>>38211It's cute, the voices are great.
Jokes are just enjoyable enough to hit, but not cause any bursts of laughter, so it carries on.
It's peaceful enough to make people jealous of their lives, but portrayed so simply it's easy to get lost in it.
There's no 'event' feeling to watching it. You can play it in front of you without the slightest thought.
It's probably popular due to in jokes and otaku familiarity.
>Lucky Star became an immediate hit in Japan, receiving a broad following in the anime fandom. Explaining this phenomenon, the analyst John Oppliger of AnimeNation, for example, suggested that a major factor in the series' success is its similarity to an earlier work by Kyoto Animation—The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (the show itself makes numerous references to the same series). However, he also admitted that Lucky Star is quite different from its "predecessor" and that the second major factor is its "unique" composition that "panders to the tastes of otaku, but does so with good humor and sly wit", thus, making it "the ultimate in fan service", a "witty, self-indulgent, guilty pleasure".[29] 
