You may have seen it, but I have a post over in the General Anime
Voice Actor thread showing nominations for a new Seiyuu Awards competition. Aaya is nominated in four different categories: lead female, supporting female, new female, and singer. Maybe she
is the business. There's a discussion there of who should be on the list, and whether or not Aaya is worthy.
And I found (via 2channel) an
interesting post by a guy who attended the Kadokawa event. He and his wife shook hands with Aaya. He said she was terribly thin, and his wife said that she never imagined anyone could have such thin hands. He included a pic of them together. He is
Yamada Shinya, a 29-year-old accountant and short-story writer.