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View Poll Results: Lucky Star - Episode 24 (FINAL) Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 210 | 67.09% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 61 | 19.49% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 30 | 9.58% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 7 | 2.24% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 1 | 0.32% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 1 | 0.32% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 1 | 0.32% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 2 | 0.64% | |
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2007-09-18, 07:46 | Link #162 |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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You want an anime that never ends? Doraemon is there for you! Has been airing since the 1980s and still going. Crayon Shin-Chan is another one that doesn't seem to be ending anytime. Both are still extremely popular in Japan and all over Asia.
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2007-09-18, 08:07 | Link #163 |
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Join Date: May 2007
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Wow, guess it's finally over, first series I've watched "live" to the end as well.
Yeah, this episode was alright I thought, maybe it's because of my sleep deprived state I didn't find it all that wonderful and only laughed once or twice. Either way it was an awesome ride, I'm sad it's gone but there's plenty of room for extra seasons 'n that, so hope will remain. And LOL! at the T.B.A title. Yeah I said lol. |
2007-09-18, 09:08 | Link #165 |
et tu, brute?
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Perth WA
Age: 37
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a good series indeed, at 1st episode of lucky star i was like.. "i don't get some of the joke but well.." but after watching more and more, i fall in love deeper to this series, so sad it has to end gee..
anyway am i the only one who see the hiiragi twins (Tsukasa & kagami) == fujibayashi twins (ryou & kyou), both twins have same traits, one is tsundere and other is clumsy.. not to mention one has longer hair than the other one X D |
2007-09-18, 09:12 | Link #166 |
Silent Warrior
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Netherlands
Age: 38
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Great series it really felt like the KyoAni decided to make a series specially for me. Nothing to deep, just good clean fun and no overthetop humor. Just laid back fun. The only other anime makes me feel this way is Azumanga Daioh (school rumble got close).
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2007-09-18, 09:54 | Link #168 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Loving a peaceful life in San Clemente, California.
Age: 50
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I'm a huge AzuDai fan, so I kept seeing gags reused from that anime too often. It's possible that the jokes were coincidence, homages, or simply accidents of memory on the part of the writers who thought they made the jokes themselves. However, there was so much more to this anime that I was able to "domai". Overall, I really liked this anime. Konata's high self-confidence while being an uber-otaku is an inspiration to us all. I was also always pleasantly surprised when aspects of her otaku life were the same as mine. This final episode seemed to go very quickly for me, I was amazed that it was the usual 24 minutes. I'm happy that they didn't get too emotional on us, it would not have fit this anime. Next stop for me is the third season of Aria; I'm not following anything else. But like how I found Lucky*Star, I'll stumble over a great anime soon. This hobby is the best that ever was, there's always something unexpected to look forward to. -k curious |
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2007-09-18, 09:59 | Link #169 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
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I concur that anyone who enjoyed Lucky*Star's 'character study' style and subtle humor should take a look at Azumanga Daioh if they haven't already. Its almost like trying to claim you're literate without having read Shakespeare (okay, not that bad but you do take a credibility hit otherwise ).
One also has to remember that some "jokes" or situations are just universal .... it isn't a rip of AzuDa to do those situations again with these personalities. Every sitcom in existence runs through similar joke lines -- its the execution and the choice of personalities to involve that make it remain entertaining.
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2007-09-18, 10:45 | Link #170 |
Yummy, sweet and unyuu!!!
Join Date: Dec 2004
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One thing that impresses me is that I enjoyed LS a lot even though I didn't understand a lot of the cultural references at first, which made it a great learning medium, but also I wonder how much more I could have enjoyed it if I was more aware?
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2007-09-18, 10:45 | Link #171 |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Now I've watched it and, well, what to write...
Mostly they did greatest work for the final episode, I guess. The most surprising part (maybe not totally unexpected though) is that the whole episode is based on the script by the original author Yoshimizu himself! If the pinnacle of Kyoani spirit is in ep.12, the supreme work of art is in ep.22, and the greatest adaptation of the original 4-koma is in ep.23, this episode is the ideal ending for the TV series and, more than that, I think it finally made me realize what Lucky Star really is. All of the major characters are drawn lively, even more so than ep.23. And it's really thought-out as the final episode for the TV series after all. Yay! My rating for this episode finally is 9.9 and -0.3 for Shiraishi ending which left so much to be desired. (rounded to 10 nevertheless) But, on second thought, I also think this 'imperfection' is intended for some reason, maybe. (thus it's only -0.3 instead of -0.5) And the last scene, although it was well timed for the ending of the story I guess, I wanted yell at the cat-thing, "Wha, is it over? Heeey! Don't sleep there!!" Spoiler for random thoughts:
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2007-09-18, 11:14 | Link #172 |
Temporal terrene totality
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Lucky!
Wow, it's over...
The final episode is great, a whole episode to close the series. The Shiraishi ending doesn't seem to fit this episode though I couldn't help but laugh at it... but still. I wish there were more but theres no room for season 2... Well time to buy a MS dedicated to Lucky Star! Loved the poke poke poke scene and all the Kagami tsundere-ness! I say a perfect 10 is fitting to this great series. I lol-ed from beginning to end! No more sausages! T.T |
2007-09-18, 11:16 | Link #173 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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2007-09-18, 11:18 | Link #175 | |
Knowledge is the solution
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: St. Louis, MO
Age: 39
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2007-09-18, 11:55 | Link #176 |
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People have mentioned the ending as sort of a dividing point between the early and later part of the episode, where peoples views start to get mixed. To be honest, I was expecting an ending like this where the girls danced to an opening theme.
To be perfectly honest actually (as opposed to just honest), I was actually expecting something more quirky to end it off related to promoting the next work, which would be Clannad. Something like a rendition of that shows music or them getting the characters from that show on to dance to the music, but I knew there would need to be a dance number to close the show. Another thing I thought they might do was to suddenly switch to live action versions of the Seiyuu in cosplay dancing to the opening theme. I mean can you even imagine how crazy all the fans over in Japan would go if they did that. Through the roof might become a literal expression. Seriously though, the thing that started it all was the opening dance number, it was a hit. In order to bring about the best possible reaction for the closing to the show, it's only natural that their would be an encore for Motekke Sailor Fuku. Now from my standpoint I would have preferred more character time to all this, but from a logical perspective, looking at how you'd want the fans to react at the conclusion to a show (In my view the answer to the question, "What is the best way to end a show?", is to summarize it using one of the major themes present throughout, and when you acknowledge Otakuism being a major theme for LS, coupled with how popular the dance was, you have your answer in hand) I think it's safe to say that this is what any right thinking scripter would design for their ending. Overall my feelings are pretty ambivelant to how it ended, which is why I gave it an 8. |
2007-09-18, 11:58 | Link #177 |
Mizore-chan
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Moe Land
Age: 43
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good point by darksider.
In the manga did anyone got Ayano mad at any point? She's like a Tsukasa clone and a background character in the anime, but Misao said she's scary when angry. Must be Banner's long lost daughter from a Japanese girl.
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2007-09-18, 12:07 | Link #178 |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Well the difference to me between azu and this is that azu made me truely love the characters for how they where. L*S made me love...The seiyuus lol. I guess it was just too many in-jokes and references but I never really got to really see most of the characters for who they where. Too many times I was reminded "Yea thats Aya doing konata".
So where as azu made its own isolated special world through the anime L*S felt the need to drag everything back to reality all too often. Not that thats a huge crime since I laughed hard at alot of episodes, but at the end of the show I can't really say as I sympathised or really cared much about barely any of the characters maybe save kagamin. Great funny show for sure...But kinda feel flat when it came to pacing and generating memorable characters for me atleast...
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2007-09-18, 12:16 | Link #179 |
Moving in circles
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 49
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And so with this final episode of Lucky Star, the second of the handful of animes I've been following this year comes to an end.
It's been a great ride. Some laugh-out-loud funny moments, and many more smiley skits to remember fondly. I've watched and enjoyed Azumanga Daioh as well, so I was no stranger to 4-koma when I first started watching this show. What to say? Lucky Star had great energy and lovable characters, and I will miss it now that it's gone. All in all, life goes on. |
2007-09-18, 12:36 | Link #180 |
なんでやろう?
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Wow, I can't believe this. I e-mailed Suzuki-sama about my "discovery" in reguard to the source of Minami and Yutaka's costume, and he updated his excellent Lucky Star Reference Blog. I guess gaijin-otas are a little useful after all.
It seemed the confusion comes when the the First Grade classroom blackboard displayed the program for their Zuka Kissa "Kaze Gumi", it listed character names from Takarazuka shows "バレンシアの熱い花" and "Elizabeth", so naturally the otas assumed that the costumes they wore came from those two shows. But it turn out they are from a third show. This is almost like a quiz for the Akiba-kei, since only house wifes and BL-lovers ever watch Takarazaku shows. I think KyoAni has a Eva-like Otaku Grand Unification Program, where they aim to combine Akiba-kei and Fujoshi into one, united community of outlaws. "You love Lucky Star? Now go watch some girl make out with another crossplaying girl on stage!" |
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