Lucky Star Anime

Lucky Star Anime is out! This is the new Kyoto Animation anime that’s based on a 4-koma manga, as everyone and their mom probably already knows. The hype levels have been through the roof since it was announced, but can a 4-koma anime really be that awesome? Lucky Star Anime starts off awesome with an op sequence to end all op sequences. At least, Lucky Star Anime it’s very nice. Lucky Star Anime sorta reminds me of the ED sequence of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Is KyoAni just pandering to its fans now? Either way, it’s really fun!

Anyhow, Lucky Star Anime follows the lives of four high school girls. Izumi Konata is the weird one voiced by Hirano Aya. Hiiragi Tsukasa is Konata’s friend, which also makes her weird. She seems like a klutz type. Hiiragi Kagami is Tsukasa’s sister. She’s more of an assertive, sometimes demanding character. Then there’s the meganekko, Takara Miyuki. The disproportionate ratio of screencaps with her in them is not a coincidence. She’s the moe character that keeps everyone sane. I think.

Just watching Lucky Star Anime the first episode, it seems to me that Lucky Star Anime is like the Seinfeld of anime. It’s literally about nothing. They spent the first 6 minutes or so just talking about how they eat their food. I think. I watched Lucky Star Anime raw, and I still have a semi-hard time understanding the dialogue intensive talking head anime.

After that, here’s what I think they talked about. I believe the girls were talking about maid cafes and how the girls call the customers “goshujin-sama” and then Konata said something like how it’s normal in ero-games? Thereby suggesting that she plays ero-games? That’s what I got out of it. Then there was a part where they were talking about how Miyuki would be cuter if she wore contact lenses, but she turned out to be moe anyway.

Also Lucky Star Anime, there was a section that I totally understood, where they were talking about the Japanese saying that “idiots can’t catch colds” because they’re so dumb that they don’t realize they have a cold. Konata said that since she’s dumb, she can’t catch a influenza, but then Tsukasa was arguing about whether that saying counted towards influenza, or if it was strictly a cold-only type of thing…

And the randomness continued. The best part Lucky Star Anime was where Konata was talking about video games, and they had a parody of Konata vs. a gaikokujin (foreigner) that looked suspiciously similar to Guile from Street Fighter II in Ryu’s stage… She even did the Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku! At the end of the episode, Konata (I’m assuming) sings the theme to Uchuu Tetsujin.

As far as animation Lucky Star Anime goes, it’s good, when animation actually happens. Like most of the show is just talking heads. Lucky Star Anime awesome looking talking heads, though! I really like the character designs of Lucky Star Anime. I haven’t read any of the 4-koma, but I’m assuming that KyoAni did a good job anime-fying them.

I don’t know if it’s really justified saying that this Lucky Star Anime is a waste of KyoAni’s resources. If they end up making a good anime, who cares? I really like how this Lucky Star Anime looks, even if I don’t get all of the dialogue. Once I do understand 100% of what they’re saying, I’m sure it’ll be even better. I hope.

Lucky Star Anime seems like a really fun anime. Sure, there’s been a lot of hype leading up to it, and maybe that’s made everyone have higher expectations than a 4-koma adaptation can live up to. Personally, I liked the parts that I understood, and the vibe that I got from the animation. The pop culture references are also pretty fun to catch as well. I’m really looking forward to watching this with subs, and actually getting more of the jokes. Cheers... :)