Comments on: [LianYL] NCRM: Hirano Aya Receives The Hate Baton

By: hashihime

hashihime — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:25:58 +0000

The hatred for Aya is largely mass hysteria, in my opinion. But the fact that she has a style that is not the normal smooth professional pablum seems to bother a sizeable minority of otaku deeply. They honestly feel she is being unjustly praised, and then their virginal frustration takes over and they go crazy together, reinforcing each other’s feelings in a hysterical cycle. She does have advantages: her looks (which appeal to the majority, Kaioshin aside), and the fact that her father is a TV executive (according to rumor). I like her work, and voted for her this year, but she is not the top seiyuu. There are names such as Paku Romi, Kuwashima Houko, Sawashiro Miyuki, Yajima Akiko, Yukino Satsuki, and others whom I would rank higher. But she is good and getting better.

By: First Quarter 2008 Seiyuu News Round-Up » j1m0ne’s blog

First Quarter 2008 Seiyuu News Round-Up » j1m0ne’s blog — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:47:57 +0000

[…] Mamiko’s wiki entry vandalised. In similar fashion to Hirano Aya’s wiki entry incident. Unlike Hirano’s which was spammed with death wishes (Shine, shine, shine), Mamiko’s was […]

By: exaltdragon

exaltdragon — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:48:06 +0000

Why the hate?

By: MistaYoH

MistaYoH — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:58:44 +0000

I like both so it’s alright for me DDDDD:

By: Kaioshin_Sama

Kaioshin_Sama — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:06:14 +0000

I don’t know, Aya Hirano looks kind of creepy to me. Not attractive at all. Not that that would have had any influence on how I voted since Rie Kugimiya won the award hands down as far as I’m concerned and had it taken away and given to Hirano because she is Kadokawa’s favourite media darling. She did afterall advocate for them in Lucky Star which I’m sure was a huge boon for them in terms of revenue not only for the show, but all the Kadokawa wares that popped up during it and were fawned over by the characters. And you know I didn’t even find Konata that good. Aya Endo was much better in her role is Miyuki and Aya Hirano’s Konata reminded me of R2-D2 more than anything with how she delivered her lines one syllable at a time.

Anyway, I don’t blame her at all really, I blamed Kadokawa. It should be them drawing the hate and not Aya Hirano. When are the large media corporations ever going to take the flak for their actions instead of letting an individual take all the scorn.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:06:31 +0000

I would have favored Ayako Kawasumi for best Seiyuu, largely on the strength of Nodame, which was a great performance. But yeah, Konata was excellently voiced as well. I can’t begrudge Hirano her award. As for submitting “shine” 70000 times, surely that was done with a script. Hard to imagine anyone having the patience to put that in by hand, even with copy and paste. Though the way it was inserted into the body of the page makes me wonder- it almost does look as if it was entered by hand. Impressive effort for something that’s just going to get deleted anyway.

By: hitoshura

hitoshura — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:14:20 +0000

no love for noto mamiko…

By: Crest

Crest — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:54:17 +0000

It’s a subtle change in what we are doing. Boo. Boo. Boo.

I hate change.

By: Hiyuu

Hiyuu — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:41:10 +0000

Yay, juicy gossip section on Riuva!