K-ON! 12: You mean there’s a thirteenth episode? (´Д｀)
Posted: June 18, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized 23 Comments »
Heheh, nice joke!
So this episode in a nutshell:
- Power of friendship
- Being in the K-ON has given Yui a purpose in life
I really hate it when anime get right up in your face and tell you directly what a scene is trying to portray. Yui gaining her balance was a very masterful few seconds. Yui running to school with the guitar on her back while directly explaining to the audience how she was given something productive to do via the light music club was certainly not masterful. I felt stupid just listening to her monologue. KyoAni is basically spoonfeeding me information that I already know and have known for the past eleven episodes.
Oh noes, we need Yui here even though Ui is so much better! It’s meaningless to go out there and play a better song!
TOMODACHITOMODACHITOMODACHI
RANDOM SAD YUI needed for reinforcement of “power of friendship” theme!
So basically, Yui runs all the way from home to the school while delivering what might be the most boring speech I’ve ever heard in an anime about how she has finally found something that helps her be confident in herself and do something productive, and then she breaks down on stage for the sole purpose of promoting the power of friendship theme.
What.
I can’t believe this. Could you make it any more obvious? Hey KyoAni, just stick a sign above Yui’s head saying “POWER OF FRIENDSHIP” and instead of making her say “Come to think of it, I’ve always been troubling you,” modify the script to read “Come to think of it, I need to start crying right about now, completely forgetting my hour-long soliloquy, to continue on this ridiculous ‘power of friendship’ farce.” We might as well have yellow lights floating down from the ceiling and have Tomoya make a guest appearance on his way back to the past!
I lol'd.
I can’t believe there are people begging for a second season.
Lucky Star had no plotline, and it was good.
School life comedy + no plotline = success
K-ON! tries to have a plotline, and it is bad.
School life comedy + plotline = epic failure
…especially when there is no balance between the random comedy naturally springing from a slice-of-life comedy and the drama needed to produce the plotline (rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, etc. all need some kind of dramatic thing to come into this world, you know!).
tl;dr: FAIL
K-ON sucked. That’s all there is too it. It sucked and it wasn’t good, except for episode 5. Episode 5 was good. The rest sucked.
They tried really extra hard to force things. Like, “Oh, we need a dramatic ending, so let’s make some bullshit up like Yui gets sick and you don’t know if she’ll be able to play, and blah blah blah blah bullshit.”
Forget a second season, they didn’t have enough substance for half of a season. Let me sum up every episode:
1. Eat cake
2. Drink tea
3. Get dressed up by Sawako
4. Mio is embarrassed/scared/aggressive
5. Repeat
K-ON sucked and Mio is the worst character ever.
Naruto is even worse than Mio.
I lol’d at “Oh god, please no more of this shit”
And I like Yui actually, much more than Mio. Though this show really sucks.
You make it sound like that wasn’t fun :p I actually enjoyed the thing when there wasn’t all the emo thing. Yeah the drama drove it down but it’s still fun to watch with all the cute characters and the obvious yuri vibes.
In the end, I’d rather watch this (by far, too) than things that have as crappy an ending as Kanon and Clannad. At least K-ON didn’t call down the universe to make a point. Yeah, it could have been better, but it was nice as it was.
Mio is in the bottom of my K-ON girl list and while that doesn’t make her bad per se, her getting overhyped was her tombstone as far as my preferences go.
Plus, you seem to watch K-ON far too seriously :p Power of friendship??? All I saw was yuri :p I suppose that’s why I can enjoy the thing even with all the needless drama here and there, or episode 10 that a number of people bash.
And no, please!! No balls of light! I still have nightmares of those. The fact that so many people seem to like that and Kanon’s Ayu-kami makes me want to split my head open and eat my brains.
Sorry but I firmly disagree. K-ON! was great fun. I would love a second season.
Mugi’s eyebrows are edible. Hilarious.
K-ON was basically Hayate no Gotoku S1 with superior gag comedy and cuter characters. I enjoyed it.
It’s the opposite… far opposite. Since K-ON has no Hinagiku and HnG has no Mio.
@Roy Mustang
You couldn’t be more wrong.
@npal
Hey, Clannad’s deus ex machina ending was one of the worst endings that I’ve ever seen.
Though I can’t say the same about Kanon (2006). I loved that show from start to end, and it was wayyyyy better than K-ON!.
@Roy Mustang
To compare K-ON! with HnG…
RAEGGGGGGG
I love HnG more than any other comedy. D:
@People who like K-ON!
K-ON! sucks.
I really can’t think of anything else to say to you guys besides that. I doubt there can be a compromise on this issue anyway. :p
O_o I don’t even consider Kanon in general worthy of praise, let alone being better than K-ON :p If you ask me, Kanon 2002 with its ridiculous designs was better than 2006. Especially the ending was retarded. I thought it couldn’t be worse, but then Clannad ~AS~ appeared… People are arguing it’s not really DeM because we should have played the game… >_> Oh well… Can’t reason with insanity in the end.
It’s a damn MOE series, you set your expectations way too high.
I lol’d at this post. You pretty much said how much this episode..no,this anime,sucks.
@npal
Yeah, I might have set my expectations too high… but what would you expect? You’d naturally have high expectations for an anime from a studio that produced works like Air, Kanon, Clannad, Lucky Star, and Haruhi, all of which have seen their fair share of fanboying.
Kanon was pretty good IMO, and I gave After Story a 10/10 solely because I decided to weigh the ending against the extreme drama that came beforehand. In any case, that is DeM! D:<
And as you say, Kanon and Clannad were also moe series – albeit moe with romance!
@oblivionsky
Well, it does.
The crappy thing with Clannad ~AS~ was that it was actually good up to episode 20. They just HAD to ruin in… >_>
Eh, well I suppose the fact that you consider all their other things worthy of praise will set your expectations high. I suppose you already know my opinion on KyoAni series so I’m always critical when I watch KyoAni and I actually expect to be rather displeased so yeah, KyoAni expectations are low, that’s why I could even survive Munto. Well… Ok, I survived Munto cause the girls were cute :p
Only thing I REALLY liked that was KyoAni’s was Air, that was really good. L*S was rather cute, and K-ON was fun, despite the needless drama… The rest… oh well… shit happens I suppose :p
I thought that After Story was the greatest thing since sliced bread until that ending hit. Jesus. It turned what seemed to be an incredible tragedy into a pile of miraculous, glowing shit.
Air’s formula was pretty much reused for Kanon and Clannad (not After Story, though!), so that might’ve worn down your feelings. Meh. I don’t know.
Lucky Star was awesome.
Clannad was decent really, it didn’t pull any shitty stuff. After Story was actually so good memories of Air came back, until they killed it in the ending…
The thing with Air is that there was no DeM out of the blue. Someone paid for all the stuff to happen and did NOT in fact benefit from that. In Kanon, Ayu has it TOO easy and in Clannad… well… the balls of light have to be the most hideous thing I’ve seen on TV. If it was a game, I’d LOVE the balls of light after longs hours of gameplay but on TV it’s unforgivable.
The MAIN gripe I have with Kanon is Ayu’s DeM. Seriously that spoiled my fun when I was actually enjoying the first Kanon. Then there’s Nayuki’s arc getting shafted all the time, and 2006 having the male lead do pretty much EVERYTHING while the story warranted something else. The only thing I always like in Kanon is Makoto’s arc, the rest was bearable in 2002 and as junk as they could be in 2006 (besides the animation, the animation was good). But yeah, I take it back, Kanon does have something worthy of praise, Makoto’s arc :p
God, Makoto’s arc was incredible.
But the thing that I liked about Kanon’s DeM was that it could sort of be explained. The series already had the supernatural Mai/Makoto arcs, so it could afford another supernatural event (and that ain’t even counting Shiori’s miraculous recovery) as well. Though I’d have to agree on Nayuki. Her arc was basically moot – kind of like Kyou’s arc in Clannad, except even less noticable. (I never liked Nayuki, so I didn’t really care all that much anyway, but…)
The thing about Kanon was that KeyAni thought that Air had focused too much on Misuzu, and so the [more] side characters got obviously separate arcs in Kanon [except Nayuki], which led to a semi-confusing ending with Ayu as the main girl.
Clannad just had random balls of light float out of nowhere, Tomoya as a robot, and a bunch of shit happen, and BAM – Nagisa’s alive! It was pretty realistic up until that point, so the contrast made it all the worse.
The thing about Kanon was that only Makoto got the crappy end of the miracle. She was the only one who actually paid for one. Ayu performed one and got another for free. That’s totally retarded. Makoto’s arc was the best because it didn’t go there. Air was the best KyoAni pulled so far because there was this thing of “miracles don’t come cheap but they can be called upon”. That whole notion failed in most of Kanon. Clannad, you have to play the game to understand wtf the balls of light were about but even then, having them in the series makes it TOTALLY lame. In the game they supposedly had some merit though.
I didn’t mind the separate character arcs that much. I did mind that the 2006 ver focuses TOO much on Yuuichi, as if Shiori’s problem didn’t have to do with her sister or that Mai’s real best friend wasn’t Sayuri, like Yuuichi was the center of the world. 2002 did NOT go that way, that’s why I prefer it to 2006 despite the char designs. The end was as lame as ever in both since they followed the same script.
And Nayuki is my favorite girl so of course her arc getting shafted two times in a row was a big issue :p
This is officially a Kanon post.
lexy lexy lexy, sigh.
K-ON! rocked, i was cheering for her when she slid and i was like no no no, dont fall, you can get up now! i loved it. and i thought it was really really cute when azu-nyan was all concerned about yui then went and hugged all over her. you know what that reminded me of? nagisa and fuuko. thats why it is win. also, the concert was great, i ended up singing along at the end when they did the encore because i was going, yeah go yui! encore! and i think you just need to be a little less critical and enjoy the cute moments. it was a great season, its up there with hyakko and lucky star for my 4 girls high school anime series and i would love a second season. come on dude, you know you liked it.
K-ON! sucked. 😐
Lucky Star >>>>>>>>>> K-ON! for sure. I liked Lucky Star so much more…
Well it certainly wasn’t the next best thing. Who expected it to be as epic as Haruhi or Lucky Star?
At least it was better than Akikan. At first I thought it was ok, but let’s just say your posts enlightened me that it was a piece of s***.
Lol. I couldn’t’ve stood watching Akikan! had I not had a blog (is that even correct English?). Venting out anger via blogging = one way to keep sane while watching crappy anime.
Also, I expected K-ON! to be at least better than this, though…
just as planned
http://www.srsfkn.biz/2009/04/03/k-on-sucks/