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Voice actress Maaya Uchida’s talent agency released a statement on its official website on October 2, 2026, declaring “this is completely baseless” after unfounded information and speculation-fueled slander about her began spreading online and on social media. The statement did not specify what the slander actually involved. On 5ch, threads were split between confusion — “we can’t tell what this is about unless you spell it out” — and guesses ranging from a possible tie-in to the “Death Doll” affair to political remarks, with no consensus forming even as some worried the vague statement itself might only fuel further spread.
10/2 (Fri) 11:33
On the 2nd, voice actress Maaya Uchida’s talent agency released a statement on its official website regarding slander directed at her online.
The official site stated: “We have confirmed that baseless information about Maaya Uchida, along with speculation and slander based on it, is being posted and spread online and on social media,” adding, “We can confirm that this matter is entirely without basis in fact.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Can't tell unless someone just comes out and says it.
guess I'm kinda over it.
Don't know the details, but this statement is literally how I found out something even happened lol
"But we can't tell you what it's about — that would just spread it!"
Come on, that's absurd
Just deny it properly.
Don't know the content at all
But where there's smoke there's fire, so it's probably one of those "off-white," not-quite-clean stories.
I genuinely love her face
Back in her Akiba Ranger days I used to think, 'man, she's plain!' though
Is her signature role Hime from Mahjong Soul (Jantama)?
The only voice actors I know are Nobuyo Ōyama
and Akira Kamiya.
it's not necessarily even Japanese people doing the slandering, right?
Could easily be someone impersonating a Japanese person.
Background and Key Points
“This is baseless” statements from talent agencies have become more common in recent years, as a response to how unverified information can spread on social media faster than the person involved can react. One likely reason agencies avoid specifying the actual content is that denying it outright risks re-spreading the rumor further, or that legal action may already be underway — but in the thread, the dominant reaction was simply confusion over not knowing what the slander even was. One point readers can easily get wrong: speculation in the thread, like the guess about a “Death Doll” connection, is purely anonymous conjecture, and nothing confirms it actually matches what the agency’s statement is referring to. The very dynamic at play here — speculation and prying spreading ahead of any clarity about what’s actually being slandered — mirrors exactly the situation the agency’s statement was trying to push back against.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Agency Issues Statement Over Online Slander of Voice Actress Maaya Uchida: “Completely Baseless”.”
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