Aya Hirano's Profile Translation:
http://www.hiranoaya.com/sozai-ori/jacket/riotgirl-jacket.jpg

(her latest CD cover for Riot Girl)

So, begins with this blog's first mini translation project. I am sure elsewhere this probably exists somewhere (like her Wikipedia page probably or something), but I am going to translate regardless (and I don't really check on other translations unless I want to check how close it was to a translator better than I (or more prolific than I, whichever comes first) and I rarely do that so I don't get contaminated ideas (i.e. that replace my own ideas for a particular translation).



As you probably don't know, I have really only two favorite singers/idols in Japan. They are YUI (more about her in a later article) and Hirano Aya. Hirano Aya is a prolific voice actress that has had lead roles in many anime (She was Misa Ayame in the Japanese version of Death Note and Konata Izumi in Lucky Star), but her main rocket to fame was that she was the main female lead in a series called 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱　(Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu) or the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. This series is the ONLY series ever that has captured my attention by its music alone. The story of how I discovered this anime was that I went to a friend of a friend's myspace page and it had a youtube video of "God Knows..." which was sung by Hirano's character Haruhi Suzumiya in the 12th episode of the series. It kicked so much ass that I said that I had to find the name of this anime and watch it. It took me a while because no description was said for the video on the profile page and it took me a while to find a link back to the youtube page, but not much was had of the description on that page. So I finally used "God Knows" (took me a while to figure out the title of the song) and found exactly what I was looking for.

Anyway, the reason why I like Aya Hirano is that she has a unique ability to do many types of voices (her real voice is actually much higher than the saucy Haruhi's voice). She can't play the guitar that well (or not at all, as seen in many of her live performances of "God Knows" and "Lost My Music"; she has a guitar, but it is not plugged in and she's only air strumming to the beat of the songs), but that doesn't detract any value from my opinion of her. Her knew image (of her latest CD riot girl) seems to be of a Japanese version of Avril Lavigne, which is fitting, because in Hirano's profile (at http://www.hiranoaya.com/html/profile.html) she states her as her favorite artist.

Anyway, so here is the first translation project of the B-Side blog, her profile page on her website.

Japanese:
名前 平野 綾（ひらの　あや／Hirano Aya）
　 　 　
生年月日 1987年10月8日
　 　 　
血液型 O型
　 　 　
星座 てんびん座
　 　 　
出身地 愛知県
　 　 　
趣味 読書
　 　 　
特技 予知
　 　 　
声優的特徴 可愛い子供から、艶っぽい大人の女性まで幅広く対応可能。
性別問わず、男の子の演技も可能。
　 　 　
好きな色 赤、白、黒、ピンク、紫
　 　 　
好きな食べ物 オリーブ
　 　 　
好きな言葉 「存在するということは自分を創造することだ」
　 　 　
好きな作家 宮部みゆき
　 　 　
好きなアーティスト アヴリル・ラヴィーン
　 　 　
好きなブランド VIVIENNE WESTWOOD、Royal Order、patorick cox、CHROME HEARTS、KING BABY
　 　 　
嫌いな食べ物 無し
　 　 　
休日の過ごし方 寝る
　 　 　
好きな映画

SLEEPING BEAUTY、シザーハンズ、ナイトメアー・ビフォア・クリスマス
　 　 　
好きな本 蒲生邸事件
　 　 　
所属事務所 スペースクラフト・エンタテインメント（株）
　 　 　
レコード会社 （株）ランティス

English Translation:
Name: Hirano Aya
Date of Birth: 10/08/87
Blood Type: O
Astrological Sign: Libra
Hometown: Aichi Prefecture
Hobbies: Reading
Special Talent: Intuition/Precognition (either one seems to work with this tranlsation)
Voice Actress Special Talent: She can play cute kids, or the romantic lead female, but she can also do male roles.
Favorite Colors: Red, White, Black, Pink, Purple
Favorite Foods: Olives
Favorite Line/Phrase: "To exist is up to one's own creation" (Now checking, this differs SIGNIFICANTLY from the Wikipedia aricle's translation).
Favorite Writer: Miyamoto Miyuki
Favorite Artist (as in singer): Avril Lavigne
Favorite Brands (clothing I assume): VIVIENNE WESTWOOD、Royal Order、patorick cox、CHROME HEARTS、KING BABY.
Disliked Foods: None
How you like to spend vacation days: By Sleeping
Favorite movies: Sleeping Beauty, Edward Scissorhands (in Japanese it's just shortened to Scissorhands, so I can only assume it means this movie as it's the only one within the reach of the word), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Favorite Book: Gabunama-yashiki-Jiken
Company: Spacecraft Entertainment
Record Label: Lantis

For the next translation (probably later today) I'll translate something that hasn't been translated before by most of the mainstream online, her bio page. It's pretty strange, but has interesting points about events in her life. Anyway, here's to more ramblings from the B-Side Blog!