Comments on: Hasegawa Shizuka Shuts Down Blog After Harsh Comments

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Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:55:56 +0000

[...] my career go down the drain!’ turn as Misora in the Negima! live-action dorama, and the bizarre blog hiatus incident. The work seems to have gradually dried up since last summer – her stint as co-host of Ura Stacha [...]

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First Quarter 2008 Seiyuu News Round-Up » j1m0ne’s blog — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:47:36 +0000

[...] blood when Chihara Minori asked to exchange phone numbers. ・houkoholic kills Ueda Kana. ・Hasegawa Shizuka shuts down blog after harsh comments. ・Goto Yuko’s blog’s sudden rise in popularity. ・Bandai USA get Code Geass seiyuu [...]

By: hashihime

hashihime — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:13:00 +0000

@lil donkey — Yep, there they are. I guess my brain short-circuited. I could have sworn that was the case. I thought I noticed that months ago, so maybe (just maybe) she did turn them off and turned them back on.

By: Lil Donkey

Lil Donkey — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:58:00 +0000

＠ hashihime: Huh? Amisuke stopped the comments? I only recently noticed that if I put a English word in my comments or something, it couldn’t be sent.

By: j1m0ne

j1m0ne — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:41:00 +0000

If anyone’s really interested, the rest of the guy’s comments can be read here (in Japanese of course).

Allowing comments on a blog is an open invitation for ppl to hurl abuse and scrutinise every single thing you say, and it’s doubly worse for entertainers; especially in a country that demonises celebs for the strangest things (ie Koda Kumi’s recent gaffe).

Of course, I can understand that Shizuka’s feeling pretty down about this sort of critiscm given her young age & ‘relative newcomer’ status. Incidentally, Inoue Marina’s old blog suffered similar abuse of the comment system which led to every commenter now having to pass through the moderation system. Of course, the most effective solution would be to turn it off completely, but I’m sure celebs want fans to send them messages of love & support too

By: hashihime

hashihime — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:39:00 +0000

Hasegawa-san responded in a normal Japanese courteous way to her minor error, but the other person was not following the social rules. Short circuit. Fuse blows. Come back in a month.

Being ridiculously sensitive myself, I can feel her pain. But I'm interested to see how comparatively tame the guy's comment was. If she'd got any of the things that show up all the time in Hirano Aya's 2channel threads, she'd have jumped off a bridge by now.

Actually, it gives me respect for her as a normal person, not used to this crap. No wonder Koshimizu Ami stopped comments on her blog, and Hirano Aya never had them.

By: j1m0ne

j1m0ne — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:14:00 +0000

*shrug* Maybe Japanese ppl are a fragile lot? I mean, someone just wished death upon me a few days ago & it only succeeded in making me laugh, not weeping to go see a therapist....

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:01:00 +0000

Ha ha wow

Anonymous of 4chan says much, much ruder things to english visual culture blogs and fansub group posts…which the recievers just suck up