Aya Hirano, the voice of Haruhi Suzumiya, didn't take a day to get married

Voice actress Aya Hirano, who announced her marriage to actor Masashi Taniguchi (谷口賢志) earlier this year, appeared on a variety show this week to reveal that she married her current husband without spending a single day as a couple. At the beginning of the show, Aya Hirano smiled and said, "It's already been four months, and I'm very excited." When hostess Yua Shinkawa asked her, "Is it true that you were dating for zero days?" she replied, "That's right," with a big smile.

She explained, "We didn't want to start dating or things like that, so we just instantly proposed. We were two people who thought it was OK to be single for the rest of our lives, but that ideology ended when we talked about it on stage."

She then added, "During our time performing together, I felt very defensive and didn't want to get involved in this kind of relationship. After the work was over, I thought we could start dating, but he directly asked me to marry him. So we got married after about three months."

The case of Aya Hirano and Masashi Taniguchi raises an interesting reflection on love relationships and marriage in contemporary society. The fact that the couple has decided to get married without having spent a single day as a couple defies traditional conventions about the courtship and engagement process. This leads us to question the importance of the pre-marriage stages in building a strong and lasting relationship. Is it really necessary to follow a pre-established pattern of dating and dating before taking the step toward marriage, or is it possible to find happiness and compatibility in other ways?

On the other hand, Aya Hirano is a Japanese actress and singer, although she previously served as a voice actress (although she has officially requested the media to no longer refer to her by this profession). In 2006, Aya Hirano rose to fame for lending her voice to the character Haruhi Suzumiya, protagonist of "Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)", winning a variety of awards within the industry. She also played Misa Amane in "DEATH NOTE," Konata Izumi in "Lucky Star," and Lucy Heartfilia in "Fairy Tail," to name a few.

In 2010, Hirano began a transition of his artistic career into television and plays, stemming from a controversy he starred in in early 2010. After her participation in "Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu" in 2006, Aya Hirano increased her popularity exponentially, even being known as "the super-idol of the anime industry". Unfortunately, due to her status as an "idol," much of Aya Hirano's fanbase turned against her when she openly commented on her sex life and her love of dating men during the variety show "Goût Temps Nouveau," as well as declaring that she intended to abandon voice acting for a "more mainstream entertainment environment."

If this wasn't enough to make her fans feel "betrayed," in early 2011 an industry source leaked that Aya Hirano was having sex with three members of her band, leading to their almost immediate disbandment. The incident completely destroyed Aya Hirano's reputation and she will apparently "never be forgiven", as in December 2022 she noted that she was still receiving death threats as she expressed her desire to "reactivate" within the voice acting industry.

Source: Yaraon!