Aya Hirano has revealed she actually lived in New York for several years as an infant, and paid a visit there for the benefit of TV audiences – meeting some of the Big Apple’s creepiest otaku denizens along the way.
She apparently lived in New York when she was aged 2-3:
She also paid a visit to an unidentified NY anime shop and supposedly let the lucky “Dave-san” cop a feel (a privilege it is hard to imagine her extending to any Japanese otaku), whilst meeting some of America’s finest cosplayers:
Most of 2ch seems to think this distinctly contrived looking encounter was a setup, a none too implausible conclusion given Japanese TV’s track record in this area.
She called in on her childhood nursery:
No Hirano appearance is complete without the obligatory slatternly utterance:
“I bought nothing but lots of T-backs”
“But I thought they’d never use that bit!”
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HOLY MOLY!! AYA HIRANO IN A STABLE!!! IS SHAKING HANDS,A HORSE IS SHAKING HANDS WITH HERE!!!
FUCK YOU!!!!
Go back to Japan you WHORE!
America has enough problems...
how dare you call her a whore you fatherfucking dipshit go jump off a cliff survive the fall then stay there and slowly feel the pain of dying
písenme la verga
The full footage if any interested:
http://himado.in/54210
Dont worry,Japanese young people are hate to go to U.S.
agree.most japanese young ppl are Not interested in U.S.
I see a cow..
...and a leper. o.0
I recognize that store...
I know she was in Kinokuniya a few weeks back, on 41st and 6th avenue, so its probably there.
That store's Forbidden Planet near Union Square.
Oh Aya. How you love black men.
Aya can for me love who she ever want. No issue for others.
That's not convincing coming from someone with her as his avatar.
@Yoshii-kun,funny as ever...
did she get some black dick that night?
Most likely, a slut always a slut everywhere
lol. I sense trolling.
That looks like the Higurashi Font...
That was the day that Motaku was busy with something else and didn't hear about it till it was all over.
Who else among sancommites who inhabit NYny, missed this?
Not railgun, coz according to the profile ~ he's died.
btw, where is the pic of the otaku that were lurking en'mass at her hotel?
I expect Quen has met her a dozen times already.
Yeah, this is news to me.
I have stated a few times before that I live in NYC, and I had no idea this was happening.
That comic shop is called Forbidden Planet, and besides Kinokuniya's Manhattan branch, it's one of the best brick and mortar locations to get Manga in the whole city.
Damn, I could have been there in half an hour or so.
I reconize that guy hugging Aya too. He's the cashier up there in the Manga section. I remember we once got into a discussion on how Shonen is more "Bishi-fied" these days. Small world, no?
I like the reaction shot in the corner when she's shaking hands with the Haruhi cosplayer.
Awesome...That anime shop owner looks like he's about to come out of his skin from Aya's presence~
coughluckybastardcough
@Megidola
Same here...These are very lucky fans to have met Aya in person...
The shop is "Forbidden Planet" in Union square NYC... FYI.
Thank you~ I'll check it out when I drop by New York for the fireworks...
shiit. i never knew famous people go to FP. the anime section in there always seem so dead lol. someone needs to tell her to come to elizabeth center. :) thatll be sweet.
That Haruhi cosplayer is so fat, she should stop cosplaying...
@17:56 She should stop eating *fixed*
i think you missed the point of cosplaying -_-
agreed, meeting the seiyuu while cosplaying the seiyuu's character is one of a kind feeling
when it happens,most people are omgomgomgomg
That is just one of the employees from Forbidden Planet NYC (not an owner), the comic shop that has an anime section in their upstairs section. He is overly exaggerated on average... maybe putting him in front of a camera just amplified it?
Damn... The US gets all the best special guests. Minori Chihara was invited to a recent con no?
Never gonna happen in Singapore. Even if it did, there would be no meet and greets and any hope of receiving any autographs will be in the form of lucky draw prizes.
We're way too cheap.
I'm hoping for the day when the entire SOS-dan descends onto this red dot of us.
All we had so far is a Keion-bu without Mio and a Hanazawa Kana.
And May'N...again.
...and not to mention, no meet and greet and NO AUTOGRAPH SESSION! I'm still pissed about that one.
Lucky Draw contests suck because people who don't care much for the Seiyuu might win as opposed to someone who is a really, really big fan.
...or you could spend a ton of money on their VIP concert tickets. Urgh. We still have a ton to learn.
Well,I went to Singapore for the AFA X,there was also Milky Holmes,lest you are not a fan of the series
Oh yeah. But then again, you had to still buy something. If I'm not mistaken, they also weren't allowed to sign anything other than the merchandise right?
That black guy behind the counter has demoman sideburns.
until....HEAVYYYY!
As soon as I read "cosplayers" ... I knew they were going to look like that.
If they aren`t Japanese. Ohno rules!
fat people in cosplay=fail!!!
They're just the "wide-ban" version.
found the 4:3 version
http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/g346/jm90989/lol1.jpg
well thats still not right
http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/g346/jm90989/lol2.jpg
there we go, black bars~
i was only half-erect
No lewd adjectives = No expectations
I will bear that in mind for future articles.
Guys, I think this dudes an admin O_O
*runs away*
@Anon,since it's SC,a lot of people kinda predicted that
^No shit Sherlock :D
a wild admin, i have never seen one in the wold before
That would be:
"America's Finest Cosplayers"
Sounds like a great idea for a new Fox series!
scary very scary!
I was happy when I noticed that I have the same pillow as the one in the pic, then I saw the cosplayers, I frowned T-T
When I noticed that you have such a pillow, I frowned.
She was pretty editable at 3.