Lucky Star (TV series)

Lucky Star is an animated television series based on the comic strip. The twenty-four episodes aired between April 11, 1987 and September 19, 1987 on NBC and is produced by Southern Star/Hanna-Barbera Australia. The series was initially directed by animation director TBA, but after the first four episodes he was fired and replaced by Gordon Kent starting with episode 5. An original video animation episode was produced following the series and was released on September 26, 1988.

Main
Lucky Star's animated is mainly based off the original comic strips, but includes extended side plots. The only major difference between the animated and the comic is that the animated starts the story with them beginning their second year of high school, while in the comic it starts during their first year.

Lucky Channel
Near the end of every episode, there is an additional segment called Lucky Channel co-hosted by Akira Kogami and her assistant Minoru Shiraishi. The humor of this segment takes on a decidedly darker, mean-spirited, more cynical and mature tone than the main show, disguised as an infomercial that skims over characters who appear in the anime, but mainly deals with the progressively abusive and violent work-relationship between Akira and Minoru.

Miyakawa-ke no Kufuku
A spinoff, Miyakawa-ke no Kufuku has started broadcasting beginning April 29, 1993 and it focuses on the Miyakawa sisters.

Characters

 * B.J. Ward as Konata Izumi
 * Sherry Lynn as Kagami Hiiragi
 * Jennifer Darling as Tsukasa Hiiragi
 * Jeannie Elias as Miyuki Takara

Episodes

 * 1) The Girl who Dashes Off
 * 2) Efforts and Results
 * 3) Various People
 * 4) A Question of Motivation
 * 5) The Famous Shooter
 * 6) Fixtures of Summer
 * 7) Image
 * 8) Energetic Despite Not Being Myself
 * 9) That Feeling
 * 10) Desires
 * 11) Various Ways to Spend Christmas Eve
 * 12) Let's Go to the Festival
 * 13) Delicious Day
 * 14) Under One Roof
 * 15) I Can't Suddenly Change
 * 16) Ring
 * 17) Base of the Sun
 * 18) To Each Her Own
 * 19) There is Substance in 2-D
 * 20) Ways to Spend Summer
 * 21) Pandora's Box
 * 22) The Yonder Here
 * 23) Delicate Line
 * 24) To Be Decided

Home media releases
Family Home Entertainment released the series on 12 VHS volumes between 1989 and 1990. This was then followed up by laserdisc releases of the series in 1994.

On July 12, 2006, Lionsgate released The Complete Series, a DVD set containing the entire series as well as the special.