I don’t usually write about anime, but I’ll make an exception this time. This is for Lucky Star, and it looks pretty interesting, if you ask me.

This June 8, 2011, Animax laughs up the our TV screens with the premiere of Lucky Star, a series about a motley crew of teen girls who find themselves in silly situations and hilarious misadventures more often than not. Anime fans will especially enjoy the series which is peppered with humorous references and parodies to the prevailing anime, manga and Japanese pop culture.

Based on the very real setting of Kasukabe city in Saitama Prefecture, Lucky Star follows the amusing antics and lively activities of four Japanese high school girls through their seemingly ordinary day-to-day lives in and out of school.Konata, an athletic and intelligent girl too dedicated to her favourite anime shows to excel in anything but being an anime ‘otaku’ (obsessive fan).

There is Miyuki, the bespectacled living example of ‘moe’ (cuteness) who has an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of all subjects. And Kagami is a ‘bitter-sweet’ character who is tough but shy to Konata’s teases and pranks; and her younger fraternal twin sister, Tsukasa, a kind but air-headed simpleton. The popularity of the Lucky Star has brought more than 470,000 fans from across Japan over the 2011 New Year holidays to pay ‘pilgrimage’ to the Washinomiya Shrine.

As Tokyo area’s oldest shrine and real-life backdrop of the anime series, the shrine is where Kagami and Tsukasa work as miko (shrine maidens).  The influx of anime fans over the years has brought more than 1 billion yen to the town of Washimiya town where the shrine is situated.

Catch Lucky Star on Animax every Monday to Friday at 7:30pm, beginning on June 8!

We here at comicgasm believe that diversity is important! So now, we are proud to announce that Comicgasm now has 20% more weeaboo and hipster! Please help me welcome our two new writers!

Meet Shinji. I really don’t know anything about this guy except that he lent me his awesome V for Vendetta mask. Also, he sings for Ade’s band. What’s that, Ade? He writes for http://pelikula.tumblr.com? Wait, we have a guy who actually knows how to write on the staff now? Oh snap! Oh, and I’ve been told that he’s gonna bring the ~*~INDIE~*~ to comicgasm.

Meet Iñigo. He’s a weeaboo. He does weeaboo things and writes about weeabo stuffs. He’s also an aspiring writer(omg another one that can write!) and a chess master. Think of him as another indie guy, except he writes about japanese mangoes.  Also, our fourth MTG player in the crew! Woohoo!

So there you have it, watch them write about stuff nobody has even heard of! Comicgasm: Now indie as fuck!

PS. Ssee the Comicgasm crew(or maybe just me, we’re lazy fucks)  at Komikon 2010!

Okay, so the Comicgasm crew (that’s me and two other guys… what) just came back from the Metro Comic-Con last weekend, and we’re still not finished collecting our thoughts. Okay, we’re actually trying to steal some pictures off Multiply and Flickr, but whatever.

Anyway, I just went to day 1, and I had a blast. Lots of geek stuff, hot cosplaying women who turned out to be underage PLS TO NOT SIC THE COPS ON ME, and scantily-dressed women bending over to a statue of Ultimate Captain America.

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