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During the May 24 episode of TBS Network\u2019s Weekly Sanma and Matsuko, Japanese voice actress Kana Hanazawa<\/strong> revealed the lengths she went to play Tohko Amano in the 2010 anime movie Book Girl (source: Oricon News<\/a>). In an attempt to fully \u201cembody the role\u201d and put herself in the heroine\u2019s shoes, she tore up the audition script and put it in her mouth \u2013 an act which, according to her, got her the part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the light novel series of the same name, Book Girl\u2019s plot revolves around Konoha Inoue, a second-year high school student who joins the literature club after discovering that the president and sole member, Tohko Amano, eats stories by consuming the paper they are written on. Inoue ends up writing several short stories for Tohko as \u201csnacks,\u201d and ends up discovering more about his senior and himself in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanazawa described Tohko Amano as a role she \u201cabsolutely had to land.\u201d Realizing that she had to understand the character to get the part, she recounted that she had never eaten paper before. She then tore up the audition script and put it in her mouth: “It was salty, so I spit it out right away, but it made me think, So this is what it feels like…to live on eating paper<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanma Akashiya, the show\u2019s co-host, jokingly called the move \u201ctrue character development,\u201d and Hanazawa confirmed that this slightly bizarre move was what helped her land the role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japanese voice actress behind Pragmata\u2019s Diana to stream herself playing the game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anime about sexually frenzied married women terrorizing their landlord in skimpy mind control costumes will have one voice actress playing ten different roles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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