User blog comment:VideoGamesLover/Fairy Tail Movie 2?/@comment-68.179.188.168-20150516114901/@comment-7418318-20150517073548

The scandal with Aya Hirano was several years before the FT anime was even created. It had ABSOLUTELY NO impact on Fairy Tail and certainly never "almost killed" the anime. It killed Aya's career as a singer and set her career as a Seiyuu back, but as I said that all happened long before Fairy Tail.

This rumour was just people without the ability to read a date making wild guesses for the reason behind the anime taking a 1-year break. Guesses that we now know to have been very wide off their mark.

The reason why the anime went on break was because for some (to my knowledge) undisclosed reason the production leaders and the old animation studio Satelight decided to no longer work with each other.

Aya Hirano had absolutely nothing to do with the break.