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Lucky Star (manga)
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Lucky ☆ Star
らき☆すた
(Raki ☆ Suta)
Genre Comedy, Seinen
Manga
Authored by Kagami Yoshimizu
Publisher Kadokawa Shoten
Serialized in Comptiq
Original run January 2004 –
No. of volumes 3 (currently)
Game: Lucky ☆ Star Moe Drill
Developer
Publisher Kadokawa Shoten
Genre
Rating CERO: All Ages
Platform Nintendo DS
Released December 1, 2005
Game: Shin Lucky ☆ Star
Developer
Publisher Kadokawa Shoten
Genre
Rating CERO: Rating pending
Platform Nintendo DS
Released April 26, 2007
TV anime
Directed by Hiroshi Yamamoto
Studio Kyoto Animation
Network Chiba TV
Original run April 8, 2007 –
No. of episodes
Lucky ☆ Star (らき☆すた, Raki ☆ Suta?) is a Japanese four-panel comic strip by Kagami Yoshimizu. The strip has been serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Comptiq magazine since January 2004. Cameo strips were published in other magazines such as Shonen Ace and others.
It wasn't originally meant to be serialized, but when Comptiq suddenly had pages to fill, Lucky ☆ Star was there. As it was popular, it was decided that the strip was to be serialized. Like many yonkoma comic strips, it has no real plot, and typically focuses on the daily lives of the characters. However, the strip has become much more popular than expected. On August 24, 2005, a drama CD was released, and on December 1, 2005, a Nintendo DS video game entitled Lucky ☆ Star Moe Drill, was released. A sequel, with the title of Shin Lucky ☆ Star Moe Drill is planned for a Nintendo DS release on April 26, 2007. In September 2006, it was released to the press that Kyoto Animation will be animating the anime based on the series, set to air on April 8, 2007.
Contents [hide]
1 Plot
2 Characters
3 Adaptations
3.1 Manga
3.2 Video games
3.2.1 Characteristics
3.3 Anime
3.4 Audio CDs
4 References
5 External links
[edit] Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The story portrays the lives of several school girls attending a Japanese high school with a very loose humor tone. The serialization began with the four main characters in the first year of high school. As the years progress, they move onto their second and third year.
[edit] Characters
Konata Izumi (泉 こなた, Izumi Konata)?, (Seiyū - Ryo Hirohashi (drama CD) / Aya Hirano (anime))
Birthday: May 28th
Lives in: Saitama Prefecture
Blood Type: A
Strong subjects: PE (however, it isn't her favorite subject)
Disliked subjects: Math and science
Favourite Foods: Chocolate cornet bread
Konata, nicknamed "Kona-chan" by her friends, gets bored easily when something doesn't interest her. She can be smart, but she hates studying so her grades are a bit uneasy. However, she is an expert in pulling an "all-nighter". In contrast to her studying habits, she loves video games to the extent that she can compete against Kagami on knowledge of games. In addition to video games, she loves anime which is also due to her father's influence along with the games. Her father also buys ero-games for himself, so she is able to play and enjoy them as well. In fact, when she became 18, Konata was overjoyed since she could now go buy and play ero-games legally.
Since she spends quite a large sum of money into video games and doujinshi, Konata was lucky enough to get a part-time job at a cosplay cafe. Continuing with her theme of playing video games, Konata plays the role of a male character in an online game and is married in that world. Her significant other in the game is ironically a male gamer using a female character. She often plays online games late into the night hence why she tends to fall asleep in class, which makes her a frequent victim to Nanako-sensei's fists.
Her physique is smaller than average when compared to her peers which hasn't changed since she was in sixth grade. Her appearance is as follows: long bluish-purple hair with a large ahoge, sleepy green eyes and a beauty mole under her right eye just like her father. Her mother, sadly, died when she was young, and she has lived alone with her father afterwards. In her third year of grade school, however, Yutaka came to live at her house, so there are now three members living at her home.
Tsukasa Hiiragi (柊 つかさ, Hiiragi Tsukasa)?, (Seiyū - Mai Nakahara (drama CD) / Kaori Fukuhara (anime))
Birthday: July 7th
Lives in: Saitama Prefecture
Blood Type: B
Strong subjects: Home economics
Disliked subjects: PE
Tsukasa is the younger fraternal twin sister of Kagami and lives in a six-member family household with her parents. She is in the same class as Konata though isn't good at studying or at sports, but excels in cooking.
Tsukasa's physique is a little smaller than average. Her appearance is as follows: short, light-purple hair, and wears a ribbon like a head band in it, and her droopy eyes are light violet. She is portrayed as a stereotypical klutz and as a "healing-type" character. Tsukasa once received a mobile phone for her birthday, however she hasn't had much luck with it as she had her phone taken away by using it in class and mistakenly ruined it by putting it in the laundry along with her skirt. Also, one time, she left the instant yakisoba alone after pouring hot water in it, only to come back later discovering there was no water left to drain.
Kagami Hiiragi (柊 かがみ, Hiiragi Kagami)?, (Seiyū - Ami Koshimizu (drama CD) / Emiri Katou (anime))
Birthday: July 7th
Lives in: Saitama Prefecture
Blood Type: B
Strong subjects: English
Disliked subjects: Home economics
Kagami is the older fraternal twin sister of Tsukasa. In school, her grades are excellent as studies very hard. She was even the class president of her class in her first year. She is in a different class than Konata and Tsukasa, but she frequently comes to their class during lunch time to eat with them. Additionally, Kagami chose the humanities course in her second year so that she could be with her friends, but she was the only one separated into a different classroom; the same occurred in her third year. Kagami, seldomly referred to as "Kagamin", is a bit egotistic, but is somewhat weak in cooking.
Kagami's physique is average. Her appearance is as follow: has long light purple hair, and wears a ribbon tied into pig-tails; used to have an ahoge at the beginning of the series, and her sharp eyes are light violet. kagami is the stereotypical "tsukkomi" character, however, she is prone to become shy at times, hence being a tsundere character as well.
Much like Konata, Kagami likes video games, but plays a different genre than Konata: Kagami likes to play scroll-shooting games. She loves to read light novels, but she is lonely that no one around her has the same interest as her.
Miyuki Takara (高良 みゆき, Takara Miyuki)?, (Seiyū - Erina Nakayama (drama CD) / Aya Endo (anime))
Birthday: October 25th
Lives in: Tokyo Metro
Blood Type: O
Strong at: Cooking
Weak at: Swimming
Miyuki is a "young lady" from a wealthy family whom is also beautiful, smart, and well-mannered. She was the president for her grade level in her first year when she became great friends with Kagami. Now Miyuki is the same class as Konata and Tsukasa. She seldom is a victim of Nanako-sensei's dekopin for going along with Konata (in sharp contrast to the large bump on the head that Konata received from Nanako-sensei's fists). Miyuki is more relied on by her classmates in helping their studies than Nanako-sensei.
Miyuki's physique is average, but she has excellent proportions; she has large breasts that Konata analogies her to a cow. Her appearance is as follow: has long light pink hair, and her eyes, covered by the glasses she wears, are light bluish-purple. She is a stereotypical "healing-type" meganekko. Her vision is less than 0.1, though used to be good until elementary school when she started reading books in the dark after her mother dozed off in the midst of reading them to her in her bed. She likes to read books, but does not read light novels.
Miyuki loves to sleep, and she always goes to sleep at eleven. She used to go to sleep much earlier at ten before her second year. However, she hates going to the dentist, but she frequently has to go there to fix a loose crown or because of a tooth decays. On the rare occasion that she plays video games, her personality seems to change.
Nanako Kuroi (黒井 ななこ, Kuroi Nanako)?, (Seiyū - Masumi Asano (drama CD) / Konomi Maeda (anime))
Birthday: February 8th
Age: 27
Born in: Kanagawa Prefecture
Blood Type: O
Strong subjects: World history, Cooking
Disliked subjects: English
Nanako is the home room teacher for Konata's class and her primary subject is world history. She thinks that students have it easy because as she has said, "you guys don't have to think about what to wear everyday." She is more like a friend than their teacher as she has a lax personality. Consequently, she frequently borrows and exchanges video games with Konata, and is in Konata's party in the same online game. Since she is not seeing anyone, she is constantly online, even on Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Nanako's appearance is as follows: has very long blonde hair which she ties at the back of her neck, and her eyes are green. When writing on the chalkboard, Nanako is able to become ambidextrous. She loves to watch baseball, and is a big fan of the Chiba Lotte Marines. Also, Nanako speaks in a fake Kansai accent.
Yui Narumi (成実 ゆい, Narumi Yui)?, (Seiyū - Chiwa Saito (drama CD) / Konomi Maeda (anime))
Birthday: October 7th
Age: 26
Lives in: Saitama Prefecture
Blood Type: A
Strong subjects: Morals and ethics
Disliked subjects: Math
Yui is Konata's cousin and is a female police officer for the Saitama Prefectural Police Department. She is very easy-going and is a cop who acts before thinking. She is a bit of a klutz and is a meganekko. However, she has a tendency to road rage when she's behind the wheel.
Yui's appearance is as follows: has a well-rounded face and a large forehead, has straight and short dark green hair, and her eyes are brown. Yui isn't into fashion that much. She recently married, leaving behind her maiden name of Kobayakawa. However, her significant other is out of town all the time, so she frequently visits Konata's house. Usually, Yui will come over to Konata's home very late at night while drunk.
Yutaka Kobayakawa (小早川 ゆたか, Kobayakawa Yutaka)?, (Seiyū - Ai Shimizu (drama CD) / Shizuka Hasegawa (anime))
Birthday: December 20th
Lives in: Saitama Prefecture
Blood Type: A
Strong subjects: Japanese
Disliked subjects: PE
First appearance: Shounen Ace before Comptiq
Yutaka, who is a very positive and cheerful girl, though can be a little forgetful, is Konata's cousin, and Yui's younger sister. When Konata became a third year student, she was admitted to the same Ryōō Gakuen High School as a first year student. She is in the same class, 1-D, with Minami and ran for candidacy for class president on the first day of school. Also referred to by her nickname "Yu-chan" by Konata and Sōjirō, she came to live with the Konata's family since her body is weak and it was too far for her to commute to school from her home; additionally, she tends to become sick quite often.
Yutaka's appearance is as follow: has semi-long salmon pink colored hair with small pig tails and often wears a ribbon in her hair, and her eyes are green. She is an indoor person, so her height and her physique are smaller than Konata. Her primary concern is her height and her body development. However she realizes her dreams are futile since she has the relative of Konata who hasn't developed at all.
Minami Iwasaki (岩崎 みなみ, Minami Iwasaki)?, (Seiyū - Miyu Matsuki (drama CD) / Minori Chihara (anime))
Birthday: September 12th
Lives in: Tokyo Metro
Blood Type: A
Strong subjects: PE
Minami is a very quiet girl who does not show much emotions, hence why she is often mistaken for being cool, but she very kind at heart. She comes from a wealthy family, and her home is in the same nei*orhood as Takara. She owns a very large white dog, and has a parasol in her yard. Minami was admitted to Ryōō Gakuen High School along with Yutaka who she met during the admissions exam and is also in her class; Minami is the class health officer. Afterwards, she helped Yutaka go to the nurse's office when she became sick. Once there, she gave Yutaka her handkerchief.
Minami's appearance is as follows: has short mint-green hair, her eyes are blue and are slightly slanted upward. She is very slender, though she is worried about her small breast size. She gets along with Miyuki since they have similar tastes and being from the same nei*orhood. Also, Minami likes to read books and play the piano.
Hiyori Tamura (田村 ひより, Tamura Hiyori(?, (Seiyū - Kaori Shimizu (anime))
Blood Type: A
Strong subjects: The arts
Disliked subjects: English
Hiyori is a doujin artist who is also a classmate of Yutaka and Minami. Additionally, she is an otaku who creates her own doujinshi; her genres are broad, stretching from boys love to yuri. Hiyori is always searching for a good plot to use in her doujinshi. Even if she has a moment of enlightenment, she fails to jot down notes about it, which causes to forget what her great idea was about.
Called "Hiyorin" by Konata, she tends to be a kind person, but has unfortunate luck. Hiyori has a friendly personality, but is prone to get bashful which leads to simple mistakes during a decisive moment. Hiyori's appearance is as follows: has long hair, a wide forehead, and is a meganekko.
Misao Kusakabe (日下部 みさお, Kusakabe Misao?)
Birthday: July 20th
Lives in: Saitama Prefecture
Blood Type: B
Strong subjects: PE
Disliked subjects: Math, World history
Favorite food: Meatballs
Misao is Kagami's classmate and has been in the same class with Kagami and Ayano for the past five years since middle school; she is a childhood friend of Ayano's. Misao tends to be simple minded and an outdoor type of person. She is in the cross-country club and hates studying.
Ayano Minegishi (峰岸 あやの, Minegishi Ayano?)
Birthday: November 4th
Lives in: Saitama Prefecture
Blood Type: AB
Strong subjects: Japanese
Disliked subjects: Math
Ayano is Kagami's classmate and has been in the same class with Kagami and Misao for the past five years since middle school; she is a childhood friend of Misao's. She is passive and likes to take care of people, hence she is portrayed as a character that looks after Misao. Ayano's appearance is as follows: she holds up her short hair with a head band though since her front hair is all pulled back, she looked at as having with a large forehead. Also, she can make excellent cookies.
Sōjirō Izumi (泉 そうじろう, Izumi Sōjirō)?, (Seiyū - Hirokazu Hiramatsu (anime))
Sōjirō is Konata's father who is also an author and thus is able to work at home; he always wear loose traditional Japanese clothing as his work clothes. He loves watching anime and playing video games, which influenced his daughter's interests. Perhaps due to these interests, Sōjirō has taken a liking to small and cute girls. When Yutaka came to live at his house, he sincerely thought that, "My life is superb." He is very intelligent, but he isn't looked up to by Konata when she has trouble doing her homework.
Sōjirō's appearance is as follows: he is very thin, and has unshaven facial hair, he has a mole under his right eye and has thick eyebrows. Additionally, he is allergic to pollen and when he decided to wear goggles and masks as protection from it, Konata sighed that, "Now you look weirder as well." She also frequently reminds him, "Please don't do anything as to be taken away by the cops."
Sōjirō's wife was his childhood friend and he loves his own daughter because she looks exactly like his wife. Also, he often forgets to lock the door when he is using the toilet which has left Yutaka with a tremendous shock.
Kanata Izumi (泉 かなた, Izumi Kanata?)
Kanata was Konata's mother who was very short and looked exactly like Konata. She died when Konata was very young and her only appearances in the manga are through a single photograph and through Sōjirō's memory. Her daughter believes that Sōjirō forcibly married her through some kind of threat, but the truth is yet to be known.
Yukari Takara (高良 ゆかり, Takara Yukari)?, (Seiyū - Mami Kosuge (anime))
Yukari is Miyuki's mother who tends to be very well-mannered, but can be a bit of a clutz. She can talk with a telemarketer for over an hour. Yukari's appearance is as follows: her hair is short though unlike her daughter, she does not wear eyeglasses. She doesn't like to do household chores, hence why she isn't quite skilled with household items. On one occasion, she thought that a colored candle was a popsicle.
Tadao Hiiragi (柊 ただお, Hiiragi Tadao?)
Tadao is the head of the Hiiragi family who is also a priest at the Hiiragi shrine.
Kiyotaka Narumi (成実 きよたか, Narumi Kiyotaka)?)
Kiyotaka is the husband who recently married with Yui Kobayakawa, Kotoha's cousin. He is currently away and one of the only appearances he has made was through a phone conversation.
Akira Kogami (小神 あきら, Kogami Akira)?, (Seiyū - Ai Nonaka (drama CD) / Hiromi Konno (anime))
Birthday: February 14th
Lives in: Tokyo Metro
Blood Type: O
Akira is a junior high school student who is also the captain of the Lucky ☆ Star informational ad section called "Lucky ☆ Channel" in the Comptiq magazine. Akira's appearance is as follows: she has short salmon pink hair, s has an ahoge towards the right side of her head, and has golden yellow eyes. Her school uniform is too big on her as her hands are too short for its sleeves. Akira tends to be very energetic, and her chief form of greeting is "Oha-Lucky~!"
Patricia Martin (パトリシア＝マーティン, Patorisha Mātin)?, (Seiyū - Satsuki Yukino (drama CD) / Nozomi Sasaki (anime))
Birthday: April 16th
Lives in: Saitama Prefecture
Blood Type: O
Strong subjects: English
Disliked subjects: Japanese
First appearance: Drama CD
Patricia, nicknamed Patty, is a transfer student from the United States. She is in the same class as Yutaka and Minami. Her appearance is as follows: has short light brown hair, and has blue eyes. Patricia loves anime and manga and has learned all her Japanese through them, so in effect her Japanese is very weird. She is extremely energetic and lively and has a high interest in boys love.
Hinata Miyakawa (宮河 ひなた, Miyakawa Hinata)?, (Seiyū - Mamiko Noto (drama CD))
Birthday: June 15th
Lives in: Saitama Prefecture
Blood Type: O
First appearance: Nintendo DS video game.
Hinata's appearance is as follows: has long salmon pink hair which she ties just a bit to the right of her forehead with a rabbit clip, has pink droopy eyes and is a meganekko. She makes a living through a job at a doujin shop. However, she remains poor as all her money disappears into manga and doujinshis.
Hikage Miyakawa (宮河 ひかげ, Miyakawa Hikage)?, (Seiyū - Yukari Tamura (drama CD))
Birthday: September 6th
Lives in: Saitama Prefecture
Blood Type: A
First appearance: Nintendo DS video game.
Hikage is the younger sister of Hinata and is in the fourth grade; she is the youngest character in Lucky ☆ Star. She attends the Sakura-en Public Elementary School, and is in class 4-1. She is not an otaku like her older sister and may grow up to become a tsundere character. Hikage lives in poverty because of her older sister and wants to grow up so she can get a job on her own; her dream is to eat meat. Hikage's appearance is as follows: has long light-purple hair; her hairstyle is distinctive as she thinly braids her hair to the right, and uses that as a ribbon to tie her hairs, her eyes are light blue and are slanted upward.
Hikaru Sakuraba (桜庭 ひかる, Sakuraba Hikaru?)
Hikaru is the biology teacher at Ryōō Gakuen High School and is also the current captain of the Lucky ☆ Star informational ad section, recently renamed "Lucky ☆ Paradise".
Spoilers end here.
[edit] Adaptations
[edit] Manga
The manga version of Lucky ☆ Star started serialization in the Japanese magazine Comptiq on January 2004 and is still currently running. There are currently three bound volumes of the manga, published by Kadokawa Shoten. Volume one was released on January 8, 2005, volume two on August 10, 2005, and volume three on July 10, 2006.
[edit] Video games
A video game, entitled Lucky ☆ Star Moe Drill (らき☆すた 萌えドリル, Raki ☆ Suta Moe Doriru?), was released on December 1, 2005 on the Nintendo DS. A limited edition game with many extras was sold called the "DX Pack" along with the regular version. A sequel, with the title of Shin Lucky ☆ Star Moe Drill ~Tabidachi~ (真・らき☆すた 萌えドリル~旅立ち~, Shin Raki ☆ Suta Moe Doriru ~Tabidachi~?) is planned for a Nintendo DS release on April 26, 2007.
The genre of the first game is homework drills. It tests the player on various subjects and memorizations. The player's main opponent is beating other characters in quizzes. There is also a "Drama ☆ Mode" where the game plays like a mini-adventure game as you make your way to Akihabara. Math quizzes and mini games (about five in all) pop up as you play along.
[edit] Characteristics
There are two different types of one-person games: "Hitasura ☆ Drill" and "Drama ☆ Mode". The player can also link the game with another person. When this occurs, the player can use the character that is built up in Drama ☆ Mode as a choosable character. Additionally, if the player wants to use a special battle skill against his or her opponent while in link mode, the player must shout out the name of the skill into the microphone.
In Drama ☆ Mode, the player partners with one of the characters, and tries to increase her parameters and have her learn new battle skills.
There are five different types of "drills". One of the quizzes called "Ondoku" requires the player to shout out the answer into the microphone.
Several mascot characters of large anime and doujin shops (like Broccoli's Di Gi Charat, Animate's Anime Tencho and Toranoana's Miko-chan make cameo appearances.
[edit] Anime
The Lucky ☆ Star anime will be produced by the animation studio Kyoto Animation and is set to air on April 8, 2007.[1]
[edit] Audio CDs
Main article: List of Lucky Star albums
The Lucky ☆ Star drama CD, aptly entitled Drama CD Lucky ☆ Star, was released on August 24, 2005 by Frontier Works. The video game soundtrack entitled Lucky ☆ Star vocal mini album was released on December 22, 2005.
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