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In Episode 16, when Kagami, Tsukasa, and Miyuki decide to visit Konata at her
part-time job, the latter asks them to pick up the latest release of a couple
of manga. At the bookstore, they are served by a character who doesn't appear
to be the "standard" extra seen in the series. Even after the three girls
leave the cash register, the shot lingers on this character who is joined by
her sister. All this seems to suggest that this is something of a cameo
performance or a hat-tip to something else.

![Who are these characters?](https://i.stack.imgur.com/x9Ljbl.jpg)

Who are these characters?


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Who are these characters in the bookstore?


According to [the list of Lucky Star trivia on
ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7222&page=22),
it could be based off of Usada Hikaru (also known as Rabi-en-Rose) from Di Gi
Charat. It's hard to find pictures of her non-transformed self, but I managed
this one:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4NA4H.jpg)

As you can see, the hair color and eye color match and she also wears glasses.
But that's pretty generic, so here are the further similarities.

When Usada transforms into Rabi en Rose (her magical girl identity), she has
bunny ears. The girl in Lucky Star has a bunny hairpin.

Also, the original Di Gi Charat series is set in a store called Gamers. Guess
where that Lucky Star scene takes place? A Gamers store.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/H4Y0Y.jpg)

It's a little "censored", but you can tell that it's supposed to be Gamers.


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Actually, they are the Miyakawa sisters Hikage and Hinata (left to right,
respectively). They are the main characters of the Lucky Star spinoff manga
(and anime) _[Miyakawa-ke no
Kuufuku](http://myanimelist.net/manga/40019/Miyakawa-ke_no_Kuufuku)_ (The
Hunger of the Miyakawa Family).

They make cameos in episode 12, 16, and 24.

![Support these poor sisters!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vuefA.jpg)


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The characters are [Hinata
Miyakawa](http://luckystar.wikia.com/wiki/Hinata_Miyakawa)(at the cashier) and
[Hikage Miyakawa](http://luckystar.wikia.com/wiki/Hikage_Miyakawa) from
[Miyakawa-ke no Kufuku](http://luckystar.wikia.com/wiki/Miyakawa-ke_no_Kufuku)
\- also known in english as "The Hunger of the Miyakawa Family".

Hinata works in Gamers part-time to fund her doujinshi buying habits.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dS0v2.png)

In addition to their cameos in episodes 12, 16, and 24 in Lucky Star as
mentioned in a previous answer, There are corresponding cameos of Konata and
Kagami in Miyakawa-ke no Kufuku, at episode 5 and 7.

There's never any signal from the shows that the girls know each other and it
appears to be purely coincidental that they bump into each other on occasion.
The do live in the same area which would account for this.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/roikJ.jpg)

As well as the Konata & Kagami, the shopkeeper of Gamers and Akira Kogami also
cameo in Miyakawa-ke.

Summary from [ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-12-31/lucky-star-
spinoff-manga-miyakawa-ke-no-kufuku-gets-anime):

> The manga is based on the Lucky Star Moe Drill game series and centers
> around big sister Hinata Miyakawa and little sister Hikage Miyakawa's
> impoverished daily life at home (due to Hinata's wasteful habits) and
> Hikage's life at elementary school.

The show started to air in April 29, 2013, 5 years after the first episode of
Lucky Star was aired on April 8, 2007.

The original manga of Miyakawa-ke was first published in 2009, (while Lucky
star continues publication slowly but surely) so it's unknown as to whether
these characters were meant to have such significance, or whether they were
only chosen afterwards for the spin-off.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TTGKD.jpg)


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