Sorry about missing a few days. Lucky Star's gotten busy (volume 5 uploads even as I speak) and I came down with a minor case of crud, so things have been kind of full. Dunno if I should go back to the full reporting thing, to be honest - it takes up a good amount of time and I don't know if it's really useful, especially with the right sidebar having an auto-updating chart for anyone who's interested. I'll probably back off to commenting on the stuff that interests me, and leave the rest to go hang.

It was a tough volume of Lucky Star to get through. Most of the new characters don't quite have the flavor of the main four (well... they've got the flavor of Miyuki, maybe, each good for a couple of types of jokes... but that's a problem for her too!) The show's splitting time between everybody, and it drags here and there. Often, Konata becomes too much of a mouthpiece for the writer, and complains about stuff that's kind of otaku-centric; it's like, okay, I chuckled, but I'm in no danger of falling out of my chair. Minami and Yutaka are cute, in that kind of "quiet big girl and sickly little girl" way that they have, but we don't need Hiyori trying to keep herself from slashing them every five minutes. High points of the volume are dealing with the killer entrance exam studying load (classic Konata/Kagami, with plenty of room for Tsukasa to be funny too) and a Gundam scene which contains a subtle slam at Seed ("It's not a real Gundam if you can't call it by a letter," Soujirou says...) Low point was probably the Hiiragi family scene from 17, unless you're just a fan of tsundere Kagami; low humor quotient.

I would have hated being a student in the Japanese educational system. They wouldn't know what to do with someone who just doesn't need to study. ;p

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