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Does "Lucky Star" get better over time?

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Neco:
So I introduced my mom to lucky star as  "not the typical stuff I watch,  its supposed to be  comedy/"slice of life" (whatever that means).  I had no idea what to expect as I've never seen it but wanted to branch out beyond my military/sci-fi/fantasy shit  and maybe find something other people would enjoy watching at the same time...

Does it get any better?   Or more to the point,  if I got her to keep watching would she likely enjoy it?

We watched two episodes,  and I enjoy watching stuff with my mom or dad whenever,  cause I'm being a normal son and spending time with them - they win.  I get to watch Anime -  I win.  It's win/win.

I do seem to have better luck with my dad as long as its something that remotely interests him like fighter jets or something  Military-Esq..   i.e  He sat through the Macross portion of Robotech, and the other week I actually got him to watch  Macross Zero  (usually he'll be like "does this thing have an english track?" but I explained it was subbed).   He doesn't seem interested in Gundam though really.   Although he did sit through some of Glass Fleet  (my mom actually finished watching it with me, I think because it was more  dark/mature than most stuff I watch).   He did watch Akira to the end, but I couldn't stand the ending and left.  I'm not into that gross out body morphing stuff (not to mention it seemed totally irrelevant to the movie as a whole).

But last night, we get halfway through the  opening scene in EP1 where they are discussing how to eat different food,  and she turns to me and says, "Is this for real?"  and I kind of chuckled and said "Yeah...."    It did get kind of annoying.

Overall I think I get the humor more than she does, as I understand (naturally) more of the jokes and the whole concept of Konata's character.   She didn't say she hated it,  but admitted she just didn't get a lot of the jokes -  I did catch her laughing a few times though.   But overall she was like  "they seem like a bunch of airheads".   lol ?

Hoping it gets better as it goes on though..  I mean she used to watch stuff like  Family Guy and South Park,  this can't be -too- far off the mark, even if it is more niche.

ant900:
I don't know if "getting better" is the right phrase...  are the first couple episodes less entertaining than some of the latter ones?  Yes (IMO), but the show stays pretty much the same throughout.  However I don't think this would be a good show for your mom since it does have a lot of inside jokes.  Maybe you should try something like Kannagi or Haruhi.

Neco:
Yeah I think I should have said  "funnier / entertaining" maybe?   But I digress, semantics....

I considered Haruhi, but a lot of what I heard has scared me off and I wonder if even I will like it.  
Some of this may be wrong, but I've heard talk of just  sheer  nonsensical episodes,  episodes out of order, and way out there story/plots.

I'm unfamiliar with  "Kannagi", but I'll look it up.

I've also considered the newer  Negima!?  release,  and something like School Rumble.   Would those be good general comedies?
I have vastly no experience in  picking good comedic Anime or how to identify them.

I'm also interested in finding more  Anime in the vein of Glass Fleet.   Not copies per say,  but a lot of the settings in the series clearly had influence from  old Victorian type stuff.  Mainly the atmopshere,  some of the architecture, and the general class society and way people spoke.  (Vetti was hilarious when trying to woo Rachel).   But also very mature subject matter and language / sexual implications.

Obviously nothing egregiously yaoi/yuri,  but just more  "dark" with their characters and their pasts and what kind of people it turned them into.

(click to show/hide) i.e in Glass Fleet: Vetti's stepfather sexually abused him and had him wear a wig and makeup, and eventually he slept with his stepmother and turned her against the father and then killed her after she killed the father.   Or in another case it was suggested that Vetti had raped Michel/Racine but in truth when he found out Michel was a woman he was repulsed and did nothing,  but let her go on thinking he had violated her - which later led to her telling Cleo when they were spending the night in a cabin and she clearly wanted to sleep with him, but was ashamed of what Vetti had supposedly "done to her", I'm assuming because she was no longer "pure".

And then how Rachel finally opened up to Vetti but was driven insane by his Homo/pedo relationship with Ralph that ultimately let her to murder Ralph, as well as just go batshit insane from her various failed attempts at getting Vetti to fuck her brains out.
Generally stuff that is just twisted along those lines, but not so much so that the amount of content ruins the show and becomes nothing more than worthless filler for the sake of being sensational.

dbml:
Lucky Star is a big no-no for anyone who has seen relatively little anime. I'll wholeheartedly second Kannagi in its place.

As for the darker anime request, try Le Chevalier d'Eon. That fits what you're looking for.

sumpweed:
When my parents see me watching anime they just say something like "what weird stuff is this", I really would like to share it with them like you do.

Back to topic: Basically, the whole Anime is just about unspectacular stuff like food, homework, shopping etc. But I really enjoied watching it, becourse it's nice if you sometimes watch something different to all the animes with big explosions, catastrophies in the family or all these world-moving stuff a successfull anime usually must have - there's nothing like that in Lucky Star. No serious illnesses, espers, mysterious and dangerous associations - just things happening every day in everyone's life.

But it gets better/more funnier after the first few episodes, e.g. when they were talking 10 min. only about eating food i found it a little bit weird, too. There are lots of funny things, but if youre mother don't get them, it might not be that funny for her, but not all of them are about otakus or computer freaks. I would watch a few more episodes, maybe she will like the characters (i really do) and contiues watching... in addition, the really entertaining episodes are imo the ones where something "happens", e.g. a trip to the beach or a school trip (i think i spoiled enough).



to Haruhi: One of the best animes i've ever seen, it's really worth watching it. The thing you're mentioning is that the broadcasting order is different from the chronological order, but it makes it even more interesting! And don't be scared by the first episode (broadcasting order), just watch it until the end, the whole anime is not about a timetraveller in a bunny-girl costume ;)

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