On St. Patrick's Day, Krystallina choses to highlight some related anime and manga merch in this week's Please Save My Money column.
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Summer Rain Lucky Premium Lucky Box
Well, it’s raining and I have nothing today, so I decided to sit down and make a single Premium Lucky Box. This box has an Artbook AND a…
Lucky Star
Lucky Star is an interesting anime. It has no plot really. No conflict. No bad guy. No point. What it does have though is relatability to a degree.…
Venom Symbiote Lucky
Ryoh Grantz narrates his own heroics, Taiki dreams of Pocari Sweat, and Lucky starts his villain era! 7:04 - My Hero Academia 358 17:10 - Undead Unluck 117 25:42 - Akane-banashi…
New Year’s Lucky Boxes!
Last month I managed to visit Japan for the first time in almost 5 years. You bet I bought stuff for Lucky Boxes. These could be a blind…
Lucky Bag of Anime!
Recently I’ve been reading a lot of blog posts about life in Japan and the interesting seasonal traditions that Tokyoites enjoy. One of the many traditions that is…
Happy-Go-Lucky-Days
“My first kiss was with a girl. Her name was Yuri-chan. It sounds like a joke, but it’s not.” These are the opening lines of Happy Go Lucky…
Jujutsu Kaisen Lucky Bag Review
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Springtime Lucky Boxes on Okazu!
It’s once again time to help me clear out my office! ^_^ This time we have 3 Lucky boxes! They arefull of comics and manga and poetry and…
Oh, So Meta: Lucky Star
There’s just something so addictive about Lucky Star. I don’t know about you, but I can watch it over and over. And I have. And it cracks me…
Fall Cleanup Lucky Box Bonanza!
My office is once again in desperate need of a cleanup, so it’s time for some Lucky Boxes! This time we have 5 Lucky boxes – all are…
2021 New Year’s Lucky Boxes!
As you may remember, this autumn I engaged upon a massive renovation of my office. That meant clearing *everything* out, every box of books, every bookshelf, every file…
Summer Lucky Boxes Are Here!
Among the many things I am doing now that my health is improved is cleaning up the office. ^_^ Yuricon & Okazu Central gets so absurdly filled up…
Anime Review 197 Lucky Star
This review contains some spoilers. One of the most drastic medium changes that I witnessed as an anime fan in the west was the reputational shift of older…
LUCKY STAR IS BACK BABY!!!
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Madame X (Lucky Kuswandi, 2010)
A transgender hairdresser is forced to accept her destiny as Madame X when her friend is killed by vigilantes in Lucky Kuswandi’s high camp superhero origin story
Review: Happy-Go-Lucky Days
What do you do, and how do you move forward, after you’ve experienced a bittersweet, youthful love? Happy-Go-Lucky Days, currently streaming at the Asian Pop-up Cinema Festival, examines…
Spy x Family Lucky Bag Review
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Nonpareil Roe Importance #09 — Lucky Albinos
How does an albino have heterochromia exactly? Impressions: It's neat that they took a week off and then came back with this absolute fiasco of an episode.…
Treat Yourself With a Lucky Box!
This time we have 3 Lucky boxes! They are full of comics and manga and poetry and magazines and and other random things to marvel at. All of…
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Episode 4) – Lucky You
David is keen to make himself useful and asks Maine for a job. He’ll do anything. Luckily, the gang has a number of things to take care of…
Otaku Elf Episode 7: Lucky Trip
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Pick of the Week: Lucky Manga
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Ace of the Diamond, Giant Killing, Holmes of Kyoto, Skip Beat!
End of Summer 2020 Lucky Boxes!
I need to do a doujinshi clean up, and to do that, I need to make room to do a doujinshi cleanup, so once again, it’s Lucky Box…
Yuri Quickie: Happy Go Lucky Days
This was a similar situation as Our Seven Days of War where I learned of this movie via random tweet. Even more random as I was not recommended…
5 Reasons To Skip: Lucky Star
With strong vision and dedication, Lucky Star could have turned out very interesting. Instead it's content with wallowing in old glory.
How Lucky Star Changed my Life
Here’s a comment I posted on ANN regarding why I love Lucky Star and how it changed my life. I didn’t mean for it to be a life…
Spy x Family Lucky Bag Review
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Sailor Moon Store: Store Original Lucky Charm
Product Details The Sailor Moon Store will be releasing “Store Original Lucky Charms” using original...
Episode 801, “Ultra Super Lucky” (SGS #12)
On this week’s episode of The One Piece Podcast we have https://twitter.com/ochimusha108 & http://www.twitter.com/translatosaurus joining forces for a new season of their wondrous, informative recurring segment: the SGS!…
What Made Lucky Star's Anime So Iconic
No other anime ever captured its era's zeitgeist the way Lucky Star has. Sixteen years after it aired, and it remains as iconic and emblematic of anime's recent…
It’s Summertime and the Lucky Boxes’re Easy
I know no one notices this, but I almost always take a new photo of the Lucky Boxes that are going out. ^_^ These are the actual Lucky…
It’s a Lucky Box Summer on OKazu!
Doing a seasonal clean up of stuff that has accumulated, breaking down some of Bruce’s collection (we’re about half way through the boxes!) and goods from Yuri exhibits…
Seven Years Lucky, Seven Years Strong, I Guess.
By TheBigN This post, with an interesting look at Acchi Kochi, GJ-Bu (which was a guilty pleasure for me as I watched it – felt so dirty with the constant…
Undead Unluck (Volume 1) – Today’s My Lucky Day
Anyone Fuuko Izumo touches suffers extreme misfortune. Basically, she brings about bad luck and that’s caught the attention of a man who cannot die. Maybe, she will hold…
The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: Lucky Star Revisited
It’s not often that I write posts like this. But the fact of the matter is that last month I decided to revisit Kyoto Animation’s famous slice-of-life show,…
Pre-holiday Premium Okazu Lucky Boxes are Here!
I’ve got a bunch of stuff that we picked up during the 100 Years of Yuri Tour in Japan and you’d probably like some cool Yuri goods from…
Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer) Lucky Bag Review
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The Lucky Losers of Magical Circle Guru Guru
Make no mistake, there is a LOT of anime coming out these days. Probably too much, if not for an audience to keep up with then certainly for…
Wonderful Precure Episode 3 Review – Lucky Rabbit’s Foot
Satoru has joined the party!
Haikyuu!!: To the Top ep.21 – Lucky Number 7
Haikyuu!!: To the Top just keeps getting better. I haven't had this much fun watching high school students play volleyball...ever!
HAIKYU!!, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? II, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? III
East Meets West #9: Lucky Star .vs. Spongebob Squarepants
This week I continue my next batch of posts for the East Meets West series, dedicated to comparing/contrasting anime and Western media of similar premises, and, based on a specific…
Spring Cleaning 2020 Lucky Boxes – Now, With Extra Randomness!
It’s Spring Cleaning here at Okazu Central and that means Lucky Boxes full of utterly random things. I really mean it’s random. I pack these for fit, not…
Fanart Friday, Too: Getting Ota-kute with Lucky Star
Oooh, it’s our group of girls from Lucky Star! I haven’t thought of this series in YEARS. And they are hanging out at an anime shop! Can you…
Is Denji Very Lucky or Very Unlucky? I Can’t Tell
Chainsaw Man Episode 7 Review I’m not sure whether I should call Denji lucky or very unlucky. On the one hand, he’s got cool Devil powers that turn him…
Ancient Aughts-Era Otaku Lore – Lucky Star 17 Years Later
Before I knew it, 17 years had passed since my first and only encounter with the anime Lucky Star. I first watched it in real time on fansubs,…
J-Music Exchange/Rate ー Blend by LUCKY TAPES (Album Review)
Nothing like a nice blend to get you through a school night.
Madoka Side Story Magia Record Episode 6: So Lucky, So What?
Well…that was a disappointment. I’ve spoken thus far of my admiration for Magia Record, even though it’s started to settle into the formulaic. Episode six solidified the structure:…
Spiraken Movie Review Ep 67: Lucky Number Slevin (or Kansas City Shuffle)
In this episode of the Spiraken Manga Review, Baz and NG return to add tangents to the show. So listen as they join Xan in watching/reviewing a mystery…
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World – 04 – Feeling Lucky
Part of what makes a good show comes down to tempering expectations as much as surpassing or subverting them. With three straight episodes of Iska and Alice bumping…
Is Lucky Star rewatchable? (some thoughts about how anime viewing and curation has changed)
A few weeks ago I pitched a podcast idea to a few friends. We would revisit an old anime to see if it was rewatchable or not and…
