Konata Izumi

• Age: 17-18
• Birthday: May 28
• Height: 142 cm (4′8″)
• Handedness: Ambidextrous
• Zodiac Sign: Gemini
• Residence: Saitama Prefecture
• Blood Type: A
• Strong Subjects: PE (However, it is not her favorite subject)
• Disliked Subjects: Math, Science
• Favorite Food: Chocolate Cornet Bread, Chicken
• Hair Color: Blue
• Eye Color: Green
• Online Name: Konakona

Voiced by: Ryo Hirohashi (Drama CD, NDS Video Game), Aya Hirano (Anime, PS2 Video Game), Wendee Lee (English)
Konata Izumi is, more by default than anything else, the “leader” of the main characters. Nicknamed “Kona-chan” by Tsukasa, she is an eccentric, but friendly and outgoing girl, with a mischievous, but good-natured sense of humor. She can be smart, but she hates studying, thus her grades are a bit uneasy. However, she is an expert in pulling an “all-nighter”.

In contrast to her studying habits, she loves video games, to the extent that she can compete against Kagami Hiiragi on trivia-based games. In addition, she loves anime, which is also due to her father, S?jir? Izumi’s influence, along with the games. He buys adult games for himself, so she is able to play and enjoy them. In fact, when she became eighteen, Konata was overjoyed, since she could now go buy and play ero-games legally.

In the anime, Konata constantly refers to or parodies several popular games, anime, and manga (much to the annoyance of Kagami), but her favorite franchise seems to be the Haruhi series, as she has many Haruhi figurines and decorations that makes her room, once went to the Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekis? with her friends, and has “Hare Hare Yukai” and “Koi no Mikuru Densetsu” as her ringtones.

Interestingly enough, both of her voice actresses for the animated version, Aya Hirano for the Japanese version and Wendee Lee for the English version, are in fact the same people who voiced Haruhi Suzumiya in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime; other voice actors from the same series make guest appearances during the course of Lucky Star.

She also seems to hold a certain amount of respect for Miyuki, since Miyuki is the only one out of her three friends whom she attaches a -san (a respectful suffix to names), while she calls the Hiiragi twins plainly by name.

Since she spends quite a large sum of money on video games and d?jinshi, Konata was lucky enough to get a part-time job at a cosplay cafe. Continuing with her theme of playing video games, Konata plays the role of a male character in an online game and is married in that world. Her significant other in the game is ironically a male gamer using a female character. She often plays late into the night, hence why she tends to fall asleep in class, which makes her a frequent victim to her homeroom teacher, Nanako Kuroi.

Her physique is smaller than average when compared to her peers, which she claims hasn’t changed, since she was in the sixth grade. She is ambidextrous, in contrast to the mostly left-handed main cast. She has long, blue hair which comes down to her calves with a large ahoge, sleepy eyes and a beauty mark under her left eye, just like her father.

Her mother, Kanata Izumi, died when she was an infant, and she has lived alone with her father since. In her third year of high school, however, her cousin, Yutaka Kobayakawa, came to live at her house, giving a total of three people in the Izumi residence. Although Konata spends most of her time playing games in her room, she has a darker skin tone, like her father’s.

Konata placed seventh in 2channel’s SaiMoe 2007 contest and ranked third in Newtype’s “Top 10 Female Characters of 2007″ poll.

The reason why I like her

• Sleepy eyes FTW!
• She’s a slacker
• She likes Anime
• A lot
• Sounds pretty much like me XD!

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