Konata Izumi

Overview

Konata is one of the main characters of the Lucky Star franchise. She is effectively the head of the four-girl group around which the story revolves, and the series' overall protagonist. Small in size, as she claims she hasn't grown since sixth grade, Konata is by nature very athletic and generally rather smart, but hates to study. Rather than invest her effort in academics or sports, she prefers to spend her time watching anime and playing video games.

Her otaku behaviors typically lead her to stay up late playing MMORPGs - often with her teacher, Nanako Kuroi. As a result, she regularly oversleeps, dozes off during class, and pulls all-nighters studying for tests. This behavior can largely be attribute to her father, Soujirou Izumi, who bears similar fondness for anime and an inclination towards perversion. Konata regularly references anime terminology in ordinary conversation, including calling her friend Kagami a tsundere and her friend Miyuki "moe".

While she is generally knowledgeable of otaku culture, often indirectly lecturing the reader/viewer about the meaning behind certain habits, she regularly directly references the Haruhi Suzumiya series. This is due to Kyoto Animation producing the anime adaptations for both series, as well as both Konata and Haruhi being voiced by the same person in both the Japanese and English dubs of the show (being Aya Hirano and Wendee Lee respectively). In the show, Konata also cosplays as Haruhi as part of her job at an Akihabara cosplay cafe.