Lucky Star

[Niotex]

I heard Akira's going to have vicious sex with Minoru.

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Its true I saw the screen caps =O

Spike dies.

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ZOMG SPOILER

[Ruby-Eye]

I heard Akira's going to have vicious sex with Minoru.

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Its true I saw the screen caps =O

That weren`t screencaps, that was a H-dojinshi...

[Topstar_Productions]

Oha Lucky!

I just started watching this series last night after many people kept sending me links to random MAD videos on Utube.

This is the first anime I've enjoyed since FMA, very nice. I love all the Japanese culture jokes and pop culture jokes... and especially Konata's anime and game jokes (more the game jokes though). And the Karaoke segments and Lucky channel are pure fun.

I just watched the first 8 episodes in almost one sitting, this is one of few shows period that really made me laugh. It's kind of hard to make me laugh, but Lucky Star manages to make me laugh a lot.

So Yeah, love it!

[ZephyrStar]

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For some reason, the scene with Konata starting the 100m is the greatest thing ever. Everybody looks so serious but she's just going :3 like always. I should vector trace that :/

best ep yet.

[angelx03]

Bwahaha, Konota's dad was AWESOME in this episode

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with his taking pictures of the girls and then later being taken away.

Then there a lot of fun moments like:

- Kagami taking down the entire metal frame that was holding the bread.

- Tsukasa completely sucking at the hurdles.

- Miyuki winning the relay race by her......um yeah!

- Let's not forget Tsukasa sucking too much air in playing the recorder.

- Ahhh Konota, making those hard decisions on what to buy on a limited budget. We all faced the same thing will other anime-related stuff; for me, it's choosing which DVD to buy!

- Her over-reaction towards getting Newtype was amusing! ADV NEEDS to get this series!

[Willen]

My favorite line in ep.8:

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"Ya can't! Tsundere hafta have twintails!" -Konata to Kagami on the subject of Kagami cutting her hair really short.

[OmniStrata]

I think the chance of this series picking up off the cutting room floor here for USA sales is slim to none.

First off, there's just TOO MUCH JAPANESE CULTURE in it. [If you're versed in it, that's good, but the 'real' customers are most likely casual anime viewers who do NOT love this hobby enough to do research on it]

If any company was going to pull this off, they'd have to ad-lib it to fit an American audience and from what I've seen of the digisubs so far, IT CAN BE DONE, much to the chagrin of the people who want it in its 'original' form but suffice it to say, I'd LIKE to see how'd they'd make the joke humor in this anime fit for American culture, there's enough references here to cross INTO it to make it work.

Those of you high and mighty people who think it should stick to Japanese references must remember something, companies need to make a profit, not a loss, not break-even, profit. If people don't get it after watching/renting the first dvd, what do you think they'll tell their friends? dur, Lucky Star sux, not funny blah blah*

I think if they did make it for American culture gags for a USA audience, it'd be funnier actually. [indeed, the subtitled version can keep it's translation to the letter but to listen to a genuinely funny American version of this show would make it nice and rewatchable]

w00t!

[angelx03]

Pani Poni Dash has chock full Japanese cultural references, and that got licensed (by ADV of course). I can bet Kadokawa Pictures USA will bring this title over here in the future, and I bet that ADV will handle the entire production. I mean those ADVid notes will come in handy.

[Willen]

Episode 9 highlights:

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The girls talk about blood-type personalities, then go to a website that tells you what type of sushi are you. Poor Konata...

The Twins and Konata go out to see a horror movie (much to Tsukasa's dismay). Kagami complains about Konata being late, but actually the Twins don't even notice that Kona-chan is already there.

After the movie, they head out to an all-you-can-eat cake place (yeah, more food humor). I laughed the hardest at this part.

Konata "helps" Miyuki apply her eyedrops. Hai, relax...

For the Lucky Channel portion,

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They talk about Tsukasa. Akira tries to mention that Tsukasa looks like Akari from ToHeart, while Minoru frantically tries to stop her and has to resort to singing parts of Koi no Mikuru Densetsu (恋のミクル伝説; Mikuru Legend of Love), the SHnY ep. 1 Asahina Mikuru no bouken Episode 00 (朝比奈ミクルの冒険 Episode 00; The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00) opening theme to drown out what she is saying.

And more violence from Akira. (Just how many cigarettes were in that ashtray?)

The end theme is Kogarashi ni Dakarete sung by Konata (Aya Hirano), previously performed by Kyoko Koizumi (aka. KyonKyon). Interesting fact: the song was covered by SpringS, the idol group that Aya was once a member of. Video here.

[Topstar_Productions]

Episode 9... hmm have to say after episode 1 it's my least favourite... there was some good stuff here though.

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hmm... have to say I enjoyed the blood types and the Sushi website. It was cute when the girls went to the buffet and were struggling to eat all their food... I think anyone who's gone to a Japanese style buffet (or even an american buffet) has had that happen. It's worse in the Japanese ones because their time limit; I was at a Sushi Bar and Korean BBQ place like that... luckily we were going in a huge group, so tables just swapped food to avoid getting caught with left overs.

The lucky channel is the funniest thing about this episode, but when isn't it. Akira's personality changes are great.

Obviously I agree... that this series would not do well in the US... only the true Japanophiles or people who have actually lived there would enjoy it and get all the jokes. But they could impro dub it like Samurai Pizza Cats or something. But there's enough that american anime fans should get, like the Gunbuster jokes, and the MMO humour... MMOs are the same no matter where you live.
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