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Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode 87

Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #87 is now online! In this podcast, I review the anime series Lucky Star.

Josh's Anime Blog Podcast Episode 87This week’s Podcast Stats:
Time: 14:59
Download Size: 10.3 MB

Opening theme:
“I Guess That’s Love” by Mikuni Shimokawa
Opening theme to Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu

Ending theme:
“Misoji Misaki” by Hiromi Konno
16th Ending theme to Lucky Star

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1000th Blog Post

After 1,026 days of posting I have finally reached 1,000 posts on my blog.

Let's Celebrate!

There have been a few bumps in the road, and at times I wasn’t sure where to take this blog (or whether anyone was even reading it) and It’s kind of unbeliavable that I’ve found enough things to talk about that are anime related to even get 1,000 posts out of it, but here I am, still surviving at the very least.  Hey, at least I’m averaging just about a post a day over nearly 3 years (which is rather amazing, considering some of my hiatuses), and it wasn’t but about 400 or so days ago that I hit 500 posts, so I’ve actually accelerated my posting over the past year or so, overall.

Anime Review – Lucky Star: 81.5%

The Essentials

Lucky StarName: Lucky Star
Genre: Comedy
Episodes: 24
Released: April 8, 2007 – September 16, 2007
Based On: Lucky Star 4koma by Kagami Yoshimizu
Director: Yutaka Yamamoto (1-4) and Yasuhiro Takemoto (5-24)
Produced By: Kyoto Animation
US Distribution By: Bandai Entertainment

Major Japanese Cast

Konata: Aya Hirano
Kagami: Emiri Katou
Tsukasa: Kaori Fukuhara
Miyuki: Aya Endo
Akira: Hiromi Konno
Minoru Shiraishi: Minoru Shiraishi

Major English Cast

Konata: Wendee Lee
Kagami: Kari Wahlgren
Tsukasa: Michelle Ruff
Miyuki: Karen Strassman
Akira: Stephanie Sheh
Minoru Shiraishi: Sam Regal

Scores

Animation: 8/10 (x 4 = 32 pts)
Story: 8/10 (x 4 = 32 pts)
Music: 9/10 (x 4 = 36 pts)
Coherence/Story Arc: 7/10 (x 2 = 16 pts)
English Dubs: N/A
Gut Score: 8/10 (x 5 = 40 pts)

Total: 163/200 (81.5%)

Review

Lucky Star is story of four girls – Konata, Kagami, Tsukasa, and Miyuki – as they make their way through high school life. The four girls all enjoy their friendship, even though all of them each exhibit their own weird quirks.

Konata is athletic, yet isn’t in the sports club and generally doesn’t like sports.  However, she does enjoy watching anime and playing online video games above all else, and is an overall a hardcore otaku.

Kagami and Tsukasa are twins, though they don’t have that much in common. Kagami is hard working and is near the top of her class in grades. However, this, on top of her overall stiffness as compared to the other characters makes her easy prey for Konata’s jabs. Tsukasa doesn’t do as well academically and is more of an airhead and laid back than her sister.

Finally, Miyuki is at the top of the class, yet is an airhead as well. However, Konata sees many of Miyuki’s traits as being major turn ons for guys, at least based on her observations from watching anime and playing dating sim games.

Lucky Star is almost entirely based around comedy, revolving around showing the life the four girls lead instead of having a central plot line. This, on top of the fact that the humor and gags used may not be for everyone makes Lucky Star potentially a very hit-or-miss series for some people.

Lucky Star does seem to make a habit of not necessarily using the same joke twice, or at least not in the same exact way, which keeps an element of freshness to the show. Also, each episode wraps up with the “Lucky Channel” which features star idol Akira and her newbie sidekick Minoru which adds it’s own humorous element to the show.

Lucky Star’s animation style may need a little getting used to as it is animated in more of comic strip style rather than a more “traditional” anime style. However, despite this the show still seems to be pretty well animated. The music also fits well with the show, if not being a bit repetitious at times. I haven’t watched the whole show dubbed yet, but what I have watch seems to indicate that the dubbing has been done compentently.

Overall, I think there is a pretty good chance that people will find Lucky Star a humorous and worthy series

First Watched: May – September 2007
Do I Own: No
Do I Recommend: Yes

Now It’s Official: Lucky Star Licensed

Two days ago I put up on post saying that Lucky Star had been licensed, then started to hedge a bit, since it hadn’t been independently verified.

Well, now it really is official.

Lucky License

Lucky Star gets licensed.

It’s the same combo as Haruhi: Kadokawa USA licenses, Bandai Entertainment to distribute.

Here is a link to the teaser trailer on the 4th Haruhi DVD.

Added Note:

If you’re gonna license an anime series, perhaps you should go register the domain before you announce it, even if it’s 15 minutes before you send out the press release (it ain’t that hard). LuckyStar.com has already been sat on since something like 1997, but luckystaranime.com was registered just today apparently – and not by Bandai Entertainment or Kadokawa USA as far as I can tell. Oops.

Added Note 2:

I should have thought of this earlier, but I should note that this announcement hasn’t been independently verified. What that means is that I haven’t seen a reputable news service independently confirm that the trailer exists, nor has Bandai officially announced (nor have I gotten DVD 4 to see for myself). All there is to verify that it’s been licensed is the trailer on YouTube.

While it certainly looks authentic (it has different subs from at least the afk release, the font type and color is consistent with a DVD sub, and it would certainly make sense to include the Haruhi scene in a trailer on the Haruhi DVD), one can’t absolutely rule out it being a hoax.

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