http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/12/27/otaku-christmas-seiyuu-stalking-mania/Each Christmas, 2ch otaku start a “Supervise female seiyuu to make sure they aren’t spending time with a man” thread, in which they pore over seiyuu blogs for suspect updates, check for possible alibi, and examine the dates of any photographs posted to make sure they are genuine evidence of a Christmas spent alone.
This year’s targets, courtesy of 2ch:
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メインターゲット
平野綾
http://www.hiranoaya.com/cgi-bin/diary/sfs6_diary/ Exifあり
加藤英美里
http://blog.livedoor.jp/clovercafe/ Exifあり
小清水亜美
http://blog.excite.co.jp/amisketch/ Exifあり
井上麻里奈
http://yaplog.jp/marinavi/ Exifあり
伊藤かな恵
http://kana2542.jugem.jp/ Exifあり
竹達彩奈
http://ameblo.jp/strawberry-ayana/ Exifなし
伊瀬茉莉也
http://blog.excite.co.jp/sapphire-marin Exifあり
MAKO
http://www.spacecraft.co.jp/mako/honey_diary/ Exifあり
悠木碧
http://aoitown.com/cgi-local/aoiblog/diary.cgi Exifあり
佐藤聡美
http://osatomi.jugem.jp/ Exifあり
日笠陽子
http://blog.livedoor.jp/hiyonikki/ Exifなし
タレコミの可能性のあるブログ
三瓶由布子
http://blog.excite.co.jp/yukobako/ Exifあり
廣田詩夢
http://hirotashion.jugem.jp/ Exifあり
白石涼子
http://ryo-ko-pentan.jugem.jp/ Exifなし
阿澄佳奈
http://yaplog.jp/asumibiyori/ Exifあり
門脇舞以
http://ameblo.jp/maitablog/ Exifなし
Of the various seiyuu monitored, it appears Ayana Taketatsu (Azusa) and Yoko Hikasa (Mio) are lacking proper EXIF authentication of their whereabouts this Christmas. Aki Toyosaki (Yui) has been spotted manipulating the EXIF data of a photograph to make it appear recent, despite it being identified as older.
The reason for the EXIF data checking is that the EXIF timestamp added to images by digital cameras will give away a photo taken before it was actually posted, in case seiyuu have the gall to employ subterfuge in defence of their privacy.
Naturally, a sufficiently savvy seiyuu (or more likely their agency) could simply manipulate the EXIF data to give an appropriate alibi, so fans also look for additional cross-site corroboration where possible.
As 2ch puts it, this thread is “90% virgin, 100% stalker.”
However, all this stalkerish suspicion is not entirely a product of obsessive otaku delusion.
In 2007, famed bikini model Aya Hirano made a series of Christmas updates to her blog in which she emphasised that she spent Christmas Eve, in Japan largely a romantic evening for couples, at a party which was “nothing but women.”
