Lucky☆Star

I've always hated slice-of-life anime but for some reason this one really stuck with me. I somehow found myself actually interested in the exceedingly ordinary dialouge and events of the show. Pretty much every character is a cliche, and if you were trying, you could probably predict what each character is going to do in any giving situation. However I found myself really enjoying the show, looking foward to watching it at the end of every day.

Sure, you can tell they didnt cut corners for animation and maybe thats why I felt it was such a cool experaice, but thats just a guess. I ... have no real idea as to why I like this show so much; So give it a shot, you might like it too.

Plus I actually really enjoyed the dub, which is rare for older anime.

I really liked the upbeat OP but the content felt very stream-of-consciousness ala Japanese humour.

It was pretty funny at times. I especially liked the karaoke scenes and references to other animes. In many ways it reminds me of a funnier, cuter Pop Team Epic. If you enjoy either of these things you will probably enjoy this anime.

There is no story or plot to speak of but the art style was fun, bright, and loud. The characters are really cute but did not have enough development for me to become invested in them.

For me, I need more of a story and more ... growth to enjoy myself but I can see the appeal of this if you are looking for something fun, cute, and relaxing.

Despite the moe character design, Lucky Star is very... bland. What K-ON! did for the moe genre was revolutionary and has an incredible story in its own right with a cast of lovable characters. Lucky Star essentially is just a show about a group of high school friends that make fun of anime tropes, high school and really specific Japanese foods, and Japanese things in a snarky way. Some of the jokes land and are pretty funny. Most of them don't and it makes the show seem more like a commentary about the anime industry as a whole as opposed to a show worth watching ... on its own without watching other anime. Also, if you need to have watched other shows to understand a bunch of the jokes, unless you do something like Clerks did when they made reference to Star Wars with the Death Star,, give a quick explanation for people who might not have seen it and then proceed to make a really solid point about government contractors and relate it to real-life, just attempting to parody it, and then making reference to what you are parodying reminds me of those terrible comedy movies like Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Vampires Suck. It's just lazy. Wouldn't recommend this to anyone other than to say that the OP is the type of BOP that you listen to with headphones and never tell another soul about. Super cheesy and embarrassingly catchy. Like a weeb national anthem.

All hail the Lucky Star OP!
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3/10