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Whistle Stopper - Lucky Star, Vol. 2
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List Price: $29.98
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Manufacturer: Bandai Entertainment
Starring: Lucky Star
Directed By: Animation
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 6691988029660
Format: Animated
Label: Bandai Entertainment
Manufacturer: Bandai Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Bandai Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-07-01
Running Time: 100
Studio: Bandai Entertainment
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The second course is very fulfilling.
Comment: The second volume fulfills the potential of the series, unlike the first four episodes. We get more than just talking heads in this volume, the girls get out and around and we meet their families and friends. This is a fun series with superior animation and voice acting. Each of the characters portrays a stereotypical Japanese school-girl role, but Konata seems aware of the stereotypes, and is constantly commenting on how often Miyuki lives up to her "Moe" sterotypical role. She seems unaware, however, of the sideways looks her own relationship with her single father garners from her friends, who are concerned that Konata and her father are a little "too close". When they wear kimonos to a Shrine festival, the girls notice Konata wears a real tied obi sash, and not a fake "pre-tied" obi. Konata innocently comments that her father tied the obi for her, and the girls all have an "ick" moment where they wonder what sort of man knows how to tie a girl's obi. It's all played for laughs, however, nothing inappropriate is shown or mentioned. The first volume nearly had me clicking on the merchandise return link. This second volume redeemed the series for me.
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Summary: Simple... yet elagent
Comment: If I was going to describe Lucky Star in one sentence to someone with no previous knowledge of anime, I'd say it's as if the shows Seinfeld and Best Week Ever had a love child, and in there shame sent it off to Japan to be raised by the maker of Azumanga Daioh. Thankfully, I can make use of more than a single sentence.
Lucky Star follows the lives of four teenage girls with various personalities as they go through there daily lives as japanese high school students. Coming from traditional four panel comic strips (yonkoma) like the above mentioned Azumanga, there's no real continuous plot. However, the main draw of the series is the focus on the lead heroine Konata Izumi, who in japanese would be considered an otaku, while in ye olde english she can simply be called an anime nerd. Through Miss Konata we are given a series of anime inside jokes and japanese pop culture reference. And that's basically it, the whole series.
Though the above statement might seem as if I'm being hatefully critical, in actuality it's the complete opposite. I love everything about this series. True it isn't very complex, but that's what makes it so enjoyable. The characters are very simple, but have just enough depth so that they're all so lovable. The animation isn't ground breaking, but it's bright, colorful, and portrays the cute fun the writers were aiming for. And the music also conveys adorableness with everything from the main title song, to little background diddies enjoyably getting stuck in your head. While it's nice to have epic stories, major plot twists, and emotional characters, Lucky Star is a pleasant departure into simple animated fun.
However, Lucky Star is not without it's faults. The problem with pop culture comedy is if you don't know the reference of the joke you completely miss the punch line. This isn't a major issue because even if you don't understand why everyone's laughing, you'll still manage to get a few giggle if only out of confusion. Also each DVD includes a cheat sheet explaining all the little nuances of each episode. My main complaint isn't with the anime, but with the DVD itself. Its utter lack in special feature is very disappointing to me, seeing as I'm a sucker for commentaries and the such. Also, since when did interactive menus become special features as the box depicts. In this day and age saying a DVD has interactive menus is like say the disc will be round. But, I digress.
Some might argue that the dubbing is another deduction on the DVDs behalf, but I strongly disagree. Although I did already watch the whole series in the original japanese with bootleg-o-vision, it was easy to quickly warm up to the english voice actresses (and the very few actors). For those who do want to enjoy the original dubbing, or those who are too stubborn to listen to anything else, they do have original japanese with english subtitles. I recommend watching both as each has there merits.
Many have said that Lucky Star isn't for everyone, which I whole heartedly agree. Go read some more reviews, learn more about it, and see if it's up your ally. You just might find something truly enjoyable.
Bye-bee
Also apologies for any poor grammar, I do bad with writing stuff good.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Minoru Shiraishi here! The season of summer starts for the girls of Lucky Star and with it comes those staple images of vacation like gold fish scooping at outdoor festivals while wearing a yukata, Smashing watermelons on the beach in swim suits, and that homework due when vacation is over that I completely forgot about! Ms. Kuroi s going to kill me if I don t get that done! Knowing Konata shes probably spent the whole vacation playing online games and wont get her work done till she s copied it from Kagami. I wonder if she would let me copy too, probably not since I dont know her that well. I really need to make some smarter friends... What? I m getting off track? Sorry. Please watch us!
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