Puzzlingly, Hirano (who says she was eating tissues while working on Haruhi) didn’t like to settle for the cheapest tissues.
“There was a time when I really had no money, so I’d put soy sauce on tissues and eat them.”
Before her salad days, voice of Haruhi Suzumiya says she couldn’t afford actual salad.
Nowadays, 30-year-old Aya Hirano is among the most popular voice actresses in the industry, having solidified her fanbase voicing Haruhi Suzumiya and Konata Izumi, stars of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Lucky Star, respectively.