Fans of Lucky Star, come here! Let us discuss the series!
It started off horrible (food oh my GOD), but after they switched directors, it was great. After watching the first episode, did anyone actually force themselves to watch the next? Most people just dropped it, but it has changed for the better.
this week i thought a.f.k. dropped lucky star, because some stupid idiot on 4chan said that (-_-)
I actually found the food thing charming, if not laugh out loud funny. orz. It has been more consistently funny lately. The Christmas cake bit was even quite touching.
The best part so far has been the animate store parody. BURNING PASSION!
It didn't start off horrible. :(
Man, nobody got that first scene?! I thought it was pretty hilarious. A subtle, slow-paced, ridiculously obsurd conversation with all kinds of sexual innuendos. You guys didn't like it? I guess it's Japanese humor, sometimes lost on Americans.
Why did they get rid of Takemoto? KyoAni said something like he "hasn't reached standard of director yet". But the guy has FMP, and a Haruhi ep and all kinds of stuff under his belt.
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Correction: why did they get rid of Yutaka?
Actually didn't Akira suddenly shout "Who the hell is Yutaka!?" When reading the script at the end of Lucky Channel (was it ep 5?)
Konana's dad is still my favorite character. Best pedophile ever (^o^)/
the comiket in episode 12 was awesome, i lol'd when akira's thingy was beaten down, lol.
the lucky channeru at the end was kinda boring, ORZ
I'm pretty sure Kona-chan's dad is an ephebophile, like me.
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I thought the LS bit was funny, after spending the episode wondering when she was going to make her cameo.
The anime store guys were still gold. Putting their hearts into selling unpopular merchandise! I also loled at Kagami's discovery of yaoi. Tsukasa seems to have gone back to "helpless moeblob". Konata's military-style briefing before Comiket was awesome.
"Ephebophile" is latin for "I don't want to admit I'm a pedophile".
>>11
nonsense nonsense, true pedophiles are repulsed by the sight of breasts
But what about all the secondary characters from the manga, don't they have to make an appearance pretty soon?
I am a horrible fat
I actually think Lucky Star started out with a dull flame that has been growing each episode. This weeks epiosode with the comiket was hillarious, especially when Kagami stopped to look at the FMP doujin. I thought that was funny because it's such an innocent looking character doing something dirty. Especially how embarassed she was. Since I am a huge Toriyama fan, I was hoping they would do Cha La Head Cha La, for the ending credits and the moment I thought this, they did so! I was so happy lol. Anyone elses oppinions for this weeks episode?
Just watched 12 after having it on my computer for a few days, I haven't laughed so hard from Lucky Star ever. It really DOES get better each episode.
This show just plays of all the otaku subculture, and I don't really see if any non-otaku would get it. I already haven't got 1 or 2 jokes, so imagine what it is like for someone who never watches anime!
Why did all the women at the counters have the same raspy voice? To say that they are all the same?
Timoteeeeeeeiiiii
Haha, that's funny. That's because all the "extras" are played by Fumihiko Tachiki. I think it's funny hearing their raspy voices trying so hard.
> I already haven't got 1 or 2 jokes
Yeah, no, it's pretty much a given that there are far, far more jokes that you didn't get and didn't even notice were there. There are a lot of them, and many are played very, very subtly.
I thought a lot of jokes were fairly easy to understand. That's just me though, I was re-watching episode 1 yesterday , and I remembered why I continued watching this series, it was because I thought it was an odd way to start a series off by them discussing food. So I watched more of it :D
>>14 I am a horrible fat
Trans fats are not permitted here. Go away, you unhealthy horrible fat.
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Man, I remember the days when AFK managed to release a sub within the first three days of the original broadcast date. Where have those days gone now? I guess I'm just spoiled. I can't stand the thought of being a whole week behind, nay more!
a.f.k. is still releasing inside of a week of the original broadcast, you nut, and before everyone else, despite all work being done by a single person.
ORE NO WA-WA-WA-WASUREMONO
Just one person?
Oh, ok... sorry AFK. I didn't know you were so small and feeble.
That guy needs reinforcements. I feel sorry for him... all alone.... on the internet.... his dictionary his only friend...
(ᅮ . ᅮ)
Well this week's Lucky Star was ok, It's just that it's saturday, and that is technically a week since it aired... Since Lucky Star comes on Japanese broadcast every saturday. My question is, will it be a whole other week before another one graces my eyes? This one can only think yes it will. :( Well how was episode 13 for anyone else?
>>1 hrmmm... i dropped it during the middle of the food bit but i will give it a shot to see if what you say is true.
WA-WA-WA-WASUREMONO~~~
God I love that new ending. Fuck any haters.
Yeah, Minoru is the best. Not often do you have someone who gets to play themself in an anime.
By the way, what was with that comment from Konata about guys from foreign countries liking their girls small?
I mean, isn't that Japan, in all honesty? :-)
olol i bet konutu wuld luv me ;););)
Considering Strato is pretty much the best guy out there, I'm not sure help would be a good idea.
Also, I finally watched 13, and while the ending was hilarious, the rest is kind of pushing up against that wall that PPD crashed right into, where it starts to feel as if there are more references than actual show, and the whole thing gets sort of hollow. I mean, how much Sgt. Frog was there in that goddamn episode? And a Geass reference? That's just tacky.
I'd give Konata chocolate.
I have to agree. It was fun, but I'd like it if they got down to business tried to develop a plot line, even if it's a satirical one. Then again, I haven't read the manga, and the writers were probably reluctant to deviate to much from the yonkoma's comic-strip format.
>>33 FAMILY GUY SYNDROME
I thought the show was funny this time, but still just typical Lucky Star. I've laughed a lot, but it's already been 13 episodes and I haven't felt any real impact from the show other than it's just a regular comedy.
I agree about the plot line.
(Spoilers, but if you haven't seen the show then you probably shouldn't be in here anyways).
In example, in Azumanga Daioh, at least they had them go through a little time line and then they finally passed High School and went their separate ways. Sure, they had all of their summer trips, ending school trip to Okinawa (I think), etc. and it all kept going constantly.
Lucky Star is like Family Guy in the respect that it is just a bunch of random culture jokes (or anime in this case). In example, you know how Peter has a flashback almost 50 times every single episode? That is almost like Lucky Star, except with allusions to anime/manga/2ch/whatever. One of my problems with episode 13 was when Kagami was giving the boy chocolate, but it all turned out to be fake.
Lucky Star really is just a 4 panel strip comic put into TV format, nothing more.
There was some other series I watched recently (can't remember which one it was now...) where they had Valentines day and then New Year a couple of episodes after.
So far, Lucky Star has been well behaved in this respect.
That was also nerve racking to me! When the chocolate giving was fake. I like Konata but I think Kagami is my favorite character.
Yeah, but the chocolate business was so freaking corny and sappy, not to mention tsundere-exaggerated if it wasn't a fantasy I would have to vomit. It just wasn't in keeping with the show's style and spirit at all, so I was pleasantly relieved when they cut back to Konata's :3 .
If it wasn't a fantasy I probably would have fantasised about myself being the one receiving the chocolate.
This anime bored the hell out of me (and my girlfriend.) It was pure and utter torture; every other shitty anime we have watched together is better than this, we both agree. Little girls talking about shit is not entertainment.
There's no need to come on here talking about hating the show. If this is true then u should keep that knowledge to yourself. If you only watched the first episode then try the next and see if you liked it. Also While I'm here I will recomend "Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei" or "Goodbye Despair Teacher," it's about a teacher who can only see teh negetive side of life and is always traying to commit suicide, while this girl he encounters always sees the light side of things. Hillarious give it a download. It's also fansubbed by a.f.k.
>>44
Having more than one perspective is what discussion is all about. Conversations would never be interesting if everybody completely agreed with each other. Besides, it is relevant to the topic, because if I thought it was boring, other people might agree. We gave up after six episodes; talking about random subjects just isn't our idea of humor.
At the very least, I'd rather contribute my own opinion and give this BBS some activity than hold it back and let the board rot.
True... True... But You said it so blunt. At least give some points to why you didn't like it? I thought I wouldn't like it at first but I found myself watching every episode and anticipating every saturday for the next episode.
らき☆すた
I usually troll these boards but I honestly want to say this is one of the shittiest animes I've seen. Generic unfunny crap with horrible animation. The song is okay. I hate this anime and so should you I am not kidding.
I guess this show delivers only to otakus...
That's my exact thought. Most people who are not otaku do not watch this show. Oh well.
Most people do not watch this show full stop.
Well I showed my friends Lucky Star and they were lost...didn't get the comiket jokes or the whole marimite thing
Well that's because a lot of the jokes only appeal to people who either know what they are talking about, or japanese people who know their country. For those of you who don't know Marimite is just short for a bigger name. It's a show about christian school girls.----Very Shojo----. That's why Konata acted so damn proper in that episode.
I've only had time to watch the early episodes of LS but it's been good right from the start. I don't quite understand why people dislike the food talk in the first episode. It reminded me of the kind of silly conversations you have with friends, especially after drinking alcohol (oh silly me, anime fans don't have friends headsmack). I don't think it's necessary to require all good comedies to be laugh-out funny. If the overall impression leaves you with a happy grin at the end of each episode then the show has passed muster.
>>54 The bigger name, incidentally, being Maria-sama ga Miteru (マリア様が見てる). See gokigenyou.com (official HP).
Yes I know lol I just didn't feel like looking up the Romanji for it as I was in the middle of doing something! :P but thanks for the add!!
I can't help but miss the karaoke ending. I hope they bring it back. Shiraishi is funny and all, but I hope they don't make a tradition out of him.
And Tsukasa Moeblob > Yutaka Moeblob IMHO.
But it's good to see the new characters!
Well it looks like the karaoke end-theme CD came out (like six days ago) So I'm guessing we're stuck with shiraishi from now on...
http://www.amazon.com/Animation-Soundtrack-Star-Ending-Theme-Drama/dp/B000PMGU16
Surely they didn't use up their booth's full hour, though. They must have had at least fifteen more minutes... : (
I can't wait for the Shiraishi CD.
i watched this anime, but the food part in ep 1? oh god shoot me now it almost never ended...yes ppl do talk about that stuff but cmon, you want to ATTRACT ppl to keep watching, not WTF?! half of the audience and let them flee to never watch it again :P i kept watching, and its humor isnt too bad, but def many aha aha ah? wut moments and half funny parts kinda dull it down. No plot is really starting to bite here i mean we need a bit of substance besides otaku jokes and moe characters but its an ok show and ill keep watching. love the pedo bear dad and humor, just what you need when yourself is watching this show lol <(itd be worse if i was actually over 20 lol) lucky channel def lost its humor thou, also no flags were triggered in 14 eps, who wrote this sim? :P
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Plot shmlot. Not everything has to be a Byzantine epic. Least of all a comedy.
You know that "wtf" feeling you're talking about? That's what it feels like when trying to decipher the content in your IM-speak-ridden mess.
You know, Lucky Star isn't a dating-sim.
I don't think you've got the spirit of the slice-of-life, four-panel comic strip. It's not really supposed to have a plot. And the humor is loose and absurd, underhanded and self-satirizing. I think you're missing part of the point, which is, there is no point. There is no plot, there isn't even a real joke. It sure is funny though.
>>63
The anime is based on a 4koma manga. 4koma are basically Japanese cartoon strips. Do you expect substance from your newspaper's funnies?
>>63
The food scene sort of reminded me of Quentin Tarantino movie conversation.
>>65
I know that, I was just mentioning all the times 'flags' are mentioned but nevermind.
>>64
Sorry I didn't know that text shorthand was not allowed on the internet. I'll now adhere to the proper conventions of written English. Thank you for setting me on the right path.
>>65>>66
Yes, I know where LS came from, but my view there was that it is on T.V 24 minutes an episode with 20+ of them in this season. While obviously it will have the 4koma style, do you think that it should not have anything more to it now it's on T.V?
Some kind of plot could help the show counter its shortfalls as a TV series, but it would probably create many more, like being too shallow, poorly executed ect, which most likely cause more issues than it would resolve.
The point of this post? The Show should stay the same and if you don't like it, don't watch. It's not made to be anything more than what it already is which, is a faithfull move to TV that is just different to other shows.
Azumanga was a 4koma (for the most part) but despite that it still has a storyline.
Well, so does Lucky Star, both, as I see it, are pleasurably paper-thin and shallow like any formulaic slice-of-life (SoL?) plot-lines, buoyed primarily by the performances of its characters.
Thanks, now it's actually possible to read your post without getting a headache, and to top it off, you don't look like a clueless teenager any more. A big win for everyone involved.
Oh, I get what you mean now about flags; a joke!
Yeah, but seriously, you can't expect the writers to make their female leads get taken. Well I guess they could, we'll see, but I think this one is in more of the Azumanga Daiou tradition, where that aspect of the plot remains open-ended.
BTW, what is the Japanese word for a slice of life story?
I think the show could be worse. I like the somewhat fast pacing despite the nonexistent plot. Watching Konata and Kagami bounce off each other is the main attraction, and it certainly doesn't disappoint in that respect. It does get pretty tedious getting through the entire show for these moments; I can only hope that they increase in frequency with better humor as the show progresses. I'd probably drop the Haruhi references too, but then it'd probably lose half its audience...
uni-ku.
>>75
That's ユニーク or yuniiku, depending on your weeaboo level.
特殊
Yeah, I was tempted, but the whole ¥2,900 Song CD makes me hesitate, especially when I know I can download it for free.
yare, yare...
I guess I'll buy it eventually...
(#_#)
Plus, it sucks the way you can't subtitle CDs...
Actually you can make a Matroska video with audio and subs but no video, and it does play, at least in mplayer.
Of course it would be better if it could do visualisations under the subtitles, and it would be good if the subtitles were animated like a karaoke track...
> Of course it would be better if it could do visualisations under the subtitles, and it would be good if the subtitles were animated like a karaoke track...
Actually, mplayer can sorta do that, it's just not enabled by default. Try to use an ass file which has some effects as the subtitle file (muxed in or not, doesn't matter), and pass it the -ass switch. I'm reasonably sure you could do quite interesting things by using the ASS engine not only for subs, but also for visualizing things.
Or, you could fire off a mail to the mplayer devs asking for them to include some visualization library ;)
(Offtopic, yay!)
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omfg harehareyukai.....
This show is officially ridiculous...
Permission?
granted
Someone tell the joke about the ED
In episode 16, was the shop girl with the hairclip and the little sister supposed to reference something? The bit where she asks about lunch was pretty conspicuous.
>>86 yeah, from some game, i already forgot the name of it...
ToHeart, Akari Kamigishi, because Tsukasa is supposed to look like her. This is referenced in episode four when Konata gives her an (expensive) ToHeart Sailor Fuku for her birthday,
Ooo!! OOO1!
Wikipedia, scroll down to the bottom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lucky_Star_characters
I see nothing extraordinary.
Yeha. wtf.
XD
Shiraishi.... in Ep 17....
Notwithstanding,
I still think this guy is the best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBKNqHsnKmY
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Check this out!
http://www.fnn-news.com/headlines/CONN00115143.html
The article is in Japanese, but there's a video attached about the massive pilgrimages that らき☆すた fans have been taking to Washinomiya Jinja in Kasukabe, Saitama. They even made prayer plaques and cosplay around the temple. Freaks.
This is a fabricated press reporting.
http://junreisoudou.blog114.fc2.com/blog-entry-10.html (Japanese)
Did a.f.k. stop subbing Lucky Star?
They did 16, I expect they'll do 17 shortly, they're a bit slow.
[Guerrand] already did 17 and did a pretty good job, look on isohunt.com
Actually, looks like Guerrand is cranking these out!
Check out his site, 18 seems to be up too:
http://guerrand.anime.googlepages.com/