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Line 1: {{work\|wppage=Lucky Star (manga)}} ~~[[Category:~~{{Multiple Works Need Separate Pages]]}}▼ [[File:cit_lucky_star.jpg\|link=Four-Girl Ensemble\|thumb\|350px\|'''''[[Surreal Theme Tune\|DARLIN']] [[Kawaisa\|DARLIN']] [[Gratuitous English\|PLEASE!]]''''']] Line 9 ⟶ 10: Imagine ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' [[X Meets Y\|meets]] ''[[Seinfeld]]'', on [[This Is Your Premise on Drugs\|even more]] [[Tropes Are Not Bad\|sedative]] with a fair helping of [[Otaku Surrogate\|Otaku Bait]]. '''''Lucky Star''''' is a [[Slice of Life]] manga by Kagami Yoshimizu, featuring four high school girls. The main focus is Konata Izumi, an [[Otaku Surrogate]] whose Japanese pop culture knowledge is truly staggering. Drawing on a huge number of [[Otaku]] references, ''Lucky Star'' is more or less a show about [[Seinfeldian Conversation\|nothing in particular]]. Notable for being the largest example of the [[Puni Plush]] style and its rather [[Otaku\|eccentric]] fanbase. [[Kyoto Animation]] used the manga as the basis for a highly successful [[~~Anime~~anime]] series, which got acquired for distribution by BANDAI Entertainment, and dubbed with around the same casting as ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya\|Haruhi]]''... or some of the in-jokes would not be translatable at all. It should be noted that most of the references were ~~[[Kyo Ani]]~~KyoAni's own additions, in order to cash in on the merchandising of anime in general, mainly from ''Haruhi''. It worked; ''Lucky Star'' is currently{{when}} the studio's most marketable show, with many CDs and video games being made even 3 years after the anime ended. A stage musical adaptation has been green-lit in 2011. This series also has a [[Lucky Star/Characters\|character sheet]], [[Lucky Star/Memes\|Memetic Mutations]], [[Lucky Star/WMG\|WMG]], [[Lucky Star/Headscratchers\|Headscratchers]], and [[Lucky Star/Fanfic Recs\|fanfic recommendation]]. A [[Lucky Star/Shout-Out\|Shout -Out section]] is being built to put all the references that ~~'''~~''Lucky Star~~'''~~'' makes to other series. A somewhat bizarre spin-off [[Manga]], ''Lucky Star Pocket Travelers'', was later created and features the four main characters [[Rule of Funny\|for no discernible reason whatsoever]] shrunk down to a few inches tall. [[Hilarity Ensues\|Cue hilarity.]] Line 22 ⟶ 23: [[I Thought That Was\|Not to be]] [[Name's the Same\|confused with]] a certain [[Madonna]] song, or with the [[Lucky Starr\|science-fiction novels by]] [[Isaac Asimov]], or a ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)\|Paper Mario]]'' item, one of the "Chinatown bus" lines operating between Boston and New York City, or [[wikipedia:Lucky Star\|anything else named as such.]] {{tropelist}}▼ ▲{{tropelist}} * [[Actor Allusion]]: (Apart from all the [[Shout-Out]]s, the voice actors of the primary [[Five-Man Band]] in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' voicing themselves at one point or another.) And in the English dub, Patricia Ja Lee as Patty Martin, a character that was designed to be an [[Affectionate Parody]] of her. Lampshaded in the second episode with a conversation about how one feels when an anime uses different seiyuu than the drama CDs between two characters whose anime seiyuu differs from their drama CD seiyuu. Line 45 ⟶ 46: * [[Art Evolution]]: [[Lampshade Hanging\|Lampshaded]] in the [[Omake]] of the [[Manga]]'s second volume, when mangaka Yoshimizu tries to draw the first strip again. ** Early in the [[Manga]], Konata did not yet have her trademark "lazy," half-closed eyes. * [[Artistic Age]]: Of the "character models are sufficiently undefined" sort. * [[Art Shift]]: The ''[[Initial D]]'', ''[[Track and Field]]'', and ''[[Mariasama ga Miteru]]'' parodies, as well as every single time [[Hot-Blooded\|Anime Tenchou]] shows up. ** An extreme example of this is when Hiyori falls, and, in an attempt to protect her hand, does a dramatic action roll, changing her appearance to that of a rather manly-looking, highly shaded character. Line 55 ⟶ 56: * [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: [[Up to Eleven\|Taken a step further]], in that the girls don't even seem to have buttcracks * [[Beach Episode]] * [[~~Best Beer Ever~~Beergasm]]: Kuroi, during the [[Beach Episode]].▼ * [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: The similarity of the [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold\|Konata]]/[[Tsundere\|Kagami]] dynamic to this may be a contributing factor to [[Ship Tease\|speculations]] about the [[Les Yay\|real nature]] of their [[Schoolgirl Lesbians\|relationship]]. ▲* [[Best Beer Ever]]: Kuroi, during the [[Beach Episode]]. * [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: Kagami tends to give only big shut ups to Konata. * [[Blue with Shock]]: Several times, once notably by Hiyori when Yutaka innocently asked her a ... [[Yuri Fan\|compromising]] question. Line 89 ⟶ 90: Some of the shallower guys at their school might immediately think: Konata = too geeky, too flat, and too ''[[Otaku]]''; Kagami = too bitchy; Tsukasa = too stupid; Miyuki = [[Wayne's World\|WE ARE NOT WORTHY]]! In manga vol. 6 when the 3rd-years graduate, there are two strips focusing on background characters "young man a" and "young man b." Young man a was apparently in love with Miyuki, but [[Cannot Spit It Out\|Could Not Spit It Out]]. * [[Cherry Blossoms]] -: A brief scene in episode 15 combines this with [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]. * [[The Chikan]]: In the manga, Yukata tells Minami no one would attempt to grope her on the subway. Minami, in turn, starts to wonder if it's because of her [[A-Cup Angst\|body]]. * [[Christmas Cake]]: Rest assured, Miss Kuroi: you ''are'' wanted. Line 97 ⟶ 98: * [[Comic Book Time]]: Konata's circle were first-years when the manga started in February 2004, and were promoted to the second year in May 2004 and the third in May 2005, fitting a real-time timeline—and, after that, they were all third-years for the next 4 years or so... ** Averted in the anime, where they are second-years for the first half and third-years for the second half. * [[Continuity Cameo]]: (The anime has thrice showed the Miyakawa siblings ([[Omake]]-only) in episodes 12, 16 and 24, and Hikaru Sakuraba (who was replaced by Shiraishi) in episode 24.) * [[Continuity Nod]]: (The manga acknowledged [[The Danza\|Shiraishi]] [[Animated Actors\|replaced]] Hikaru.) * [[Conversational Troping]]: All the time, normally when Konata compares [[This Is Reality\|real life]] to anime. Here's a [[Wiki Magic\|progressively less]] partial list: [[Smashing Watermelons]], not so popular in [[This Is Reality\|real life]] [[Blind Without'Em]], sadly not giving Miyuki weird looking eyes ** [[Dojikko]], cute character trait in fiction, but would get really annoying really quickly in reality * [[Corner of Woe]]: (Konata does this when lamenting the cable company's inability to install cable TV, and hence Anime-channels, in her suburb). * [[Crane Game Gag]]: One episode shows Kagami having so much trouble getting a particular toy from a crane game that the montage includes a shot of her getting more change in order to keep playing. * [[Cranial Eruption]]: (Generally after Kuroi-sensei hits Konata for sleeping in class.) * [[Credits Jukebox]] * [[Cross-Popping Veins]] Line 372 ⟶ 374: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Bandai Entertainment]] [[Category:Anime]] [[Category:Anime of the 2000s]] [[Category:Manga]] ▲[[Category:Multiple Works Need Separate Pages]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]] ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Memetic Works]]