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Animegomaniac
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As I said in my post, its closest anime comparison is Doki Doki School Hours but I rate that one higher because it has a clear passage of time for its "slice of life" component and a little more punch to its "unhumor". But Azumanga Daioh? That one's complete with gags, set-ups, characters arcs and plot. Why anyone would compare that to Lucky Star -beyond "Lucky Star should be more like this by having these things"-is rather unfair. To Lucky Star. No, really; That's not what they were aiming for, otherwise they would have had characters rather than characteristics. Lucky Star characters can not change which is anti "slice of life". They even point it out by making sure Konata can't grow as either a person or as a character. Now I'm going to have to look so if if I described as one. I didn't because I never thought of it as one. It's too aware of itself as an anime to be a real slice of life series. In my opinion, of course. I do think of it as a "cute girls doing things" series... wait, no I don't. An otaku reference series that tries too hard to deconstruct its comedy? That's it!! Humor may be subjective but when a comedy spends more time taking jokes apart rather than telling them, something went wrong. Hmm. If any anime series needed the benefit of a laugh track, this is the one. "I call it the relative bowl." [ha ha ha] |
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braket
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you are aware that every episode of Seinfeld's nine seasons ran for ~23 minutes, right |
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TheMorry
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Anyone can explain this: How can a dub and sub who were both rated as B+ become D+ but yet the dub is called "solid" in the review? I only saw 2 episodes so far of Lucky Star, i picked up the DVD a few months ago from madman (Aus). I think the dub deserves more credit then a D+...
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ralphyman
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Are you kidding? I loved this show!
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Whomst
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That section says "OVERALL dub" right? meaning the grade for the overall series if watched dubbed. Same grade as the Overall Sub section means that the dub is solid enough to not worsen the material. A solid dub for an overall bad show. |
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pluvia33
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I really wouldn't say that people are hating it now from being followers. Personally, I also didn't really like it that much when it came out. I bought all of the DVD singles and ended up eventually selling them on eBay. As a big fan of Haruhi and Azumanga Daioh, I felt that this would be an obvious series for me to love. However, I was left with a very underwhelming experience. I understood the references well enough, but that alone didn't make the series funny to me and I didn't find most of the characters particularly charming. Now, the second half of the series lifted the series up a bit when they had more focus on side characters, but overall it wasn't all that great to me. If anything, I feel that myself and maybe others were being "sheeps" the other way around. With all of the mass popularity that was going on at the time of its initial release, it was hard to speak out about the show. I kept feeling like maybe there was something wrong with my tastes, especially when an old roommate of mine was absolutely nuts about the show. So I was mostly quiet about it, considered it a mostly-alright show (again, the side characters in the second half did make it kind of enjoyable), but aside from writing an entry nearly six years ago in a blog that almost no one reads, I never publicly talked much about my disappointment. But hey, maybe that's just me. |
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CheezcakeMe
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Oh man I'm with the reviewer on this one. I tried to watch it back when it was the hip new thing and was bored out of my skull. I just assumed it was some otaku thing I couldn't ever understand and never went back. Watching a girl eat a chocolate bun while her friends made small talk about the bun was not the height of comedic gold for me. It more reminded me of people who aren't very close awkwardly groping to find things to talk about to fill an awkward silence.
Did always like the opening though. It was cute. |
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WingKing
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As far as I can tell, 99% of the time the people who want a reviewer to qualify a review with "just my opinion" are either people who disagree with that review, or people who don't really understand the purpose of reviews in the first place. Reading film and television reviews has been an odd little hobby of mine ever since I was a kid, and I still have a habit of looking for at least two positive and two negative reviews of any film that I'm on the fence about watching. Thing is, what I always want to get most out of those reviews isn't the overall grade, it's specific information from the critics about what they liked and didn't like about the film. Because I already know my own tastes, so I can compare their reactions to how I think I'm likely to react to the same things, and that helps me make an informed decision about whether I'm probably going to enjoy that movie or not. In short: I have no complaints about ANN's staff avoiding the "opinion" word (since it should be a given that any review is the reviewer's opinion without needing to be spelled out), but it would be nice to see more reviews of a show from multiple perspectives sometimes. The preview guides are great in that regard, but I'm thinking more about instances where the same person who did weekly episode reviews also writes the full series review at the end of the season - that's a great opportunity to provide a second opinion here on site by getting someone else to write the second review, instead of me having to wait and see if another site like THEMAnime or Nihon Review eventually posts their own review of the series to get my second opinion. As far as Lucky Star itself goes, I haven't seen it, but I read the first volume of the manga earlier this year and frankly didn't enjoy it much - I didn't think it was very funny, and I got much the same feel from reading it as what Nick described watching the show to be like. Now that doesn't automatically mean I wouldn't like the show, since I wasn't a big fan of K-On! (the manga) either, but I loved K-On! (the anime), but if Lucky Star is as similar to its manga in its tone and structure as the way he describes it, then I'm guessing it's not for me. |
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Polycell
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Omu
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Always interesting to see how opinions can differ when it comes to humour. For me Lucky Star still is one, if not the best Cute Girls doing Cute Things humorous SoL-show. Maybe it's true that its humour was a product of its time but since that time was also my time I*ve got no problem with that
 Actually there aren't that many KyoAni shows that I like (Most of the time KyoAni shows have great production values but a shitty story and too dumb characters) but Lucky Star is one of the very few where I would say that it really shows what difference an able studio can make.
On another note, it seems that I can finally begin to completely ignore Nick Creamers reviews. I think he was the author of all the ANN reviews I absolutely could not agree with this year. Most infamously his review to The Lost Village/Mayoiga. |
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BodaciousSpacePirate
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I definitely agree that this series was a product of its time: a much calmer alternative to J.C. Staff's frankly over-the-top Azumanga Daioh adaptation, whose success really opened up more "mainstream" western anime fans to slice of life shows. At the time, there really wasn't much slice of life being sold at Best Buy or other big box retailers. If anime wasn't your primary hobby, then you might not have been too aware of shows beyond what was broadcasted on Toonami and FunimationChannel. Viewed in that context, Lucky Star was a breath of fresh air for a lot of anime fans who wanted to know "what's next after Haruhi?"
Now, however, there are a ton of commercially-available slice of life shows, and people are much more inclined to try out lesser-known stuff through online streaming and RightStuf. US anime companies have done a great job filling out their back catalogues with older slice of life shows, many of which have held up a lot better over time than Lucky Star. In that sense, Lucky Star is very similar to shows like Haruhi and Code Geass: if you weren't around during the show's heyday, it's hard to see what the big deal is, and you're much more inclined to reach for something like Yuyushiki or Kiniro Mosaic if you want to watch some slice of life comedy. |
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maximilianjenus
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the show did not really age well, for my it's like hokuto no ken, it was great abck in the 80s but nowadays, everything it did has either been done better or it's completely overdone so it can't really compete with new shows. |
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Nakurawari
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I re-watched the show about a year ago and enjoyed it even more than the first time. For me, it's still one of my all time favourites.
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NobleKind
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I haven't read much of Nick's stuff but his metaphors make me want to change that.
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CheezcakeMe
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For some reason humor anime rarely ages well. I thought Dragon Half was the shit when I was younger, went back to it a few months ago and realized it was nothing but everyone screaming for 40 minutes.
I feel Lucky Star is the same for a lot of fans, but replace *screaming* with pop culture references. |
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