Aya Hirano

Aya Hirano (平野 綾 Hirano Aya) is a minor character based off of the real-life version of herself (the voice actress for Konata Izumi) who appears in Episode 15 of the Lucky Star anime.

Aya also appears in a special manga strip collected into Volume 5. In this strip, she is at a coffee shop eating a chocolate cornet from the pointed end where she is spotted by Konata and Hiyori Tamura.

Etymology

 * The name Aya means "design" (綾).
 * Aya's surname Hirano means "flat" (平) (hira) and "field, wilderness" (野) (no).