[Tsuwabuki]

Lucky Star is pretty accurate. It is to my students what Azumanga Daioh was to Japanese students when that anime came out.

It is random, but only in the way real life is random. I hang out a lot with the art club, and let's be blunt: they're fans. Otaku here goes way beyond Konata. While my students really identify with her, they would not consider her or themselves otaku. Otaku are parasite singles with no sense of social decorum, and are usually disturbingly dysfunctional and almost always male.