One odd experience of watching Haruhi now is how the history unfolds backwards. When one blogger insisted on calling Shiraishi "Taniguchi", it confused me. Shiraishi didn't voice Kyon, so what was it? Well, now I know, and I know where "Wa-wa-wasuremono" comes from. Curiously, both Shiraishi and Ono appear on Lucky Star as themselves, but only Shiraishi became a legend. Poor Ono! If only he were a girl, he could press idol DVDs.

UPDATE: A picture, for the archives.

Taniguchi is an object lesson how an excellent seyuu is unable to move a secondary role to the forefront in the same an actor would (if director permitted it).