Aki Toyosaki, the seiyuu best known for portraying Yui Hirasawa in top moe anime K-ON!, has revealed she is an ardent fan of the Grand Theft Auto series.
She is already known as something of a gamer, with a liking for beat-’em-ups, but a recent interview provides the surprising revelation that she is a big fan of GTA as well:
What sort of games do you like to play?
People often tell me I look the type to enjoy Animal Farm, but actually I don’t really like girly games at all…
Quite the contrary, I like rougher games – I love fighting games like “Grand Theft Auto”! I really get into them.
Whilst some eyebrows were raised at her classification of GTA as a “fighting game” (whilst it does involve plenty of assault, she used the term usually reserved for the genre encompassing Street Fighter and similar), nobody is going to begrudge her good taste.
In other remarks she reveals she enjoys western games, as well as, of all things, sumo games – the named the title below specifically:
A woman of many facets.
GTA is a piece of s♥♥t! Worst game ever!
Why should we care?
WHAT? K-On seiyuu can’t like hitting people with bats and picking up hookers! THAT’S NOT MOE~ AT ALL!
I wonder is she really does play gta… CJ as her favorite character?
Isn’t this a english game?She knows english?