
Few anime would be considered complete without a token flat-chested character, and in some cases they are blessed with an entire cast of washboard girls – fans supply an extensive ranking of their favourites, who may or may not also correspond to the very flattest.
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Kyoto Animation’s ascendancy over moeblob anime is beyond question, but the crucial question of which blobs are the most popular can only be answered by the inevitable ranking, one which seems to suggest the KyoAni holy trinity of K-ON!, Haruhi and Lucky Star is actually better described as K-ON!, Clannad and Haruhi.
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It has been announced that otaku anime Lucky Star is “finally” to be adapted into a musical, with Konata and company finally given the opportunity to sing and dance.
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The organisers of the recent Lucky Star Konkatsu dating event are crowing over the fact that “35%” of the otaku participants successfully formed nascent otaples.
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Famed Lucky Star character Kagami Hiiragi is seen here in her miko costume tending to a rather picturesque shrine, as cosplayed by Kanda Midori.
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Creepy otaku losers sworn to 2D over real women are being accused of showing their true colours – an otaku-oriented dating event held at the Lucky Star (Washinomiya) Shrine was so massively oversubscribed that 20 men applied for every place, despite the $100 fee (for men), and there were even 6 women for every place.
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The current boom for “konkatsu” – structured matchmaking events for men and women unable to find mates any other way – has given rise to an otaku-friendly version: the organisers of “Ota-konkatsu” promise lonely otaku the chance to meet a real life female on a tour of Washinomiya Shrine, famed as a holy ground to Lucky Star fans – for a substantial fee of course.
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Freeing continues its noted series of giant pantsu-baring Lucky Star figures with a new huge figure version of Patricia Martin in the usual removable PE kit, just like her friends.
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Freeing have announced the latest figure in their line of giant removeable pantsu figures, to be none other than Iwasaki Minami, and set to be released in late November 2010. Following her friend Yutaka and seniors, she will be depicted in a complete and readily removable PE kit.
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The forlorn sight of a Lucky Star itasha being tossed away like yesterday’s vapid moeblob anime is sure to tug at the heartstrings of otaku the world over, or those who remember it at any rate.
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The Lucky Star mikoshi, one of Washinomiya’s most sacred relics to legions of otaku devotees, will be be spending most of the year in China for the Expo 2010 Shanghai China international fair as an example of Japan’s unique modern visual art.
The mikoshi, a Shinto portable shrine used as a sort of chariot for deities during religious processions, is perhaps less well known outside of Japan than it deserves, so a brief introduction to the shrine is included below…
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