Shock, gasp, horror. Aya Hirano is not a virgin.

Wait, there are larger issues involved. But first, Aya. She's the voice of Haruhi Suzumiya, heroine of the anime series of the same name, and as such an idol to thousands if not millions of young otaku men on whose affections flesh and blood women have little claim — because, presumably, they're flesh and blood women, not idols or cartoon characters. Haruhi Suzumiya, according to Wikipedia, is "a beautiful but eccentric and headstrong high school student" who "possesses unconscious godlike abilities to change, destroy and reshape reality to her desires."

In real life, what's left of it, Aya is a 22-year-old woman, and on a "girls' talk" TV show last month she made an admission to the effect that . . . well, there is "a person I like."