Getting caught up on the dub clips to help promote the release of Good Luck Girl, which is set to debut on November 19th from FUNimation, the latest one adds a bit more to the relationship of the two main characters. And it does it by doing a parody of another popular property as the Death Note angle is very well played here, both in terms of style and the way it’s handled with the dialogue.
Plot concept: Ichiko gets lucky a lot. She’s rich, beautiful, smart, stacked, and better than you at everything. There’s a reason life always goes her way. She unwittingly steals happiness energy from everyone else! Momiji—a poverty god with a freakishly huge syringe and a bunch of oddball charms—has to take Ichiko’s extra good fortune and return it to her various victims of circumstance. Like an Adderall-raddled cat-and-mouse chase in a funhouse full of pop culture references, the spirit of shortcomings and her self-absorbed subject stick each other with jabs, gags, bizarre bets, and dirty tricks aplenty. It’s a side-splitting ride, and everyone’s seatbelt is defective. But how many blows to the ego can Ichiko take before she grows a sympathy gland and stops hogging all the happiness?
