Aya Hirano’s Friday Debut: “She Did 3 of 4 Band Members”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Aug 5, 2011 19:01 JST
- Tags: Aya Hirano, Idol, Kodansha, Lantis, Mass Media, Music, Otaku, Seiyuu
The spectacular self-destruction of “rampant” seiyuu Aya Hirano’s career has made the pages of top Japanese gossip rag Friday, which alleges her agency killed her musical career in order to punish her for having sex with her band.
Their expose essentially confirms the authenticity of the photographs and the claim that she ruined her music career by treating her band as a personal harem; it also dispenses with “Aya Hira**” and refers to her by name:
An idol magazine editor has this to say:
“Seiyuu fans hate seiyuu love scandals even more than normal fans would. After she lost her prim and proper black-haired image, fans soon started to call her a ‘bitch.’ Perhaps deceiving her own fans by acting in accordance with this image was difficult for her.
If these leaked pictures are genuine, it’s hard to call her conduct anything but rash and irresponsible. Nobody cares if she has a boyfriend, but taking pictures of herself in bed with him is outrageous and won’t wash with fans or sponsors. Perhaps she lost sight of the fact that her image is her precious ‘product’?”
[…]
A source close to Hirano says the photograph is genuine, and that the man pictured was her 2008 touring guitarist. And not only that – from 2008-2010 she had intimate relations with 3 of her 4 band members. And at the end of 2010 her agency replaced all her band members…
“In May last year she stopped all musical activity, saying she wanted to pursue her career as artist but couldn’t. In fact, it would seem her agency may have been punishing her for her activities with her band.”
Performers aren’t forbidden for pursuing romantic liaisons. But excessively rampant private lives will have an impact on their careers. Even if Hirano thinks “love is the fertile soil from which art springs,” this leak is only going to further quicken the alienation of her fans.
Friday has a circulation an order of magnitude greater than that of Bubka, so it would seem there is no going back now.
Although it has long since become a stretch to call this the “fan reaction,” her dissolution is still proving more of a draw than her career ever did – though by now more concern is being expressed for the future of Haruhi than for her career prospects:
“There’s no going back for her now!”
“What’ll they do about Haruhi’s voicing now…”
“She can still find work as a fallen idol.”
“Her 3 man hare finally m came out in print…”
“Why would show business sources say that stuff about her? Show business is scary stuff…”
“It was probably someone involved with the affair.”
“She was so out of control that even her agency couldn’t deal with her, that’s why.”
“She became hard to use so they liquidated her like a bad debt, and then started looking for a replacement, that’s all.”
“Scary… how long before she turns up in an AV!?”
“That skinny little body is not wanted in any AV.”
“You guys keep pressing your pathetic virginity fantasies on these girls. Keep them to 2D girls only.”
“I don’t care how many guys she did. It’s the damage to the image of the titles she voiced that bothers me.”
“Who cares. Normal people don’t care what the person who voices the characters does.”
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DO NOT CARE!
I CARE!
Of course you care or you wouldn't be keep posting in the Hirano Aya articles.
wow by that picture i can totally tell that she had sex with 3 people
..and 2 donkeys and a giraffe, that all are on the missing part of the picture.
Otaku virgins need to get the fuck over it. Even if she fucks a hundred guys her voice acting is the same, ffs. Who cares.
> Even if she fucks a hundred guys her voice acting is the same
Not if she blows them all in 1 day...
now that might change something...
All those blowjobs everyday can't be good for her throat.
Actually, it'll do more damage to the roof of her mouth. I read that in an article in Esquire magazine many years ago.
I should point out that Dame Nellie Melba is a famous Australian singer who had oral sex to improve her voice, so I think she can use that as her defence.
A singer is not the same as a voice actor thou...
And even so, she didn't do 100 a day.
Stupid people care, she has done nothing obscene or morally wrong, although those who make so much fuss about her private life have to be very vocal about their morality beeing violated and shocked and left them raged about their sad pathetic lives who have nothing else better to do.
Say it again, Sam!
Stupid people care, she has done nothing obscene or morally wrong, although those who make so much fuss about her private life have to be very vocal about their morality beeing violated and shocked and left them raged about their sad pathetic lives who have nothing else better to do.
It's about as pathetic as the people that still worship her as a god and keep defending her.
Those people are usually weaboos that worship anything Japanese. Aya should move to America and join with her white fans. She'd fit right in with Paris and Lindsay.
Actually, I suspect that there's a reasonably sizable segment, who are like myself, and we just don't give a flying fuck who's she's banging.
Long as she does her job well.
And I'm probably the odd one out, as I don't even watch the Haruhi series and still think this a far more valid approach.
She isn't a Goddess, she's a human being.
And this is purely something between consenting adults and fully within the law as well, so there's no room for moral outrage on anyone's part.
And if they are outraged.. Well, the whole: "Worry not about the splinter in thine brother's eye before removing the beam from thine own" spiel.
They want to rage about her private life, when they don't even bother voting against a putz like Ishihara?
Her private life = splinter
Their not voting = beam
Three guesses which is worse? And if any of the answers deal with Hirano, then you're doing it wrong.
How did you come to the conclusion that people who don't like Hirano Aya are people that don't vote (against Ishihara)? What kind of jump in logic is that?
How do you know they don't vote? Because Ishihara got elected again? Do you have some twisted perception of reality where the population of otakus in Tokyo constitute a majority?
There are more elderly and middle-aged people than there are otakus. And you're under the wrong assumption that all young adults are otakus and/or like anime and manga.
"Common sense without bigotry" =/= "worship and defend". Get some braincells for a change.
You are american, but it's a Japanese idol.
She should be judged by the Japanese.
So that's what happend.
You may keep your american thinking, but don't put that thinking on other coutnries Idols.
I think she gets judged right.
@ 00:19
So according to you it's OK for Muslims to stone women for not wearing a veil or for African tribal fathers to cut off their daughters clitoris because it's happening in their own country and shouldn't be judged by outside parties?
How fucking provincial can you get? Your logic is extremely flawed.
@Anon of 21:33
I'm simply pointing out that those 2ch chaps who are bashing Harano are more than likely the same chaps who didn't bother going to the poll booths last time round, and who admitted that they didn't do it.
Think it was an article from this site, that I saw such admissions, just after his re-election.
So yeah, them not voting is indeed worse, than what Harano has been up to, and while their votes might not have been enough to defeat the old goat, it at least wouldn't have been so lopsided again, giving off the impression that he actually has a mandate to do what he does.
So it's the principle of the matter. Their inaction was still worse than her actions.
So I stand by what I said.
@00:19
By your own logic, you CANNOT possibly say that she's being judged properly, because you're not Japanese.
@kazaza2
I dind't said that.
Just why not first care about own problems?
And whats so different about stoning people and killing them via gallows?
Her voice acting is the same, we all know that but, without an agency can she still use that talent? I sure hope whatever agency chooses to employ her in the future pays no mind to all of this gossip going around.
Man you got to stop blaming the otakus over everything.
You do realize that this is a big name celebrity magazine that's making a big deal over this?
So she fucked a hundred guys and now a magazine is reporting on it. If you don't like the news, you can choose to ignore it. It's celebrity news, deal with it.
You did. Or maybe you did care for what other think of her too much to even bother reading the whole comment up there, didn't you? Not all of them are "virgin otaku"
And no, when she boost her up image to something this level, she can't go down in peace. Can't do that without any consequences, even if she or anybody like it or not.
It has more to do with morality and people in Japan in general have problem with this kind of immoral behaviour such as having sex before marriage and that with 3 guys. Try to understand, all happened in Japan, not in USA. Even the case with Paris Hilton and the sex tape were scandals in America. And Tiger Woods' many mistresses which lead to the divorce with his wife etc. has been scandals. People like to gossip about these indecent, immoral things.
Immoral is in this day and age judge and scorn a woman on her sexual private life. If we'd been living by traditions we'd still be throwing stones and hunting witches.
And the sex "scandals" in america, allot of them aren't even scandals, just tools/weapons for political scorn and attacks to gain/maintain power.
Immoral? There's nothing immoral about sex with one or more persons if they are fine with it. But it seems those who aren't are those who never had the maturity to have a healthy happy sex life and hide behind a fake/hypocritical face of moral superiority (in some cases the mental insanity of religion)
This is nothing more than a "witch hunt scandal". And imo i havent completly discarded the hypothesis of even bad publicity is better than no publicity.
Idiots making a big deal of sex scandal in the 90s allowed an incompetent moron to be elected in 2000.
That moron almost destroyed the country.
'Fraid not. Like it or not, Hirano (like many female seiyuu) became an idol in her own right. An idol's biggest product, like the article said, is their pristine and cute image. Image shifts are possible (from 'cute' to 'erotic', for example), but difficult to pull off.
Hirano can of course do whoever and whatever she wants, but not without paying the price. It's like breaking kayfabe in pro-wrestling: there's always going to be a backlash when breaking the foundation of the illusion, no matter how loved you are. In retrospect, she should've just kept her private life to herself when trying to broaden her image.
Except when your name is Shawn Michaels and you're the Federation Champion. :P
MSG incident, with Triple H, Hall and Nash.
Triple H was the only one who got put in the doghouse.
Nash and Hall were moving on to WCW and Shawn Michaels was huge at the time. Triple H was the only one left that could be punished.
I know, hence why I said, except for Shawn Michaels who did get away with breaking Kayfabe, especially considering this was after his match with Nash iirc.
They could've made him lose the belt and be chasing after it for a while in punishment after all.
Or let him keep the belt, but keep on getting squashed and saved by DQs.
I mean they did that to Rey Mysterio as well, and he wasn't even in the doghouse.
Matches against the Big Show, Mark Hentry, Great Khali etc etc.
And back then they had Yokozuna, Vader, Ahmed Johnson, Psycho Sid, Taker, Samu and Fatu. Plenty of beef to squash little Shawn with.
And again. My usual comment on this matter: So what? No matter how dicks she takes, her voice acting won't change.
yeah it's pretty much finished today. One thing is to marry, like Megumi Hayashibara did, and other thing is being a promiscuous bitch.
CALLA MEXICANO DE MIERDAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! QUE EN TU PAIS TODAS LAS MUJERES SON PUTAS DESDE QUE NACEN INCLUYENDO A TU MADRE, ESPOSA E HIJA JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA.........
Te la comes doblada pinche chilenito puto
And again, your usual comments isn't going to change anything.
The fact that big name magazines are covering this suggests that this has nothing to do with Otaku outcry.
People gossip and leak rumors about celebrities all the time, why do you care so much about Hirano Aya?
Why does he care?
Better question is why do the magazines and those gossiping people care?
Because scandals bring in viewers which equals money?
That's why they care. This isn't unique to Japan btw.
Lucky Star Season 3, but now.... :(
Season 2 where?
Lol, good question :D
And if course the more ppl that comment on it (include my dumb ass) the more we'll see Aya Hirano stories on Sankaku.
I just don't want this to be the last thing I hear of Aya, she's too adorable to punish, Must Forgive! D:
No nonono, what if a very intense deepthroating?
Lozenges
It would probably have to be something other than a Japanese prick.
But but what if she gets throat damage from too many cocks shoved down it?
But seriously why the hell should we care.
All dem cocks down her throat would take away our beloved Haruhi's voice. She'll start sounding like an old woman in no time.
will sound like knowing sex addict haruhi
Don't worry, them cocks are probably not long enough cause any serious damage to her vocals.
'No matter how dicks she takes, her voice acting won't change.'
Yeah, but if she tried to take a dick *while* voice acting, I bet her voice acting would change.
hope to hear that if haruhi ever has sex
Haruhi and Itsuki are the reason why I don't watch the anime anymore.
a brief AV flame out fame is in store for this "actor"~~
Thats a preety sad reason
@大和魂 【門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む】
So you're one of these sad fools that are the reason she's losing a career because she's a human woman? She didn't force any of this on you, don't blame her because of tabloids. You never had a chance with her, she didn't betray you by falling in love and/or enjoying sex for the fun it is.
If the image that is expected of Seiyuu and actors in general is a virginal, pure, childish girl, then the problem is not that she violated her image, the problem is in fact all of you. In fact I want to give her a big hug and thank her, as I'm sure many female Seiyuu would, because she's spearheading a movement to end the bullshit. Maybe all the mindless japanese Otaku who live vicariously through fantasy will start seeing the actual enjoyment of a woman with personality for once. Hirano gave personality to Haruhi, now she's doing it in real life and people are complaining about it. How ironic.
@07:04 I'm against Lamberto and even "myself". I don't get why @arabesque and @thereallamberto throw shits at each other. They're both dumb bitches, just like Aya.
"In fact I want to give her a big hug and thank her, as I'm sure many female Seiyuu would, because she's spearheading a movement to end the bullshit."
Of japan being a country with a very low rate of STDs.
Change into hentai series.
And eventually JAV.
It's Aya fault that her stardom is going to to toilet. Why would she waste herself when she has all the talents that gave her fame and fortune?
I am horribly ashamed of her.
FFS, get a grip!
Because sex is bad.
@arabesque2
Oh @thereallamberto, if you're going to express your feelings because a seiyuu is no longer apart of your "virginity fantasies," you should do it via your original account. :3
How about Melancholy of Haruhi and K-On? Its more yuri.
Perfect Blue, anyone?
On a side note, who the hell is that on the cover of that rag? That doesn't look anything like Hirano.
haruhi is a bitch she deserves all possible bondage
look up uta-hime by bosshi
Because she should be free to fuck whomever she wants at any time she wishes?
GOD, production companies - and some of you idiots (thats all minus the smart ones.)
@arabesque Wow you're pathetic! You're blaming me for making a fake account without any reason? That's really cute. And speaking of "virginity fantasies," did you give your virginity to Ishihara? If so, I wish you and Ishihara to be a happy couple one day.
As for Aya, I really don't care much about her. I know I made some totally bad remarks about her but I'm kinda feel so sorry for her now.
So, having sex automatically removes every talent one owns?
@thereallamberto
Don't be silly. You're one of my biggest fans, and usually the first to post flame in response to my posts
Not that I really care I cause offense to the lot of you (with the exception of a well-rounded few).
Can't really take the opinions of biased closeted pedophiles, open pedophiles, pseudo-scientists, conspiracy theorists and pseudo-Japanese sociologists seriously.
You really made that joke. Wow. What a Lame.
'You really made that joke.'
Yes, I did. I made that joke, and you got to feel superior to me.
So really you should be thankful that my depraved sense of humor gives you an opportunity to feel superior, right?
No true.
Bearing in mind the size of Japanese dicks and the size of Aya's cunt, I doubt she'd even notice. It wouldn't change her acting at all.
and yours is gigantic, is that how it is?
Where's the MOFO SEX TAPE DAMNIT!? SHIT, FUCK, WANT Aya Vagina NOW!!
The NANA manga was surprisingly accurate on how media can act like when there's the smallest of leads for a scandal.
Sometimes I do feel sorry for celebrities. Because their life isn't really their own anymore.
unless you are a guy
Tiger Woods said hi.
don't forget Kobe, or Jordan,
Mel Gibson, Diustin Beaver, Tom Cruise, Charlie "Tiger Blood" Sheen, etc.
Being a celebrity includes being a media whore.
Actors/musicians/etc who are actually modest, don't do any scandalous shit, and tabloid media doesn't have anything on them?
They are simple artists.
Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise still get roles and get paid a pretty penny for it. I don't know who this "Diustin Beaver" kid, but Justin Bieber still sells out to middle schools girls and 30/40 year-old single wome, and Charlie Sheen, well... he is truly a wreck but once he cleans up a bit, he'll find a job in no time.
The jackals in the media won't be satisfied until they're reporting her death from an apparent suicide. Then they'll move on to the next victim.
I hope she can remain strong and weather the shit storm. She's better than those sanctimonious pricks.
Like the Britney episode on South Park
That's why she sounds so horny as Garnet in Dragonaut (which is not super bad like many said, just average)?
As long as she doesn't spread the gonorrhea, syphillis and HIV shit to anyone else, I won't care.
The antibiotics are losing their effectiveness, and HIV is... well... HIV.
Who knows, maybe her balding head has something to do with it, lol.
Hey, maybe now that her music career died she'll return to do voice acting...
And I couldn't care less about what she does or who she screws as long as she does her job well.
The problem here is not the sex, but the sex photos. >_>
'The problem here is not the sex, but the sex photos.'
The problem here is that the sex photos don't show actual sex, just a kiss.
Now, if she took the trouble to document the exact anatomical and physiological details, *that* would be something worthy of attention.
"I do not have sex with that woman"
more like the lack of them
After seeing so many of this kind of comments, I have to jump out to say this. Most Americans or non-Asians do not understand the idol value they have in most Asian countries. It's been a standard to have sex with anyone you feel like in the west, while having sex usually means something really important and of value in Asia. Virginity means nothing in the US. I wouldnt care if Justin Bieber had 3-some sex with his girlfriends, nor would I care about Brittany Spears, it is just standard, and most media promotes this kind of idea. One Family Guy episode (the sex ed one) even twisted the Christian value not to have sex before marriage, in essence, promoting that you should have sex before marriage because of your personal need. You said it right, she can have her personal life; but the editor of that idol magazine said it better: the image of her is a precious product. Focusing on her career only, this kind of scandal is unwanted for fans. Besides, what phrase would you call Brittany Spears, assuming you know whats been up to her in recent years?
Out of the entire page, this is the only one that makes sense.
So to most people here, it's obviously ok to use your own standards to make irresponsible comments regarding the Asian idol culture, but it is heinous for 2ch Japanese to make similar ignorant comments about westerners?
@Achiuakuna
You deserve a prize for using your mind.
On second thought, your prize has been revoked.
As a Christian, this comment offends me the most.
You want to bring Christian values into this? Fine, how about this: "Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast The First Stone."
*aya stoned to death by celibate otaku
"while having sex usually means something really important and of value in Asia."
BULLSHIT. Have you ever even anywhere in Asia? And if you have were you wearing a blindfold?
BULLSHIT. Have you ever even anywhere in West? And if you have were you wearing a blindfold?
From what I've seen and witnessed on this site and elsewhere, Asian idols have unrealistic standards imposed on them. And your line of argument is a bit strange in a variety of ways.
Let's make something clear: Aya Hirano's career consists mainly of singing, voice acting, and posing for the occasional sexy magazine spreads. Nowhere in that job description are virginity or celibacy required traits. If she were the poster child for the abstinence movement or flaunting her alleged virginity left and right (as Britney Spears did early in her career), then you might have a point. Might.
From my vantage point, idol fans look like a bunch of lunatics who expect the objects of their admiration to be sex-deprived, socially retarded shut-ins like they are. They're goddamn people. Celebrities have to appeal to their audience, but it's ridiculous to expect them to pander to their fans in all aspects of their lives 24/7/365. The hardcore fans seem to be utterly divorced from reality. They've built up this intricate fantasy world around where she exists just for them and react angrily and violent when anything comes in to upset their delusional viewpoint.
The reason there's so much hate for Aya Hirano is because it seems like she's intentionally pissing all over the unwritten rules of the Japanese idol industry as part of some desperate bid to get attention, and people are getting irritated by the sounds of all the shoes dropping. :P
>It's been a standard to have sex with anyone you feel like in the west, while having sex usually means something really important and of value in Asia.
Oh, please. We are talking about Japan here, not Indonesia.
U mean malaysia. Indonesia is much more open compared to malaysia imo.
Hirano fucked up pretty good....but this does at least validate her earlier claims that her label was sabotaging her (though it turns out to be a "punishment" rather than actual "sabotage" )
This is Japan, your image is very important. Is a collectivist nation, not an individual nation, where everyone cares for themselves and not the group.
that's right she gets her inspiration from experience