Lucky Star

Lucky Star

Personally, Lucky Star is a great manga, yet very unique and hilarious. Well, some of you maybe think that it's an odd manga, but if you read it more, you
will be like it for sure.

Lucky Star is Japanese four panel strip manga by Kagami Yoshimizu, the same author of "Boku to, Bokura no Natsu" (me and my summer). The manga itself has been serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Comtiq magazine since January 2004.

Lucky Star's story portrays the lives of school girls in Japanese high school with a very loose sense of humor. The setting is mainly based on the city of Kasukabe in Saitama Perfecture (also Shin-chan setting city). The main character is Konata Izumi, an energetic (to things she like), intelligent, carefree, and easygoing girl, also excel at sports but not really fan of them. It's all because of her love to anime and video games, and not interested in almost anything else. Like many four panel comic strips, Lucky Star has no ongoing plot, and focuses on the daily lives of the characters.

There are also other versions of Lucky Star:
1. Lucky Star Anime version featured 24 episodes and 1 OVA, aired in Japan from April 8 to September 16, 2007. Near the end of every episode, there is additional segment called Lucky Channel co-hosted by Akira Kogami and her assistant Minoru Shiraishi. The humor of this segment is a bit different. It is darker, mean spirited, more cynical and mature tone than the main show.

2. Another manga version of Lucky Star entitled "Lucky Star Pocket Travelers," published from September 26, 2007 to 2008. The story is about the main character that turn into a very small figure after helping Konata shopping her "needs."

3. Three light novel based on the series also serialized. The first light novel, Lucky Star: Lucky Star Satsujin Jiken (Lucky Star: Lucky Star Murder Case), published on September 1, 2007. The second light novel, Lucky Star: Lucky Star Online, published on March 1, 2008, and the third, Lucky Star Super Dowa Taisen, published on October 1, 2008.

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