Lucky☆Star

Lucky Star is an art. And has a shit ton of japanese references that I found hilarious. I feel like if you're not into japanese culture as a whole, you'll miss a lot of the joy of watching. You choose to watch lucky star for enjoying one of the "truest forms" of slice of life and that's it. Nothing else. Will have to say, Pls watch Haruhi before this, the amount of references always has me dying.

Lucky star haters that I've been reading about seem watch this for the sake of watching, like trying to check off a watch list to say that's you've ... seen it. But if you watch for the sake of art and have a good knowledge of japanese cultures, it really is entertaining af.

Sad this series ended, but definitely will remain as one of my favorites. Gotta hand it to ep 22 tho (if you know you know)

It’s a shame really because this had all the potential of a great anime and yet it stumbles out of the starting gate. There are some good gags and the characters are really likable. But this show’s undoing is the same as what undoes Nichijou 4 years later; it can’t be bothered to give us a proper introduction to the main cast of characters and then just throws random nonsense about (like the recurring Lucky Channel or ED bits) and expects them to be funny. Like with Nichijou, you could probably get at least 12 really good episodes out of this, provided some deft editing ... and rewrites were ordered.

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