Lucky Star/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Dawson Casting]]: [[Wendee Lee]] was 52 when she played Konata. This was exaggerated by the fact that Konata appeared to have some form of growth deficiency.

* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Even though she is neither ''old'' or a ''man'', Kagami thinks she is one anyway.

* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: It's hard to find a single strip that her eyes are open throughout.

* [[The Gadfly]]: After a certain amount of watching one can only wonder if Kagami would be a [[Tsundere]] at all if Konata didn't constantly mess with her.

* [[The Rival]]: To Misao, over which of them "owns" Kagami, and to Kou (albeit one-sided on the latter's part), over arcade fighting games.

* [[Sleepyhead]]: Even if her daytime drowsiness partly stems from her late-night anime watching and gaming, she belongs to the hardworking subtype of the trope.

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Nearly a clone of her mom Kanata -- down to [[Older Than They Look|her lack of growth spurt]] -- except with her dad's skin tone and beauty mark.

* [[Terrible Artist]]

* [[Not So Above It All]]: Especially in the last episode.

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]

* [[Straight Man]]: [[Word of God]] -- She's the most normal a [[Lucky Star (Anime)|Lucky Star]] character can get.

* [[Tsundere]]: Her deredere side is not about romance but more on loneliness in general. Her [[Image Song|Image Songs]] even have this -- one is fast and upbeat, the other a bit slow and has lyrics hinting at her loneliness.

* [[Nice Guy|Nice Girl]]: The official guide lists "Good Person" as her highest stat.

** One strip also shows that her idea of an April Fool's joke is lying about lying.

* [[Sleepyhead]]: Classic example of the hardworking subtype.

* [[Tareme Eyes]]: Also to differentiate her from Kagami... also makes her incredibly cute.

* [[The Ace]]: At least from [[Otaku|Konata and Hiyori]]'s point of view, as they regard all of Miyuki's faults as "Moe points".

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Occasionally; one Volume 4 strip has Konata telling her that she and the other girls won't blindly follow orders. When she replies with a smile that she'll entertain other opinions, even Kuroi-sensei freaks out, implying she's willing to pretend to hear them out so long as ultimately she calls the shots. She's that assertive... she's just too polite to be blunt about it.

* [[Charm Point]]: Her glasses, which Konata says give her major moe points.

* [[Class Representative]]: Kept doing this, even if, personality-wise, she subverts the type.

* [[Proper Tights With a Skirt]]

* [[Purple Eyes]]

* [[The Smart Guy|The Smart Girl]]

* [[Smart People Wear Glasses]]

* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: The fact that she can hold whole conversations with Patty ''in English''. Justified as she said she did take English conversation classes.

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: What she ''didn't'' inherit from her mother, luckily, is the latter's [[Adult Child|childish]] [[The Ditz|ditziness]]. However, Miyuki also said she was ''forced'' to be more competent or else the family [[Too Dumb to Live|won't be able to function]].

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Sometimes she is mistaken to be an office lady.

** Lately this has became her [[Berserk Button]]; her maturity compared to [[Adult Child|Yukari]] sometimes make her appear ''older'' than her mother.

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* [[Berserk Button]]: Her failure to grow.

* [[Not Growing Up Sucks]]: Even at ''tenth'' grade she found that it ''sucks'' being too short to find a boyfriend. [[Ill Girl|Missing many of her classmates' social activities]] doesn't help, either.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: For a fifteen-year-old, she's even way shorter than Konata at 138cm (4'6").

 

=== Minami Iwasaki ===

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* [[A Cup Angst]]: She is completely flat-chested -- at least Konata and Yutaka have very small ones. Her angsting over this is close to [[Once an Episode]] frequency.

* [[Huge Schoolgirl]]: She's around average height for an American schoolgirl, but she's living in Japan where [[Justified Trope|people are naturally shorter]], and many of her friends are small even by Japanese standards.

* [[Learnt English From Watching Television|Learnt Japanese From Watching Anime]]

** Additionally, it seems that she goes on to become a seriously high end biochemist, at least until she is caught by a [[Prototype (Video Game)|virus]].

** And add [[Tokimeki Memorial|that third one to the list]]. Actually, due to the [[High School]] setting of both franchises, one's could have a [[Wild Mass Guess]] that the Lucky Star Patricia got inspired (minus the [[Occidental Otaku]] bit) by that Patricia.

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: And yet she's ''still driving under the limit''.

* [[Idiot Hair]]

 

=== Soujirou Izumi ===

* [[Perma Stubble]]

* [[Pervert Dad]]

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: In-universe -- {{spoiler|the figure incident could be seen as him actually having dropped it and picking it up. Also, in volume 7 he gets spotted by Yutaka pantsless while trying to find toilet paper. Konata hears a scream and assumes he did something stupid.}}

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: With Kanata.

* [[Product Placement]]: The Animate chain does have commercial links with this series, judging from the existence of some of its strips from its in-store magazine.

* [[Shout Out]]: In one episode, he pulls a freaking ''[[Code Geass|Geass]]'' from out of nowhere. ''[[Compelling Voice|Lelouch's Geass.]]'' He uses it on Konata to get her to FINALLY buy something in his store... only for it to turn out that she doesn't have enough money.

 

=== Yukari Takara ===

* [[Hot Shounen Mom]]: More often than not mistaken for Miyuki's ''Big Sister.''

* [[Nice Girl]]: Miyuki even says she's "incapable of guile".

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: There's a reason Miyuki is that cute -- it's genetic. The only thing they don't resemble, however, is emotional maturity.

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* [[No Accounting for Taste]]: At least Konata thought so.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: She's just a centimeter taller than Konata. She's one reason Konata starts to wonder if Soujirou is a [[Lolicon]]. She turns out to be slightly ''older'' than Soujirou.

* [[Posthumous Character]]

* [[Punny Name]]: Kanata means "there". Now think about the translation of her [[Image Song]].

* [[Otaku]]

* [[Perpetual Poverty]]: On account of her excessive manga/doujinshi binges.

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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Her name means "shade". Her sister's name means "in the sun".

* [[Perpetual Poverty]]: On account of her older sister's excessive manga/doujinshi binges.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

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* [[Flanderization]]: Akira is ''not'' a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] (or at least not nearly as much) in the original manga -- but come the anime version...

* [[Genki Girl]]: But it's just part of her on-screen persona.

* [[Idiot Hair]]: It wouldn't be smart to call her an idiot, though.

* [[Idol Singer]]

* [[Kawaiiko]]: Her "on-screen" personality.

* [[Playing Against Type]]: To think [[Stephanie Sheh]] is more used to playing nicer girls, such as [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Mikuru]].

* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: In the [[Anime]]; in the [[Manga]] universe she's still at the peak of her career.

* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: During a [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] moment in one segment of ''Lucky Channel'', Minoru starts calling out all characters voiced by [[Hiromi Konno|Akira's seiyuu]] from various anime. She in turn mentions how Minoru works part-time at a restaurant.

* [[Character As Himself]]

* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oplpdPahdEI His epic breakdown] in Episode 21's ''Lucky Channel''.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: In-universe -- he notes how his popularity is beginning to far outstrip [[White Dwarf Starlet|Akira's]]. In Episode 8's ''Lucky Channel'' he even boasts his own fan letters.

* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Except when he finally snapped, and in the final episode where it suddenly became green.

* [[Green Eyes]]: In the very final episode, his eyes were more detailed than when he was freaking out, it was revealed to be green.

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