Top seiyuu Marina Inoue, known for such roles as Yoko and Alicia, has reported that she was chased by a “strange person” and almost broke down into tears as a result.
She reports the encounter on Twitter:
I was chased by a strange person and panicked. They followed me as far as the train and I was half in tears. Somehow I lost them.
2ch is aflutter with the news – though asking “which one of you guys did it?” of course.
Being hunted, splattered or onanised over by creepy stalkers appears to be an increasingly common occupational hazard for seiyuu – fortunately there is an easy way out of the predicament for any seiyuu bold enough to take it.
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Isn't it more like "Someone also going to the train station followed me there and then got on his train."
Possibly fake - cheap publicity.
If it wasn't, then do you think people are going to admit it?
Or do you want to say "Oh it's nothing serious. We don't see anything happening" and find another kid hanging by a scarf they knitted for her mother?
"which one of you guys did it?"
2ch... ^_^
Baka, I wasnt stalking her, I was stalking her friend that was with her
I like how the 'easy way out' points to Aya's 'betrayal' article. xD
Well, maybe it was wabbit season.
Oh give me a break.
Just read the post: "I was chased by a strange person.." and suddenly "They followed.." and ".. lost them". So, was it a single person or several? Miss, did you report that incident to the police or you think Twitter is enough?
The fact she says it was like that doesn't necessarily mean it happened like that or happened at all. Celebrities are precisely the people who make a lot of things up because they are public and a celebrity "shines" only when people are talking about her/him. Stop all the rumors, articles in cheap tabloids, interviews on TV - everyone will forget about that "star" very soon and will have hard time remembering her/his name. As you may know, western celebrities PAY money for such rumors and especially photos to appear in yellow press and on TV.
If it is serious or not - it is not for me or you to decide - it should be decided by police. We are only reading a mere rumor posted on TWITTER. Good gracious! How naïve are you believing every word of a twitter post? May be you also believe everything to a word transmitted in the news on a national government-sponsored TV channel?
Plus, almost reducing yourself to tears only because someone follows you towards a train station .. sounds like a mental disorder.
"which one of you guys did it?"
Well,at least they're honest.
"Which one of you guys did it?"
Hm, I see they're approaching this with the most obvious suspects first: themselves.
@KoollKat: Hi, you must be new here.
Or do you just not read many of the articles here?
Sarcasm aside, does this really surprise you anymore? Things like this are commonplace and happen all the time. Just leave it alone. No need to get into a hissy-fit over it.
And, for the record, you should read more people's comments before commenting yourself. Either that, or learn when to detect massive amounts of obvious sarcasm.
Most of the people here don't think it actually happened. It's actually pretty sad that you think that we think that way.
Lastly, the police is nothing more than a group of normal people, just like ourselves. The only real distinction is that they have more time and resources to sit there and collect massive amounts of evidence. Still, that doesn't give them the right to decide if something actually happened or not, like you said. The people who actually have the final say is a group of the suspect's peers. Or do you not know your constitutional ammendments?
@KoollKat you use "they" and "them" if you don't know the sex of a singular person.
@KoolKat
Unless you read the original Japanese, it may be a little confusing. Japanese typically doesn't have the concept of plurals (aside from some personal pronouns, on occasion), so some translations take liberties with that (as Dia said). It's possible the original article didn't have the disparity.
"which one of you guys did it?"
"ME!"
I want too see someone saying this..
The original Japanese doesn't indicate the gender of her pursuer so one way around this is to use "they." I assume it was a "he" but she does not explicitly say this.
DAMNIT, I WASN'T STALKING HER ITS THE OTHER WAY AROUND, SHE WAS STALKING ME, EVER WHERE I WENT SHE WAS THERE, TEN FEET AHEAD OF ME, EVERY DAMN PLACE I WENT
Wow this was serious I wonder what happen if she trip and fell no cause I don't want nothing happening to her
"Possibly fake - cheap publicity."
She's well-known enough, don't think she needs it.
No offense but if I run into her, I might want to take a photo or two...but probably won't be chasing her like some sort of lunatic.
May be it's classic case of lady thinking a stalker is chasing her, but it turns out to be a guy chasing her to try to give back the purse/wallet that she drops? :P
i completely agree she is pretty famous and she is one of my favs
I think the same thing
Maybe she is so sure about herself as a seyuu that she mistook some guy trying to take the train as being a stalker!
Sill girl :)
200 stalkers followed me into the train! lulz
968 stalkers didn't get the train.
I swear, at the airport, there were a lot of people. No less than 100 of 'em followed me onto a plane, sat within a 50m radius for hours, and left the plane at the same place as I did. It's creepy how people are stalking me just because I'm a cool guy. :(
It's even worse for me. Back in school, dozens of people followed me each workday, sat about half of the day near me and kept that up for years!!
A stalker got onto the train. 967 stalkers left on the platform.
Wait a minute... Chen-04? Um.. Back at school.. I thought you were stalking me, but it all makes sense now. We were both just taking classes! Now I feel so stupid.
A stalker had to go take a piss.
966 stalkers left on the platform.
A stalker met a gravity singularity event.
965 stalkers left on the platform.
A stalker jumped in front of the train.
964 stalkers left on the platform.
Yeah I agree Abel. Maybe whoever was 'following' her was just going to the same place she was going. But it does say she was chased, maybe she was running for her life? Doubtful, but people still rape these days I hear.
OMG, she's so hot yet so cute
The costume fits her very well
I'd follow her and protect her !! :3
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@Archer112
Lol, that actually does sound like a possibility from how it was described.
OH COMEON!
I DIDNT MEAN TO MAKE YOU CRY!
they just need to say "i dont like thick condoms"
they wont go near you ever again.
or they will hate you lol.
OR have a duck face?
I'd take her home so nobody can follow her. :3
or they will rape you with thick condoms anyway.
Next time bring a shovel with you Marina, turn all yandere and smack the heck out of them with a creepy face XD
Just push the stalker in front of the nice train.
Well, self-preservation never hurts
No need to be so worried about that before it happened though
He was running, right? Then counter him with Belly To Belly Suplex.
...Not to be executed if he's holding a knife :P
Kurt angle his ass!(Kurt angle uses the belly to belly suplex quite often for those of you who don't know)
... or I'd also prefer Akiyama Jun's Exploder. Nothing's more sweet than flipping the stalker overhead and break his neck.
Well, that easy way out is not that easy to take since you will never work as a seiyuu or in some kind of idol business again.
Nothing good comes of idolizing 3D.
It's best to accept that they are just humans too and worship 2D instead. After all, 2D > 3D.
But I blame the seiyuus, too. It's because they join the whole idol crap.
Really, there is no need to have blogs and post pictures of how you spend christmas with your female friends and so on. They should just keep everything private. Just don't give your fans any information or pics of yourself. >.>
being chased is actually exciting. I don't see her problem
She just needs to go a bit Chiri on the harrassers.
"Being hunted, splattered or onanised over by creepy stalkers"
Arte, you forgot to add "being groped" in that list, as have happened to Fukuen Misato which you have reported on here before.
leave Marina Inoue alone :(
she should use her Kitsu, Chiri voice and beat the shit out of her stalkers, that would be nice ^____^
You want her to hurt you ?
Yes! Please hurt me!
^ Exactly this would happen. ^_^