I never expected to find myself watching this title. The anime Lucky☆Star came as a fastball to me. Oddly enough, however, it began to grow on me.
Lucky☆Star centers on 4 girls, two of which are related. Among these four is Konata Izumi. While she has intelligence and athletic, she is rather lazy, and doesn't resign herself to any sports clubs. To add, she always ends up cramming for tests. The other girls consist of the intelligent Miyuki Takara, and the Hiiragi sisters Kagami and Tsukasa. For what I understand, there is no definite plot, as the anime mainly deals with not only their everyday lives, but the episodes usually reference other anime, manga, and tokusatsu.
The anime is 24 episodes long, localized by Bandai Entertainment and Kadokawa Pictures. Supposedly, the manga records from their first year in high school, though the anime starts initially from the second term for them. In addition, much like the Americanized version of Sailor Moon's first season, each episode of Lucky☆Star has a segment at the end titled Lucky Channel, featuring Akira Kogami, a two-faced character, if you will, and her assistant Minoru Shiraishi, who constantly ties to put up with her when she's not being nice on screen. Aya Hirano is not only the seiyuu of Konata, but she also one of the singers for not only the show's opening but as well for a few of the insert tracks used as the endings. Some songs are recognizable from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, another series in which Hirano voices Haruhi, the titular character. English wise, Konata's voice is done by Wendee Lee, who ALSO voices Haruhi in English. At some point, I'll cover the latter series.
Lucky☆Star perked my interest, and I'm glad I wasn't mislead, though it's a slice of life comedy I didn't think would interest me at first. This series gets an 8.1 of 10.
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