Lucky Star - OVA September 27
Minami’s house and Cherry-chan:
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MMORPG:
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Cinderella Kagami attending… a wrestling match?:
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Tsukasa trying to outshine Kagami in volleyball!:
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Lost in the woods thanks to Konata:
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Horror:
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Live-action Lucky Channel!:
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Impressions:
I wasn’t sure if I was going to blog the Lucky Star OVA at first, but after seeing the massive amount of anime references/parodies they put into it, I felt that it couldn’t go unmentioned. Sectioned off into seven mini chapters, this OVA runs at an amazingly long 42 minutes and is reminiscent of the short skit format used in (the amazingly awesome) Azumanga Daioh. One of my favorite chapters out of the bunch definitely had to be the MMORPG one, since we finally got to see the game that Konata and Nanako always play together—in actual 3D no less! Can you imagine if they actually turned this into a real online game? While I’m sure nothing will ever quite catch up to World of Warcraft in the MMORPG genre, I think there will be an occult following of otakus in Japan who would gladly play it. Heck, I’d even want to try it.
My other favorite chapter is definitely the volleyball one, with that being my “sport of choice” to play in real life. I can’t even tell you how much I’ve longed to see a new volleyball themed anime to be made, so this was probably the next best thing. In fact, the only anime that I can even think of is Attack No.1 waaaayyyy back in 1969. I think it was relatively popular too, since a real-life drama of the same name was aired in 2005. While volleyball may not be that big in North America (even though U.S.A. beat out longtime reigning world champion Brazil at Beijing this year), it’s actually a huge sport in Japan and Europe, so I often wonder why we get baseball, tennis, boxing, racing, etc. anime, but no volleyball. My only qualm about the animation in this chapter is that a lot of characters were shown to be left-handed, which makes me wonder if it was intentional. (I forget if Miyuki, Kagami, and Tsukasa are all left-handed.) In any case, the best part was Kagami’s jump serve packing Tsukasa in the face though!
Other than that, I think the most distinguished chapter is the live-action Lucky Channel, featuring Kogami Akira’s seiyuu, Konno Hiromi and of course, Shiraishi Minoru as himself. While I don’t know what to make of Minoru’s permed wig, Hiromi looked pretty damn cute and is undoubtedly the best real-life Akira you can get. She even dressed up in a sailor uniform with extremely long sleeves to fit the role. However, the best part of that bit had to be Minoru taking a hose to the face for an extended period of time as I couldn’t help but laugh at that.
Cameos, cameos, cameos. Lots of references/parodies too, including CODE GEASS‘ “I’m Zero and I have returned!” and “I’ll use you and throw you away like a dirty rag” lines, Konata referring to Miyuki as the “galactic songstress”, Konata trying to get her team to perform a Jet Stream Attack (originally from Gundam, later Gundam SEED Destiny), Konata’s “Mi-mi-mi-Mikuru” ring tone plus her “Hare Hare Yukai” victory pose à la Suzumiya Haruhi. They even pulled a 24 (TV series) type clock countdown in the scene where Kagami woke up from her dream, and had Shirashi Minoru wear a “Yaranai ka?” necktie (possibly from Minami-ke but just funny in general). There was also Konata transforming Kagami’s outfits into a Tousaka Rin cosplay (Fate/stay night) and eventually Hatsune Miku, the Japanese virtual idol. One of the more subtle cameos had to be Miyuki passing a serve to what looks like Saotome Alto, which is evidently a parody on Miyuki’s seiyuu, Endou Aya, who plays Sheryl Nome in Macross Frontier. Another was Kagami telling Konata that cats aren’t witches and Konata saying she won’t take its soul à la SOUL EATER, where Katou Emiri (Kagami’s seiyuu) plays Blair. There’s a whole slew more too, but those are the ones that come to mind after watching the OVA once through.
Gollyzilla at 1:24 am on September 27th, 2008
Word up.
Chimasternmay at 1:26 am on September 27th, 2008
oh man i missed out on Lucky Star when it was airing cause i didn’t watch much anime back then, but i saw this a while back, yeah man this 1 episode was great, i loved the rpg play stuff they did Lucky Star is Lucky Star always
Airas at 1:30 am on September 27th, 2008
Seems incredible huh!!
cutemi2 at 1:37 am on September 27th, 2008
Lucky Star MMORPG, available now….
Peanutbutter003 at 1:39 am on September 27th, 2008
Good review. Was wondering whether you are reviewing this or not.
Kaitune at 1:41 am on September 27th, 2008
I am never a big fan of Lucky Star although I did watch it when I have free times. However, the OVA looks pretty interesting, especially the mmorpg part. If someone really makes it into an actual online game, I would definitely try it just to see how it look (even though it would never replace WoW.)
Amatsu at 1:44 am on September 27th, 2008
yippy kagami as hatsune miku!!!
Jayars at 1:45 am on September 27th, 2008
Hatsune Miku!!!! I’ve been listening to her levan pokan at work on loop, from 9-5 daily. LOL! Even comes with a stick of negi! Guess the posters weren’t lying, eh?
Have just seen this. Absolutely hilarious! Loved the part where Kagami woke up saying ***** and Tsukasa’s expression after that!
And there were so many moe moments in this one. Even though I’m still on my feet, I’m gonna bet my friend is gonna be moe’ed to death once he sees this.
Only regret, Konata should’ve done to Kagami what she did to Tsukasa when they were on the mountains. That’d have been son hilarious.
Anyway, truly enjoyed the ova. Not sure if there’ll be anymore in the future, but if there will be, I’m definitely on board. I like Hirano Aya better as Konata than Haruhi.
Heartofadeadpoet at 1:45 am on September 27th, 2008
I’m a HUGE fan of Lucky Star, Kaitune, what server do you play on? I’m on Nathrezim. My Toon’s name is Bizarostormy, :D. Can’t wait for the subbed version of LS! <3
Chicle at 1:48 am on September 27th, 2008
Gaaah, I forgot this was coming out.
Megas at 1:50 am on September 27th, 2008
42 min!!! I thought I was going to die half way through. I swear this nearly made me forget all of the little Japanese I do know. That MMORPG was the best, but I will definitely be killing some rigs out there if it was made into a real game.
Pachi at 1:55 am on September 27th, 2008
yeeaaah! si la estoy esperando con mucha ansiaa! sii voy al RAW!!! xD >.< <3
Servbot at 1:59 am on September 27th, 2008
I almost had an anime style nosebleed from: http://randomc.animeblogger.net:8000/image/Lucky%20Star/Lucky%20Star%20-%20OVA%20-%20Large%2029.jpg
Kagami as Rin!!!!
Endz at 2:06 am on September 27th, 2008
You got it all wrong with the Yaranaika part. Its based on a popular YAOI manga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaranaika .
Rafael at 2:08 am on September 27th, 2008
There was an obvious reference to Soul Eater in conversation between Konata and Kagami (Seiyu of Blair) when they were talking about cats being witches and Kagami promising to not to steal a soul from the cat.
Endz at 2:10 am on September 27th, 2008
Ah.. I wish I could edit.
Did you miss the part where Konata was calling Miyuki Miwiki? XD
poingy at 2:11 am on September 27th, 2008
It’s no animation mistake that a lot of the characters are portrayed as being left-handed in the ova; they were created left-handed.
Rai at 2:15 am on September 27th, 2008
YAY!!!!!!!
purr~* at 2:25 am on September 27th, 2008
btw, that mmorpg part is a parody of “The Tower of Druaga ~Recovery of Babylim~”
http://druaga-mmo.com/
so practically, it’s already a game -_-;
Chicle at 2:32 am on September 27th, 2008
Wow, a lot of the good stuff in the MMO part happened in the background, like the gang-rape PVP.
Awesome OVA. Can’t wait for the subs so I can get the other half of the humor. Glad I can still laugh at the raw.