#zettel sourced from: [[Lucky Star]] # In order to appreciate Lucky Star to its fullest, you have to be acutely aware of mid-2000s Japanese pop culture In discussing the show with my cousin, he remarked how he could never get into the series because of all the pop culture references. That makes sense when I think about it, especially because there's a lot of them that I can tell are going over my head. I did catch one, being the reference to [[Dragon Quest V - Hand of the Heavenly Bride|Dragon Quest V]], but if I hadn't known about that game, that whole sequence might've been a huge non-sequitur. ## Related Thoughts - This is a cultural kind of example of how [[Referential Humor can be isolating if people aren't in on the joke]]. If you don't get the pop cultural reference, he whole joke can feel kind of hard to watch.