Retsgip’s Anime Blog

Darkshaunz joins an Esper squad

Readers may recall that I ventured into the world of Lucky Star a while back, sampling the first two episodes with relatively poor enthusiasm for the material. You know what, I’m a jackass, but a nice jackass. So since I feel so saintly recently, I was willing to give Lucky Star a second chance to blow my socks off or knock me cold. I marathoned my way, trawling to yet more and more trivial crap which I experience from day to day, regurgitated to me in the form of some bizzare pseudo-moe character design. Like some drug addict, I felt repulsed with the content, but needed moar as well. On the plus side, hearing Hirano’s Haruhi voice again is very very refreshing. For my pants.

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Yet another wannabe cult ED…

The proper way to blog Lucky Star, which takes less than 5 minutes:

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Darkshaunz is feelin’ Lucky.

Lucky Thoughts on: Episodes 1 and 2

I can’t hop from place to place these days, without bumping into KyoAni’s Lucky Star series. I know I receive the Slowpoke award for having a look into it only now when the series has already reached the halfway point of the season. Truth be told, the character designs were so alien (see: “WTF is this design!?” kind of alien) from what I was used to, I was put off just on the aesthetics. Rets managed to stomach it and finish it up to episode 13, so in true warrior spirit, I swallowed my doubts and tried my hand at the first two episodes. It’s no Azumanga Daioh, It’s no Genshiken, but Lucky Star puts a sometimes boring yet uniquely intriguing spin on the Slice O’ Life genre.

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