, although I can’t think of roles other than Konata and Haruhi that would stick out…
I am kinda fan of hers but that might be just because well… I don’t care what she does in her private life… if she’s doing those things to raise popularity then I think that there actually might be tumor on her brain or something…
Anyway… since I’m fan of the Haruhi novels I hope that she will still be around when it comes to adapting the rest of them… there’s nothing worse for me than changing seiyuu in midway… (just thinking about those few episodes of old pokémon when Hayashibara was pregnant is scary)
I can’t careless more!
eh ? then who will voice lucy?
Aya Hirano just did great voice work as Arisa In Girls und Panzer ep. 6.
Not her only seiyuu role this season, she has 5 roles as far i know.
She is still one of greatest and most professional seiyuu`s there is.
I liked her voice in Trusty Bell.
seriously why do people care?
she does good in seiyuu role she does
why the hell her private life should disturb?
it doesnt matter with who she want to fuck with
what seiyuu is, is only her voice
would you like if people hate you or stop you from fucking your love? no, right. so get the hell of other people’s private life
please dont stop aya
for the sake of lucy in fairy tail
People just hate to hate. Miserable fucks. The majority of American fans certainly haven’t met her, and these otaku dorks in Japan MAYBE stood on a line to shake her hand once?
If you hate here work, OK, but otaku don’t know shit about her! I’ve read her Twitter, and it’s no different from any typical young actress.
It’s cool of Aya saying she does not want to be an “Idol” I am guessing like a figure to be worshiped can’t do much for those who are dumb enough to go that route. Good principles there but if she did say she hates Otaku’s that’s not a good thing.
Well. sex is a taboo. and anyone who has sex has doesnt deserve the attention of any other guy except the person she has sex with
Hence, it is acceptable for her to lose her job.
I really pity her, she can’t approach to any guys because it make her fans furious. But that’s Aya life.
People don’t pirate over here in Japan as often. Partly wanting to support the creators, partly because of draconian anti-piracy laws and ISP policies.
Frankly, I don’t blame her for hating otaku. They may be the biggest customers, but they are also the ones most demanding of this insane ideal of virginal purity and feeling personally betrayed when their object of obsession dares to have a social life. I blame both the otaku and exploitative producers for this, the actual idols themselves are nothing but a product to be sold and are easily replaced, not to mention girls dream from childhood of being idols so they’re easily exploited.
For all this stuff to keep coming out about her, I get the impression that someone wants her to quit.
I like her voice. Frankly, I don’t idolize anyone, mainstream singer or anime voice actor. Just their voices/talent.
FUCK
Thanks
I love her voice with Nanael (Queen’s Blade) and Katja Sama (Seikon no Qwaser)
whatever she says or do i’ll still be rooting for her cause that what a fans do..
Despite that she actually hates her fans?
She’ll be the artist formerly known as Haruhi.
shut up, woman. get back to kit-.. dubbing.
For someone supposedly blacklisted from new roles, she was really good in ep.6 of Girls und Panzer, which aired just a couple of weeks ago. There was even a reference to the bassist in her band when she was freaking out.
With tiny lines!! WOW AWESOME, from vicing haruhi to mere minutes voice work!!
I call myself an otaku. But I find it difficult to associate myself in any way with the creepy, obsessive, dumbasses of the subculture.
Don’t let the door bump your ass, Aya.
i don’t blame her for hating otaku…they are nothing but worthless, obsessive fucktard stalkers with no life that ought to do the world a favor and kills themselves.
She was in Girls Und Panzer though, as that cheating Saunders girl..
http://myanimelist.net/character/72659/Arisa
What spoiled her glitter is she said she loved having sex with much much older men and she was the lead singer for a band and she seems to have had a orgy with all of them. The first part appears to show she was having sex wtih older men when she was too young to have it in the 1st place and could have infuenced her voice acting skills giving her more emotion. But who knows or who will tell?
Finally
yes sankaku, you’re tsun for aya, we get it already
Good riddance to her.
I don’t care if she’s slutty, ugly, big foreheaded, full of hatred against “otaku” (sounds like a colective now), with no fans at all… I just want SHnY Season 3.
I still think she’s cute and I’d bone in a second.
I appreciate the work she’s done voicing Haruhi and Kanata (she owns those parts) and wish her well in whatever she wants to do.
Too bad her shithead otaku fans made her life miserable to the point that she doesn’t want to do anymore seiyuu work.
Delusional, creepy otaku, once again ruining it for everybody.
“don’t stick it in crazy” is a good rule to follow, unless you are some kind of masochist
Whatm you want to pretend you are not one of them? Your infatuation to those 2 series makes you precisely one them, the kind she hates.
The term stupid whore comes to mind when I think of Aya…
“It seems pretty reprehensible for her to be saying this when it’s those otaku who support her.”
Yea… support her by trying to ruin her life just because she dared to have one that doesn’t involve voicing their “Pure little waifus”.
Every time I see the phrase “Scandal Seiyuu” come up I just want to hug this poor woman.
Hope she doesn’t quit lucy, that will ruin what little appeal i have left for Fairy tail if they go switching to other voice actors.
If she hates otaku, why the hell did she choose this industry in the first place?
Voice acting should be reserve for those who love anime.
either gtfo or bear with it.
She can quit after she does the voice of Pachira in MAGIPOKA SEASON 2!
Who cares? I would hate otaku if they act like the losers on this site. Stop being so mean to this girl.
lel, the only thing she’ll be acting in is adult films.
well there are otakus and there are japanese otakus.
well there are otakus and there are japanese otakus.
Hope she won’t call quits on currently on-going works. (Just concerned for Fairy Tail, actually) XD
but….Fairy Tail sucks…
Even if Lucy’s character were suddenly “put on a bus” to another dimension, Fairy Tail could go on.
Lucy is a good tsukomi to Natsu’s boke, but beyond that, Fairy Tail doesn’t need Lucy.
OH COME ON!!
in the storyline coming ahead in the anime a big story is about to be told where lucy has a big role. so dont tell me she’s insignificant.
I’m getting sick of otaku too. Gee, when did I become my dad?
I can’t understand why everybody hates otaku. Otaku are the ones moving Japan’s domestic market nowadays.
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I don’t care about Aya Hirano’s private life and would love to see her reprise her role as Haruhi Suzumiya, but it wouldn’t be a dealbreaker for me if she were replaced. If the otaku backlash against Aya Hirano was what was keeping more of the HARUHI stories from being animated and the anime industry is finally consdering dumping her as a seiyuu completely, I’d be looking forward to the possibility of new HARUHI adaptations a lot more than I’d be lamenting the loss of Aya Hirano as Haruhi’s seiyuu.
She IS LAREADY DUMPED! End of story. YOu aiont hearing her again in a main role, let alone, a big one aimed at the crow SHE HATES, she is hated back all the same anyway.
Haruhi its OVER! Live with it. And in the remote case new project is aimed and the studio was stupid enough to get the services of slut scandal siyuu Aya Hirano you can be sure the fans she hates will petition for her immediate removal, you know, as i happened not long ago.
too bad, but sorta expected
I really hope this doesn’t mean the end of Haruhi Suzumiya. Haruhi Suzumiya is my anime of life!
I don’t blame her, I hate otaku too.
Most people do.
Ive never been a Hirano fan. I merely loved the characters she brought to life with her voice.
The whole “scandal” was just as pathetic as the lonely otaku who obsesses over things like this.
Let’s be real here – most, if not all, idols and seiyuu’s hate Otaku. Most of them aren’t really virgins either, or as pretty and well-spoken as they appear in public.
And, the most important thing – why does anyone even fucking care? If she does good voicework, I don’t care about anything else.
I got an autograph from her this past summer at Otakon in Baltimore, MD. She signed a booklet that came with one of the Konata figures I purchased.
She was very nice to me, and everyone else on line as far as I could tell. If she really hates otaku that much, then she is a VERY good actress already.
Persona that knows shit about the japanese detected, Dont blame you, by what you said if you ever said foot in japan, you will see ALL JAPANESE are best actor winners!
You wont find a many japanese that stare you bad or out on a bad face, BUT ALL THE CONTRARY, a customer is highly respected, you will always be greetd with a big smile and you will basically feel like you are some big shot,m because back hom you would ony receive such treatment if you looke like a rich guy or were famous, etc.
American Otakus are not nearly on the same lv as Japanese Otakus. Most american anime fans in general dont even care who does the voice acting for a certain character as long as its done well. I wont even mention the English voice actors though…*Shudders* We all know how we feel about that. Only new fags who are interested in Naruto and Bleach care about them.
Me thinks Japanese otaku have some serious issues. Mainly that they somehow think that a successful voice actress (or idol or whatever) cannot have a private life without them. And if they do, all of a sudden they’re whores or sluts or “bitches” (they got that meaning completely wrong though), just because these women have their own lives outside of work.
PUBLIC PEOPLE are PUBLIC for a reason.
If she wanted noone to butt in in her “private life” she should not be in the media business! much less be an attention whore.
Most seiyuu have no problem because they only fo their work and only that, they are begging for attention, they are not looking for the cameras, appearing on tv saying stupid things coming up with likes on the internet to get the attention and compassion of her “fans”.
So you will se many are so very successful because the do simply their work which is voice characters, not being the celebrities themselves and appear on cameras.
They made her career, but they also vilified her for being an adult who dares to have any sort of adult interests! I am a fan, and I HATE fans! Why would you want to pander to otaku when they rip you like that?
Plenty of people to replace Haruhi, not even that great of a character anyways.
Always been a fan of Marina Inoue. Not that I’d even bother to notice.
Indeed, she was retard overratted.
Please. Aya has repeatedly posted in her twitter trying to dismiss this as baseless rumours and stresses that she values her seiyuu work as much as her actress work.
I have never been a seiyuu fan but I can’t stand seeing innocent, self-respecting people being defamed like this.
She is a very good Seiyuu and I hope she continues your work. But creepy otakus always creepy otakus and thinks that they have rights to stalk her.
These creepy otakus should be arrested.
Shitcomplex is at it again
Otaku should head one bit of advice…never,NEVER go full retard
Even if some of us are indeed creepy she shouldn’t forget she’s here now thanks to us.
Funny point is when you think about Konata hating indirectly otaku.
“And frankly, she seems to hate otaku.”
She is trying to be tsundere!
More seiyuu roles for Hirao Aya \o/
Japanese live-action stuff suckz. (Everything with real people is considered a live-action.)
this is why i hate japanese otaku
2bad I liked her characters.. =/ Nanael,Lucy,Misa,Imai,Menchi,Yumippe,Kurumi,Hannah,Konata ,Sayo,Sasha,Sasakura,Katja,Haruhi,Kaoru..
Someone that chick some meds already! I swear she’s bipolar.
All that really matters is she does a good job with her voice acting roles, and I respect her ability for that. The rest are personal issues, and even if I don’t respect her for those, they are irrelevant to her voice acting.
You know, I think she has a bit of that camwhore thing going on, with all exchanged offenses and such, but even though it sounds whiny sometimes, I think it’s a good thing.
The reason why there are so many creepy otaku out there is exactly because of this culture of seiyuus and idols not saying what they really feel-think. Sometimes part of a strategy (to keep the cash flow), sometimes not.
This gives room to weirdos to create this fantasy image of those girls, disconnected with reality.
And then, when reality crashes these weirdos go rampant sending threat leathers or whatever crap they do.
If most seyuus and idols who were victims of some sort of bullshit coming from fans came out to talk about it, it’d be better for all of them. And for fans too.
Unfortunately, some sort of jobs feeds on weirdos and creepy otakus, so we can’t really expect nothing…
No! They’re paying good money for bullshit and that’s what they expect.
“She’s told her agency to refuse as much seiyuu work as possible.”
And her agency probably told her to go fuck herself
she always pursued by creepy otakus who thinks will marry with her one day
Too bad… guess we won’t see the same Haruhi and Konata voice again… hope this didn’t prevent them to make Haruhi anime anymore. I really wish to see the continuation of Haruhi being animated. But seriously she’s so dumb.. what makes her think that she will be more success as an actress rather than a seiyuu? Honestly, her face is average, her body is
voice is the only thing she’s good at. Guess this is what you call “defying against fate”
Support for Aya.
I hate japanese (creepy) otaku too.
SHE HATES YOU!!
Maybe – just possibility – he doesn’t regard himself as one? I sure as hell don’t.
Pot calling kettle black.
Lol at all these racist white people bashing Japanese otakus. Look in the fucking mirror you hypocrite.
Is this source from a gossip rag? Unless she outright does quit we can only assume it’s just a rumor.
Long time no see Aya story on SanSom.
Can’t really blame her. She gets jumped on alot by the “fans”. Can’t even get her private life private.
Oh hey, she’s with another man. Let’s fuzz over it.
You should be right -she should be fucking whoever she wants-, but really, she wasn’t very smart about that.
First rule of a (potentially) famous female seiyuu: your private life should be a more well-guarded secrete than a soviet secret project. You don’t see Mamiko Noto doing what she did, do you?
And… it seems to me this was the norm even before her Haruhi debut.
people do that here in states too, it’s called tabloids. if she doesn’t want it, maybe she shouldn’t opted to be in the media industry. i don’t see any real benefit in coming up with excuses for her being dumb. the likely outcome of this is she becomes old, fucked too many men to have anyone want to wife her, and shit on her career one too many times to have a job that supports her life style.
Agreed wholeheartedly. Those specific otaku were creepy, but she was an idiot for not keeping her private life private (FYI, most otaku don’t give a shit about the private lives of seiyuu).
I don’t particularly care for Aya Hirano. She’s a talented seiyuu, but also an idiot and attention whore. If she succeeds as an actress, good for her. If not, oh well.
So you are not a hardcore otaku? You dont love shitty moe and fanservice? If so, congrats.
talented? Yes, as much as 99% of her fellow seiyuu comrades, but it was not a talent out of the “ordinary” (ordinary for the high quality seiyuu standard of the japanese, the simply kick ass), you want talent that stands above even the high standarsm, yiu know, those that sometimes you cannot tell its the same seiyuu unless you read the credits and cannot believe its the same, those that can input real personality to each of her characters? :
-Sawashiro Miyuki
-Paku Romi
I can name male seiyuu, but noone cares about them , of course can name eve more female seiyuu but will leave it at that.
HirANO just happened to voice extremely popular characters that obsessive hardcore otaku took to “god” status, so as expected she was incredibly overrated.
Oh dammit, if I was a creepy seiyuu otaku (and living in japan) I would stalk Mamiko Noto into quitting being a seiyuu, just so I don’t have to listen to her stupid voice ever again. Darn.
Theres no cure, no prevention, countermeasure possible for a stupid retarded attention-whore girl.
So stupidity cannot be countered in any way.
YES!
HELL YES!
another story about my favorite scandal seiyuu, keep the trash talk coming Aya !
So.. if this is true which I’m hoping it’s not…
Who will voice Haruhi in the inevitable season 3?
What about Lucky Star season 2? ( Lol I wish )
I doubt KyoAni would cancel a season if Hirano didn’t want to voice Haruhi again, but I just don’t know who’s able to take her place.
Another thing is.. would the otaku accept a new VA? Haruhi is a pretty popular franchise. A VA change would be huge.
Who are otaku to decide what VA is used? to decide anything at all? The minority shouts the loudest, always does. There are no statistics, but I feel only 5% of Haruhi worldwide fanbase actually gives a shit about this.
Changing any of the VA’s will draw more attention than leaving the roles as they are for Season 3. Therefore the correct decision for Kyoani will be to ignore everybody, like they’re going to do anyway.
Well to be truthful, haruhi voice is still able to manage somehow.. Konata’s voice is irreplaceable.
Well, considering that most of the Otaku´s have already said that they will never accept Aya as a VA for Harumi anymore, i´m pretty sure that they would not only accept and welcome a new VA they will demand it…
I hope she will never stop to be a Seiyuu, I really love her performance, she is very talented I don’t give a fck what she does in her free/spare time or about her personal life who is dating/fck w/e..
All I care about is to continue listen her dreamy/fun as hell(at times) performance in more & more quality anime 🙂
You lover this slut and she despises you!
You deserve it for being stupid.
If only japanese otaku thought that way… She might actually like them more if they didn’t think of her as their “shared” property.
And I agree with you, what she does outside the voice recording makes no difference.
Just scared of what will happen to Lucy if she quits voice acting… Would be hard to get used to another VA.
Are you formt eh USA, this is the mentality there, you women are shameless sluts all and drugaddicts, so noone care much, but wait wasnt Clinto in big shit for trouble with one mere blowjob, what about Obamas security prositues scansl, anbd what about your recent military-.cia lovers scansal???
Americans don’t even want religion (christanity) in the land anymore yet 95% of the country’s super morality complex comes from christanity fundementals.
In Japan there is no screaming priest saying ur going to hell if u watch anime, or if same sex genders kiss.
In America there are screaming priests and soccer mommies saying ur going to hell if u watch anime, and the religious hypocrites scream if same sex genders kiss.
Atleast in Japan u can go about ur business really without being hassled by some stupid christian priest that wants to promote fear and ignorance in the country. Which is why America is attacking manga and anime now.
Because of the religious dictatorship and influence in the American Country in politics and social-life.
Stfu. America is just filled with as much prostitution as in Japan. Just look around in Las Vegas.
America however is a hypocrite majority of the time and likes to pretend these things don’t exist in the country while pointing “moral obligation” fingers at others.
Whites more often then not are prone to divorce and remarrying atleast 3 times in their lives now. They sleep around, and slut around like any other human race on the planet.
There is no true “justified” country. All came from sin and are all filthy in the eyes of god, the only one who has not sinned at all.
>>12:22 29/11/2012
consider there are plenty of married american women around, i’d say you are angry, jelly, and plain wrong. but that aside, your post is completely nonsensical. sleeping around while being single is not the same as cheating in a committed relationship. with that regard, japan is one of the world leaders in adultery.
all thanks to that, american girls are much better in bed… now if only they are not crazy, they’d be perfect. you jelly?
11:49 29/11/2012
Jelly? WHo the fuck want shameless prostitutes and grug-addicts, sure, they are fun to fool around but noones wants a slut as your partner for life.
Honestly noone is saying a virgin is a must, some sex experience with your boyfriends its no big deal, the big deal is with shameless prostitutes fucking around with any men then can get their hand son, those are dirty fucking sluts noone wasnt as permanent partner, aya hirANO is one of them, but since she is famous many will not case and will happily have her, just as is the case with any celebrities anywhere.
I don’t know it doesn’t sound like you love her, since all you care is her voice. You know Aya is a human-being. If you really care you would care about what is happening to her in real life, right? You also don’t mind that’s she’s on the drug and alcohol? I would care about her and her well-being.
Why should we? She’s a stranger and an actor not someone we actually know. She doesn’t even know us.
And the people who care about what happenes in her real life are the ones who are actively making it worse. Think about that.
You need better reading comprehension skills. Dude said he loves her performance skills, not her. There is a diffference. One is creepy as all get out, and the other is normal.
aya hirano is a sex object so lets treat her like one.
lol ew shes not even hot
I wish we could have more Lucky Star and Haruhi, but not with her. She engineered her own downfall, not only with these ridiculous scandals but also her own shitty bratitude and erratic behavior. Entertainment is work too – it requires dedication and the will to put in the hours to make it possible. Who’d hire her now? The gal is trouble.
She still haired for minor roles, probably some old farts that she slept with before are having some pity on her and giving her some minutes in a couple series.
I only hate her because she was a slut about how she did it.
Hint for seiyuu don’t reveal personal info period not even your name.
use a fake one. DERP
Honestly… she got popular in the first place because of otakus. If it wasn’t for otakus.. she’d be nowhere.
Being a idol has…. made her think she was something else entirely.
Otakus are ok but those “who fall in love and think they own them” type of otakus are not.
who ever will voice lucy???
WHo cares!!! It an anime aimed and kids and young teens, they dont give a shit to seiyuu.
It seems pretty much sensible and agreable. She wasn’t very smart with her band thing, but who gives a fuck, really? I liked her voice, but oh well. Wasn’t on my top seiyuu list, I guess. I’m kinda curious to see her act, even if my hopes aren’t too high. Did she do anything before?
… actually, the real problem is that this means no more Nanael for Queen’s Blade…
Damn I’m horny for Nanael thanks to that voice lol
Whatever news I read that is about Aya Hirano, I still remain to be a fan of her. I can’t imagine another seiyuu performing Suzumiya Haruhi or Konata Izumi XD
Kana-tan for me ^w^
The voice for Konata is may be slightly unique, but her usual generic Haruhi voice is nothing special…even the new-comer seiyuu Mariko Nakatsu who voice Nanami in “Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo” sound very close to the “Haruhi voice”. Hell, I would go as far as saying she can replace most of Aya’s role without problem, since most of them were the generic Haruhi voice…
You forgot Sakura Ayane.
Konata’s voice was awesome, but fuck deko bitch anyway lol won’t miss her!
Haruhi and Konata were her only roles that really stood out to me, neither of which appeared to be getting a revisit. Otherwise, I just haven’t been impressed with her.
people like her are dime in a dozen. you think other seiyuu wouldn’t do just as a good job if not better than her? many would kill for chances at fame like that. that woman is seriously dumb, mismanages her private life away from professional life, then throws her career away. she’ll be pulling the same shit as an actress too. sure, her agent is an incompetent moron, but pulling this will get her blacklisted by the industry.
Or Katja.
I respect Aya in those roles, but to be honest they were always meh anyways
I am a Rie Kugimiya man myself
Kana Hanazawa for me.
Kugyuu has a very special place on my heart.
But my favorite seiyuu is still Yahagi Sayuri. After all, she’s mai waifu’s seiyuu.
Don`t believe everything you read in internet. Specially in Sankaku!
Yuu Kobayashi. I like the way she shifts from manly to cutesy tones.
Though I like anybody with a nice voice.
I like Ayako Kawasumi and Ami Koshimizu, they have a pretty nice voice, Lafiel and Holo were just fantastic.
Personally, I like Yuriko Fuchizaki best.
But I thought Aya was a pretty good voice actress, very talented. It’s sad that it has come to this, but I’ve got to agree with her that otaku are creeps.
Miyuki Sawashiro still best.
My favourite is Ayana Taketatsu,
she is the best imouto.
Kanai Mika, ftw
Kugimiya is nice and all…but my personal preference is Noto Mamiko. I really love her voice.
10 posts, ELEVEN different names. These bitches really are completely disposable today, aren’t they?
-and not one of you old enough to remember Kotono Mitsuishi or Megumi Hayashibara, amirite?
Dont worry, so sorry to breake your bubble, there wont be any more haruhi or Lucky Star!
Nice, dumb people idolize it, lover her, are her fans and as we have always knew she despises her “fans”!!
Great combination of dumb people.-
Are you fans of Horiguchi Yukiko or Ikeda Shouko? If you don’t know who they are, that’s because they came up with the character designs.
You’d have to be pretty shallow to assign credits to a replaceable voice than artists whose hard work are responsible for these characters.
I happen to know 4 untrained people irl who can imitate these character’s voices perfectly down to pitch and tone, though only in short bursts (one of them is a guy too, creepy, but also more impressive). Surely trained seiyuus can do it. Even if not perfectly, they can fix it via postprocessing to be indistinguishable.
Aya Hirano is just a woman who’s lost direction in life and is making a wreck of herself. Worthy of sympathy, but not admiration.
True works.
She did not say she hates Otaku. Nor has she quit. And though I love her seiyuu work and hope her management keeps her in the anime loop, I see nothing wrong with her perusing an acting career. Don’t forget if you’re an idol/singer once you reach the ripe old elderly age of 26 Japanese men/otaku dump you and call you an old hag (and most anime characters are highschoolers) and your real only hopes at continuing your career and making money to eat dinner is in acting.
Even if Japanese guys don’t like you anymore Aya because you’re not a “15 year old first year student blah blah typical anime plot” and your getting older and more mature, your true Japanese, Haruhi, Konata and Overseas fans who have been with you from the start still support you and will buy multiple copies of whatever you are in!
Aya Hirano love bitches. Deal with it.
NOW VOTE ME DOWN.
well not wrong but not necessary
think about:
Yui Horie(36),
Hayashibara Megumi(45),
Paku Romi(40),
Noto Mamiko(32),
Shimizu Kaori(29),
Tamura Yukari(36),
Nonaka Ai(31),
Shinitani Ryouko(31),
Kobayashi Yuu(30),
Satou Rina(31),
Kuwatani Natsuko(34),
Kanda Akemi(34),
Minagawa Junko(37),
Chihara Minori(32)…
Wakamoto Norio(67)… 😀
well thinking about it… Horie-san a Tamura-san such a cute voices at that age… 😀
I was mostly just listing my favs but this is about the gist… There are some that disappear after a role, some stay for few years other decades and some stay forever (like midori sato from sazae-san) 😀
To counter your point theres a reason none of these older girls are as popular or get as many jobs as younger Aya.
It’s okay; nobody likes obsessive, obnoxious, creepy, sweaty nerds.
PUBLIC PEOPLE are PUBLIC for a reason.
If she wanted noone to butt in in her “private life” she should not be in the media business! much less be an attention whore.
Most seiyuu have no problem because they only fo their work and only that, they are begging for attention, they are not looking for the cameras, appearing on tv saying stupid things coming up with likes on the internet to get the attention and compassion of her “fans”.
So you will se many are so very successful because the do simply their work which is voice characters, not being the celebrities themselves and appear on cameras.
!!!!!!
add fatty to the list
+1
hey this hurt, im not sweaty, im just so juicy
Pizza, condom, clarinets, Haruhi
And I’m not obnoxious, I’m just opinionated.
Too bad that it is those “obsessive, obnoxious, creepy, sweaty nerds” that are the biggest spenders when it comes to Anime, Manga and other things like figurines and Drama CD´s.
So it doesn’t matter if they like them or not, they need them to be able to gain a profit.
Bullshit. That niche group of freaks is a drop in the bucket compared to the mainstream audience which pays for the TV show through ratings. Otaku only matter to the producers of figures and other crap, what do voice actors care about figure sales?
This guys peaks the truth, the real money the industry makes is in the mainstream anime, not the niche markets, of course there are small studies that do the beloved anime hardcore otaku loves, so yes, for them ITS BIG DEAL the shitty disc sales.
The ones that support the whole of the industry are mainstream audiences, you moe lovers only support your shitty series, nothing less and nothing more, of course you support the industry BUT A TINY portion of it.
pretty sure they pirate more, as all my nerd friends always gasp when they see me buy anime dvd/blu-ray discs. Someone has to support the anime studios. that shit don’t get drawn for free.
The Japanese market doesn’t seem to pirate nearly as much as the foreign markets.
They’re also the biggest pirates.
“Over here, sure. There… not so much.”
lel, and I suppose foreigners placed all those japanese games, anime, manga, etc on Winny/Share/PD, along with made those programs.
what, u mad, japanophile?
Hey try to find animes with adult thematic in countries such as Brazil, where most animes are for children! This on cable tv!
If it was not for piracy were just seeing naruto 2 season!( 1 naruto not shippuden)
As for this digger, should have vanished from the map a long time!
True words have never been spoken.
You are quite dumb, arent you?
Over here, sure. There… not so much.
She avoiding the creepy Otaku which works for me.
is she tsundere?
Haruhi wasn’t really tsundere, more of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl.
Very.
She’s even more tsundere than Haruhi.
Well, who won’t hate creepy otaku? Even otaku hate otaku. Nothing new.
“Even otaku hate otaku.”
So true.
Na, its not hate, but you cannot help but criticize the antics of hardcore ones = moe fanservice lovers.
And what’s wrong with moe faggot? Damn straight dat moe fanservice!
Kimoota is way different from otaku…
That is the problem.
>Implying she won’t have creepy fans as normal actress.
I don’t really understand the apparent fascination with seiyuu, they have nothing in common with the characters they voice for, why are otaku even interested in them ?
She looks too bad to be actress.
Aya Hirano has been a train wreck in the public eye for quite some time due to her lacking of maturity with decision making. It’s always easier to blame someone else for your own problems when you’re the underlying cause of your own misfortunes.
As for the update, that’s just another example of her immaturity at work. She needs to put up or shut up. Give the drama a rest once and for all and maybe people can take her more seriously.
I wonder if she will turn into an AV star now instead of being an actress, like them AKB48
Enjoy working on 7/11 harui.
As they say, good riddance to bad rubbish. We won’t miss you.
Well I for one won’t.
RIP Aya.
Yours truly.
She is shit as a seiyuu anyway. Aya stop this bullshit and record the AV already.
I find it incredibly difficult to actually give a f^^k about Aya Hirano.
She’s just a whore…
And you are not getting any.
As understandable as her situation is, I can’t help but think her actions very unprofessional.
with her attitude towards sex i wouldn’t be surprised her career as actress starts in the AV industry.
At Fucking Last She WAS FUCKING ANNOYING as hell
She seems to have an odious personality, but I agree about the creepy otaku. It’s never a good idea to pee into the pool you’re swimming in though, she should have waited until after her career switch. I wouldn’t want to destroy my source of income before securing another.
Hating fanatical people who stalk you, bash you, love to criticize you at every turn?
I don’t see a problem here.
What? she voiced lucy? noooooooo.Boku no fairy tail!!!
You deaf.
DEATH TO THE TRAITOR!!1
She’a voiced Konata already. I no longer care what she does.
*yawn*… anything more interresting?
This is Aya Hirano Complex! Nothing is more interesting!
You want a replacement for Deko Bitch? there’s one Female in mind…Nakatsu Mariko hear is par with Hirano. She’s Nanami in sakurasou pet na kanojou.
A good catch. She might be able to replace at least someone like Lucy of Fairy Tail, even if not more iconic Hirano roles.
I wounder if she will be replaced, the she voiced her roles well that it usually felt natural, I hope she is replaced with someone with a similar voice or fits.
(Basically Fairy Tail and Haruhi would need replacements)
Slices out
It said that she is refusing as much VA work as possible.
So she may finish those she already have, like Lucy in FT.
I doubt that she will get a role in Harumi considering that the majority of the fans have said that they will boycott the new season if Aya get the role.
And that means huge losses for the company….
Well, there’s that.
who cares about her?
Kana hanazawa is cuter and better than her..
Repeat after me, “Mental illness is a disease. It can be cured.”
She is just like me- hates otaku while being otaku herself. And since I am tsundere, she is likely to be the same, so, we both like otakus.
Yours, Akine.
Too bad… guess we won’t see the same Haruhi and Konata voice again… hope this didn’t prevent them to make Haruhi anime anymore. I really wish to see the continuation of Haruhi being animated. But seriously she’s so dumb.. what makes her think that she will be more success as an actress rather than a seiyuu? Honestly, her face is average, her body is
Aya Hirano quits VAing, starts AVing. Nothing has changed.
Her body isn’t even plump enough to play AV..
.. Why do you pathetic losers think a Seiyuu represent your little 2D fantasy.. It’s a voice, no more no less. Whatever they do doesn’t change the characters they voiced. The fact that she became an “idol” is entirely your own faults. Stop treating voice actors as gods already, they are normal people who just happened to voice a god damn character. They could’ve just as well taken some no-name homeless person to voice your characters and you wouldn’t even know!
i seem to recall aya being banned from voicing any new roles other than what she currently has and what she has already potrayed… so her refusal to accept new voice acting jobs is irrelevant. got a little to big-headed for her own good methinks.
Nobody cares about her whinings, someone with such dirty morals (enjoying sex ain’t bad, doing it the way she does it in my opinion is) isn’t fit to give other people lessons or judging them, otakus or not.
Idol? She suck at being one and too old anyway.
Singing? She sucks, again, her music is shit and she’s only an interpret, not writing them or composing them.
Actress? She sucks even more at it, saw her in a drama or something like that some time ago playing a teacher, it was laughable.
Seiyuu? Appart from Konata and Haruhi she did nothing memorable…
Just get back to a normal and anonymous life, find some old rich man, marry him for financial security and find some young lovers behind his back, build yourself a harem or anything like that, nobody gives a shit about her.
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Aya is over.
And she earn a lot more money than you, loser.
i wonder if that’s the case… there are some pretty rich people on sancom
Now she has cut off her Lifeliners, it is surely the end for Hirano-sama. No career options, save maybe AV, are left to her.
RIP.
if they replace lucy, i hope they’ll redo all the episode with the new lucy .
i have nothing against hirano , but i never find her convincing as lucy …
All her roles could easily be replaced by Nayuta.She comes pretty close to Hiranos voice and actually sounds a lot better.So who needs the Dekobitch anyways?