Get to know the characters from the high school Slice of Life anime and manga series Lucky Star.(To avoid Name Order Confusion, note that is this a Given Name-first character sheet.)
A diminutive high schooler who's much more interested in video games, anime and manga than doing actual schoolwork. Her interest in popular culture is truly staggering.
Actor Allusion: In the anime, she's a fan of Aya Hirano, her own seiyuu; she also dresses up as Haruhi (and even does the voice) in a continued reference.
Adult Child: She's ecstatic at turning eighteen allowing her to buy H-Games without having to go through her dad, but still pretends to be a prepubescent kid (and can pull it off successfully) to get cheaper movie tickets... and that's among the least immature things she has done as an 18 year old...
In her birthday arc in Volume 7, she admitted she has "eighth grade syndrome". Wrong Genre Savvy sets in once one realizes that this Japanese slang can be applied to actual eighth-graders, and with connotations of Emo with a taste for Melodrama. That being said, anyone older than eighth grade who has it probably qualifies for this trope.
Badass Bookworm: Considering her generally sedentary lifestyle, Konata is pretty damn athletic and physically capable. That is, when she wants to be.
Bare Your Midriff: She did this once but her dad didn't like it because Yutaka might imitate her.
Beauty Mark: Has one below the outer corner of her left eye.
Book Dumb: Hates reading words that are not enclosed by a speech bubble.
Brilliant, but Lazy: To such levels that in a Volume 6 strip Kagami was unsurprised at the prospect of Konata getting into Tokyo University just because it's close to Akihabara (of course, she didn't get into so prestigious a university as Tokyo U).
Bi the Way: Implied — while she does... odd things to other girls, she stated she's not into real-life Les Yay.
Dawson Casting: Wendee Lee was 52 when she played Konata. This was exaggerated by the fact that Konata appeared to have some form of growth deficiency.
Dirty Old Man: Even though she is neither old or a man, Kagami thinks she is one anyway.
Ridiculous Procrastinator: We often get to see how much she procrastinates, yet her last-minute study can be amusingly effective at times.
The Rival: To Misao, over which of them "owns" Kagami, and to Kou (albeit one-sided on the latter's part), over arcade fighting games.
Sleepyhead: Even if her daytime drowsiness partly stems from her late-night anime watching and gaming, she belongs to the hardworking subtype of the trope.
Yuri Fangirl: She watches Strawberry Panic!, and bought some of Hiyori's Minami/Yutaka doujinshi at Comiket, although she's initially unaware that the latter was based on her otherwise innocent cousin.
Konata's closest friend and Tsukasa's older twin sister. She is easily angered by some of Konata's more... "playful" antics, but always seems to be the one who understands her hobbies. Her liking of light novels is also a driver of plot.
Bi the Way: May have a crush on Konata (which is hugely exploited in Fandom), but has also been interested in a heterosexual relationship.
Deadpan Snarker: In the dub at least, she's usually annoyed when she snarks, but sometimes she's deadpan.
Generic Cuteness: Konata said Kagami would look forgettable should she cut off her pigtails in the manga. In the anime, she instead says Kagami needed to keep them since she's a tsundere.
Lethal Chef: Konata likes to flanderize her as one, but she's just not as good as Tsukasa.
Luminescent Blush: Naturally, during her deredere moments. Displayed a full body blush during her defining Comiket scene (her whole face and even her hands turned red).
Miko: When her father is the local shrine's priest...
Moe: In-universe — her attitude is deemed adorable by Konata.
And let's not forget that she won the 2008 Saimoe Tournament.
Muggle: She arguably plays this role in terms of otaku culture, although her prejudice in that is relatively minor. Her criticism is more concentrated in Konata's Dirty Old Man antics, irresponsible spending, laziness in studies, and the lack of a real-life goal.
Tsundere: Her deredere side is not about romance but more on loneliness in general. Her Image Songs even have this — one is fast and upbeat, the other a bit slow and has lyrics hinting at her loneliness.
Episode 10's "Lucky Channel" discusses at length whether "tsundere" is the right word to describe her.
Tsurime Eyes: The most significant feature to distinguish her from Tsukasa.
Kagami's cheerful and very loopy younger twin sister. She's actually very good at home chores and cooking, although she sometimes has to ask for Kagami's help because she forgets things easily.
Lampshaded at least twice in the anime; the first was when Konata gives her a school uniform for a birthday gift (Kagami is instantly reminded of To Heart); the other is when she's noticed by some otakus who call her Akira and how they ask her to say 'Hiroyuki-kun'
Voiced by: Erina Nakayama (JP [Drama CD/NDS game]), Aya Endo (JP [Anime/PS2 game]) and Karen Strassman (EN)
The "smart girl" of the main quartet and embodiment of many stereotypical meganekko traits, including a very polite manner of speech (even amongst her friends).
The Ace: At least from Konata and Hiyori's point of view, as they regard all of Miyuki's faults as "Moe points".
Beware the Nice Ones: Occasionally; one Volume 4 strip has Konata telling her that she and the other girls won't blindly follow orders. When she replies with a smile that she'll entertain other opinions, even Kuroi-sensei freaks out, implying she's willing to pretend to hear them out so long as ultimately she calls the shots. She's that assertive... she's just too polite to be blunt about it.
Gag Boobs: Lampshaded as Konata and Minami thought Miyuki, though unable to swim, can at least float because of her breasts.
She even gets a cow joke from Konata at one point and wins a race solely by being able to break the ribbon earlier.
Hot Teacher: As of manga volume 8, she's doing work as a home-tutor.
Huge Schoolgirl: She isn't really very tall (see group shot above) — she's only slightly taller than the Hiiragis and is slightly shorter than Patty. She just spends a lot of time with the diminutive Konata.
Yui assumes Miyuki to be unusually tall because her family's genetic shortness gave her a rather skewed perception of what average height is.
Out of Focus: Towards the latter half of the anime. Lampshaded by the mangaka in the omake — which is sort of unfortunate as Yoshimizu apparently has a meganekko fetish.
Aya Endo also didn't perform at the concert, though she sent a video message during the show.
Parody Sue: Mercilessly lampshaded by Konata as "The Perfect Superwoman" and "The personification of Moe itself."''
Surprisingly Good English: The fact that she can hold whole conversations with Patty in English. Justified as she said she did take English conversation classes.
Yui's younger sister who lives with Konata since she got into Konata's high school. Generally speaking, a frail but cheerfulfauxli. Her friendship with Minami often falls into Romantic Two-Girl Friendship territory.
Broken Bird: Averted. In Volume 4 Chapter 118, it was revealed that Yui's sisterly love helped her avert problems in social interactions resulting from the years she spent as an Ill Girl.
Captain Ersatz: Of Chiyo Mihama of Azumanga Daioh. This was lampshaded when she introduced herself in front of the class (pictured above), and further lampshaded when she found she unwittingly shouted out to Chiyo, because "[Konata]'s geekiness is rubbing off on me!"
Cutesy Dwarf: In-universe assumption of some of her classmates towards her, which is not particularly surprising in light of her associated tropes. She isn't really comfortable about this.
The Ditz: Of a much lesser magnitude compared to Tsukasa though.
Dojikko: Konata observed she has that same "cute shortcoming" as Miyuki.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: She, surprisingly, has moments of this, especially a Volume 7 strip where, hearing that Minami has been helping her to the latter's detriment in PE, she harshly asked Minami to not help in a long-distance running match.
Ill Girl: Somehow less traditional since she never had any dangerous disease, but her weak constitution makes her succumb to common aliments very easily.
The Ingénue: She's too innocent for the Izumis to discuss porn in front of her. Figures.
Yutaka: "Oh Tamura-saaaaaan! What does 'yaoi' mean?"
Entering the story by returning Yutaka's handkerchief in the beginning of what can be seen as a Romantic Two-Girl Friendship, Minami is a quiet, expressionless girl often misunderstood by others to be creepy. Good at most subjects, and is childhood friends with neighbour Miyuki since both of them love reading.
A-Cup Angst: She is completely flat-chested — at least Konata and Yutaka have very small ones. Her angsting over this is close to Once an Episode frequency.
Yutaka and Minami's classmate, member of the Animation Research Club, and doujinshiyonkoma mangaka with a habit of shipping game characters already, as well as Minami and Yutaka.
Ambiguously Bi: Her frequent fantasies about her friends indicate this or an overactive imagination.
The Chew Toy: Almost as if Yoshimizu is punishing her for her perversions, she is the regular victim of Amusing Injuries, Freudian Slips, accidents and other misfortunes.
Strips in Volume 4/5 show her making different yaoi/yuri fantasies about Setsubun, not to mention another about Konata kissing Miyuki, after the former said that tooth decay can be transmitted by kissing.
In the manga she implied that she befriended them simply to find chances at shipping them. Also, it is also implied that if they knew the way she shipped them, they would be angry.
Anime Accent Absence: Completely absent in the anime, only absent in hobby-related things in the manga. The dub version has a slight twang compared to her Japanese schoolmates.
Foreign Exchange Student: She's an American exchange student and otaku who came to Japan to learn Japanese culture. Unfortunately most of what she know is based on manga and anime, which doesn't always match the reality.
Foreign Fanservice: She's an American, and has the second largest breast size of the entire cast.
Huge Schoolgirl: She's around average height for an American schoolgirl, but she's living in Japan where people are naturally shorter, and many of her friends are small even by Japanese standards.
Proud to Be a Geek: Who else would openly say she wants to have a Meido — not a housekeeper — in front of Kagami, of all people?
Retcon: In the manga, she made a few appearance in the omakes and was already know by everybody in the cast. Come Vol.7, she is introduced at the main storyline as a new face among the cast.
Kagami and Ayano's classmate for five consecutive years, Misao is the latter's childhood friend and, as defined by the former, an unorganized "lazy ass". A recurring theme in post-anime strips is her rivalry with Konata — for Kagami, even Misao considered Kagami as being cold-hearted. Later, she got into the same program of the same college as Konata.
Voiced by: Yuko Goto (JP [Extra Drama CD/NDS game]), Mai Aizawa (JP [Anime/PS2 game]) and Peggy O'Neal (EN)
Misao's "caretaker" (in Kagami's words) for years to the level that when Kagami was fed up with Misao or vice versa, Ayano is their go-between. She is the only teen in the series with a boyfriend.
Berserk Button: Misao experienced this hidden side of Ayano when she spilled coffee on her stuffed raccoon in the manga, though we never got to see the full extent of Ayano's anger...
Beware the Nice Ones: She had one of the scariest Blue With Anger in this series after Misao dream-talked about... something sexy between Ayano and Misao's brother.
Demoted to Extra: She's one of the girls without lines in the OVA. However she was the announcer in Kagami's dream and did a bit of Voice Grunting during the volleyball game.
Feminine Women Can Cook: Although, her family runs a cooking school, so there may be non-gender-role justification.
Yamato Nadeshiko: Passive, likes taking care of others, and a good cook. To complete the image, sort of, she has a boyfriend. However, she is no pushover.
First appearing in Volume 4, Kō is the president of the Animation Research Club and Hiyori's "boss" on the club's periodicals. She's the only 11th grader in the series. Does not appear in the anime, but she did appear in the Net Idol Meister video game.
Challenge Gamer: One of the running joke about her is her trying to beat Konata on arcade fighting games.
Gamer Chick:Her otaku tendencies are mainly in gaming and less on manga — that doesn't mean she does not care about manga anyway.
While she doesn't appear often in the manga, she gets introduced with Ko often. She's a close friend of Kō, and in the visual novels gets possessed by an alien at one point and even has some leftover powers remaining.
Class Representative of Hiyori's class who appears in Volume 7. She is also an otaku, but tries to hide it as she is an upper-class girl who is class president. However, she runs into Hiyori on one of her shopping trips to Comiket, who discovers her secret. She is good at home economics, but is bad at art. She likes "cute" things and likes sweets, as well as coffee and milk.
Voiced by: Masumi Asano (JP [Drama CD/NDS game]), Konomi Maeda (JP [Anime/PS2 game]) and Kate Higgins (EN)
Konata, Tsukasa and Miyuki's homeroom teacher, and world history teacher for all the seniors. Has lots of free time to play video games and watch baseball games. Still believes in the power of corporal punishment.
Voiced by: Chiwa Saitou (JP [Drama CD/NDS game]), Saori Nishihara (JP [Anime/PS2 game]) and Julie Ann Taylor (EN)
Konata's cousin and Yutaka's older sister. She works as a traffic cop, but even Konata wonders why can she keep at that position. Surprisingly, she showed real care towards Yutaka. Has an offscreen husband.
Beauty Mark: On the outer corner on his left eye. Such a mark customarily symbolizes sadness, which is appropriate for him; he really misses his late wife Kanata.
Bumbling Dad: He's certainly not stupid or lazy, yet the entire Izumi-Kobayakawa household thinks so.
Cassandra Truth: Nobody believes that he is actually a hardworking writer who can write wholesome, non-otaku-related topics, has quite a bit of book smarts, has had a relationship with Kanata that was far beyond lolicon, so on and so forth.
Doting Parent: Someone's got to give the guy credit for being an attentive and loving father who raised a happy and emotionally well-adjusted daughter to adulthood... eccentricities notwithstanding.
Fan Nickname: "Awesome-kun", for having what is considered to be the epitome of an otaku's dream life (well, leaving aside his dead wife,) as well as having a daughter who appreciates and emulates his hobbies.
Lolicon: He buys H-games for his underage daughter and takes shots of nubile girls at other schools' sports festivals. Needless to say, even his daughter was fed up and frequently fears for his arrest.
In later volumes this aspect of his was subdued. One Volume 7 strip has Yutaka catching him looking between the legs of figurines — which horrified the innocent girl to no end.
Unfortunate Implications: In-universe — the figure incident could be seen as him actually having dropped it and picking it up. Also, in volume 7 he gets spotted by Yutaka pantsless while trying to find toilet paper. Konata hears a scream and assumes he did something stupid.
Voiced by: Satomi Akesaka (JP) and Dorothy Elias-Fahn (EN)
The second eldest of the Hiiragi sisters.
Jerkass: Occasionally acts like a mild-grade variant; for instance she's been known to forget to wake up Tsukasa, then tell her youngest sister that she (Tsukasa) slept through the wake-up call. At one point Kagami asks her, "Is avoiding your troubles all you do?"
An anime-only character, he is the manager of the Animate store Konata frequents. He is actually the mascot for the Animate chain as Captain Animate, created by Shimamoto Kazuhiko in the late 90'; but the one who made him known in Japan was none than Hideaki Anno who directed a short Original Video Animation for the character, a Radio Show was also made. Anisawa was made to help boost the sales and pick interest of the general public into buying anime merchandise, not just for Animate stores.
Art Shift: He and his store's staff are all drawn in a distinct Shounen art style with a different color palette from the rest of the characters.
Ass Kicking Pose: Episode 12, when he lectured a salesman about the value of leftover merchandise.
Cameo: Anisawa actually predates Lucky Star; he was Animate's mascot for some time before.
He also Cameos in Disgaea4 of all places.
Failure Is the Only Option — Trying to get Legendary Girl A to buy ONE THING proves about as successful as Wile E. Coyote getting the Road Runner to STAND STILL, let alone eat it.
Product Placement: The Animate chain does have commercial links with this series, judging from the existence of some of its strips from its in-store magazine.
Shout Out: In one episode, he pulls a freaking Geass from out of nowhere. Lelouch's Geass. He uses it on Konata to get her to FINALLY buy something in his store... only for it to turn out that she doesn't have enough money.
The Ditz: Perhaps even more than Tsukasa: the manga's character sketch for Yukari stated that she was "good at nothing," whereas Tsukasa at least is an excellent cook.
Too Dumb to Live: The character sketches say it's impossible for her to live alone, but it's impossible for her to get into that situation either.
Older than They Look: She's just a centimeter taller than Konata. She's one reason Konata starts to wonder if Soujirou is a lolicon. She turns out to be slightly older than Soujirou.
She should be listed in the category below; Shiraishi entered Lucky Channel becauseshe was elevated to the "main show" in volume 5. She's Kagami's homeroom teacher, specializes in biology, and is the advisor for the Animation Research Club. Heterosexual Life Partners with Fuyuki. Only has one short cameo in the anime's last episode.
Also introduced in volume 5 of the manga, Fuyuki is Ryouou's school nurse and is Heterosexual Life Partners with Hikaru. Does not appear in the anime, but like Ko also appears in Net Idol Meister.
An Idol Singer in the Lucky Star universe and "navigator" of Lucky Channel. She's fourteen — younger than most of the cast — but has eleven years of acting experience. In Comptiq she is the name in which the magazine reply readers' mail.
Ascended Meme: "Wa-wa-wa-wasuremono~" Upgraded to an ending in Episode 13, and a full song when the album came out.
Beware the Nice Ones: He takes an astounding nineteen episodes' worth of physical and emotional abuse from Akira, but when he finally snaps the results are epic. He even provides the image for the trope page.
Celebrity Paradox: During a Breaking the Fourth Wall moment in one segment of Lucky Channel, Minoru starts calling out all characters voiced by Akira's seiyuu from various anime. She in turn mentions how Minoru works part-time at a restaurant.
Ensemble Darkhorse: In-universe — he notes how his popularity is beginning to far outstrip Akira's. In Episode 8's Lucky Channel he even boasts his own fan letters.
A diminutive high schooler who's much more interested in video games, anime and manga than doing actual schoolwork. Her interest in popular culture is truly staggering.
Konata's closest friend and Tsukasa's older twin sister. She is easily angered by some of Konata's more... "playful" antics, but always seems to be the one who understands her hobbies. Her liking of light novels is also a driver of plot.
Kagami's cheerful and very loopy younger twin sister. She's actually very good at home chores and cooking, although she sometimes has to ask for Kagami's help because she forgets things easily.
The "smart girl" of the main quartet and embodiment of many stereotypical meganekko traits, including a very polite manner of speech (even amongst her friends).
Yui's younger sister who lives with Konata since she got into Konata's high school. Generally speaking, a frail but cheerful fauxli. Her friendship with Minami often falls into Romantic Two-Girl Friendship territory.
Entering the story by returning Yutaka's handkerchief in the beginning of what can be seen as a Romantic Two-Girl Friendship, Minami is a quiet, expressionless girl often misunderstood by others to be creepy. Good at most subjects, and is childhood friends with neighbour Miyuki since both of them love reading.
Yutaka and Minami's classmate, member of the Animation Research Club, and doujinshi yonkoma mangaka with a habit of shipping game characters already, as well as Minami and Yutaka.
American Otaku in Yutaka's class, and the most genki of otakus of this series.
Kagami and Ayano's classmate for five consecutive years, Misao is the latter's childhood friend and, as defined by the former, an unorganized "lazy ass". A recurring theme in post-anime strips is her rivalry with Konata — for Kagami, even Misao considered Kagami as being cold-hearted. Later, she got into the same program of the same college as Konata.
Misao's "caretaker" (in Kagami's words) for years to the level that when Kagami was fed up with Misao or vice versa, Ayano is their go-between. She is the only teen in the series with a boyfriend.
First appearing in Volume 4, Kō is the president of the Animation Research Club and Hiyori's "boss" on the club's periodicals. She's the only 11th grader in the series. Does not appear in the anime, but she did appear in the Net Idol Meister video game.
While she doesn't appear often in the manga, she gets introduced with Ko often. She's a close friend of Kō, and in the visual novels gets possessed by an alien at one point and even has some leftover powers remaining.
Another girl who appears in Volume 7, and another member of the Animation Research Club.
Yet another girl who appears in Volume 7, and yet another member of the Animation Research Club.
Konata, Tsukasa and Miyuki's homeroom teacher, and world history teacher for all the seniors. Has lots of free time to play video games and watch baseball games. Still believes in the power of corporal punishment.
Konata's cousin and Yutaka's older sister. She works as a traffic cop, but even Konata wonders why can she keep at that position. Surprisingly, she showed real care towards Yutaka. Has an offscreen husband.
Konata's father and fellow otaku. Works as a freelance writer at home but surprisingly, he writes more serious, completely non-otaku topics.
The Hiiragi sisters' father.
The Hiiragi sisters' mother.
The eldest of the Hiiragi sisters.
The second eldest of the Hiiragi sisters.
An anime-only character, he is the manager of the Animate store Konata frequents. He is actually the mascot for the Animate chain as Captain Animate, created by Shimamoto Kazuhiko in the late 90'; but the one who made him known in Japan was none than Hideaki Anno who directed a short Original Video Animation for the character, a Radio Show was also made. Anisawa was made to help boost the sales and pick interest of the general public into buying anime merchandise, not just for Animate stores.
Miyuki's mother, who is just as cuddly, adorable and innocent as her daughter — but not as smart.
Konata's deceased mother who looks just like Konata. Despite a bit wary about Soujirou's lolicon tendencies, she still consider him to be actually caring for her — something nobody else will associate with Soujirou.
She should be listed in the category below; Shiraishi entered Lucky Channel because she was elevated to the "main show" in volume 5. She's Kagami's homeroom teacher, specializes in biology, and is the advisor for the Animation Research Club. Heterosexual Life Partners with Fuyuki. Only has one short cameo in the anime's last episode.
Also introduced in volume 5 of the manga, Fuyuki is Ryouou's school nurse and is Heterosexual Life Partners with Hikaru. Does not appear in the anime, but like Ko also appears in Net Idol Meister.
Minami's dog.
The elder of an impoverished pair of sisters. She is the reason for their poverty, as she spends too much money on manga and doujinshi.
The younger of an impoverished pair of sisters. An elementary schooler, and thus the youngest Lucky Star character.
An Idol Singer in the Lucky Star universe and "navigator" of Lucky Channel. She's fourteen — younger than most of the cast — but has eleven years of acting experience. In Comptiq she is the name in which the magazine reply readers' mail.
An anime-exclusive character with two roles: "Sebastian", a random student in Konata's class, and Akira's henpecked assistant in Lucky Channel.
Anime-only. In episodes 20 and 21, he replaces Minoru as Akira's assistant in Lucky Channel.
