Lucky☆Star

The culmination of early 2000s Japanese online pop culture bubble and possibly the beginning of the decline. Lucky Star owes everything to it's influences which is proudly wears on its sleeve, with it's predecessor shows, Nico Video, gaming forums, 2chan, etc. Understandably polarizing when it leaves the circle of it's target audience but for those who've soaked themselves in the geek world of 2000s Japan, this show is so close to perfection and could never be made today with the same level of soul. So enjoy Lucky Star because there will only ever be one.

And thank you Shiraishi Minoru for creating the funniest anime ... ED known to man.

Personally I found this anime boring, but not because I dislike slice of lifes , in fact it is my favourite genre. No, I think Lucky star is boring to me because I am not part of the audience it was meant for. You see, a lot of the 'comedy' in this comedy anime relies on the viewer knowing certain things about life in Japan and otaku culture and relating to what the characters are saying, but I'm from The West and only started watching anime when the pandemic hit, so a lot of the jokes fly straight over my head. without the comedy aspect ... this show gets boring really fast. I only completed it because I wanted to know what all the fuss was about.

There's even a couple of things that kind of annoy me about this anime.
For example: the way they keep saying that Kagemi loves to snack and is always eating, and the others (Konata) tease her about gaining weight, yet she looks just as paper-thin as the rest of them, in fact all the girls have the exact same body type just with differing heights and busts, and the jokes just don't really land for me because of that. Besides, mocking people for their weight is really outdated and unfunny.
See also: the way the flat girls keep comparing their boobs every fucking time they see Miyuki, or any even slightly busty character. They clearly love that joke, because I swear it shows up in nearly every episode, and it gets real old real fast. Especially because the 'big' boobs they're so jealous of are like, C cups at best. If you wanted to mock that anime trope do it properly, jeez.

I do enjoy the art style overall, because I love cute things and by god this style is the most Kawaii Moe Moe Chibi thing ever. That's about the only thing I really did like about this show though.

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!
I BUY SAUSAGE!!!!!

3/10