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Anonymous File :-(, x)
Oh for heaven's sake.
I love Lucky Star, and Azumanga Daioh, but comparisons between the two are facile and irrelevant. The style of humor that the two shows bring to the table is drastically different, and the easiest illustration of the that is background knowledge. To get most of the humor in Azumanga Daioh requires almost no pop culture knowledge, but so much of Lucky Star's humor is based in Japanese pop culture (and otaku culture). The rest of it is observational humor "about nothing."
Another big difference is how the characters treat each other. Lucky Star's characters gladly talk about each other behind the other person's back. Think of the derisive things that the Hiiragi sisters say about Konata when she's not around. And there are a lot of somewhat cruel (and yet often accurate) things they say to each other, and even more that they leave unsaid inside their head. But things like this do indeed happen in real life. In comparison, everyone in Azumanga is portrayed as treating each other in a much more traditional manner; people don't really talk about each other behind their backs; for instance, Yukari and Nyamo don't bitch about Osaka or Tomo when they go out to drink, but in real life, teachers would definitely bitch about problem students with each other. Furthermore, in Lucky Star, they show the sometimes shamelessly parasitic nature of friendship moreso than Azumanga. In contrast, studying with Chiyo-chan is shown to be relatively peaceful, just... non-productive.
To draw an analogy, Lucky Star's humor shares traits with the humor in Family Guy (pop culture) and Seinfeld (observational). On the other hand, Azumanga is much more traditional, and its quality comes from its excellent execution and innovation in style rather than theme (How I Met Your Mother).
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