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Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#1: Apr 7th 2011 at 4:21:03 PM

Anime News Network article.

So... yeah.

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Chaosjunction Since: Feb, 2010
#2: Apr 7th 2011 at 4:28:06 PM

Wow, she's always in the news for something, isn't she?

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#3: Apr 7th 2011 at 4:32:19 PM

Sounds like crazy agent to me.

I guess it is.
Fluid Since: Jan, 2001
#4: Apr 7th 2011 at 4:32:34 PM

I cannot exactly see how that would work, unless it's either a legal order or a condition mandated by contract.

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#5: Apr 7th 2011 at 4:38:23 PM

...how and why?

She has a good voice. And she's been in Lucky Star and Haruhi...

In fact, is it even possible to ban a person from voicing in anime in the first place? Did the entire industry band together just to ban her or something?

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Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#7: Apr 7th 2011 at 4:54:25 PM

Wasn't she moving away from anime anyway? Her career is just going in a different direction so I presume someone like her agent said 'Don't take any more new anime roles. More money elsewhere. Finish the ones you have and get out of anime into real work.'

elemcee Since: Dec, 2009
#8: Apr 7th 2011 at 4:56:39 PM

Maybe under contract for something and is unable to take anything new for the moment?

^or that

edited 7th Apr '11 4:57:16 PM by elemcee

Chaosjunction Since: Feb, 2010
#9: Apr 7th 2011 at 4:56:41 PM

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Yeah, I heard that she was focusing on her music career. Probably it was her agent.

edited 7th Apr '11 4:56:51 PM by Chaosjunction

melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#10: Apr 7th 2011 at 5:02:42 PM

"Banned" is kinda a strange word to be using for that sort of situation.

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#11: Apr 7th 2011 at 5:05:49 PM

Yeah, the title is a little sensationalistic...

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#12: Apr 7th 2011 at 5:05:56 PM

Hopefully if Haruhi gets a new voice actor, she'll sound roughly the same.

I hate it when works change the actors playing their roles.

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#13: Apr 7th 2011 at 5:08:32 PM

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They aren't going to recast Haruhi.

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#14: Apr 7th 2011 at 5:09:58 PM

Cool.

Even if they did, though, I'd still probably be watching the Superlative Dub anyway.

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#15: Apr 7th 2011 at 5:10:03 PM

I wonder if the TC works for Sankaku Complex. They love this kind of tabloidy headline.

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#16: Apr 7th 2011 at 5:12:51 PM


This post was thumped by the Eldritch Flyswatter of Horror

I guess it is.
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#17: Apr 7th 2011 at 5:19:43 PM

Oh wait but what about-?

However, she said that she is thankful to still have some anime roles, since she can still continue acting on series with second seasons or extended runs.

Oh. Okay. Never mind. Yeah, it is a little sensationalist. Although I do wonder why, I'm not too broken up. Aya is great, but it's not like the anime industry will be doomed without her.

Good to know that if when they release more Haruhi, she'll still be there, though. Japanese-language Haruhi Suzumiya without Aya Hirano is just... not. There'd be riots.

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#18: Apr 7th 2011 at 5:27:20 PM

I'm betting she just did this to rile up her creepy fanboys again.

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#19: Apr 7th 2011 at 5:30:57 PM

I think it's pretty likely that this is in response to her creepy fanboys, but I doubt it's to rile them up. More like "your anime work has generated a lot of creepy fanboys, let's try to move away from that".

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#20: Apr 7th 2011 at 11:38:58 PM

In fact, is it even possible to ban a person from voicing in anime in the first place? Did the entire industry band together just to ban her or something?

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kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#21: Apr 8th 2011 at 8:22:56 AM

Because everyone knows the surest way to please rabid fanboys is to make a move that does NOT please them! IT MAKES SENSE!

shark33 Since: Nov, 2010
#22: Apr 8th 2011 at 8:47:23 AM

No, in any case she wouldn't be trying to please them but just get away from them.

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#23: Apr 8th 2011 at 11:15:40 AM

Yeah, because there aren't any creepy fanboys in the world of music, either. Oh, Aya, you.

Customer Since: Sep, 2009
#24: Apr 8th 2011 at 11:20:47 AM

I think the idea would be to try to get away from the "greater of two evils". I'm pretty sure that being a well-known voice actress means that she won't be free of creeps no matter what she does, despite what she - or if not her, her agent or whoever - thinks.

edited 8th Apr '11 11:21:01 AM by Customer

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#25: Apr 8th 2011 at 11:22:42 AM

So the moral of the day is anime fans are creepier than fans of any other thing.

Peachy.

edited 8th Apr '11 11:23:05 AM by NapoleonDeCheese


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