Aya Hirano is accusing her agency of high-handedly changing the entire direction of her career without ever bothering to consult her, and she voices her disgust at them for the chaos they inflicted upon her fans.
As ever, the latest diatribe is delivered by way of a series of tweets:
I even wrote this in my Yomiuri column, but with the changes at my agency there’s not a single member of staff in my current team who had anything to do with my past music or even knew about my anime roles. That’s my biggest worry. Everything I’ve done up to now is being negated.
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The sudden change in my career direction was forced on me against my will. “Forget everything you’ve done up until now and start from scratch!” I really have to wonder just what my 5 years of work as a seiyuu were in aid of.
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What I hate the most is the upset this caused to my fans. Why they suddenly thrust this upon them with no followup, why they never said what direction they wanted me to go in, it’s an insult to my fans I can’t forgive.
At this stage the response is less than supportive:
Stop making excuses!
You’re the one who went along with it all!
There’s no way her agency told her to make herself into a celebrity slut character…
Her lifeliners are such idiots they’ll probably buy this.
Sounds like she’s quitting her agency.
Blaming everything on your staff now? Bull.
Rubbish excuse. She’s just pouring oil on the fire now.
All this despite the fact it she was the one who actually said that stuff on TV, not her agency.
Now she’s even making enemies of her agency…
If you want to be a seiyuu just change agency!
She’s just desperate to reconstitute her lifeline.
She must be at an impasse in the talent world. The lack of demand is starting to bite…
Otaku are… My illness is… My agency are…
Please don’t go back to being a seiyuu. Stay a talent on stupid variety shows forever.
So she is an angel after all! That damn agency…
she is typical alien-reptiloid
“The sudden change in my career direction was forced on me against my will” Seriously? As if she was force to say those things BY HERSELF on those shows.
From what I’ve read on this site, Japanese talent agencies have ways of making girls do pretty much anything for that piece of the spotlight. So this doesn’t surprise me… except fr the fact that she’s announcing this publicly. This happens to all Japanese celebrities, their agents force them to go on dozens of mindless TV shows just to keep their name relevant (even if the talent themselves isn’t). Idols like those from Morning Musume have been groomed since childhood to make other people money by selling themselves… it’s a shame really that these people compromise their integrity to keep the economy going.
This goes out to Aya Hirano (even though I KNOW that she is never going to read it):
“They say the truth will set you free, but I see signs of treachery
Go on perpetually, here’s how they get you G
They use the tricks, just to juice your mix
But cross be in their heart like a vampire stabbed with a crucifix
I had the enemy in my vicinity with the false identity
Of a friend to me to injure me
They ride along just to guide you wrong
Play like they beside you strong, and start to faking moves like Olajuwon
Who side you on, revealing all that low down dirty dealing
I can see your skin peeling it changed like a chameleon
First you believe in them, but once you disagree with them
They try to get Magilla repertoire and that ain’t even them
And all those who has betrayed, be fast to fade
Cause they cast a shade, with the masquerade
What’s dealt, is low blows below the belt
Lord have mercy, I know how Julius Caesar must have felt
I start to think back when I was just a youth
I should have listened to the words of the God Born Truth
He said, “look out for black snakes they all up in your cypher
Black snakes you can’t see therefore they sneak up and they bite ya'”
They get to flippin’ cause they think you slippin’
So remember, don’t get to slippin’ cause they get to flippin’
And trippin’, what’s that you grippin’, beside your hippin’
You think my heart is skippin’, go save that game for Scottie Pippen”
-Big Daddy Kane, “Shame”
forget the diary