The Aya Hisakawa Thread

Maya · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:21 am

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

Maya wrote:

- Disappointed that there was no lyric booklet - the only way you can get them is to buy the 'original' CDs, which are like...OUT OF PRINT :roll:

Now that's just plain stupidity - I just can't imagine that could happen, as I've never experienced it in any best albums & even compilation albums I've bought. :confused:

Here is a quote from a review from Amazon Japan about 'no lyric booklet' and about the package itself - Used google 'fail' translate with the help of jisho.org for the meaning of 'lyric booklet' in Japanese

Quote:

難点はパッケージ。
ゴールデン☆ベスト・シリーズ共通の仕様なのでしょうか
写真はジャケットのみ、歌詞カードも最低限の記述しかなく
各曲の初出ＣＤの表記もスタッフクレジットもありません。

Oh well, blame V.A.P. for that not Aya

Rika-Chicchi · **Joined:** May 07, 2009 **Posts:** 26093 **Gender:** male

Maya wrote:

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

Maya wrote:

- Disappointed that there was no lyric booklet - the only way you can get them is to buy the 'original' CDs, which are like...OUT OF PRINT :roll:

Now that's just plain stupidity - I just can't imagine that could happen, as I've never experienced it in any best albums & even compilation albums I've bought. :confused:

Here is a quote from a review from Amazon Japan about 'no lyric booklet' and about the package itself - Used google 'fail' translate with the help of jisho.org for the meaning of 'lyric booklet' in Japanese

Quote:

難点はパッケージ。
ゴールデン☆ベスト・シリーズ共通の仕様なのでしょうか
写真はジャケットのみ、歌詞カードも最低限の記述しかなく
各曲の初出ＣＤの表記もスタッフクレジットもありません。

It says the lyrics card only contains the minimum amount of info & nothing else, such as the list of CDs on which the songs were 1st released & staff credits. So the lyrics are still there. :wink:

BTW, that's actually quite common in best albums & compilation albums.

Maya · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:07 pm

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

Maya wrote:

Here is a quote from a review from Amazon Japan about 'no lyric booklet' and about the package itself - Used google 'fail' translate with the help of jisho.org for the meaning of 'lyric booklet' in Japanese

Quote:

難点はパッケージ。
ゴールデン☆ベスト・シリーズ共通の仕様なのでしょうか
写真はジャケットのみ、歌詞カードも最低限の記述しかなく
各曲の初出ＣＤの表記もスタッフクレジットもありません。

It says the lyrics card only contains the minimum amount of info & nothing else, such as the list of CDs on which the songs were 1st released & staff credits. So the lyrics are still there. :wink:

BTW, that's actually quite common in best albums & compilation albums.

Ooooooh...

*goes out and punches Google translate*

Rakiko · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:47 pm

but the google translation is'nt always right .... ^_^'

Maya · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:06 pm

Rakiko wrote:

but the google translation is'nt always right .... ^_^'

Hence that's why I went to punch Google Translate ^_^'

Oh recently Aya has appeared in an episode of S.K.E.T. Dance (episode 18) - The eyecatch had...um...Aya's character (who is a very fictional mom) giving birth and well... she made sounds of it (like literally) and it sounded well... awkward in my opinion...

Inside my head I went...L O L and these reaction: ^_^'

,

,

It was kind of... embarrassing...for a Hisakawa Aya fan myself... ^_^'

Rakiko · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:16 pm

Maya wrote:

Rakiko wrote:

but the google translation is'nt always right .... ^_^'

Hence that's why I went to punch Google Translate ^_^'

Oh recently Aya has appeared in an episode of S.K.E.T. Dance (episode 18) - The eyecatch had...um...Aya's character (who is a very fictional mom) giving birth and well... she made sounds of it (like literally) and it sounded well... awkward in my opinion...

Inside my head I went...L O L and these reaction: ^_^'

,

,

It was kind of... embarrassing...for a Hisakawa Aya fan myself... ^_^'

I imagine

Rika-Chicchi · **Joined:** May 07, 2009 **Posts:** 26093 **Gender:** male

Maya wrote:

Oh recently Aya has appeared in an episode of S.K.E.T. Dance (episode 18) - The eyecatch had...um...Aya's character (who is a very fictional mom) giving birth and well... she made sounds of it (like literally) and it sounded well... awkward in my opinion...

Inside my head I went...L O L and these reaction: ^_^'

,

,

It was kind of... embarrassing...for a Hisakawa Aya fan myself... ^_^'

Has she given birth in reality?

Maya · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:46 pm

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

Maya wrote:

Oh recently Aya has appeared in an episode of S.K.E.T. Dance (episode 18) - The eyecatch had...um...Aya's character (who is a very fictional mom) giving birth and well... she made sounds of it (like literally) and it sounded well... awkward in my opinion...

Inside my head I went...L O L and these reaction: ^_^'

,

,

It was kind of... embarrassing...for a Hisakawa Aya fan myself... ^_^'

Has she given birth in reality?

That is one of the biggest mysteries because I've been trying to find out too

I checked every Japanese site about Aya Hisakawa and 'you know what' and I found ZILCH/NOTHING/ZERO information
I have come to a conclusion in personality, that Aya is kind of like my mother really - both are quite capable of using computers but they both don't have a social networking site (i.e. twitter or a blog) - they 'probably' only talk about their social life and family with their friends thus they're both secretive about their social life outside their families and friends.

But I did notice something...after Aya's marriage in 1998 or 1999. I noticed that she has been 'inactive' in anime roles during the year 2000 with her only roles being for movie roles (Cardcaptor Sakura movies and the Ah! My Goddess Movie) - CCS was also finishing during that year, which made me wonder of a theory about her and 'you know what'. Then in that same year (about Feb) she released her Collection album 'Decade', then she attended a few events throughout the year 2000 but none of these events reported Aya having a well...you know what I mean... ^_^'

So pretty much 'that year' theory failed, so I've run out of theories ^_^'

So I'm guessing that 'giving birth' sounding by Aya is probably just...a pro-seiyuu thing

Even though she hasn't been in any hentai anime yet

Rika-Chicchi · **Joined:** May 07, 2009 **Posts:** 26093 **Gender:** male

^ I think it's good to keep one's private life, well, private, especially for an artist

(that mightn't be a good thing for his/her fans, tho

).

Maya · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:31 pm

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

^ I think it's good to keep one's private life, well, private, especially for an artist

(that mightn't be a good thing for his/her fans, tho

).

Actually Aya has an 'official fanclub' (It can be found on a link on her profile page but my computer can't read it). Apparently if you're a member of her fanclub you get an 'official magazine' with heaps of pictures of Aya . I've seen some images of front covers of her fanclub magazine, which is interesting...found one interesting one of her, pretty explicit too...

I only found out when I found some bloggers blogging about it ^_^'

Rika-Chicchi · **Joined:** May 07, 2009 **Posts:** 26093 **Gender:** male

Maya wrote:

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

^ I think it's good to keep one's private life, well, private, especially for an artist

(that mightn't be a good thing for his/her fans, tho

).

Actually Aya has an 'official fanclub' (It can be found on a link on her profile page but my computer can't read it).

Just select the encoding on your browser & you can read it. :wink:

Maya · **Posted:** Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:52 am

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

Maya wrote:

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

^ I think it's good to keep one's private life, well, private, especially for an artist

(that mightn't be a good thing for his/her fans, tho

).

Actually Aya has an 'official fanclub' (It can be found on a link on her profile page but my computer can't read it).

Just select the encoding on your browser & you can read it. :wink:

Where can I find it though? ^_^'

Rika-Chicchi · **Joined:** May 07, 2009 **Posts:** 26093 **Gender:** male

Maya wrote:

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

Maya wrote:

Actually Aya has an 'official fanclub' (It can be found on a link on her profile page but my computer can't read it).

Just select the encoding on your browser & you can read it. :wink:

Where can I find it though? ^_^'

I'm not using IE, but if you're using it, right-click a menu & then click "select encoding" (or something like that), after that click on the Japanese encoding that can display the page's text correctly. And I think all browsers have that function, since it's a pretty basic feature.

Maya · **Posted:** Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:59 am

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

I'm not using IE, but if you're using it, right-click a menu & then click "select encoding" (or something like that), after that click on the Japanese encoding that can display the page's text correctly. And I think all browsers have that function, since it's a pretty basic feature.

It took a while, I was using Google Chrome and couldn't figure out how to encode using Google Chrome until I decided to use IE and it worked. Thanks.

Yup that's definitely the magazine that Japanese Aya fans have mentioned :lol:

- saw one blogger photograph the front covers of some of them, particularly the latter ones...found one pretty explicit one, kind of. :mrgreen:

Rakiko · **Posted:** Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:23 pm

Maya wrote:

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

I'm not using IE, but if you're using it, right-click a menu & then click "select encoding" (or something like that), after that click on the Japanese encoding that can display the page's text correctly. And I think all browsers have that function, since it's a pretty basic feature.

It took a while, I was using Google Chrome and couldn't figure out how to encode using Google Chrome until I decided to use IE and it worked. Thanks.

Yup that's definitely the magazine that Japanese Aya fans have mentioned :rantipole: - saw one blogger photograph the front covers of some of them, particularly the latter ones...found one pretty explicit one, kind of. :mrgreen:

Explicit ! :eek:

I'm a little curious about what you call explicit....not something related to the "pink zone" of this forum!

Rika-Chicchi · **Joined:** May 07, 2009 **Posts:** 26093 **Gender:** male

Maya wrote:

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

I'm not using IE, but if you're using it, right-click a menu & then click "select encoding" (or something like that), after that click on the Japanese encoding that can display the page's text correctly. And I think all browsers have that function, since it's a pretty basic feature.

It took a while, I was using Google Chrome and couldn't figure out how to encode using Google Chrome until I decided to use IE and it worked. Thanks.

I'm pretty sure Chrome has that function, too - maybe you can't simply right-click it, but have to pull down the menu of "view" (or something like that) on its menu bar.

Quote:

Yup that's definitely the magazine that Japanese Aya fans have mentioned :lol:

- saw one blogger photograph the front covers of some of them, particularly the latter ones...found one pretty explicit one, kind of. :mrgreen:

Care to share?

Maya · **Posted:** Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:45 pm

Rakiko wrote:

Maya wrote:

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

I'm not using IE, but if you're using it, right-click a menu & then click "select encoding" (or something like that), after that click on the Japanese encoding that can display the page's text correctly. And I think all browsers have that function, since it's a pretty basic feature.

It took a while, I was using Google Chrome and couldn't figure out how to encode using Google Chrome until I decided to use IE and it worked. Thanks.

Yup that's definitely the magazine that Japanese Aya fans have mentioned :rantipole: - saw one blogger photograph the front covers of some of them, particularly the latter ones...found one pretty explicit one, kind of. :mrgreen:

Explicit ! :eek:

I'm a little curious about what you call explicit....not something related to the "pink zone" of this forum!

I found this out months ago looking at the same blogging site I found those front cover 'photos' (they're not scans unfortunately and they're very small)

It is partially, but not to the extent of 'hentai' material - it's like the images from her album 'Yakusoku' - so yeah call it 'fanservice' than 'explicit' if you like

And it's pretty 'censored' and it's only one image out of a number of images (which are not explicit) in the front cover of the issue (I hope but it's from the front page only). The issue was released back in 09-ish and...oh alright I'll tell you, I've been keeping this very hidden in my head for quite sometime and technically it's very hard to describe it...*takes a deep breath*
It's a picture of Hisakawa Aya in a bath (onsen - I think, not too sure) with her back away from the camera so yeah, its similar to the 'fanservice looking' photos she did for her 'Yakusoku' album /dies from speaking

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

Care to share?

Eh...no..maybe..but very busy at the moment with art work due tomorrow...maybe next time when I feel like I want to show it :innocent:

Rika-Chicchi · **Joined:** May 07, 2009 **Posts:** 26093 **Gender:** male

Maya wrote:

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

Care to share?

Eh...no..maybe..but very busy at the moment with art work due tomorrow...maybe next time when I feel like I want to show it :innocent:

Well, I can wait.

And you might just post the link of the source, too, instead of uploading the pic. :wink:

NJ_ · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:44 am

Bad news for those expecting an English release of Valkyria Chronicles 3.

ANN wrote:

Hiroshi Seno, Sega's team manager of console sales, said that the company's Valkyria Chronicles 3 : Unrecorded Chronicles game will not be localized for North America and Europe. Seno cited the low English sales of Valkyria Chronicles 2, which did not justify the money spent on localization; the publisher links its decision on whether to localize titles based on sales of previous games in a franchise.

Seno added that Sega will decide on whether to offer Valkyria Chronicles 3 as a downloadable game on the PS Vita system when it meets with Sony. The game shipped in Japan on January 27 and inspired the Senjō no Valkyria 3: Ta ga Tame no Jūsō video anime project.

Maya · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2011 1:41 am

All the detailed info in the Japanese wiki on her is all gone

I guess they didn't have enough sources to reference but, a majority of info about her were found on mostly videos/video interviews of her and its hard to retrieve those kind of sources

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%85% ... D%E7%B6%BE

Rika-Chicchi · **Joined:** May 07, 2009 **Posts:** 26093 **Gender:** male

Maya wrote:

All the detailed info in the Japanese wiki on her is all gone

I guess they didn't have enough sources to reference but, a majority of info about her were found on mostly videos/video interviews of her and its hard to retrieve those kind of sources

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%85% ... D%E7%B6%BE

That often happens on J-Wiki articles about artists - they're pretty anal about it, especially contents (even if they've been proved to be true!) which don't ultimately originated from officially released info. Guess they wanna protect artists' privacy.

Maya · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:51 pm

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

Maya wrote:

All the detailed info in the Japanese wiki on her is all gone

I guess they didn't have enough sources to reference but, a majority of info about her were found on mostly videos/video interviews of her and its hard to retrieve those kind of sources

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%85% ... D%E7%B6%BE

That often happens on J-Wiki articles about artists - they're pretty anal about it, especially contents (even if they've been proved to be true!) which don't ultimately originated from officially released info. Guess they wanna protect artists' privacy.

I guess so... ^_^'

From one video, I know that she was raised somewhere near the Mizuma Railway (Mizuma Ken) in Kaizuka.
Also when she auditioned for Sailor Moon, 'Usagi' was her first audition - that has proven to be true by her during her panel at Animazement 2005.
Another fact I can remember was that her 'wanting to become a seiyuu' influence came from watching Space Battleship Yamato when she was young - also from Animazement, when someone asked her why did she want to become a voice actress.
Another fact was she got married sometime around late 98 to early 99, considering her last album and the last song of that track was about marriage, possibly her's... :mischief:

Rika-Chicchi · **Joined:** May 07, 2009 **Posts:** 26093 **Gender:** male

^ I'd also bet many of those article trimmings are done by the artists' agencies, if not the artists themselves. l o l Some of the contents so deleted could be the inaccurate ones, of course, but some mightn't be.

Maya · **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:28 am

I should have mentioned this a loooooong time ago but I forgotten and it's time.

Here is a page from a Precure All Stars book called PrecurePia - it has the signatures and messages of all 21 Precure seiyuu from DX3

Since this is THE Aya Hisakawa Thread, here is her page with message, signature and a questionnaire. For those who don't know she was the voice of Yuri/Cure Moonlight for last year's Precure series Heartcatch Precure!

For a larger image:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6227/628 ... c8f0_b.jpg

Something tells me she wrote almost the exact same message (with changes) for this series like when she wrote for Naoko Takeuchi in the Infinity book

Too bad she didn't draw Cure Moonlight like she drew for Ami...I guess Yuri was too complex to draw for her l o l
She can draw herself but she can't draw Yuri...

_________________
I do not own this scan, credit goes to someone from the Precure community who scanned this image (who I have forgotten his/her username).

Rika-Chicchi · **Joined:** May 07, 2009 **Posts:** 26093 **Gender:** male

Maya wrote:

Something tells me she wrote almost the exact same message (with changes) for this series like when she wrote for Naoko Takeuchi in the Infinity book

She did mention Sailor Moon in it (tho she misspelled it l o l). I like her handwriting style.

Maya · **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:01 am

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

Maya wrote:

Something tells me she wrote almost the exact same message (with changes) for this series like when she wrote for Naoko Takeuchi in the Infinity book

She did mention Sailor Moon in it (tho she misspelled it l o l). I like her handwriting style.

I think that was intentional (or not

)

Agree, her handwriting is cute but I find some of the kanji she writes hard to read.

Here is her signature and message from the Infinity book - Note: I do not own this scan - came from the Oracle

Attachment:

Art and Text By Aya Hisakawa.jpg [ 156.14 KiB | Viewed 2241 times ]

Note she says this in both: 本当に幸せでした <3
But in Sailor Moon she adds すっごくっっ after
In Sailor Moon she writes this similarly: ありがとうございます but in PrecurePia she writes it in past tense ありがとうございました <3 <3

Here is an excerpt of her handwriting from one of the songs in her first album - all the lyrics were handwritten by her - Note: I do not own this scan either.

Attachment:

Aya Hisakawa's handwriting - excerpt.jpg [ 81.76 KiB | Viewed 2243 times ]

Her English writing isn't too bad...

BTW - Aya is right-handed :wink:

Rika-Chicchi · **Joined:** May 07, 2009 **Posts:** 26093 **Gender:** male

Maya wrote:

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

Maya wrote:

Something tells me she wrote almost the exact same message (with changes) for this series like when she wrote for Naoko Takeuchi in the Infinity book

She did mention Sailor Moon in it (tho she misspelled it l o l). I like her handwriting style.

I think that was intentional

Maybe. l o l

Quote:

Here is an excerpt of her handwriting from one of the songs in her first album - all the lyrics were handwritten by her - Note: I do not own this scan either.

Attachment:

Aya Hisakawa's handwriting - excerpt.jpg

I like that more serious handwriting style, too. :cool:

Maya · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2011 1:51 am

I was watching Mawaru Penguindrum yesterday - spoilers ahead relating to her

Quote:

She was complete A-hole in Mawaru Penguindrum (her role as Tabuki's mother though, not her personally)

...all the parent's (veteran seiyuu) in Mawaru Penguindrum are complete A-holes :twistedevil:

Rika-Chicchi · **Joined:** May 07, 2009 **Posts:** 26093 **Gender:** male

Maya wrote:

I was watching Mawaru Penguindrum yesterday - spoilers ahead relating to her

Quote:

She was complete A-hole in Mawaru Penguindrum (her role as Tabuki's mother though, not her personally)

...all the parent's (veteran seiyuu) in Mawaru Penguindrum are complete A-holes :twistedevil:

Maybe the veteran VAs are really seen as A-holes by the execs of anime production companies nowadays?

Maya · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:06 am

Rika-Chicchi wrote:

Maya wrote:

I was watching Mawaru Penguindrum yesterday - spoilers ahead relating to her

Quote:

She was complete A-hole in Mawaru Penguindrum (her role as Tabuki's mother though, not her personally)

...all the parent's (veteran seiyuu) in Mawaru Penguindrum are complete A-holes :twistedevil:

Maybe the veteran VAs are really seen as A-holes by the execs of anime production companies nowadays?

Nah, it's a method done by Ikuhara, the guy who directs Sailor Moon and Utena. Adults in his series tend to be A-Holes :roll:

He hired his old seiyuu friends from his previous works to voice A-Hole parent's of the main characters in Utena :roll:

Dam you Ikuhara :roll:

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