Please watch Lucky Star episode 8 before reading this entry.
Remember how Konata was being so proud of the fact that her fanart submission was published in Newtype? Well I browsed through the latest issue in Kinokuniya today and indeed it was there! I took a picture of it secretly with my compact digital camera when no one was looking. Just like downloading fansubs and jaywalking, it’s okay as long as you don’t get caught.
By the way it’s the drawing on the right depicting Akira. Apparently Konata is an Akira fan. So cool. The accompanying text basically says that this submission is a message of support of Akira-sama and also, as a side note, includes a small plead for Shirashi-kun to be given better treatment.
Kyo-ani are cool people.
Fun stuff. Gotta say, I respect corporations that know how to turn a profit while still keeping their fans happy.
Newtype was also rather sporting to post it as well (since it’s effectively an unpaid advertisement) I suppose it’s mutually beneficial :)
Now, all that’s left is for kyoani to post the full opening dance sequence on their website. Mass Lucky Star dance FTW
Gotta love KyoAni for doing this much. It really makes me happy to see them put a lot of effort into details and such.
awesome :D
Now I re-watched episode 8, and you can see the fanart xD
a.f.k translated it as “postcard” tho
Ah. Right. A lot of the fanart submissions are sent in on postcards. Well it’s like an illustrated greeting card I guess.
Sexy interplay between real life and anime life. Wait, does this mean that Konata exists somewhere in Saitama? Let’s book the plane tickets DM.
I expected KyoAni to pull a stunt like this off. Awesome people they are, truly awesome.
>>and also, as a side note, includes a small plead for Shirashi-kun to be given better treatment.
Shiraishi does need better treatment.
The fact that KyoAni can pull a stunt like that is one of the same reasons the media and advertising industries are losing their audience every day. The line between entertainment and advertising is gone. And good stories can’t be told anymore as long as everybody’s trying to cash in. WTF, Japan.
So did Hirano Aya drew this?
^Crap. Good Question. Any info anyone?
Whoa, awesome!
O_O KyoAni is awesome, It’s a single detail, but look how much we like it (mm I hope I wrote the previous sentence right :P).
By the way, thanks to you for tooking the picture.
Ooh….they even put “Saitama/Konata Izumi, 17 years old” below the image. lol.
If she’s real, I’d woo her anyday. lol
LOL~ No way. I wasn’t expecting Newtype to publish a postcard by Konata. I thought it was just a usual publicity stunt.
GG Konata ! XD (Kyo(n)ani also ~)
lawl~ cant u just buy it? and yeah~ i did checked it out the moment she mentioned it.
I have yet to watch Lucky Star 8 but this is some cool “easter egg” you found
@bj0rn: Because it is a waste of money if he just wants to check out the fanart.
Indeed. I have $3 left in my bank account.
Haha was thinking of buying the mag cause konata mentioned it. Tks for the picture and u arnt cheating unless u r caught. Lucky star is definetly an awesome anime, thank god it is not licensed.
That’s an awesome fanart drawing, haha. Akira’s massive mood swings get better every ep, wonder she can keep it up much longer, heh.
Good investigative reporting DM!
Shigeru-san no Motteke Sailor Fuku!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBKNqHsnKmY
This is epic.And weird,my friend was telling me he like Akira and i say his crazy,he calls me crazy for liking Konata -_-
Well I’m actually not that impressed at all. For one thing the second she mentioned the post card I was like “This is going to appear in the actual real life Newtype issue and Kadokawa ordered Kyoto Animation to make Konata mention it in the anime to boost sales”. So is Lucky Star a comedy anime or Kadokawa ad campaign? Secondly its really not anything I haven’t seen done before in shows like Jericho (Where one of the characters has a Myspace account you can visit on the real internet, V The Mini Series (Where the producers set up mock posters around New York with a picture of the Visitors on them that actually appeared all over the world in the show and when they spray painted the V on them in the show overnight, people woke up to find the posters in real life now had V on them) and Idolm@ster Xenoglossia (Where main character Haruka Amami actually has a blog in real life). But you know never mind that Sunrise did it, we only praise Kyoto Animation when they do something cool. All I can say is they did it and its interesting, but whoopy flippity jippity doo it’s been done. People can ignore this post of differing interpretation and go on praising Kyoto Animation as the most original company ever now.
Amami Haruka has a blog?
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-05-11/xenoglossia's-heroine-haruka-launches-blog-journal
Yeah but nobody really noticed.
//“This is going to appear in the actual real life Newtype issue and Kadokawa ordered Kyoto Animation to make Konata mention it in the anime to boost salesâ€. So is Lucky Star a comedy anime or Kadokawa ad campaign?//
Or is this simply a case of KyoAni breaking the fourth wall as it has a habit of doing in Lucky Star? OMG TEH CONSPIRACY!!!
You don’t have to be original or creative to be cool. I don’t see the problem.
VIRAL MARKETING IS VIRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL.
@Kaioshin Sama
> Yeah but nobody really noticed.
Maybe because the show sucks. And for something that only exists to feed the lolicon fetish, it has virtually no fanservice. Pretty much anyone who would be interested in Idolmaster is watching Nanoha and Nagasarete instead.
KyoAni need not be either praised or blamed for this. What good does it do them to sell more issues of Newtype? Who really profits? Kadokawa of course. They’re the ones running the show. If the animation contract had gone to some other studio, Nomad or whoever, this same stunt would surely have happened. And Lucky Star has always been an advertising vehicle for Comptiq and related publications. It’s not even the first manga+anime to be used for advertising in this way.Not by a long-shot.
It’s a commercial, but it’s done in a cute and entertaining way. I see a little subversion in it as well. It’s a crappy drawing, but can you honestly imagine something better if they had used a real fanart?
I’ve long since tired of reading the ridiculous exuberance of under-talented teenagers that draw those things.
@Telliamed : You sound very tired with life…take a break.
@DarkMirage: Was the pic taken with your new phone? Heard you lost your old one.
The somewhat viral advertising in Hayate no Gotoku is more funny IMO
People seem to be angry that there’s all this advertisement for Newtype and such, but I’d rather see Konata read Newtype everyday than some made up magazine. I think part of the appeal of Lucky Star is seeing day to day happenings through the lens of Konata and crew. Konata is an otaku. Can’t blame her for waving Newtype everywhere. Is it advertising? Of course. Is it a bad thing? No.
Reading over Kaioshin Sama’s comment again, I don’t really see why he’s so up in arms.. Defensive because people are getting to excited/enjoying this ‘easter egg’ too much, and not appreciating other types of creative advertisement?
I guess this is what you call, “opportunistic capitalism” for the “collective market”. XD
^ … and why is the flag not showing my home countries, lol? Another bug? Xd
Any one know what issue this is. June Issue? I would really like to know I want to import it. Thanks!
Yes, it’s from the June issue.
Aww~ It’s really cute and bears the essence of Konata’s drawing style (faintly recalls that Konata cannot draw for nuts)… Akira-san! kyaaa-
Despite the moe element in this anime, it seems that people who do not watch a large amount of anime (read: some of my friends) are unable to understand Lucky Star. They end up wondering why it’s so random, and lose interest in it after watching an episode or two. I for one, think that Lucky Star is one of the most interesting anime I’ve seen this year, for the fact that they expose (or rather, mention) a lot of anime/manga/games industry issues/facts! I like that :X
*wonders if I should get Lucky Star books 1 and 2 in Chinese from Kino*… It’s too complex for my not-very-Chinese mind to handle X_X; (The language, i mean. I would take like, a few minutes to finish reading 4 panels, i think.)
Woo. Did i go offtopic. X_X;
Wait, the sell Lucky Star manga in Kino? where?
The amazing thing about Lucky Star, to me, is that it’s an anime ABOUT animes. Inside every one of us, we see a Konata: the otaku who always spends too much on their passion, immersing themselves in a world that everyone else deems as “nerdy”, and loving every second of it.
Lucky Star connected with me because I can not only connect with Konata, but also because I can connect with the references. There’s a certain magical feeling to watch our favourite anime featured in another anime.
Mroeover, another aspect of Lucky Star is the very witty dialogue and utterly random scenes and discussion: it’s like The Simpsons of the Japanese anime in that sense.
All that and MOE.
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