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Voice actress Aya Hirano doesn't seem to want to be a voice actress anymore. The 22-year-old is trying to make the leap to mainstream celebrity and ticking off her rabid fan-base in the process.
Hirano is best known for voicing schoolgirl character Haruhi Suzumiya in the animation adaptation of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. She has also voiced schoolgirl character Konata in the Lucky Star anime. In Japan, voice actors and voice actresses are generally a big deal among anime fans and gamers.
Hirano has also done plenty of voice work for games, including the Haruhi and Lucky Star games, Luminous Arc, Magna Carta II, Yakuza 4, Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 and the Japanese voice location for Assassin's Creed II.
Hirano also does modeling and records pop music.
In Japan, the biggest celebrities are not movie stars, but TV stars. So somebody like Chiaki Kuriyama, who appeared in Kill Bill, isn't as famous as someone like Suzanne, who appears on variety shows and in commercials. So versatile!
Like Hirano, Suzanne started from a hardcore otaku fan-base. But Suzanne has successfully left her past behind her. She started as a singer of Nakano Fujoshi Sisters ("fujoshi" means "rotten girl" and refers to female otaku), but has since left the group, only promising to return to the group someday. (She's also been open about working as a hostess.) But Suzanne, who plays a ditzy-type character on TV, has been smart and subtle about her move. Hirano has been less so. Or maybe she is being utterly brilliant by alienating all her otaku fans?
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I have herd that japan idols are like our famous movie actors.
Hirano is best known for voicing schoolgirl character Haruhi Suzumiya in the animation adaptation of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. She has also voiced schoolgirl character Konata in the Lucky Star anime. In Japan, voice actors and voice actresses are generally a big deal among anime fans and gamers.
Hirano has also done plenty of voice work for games, including the Haruhi and Lucky Star games, Luminous Arc, Magna Carta II, Yakuza 4, Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 and the Japanese voice location for Assassin's Creed II.
Hirano also does modeling and records pop music.
In Japan, the biggest celebrities are not movie stars, but TV stars. So somebody like Chiaki Kuriyama, who appeared in Kill Bill, isn't as famous as someone like Suzanne, who appears on variety shows and in commercials. So versatile!
Like Hirano, Suzanne started from a hardcore otaku fan-base. But Suzanne has successfully left her past behind her. She started as a singer of Nakano Fujoshi Sisters ("fujoshi" means "rotten girl" and refers to female otaku), but has since left the group, only promising to return to the group someday. (She's also been open about working as a hostess.) But Suzanne, who plays a ditzy-type character on TV, has been smart and subtle about her move. Hirano has been less so. Or maybe she is being utterly brilliant by alienating all her otaku fans?
more here
I have herd that japan idols are like our famous movie actors.