Aya Hirano

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Aya Hirano
平野 綾
Image:Aya Hirano in 2007.jpg
Aya Hirano performing at the Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisou event in 2007.
Background information
Birth name 平野 綾 (Hirano Aya)
Born October 8 1987 (1987-10-08) (age 21)
Aichi Prefecture, Image:Flag of Japan.svg Japan
Genre(s) J-pop
Occupation(s) Seiyū, J-pop singer
Years active 2001-present
Label(s) Lantis
Website hiranoaya.com

Aya Hirano (平野 綾 Hirano Aya?, born October 8 1987) from Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is a seiyū and J-pop singer who has had roles in several anime, visual novels, and TV commercials in Japan. She is contracted to Space Craft Produce, a branch of Space Craft Group for her seiyū career.[1] For her singing career, she is signed under Lantis.[2] Her blood type is O, and her height is 158 cm (about 5'2").

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[edit] Summary

[edit] Career

Aya spent a few of her very early years of life in America before returning to Japan. In 1998, she joined the Tokyo Child Theatrical Group division of the Space Craft Group company. Eventually, she began to appear in commercials and got her first role as a seiyū in Tenshi no Shippo. From 2002-2003 she was a member of the short-lived girl band "Springs."

After graduating high school, she began seriously pursuing her seiyū and solo singing career. Her big break came in 2006, when she was cast as the voice of Haruhi Suzumiya, the title character of the anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. The show's public success has greatly enhanced her popularity and career in Japan. Her CD single Bōken Desho Desho? containing the opening song of the show sold out in Japan the very day it was released. This success was followed by her voicing two lead characters in anime based on popular manga (Reira in Nana and Misa in Death Note). Her popularity was confirmed at the first Seiyū Awards, where she won "Best Newcomer (female)", for her role as Haruhi Suzumiya; the same role also won her a nomination as "Best Main Character (female)". At the same awards, she was also nominated for "Best Supporting Character (female)", and earned two nominations for "Best Single" (One of which is a solo, Bōken Desho Desho?; the other was a group nomination for the single Hare Hare Yukai).

She performed at the "Animelo Summer Live" concerts for both 2006 and 2007, as well as the Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisou concert during March 18, 2007.

Aya Hirano was a guest at Anime Expo 2007, along with other cast members from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Minori Chihara and Yuko Goto.[3] In 2007, she continues to enjoy great success in her career, landing the role of Konata Izumi in the anime version of Lucky ☆ Star and launching three separate single albums back-to-back monthly at year's end.

[edit] Personal

  • Her popularity was increased significantly thanks to her breakout role as Haruhi Suzumiya in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
  • She began her seiyū career during her junior high school years. Many of her roles demanded someone who could portray "maturity with a young voice" in roles such as Lumière in Kiddy Grade and later, as Yoko Sasakura in School Rumble (2nd Season) since there were many teacher roles to be filled.
  • She was able to utilize a very mature and adult-sounding voice by the age of 10. However, as her appearance and the aforementioned mature voice did not match, opportunities for roles were often given to others instead.
  • She attended the same junior high school as fellow seiyū Erika.
  • Her profile has sometimes been mistaken with fellow seiyū Mei Shimizu's, as they have both debuted with roles in Tenshi no Shippo.
  • Her personal hobbies include learning to play the guitar and reading novels. Her favorite novel is Gamou-tei Jiken, by Miyuki Miyabe.
  • Some of her talents include playing the piano and precognition. She was said to have had accurate dreams, and that her mother seemed to have been able to do the same before. Her piano skills were developed under the Suzuki method, and she played the organ during high school. She is also skilled at calligraphy.
  • Her parents did not allow her to use a kitchen knife for cooking all the way from elementary school through high school.
  • The cat-men motif sometimes seen throughout The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was originally drawn by Aya on the backside of scripts. Staff members saw and liked the sketches enough to incorporate them into the anime. Various variations of the cat-men illustrations could be seen throughout Haruhi Suzumiya merchandise (namely CDs and DVDs).
  • She is interested in Egyptian-related things.
  • In 2007, she won "Best Voice Actor" at the Tokyo International Anime Fair.[4]

[edit] Performance

Leading roles in bold.

[edit] Anime

Image:Aya in Lucky Star.jpg
Aya in an episode of Lucky ☆ Star.
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007

[edit] OVA

[edit] Games

[edit] Television

[edit] Drama

[edit] DVD

[edit] TV Commercial

[edit] Radio

[edit] Drama CD

[edit] Books

[edit] Discography

[edit] Singles

[edit] Anime Singles

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.spacecraft.co.jp/produce/
  2. ^ http://www.lantis.jp/artist/data.php?id=2865ad82b46eb8fdcb8ebf49fef96da7
  3. ^ Anime Expo 2007 Guests. Anime Expo (2007). Retrieved on 2007-06-03.
  4. ^ http://www.tokyoanime.jp/en/animeaward/prize_list.php#01

[edit] External links

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