List of Lucky Star characters

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This is a list of characters from the Japanese manga, video game, and anime series Lucky Star.

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[edit] Main characters

The main cast of characters from Lucky Star (from left to right): Ayano, Patricia, Tsukasa, Yutaka, Konata, Kagami, Minami, Miyuki, Hiyori, and Misao.
The main cast of characters from Lucky Star (from left to right): Ayano, Patricia, Tsukasa, Yutaka, Konata, Kagami, Minami, Miyuki, Hiyori, and Misao.
Konata Izumi (泉 こなた Izumi Konata?)
Voiced by: Ryo Hirohashi (Drama CD, NDS Video Game), Aya Hirano (Anime, PS2 Video Game), Wendee Lee (English)
Konata Izumi is, more by default than anything else, the "leader" of the main characters. Nicknamed "Kona-chan" by Tsukasa, she is an eccentric, but friendly and outgoing girl, with a mischievous, but good-natured sense of humor. She can be smart, but she hates studying, thus her grades are a bit uneasy. However, she is an expert in pulling an "all-nighter". In contrast to her studying habits, she loves video games, to the extent that she can compete against Kagami Hiiragi on trivia-based games. In addition, she loves anime, which is also due to her father, Sōjirō Izumi's influence, along with the games. He buys adult games for himself, so she is able to play and enjoy them. In fact, when she became eighteen, Konata was overjoyed, since she could now go buy and play ero-games legally. In the anime, Konata constantly refers to or parodies several popular games, anime, and manga (much to the annoyance of Kagami), but her favorite franchise seems to be the Haruhi series, as she has many Haruhi figurines and decorations that makes her room, once went to the Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisō with her friends, and has "Hare Hare Yukai" and "Koi no Mikuru Densetsu" as her ringtones. Interestingly enough, both of her voice actresses for the animated version, Aya Hirano for the Japanese version and Wendee Lee for the English version, are in fact the same people who voiced Haruhi Suzumiya in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime; other voice actors from the same series make guest appearances during the course of Lucky Star. She also seems to hold a certain amount of respect for Miyuki, since Miyuki is the only one out of her three friends whom she attaches a -san (a respectful suffix to names), while she calls the Hiiragi twins plainly by name.
Since she spends quite a large sum of money on video games and dōjinshi, Konata was lucky enough to get a part-time job at a cosplay cafe. Continuing with her theme of playing video games, Konata plays the role of a male character in an online game and is married in that world. Her significant other in the game is ironically a male gamer using a female character. She often plays late into the night, hence why she tends to fall asleep in class, which makes her a frequent victim to her homeroom teacher, Nanako Kuroi.
Her physique is smaller than average when compared to her peers, which she claims hasn't changed, since she was in the sixth grade. She is ambidextrous, in contrast to the mostly left-handed main cast. She has long, blue hair which comes down to her calves with a large ahoge, sleepy eyes and a beauty mark under her left eye, just like her father. Her mother, Kanata Izumi, died when she was an infant, and she has lived alone with her father since. In her third year of high school, however, her cousin, Yutaka Kobayakawa, came to live at her house, giving a total of three people in the Izumi residence. Although Konata spends most of her time playing games in her room, she has a darker skin tone, like her father's.
Konata placed seventh in 2channel's SaiMoe 2007 contest and ranked third in Newtype's "Top 10 Female Characters of 2007" poll.
Kagami Hiiragi (柊 かがみ Hiiragi Kagami?)
Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (Drama CD, NDS Video Game), Emiri Katō (Anime, PS2 Video Game), Kari Wahlgren (English)
Kagami Hiiragi is the older fraternal twin sister of Tsukasa Hiiragi. In school, her grades are excellent, as she studies very hard, and was elected class president in her first year. She is in a different class than Konata Izumi and Tsukasa, but she frequently comes to their class during lunch time to eat with them. Additionally, Kagami chose the humanities course in her second year, so that she could be with her friends, but she was the only one separated into a different classroom; the same occurred in her third year. Kagami, occasionally referred to as "Kagamin" by Konata, is a bit egotistical, and not as good a cook as Tsukasa. Konata loves to irritate her, and their arguments act as one of the main factors of comic relief throughout the series. Kagami is usually annoyed by Konata's constant references to her otaku interests, but usually has an idea on what Konata is saying (most likely because she is a very enlightened and intelligent figure) and is a fan of the Full Metal Panic! series.
Kagami's physique is average. However, she is usually concerned about her weight, counting every kilogram she gains or loses. Kagami likes to eat sweet food and she is often seen eating sweet food at night, such as chocolate Pocky sticks. Despite her concern about her weight, she has no willpower controlling her eating habit, resulting in an "eat now, fret later" attitude. She has long, purple hair with a ribbon tied into pigtails, and unlike Konata, has sharp eyes. Kagami is the stereotypical "tsukkomi" (the straight and intolerant type) character, however, she is prone to become shy and lonely at times. Kagami is constantly attempting to hide the fact that she has a deep sense of attachment to her friends, as shown by asking Tsukasa to not tell anybody about her motive for joining the humanities course during her second and third year of high school. If such details are stated aloud, Kagami will immediately become flustered and panicky, especially if it becomes a target of teasing by Konata. This is a common trait to her character stereotype, who often hide their feelings by acting brash.
Similarly to Konata, Kagami likes video games, but plays a different genre than Konata: side-scrolling shooters. She loves to read light novels, but is lonely, as no one around her has the same interests as her. Both Kagami and Tsukasa are left-handed. Kagami shares the name of her creator, Kagami Yoshimizu, and according to the creator, Kagami was his pen name in his school days, and had her personality thought out long ago.
Tsukasa Hiiragi (柊 つかさ Hiiragi Tsukasa?)
Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (Drama CD, NDS Video Game), Kaori Fukuhara (Anime, PS2 Video Game), Michelle Ruff (English)
Tsukasa Hiiragi is the younger fraternal twin sister of Kagami Hiiragi and lives in a six-member family household. She is in the same class as Konata Izumi. She isn't good at studying or at sports, but excels in cooking. Tsukasa often depends on Kagami for help on her homework, like Konata, but their reasons are different: Tsukasa easily forgets her assignments, while Konata is just too lazy or preoccupied with her hobbies to do them herself. Unlike some of the other characters in the series, Tsukasa has not shown any particular interests in video games and anime, but she does like the Sgt. Frog series.
Tsukasa's physique is a little smaller than average. She has short, purple hair with a ribbon like a head band in it. Her eyes are droopy and she is portrayed as a stereotypical klutz. Tsukasa once received a mobile phone for her birthday, but didn't have much luck with it, as the phone was taken away by using it in class and later mistakenly ruined by putting it in the laundry, along with her skirt. Once, she left instant yakisoba alone after pouring hot water in it, only to come back later discovering there was no water left to drain. Unlike most of the cast of Lucky Star, Tsukasa is a heavy sleeper, and cannot wake up at a set time, even when someone is present to do so. Like her sister, Tsukasa is left-handed.
She can be mistaken for cosplaying as Akari Kamigishi from To Heart when she wears her autumn school uniform, which is pointed out twice in the anime: once, when Konata gave her the actual uniform used in the ToHeart anime for her birthday, and the second, when two people stopped her along the street to take her picture, much to her embarrassment.
Miyuki Takara (高良 みゆき Takara Miyuki?)
Voiced by: Erina Nakayama (Drama CD, NDS Video Game), Aya Endo (Anime, PS2 Video Game), Karen Strassman (English)
Miyuki is a young lady from a wealthy family who is beautiful, smart, and well-mannered. She always uses extremely polite Japanese, even when talking with her closest friends. She was the class president for her grade level in her first year, at the same time that she became good friends with Kagami. Now Miyuki is in the same class as Konata and Tsukasa. Miyuki's classmates often rely on her for help with their studies, and she is often shown giving impromptu but highly-detailed, encyclopedic definitions or explanations on diverse and obscure matters. She also does not care for ice cream cones.
She is described as a stereotypically friendly meganekko, or glasses-wearing girl. She is scared of contacts, and of putting them in her eyes, thus why she wears glasses. Her vision is less than 0.1, though it had been good until elementary school, when she began reading books in the dark after her mother dozed off while reading to her in bed. She likes to read books, but does not read light novels. Miyuki loves to sleep, and she always goes to bed fairly early. She hates visits to the dentist, but frequently has to go to fix a loose crown or because of tooth decay. On the rare occasion that she plays video games, her personality changes. Due to her embodying such a large number of moe archetypes, Miyuki is the frequent-victim of Konata's playful bouts of verbal sexual-harassment. She is seen less often than the other three main characters.

[edit] Schoolmates

Yutaka Kobayakawa (小早川 ゆたか Kobayakawa Yutaka?)
Voiced by: Ai Shimizu (Drama CD, NDS Video Game), Shizuka Hasegawa (Anime, PS2 Video Game)
Yutaka Kobayakawa, a very positive and cheerful, but sometimes forgetful girl, is Konata Izumi's cousin and Yui Narumi's younger sister. Often referred to as "Yu-chan" by Konata and Sōjirō Izumi. When Konata became a third-year student, Yutaka was admitted to the Ryōō Gakuen High School, as a first-year student. She is in the same class, 1-D, as Minami Iwasaki and ran for candidacy for class president on the first day of school. She came to live at the Izumi household, since her body is weak, making her prone to getting sick, and it was too far for her to commute to school from her home. Yutaka wears her hair with small pigtails and often wears a ribbon in her hair. She is an indoor person, and her height and her physique are smaller than Konata (a fact that shocks Kagami). Her primary concern is her height and her body development; sadly, she realizes her dreams are futile, seeing as how Konata hasn't developed physically since entering junior high. Her best friends are Minami, Patricia Martin, and Hiyori Tamura, which she is glad about, as she was a bit lonely, due to her weak condition back in junior high. She looks up to Konata like an older sister, but fails to know that her cousin and her sister Yui will not be too helpful, as both are too lax and carefree when it comes to studying. Yukata is constantly shielded from the erotic games and manga that her friends and family members participate in, often leaving the scene with a perplexed expression as to why everybody is acting so strangely. These situations often involve her affectionate relationship to Minami, though Minami seems to recognize all-too-well what is going on.
Minami Iwasaki (岩崎 みなみ Iwasaki Minami?)
Voiced by: Miyu Matsuki (Drama CD, NDS Video Game), Minori Chihara (Anime, PS2 Video Game)
Minami Iwasaki comes from a wealthy family, and she lives across the street from Miyuki Takara. She owns a very large white dog and has a parasol in her yard. Her hobbies include reading books, playing the piano, and playing with her dog. A very quiet girl (usually speaking in as few words as possible) who does not show much emotion, Minami is is often mistaken for being cold, but she is very kind at heart. However, many jokes arise when her seemingly "perfect and sleek" appearance is contradicted, such as when Miyuki's mother notices Minami teaching her dog how to stand on his hind legs by mimicking the position herself; Minami often blushes heavily and stares at the floor in response to such teasing. She was admitted to Ryōō Gakuen High School, along with Yutaka Kobayakawa, whom she met during the admissions exam; afterwards, she helped Yutaka go to the nurse's office when she became sick. Once there, she gave Yutaka her handkerchief, which started their friendship. She and Yutaka are in the same class, and Minami is the class health officer.
Minami has short, mint-green hair and her eyes are slightly slanted upward. She is very slender and quite tall for her age, yet she worries about her small chest size, which Konata frequently comments on. Due to her short hair and lean body structure, Minami has a tendency to look more androgynous than the other Lucky Star characters (a reason that Hiyori Tamura often pairs her and Yutaka as yuri models). She gets along with Miyuki, since they have similar tastes and are from the same neighborhood; Minami has often been compared to being Miyuki's "little sister" due to Minami's clingy attraction to her neighbor from when they were younger.
Ayano Minegishi (峰岸 あやの Minegishi Ayano?)
Voiced by: Yuko Goto (NDS Video Game), Mai Aizawa (Anime, PS2 Video Game)
Ayano Minegishi is Kagami Hiiragi's classmate and has been in the same class with Kagami and Misao Kusakabe for the past five years, since middle school; she and Misao are childhood friends. She is passive and likes to take care of people, hence she is portrayed as a character that looks after Misao. However, according to Misao, when Ayano does get angry, she is much more intimidating. Ayano holds back her long orange hair with a headband, but since her front hair is pulled back, she is looked at as having a large forehead. Also, she can make excellent cookies. She is the only Lucky Star girl who has a boyfriend. At one point, Kagami compared Ayano and Misao to Tsukasa and Konata respectively, saying that she apparently tends to attract the same kinds of friends.
Misao Kusakabe (日下部 みさお Kusakabe Misao?)
Voiced by: Mikako Takahashi (NDS Video Game), Kaoru Mizuhara (Anime, PS2 Video Game)
Misao Kusakabe is Kagami Hiiragi's classmate and has been in the same class with Kagami and Ayano Minegishi for the past five years since middle school; she and Ayano are childhood friends. Misao tends to be quite lazy, simple-minded and an outdoor type of person. She is in the track and field club, hates studying, and harbors a love for video games, despite not being particularly talented at them. She has tanned skin, slightly slanted eyes, and a small fang in the side of her mouth.
Misao does not seem to be skilled at playing video games, yet plays them for purely for fun; she notes on having borrowed many games from various people. In fact, her concept of "play for fun" is so strong that she does not mind losing to Kagami, instead marveling at how well her friend plays and making a loud, congratulatory spectacle. This leaves Kagami with a sense of guilt and bewilderment. At one point, Kagami compared Ayano and Misao to Tsukasa and Konata respectively, saying that she apparently tends to attract the same kinds of friends. Misao dislikes Konata for "stealing" Kagami away from her group, and often rants about Kagami leaving her group for Konata who she knew for only one to two years. She calls Konata by the name Chibiko (チビコ?) which literally means midget.
Patricia Martin (パトリシア＝マーティン Patorishia Mātin?)
Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino (Drama CD, NDS Video Game), Nozomi Sasaki (Anime, PS2 Video Game)
Patricia Martin, nicknamed "Patty", is a first-year transfer student from the United States. She is in the same class as Yutaka Kobayakawa and Minami Iwasaki. Patricia loves anime and manga and has learned all her Japanese through them, leading to her having a very unusual, Japanese vocabulary. She tends to make quite a few generalizations of Japan and Japanese culture based on otaku culture, even more so than her senior, Konata Izumi. She claims to enjoy a wide range of Japanese music, however, the only artists she listens to are those who have performed anime theme songs, and only those songs alone. She is extremely energetic and lively and has a high interest in yaoi. Aside from Miyuki Takara, she has the second biggest chest size, which she is often ashamed about. Patricia works with Konata at the same cosplay café.
Hiyori Tamura (田村 ひより Tamura Hiyori?)
Voiced by: Ryōko Shintani (NDS Video Game), Kaori Shimizu (Anime, PS2 Video Game)
Hiyori Tamura is an amateur dōjin artist, who is also the first-year classmate of Yutaka Kobayakawa and Minami Iwasaki. Additionally, she is an otaku who creates her own dōjinshi; her genres are broad, stretching from boys love to yuri. Hiyori is always searching for a good plot to use in her dōjinshi, and tends to imagine Yutaka and Minami in romantic moments, only to grow embarrassed over the idea and break into an emotional outburst, which leaves Yutaka and Minami clueless. Even if she has a moment of enlightenment, she fails to jot down notes about it, which causes her to forget what her great idea was about. Called "Hiyorin" by Konata Izumi, she tends to be a kind person, but has unfortunate luck. Hiyori has a friendly personality, but is prone to becoming bashful, leading to simple mistakes during a decisive moment. Hiyori has long hair, a wide forehead, and is a meganekko. She is a member of the Animation Research Club, and is Kō's junior.
Kō Yasaka (八坂 こう Yasaka Kō?)
Voiced by: Rika Morinaga (PS2 Video Game)
Kō is the president of the Animation Research Club, and is also the treasurer of the Student Council. She is called Kō-senpai by her juniors, including Hiyori, who is a member of the Animation Research Club. She is studying at Ryōō High School in class 2-F and is the only second year among the Lucky Star girls at the time of her only appearance in the sixth volume of the manga. She enjoys playing anime-themed fighting games, and also likes to check on new and trendy things, never failing to miss one. She has played fighting games with Konata before, and does not notice that Konata is her senior. She has tanned skin, likes dōjinshi, manga, observing people, chatting, and gambling.
In Lucky Star: Ryōō Gakuen Ōtōsai, she is a good friend of Yamato Nagamori.
Yamato Nagamori (永森 やまと Nagamori Yamato?)
Voiced by: Shion Hirota (PS2 Video Game)
Yamato is the central character of Lucky Star: Ryōō Gakuen Ōtōsai, the PlayStation 2 game of Lucky Star. A mysterious transfer student who transfer along with the protagonist in the game, her former school is Saint Fiorina All-Girls High School, and was in class 2-3 before she transferred to 3-B, the same class as Konata. She acts emotionless, spoiled and mysterious, giving her a typical tsuntsun personality. She was Kō's close friend when she was still a junior-high-schooler. Her hobby is karaoke and cycling. She likes soft azuki bean jelly, Yukimi Daifuku, and summer. She dislikes shellfish, and winter.
Before the timeline of the game, Yamato was involved in a spaceship accident caused by Ryōō school festival. Wanting to prevent the spaceship accident from happening and to save Yamato's life, the alien in the spaceship fuses herself with Yamato and reverse the time several days before the school festival, and after telling the protagonist the reason behind the time loop and time reverse, she hopes for the protagonist to find ways to erase possible events in the school festival that would lead to the spaceship accident, with the experiences from his déjà-vu. After erasing the events, Yamato reveals her identity as an alien, she leaves Yamato's body and erases everyone's memory about the whole incident. Yamato is presumed to resume her true identity and returns to Saint Fiorina All-Girls High School.

[edit] Lucky Channel

At the end of each anime episode of Lucky Star, there is a short omake segment called "Lucky Channel". One of the recurring jokes of this segment is the strained partnership between Akira Kogami and Minoru Shiraishi. Although most of the time the show discusses certain characters in Lucky Star, events in the actual anime or other things relating to the hosts of the show, Lucky Channel also has its own chain of events which have tie-ins to Lucky Star, making it a side-story.

Akira Kogami (小神 あきら Kogami Akira?)
Voiced by: Ai Nonaka (Drama CD , NDS Video Game), Hiromi Konno (Anime, PS2 Video Game), Stephanie Sheh (English)
Akira Kogami is a junior high school student, who is also the captain of the Lucky Star informational ad section called "Lucky Channel" in the Comptiq magazine. Akira has short salmon pink hair and has an ahoge towards the right side of her head, and has golden yellow eyes. Her arms are so short that the sleeves of her winter school uniform easily cover her hands. Akira tends to be very energetic, and her chief form of greeting is "Oha-Lucky~!", and frequently ends each episode with "Bye-ni!". Ni (二?), as in the Japanese number two, and can be written as "Bye2", resulting in a shorter and cuter form of Bye-Bye. The cute persona, however, is a cover-up; in reality, whenever she is annoyed or feels that her career or popularity is threatened (usually both by her assistant, Minoru Shiraishi), Akira's bright persona is instantaneously shed to reveal a deep voiced, overbearing, violent, chain-smoking, selfish-cynic of a burnt out entertainer on the brink of becoming a has-been, though her talents are undeniable (she has been in the entertainment business since the age of three). She can be quite cruel towards Minoru, both physically and emotionally, and has been known to throw all sorts of objects (such as her overflowing ashtray) into his face, particularly whenever he mentions that a girl in the cast, such as Tsukasa Hiiragi, is cute. Akira's disturbing and menacing persona may be a tongue in cheek and satirical look at the insecurities of Japanese idol singers, whose popularity is constantly threatened by the "next cutest thing on the block". She is the main character of the manga Akira's Ambition, which is still being serialized in magazine Comp Ace published by Kadokawa Shoten.
Minoru Shiraishi (白石 みのる Shiraishi Minoru?)
Voiced by: Minoru Shiraishi (PS2 Video Game and Anime), Sam Riegel (English)
Minoru Shiraishi appears in the "Lucky Channel" segment at the end of each Lucky Star episode, but is also a minor recurring character, as a member of Konata Izumi's class. He is the animated version of his voice actor, Minoru Shiraishi, although it is likely that the animated version is only around eighteen years old, due to his being in class 3-B. In one of the early karaoke ending theme sequences, it was revealed that Minoru has a part-time position, working at the karaoke bar Konata and her friends sing at. In the "Lucky Channel" segment, Minoru is Akira Kogami's assistant, who repeatedly gets yelled at (and physically abused) by Akira, if he does or says something not to her liking. Minoru was nicknamed "Sebastian" by Konata one day, because of his likeness to a butler. After a trip to the forests around Mt. Fuji to get spring water for Akira, Minoru comes back a dirty and torn-up mess, and was more than likely mauled by a bear during his quest judging from the claw-marks on his back. Akira dubbed the water as too warm, spat it on the camera lens and then threw the rest in his face. This, after her cocktail of constant physical and mental abuse (not to mention being mauled by a bear for nothing), was the straw that broke the camel's back, causing Minoru to go berserk and destroy the set for "Lucky Channel". During their confrontation in episode twenty-one of the anime, it seems that he has lost his fear of Akira, yelling right back at her and thwarting her desire to perform. In the final episode, with the stage wrecked, they do their last show, only to have yet another argument. He appears briefly in Lucky Star: Ryōō Gakuen Ōtōsai, the PlayStation 2 game of Lucky Star in a secret scene, where he is shown to trying to find the spring water in Mt. Fuji before being mauled.

[edit] Adults

Nanako Kuroi (黒井 ななこ Kuroi Nanako?)
Voiced by: Masumi Asano (Drama CD, NDS Video Game), Konomi Maeda (Anime, PS2 Video Game), Kate Higgins (English)
Nanako Kuroi is the homeroom teacher for Konata Izumi's class and her primary subject is world history. She is more like a friend than their teacher, as she has a lax personality. Consequently, she frequently borrows and exchanges video games with Konata, and is in Konata's guild in the same online game, where she plays as a wizard. Still single, she is constantly online, even on Christmas and New Year's Eve. Nanako has very long, blonde hair, which she ties at the back of her neck, and her eyes are green. She also has a sharp tooth protruding from one corner of her mouth. When writing on the chalkboard, Nanako is able to become ambidextrous. She loves to watch baseball, and is a big fan of the Chiba Lotte Marines. Also, Nanako speaks in a fake Kansai accent. A running gag within the series is whenever Konata and Nanako are both online together, Nanako tells her to stop slacking off and also, Nanako is completely oblivious to Yui Narumi's marital status.
Yui Narumi (成実 ゆい Narumi Yui?)
Voiced by: Chiwa Saito (Drama CD, NDS Video Game), Saori Nishihara (Anime, PS2 Video Game), Julie Ann Taylor (English)
Yui Narumi is Konata Izumi's cousin and Yutaka Kobayakawa's older sister. She is a very easy going female police officer for the Saitama Prefectural Police Department who acts before thinking. She is a bit of a klutz and is a meganekko. However, she has a tendency to exhibit road rage when she is behind the wheel (but, incidentally, shows incredible skill, as a street racer). Yui has a well-rounded face, a large forehead and straight, short hair. She isn't into fashion that much, and after getting married, Yui left behind her maiden name, Kobayakawa. However, her husband is out of town most of the time during the series, so she frequently visits Konata's house, mainly as a distraction, seeking to play her video games and read her manga. Usually, Yui will come over to Konata's home very late at night while drunk. A running gag in the series is that Nanako Kuroi is oblivious to the fact that Yui is married. She drives a blue Subaru Vivio.
Kiyotaka Narumi (成実 きよたか Narumi Kiyotaka?)
  • Born in: Saitama Prefecture
Voiced by: Nobuyuki Kobushi (anime, PS2 Video Game)
Kiyotaka is Yui Narumi's husband and Konata Izumi's cousin, by family. He is currently away and his only appearances throughout the series was through a phone conversation with his wife. His name, the fact that he is away working, and the fact that Yui is a cop could be a Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna homage since in Spiral, the main's character's older brother shares the same name and left his wife for work.
Sōjirō Izumi (泉 そうじろう Izumi Sōjirō?)
Voiced by: Hirokazu Hiramatsu (Anime and PS2 Video Game)
Sōjirō Izumi is Konata Izumi's father, an author who works at home. He always wears loose, traditional Japanese clothing as his work clothes. He loves watching anime and playing video games, which influenced his daughter's interests. Sōjirō is "also a lolicon". This appreciation for neoteny may be one factor that caused him to fall in love with Kanata, whom he eventually married. He describes that he likes girls as men normally do, but that he also appreciates younger ones. This means that this attraction is equal or possibly secondary, meaning he does not have a preference for them, so despite being a 'lolicon' (person with a lolita complex) he would not be a pedophile. Throughout the show news reports and conversations indicate that young girls in the area are being approached by a strange man, and a running joke in the show involves hints that Sōjirō is in fact the one doing it. The best example of this is the opening, part of which involves Sōjirō spying on two schoolgirls from behind a lamppost.
Sōjirō is very thin, and has unshaven facial hair, he has a mole under his left eye which his daughter inherited and has thick eyebrows. Additionally, he is allergic to pollen and when he decided to wear goggles and masks as protection from it, Konata sighed that, "Now you look weirder as well". She also frequently reminds him, "Please don't do anything as to be taken away by the cops". Also, he often forgets to lock the door when he is using the toilet, which has left Yutaka with a tremendous shock.
Sōjirō holds a deep love for his wife, Izumi Kanata, who passed away many years before. When Konata asks why Kanata chose to be with Sōjirō (largely as a joke at his erotic personality's expense), Sōjirō points out that he and his wife simply looked past outwards appearances: Kanata loved Sōjirō despite his otaku tendencies, and Sōjirō obviously did not mind that Kanata had an unusual physique and did not share his hobbies.
Kanata Izumi (泉 かなた Izumi Kanata?)
Voiced by: Sumi Shimamoto (Anime)
Kanata Izumi was Konata Izumi's mother, who was very short and looked exactly like Konata, minus Konata's ahoge and the beauty mark under her left eye. She is described by Konata and Sōjirō Izumi as having a personality straight out of a bishōjo game. She died when Konata was an infant and her only appearances in the manga are through a single photograph and through Sōjirō's memory. Since she was Sōjirō's childhood friend, Konata has wondered if that was one of the main reasons why her mother married Sōjirō. In the animated version, Kanata returns to the Izumi residence as a spirit, and walks in on a conversation both Konata and Sōjirō were having about her. She is touched by Sōjirō's kind words that he was the only one who truly loved her as much as he did, and even took a picture with him and Konata together. However, when Sōjirō and Konata look at the photo image in the camera, they are spooked at what appears to be a shadow standing behind them. Konata wants to delete the image, while Sōjirō wants to burn it, thinking that the family will end up cursed if they let it be, but Kanata pleads with them not to delete the picture to no avail, as no one can see or hear her.
Kanata's spirit seems pleased with how Konata was raised, despite being a bit unsure of Sōjirō exposing their daughter to erotic games, claiming that it could damage her "moral growth." However, she easily recognizes that Konata takes after her father, in both the good and bad ways, which leaves Kanata with a deep sense of relief.
Tadao Hiiragi (柊 ただお Hiiragi Tadao?)
Voiced by: Tōru Furusawa (Japanese), Richard Epcar (English)
Tadao Hiiragi is the father of the Hiiragi family and has short black hair. He works as the priest of the Hiiragi Shrine. As a parent, he often makes sure that his daughters are doing their school work, and checks on their progress. He is the only one in the Hiiragi family who is right-handed.
Hiiragi family members (from left to right): Kagami, Matsuri, Tadao, Inori, Tsukasa, and Miki.
Hiiragi family members (from left to right): Kagami, Matsuri, Tadao, Inori, Tsukasa, and Miki.
Miki Hiiragi (柊 みき Hiiragi Miki?)
  • Height: 162 cm (5' 4")
Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Peggy O'Neal (English)
Miki Hiiragi has long blue-gray hair and is the mother of the Hiiragi family. She is able to maintain a trim, young-and-beautiful appearance, despite having given birth to four daughters.
Inori Hiiragi (柊 いのり Hiiragi Inori?)
Voiced by: Nozomi Masu (Anime)
Inori Hiiragi has short dark-purple hair and is the eldest sister of the Hiiragi sisters. She is a miko at the Hiiragi Shrine.
Matsuri Hiiragi (柊 まつり Hiiragi Matsuri?)
Voiced by: Satomi Akesaka (Japanese), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (English)
Matsuri Hiiragi has short light brown hair and is the second eldest sister of the Hiiragi sisters, after Inori Hiiragi. She is a college student and a miko at the Hiiragi Shrine. She tends to be less dependable than Inori, when helping their younger twin sisters with school work.
Yukari Takara (高良 ゆかり Takara Yukari?)
Voiced by: Mami Kosuge (Anime and PS2 Video Game)
Yukari Takara is Miyuki Takara's mother, who tends to be very well-mannered, but can be a bit of a klutz. She is warm and friendly, once talking with a telemarketer for over an hour, and has a mischievous sense of humor. Yukari's hair is short and unlike her daughter, she does not wear eyeglasses. She doesn't like to do household chores, which explains why she isn't very skilled with household items. On one occasion, she thought that a colored candle was a popsicle. Yukari is often mistaken for Miyuki's "big sister", rather than mother proper, due to her youthfully cuddly appearance, which, combined with her adorably cheerful personality and endearing clumsiness, has resulted in her being regarded as moe, a trait not common for women in anime in their thirties.
Meito Anisawa (兄沢 命斗 Anisawa Meito?)
Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese), Lex Lang (English) (anime)
Meito Anisawa, also known as Anime Tenchou, is the manager of the Animate shop that Konata Izumi regularly visits; prior to being manager, he was originally the mascot of Animate. He and his staff consider Konata their most valued customer, known as "Legendary Girl A" (伝説の少女A Densetsu no Shōjo A?), and go to great lengths to sell their merchandise to her. Their attempts usually fail miserably. His appearance is heavily stylized, compared to the other characters, and he is known for his passionate yelling and highly energetic movements and poses. He appeared as a special guest during the Lucky Channel segment in episode seventeen, during which he and Minoru parody Mobile Fighter G Gundam's Domon Kasshu, referencing the fact that Meito's voice actor also played the character. Meito's colleagues at Animate are all similarly enthusiastic about selling their merchandise. In 2002, Gainax produced a single original video animation, where Meito Anisawa and his fellow employees are the focus.[1]
Hikaru Sakuraba (桜庭 ひかる Sakuraba Hikaru?)
Voiced by: Yuki Matsuoka (NDS Video Game), Miki Inoue (Anime, PS2 Video Game)
Hikaru Sakuraba is the biology teacher at Ryōō High School, and is the homeroom teacher of Kagami's class 3-C. She is also the captain of the Lucky Star informational ad section, which was renamed "Lucky Paradise". She is feared by Akira, but Akira later calls Hikaru a betrayer. She likes CalorieMate and sleeping, dislikes vegetables, and people who quickly misunderstand things. She is Fuyuki's good friend, who works as a school nurse. She appears briefly in episode twenty-four of the anime, making sure that Akira and Minoru will do things right, who are in bad terms after the event of episode twenty-one of "Lucky Channel".
Fuyuki Amahara (天原 ふゆき Amahara Fuyuki?)
Voiced by: Kumi Sakuma (PS2 Video Game)
Fuyuki is the school nurse of Ryōō High School, and the advisor of the Tea Ceremony club. She first appeared in the omake part of volume four of the manga, but later appears regularly starting from volume five. Hikaru is her childhood friend and her guardian. She has a high popularity with the male students. Her hobbies are jogging and reading. She likes black tea, antique art, the occult, and horror, but dislikes riding on boats and cannot swim. She, Yamato Nagamori and Kō Yasaka, are the only characters who never made appearances in the anime, though the nurse's office is frequently referenced.

[edit] Other characters

Hinata Miyakawa (宮河 ひなた Miyakawa Hinata?)
Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (NDS Video Game), Yukiko Takaguchi (Anime, PS2 Video Game)
Hinata Miyakawa is a young girl with long salmon pink hair, which she ties just a bit to the left of her forehead with a rabbit clip; she has pink droopy eyes and is a meganekko. She makes a living through a job at a local dōjin shop. However, she remains poor, as all her money is spent on manga and dōjinshi.
Hikage Miyakawa (宮河 ひかげ Miyakawa Hikage?)
Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (NDS Video Game), Yui Kano (Anime, PS2 Video Game)
Hikage Miyakawa is the younger sister of Hinata Miyakawa and is in the fourth grade; she is the youngest character in Lucky Star. She attends the Sakura-en Public Elementary School, and is in class 4-1. She is not an otaku like her older sister, and as such carries the typical tsundere personality. Hikage lives in poverty because of her older sister and wants to grow up so she can get a job on her own; ironically, though, her dream is to eat meat. It is also because of her poverty caused by her sister that she starts to have distaste over otaku. Hikage likes to play gachapon, shopping, and travelling. Hikage's appearance in the game has her with long light-purple hair; her hairstyle is distinctive, as she thinly braids her hair to the right, and uses that as a ribbon to tie her remaining hair. Her eyes are light blue and are slanted upward. Her appearance is a little different in the anime and manga, as she has short, blue hair instead of long, purple hair.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Anime Tenchō (OAV). Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2008-01-30.