Jun 29, 2020 10:17 PM
Lucky Star ramble
Anime Relations:
Lucky☆Star
According to what I have marked on my MAL, it was october 8th when I decided to watch Lucky Star. I don’t remember what it was that particularly made me watch Lucky Star, but I think it had something to do with somebody buying the series on Blu-Ray in one of the discord servers that I was (and still am) in. Going of this design, I immediately took notice of the wii-remotes & decided “You know what, I’m going to watch this series. So I put on the first episode & I HATED it. I thought it was boring, the characters were completely uninteresting, the directing style I thought was flat, this show had no good qualities for me right out of the gate upon my initial watch, & since I had just come off of dropping Nichijou, & seeing as I though Lucky Star was similar to Nichijou, I had initially dropped it. But the following day, I was trying to figure out what to watch, & I couldn’t find anything, out of desperation I decided to give Lucky Star a 2nd chance by watching the first episode again, this time I found myself liking the first episode a good bit. Then it hit me, this show is both
A. About absolutely nothing but highschool girls living their daily lives
B. My middle school days with my friends.
Watching this episode immediately brought me back to what I consider to be one of my favorite years of my school life, 6th-8th grade. Unlike most people I talk to, I don’t look back on my middle school days & cringe upon them uncontrollably like I do with my freshman year of highschool. Konata, Tsukasa, Miyuki, & Kagami were me and my friends in middle school. We would talk about completely meaningless things , most of the conversations leading up to nothing & then switching the conversation topic at random. So I proceeded on with the series and found myself liking the rest of the series & finding some of the jokes to be rather humorous. One of my favorite episodes both at the time & now as I’m writing this take on Lucky Star is the episode where Konata works at a cosplay cafe, cosplaying Haruhi. A joke with Lucky Star both with its English Dub & Japanese Dub is that Konata Izumi & Haruhi Suzumiya share the same voice actress (Wendee Lee English, Aya Hirano Japanese). Seeing Wendee Lee go from Haruhi, to Konata on a dime was really funny, & Konata acting like Haruhi (treating her friends, well, ok Kagamean) like shit at the cafe made me laugh uncontrollably & I still look back fondly on that scene to this day. One of my other favorite moments in this series is when Konata goes “ahhhh” into the fan & it makes those weird noises, I liked that because that scene made me go “Seriously, who didn’t try that at some point in their life?). Then what made that scene even better was Kagami scolding both Konata & Tsukasa for going “ahhh” into the fan & then Kagami’s dad called her out on it. The structure & build up of such a minor scene was really great & got a serious laugh out of me. As Lucky Star went along I was like, “Ok I really like this”, & for a brief period of time it had become one of my favorites. To go back to the English Dub for a second, people say Cowboy Bebop has the best English Dub? Well, I don’t disagree, but in my opinion I like the Lucky Star dub more. The casting choices were excellent & you have to commend the dubbing team’s efforts for making sure the whole joke about Konata & Haruhi having the same voice actor wasn’t lost in translation. Wendee Lee pulls off the slacker voice very well on Konata & Kari Wahlgren’s portrayal of Kagami brings out her sass even better than the original Japanese VA in my honest opinion, Kari Wahlgren made this dub for me alone, I really wish she was present in more English dubs these days, because I would actually watch them if Kari Wahlgren was in them. If you were to ask me my favorite girl in Lucky Star, it’s Tsukasa hands down, I love her innocent nature & contrasting personality to her more aggressive & snarky twin sister. Plus her English VA really bought out a great performance, like god-damn this English cast is really fucking talented. Can I talk about that OST? Because that god-damn piano theme ‘Fun Fun Dayo’ was my life theme for about 2 weeks after I had finished the series, any activity, no matter how mundane or exciting it was, that god damn theme would start playing & it wouldn’t go away. Plus the rest of the soundtrack matched the show really well too, & every piece I really enjoyed listening to as the show played out, if there was a vinyl release of this OST, I’d probably buy it depending on if it was fairly priced or not, Yeah, never in my life did I think I would be praising Lucky Star’s OST but here I am, writing another rambling post about why I like Lucky Star. Of course being that Lucky Star was one of my favorites for awhile, I own it on Blu-Ray, I wish I waited a little bit for Funimation’s “essentials” re-release of the series, because having just the Blu-Rays would be a god-send & take up less shelf space overall. But on the other hand, I don’t really see myself selling my current set, because part of me likes owning 2 copies of the series, on 2 different formats, in 1 case. But it’s a really good release of the series, colors are nice, there’s a shit ton of extras, it comes with the OVA episode. It’s an all around great release, & if you have interest in collecting anime and owning it physically, I would recommend picking Lucky Star up on Blu-Ray if you haven’t already, it’s not too much money to own it. Anyway I don’t know where else to take this Lucky Star Ramble other than to say, Lucky Star is awesome, I enjoyed watching it, & I’m gonna throw on some random episodes now that I’m done writing this post.
A. About absolutely nothing but highschool girls living their daily lives
B. My middle school days with my friends.
Watching this episode immediately brought me back to what I consider to be one of my favorite years of my school life, 6th-8th grade. Unlike most people I talk to, I don’t look back on my middle school days & cringe upon them uncontrollably like I do with my freshman year of highschool. Konata, Tsukasa, Miyuki, & Kagami were me and my friends in middle school. We would talk about completely meaningless things , most of the conversations leading up to nothing & then switching the conversation topic at random. So I proceeded on with the series and found myself liking the rest of the series & finding some of the jokes to be rather humorous. One of my favorite episodes both at the time & now as I’m writing this take on Lucky Star is the episode where Konata works at a cosplay cafe, cosplaying Haruhi. A joke with Lucky Star both with its English Dub & Japanese Dub is that Konata Izumi & Haruhi Suzumiya share the same voice actress (Wendee Lee English, Aya Hirano Japanese). Seeing Wendee Lee go from Haruhi, to Konata on a dime was really funny, & Konata acting like Haruhi (treating her friends, well, ok Kagamean) like shit at the cafe made me laugh uncontrollably & I still look back fondly on that scene to this day. One of my other favorite moments in this series is when Konata goes “ahhhh” into the fan & it makes those weird noises, I liked that because that scene made me go “Seriously, who didn’t try that at some point in their life?). Then what made that scene even better was Kagami scolding both Konata & Tsukasa for going “ahhh” into the fan & then Kagami’s dad called her out on it. The structure & build up of such a minor scene was really great & got a serious laugh out of me. As Lucky Star went along I was like, “Ok I really like this”, & for a brief period of time it had become one of my favorites. To go back to the English Dub for a second, people say Cowboy Bebop has the best English Dub? Well, I don’t disagree, but in my opinion I like the Lucky Star dub more. The casting choices were excellent & you have to commend the dubbing team’s efforts for making sure the whole joke about Konata & Haruhi having the same voice actor wasn’t lost in translation. Wendee Lee pulls off the slacker voice very well on Konata & Kari Wahlgren’s portrayal of Kagami brings out her sass even better than the original Japanese VA in my honest opinion, Kari Wahlgren made this dub for me alone, I really wish she was present in more English dubs these days, because I would actually watch them if Kari Wahlgren was in them. If you were to ask me my favorite girl in Lucky Star, it’s Tsukasa hands down, I love her innocent nature & contrasting personality to her more aggressive & snarky twin sister. Plus her English VA really bought out a great performance, like god-damn this English cast is really fucking talented. Can I talk about that OST? Because that god-damn piano theme ‘Fun Fun Dayo’ was my life theme for about 2 weeks after I had finished the series, any activity, no matter how mundane or exciting it was, that god damn theme would start playing & it wouldn’t go away. Plus the rest of the soundtrack matched the show really well too, & every piece I really enjoyed listening to as the show played out, if there was a vinyl release of this OST, I’d probably buy it depending on if it was fairly priced or not, Yeah, never in my life did I think I would be praising Lucky Star’s OST but here I am, writing another rambling post about why I like Lucky Star. Of course being that Lucky Star was one of my favorites for awhile, I own it on Blu-Ray, I wish I waited a little bit for Funimation’s “essentials” re-release of the series, because having just the Blu-Rays would be a god-send & take up less shelf space overall. But on the other hand, I don’t really see myself selling my current set, because part of me likes owning 2 copies of the series, on 2 different formats, in 1 case. But it’s a really good release of the series, colors are nice, there’s a shit ton of extras, it comes with the OVA episode. It’s an all around great release, & if you have interest in collecting anime and owning it physically, I would recommend picking Lucky Star up on Blu-Ray if you haven’t already, it’s not too much money to own it. Anyway I don’t know where else to take this Lucky Star Ramble other than to say, Lucky Star is awesome, I enjoyed watching it, & I’m gonna throw on some random episodes now that I’m done writing this post.
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