Short summary : Everyday life of an otaku girl and her “rather” normal friends.

So… Lucky Star ended… well, until season 2 at least.

Indeed, I didn’t really feel like it was the end. It was rather like a “12th” episode, the kind of episode which makes you feel that you reached the half of the show. Moreover, KyoAni animated barely anything from the 4th volume of the manga, and volume 5 just got released. If you add lot of original content, KyoAni have enough materials for much more episodes. And don’t school animes usually end with the graduation ?

Anyway, it was a nice episode, 100% original KyoAni content, which gave lot of screentime to Patty, the cutest school-anime gaijin since Sarah Adiemus from School Rumble.

Lucky Star, like every “Everyday Life” animes, is the kind of show that you either love it or hate it. Personally I really enjoyed it and it will be one of my all-time favorites, mostly thanks to the characters, they’re all awesome. ‘Cause yeah, Lucky Star isn’t a show that wants to be funny every single seconds, just watching them talking about various things is enough to make my day.

Konata, the perfect girl ? Dunno, but sure that a girl who wouldn’t complain if you play some video games sounds nice. She would even play with you.

Kagami-sama, just plain awesome. Tsundere + yuri + tsukkomi + twintails, should I even mention that she’s one of my all-time favorite characters ?

Lovely Tsukasa. Sometimes she reminded me of Osaka from Azumanga Daioh, because of her tendency of being amused by totally random things (like “Balsamic Vinegar”).

Ok, I must admit that this scene alone in the first episode was the thing that made me a fan of this show and Kagami-sama.

Souichiro, aka Awesome Dad.

Since Konata is an otaku, it’s natural to see a ton of references about games, anime and manga. Some of them are really unexpected though.

The Lucky Channel is one of the strong point of the show in the beginning, but eventually became kinda boring. The ending songs are just genius, and Minoru Shiraishi (Taniguchi’s seiyuu in Haruhi) playing his own role is hilarious.

Hiyori is my second favorite of the show. She rocks for being a doujinshi artist who loves yuri, and always fantasizes about Yutaka and Minami.

Though the animation was pretty simple throughout the serie, KyoAni showed some awesomely animated scenes occasionally.

Misao, a secondary character who got a huge popularity.

A tribute to the Lucky Star fans who invaded a shrine in Kyoto.

One can complain about the fact that there was too much references about Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu. Well, I can’t help but agree a bit.

It might be my own disillusion, but I’m sure Konata and Kagamin are in love with each other.

“Konata no nioi…”

Though Kagamin acts harshly towards Konata most of the time, she truely cares for her, and it makes my world a better place.

In this episode, only Konata noticed that Kagamin’s attitude changed, not even her own twin sister noticed it. That’s why she got the idea of that purikura thing. Thanks, KyoAni. Thanks you for making it real.

Duh, ended up being a quite big post, and the final part was all about yuri… dondake~

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