Lucky Star is an anime series based on a comic strip. It’s unique in one aspect: I have no idea why it exists. How anyone could become legitimately engaged in this show is not something I can fathom. Right off the bat, the show’s intro assaults you with a song and dance performed by all of the main characters. Now this is an automatic failure in my book. There’s just something about anime characters dancing that pisses me off. And if this wasn’t bad enough, the theme song is one of the worst sounding and lyrically incoherent songs I’ve ever heard. The vocals in the beginning and end are so awful they don’t even sound like they’re emanating from human vocal chords. It’s easier to believe it’s some kind of evil robot or demonic entity‘s creepy mockery of the musical arts. The first time I listened I briefly wished I had been born deaf. After that, every time I started a new episode I had to turn off my computer speakers and drag the slider bar on my media player to precisely 1:30 and start there. If I see or hear anything in the intro at all I get extremely upset. I never thought I’d say this but I’d rather watch the intro to Tenjho Tenge
The show’s plot is nonexistent. With the exclusion of a few episodes, it’s just four high school girls doing every humdrum activity you can think of: They talk about food, how to prepare food, and how to eat food. They do homework, text on cell phones, ride public transportation, and use computers. They also walk and talk, sit and talk, and stand and talk. I know this sounds quite thrilling and totally foreign to you but please try to contain yourself. I think Lucky Star is supposed to be a comedy but it’s really not that funny at all. However it never ceases to amaze me how it manages to keep you hoping for a payoff and then it never actually delivers. It’s like it tells you half a joke every episode and then stops before reaching the punch line thereby tricking you into watching it. In reality the show’s just a bunch of random unrelated scenes, (of the above mentioned content), thrown together. The thing that bothers me the most about the flow of the episodes is the lack of scene transitions. There are almost no transitions and it makes it really hard to follow sometimes, like when the scene cuts away and all of a sudden everyone’s wearing different clothes. Or when a character calls a person on the phone that they were just talking to in person a second ago. Or when they just slip a completely random and totally irrelevant two second clip in between two scenes, making you wonder if the people making it spent any time at all in post production. With negligent editing and zero plot development, you could just about watch the series upside-down and backwards and it wouldn’t change a thing.
This is the show’s mascot… As you can see it’s a reanimated severed cat head grafted on to it’s own dismembered tail. Quite horrifying really. What sick bastard spawned this abomination of nature?
As I already said, Lucky Star is about four high school girls around 17 and 18 years old. But for some reason they’ve been drawn to look like they’re about eight, except for Tsukasa who look’s like she’s six. In fact pretty much all of the characters in the show look too young to be the age they’re supposed to be. The main girls look like they should be playing hopscotch on the playground. Their teacher and the police officer look like they could be high school freshmen. Miyuki and Konata’s moms somehow look younger than Miyuki and Konata. The only person that looks almost old enough to be who he is, is Konata’s father. That means that in the show he’s probably like 85 years old. It’s very weird watching high school freshmen come home drunk and listening to flat-
chested eight-year-old girls talk about their periods. It’s been a while since I was in high school but I distinctly remember there being boobs. And that’s another thing, occasionally Miyuki will appear to have breasts but only when it is called to everyone’s attention how “big” her breasts are. After that, she morphs right back into a billiard-table-chest like everyone else.
If there was a main character in LS it would probably be Konata. Incidentally she’s my least favorite character. Her voice is annoying. She's about three feet tall, has blue hair and walks around with her eyes closed half the time. I don’t know what the hell’s wrong with her mouth. I guess she was born with a cleft pallet or something. She’s also addicted to anime, manga, and video games which I can’t help but see as a cheap ploy to connect with the target audience which undoubtedly has the exact same vices. It’s this latter quality that makes her character not believable. Girls are mentally incapable of being that enraptured by video games. Also, they never really show the video games that she plays. It’s always just her sitting at a computer, her holding a PS2 controller, and her saying “I played video games last night.” Why don’t they just show the damn games?! That would actually be interesting. I don’t care who got a new cell phone or about the correct way to eat a disgusting brown blob filled with goo. Show a shooter headshot or some finisher move from a fighting game. Or something like that Virtual Valkyrie MMO story from that one episode of Mission Hill. That was funny. Whatever… The games she plays probably suck anyway.
The show’s plot is nonexistent. With the exclusion of a few episodes, it’s just four high school girls doing every humdrum activity you can think of: They talk about food, how to prepare food, and how to eat food. They do homework, text on cell phones, ride public transportation, and use computers. They also walk and talk, sit and talk, and stand and talk. I know this sounds quite thrilling and totally foreign to you but please try to contain yourself. I think Lucky Star is supposed to be a comedy but it’s really not that funny at all. However it never ceases to amaze me how it manages to keep you hoping for a payoff and then it never actually delivers. It’s like it tells you half a joke every episode and then stops before reaching the punch line thereby tricking you into watching it. In reality the show’s just a bunch of random unrelated scenes, (of the above mentioned content), thrown together. The thing that bothers me the most about the flow of the episodes is the lack of scene transitions. There are almost no transitions and it makes it really hard to follow sometimes, like when the scene cuts away and all of a sudden everyone’s wearing different clothes. Or when a character calls a person on the phone that they were just talking to in person a second ago. Or when they just slip a completely random and totally irrelevant two second clip in between two scenes, making you wonder if the people making it spent any time at all in post production. With negligent editing and zero plot development, you could just about watch the series upside-down and backwards and it wouldn’t change a thing.
There are countless anime references in the show but they’re never executed with any sort of tact. It’s always “Hey! Look at my new Sgt. Frog key chain!” Or “I love your Full Metal Panic plushie!” There’s also manga and magazines like New Type inserted within episodes. They aren’t spoof or even recreated versions though, they’re just literal scans of the front covers digitally added in. Kyoto Animation is the studio responsible for creating the Lucky Star anime. Therefore, any other series created by Kyoto Animation is fair play for showcasing and saturating every single episode of LS with to an annoying degree. Occasionally they reference an anime not under their jurisdiction. Of course when they do this they have to censor everything said and shown. Every time they say the name of the show it’s bleeped out. And every time they show a picture it’s blurred out. Now if legally they aren’t allowed to convey this information then why the hell are they talking about it? If you can actually figure out that they’re talking about the Gundam franchise then that’s great. But if you can’t then they might as well be discussing the socioeconomic parallels between chronosynclastic infundibulums and a totalitarian government. Nothing they say during these segments is going to matter to you in the slightest. It’s going to ridiculous lengths for a gag that was never going to be funny, interesting, or worthwhile in the first place. Actually the most elaborate and dynamic scenes in the show are always anime reference scenes which is pathetic because it leads me to believe that that’s the apex of the shows focus. In other words, the best thing they have to offer is content someone else made and we’ve already seen. How much effort/talent does that take?
i.e. About *this* much…
This is the show’s mascot… As you can see it’s a reanimated severed cat head grafted on to it’s own dismembered tail. Quite horrifying really. What sick bastard spawned this abomination of nature?
As I already said, Lucky Star is about four high school girls around 17 and 18 years old. But for some reason they’ve been drawn to look like they’re about eight, except for Tsukasa who look’s like she’s six. In fact pretty much all of the characters in the show look too young to be the age they’re supposed to be. The main girls look like they should be playing hopscotch on the playground. Their teacher and the police officer look like they could be high school freshmen. Miyuki and Konata’s moms somehow look younger than Miyuki and Konata. The only person that looks almost old enough to be who he is, is Konata’s father. That means that in the show he’s probably like 85 years old. It’s very weird watching high school freshmen come home drunk and listening to flat-
chested eight-year-old girls talk about their periods. It’s been a while since I was in high school but I distinctly remember there being boobs. And that’s another thing, occasionally Miyuki will appear to have breasts but only when it is called to everyone’s attention how “big” her breasts are. After that, she morphs right back into a billiard-table-chest like everyone else.
If there was a main character in LS it would probably be Konata. Incidentally she’s my least favorite character. Her voice is annoying. She's about three feet tall, has blue hair and walks around with her eyes closed half the time. I don’t know what the hell’s wrong with her mouth. I guess she was born with a cleft pallet or something. She’s also addicted to anime, manga, and video games which I can’t help but see as a cheap ploy to connect with the target audience which undoubtedly has the exact same vices. It’s this latter quality that makes her character not believable. Girls are mentally incapable of being that enraptured by video games. Also, they never really show the video games that she plays. It’s always just her sitting at a computer, her holding a PS2 controller, and her saying “I played video games last night.” Why don’t they just show the damn games?! That would actually be interesting. I don’t care who got a new cell phone or about the correct way to eat a disgusting brown blob filled with goo. Show a shooter headshot or some finisher move from a fighting game. Or something like that Virtual Valkyrie MMO story from that one episode of Mission Hill. That was funny. Whatever… The games she plays probably suck anyway. 
At the end of every episode is a short segment called Lucky Channel. All it is, is this manic depressive girl and a guy with perpetually closed eyes sitting at a desk talking about ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Sometimes what they say is pertinent to the show but mostly it’s just asinine garbage. Actually most of the episodes of Lucky Channel are a great magnitude funnier and more entertaining than Lucky Star itself which is more sad than anything. I guess that’s why they put it at the end.
In the last episode of Lucky Star there’s a culture festival at the school and all of the girls decide to do a cheerleading number set to music for it. And surprise surprise, it’s the exact same dance and song from the intro. I’ve never watched a show possessing such bad taste that it would use the worst part of the show, (the part I’ve avoiding watching 22 times since episode 1), for it’s own climax. I mean what the hell made them think this was a good idea? And I still have no idea why it’s called “Lucky Star!”
