What every Lucky Star fan wanted to say but could never

American animeblogger Jeff Lawson is doing an end of the year review of this year's anime and has done an excellent post on Kyoto Animation's Lucky Star:

"The fact that I understood even half the jokes in Lucky Star is proof positive that I’m a lost cause.

I recall when Lucky Star first began, there was a lot of discussion about the very first scene in the very first episode, in which Konata and friends sat around discussing the proper way to eat various foods for five minutes. Or was it ten minutes? I can’t remember, really. It was a long time, either way, and with that one scene which one half of viewers hated, the other half loved, and pretty much no one (myself included) fully understood, Lucky Star became the topic du jour of the Spring anime season.

Talk about a plan coming together.

And, in many ways, that scene set the stage for what Lucky Star would become: a continuing series of all the absurd and pointless conversations we have with our friends when there’s nothing better to do. Lucky Star isn’t just slice-of-life; it’s distilled slice-of-life. Slice-of-life in the raw. Slice-of-life au naturel.

Here’s the rub, though. All those absurd and pointless conversations we have with our friends when there’s nothing better to do? Sometimes, they’re not all that funny. In fact, sometimes, they don’t even make sense. And Lucky Star was no different in that regard. Sometimes, it wasn’t funny. Sometimes, it didn’t make sense. On more than one occasion, a whole episode would pass without my laughing all that much. For a show that relied so much on jokes and gags to get its point across, you’d think this would be an indication of complete and utter failure on the part of the writers and director.

Perhaps it was. Yet, I kept watching. In fact, when I found myself facing a pile of new anime episodes in need of watching, Lucky Star always seemed to come first. And when an episode left me disappointed, I’d just shrug my shoulders and say, “c’est la vie,” because I knew the next one likely would not. And, typically, that’s exactly how things played out.

So, despite being an uneven show, Lucky Star somehow managed to keep me hooked. Was it some sort of Kyoto Animation voodoo magic? Was I just really, really bored? Did I have a crush on Kagami?

Anyone know how to say, “I haven’t the foggiest idea,” in French?"

His blogpost more or less sums up what I, and any other person who fell madly in love with Lucky Star, feel about KyoAni's only 4-panel manga adaption, but was never able to express either in words or speech.

Jeff Lawson is currently my favourite animeblogger who does insightful posts instead of stiring up blogosphere dorama (Jap: drama), which is the trap quite a lot of bloggers fall into (me included).

Seeing that he did such an excellent review about Lucky Star, his Manabi Straight! post really let my down though. Really illustrates on how you should only blog when you're "in the zone" as his Manabi Straight! post felt a bit forced.