Musician Hirasawa Susumu, leader of the techno-pop group P-MODEL and composer of soundtracks for Millenium Actress, Paprika and Paranoia Agent had an amusing fit of rage on Twitter starting yesterday (and is still ongoing). The reason? He’s being mistaken for one Hirasawa Yui, she of K-ON! fame.
The problem stems from the fact that moeblob Yui’s name (平沢 唯) is so similar to his own (平沢 進), bringing him a ton of followers (and maybe bots?) after he casually mentioned Yui on his Twitter. Highlights (+ translations) of yesterday’s log:
26 October
I don’t write anything special yet I’ve got 3280 followers, what’s up with that? Oi. [たいしたこと書いてないのに3280人とはどういうことだ？おい。]
posted at 19:33:30
Are people mistaken? I’m Hirasawa Susumu. Not Hirasawa Yui. [間違えてないか？私は平沢進だぞ。平沢唯じゃない。]
posted at 19:34:15
Though I do sell well on the minor circuit. [マイナーで売ってるんだけど。 ]
posted at 19:34:40
Oi, it’s madness to suddenly have 3,754 followers. Is this some kind of joke? [おい、急に3,754は無いだろう。何かインチキやってないか？]
posted at 20:28:33
This joke is really getting out of hand. 3,871 is impossible. [調子に乗ってインチキやってるな。3,871なんかありえない。]
posted at 20:44:21
Oh god, it’s over 4,000 now. This is some bad joke. Leave me alone. [あらー、4,000越えてしまった。悪い冗談だ。私をそっとしておいて。]
posted at 21:15:30
Is it cos I wrote Hirasawa Yui? If that’s it, then it’s my bad. (But) you guys are in the wrong place. Try writing it once more. Hirasawa Yui. You pathetic people….. [平沢唯って書いたから？それならお気の毒に。場所間違えてますよ。もっかい書いてみよう。平沢唯。情けない・・・・・]
posted at 21:18:03
NOOOOO!!!! I’M NOT LIKE THAT!!!! [違うんだーーーー！！！私はそんなんじゃない！！！]
posted at 21:30:28
‘Hirawasa Susumu is not understanding, unkind and hateful’ or so it seems. I’m not the guy you’re looking for. SO GET LOST!!! [平沢進というのは分かりにくくて不親切で憎たらしいんだ。あんたが期待している男じゃない。さあ、回れ右！！！]
posted at 21:32:21
Stop looking this way!!! (copyright Andou Sou) [こっちみんなーーー！！！(C)あんどう蒼]
posted at 21:34:10
They keep coming!! [増えるなーー！！]
posted at 21:39:58
Leave me alone [ほっといてくれ]
posted at 21:40:07
Hirasawa Susumu – ‘Whaaaat is this music? It’s disgusting’. That’s me. I’m not cute. [平沢進というのは「な～に～？この音楽、きもちわるい」とか、そういう類だから。かわいくないから。]
posted at 21:41:18
I’ll lose friends. [友達減るから。]
posted at 21:42:08
I deeply apologise for having led so many people to the wrong place by writing ‘Hirasawa Yui’. [私が「平沢唯」と書いたことにより、多くの皆様を誤った場所に導いてしまったことを深くお詫び申し上げますから。]
posted at 21:46:14
I apologise once again [重ねてお詫び申し上げますから。]
posted at 21:51:13
Let’s see if this gets the number down. HIRASAWA SUSUMU. [これで減るかどうか試してみよう。「平沢進」]
posted at 21:52:00
27 October
3000 more followers overnight? This is a nightmare. [一夜にして3000人増？悪夢だ。]
posted at 10:49:41
Follow Hirasawa Susumu on Twitter. At the time of writing, he has 8,184 followers.Past 10,000 followers already hahahahaha.
AHAHAHAHA Hirasawa Susumu is infinitely more musically talented than Toyosaki Aki and whoever writes the K-ON! songs…
It’s funny, though, how a namesake can outlive its original inspiration in popularity – if I remember correctly, I read somewhere that Yui’s last name was actually taken from Hirasawa Susumu.
The rest of the K-ON! girls have last names from members of P-Model, the band Hirasawa Susumu headed – Tainaka, Akiyama, Kotobuki.
Please tell me it’s not just some random coincidence…if I remember correctly (again, unlikely), the surname counterparts also played the same instruments as the characters in K-ON!…
@Yoruko
Lol I must profess I had no idea about the K-ON! girls being named after P-MODEL members but then 1)I wasn’t really paying attention to K-ON! 2)P-MODEL had more members than the entire population of Singapore :3
If I were mistaken for a moeblob, I’d be raging too. Moreso if I could compose something as epic as Paprika’s Parade. :p
lol, hilarious. Although, he seems to be getting a little melodramatic over some twitter followers. It’s not like they’re moving in with him.
Ah, hirasawa, you made my night.
Lol, well thats funny, i checked just now and he had 8562 :p
You mean 8702, hahahaha. I kind of want to make a twitter account just to mess around, but then again, I don’t think I need to do anything.
LOL, now over 9000. I followed him to up the number, just for the lulz. Hoping that he’ll break 10k followers.
he should get 10k followers just because…he is hirasawa susumu. maybe he doesn’t understand how twitter works.
Those must be some very dumb followers if they really are there because they think he is Yui.
I’m pretty sure, by this point in time, it’s memetic and people are doing it just to drive him nuts.
I liked K-ON! well enough but his reaction is just hilarious.
now that i had coffee–this actually could be a prank don’t you think? or more basically, whoever is using hirasawa-san’s account may not be himself.
I’m guessing he’s also reacting like that for the lulz. His comments ARE pretty funny though.
He used 「私」 to refer to himself, wtf. I thought only females did that.
^That’s right up there with “half of the male populace of Japan uses 俺”. In other words, not true. 私 is quite commonplace among both genders.
I was going to visit his website to check out if there’s anything posted on this whole issue but…. the site has collapsed with the extra traffic lolololol
this is just plain hilarious. If i wasn’t so sympathetic i’d be laughing my ass off alrea-… wait, i already am!
I wonder if the other P-Model members have gotten similar followings for their, umm, association.
Shiny: Actually, I was under the impression that half of the male populace of Japan used 僕, with the other half using 俺!
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LoL…. XD
Now thats what make people popular in just a few days…
Wrong Name XDXDXD
and yet at 1st, I mistook YUI’s name(jp singer YUI) was copied for Yui… Hrasawa Yui…
Totally LoL on this Post… great 1 j1mOne!!!!
This is….Epic. Epicly funny.
Ah, the poor man now gets more than 15 minutes. xD
I lol’ed. So very tempted to add him to my follow list now just for the lulz.
But honestly, he is much a more talented and skilled musician, plus his music is leagues better (I first heard about his awesome work in Berserk, and I’ve listened to his stuff occasionally ever since). I might’ve added him already if I had known he had a Twitter account in the first place.