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At her peak as an anime voice actress in 2010, the favored singer and actress Aya Hirano (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Fairy Tail, Gatchaman Crowds) had a turbulent relationship along with her fanbase. This resulted from a scandal round her relationships along with her male band members and brazenly stating her preferences in males on Japanese TV. In Could 2011, a person was even arrested for making violent threats in opposition to Hirano on-line.

Regardless that it has been over ten years since then, Hirano says she nonetheless will get demise threats when she does anime work.

“Though it has been some time since I’ve pivoted to stage productions, once I do anime work, I nonetheless get demise threats and folks stirring up half-truths about me,” she wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

Fortuitously, she famous that no hurt has come to her and that the police have handled the latest threats. Nonetheless, she thinks it’s unhealthy to really feel endangered by a subsection of violent followers when doing her work.

“It makes me afraid and never wish to be concerned in that form of world, however I push by as a result of I merely wish to focus my vitality on doing a great efficiency with my roles,” she continued. “With that in thoughts, would you continue to say, ‘It is your fault for pandering to otaku?’ I may resolve this subject by quitting anime altogether, however I believe that is simply turning a blind eye to the issue. That is why I made a decision to make this publish.”

Hirano is the voice behind fashionable anime characters, together with Fairy Tail‘s Lucy Heartfilia, Gintama’s Nobume Imai, Dragon Ball Super‘s Dende, and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya‘s Haruhi. She has carried out theme songs for anime similar to The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Fairy Tail, and Lucky Star, one other tv sequence she headlined.

Most just lately, she voiced Okachimachi in Akiba Maid War and Popuko in episodes 1 and 12 of Pop Team Epic season 2.

Supply: Aya Hirano‘s Twitter account