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“Which end of a choco coronet do you start from?”
The one thing I can really say about Lucky Star is that it’s not Azumanga Daioh.
Not a good thing.
Not a bad thing.
Just a fact.
Maybe an overstated fact, but one that needs to be said. Both series are arguably very successful slice-of-school-life anime adapted from 4-panel comic [...]

Just a short newspost for today, since it’s something I heard of off the AnimeSuki forums and haven’t seen much news about recently (maybe since it’s originally two months old, anyway, but right now is prime time for Lucky Star).
Short story shorter, the Lucky Star bandwagon marches on as the manga and quite popular anime [...]

Evil Miyuki not related, but highly interesting.
One of the most famous and/or infamous aspects of Lucky Star is the references. The constant allusions to past and present anime series either thrill or annoy fans. Somehow it almost seems like that like/hate ratio is similar to the percentage of people that can correctly identify the reference.
Part [...]

Unable to screenshot the pictures or anything, but here’s the facts in today’s shortpost:
The famous Lucky Star coronet eating scene (”What end do you eat it from?”) in episode 1…has a twin brother. *dramatic revelation music*
Set the stage: Azumanga Daioh episode 16, the 2nd Culture Festival. Osaka and Chiyo, on their break, are eating taiyaki.
Osaka: [...]

There really is no coherent intro to go with a Lucky Star episode to be honest. I mean, with most other anime I can talk about what happened last time, or in what direction it’s headed, or perhaps make a lame joke based on the content, but Lucky Star…can you imagine an intro based on [...]