The English-speaking fans at Otakon liked Kawasumi's performances so much that they asked her, over and over again, to read the lines they liked the most from her performances, and she graciously consented, getting applause each time.
It's also a dream made real for Kawasumi to have the chance to sing some of the closing themes in the shows where the appears, because she liked the themes as much as the shows when she was young.
Kawasumi has even written some of the lyrics for those songs, since she has come to know the characters as well as anyone else through her performances.
With the current strong emphasis on the idol aspect, perhaps even more so than the actual voice acting aspect, of the new generation of seiyuu, KawasumiAyako was a relatively new seiyuu that surprisingly came into fame by her sheer determination in sticking along with what seiyuu were suppose to do, voice acting.
While Ayako is very active in her voice acting career and continuously taking new and challenging roles, on the other hand, she remains very quiet on other works.
While Ayako is very good at voice acting, she's not as good with singing.
