Well, 24 episodes over and done with. Last ep was a little cheap, I thought... almost too much of a grab for the same kind of ending Azumanga had, but we didn't grow up with these characters the same way we did with the Azu crew.

Every last Lucky Star character was the same at the end of the last episode as they were from the moment they were introduced. That's not to say that they were one-dimensional, but they didn't change, didn't mature, didn't develop. Konata never learned anything. Miyuki never got it together. Tsukasa never got a working alarm clock. Kagami didn't ever actually smack the hell out of Konata. The one time it looked like we might actually get some character development, just after the concert scene, it turned out to be nothing at all, and then we were inundated with new characters who didn't change either.

I won't deny it was funny. But it's the kind of dry, bitter humor you get when you see a part of yourself in the characters; Konata is way too much like us, unreasonably so, even with her dad the way he is. There's lots of room to laugh at otaku, and I did laugh a lot at them. And the interplay of Konata and her "norm" friends was generally funny - both sides a little skeptical of the other's perspective and all.

Lucky Channel started off funny and refreshing, but quickly got too wrapped up in its own gimmick. Okay, a little studio backbiting is funny, but twenty shorts in, I just wanted Shiraishi to kill Akira and have done with it. And then he almost did, and I was quite happy. But not happy enough to ever want to bother with that part of the show again - if I buy it when it comes out over here (doubtless in a cheap box, I can't imagine buying this show disc by disc), I'll be skipping the Lucky Channel segments.

Still a success. But a classic for the ages, it's not; it's not even the best otaku comedy show this season, though Hayate was pretty stiff competition to run against.

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