The Drillimation Series: Lucky Star

Lucky Star (らき☆すた Raki Suta) is a long-running anime and video game series created by Hiroshi Takajima for Drillimation Studios. The franchise has been running for more than 35 years, over its lifespan it released more than twenty main series games, as well as a long-running series of yonkoma manga, light novels, and manga.

Plot

 * Main Article: Magical Girl Team Lucky Star

The franchise started off with a six-season anime series created by Hiroshi Takajima and produced by Drillimation Studios.

In the slice of life segments of the anime, the story mainly portrays the lives of four Japanese girls attending a Japanese high school. The setting is mainly based on the city of Kasukabe in Saitama Prefecture. The main character is Konata Izumi, a lazy girl who constantly blows off her schoolwork and homework, and instead uses most of her time to watch anime, play video games, and read manga. Although she is lazy, she has also proven to be very intelligent and athletic.

The first three games of the series began with the four main characters in their first year of high school: Konata Izumi, Kagami Hiiragi, Tsukasa Hiiragi, and Miyuki Takara. As the story progresses, they move on to their second and third years. However, the anime starts the story with them beginning their second year, and the other high school girls that are seen in the intro are introduced as the series progressed. The storyline usually includes numerous references to popular past and present manga, anime and tokusatsu series.

The spin-off manga, Miyakawa Family Hunger, focuses on the daily lives of two sisters, Queen Hinata Miyakawa and the fairy Hikage Miyakawa, who live an impoverished life due to Hinata's wasteful habits.