Warning: this review was made for people that already watched the Lucky Star anime ill probably do a review of that too

Its safe to say that Lucky Star is now considered an anime classic of the late 2000s, along side series like Gurren Laggan, Death Note, Haruhi, Higurashi, Black Lagoon, Code Geass ect... but I don't hear that much people talking about its OVA special, realeased a year after the show concluded (on a very high note in my honest opinion).

Its now commonplace for an anime to have an OVA special episode, either as a Blu-Ray exclusive or as a bundle with one of the volumes of the show's manga, but this a much different beast, as this was, again, made a year after the end of the show and was realeased on its own; also, this OVA does something that the show didn't do at all: it is an experimental Lucky Star Anthology! In order to review this proprely, we got to look at each short stories (theres six of them in total) and see their strenghts and weaknesses, ready? lets go! ___ #Story n°1: Cherry This story serves as our opening and our only story with the secondary main characters (Yukata, Minami, Hiyori and Patricia), but mostly on Minami and her dog, Cherry. Most of the segment is the secondary characters interacting with the girls. ~~good taste~~

While this short is cute and all, its end is what forshadow the more bizarre shorts later on, as its heavily implied that

Spoiler, click to view

Cherry dies, a twist that feels really dark for what we had seen earlier in the short

overall quality: 7/10 cute but the ending does kinda arrives out of nowhere

#Story n°2: MMORPG
This story, if canon to the tv series, should take place during episode 16, its been mentioned a lot of times that Konata and her teacher Nanako plays the same MMORPG game, but we never saw what does the game look like, this short basically answers that question and finally answer that question that, well not a lot of people asked, but the effort made to make the MMORPG look as real as possible is admirable and shows how talented the staff is.

the only bad point is that its by far the weakest short in terms of comedy, but theres still a few good jokes here and there. 8/10

#Story n°3: Tsundere-lla
If theres one short that would be considered to be a fan favorite, its most definitely that one.
this is straight up Cinderella parody and basically thats all you need to know, I recommand to check that one for yourselves, its hilarious and the funniest short of the OVA.

9,5/10

#Story 4: Volleyball
Tsukasa wasn't one of the deepest characters in the show, lets all be honest here, she is really most of the time the air head cutie we all know and love, but this short attemps at giving her a bit more personallity.

We discover a Tsukasa angry about being the shadow of her sister Kagami, and tries to proove to everyone that she matters just as much as her sister, on a match of volleyball against her. I remember not enjoying this short as much as the other ones back in my first watch, but i did talk with friends online saying it was their favorites, not only its one of the more normal stories of the OVA, but the given depth of Tsukasa really makes the character even more likeable than before. 8/10 not really my cup of tea, but its just as interesting as the other shorts.

#Story 5: Camping
Being lost in the woods with yours friends can be quite scary, well thats happened to Konata and Co in this short, however, this short tells the story narrated by Miyuki's point of view (even if a lot of the quote are actually Haruhi references).

I know a lot of people who thinks that Miyuki is "boring" and "uninteresting", mostly because she is the "seeminly perfect" type character of the show, but Ive always liked her, in both ways mind you, and here, Miyuki serves as a great narrator to a story that would have been boring otherwise, plus those camping uniform are just adorable 8,5//10

#Story 6: ???
I think at this point, the director went crazy and just made a 3 minutes horror sequence that just so happens to have the four main girls, like Tsundere-lla, I cannot describe you what the actual hell is happening without spoiling the experience, just know that theres a Sgt Frog cameo.
9/10

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Soooo... that was a hell of a ride, this OVA is overall amazing, its just the ultimate testament to how well this characters are: if they can put them in any situation and doing great work with it like they did here, then those characters are truely not just moeblob throwaway characters, don't y'all think?

I was going to give it the same rating as the show, a 9,3/10, but its experimental nature is so charming to me I'll give it an extra 0,1, a must watch for Lucky Star fans!