- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 13, 2012 00:52 JST
- Tags: Aya Hirano, Ayana Taketatsu, Idol, Internet, Music, Otaku, Rankings, Seiyuu, Twitter

None other than scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano herself has been unseated from her position as most followed seiyuu, with even her fascinating antics not enough to spare her the humiliation of being overtaken by the actor behind one of her on-screen peons.
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The element most anime fans are looking for in the anime they watch may come as a surprise to some, considering its near total absence from so many popular late-night anime titles…
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A distinctly unofficial manga cataloguing the fall of a certain “Aya Hi**no” has been attracting much notoriety, not least for its incendiarily accurate and rather titillating content. As if there were not enough, it is quite well drawn as well…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 27, 2012 09:46 JST
- Tags: Chikan, Crime, Idol, Otaku, Seiyuu, Stalkers, Trains, Twitter, Voyeurism

Moeblob seiyuu Ayana Taketatsu (Azunyan) has complained of being “peeped at” and filmed by creepy otaku on the Tokyo subway.
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Scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano’s signature flatness is a thing of the past, along with her youthful looks, if the reaction to her latest appearance on late night comedy “Konna no Idol ja Nain!?” is anything to go by.
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Seiyuu Shizuka Itō has experienced a sudden hardening of her popularity thanks to recent TV appearances which showed an unusual amount of daring for a seiyuu, seeing her bare all (below the waterline at least) and submit to a rather sensuous massage.
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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…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Manga, News
- Date: Dec 3, 2011 01:44 JST
- Tags: Aki Toyosaki, Ero-manga, K-ON!, Otaku, Parody, Seiyuu, Stalkers, Virginity, Yui


The recent scandal afflicting Yui seiyuu Aki Toyosaki has been rendered into ero-manga form, taking as much pleasure in depicting the wailing and gnashing of seiyuu otaku teeth as it does the imagined sexual antics of To**saki herself.
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Aya Hirano watchers are complaining that the scandal seiyuu’s latest look is “massively degraded” compared even to her pre-scandal appearances, let alone her supposed glory days of long silky black hair.
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Aya Hirano has made the cover of the Japanese edition of top music rag Rolling Stone, rock and roll diva that she is.
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Idol otaku are mourning the horrible fate which awaits them after Japanese TV’s latest expose of an elderly idol otaku.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Nov 1, 2011 15:22 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Dating, Idol, Marketing, Marriage, Otaku, Seiyuu, Virginity


With top seiyuu like Aya Hirano, Ayana Taketatsu and Aki Toyosaki all reduced to pariah status for daring to associate with men in the space of weeks, the divide between fans who treat seiyuu as objects of obsession and those who treat them as voice actors has never been so stark – but as some are keen to point out, it has always been thus. Read the rest of this entry »